Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-21
LOUISVILLE GLEANINGS.
COYLE DOUGLAS CORRESPOND.
ENCE.
Rev. DE-. Craik-A Deathbed Mar
rIsge-The WatGersOn Golden We'd
ding - The Coming Competitive
Drill.

LOUISVILLE, Ky June l7-with the death of
Rev. DR.. James Craik passes away the last of
the little group of divines that bound together
the past and the present pulpit history of Lou
isville. DR.. Craik began his work in the minis.
try with his installation as rector of Christ
Church, In 1874. since which time he occupied
his pulpit without inter mission until his last
illness, presiding at the font the bridal and the
burial, receiving the marriage vows of the
children he had sealed with the sacred sign.
and taking their grandchildren to the baptis-
NAL altar. H. was native of
Alexandria, Virginia. grandson of
that DR.. Craik who was Washington's family
physician, and who ministered to his illustrious
patient in his last hours. From this ancestor
our DR.. Craik inherited many valuable relics
OF Washington, which were treasured at
'KanRhwa," his home, near Louisville. Per
hapS no man ever better fulfilled in his appear
ance the idea Of the purity and sanctity of the
priestly office. AS he stood with hands up
lifted in benediction in his flowing surpIiee.
with his crown OF snowy hair and descending
beard, and the stained lights falling across the
sanity beauty Of his aged face. it always seem
ed that to complete the likeness there should
be an aureole about the honored head. To
look at him thus was to be reverent at heart.
and to feel in the presence of one who lived
near heaven. But amongst the shifting scenes
and the change OF faces that come and go, his
will be seen no more. 1t was given to him to
rest at last just where his work fell finished
from his hands, and where, too, bis busy early
years saw that task begun. Christ Church was
here, as Christ Church is everywhere the
parent stem from which grew the green and
nal -
the Prince who has fallen in Israel and who
gave it dignity and honor abroad by his writ
ings and teachings, it seems truly that the
head of the corner is gone. Dr. Craik was
buried in Cave Hill Cemetery with he largest
and most imposing funeral of private per-
s IN ever seen in Louisville. He leaves an aged
! wifi and several children, two sons in Alabama
and one in Texas, and another the Rev Charles
| Craik the youngest of the family, is assistant
rector of his fathers congregation.
There are few sadder instances of the So
| called romanceS and sensations that find their
way into the newspapers than that which
| tranSpired daV or two since in San Antonio,
| in which Miss Katherine Duncan, Col Blantou
Duncan's young daughter. recently of louis
vile, was wife and widow on what was to have
| been her bridal day. She was afiauced to
Lieut. Hewitt, whose comman1 was stationed
at San Antonio graduate of West Point in
| 1879, a brave and gallant young soldier who
promised great distinction, and as a man. q
| splendid type of great and noble manhood.
| Shortly before the wedding day, set for early
June, Miss Duncan was seized with violent
| fever and was brought to the brink Of
| the grave Before the crisis was passed
! in her case her lover was stricken with the
| same disease. Each knowing of the others
/ danger, and agitated thereby, it was deemed
| advisable to remove the young officer to Col
| DuHcan's house and thus quiet their alarm.
| With her the crisis passed favorably, but it
| soon became evident that the brave soldier,
| who longed and struggled so to live, must die
| not as a soldier dreams of dying, in the glory
| of battle, but that his fate should come to him
silently and inexorably, in the midst of loving
| friends, shutting out the future that prom
| ised so gloriously, and daShing away the cup of
| his happiness brimming to his lips. That was
bitter, indeed. When the news was b oxen to
| him, and he had heard the final words mo
hope" from the physician, he requested that
| his marriage take place before he died. The
| bride was borne from her sick bed and placed
| beside him, and they were made husband and
| wife in the veIy shadow of eternity by the min.
lister who had come to prepare the dying for
| his last great change. Then was the heart
| breaking parting and, in few hours, the end
| had come.
Miss Duncan is a native of Atlanta, born
| there during the early years CT the war, her
| father having taken South one of the first regi
ments that left Kentucky to cast its fortunes
| with the Confederdcy. After living abroad for
| some years CoIenel Duncan returned with his
| family to his old Louisville home. where he he
| came noted and somewhat erratc politician,
/ using bis wealth to further his rather Quix0tic
| ends with open handed freedom. A little mo g
| than a year since he removed to San Antonio;
| his daughter having just entered society, one
| OF the very loveliest debutantes of the season.
| With her pure, spirituelle face, the meek brown
| eyes, and the halo OF pale golden hair about
| her head, she was the artists dream IF fair
| Madonna. 1t seems so out of the common or
| der Of woe that her bright and innocent youth
| should be called upon to suffer such extremity
| of anguish. She hoverS yet between life and
| death-it would be the more merciful prayer
for her that death should decide the trembling
! balance, for life must be for her prospect
| whose beauty and brightness have gone out of
| it and left only desolaton
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Watterson, the parents
| OF Mr.. Henry Watterson, recently celebrated
their golden wedding at the residence of their
| son in this city, with a brilliant reception.
Justice Stanley Matthews and wife came on to
attend it Mrs. Matthews and Mrs. WatterSon
| being sisters. 1t was quite different from the
most of those rare events, inasmuch as there
| were so few relatives and descendants to clus-
ter about the bridal pair Mr Henry Waiter
| son is the only child, and his six children con-
stitute the only descendants. Each of the
elderly couple have passed the age of seventy,
| but neither of them show any signs of decrepi-
tude: Mr. Watterson is hale &C i've, genial
specimen of the o d-time gentleman, and Mrs.
Watterson is still handsome and elegant
| society lady.
st. John this year has teen literally dealt
| with-he has three days set apart for iubila-
tions in his honor. The 24th of June has always
been considered his particular day but the Ma
sonic fraternity have taken great liberties with
him, and skipped him over to the 26th. One
and he probably feels pleased to see the prepa-
rations that portend high old saturnaia nn
| der his patronage. The city is filling up with
different companies of guardsmen and rife
| men from the South. The Porter Rifles, from
| Nashville, have arrived and gone straightway
into camp, and are drilling for dear life.
| They are in mortal terror of the Chicka-
saws, who are coming on their heels.
| Since their arrival the skies opened and
| the floods came and the rains fell, and they
| have no umbrellas and altogether are the most
| dejected-looking ct of mortals the eyes ever
rested on. They don't seem to have spirit
| enough left to present arms, and as to firing a
| gun-they would certainly break ranks and fee
the country if it were proposed to them They
can hardly be blamed-the weather is certainly
| villainOuS enough to take the starch out Of
| Turveydrop himself. The Quawpaws, from
Little Rock, and the Crescent City Guards come
| with a recommendation that is unique and de-
lightful to portion of the community at least.
| There is not married man, except the com
| manding officer, in either company Fancy
what a tremendous time those poor married
chaperoneS will have with their gid1y young
| chargesl CoYLE DOUGLAS
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