Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-06-23
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.

At an adjourned term of the United
! States District Court for the Western
! District of Virginia, held at Abing.
don, Va, OIL Tuesday the Both day OF
May 1871 Assistant Attorney John
! s. Slater. Esq, notified the Court oi
the death of member of its bar-the
late Col. JAMES w. HUMEs, since
its last term, and i'm view of the dis
tinguished character of the deceased,
moved the Court to appoint a Com
mittee from the Bar, to consider and
recommend what proceedings should
be had on the occasion; whereupOn
the Court nominated as that Commit
tee the following gentlemen, namely /:
the Hon. John w. Johnston, Jos. Il.
Campbell, Bev. r. Johnston, John
A. Campbell, Sidney s. Baxter, John
s. Slater and a. G.. Cummings
That Committee through its chair
man, the Hon. John w. Johnston,
reported the following Resolutions:
Whereas. since the last term of this
Court, death has removed from our
Bar one of its most distinguished
members, and we desiring to put on
its records some memorial of our esti-
mate of our departed brother, say with
sincere regret that we shall see no
more among US, the manly and grace
ful form, or hear the eloquent persua-
sive and commanding voice, nor be
instructed by the learning, enlighten-
ed by the genius, amused by the wit,
or aroused by the stirring appeals OF
James w. Humes.
Col. Humes had for some years past
been one of the brightest ornaments
of the Bar of Southwest Virginia, by
his earnest application to study, his
increasing knowledge of the princi-
pals and practice of his procession, his
advancing attainment. in science, and
adorned as they were, by his brilliant
genius he was rapidly attracting the
attention Of his State, and becoming
one of the most prominent and useful
citizens of Virginia.
In the social circle the amenities of
his disposition, the charm of his man
ners, and his dignified department
won him friends wherever he was
known.
In this rising career he has been
suddenly cut down. leaving a vacuum
i'm the community and spreading a
feeling of public loss throughout the
lowing resolutions:
RcsOgUed Isl. That in the death of
Col. James w. Humes the Bar AID
the State have sustained Il great loss.
ResOlUCd 2lld, We feel that his death
has inflicted painful loss on our pro
fcssional and social relations, and we
tender to his bereaved family our sim
cere condOlence in their affections:
which whilst it is a public calamity,
falls with peculiar bitterness on them.
RcsOlUcd 3rd, That this Court be re-
quested TO spread this preamble and
resolution on its minutes, aud that an
official copy be furnished the family
of the deceased. -..
ResOlced An, That these Resolutions
he furnished to the Abingdon and
Bristol papers for publication.
JNo. w. JOHNSTON,
i. II. JOHNSTON.
A. &. CUMMINGS,
JOSEPH Il. CAMPBELL,
JOHN A. CAMPBELL, 10
:. =. BANTER,
JOHN :. SLATER.
The Court concurring III the seHti-
ments of the Bar as expressed by its
committee and deplorng the loss,
which this Court, AS well as its Bar,
and community at large have sustain
ed by this event, doth direct that the
foregoing Resolutions be admitted to
record, and that copy of these pro-
ceedings be communicated by the
Clerk as prescribed 10y said Resolu-
tioUs. -E D
A Copy-Teste,
+ \ WATSON. Clerk.
L. s. ID. G. West Dist of Va.