Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-12-19
-A FuNERAL WITH0UT a
ii DEATH. -
WASTED ELOQUENOE.
EGTH ia
An UnpardOnahEe Mistake.


lowhen Yellow Jack was ravagiug tbs
city, or an epidemic quite as fatal,
lawyer, anticipating the departure 81
some one OF his professional brethren,
prepared a funeral eul0gium. The ora
ton, Of course, was artisticatly finished,
and the beauties Of rhetoric were ex-
hRusted in the decoration OF this extern
pOraneous Outburst. We are told that
the famed hsraDgus pronounced BY Per-
ieles, ia honor Of his coGntrymeh who
fell in battle, was cOnned over by the
adrOit barrister, and tribute thus levied
upon Greciau rhetoric to render his
speech incOmparably rich in al the
treasures Of art. Day afteT-day the doc
tors met, wranglsd, quGTreled snd pro-
n0nnced learned opinions; and day after
day death stalked over unobstTucted
highways. Rich and poor alike fell be-
fore the grim destroyer. Thelawyer be-
came restive-his speech was growing
cid; not one Of his professional assO-
ciates was stricken down. The studied
production vas too good to be lost and
by some means unknown 4 local editor
was induced to announce the sudden
demise of q member OF the bar, who OF
late years rafely ~freqaented halls Of jus
tice. The court was convened, the VEN
cradle, sd visaged Judge sat YEARLY
up9p the wOolsack, jurors and witnesses
whose faces are familiar to thUse that go
about the palace of justice, filled the
apartment. There was a suppressed hum
OF many voices, telling stories Of suffering
and death. Some one in melloWed
accents az length announced the sud-
den demise OF Mr.. H, an excellent
gentleman and faithful attorney. Our
Perieles was at hand. The sad tones in
which HIS death ws5 made known still
echoed about the building, when he ad-
dressed the court. To reproduce the
story would be quite impossible. In
p!sintiVe, low, soft, musical accents the
Of The dead were recited- It was
told how generous he was, how truthful
and brave. The city, too, WEs full Of his
The aged of our people had
and loved him when a boy, and
the young Tevered Linn for his many
1-=
We cannot give even an imperfect out
line Of the eloquent eulogium uttered by
the famous bGrTisteT. GOgned justice
and Billy r. and t'eieven other
good and lawful men" bowed their
heads in an agony Of grief. The lawyer
sat down, and the applause that greeted
him was the stiffness Of a death cham
Der, interrupted now and than by signs
aud sObs. he whose sudden demise was
ieplOred and virtues celebrated, came to
doorway, The orator Of the occasion
vas the first to discover his presence.
He hurried out, and with the alleged
drowned sOrrOws at Harry
W~eatherbee's. Resolutions expressive
IF the grief Of the court and bar, pre-.
pared with the utmost care, were never
70 the world; but that speech will
never be forgotten.
WheB Prentiss, the mstchless popular
Of America, closed one Of bis msr-
haTsngUes before twenty thou
and people, at Nashville, he fell faint
ng into'Jhe arms of the late Gov. Jones.
Die now, Prentiss, die nOwl" eX-
Jones, mortal man never
such triumph"
In the case before US, should the bar
lsIer OF Alderman have died? Or, must
he former still puzzle courts by his in
and startle juries by bis elo-
lueuee, while the latter presides with
Fondruus grace and digui-y in the mu-
legislature