The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-12-31

ANOTHER VACANT CHAIR-DEATH OF
WILLIAM GREANoR.-In the Tobacco Elk
change, at the end of the platform around
which buyers and sellers sit, is an arm
chair. For many day it was occupied by
venerable old man, John Caskie, presi-
dent of the trade. Around that old man
many friends used to cluster, and pleasant
and kindly were the greetings which used
to be interchanged between him and them,
and eep was the respect and affection with
which he was ever regarded; but Death
remorseless Death-came, and the old
man was gathered to his fathers, and
he was laid in his last resting-place, wept
over by sorrowing family and by all
others who knew him. Then, that arm
chair was draped in mourning, and it stood
unoccupied for season-a silent but yet
eloquent tribute, in its drapery, to the
memory of him who had passed away. But
time softens every impression, and that
seat must be again occupied, for the worlds
everyday business must still 60 on !; and
there was appointed thereto man who has
proved himself most worthy successor O!
the old man departed.
'Tis sad duty nowto record another va
cant chair. The second on the right OF the
esteemed auctioneer is empty. Death. has
taken victim from that too. and yes
terday when it was announced that Major
William Greanor was no more, many an eye
was turned to it, and remembering the
happy intercourse with him for many years,
many one sadly said, "There's another
of us gone"
I'm the seventy-ffth year Of his age-hav-
ing filled more than the average term OF
human life-Major Greanor laid him down
to die and 'twere well for all if such Ca
reer as his were theirs. Faithful in all his
engagements, and prizing at its true esti-
mate the title of an honest man., he won
that name, for in all his relations of life he
was without stain and without reproach.
Standing once within the walls Of an old
Gothic cathedral, in land far away, we
were struck with many a quaint and e1-
pressive inscription on slabs of time
stained marble. Among them was this one
"Daniel Hayes-an honest man and q lover
of his country"
This was simple at first sight and cad
ing, but the more ne pondered over it the
more we felt that it said all that could be
said of good mans career in this world !;
and now, in thinking over what we should
say of Major Greanor, we know no more
truthful and expressive inscription for his
tomb, and tribute to his memory, than the
words:
Gan honest man and q lover Of his country"
Yesterday, at the Tobacco Exchange, E.
o. Noting, ESQ, the president, appointed
q committee to prepare resolutions express
siye of their feelings on the death of their
lamented friend. The committee will re-
port this morning at public meeting of
the trade to be held at half-past IL o'clock.
The committee consists of William D. Glib
son, A. w. Noting, William J. Yarbrough,
James A. Scott, and Archibald Boiling:
Mr.. Greanor was self-made man. Born
in the city of Baltimore, his first expert
ence in the tobacco business was at the
bench in factory-a poor boy. But in
dustry, probity, and application, had their
reward, and before his death he had sue
ceeded in amassing fortune, and his
name was known throughout the country
in connection with the tobacco trade OF
Richmond. For many years he was busl-
ness manager for John Enders the elder,
hut was for long time in business on his
own account. lie built the building now
known as the Libby prison, and carried on
his business there until the outbreak OF the
late war. After the war he entered into
partnership with ]. B. Pace, under the
STYLE of ]. B. Pace & Co., end continued
there until his de ath.