Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1873-06-18
Tho Late Horny EwlnB
De.ih Of the EaIesr es ihs sis Lonis
Tines.

MAJOR neaf! WY ,.,,N ssnlo
. proprietor Oh sthe St. LOUIS 1ihies !
! aiea AZ his rcslaelce, OH OIlve siree
Z IN that city On rrlnay evening hsI
e the 18TH inst, a. nalt l,pst =. oscleck
tafter nuflineas oi ten W9ek 3. uufattoii
: prOnounceu ny MS pnJsiclhns g "
I phoid fcyer oI ,.,io MOST ons,ihni.
I charaator. ne Il.ncs says; Mgol
Ewing WINS haeI.s ol Nasnvli,s
Ienil., where his hitter, Mt. Ofvli'
. Ewing 10 stiii lvingi anu was ON!
thlrty-ohe years oI ny ~ aetne TINE =
. Ills death. in MAY, iooo, al Batcsy,iI.
q ARKANSAS, no Whs nMfle. 70 Mis- 1s
E'hna bur., auSnssI VI nj;
buff, Wno, Mn tnres ci,iiurei
survives 10 iahhent his carry aepart
ure. Euteriag tne Oonicaernic ser
Vice NJ the pieaklng on. OF tue war
nc speca,iy uIslimsu.eneu s nIiise,L y!
b MS soidieriy quallties, nhu was ri9iil
Dy the slue Oh yen. renS IA. Aoheol
9 iar, as one oi MS s.an, Wnen I'm,
onicer was klileu aL tne @ Dattie OF NIL
springs, III january, iooS. His con
{ spicnous gaimhtry on mat OCCASION
ana heroic devotion 10 ms commands
ing general, coming TO the knowledge
oi Gcneral 1ohn ?. MnriladuHe, thei'
IN tennessee, ne was olerca ana ac'
+ cepteu the postum Vi aiue ue camp,
: with tho rank OF lieutenant, upon the
staff of that officer, was subsequently
made his inspect0r-gelIeral with the
frank OF captain, ana finally promoted
to tho rank OF major, as his adJutant
general and chiei-of-staif, exhibiting
throughout fidelity TO duty and
efficiency in its performance that
: ELECTED the universal respect of the
commands with which he was asso-
ciatcd.
| After the battle of Shiloh, in which
he participated, rs we'll as i'll all the
heavy engagements around Corinth
until its evacuation by General Beau
regard, he followed the fortunes of
Bragg's army to Chattanooga. There
General Marmaduke received orders
transferring him to tho Trans-Missis-
sippi department. whittier he was ac-
companicd by Major Ewing, who was
8ever IN the hottest of tho fire at Cane
Hill, Prairie Grove, Springfield,
Hartsville, from Cape Girardeau
through ten days heavy fighting to
the Arkansas line. at brownsville,
Bayon Meter, Little Rock, Poison
Spring, Camden, Saline. where he
had two horses killed under him, and
Ditch Bayou, the scene of General
A. J. Smiths defeat. During Prices
expedition into Missouri and Kansas
he participated i'll all the severe fight
ing at Pilot Knob, Washington, Her.
mann, Jefferson City, Lexington, the
capture of which was one of the most
brilliant successes of the war, Big
Blue, Little Blue and Mine Greek,
Kansas, at which lattcr place Gener-
al Marmaduko fell into the hands of
the enemy. When the command
moved back into Arkansas, Major
Ewing was assigned to duty as Cen
cral Fagan's chief-of-staff, and served
i'll that capacity until the close of the
war,
The war oye,s Moior Ewino rc..
turned to Nashville and established
the wholesale grocery house of Ewing
& Co. i'm which hc wns hiuhlv sur.
ccssfll. and which is nov ronGuctod
by his brothers. a. q. and n II
Ewing. He came to ST. Louis i'm the
fall of 1869. and purchased an in.
tercst of oue.tbiru in the ST. Iouis
Times. and in tho summer Of 1879
bought also the Interest of Mr.. Sill.
son Hutclins, being since that time
associated with Mr.. John uodnctt, in
the publication ofthe paper. Though
not originally or spccially+ educated
to Journalism, he had long cherished |
a predilcction for newspaper life, and |
soon developed an aptitude for the
profession and an untiring energy in
its pursuit, that have contributed
largely to the advancement and suc-
cess of the Times during the past
four years, and promised the most
brilliant results in the future. His
relations with the surviving partner
in the establishment. were those of n
close and enduring friendship such
as exists between brothcrs c,po1o:1
in a common cause. and hay;n9 Pm
portant mutual interests TO subserwn.
while to his editorial associates in tho
office and all who were in any way
connected with its business manage
ment, no man i'm Il similar position
could possibly have been more firmly
or aifectionatc!v endcared. His svm-
pathetic appreciation of duties well
his kins, considerations of
errors, his generous cncourap of
the inexperienced, his genial pres
cncc aud never failing fund of good
fellowship, are tendcrly remembered
rs grateful reliefs to the melanehoIv
shadows that his absence casts about
us. Positive in his political convic-
tions, without being a partisan. he
steadily sought to promote i'm all
legitimate wavs, the triumnh of tho
principles to which he adhered, while
according the utmost liberty of
thought, expression and action to
others. ne had attcstcd the feryor
of his faith in the South upon many a
well-fought field, but had dropped
the animositics of the conflict when
he sheathed his sword, and hoped
md labored and aspircd, only to make
complete the work of traternal rcsto-
alton. Possessing fine critical
,astc and having an unusually intclli-
gent conception of what lnetropoli- !,
an newspaper should be, he looked
beyond all immediate difficulties,
With sanguine expectation OF over
coming them by his energy aud ulti- +
natcly realizing to the utmost what :
iad become the ideal of his maturer !
iie: 1t is sorrowful thought that >
With all the ardor of his nature and /
Judgment to Will, and capacity to q
aud courage to prrsevcrc, he q
hould thus be met upon the very :.
threshold as it were, with sudden i
nd fatal disappointment, but the v
YORK that he had already accom- 8.