The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28
For The CLARION.
A Tribute to Departed Worth.

Death has been busy recently in plueking
good and valued citizens froL amongst as
and shrouIing once happy families IN the
gloom of mourning No where, however have
! we read anything more distressing in the
strange choice He makes of individuals, than
+ in the sudden demise of JosEPH Il. JOKES, son
/ ofour friend of Madison Station, col. Thomas
/ Jones,) who died so suddenly At Ntord.
/ Standing third in a class of graduates, popu-
7 lar amongst his classmates. respected by the
faculty, and Just ready to leave ms A Ina Mater
with these dIsJir guiShed honors he was taken
suddenly sick, and soon expired Such un-
( timely deaths throw their pale, sIckly shadows
over whole communities. and II the public
grieyes TO see one SO young - fair, So promls-
ing and 50 hopeful suddenly cut down, what
must be the terrible liberation OF the fond and
dotiug father, who went to see TINS proud
scion Of his race this central figure OF his flu
ture hopes this dGrinE idol of his affections
suddenly laid away in the silent tomb with
dust written upon his splendid manhood
blight upon the fair promises Of his early life;
marking every association of his former
presence To go to meet him, with the thick
honors OF a lauable ambition clustering around
him. and find him corpse was spectacle to
stagger the strongest faith and PROSTATE the
irmest build Of humanity.
A bolt from the clear blue heavens, when
the sun was at his zenith could rot have been
less expected. or better calculated. momen
tarily to scatter the forces Of reason. When
the prospects ct his future were brightest,
his how was dead. With a phvSi4ue cast in the
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tors chisel. eye bright with intelligence,
attested in death soon, so unex pect ed. II Is
40 wonder that the darkness of night fell
upon that father, and made his strongly knit
frame culver with emotion, whilst his heart
bled with grief.
4 few months since we saw him II his own
pleasant home the Jey Of his father eyes, the
attractive center Of q loving household, she'd
ding light and life and love by his amiable
manners, his duJiful department, and his in
teligent converse. The hopeful representative
Of patronymic pride, be seemed blessed with
tue attributes Of both body and mind, TO sus-
tain the respo4sI Sillty IN full. and transmit 1t
untarnished to has successor. 1t has seldom
been cur good fortune 10 witness between
father aud son, more genuine display Of de-
pendence on one hand aud confidence the
obher than arose from the intercourse Of that
doating parent and his respectful. obedient
son. aud when we saw his sudden death an
nouuced il was no effort OF fancy 10 picture
the crushing weight of SORROWS that bowed the
head Of tha bereaved sire, and clothed his fami-
" in mourning
With such a loss and under sueh eircum-
stances. we need not borrow Usagina.Ions pen
ell 10 color the gloom that has fallen upon this
once happy household We have known him
from the time he was the play mate and school
fellow of our own beloved little ones, until he
grew up, almost 20 manhoOds estate, to pre-
sent the manners of a Country gentleman fer
the admiration of his grown up female play-
mates and we know that many tears will be
shed at his early doom, besides those that fall
within the space of his stricken family. To
cur friends, whose kindness We have felt di-
reetly and indirectly, we offer our warmest
sympathies and il TIE tears of absent friends
will soften the aspeEity o your grief ours
will soon throw a silver lining uporl tie dark
clouds that gather in sable shadows around
you.
INV. q
Grenada, Miss, July 18th 1880.