The Russellville Democrat., 1880-04-29

lretary Seward arrested on an unwar- anted charge and confined in Ft. La fayettc until Secretary Stanton re leased him in Feb. 1862. Mir. Jones still lives at Dubuque, Iowa, hay ing reached a ripe old age. full of honors. He has all the pleasantness ofmanner and chivalrous courage sc characteristic of the early inhabi- tants of tho West. Last year al their rooms in the Lawson House he and his wife were unexpectedly called upon by a great number ol friends and relatives and given g celebration of their golden wedding the fiftieth anniversary of theli wedding day--an address beng de livered by the Hon. M. M. Ham, and many presents were delivered thepi amidst pleasant greetings and warm Congratulations.
 1 Judge Andrew Scott spoken of n the foregoing article, together with wife, both of whom dled and were buried in different localities in Popt Go. many years ago, have very re gently been disinterrsd and removed to this place and re-interred in the Russellvllle Cemetery, by thslr son our much esteemed and respected fellow citizen,
 JOHN. R. HOMER ScoTT,
 who also removed at the same time and to the same place, his wife and daughter from the Dover Cemetery had all of them placed in solid stone vaults cemented air and water tight three feet and half under ground. Over all of them he has erected the most beautiful and cost. ly Italian marble monument to be found in the country, with a very handsome statue of superior Italian marble manufactured in Italy 5 feet and inch high and resting on the top of the monument IS figure rep resentiug Hope with an anchor and cord fully and elaborately chiselsd and executed by master hand ex. hibiting the most superb sculp- tural polish of anchor, cord, drapery, | life-like form and features, which can be placed upon marble. The monument stands h the centre of g twenty five foot let of ground and two lots measuring twenty-five wide by fifty feet long, including lot be. longing to his law, Hon. H Clabe Howell, are all inclosed to- gether in stone wall Is inches wide 26 inches high, on the top ol which IS placed a handsome wrought iron railing 2 feet 2 in high, with two finely finished iron gates, with their names cast thereon. The in side of the lots have been filled up and eleveted 26 inches, the height of the wall, the inside being oval from the centre. The monument is finely engraved with appropriate in scriptions thereon for his father, mothsr and wife. The inscription for Judge Andrew Scott, after gIv. ing brief history of his birth, na- tivity, advent into Arkansas as Judge of the Supreme Court of the Territory under the appointment from President Monroe, his partiol. patton Tn forming the organic gov ernment of said Territory, on the 18th day of July, 1919, with other positions he had held both State and Federal, with the date of his death which occurred at Norristown on the 18th day of March, 1857; the whole monumental inscription closing with the following quotation, being the striking words of Mark Antony upon the death of Brutus in Shakes peare's play of Julius Caesar.
 His life was gentle, and the ele. ments so mixed in him, that na- ture might stand up and say to all the world, this was q manr
 Reverence for one's ancestors liv- Ing or dead, has in all ages been re, garded as one ofthe greatest of vir- tues, and this handsome monument erected by Capt. Scott, chiefly in honor of his father, is most worthy tribute by noble son to the memory of his distinguished sire.
 Of the late Mrs. Scott, wife of Capt. Scott, who sleeps beneath the same monument, and lady greatly admired for many excellent qualities, prominent munster of the gospel, when attending burial in the Gem etery, upon reading the inscription to her memory engraven upon the monument, said: "I knew her we'll, All that is there said in her praise, is true, especially of her