The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-19


James Pinkney Henderson, governors Abort
9. Horton, ieutenAnt-governor; David =.
Burnett secretary Of state; Thomas VIII
liam Ward, commiss Toner OF the land Office,
arc all dead. Jamea B. Shaw. comptroller;
James II. Raymond, treasurer, and John
| w. HariS, altorney.general, are living, the
same honored citizens as of yore.
John Hemphill, chief justice; Royal 7.
Wheeler and Abner $. Lipscomb, associate
justices Of the supreme court, all sleep in
hoDored graves.
Of the eight district judges, WIN. B.
0chiltree, VIM. d. Jones, John 3. Jones,
John T. Mills, X. b. b. Baylor, M. +. Nor
ton and Constantine w. Buckley, have gone
to the great hereafter. OF the eight our
present governor Gran NJ. Roberts, alone
survives.
Our United States senators, Sam Houston
aud Thomas j. Rusk, Ond our representatives
in congress, David 5. kauins1 and Timothy
Pllsbury, have long slept with thor fathers,
held, az arc all the others, in grateful re-
membrance by the people they loved 50 well
and served co faithfully.
The state senate consisted of twenty-one
members, viz: jose Antonio Navarro, b. O.
Bagby, James Bourland, Edward Burleson,
Isaac w. Barshear, Phillip NJ Quincy, Jesse
Grimes, james l.. Hogg, Henry j. Jewott,
Henry l.. Kinney, Thomas f. Mckinney,
John G.. AcNeol, John Il. Miller, lsanc Park
or, A. II. Phillips, j. J. Robinson, VIM. 7.
Scott, b. Rush Wallace, VIM. Nj. WillGms,
Robert NJ. Williamson and George I. Wood.
OF these seventeen are dead and four living
The living are Col. james Bourand, Of
Cooke, now seyentY.seyon years old; lsaac
Parker, then tho oldest member CT the sen-
ale now eighty-siX, and living in Parker
county; A. A. Phillips, thon IS now, Of Vie,
tOria, and William T. Scott then rs nov, Of
| Harrison county.
The house of representatives consisted Of
sixty.dve members, VIM. Il. Crump, Of Aus
tin county, being speaker. OF these fifty
one are known or believed TO be dead. The
remaining fourteen known or believed 10 bo
| living, are James M. Burroughs, thon tho
youngest member, now iifty-tive; Wm. L..
Cazneau, noV sixty-seyen, and living in the
West Indiee, though possibly dead N. b..
Charlton, of Tyler county, siXty-lour; VIM.
h. OrumP, Of Austin coanty Edward Clark,
of Harrison county, sixty-ono David U.
Dickson, OF Grimes, siXty-one George B..
Erath, of MclIennan, siXty-six Henry
Jones, of Navarro, seyenty-tWo; Jerome b.
McC0wn, of Waller, seventy one; Stewar.
A. Miller, Of Houston county, sixty nine /;
Elisha M, Peaso, of Travis, siIty-eisnt ;
Samuel j. Redgate, now of Indiana, eey,"'y-
three; DR.. CHARLES 3. Stewart, Of MouJgo-
merry, seventy-lhree, aud Francis Mencloo
White, of jackson, sixty-esven.
Thus il will DO seen that OF l08 officers ut
the organization Of the state government,
thttty-three wears ago, SO ara dead and only
twenty-five living, ranging ia ages from fifty.
five TO eigh.y.six. To follow oach one from
TINT eyentiul nineteenth of February TO the
day and the manner of his death, would hll
u volume replete with many matters of pro-
found state interest, sometimes recalling
painful episodes, out oftoner thrilling rs
with admiration md n rational PRIDE the
aggregate character, ability, integrity and
patriotism Of our deceased public men. The
only object Of this article, however, is more
re- capitalization, which, being accomplished,
leaves no moro TO say 10 this connection
Since the publication of tho foregoing ar
ticle, death has taken from us Colonel James
Bourland, noble su4 trao man; Alexander
II. Phillips, of Victoria, u man of rsre ahili-
ties born and reared nj Herkimer, New
York, and n brother of the distinguished
Rev DR.. Phillips, OF the Presbyterian
church. in Now York city. OF the living
senators mentioned in tho foregoing article,
only two now remsin, viz William T.
Scott, now representative from Harrison
county, aud Isaac Parker, still decrcpit
citizen of Parker county, now eighty-oiyht
years old.
Referring to the foregoing communication,
wherein fourteen of the sixty five repres ~ Ia
tives were then known to be living, have to
add the death of Napoleon B. Charlton, OF
Tyler county, q msn of high character and
sterling worth; Edward CLARK, of Harrison,
who WAS governor when tho war began in
1861 and who WAS e1iled with mo TO Mexico
in 1866; DR.. David q. Dickson. of Grimes,
n man lovei by all who over knew him, nj,
though he departed from the faith Of the
(democraiic) fathers in 1866, when |
was battling almost solitary and alone
for tho equal rights of foreign citizens
domiciliated in our country Ii was tho on
ly sin DR.. Dickinson ever committed in our
political history, and ha repented OF it ia
sack cloth aud ashes. lie eschewed his mis-
take aud came back to our JefForsoniau fold.
which held that man born ia Germa Y,
Ireland, France or elsewhere, and settled
here as IN American citizen, was entitled to
the same rights MS il no had boon born ia
Massachusetts, Illinois or Texas. Ho was a
noble and pure man. Jerome B. Mellow
is also since dead. The other member, OF
that senate and that house. SO far IS
yet know, arc living. Tho final analys,,
of tho ngures aa nrosonto1 In ,,,, A,,rn, "A