The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-17

| Judge Field appointed committee Of one
TO officially inform Judge g. n. Aldriege,
OF the district court, and Judge Il. +.
I Burke, OF the county court, of this request.
IL was agreed, by unanimous vote Of the
body, that the members of the association
attend the funeral services of our said
brother,at his lateresidence, at halfaiter ten
o'clock this morning. Upon motion OF
Judge Barksdale, the association adjourned
to 3 o'clock p. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
AT three o'clock the association met pur-
suant to adjournment, Colonel Leake in the
chair.
Judge II, Barksdale, as chairman of the
I committee on resolutions, submitted the
! following;
IN MEMORY OF EN-JupGE j. NJ. rHURMoNp.
| WHEREAS, We have heard with deep sor.
row of the death OF our brother, ex.District
judge j. Nj. Thurmond, which took place
on Tuesday, the 18th day of March, 1859,
and feeling it both proper and right that
We, his professional associates and members
of the Dallas bar, should give expression of
our sorrow for his death and respect for his
memory; therefore,
! Resolved, That in the death of Judge
/ Thurmond the state has lost an able adj
vocate, his clients faithful representative
in the courts, his bereaved family loving
husband, and kind and atlectionate
father, and humanity true friend.
| Resolved, That We extend to the be-
reaved family of our deceased brother oar
heartfelt coincidence and sympathies in
this their hour OF deep and sad atllction.
Resolved, That the secretary of the Dali
las Bar association present TO the family
of our deceased brother copy of these
resolutions.
Resolved, That copy of these resolutions
be presented to the Federal court at Dallas,
the district court and county court of Dallas
county, and request that the same be
spread upon the records of said courts, as
an enduring memorial of the high est eem
in which Judge Thurmond Is held by the
4 bench and bar.
Resolved That these resolutions be fur
nished the city papers, and request them to
publish the same.
II. BARKsDALE,
A. H. FIELD,
JOHN NJ. STEMMoNs,
w. L. WILLIAMS,
u. N. PAYNE,
JNo. G. Mccoy,
Committee
Colonel d. A. Williams moved their
adoption, when Judge II. Barksdale, County
Attorney Il. B. Seay, Colonel J. W. Payne,
+ Mr.. A. w. Nowlin, Mr.. =. c. Bigger, Mr..
. John b. Kunz, Mr.. d. Ii. Skies and Mr.. c.
7. Clint, made short addresses expressive OF
their appreciation of the character and
ability Of the deceased All were lust and
merited tributes to his worth as u man, a
, citizen, a lawyer, politician, and in his SOL
cial and family relations. The resolution
to adopt was then unanimously carried.
The chair then appointed Judge II.
Barksdale to present the resolutions to the
district court. Judge A. III. Field to the
United States court, and Mr.. r. b. Seay to
the county court, with the request that
they be spread upon the minutes of each
court.
On motion of Judge Barksdale the meet
ing then adjourned sine die
Mr.. Skilesin the course of his remarks said
that 1t was great wrong and an outrage that
journal should state that of the great throng
OF people who looked upon the dead body o
Judge Thurmord there was no throb OF
ought to be repudiated because il was not q
fact Judge Barksdale also arose
second time, and, abiding &c
, the statement said he was informed
that it was in the Galveston News
and he proclaimed 1t falsehood, n Islander
upon the dead, a SANDER upon the family
, of the deceased and SANDER upon thi
community and that its author was slam
dercr He did not know who was the au
, thor of the statement nor did he care, bu
whoever he was, he was slanderer.
-so.
Abiding to the various campaigns, tn
Wheeling lntelligencer thinks that tn
a great campaign now upon us will excee,
that of 1872, when the eco West philoso
, pher" was in the field and tray. Tim
i works wonders: but with something II cal
make no change, as the following from on
, esteemed fellow citizen ii. +. Behrens, Esq
will show: have sold the Hamburg Drop