The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1875-12-23

DEATH OF JUDGE JAMES NJ. SEIG.-It is
with unaffected sorrow that we announce the
.leatll of Judge james NJ. Seig, the del gate in
the Legislature from Bath and Highland. The
very sad event occurred at the small pox hos
pital, Richmond, Monday evening, at 81 O'Clock.
occasione!l by continent smallpox. The dis
ease was contracted, II, doubt, in Pendleton
county, West Virginia, where judge Seig had
been attending to professional business. Il few
days before leaving Highland, his home, for
Richmond. The witness whom he examined.
in the case, Mr.. llarman, and severely crlti-
csed in his speech before the jury, was taken
sick, few days afterwards, with small pox,
and died. Judge Seig was taken sick and COIL
fined to his room at the Hotel, about the 9th OF
December. Four or five days transpired before
the disease fully developed itself and he was
removed to the hospital.
Judge Seig was born in Augusta county,near
Churchville. After reading law and qualify
ing to practice, he removed to Highland coun-
ty, where he has resided ever since, practicing
with success. his profession, in that and adj
joining counties. Four years agohe was elected
by the Legislature Judge of Highland county,
After the expiration of his term, he resumed
the regular practice Of the law. At the last
election he was chosen as the representative of
Highland and Bath in the Legislature. Some
years ago he married Miss McClung, of High
land. He leaves wife and three children.
We had known Judge Seig long and WE'LL
Our intimacy commenced when we were both
very young men, and the friendship then
formed, continued until the day of his death.
He was a gentleman of many redeeming traits
of character, close student of his profession
and a successful practitioner.
/ The circumstances of his death, were truly
sad. A few weeks ago he left his wife and
children in apparent good health, never more,
however, to see them again. And although
every attention was shown him, every comfort
provided that the kindness of friends and the
experience Of physicians and nursesa could
suggest, the fact that The faces and caresses of
loved ones at home were not present to soothe
his dying moments, is one of those sad, strange
orde1ings of Providence, that compels the
| heart-rven to bow in subdued faith, and faith
alone, to its wisdom, for reason cannot eS-
plain it.
We sincerely sympathize with his afflicted
relatives and friends, and especially with the
hearts that beat warmest for him, and whose
affections clustered around him as their stay
and support in this world. He who directs
the storm and protects the sparrow will shelter
and care for them.
PERsoNAL.-J. Pinkney Jones, Esq, OF
Monterey. was in the city Monday.
R. G.. Bickle, Mayor Of the city, left on We'd
nesday of last week, for Florida with his wife,
who Is in feeble health.
Mr.. W. A. Burke, Secretary of the Augusta
Agricultural Society, has resigned his position.
President A. M. Bowman, of the Augusta
Agricultural Society, has been elected Presi-
dent of the Virginia and North Carolina Poul-
try and Pet Stock Association, and Mr. w. II.
Fl. Lynn, of Staunton, elected member Of the
Executive Committee OF the same Association.
| DR.. S. Homer Henkel, of Staunton, address
ed the Virginia Dental Association at Rich
| mond, at its recent SESSION.
PORT OF ENTRY.-It is more than probable
| that soon after Congress convenes after the