Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-06
DEATHS,

IEcnLER-On Tuesday, the 9Th inst. att Il.
sr, in the cd year Of her age.
The friends and aquaintanoes are respect
fully invited to attend the funeral, from her
late residence, No. so South Lime street, on
Thursday. the 7th inst, at 2 p. m. Services at
st. James Episcopal church. Interment at
Lancaster cemetery. 2td
sTEIGER--In this city, on April I, $751; Mamie
Parker, daughter of John and Mary Steiger,
aged months and % days.
Dearest Mamie, thou hast left us
Here thy loss we deeply feel;
But it's God that hath bereft rs.
He can all our sorrow heal.
Gone, but not forgotten,
The relatives and friends are respectfully
invited to attend the funeral from her par.
ents' residence, No. 4i9 West Orange street, on
Thursday afternoon ut O'Clock. Interment
in Zion's cemetery. it,
Obituary.
Died in Baltimore. Md. on Friday, March .,
in the fifteenth year of his age, James Bu.
chanan Johnston, eldest son of Henry Elliott
Johnston and Harriet Lene Johnston, and the
grand nephew Of fex-Presidcnt Buchanan.
Those who know the parents of this boy un-
dcrstand the loss TO them implied by the above
announcement. But only those who were well
acquainted with the youth himself can COM
prehcEd that his death is 4 probable bcreave-
mcnt to 4 circle larger than mere family and
friends; for there were in his moral and intel
lectual traits wonderful possibilities and great
promise, from which much was expected in
the future. We are not undertaking to chron-
icle the death of an ordinary lad, with the
usual platitudes concerning "shining mark >
and those "whom the gods love )" but we
think him worthy of mention, as the more
mature are noticed, because there was an indi-
vidual!ty in this young life which excited gen.
eral interest.
While he was fond of his youthful compan-
IONS and had been reared to manly sports and
exercises, his greatest pleasure was in books.
which he devoured with the utter se!f.surren- :
der of the true student. He was especially
well posted in history, and was considerable
linguist; and if, in all his studies, his progress
had not been extraordinary, 1t was because he
followed the usual crratic course Of genius,
and was acquiring, through miscellaneous
reading, vast stores of general information.
That he was affcctiOnate, noble and truthful
in character, it plcases those nealest him to
know, though the stranger could only admire
his graceful and distinguished bearing, and,
in looking upon his fine head and beautiful
blue eyes, merely conjecture his mental and
moral elevation, for lie was reserved ana dig
nified
1t is also interesting to note that this
thoughtful boy had long been ready and eager
for confirmation, and was to have been re.
ceivcu into the church Of his fathers on the
Sunday before his death; but illness prevent
ed, and the next Sunday he was borne to the
family vault. with annunciatiOn lilies in his
slender white hands, there tOawait his Easter,
His leaf is persisted In the green,
And while We breathe beneath the sun,
The world, which credits what Is done,
Is cold to all that might have been"
Not SO with US. not so either with the father
and mother. whose remuneration of their great
est hope and treasure cannot yet be quiet and
passive, for
"The wind that swept him out OF sin
Has rut1led all their vestare
On the shut door that let him in
They beat with frantic gesture"
Dut VIC in whose hearts tbeir bravely smoth
cred sobs still echo wish that those tears may
but clear their vision to see that the hand
which broke their idol is, after oil, kind, mer
ciful, fatherly; and we hope that that short
lite which has gone outamid such bitter lamcn
tation may become to those two only a sweet
and gentle memory, q beautiful tale that Il
tod " to each other in the calm evening of E.:
happy life. 'R.B.H.