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Show JTotable Deaths in 1S85. The year 1885 "will be a notable one as that in which occurred the death of Grant, McClellan, Hendricks and Vanderbilt two of the greatest soldiers of the age, one of the most reputable and pure-minded pure-minded citizens of the republic, the Vice-President, Vice-President, and William H. Vanderbilt, the richest man in America. Many other public men of high reputation have died. The year has not been a very propitious one for the rich rogues of the country. Fish and -Ward are in the New York prison, Eno is in Canada, an exile forever from his home ; William Heath is in doubt as to where he will eat" his Christmas Christ-mas turkey in jail or out; Work and Warner are under indictment, and General Gen-eral Shaler is thinking as to whether he can satisfactorily explain the charge of accepting bribes. laid at his door. |