The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-06-19


him. we need only repeat what We have
often heard, that they were performed
with the utmost impaf.ialsy and fidelity
Near the close Of his official tafm, be as
sGeisted kimself with Judge DgyISg, il
/ the publication oe the Den,oergf 6 .SeHsi.
nei 4 few months !aser,-~we believe j;
was N February, le5s,-~tha, gentleman
retired from the establishment, and thence.
forth the editorial eohtrol OF the paper de,
yo!yed wholly upoa Mr. MURRAY. lie
continued in that position up to the Pc
riod Of his death, being also, in the mean
time, employed few months as Clerk to
the County Commissioners.
As writer, Mr. MURRAY possessed
considerable merit. His sentences were
we'll rounded, and in general his subjects
were we'll chosen and well handled. He
had a fine poetical taste, and had at his
pens end, quotations to meet almost ev-
cry conceivable case. Ia his editorial
contests he was frequently very bitter and
sarcastic, and in his political articles al
ways evinced himself a thorough partisan.
He was apt and ready as a debater, al
ways expressing himself with clearness
and fueucy.
The accident, which resulted in his
death, we have already adverted to in
these columns. On the night of Satur-
day, the 31st utimo, at about l l or II
o'clock, whilst returning to his home, he
unfortunately, amid the pitchy darkness,
stepped from the pavement and fell down
the basement stairway of the Town Hall.
He fell headlong, it is supposed, distance
of eight or ten feet, and at the end of the
fall his head struck violently against a
sharp corner of stone in the jamb of the
basement door. From the blood upon the
ground, it is supposed he lay there several
hours in state Of utter insensibility, and
then recovered sufficiently to 60 home.
This he did, it seems, without any aid,
and on arriving there, at about four o'clock
in the morning, undressed himself and
retired to bed, no one about the house
knowing that any unusual occurrence had
befallen him. The following day, medi-
cal aid was called in, and on examination
his skull was found to be severely fractu-
red. Every attention was shown him, and
two of our most eminent physicians ex-
hausted their skill in his case, but all TO
no purpose. He fingered, almost all the
while in state of unconsciousness, until
Friday evening last, when Death put an
end to his sufferings.
He was buried on Sunday, in the Cath
olic graveyard, at this place, whittier his
remains were attended by large concourse
of sorrowing relatives and friends, and
among them the members of the Bar, whose
resolutions, passed On the occasion of his
decease, we publish in another column.
He has left an aged and pious mother
whom he fondly loved, and who cherished
him as her greatest earthly treasure. But
that same mysterious Providence which
has thus berett her Of her darling boy,
will be with an comfort her, ard be to
her pillar of support in the dark and
trying hours that now hang upon her
household.
Thus this young man, in the spring
time oflife, has been taken from our midst
If he had his frailties and his foibles-
and who has not Pit is not fitting that
We should speak of them now. We throw
over them the broad mantle of charity and
of silence. 1t were the part OF craven
to Go otherwise, now that his eye is sealed
and his tongue and hand silent in Death,
and he is no longer here to confront an
accuser Ever bold, impulsive, and out
spoken, it is not to be be concealed that
he had his enemies but he had his friends
too friends who will long cherish his
and make it one of the brightest,
9reenest spots in the garden of their
hearts 1t was well said by one of his
admirers, that ''his place might soon be
supplied, but it could never be filed He I
is gone, and
eve neer shall look upon his like again"
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