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Show DEA1HS OF GREAT MEN. Long List of Celebrated Persons Stricken ! In the Last Nine Months. New York Sun. .This year has been remarkable for the large number of deaths of famous men and women. On January 2 Alexander William Kinglake, the historian, died in London. Emma Abbott died in Salt Lake City on January Jan-uary 5. On January 13 the death of Baron Georges Eugene Haussmann at Paris was announced. "Five days later George Bancroft Ban-croft died in AVashir.gton at the age of 'JO. On January '20 David Kalakaua, king of the Sandwich Islands, passed away in tau Francisco. Another ruler, Abdurraeman Kahn, ameer of Afghanistan, died on January Jan-uary 28. On the following day William AVindom, secretary of the treasury, was stricken at the chamber of commerce dinner in this city. On January 30 Charles Brad-laugh Brad-laugh died. Meissonier died in Paris on January 31. The list for February is a long one, too. Tt bears these names: Admiral David D. Porter, of Washington; General William T. Sherman, in this city; Ceneral H. H. Sibley, ex-governor of Minnesota; United States Senator Ephraim K. Wilson, of Maryland, and Senator George Hearst of California. On March 3 Leonard Jerome died, and on March 10th John F. Swift, United States minister to Japan, died iu Tokio. On March 17th Prince Napoleon Bonaparte died in Home. Lawrence Barrett died here on March 20th; General Joseph E. Johnston of the confederacy, in Washington, on the following fol-lowing day; ex-Governor Lucius Robinson of New York, in Elmira, on March 23dj the K o. Howard Crosby, in New York. On April 7 Phineas T. Barnum died in Bridgeport. Among the other deaths of the month were: General F. B. Spinola, Congressman Con-gressman from this city; Rear Admiral Alfred Al-fred , Taylor; Field Marshal Von Moltke, in Berlin on April 21, at the age of ninety; Grand Duke Nicholas, uncle of the czar, in St. Petersburg on the following daj The Very Rev. William Connor Magee, archbishop "of Y'ork and primate of England, died on May 5th at York; Mine. Blavatsky, head of the Theoso- ? hists, on May i)t h in London; the Rev. Dr. enry J. Van Dyke, in Brooklyn on May "Benson J. Lossing, the historian, and Sir John Maedona Id,' premier of Canada, died in June. .Hannibal Hamlin, vice-president under un-der Lincoln, passed away on July 4 at the age of 81. James Russell Lowell and George Jones, editor of the New York Tinws, died on August 13. On September 13 the Marqiiis de Chambrun died in thiscitv. On September 1 Balrnaeeda, the defeated president of Chile, j committed suicide in Santiago, and on September Sep-tember 19, General Boulanger took his own life. On October 6 King Earl of Wurtcmberg and William Henry Smith, Englaad. first lord of the treasury, died and October 8 Charles Stewart Parnell and Sir John Pope Hennessy, M. P. |