The Dickinson press., 1883-08-25
ID A DEAD.
Death OF Judge Jere g. Black of
Pennsylvania, Who Passed Away
With Praver on Hia r1na.

FennSylvanta, Who Passed Away
Witha Prayer on His Lips.
York, Pa, Special Telegram, Aug. 19.
Brockie is in mourning. Judge Black, the
the central figure of Brockie, lies cold in
death. His death was peaceful and calm,
and his eventful life went out beautiful as
the setting of q summer sun upon the cloud
less sky. His death was q courageous one,
and in hope of ablessed immorta lily. At
2:l5 O'Clock he breathed his last. Kissing
his wife goodbye, he turned over on his
side, and with . smile playing upon his lips
he passed away. His two sons, Chauncey
f. and Henry, his daughter, Mrs. HornsbY,
and bis son-in.law, Mr.. Hornsey, and A. f.
the d,9 vital spark led. Shorty pdssf bssor. d Tash
had laid bis icy hands upon him, he spoke
with confidence of the future, saying to his
son Chauncy he had no fear of crossing the
dark river when his Heavenly Father
awaited him on the other shore, ending,
g! would that I were as comfortable about
what l leave behind in the world" When
his beloved wife kaelt by his bedside com.
forting him with her sympathy and love,
he gave utterance to the following impress.
sive prayer: "Oh, thou m ost beloved and
merciful heavenly Father, from whom I
he'd my being, and in whom I have ever
trusted, if it be thy will, grant that my suf-
fering end and that I be called home to
thee. And oh bless and comfort thou my
Mary"
The judges illness only dates from Mon
day last, and from the first approach of the
fatal and painful disease, he was perfectly re-
signed, feeling that it would terminate fatal
~. After his case became critical, and it was
found necessary to resort to . surgical oper-
alton, he observed that the doctors were in
council, and asked its import. They told
him of the intended operation, and that
they had asked the consent Of the family.
Good humoredly and with mis- accustomed
wit, he remarked:
You have reckoned without your host. 1
am the victim and the only one to be con-
suited: I will not submit. l can hold out
until Drs. Aztec and Garnett can be SUM-
moned in consultation.
Agreeably to the judges desire the doc.
tors were brought and he consented to the
operation. It was successfully performed,
but blood poisoning followed, which was
the immediate cause of his death. All
through his sickness, although suffering in
tense agony, he was cheerful, and his great
mind gave vent in frequent scintillations of
witty utterances, and at times he repeated
selections from his favorite authors, Bry-
ants T%hanatopsis and the words OF Lady
Macbeth. In his dying moments the |jurist
atty and brightness of disposition, and his
How of Language, when not under the1infu-
ence of opiates. Judge Black suffered
greatly during his illness, but his last mo-
ments were without acute pain, and
he passed quietly away, retaining con-
seriousness within q few minutes of his
death.
jeremiah Sullivan Black was born in
Somerset county, Pa, Jan. 1e, 1910. His
ancestors came from the north of Ireland
and settled neal the present site of York,
the seventeenth century. His father, Henry
Black, being a farmer, Jerry, as he was
upon the virgin fields of the clearing
among the glades, " and his love of rural
life remained with him through all his days.
1t also fixed his religious faith and turned
him to the C%ampDellite church, which he
Joined at the age of tw~enty-eight. He re-
ceived his first mind. training in the schools
about bis " home, but he ON
pleted his studies at a private acad-
mense legal prac ice from the first and in
1888 he married Miss Mary Forward, his
p-eceptor's daughter, who survives him.
Of Common Pleas. he was made chief
justice of the supreme court of the State in
1851. by drawing the short term of three
years, after having been chosen upon the
ticket with Lewis, Groson, Lowery, and
Coulter, under the new constitutional pro-
vision. making the judges elective. In
1854 he was reelected to the supreme
bench by . large majority. Afterwards
he became Attorney General of the United
States under Mr.. Buchanan. Judge Blacks
loyalty during thos. j tying months is un-
questionable. The late member of that
cabinet, furnished in January, 1877, . Iwrit-
en- tribute to judge Blacks answering
loyalty during that period; and Judge Holt
another of his cabinet colleagues, has said:
mo man could have been more ardent or
earnest in his attachment TO the union or
o persistent in urging those things cal
culated to a it from the designs Of the
southern men than Judge Black"
As a lawyer he was considered one of the
greatest in the country. Two years ago
he published a vigorous defense of the
Christian religion in the North American
Review against the onslaughts of Robert g.
Ingersoll.