Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-20


he might give her the position in life to
which she had been accustomed"
Notable Deaths.
DR.. Gilbert Thickstun, president of the
Pennsylvania state medical society, and of
the Erie county medical association, was
killed on Saturday by falling through a
railway bridge at Erie. The train stopped
at the bridge, and the doctor, believing he
was at the station, stepped from q car and
fell to the roadway beneath.
David Gallup, a leading Repu blican pol
itician of Connecticut, died in Hartford o n
Saturday, at the age of Is years. He had
been probate judge and served several
terms in the Legislature. and in 1879 was
elected lieutenant governor of the state.
A. M. c. Smith: a large steamboat
owner and member of the Republican
aged 81 years.
Mary Lamb, an English woman, of
Plainville, near Wilkesbarre, died on Sat.
urday in the Tooth year of her age. Her
husband died short time ago at the age
of 80.
Various Accidents.
Dennis Butler, aged 35, a resident of
Mahonoy City, Pa, was killed by a rail-
EO6l O6T uOShI w AhCoUdIIo Ou OdJuIudy
nighs.- Schoermel. a repairman
on the railroad track, while drunk, on Sat-
urday night, near Middletown, and was
killed by q passing train.-The engine and
tender of passenger train went through
an open draw near Mobile on Saturday
afternoon, and the engineer, Edward
Brown, who would not leave his engine
was drowned.-Three mills of the Arcadia
powder company, at Waverly, N. Y, blew
up on Saturday, killing three men and in
juring several Others, three fatally. 1.-Two
men named Carpenter and Labelle were
drowned at the Cascades On the Santiteau
river in Canada on Saturday.
JUDGE BLACKS LAST HOURS
Tho Great .Jurist Passes Away Peacefully,
Surrounded by His Family.
Judge Blacks death was peaceful and
calm. His wife, his two sons, Chauncey
F. and Henry, his daughter, Mrs. Hornsby,
and her husband and A. B. Farguhar were
at his bedside. A few minutes before his
death he spoke with confidence of the
future, saying to his son Chauncey that he
had no fear, and added 81 would that I
wero as comfortable about what leave
behind in this world" While his wife
knelt at his bedside Judge Black gave ut
terances to the following impressive
prayer: "Oh, thou loved and most merci-
full Father, from whom l had my being
and in whom have ever trusted, grant, If
it be Thy will, that no longer suffer this
agony and that l be speedily called home
to Thee, and oh, my God, bless and COM
fort this, my Mary"
Soon afterwards he kissed his wife good
bye, turned over on his side and passed
away. The judges illness only dates fro m
Monday last, and from tho first appear
ance of the fatal and painful disease be was
perfectly resigned, feeling that it would
terminate fatally. After his case became
critical and it was found necessary to resort
to a surgical operation, he observed the
doctors in council and asked it's import.
They told him of the intended operation
and that they had asked tho consent of the
family. Good humoredly and with his
accustomed wit he remarked: 4" You have
reckoned without your host l am the
victim and the one who is to be consulted.
will not submit. I can hold ont until
Drs. Atlee and Garnet can be summoned
in consultation" Agreeably to the judges
desire, the doctors we're brought and he
consented to the operation. 1t was sue
cessfully performed, but the poisonous
nature of the contents of the bladder were
such as to poison the system, superinduc.
ing pyemia, which was the immediate
cause of his death.
All through his sickness, although he
was suffering intense agony, he was cheer
full and his great mind gave vent in fire.
quent scintillations of witty utterances
and at times he repeated selections from
his favorite authors, Bryant's Thanatop.
sis " and the words of Lady Macbeth. In
his dying moments tho great jurist lost
none of his force of character, his geniality
and brightness of disposition, or his flow
of language, when not under the influence
of opiates. His remains will be inferred
at Prospect Hill cemetery, York, at five
o'clock on Tuesday evening. Rev Mr..
Powers, of Washington, the pastor of the
late President Garfield, will Oficiate.
Judge Black was a member of the Chris
tian or Campbellite church. The an
nOuncement that Judge jeremiah s. Black
was dead was made on the streets of
York at an early hour, and the sad intel
ligence was passed from lip to lip, until
the whole community were aware of the
great loss they had sustained. Flags float
at half mast. The people, regard
less of partisan feslings, feel that OF only
the nation has lost a distinguished and
patriotic son, but the town of York has
been especially bereaved. Judge Black
was loved and respected in life, but his
death has awakened most extraordinary
feeling of sympathy and regret at his
sudden demise. He spoke of business and
private matters to his son Chauncey, and
in tho midst Of it would stop and refer to
his faith in Christ. Judge Blacks young
est daughter, Mrs Clayton, cannot be
present at the funeral. as she IS at Fort
Apache, Arizona, with her husband Cap
tain Clayton, Paymaster United States
army.
NATIONAL HONUKS,
Elaborate Tributes 1t Washington, ID. o.,
to the Dead JurlSt.
An associated press dispatch from Wash.
ington, d. G., says: "Upon receipt of tele-
gram at the department of state announcing
the death of Judge Black the flag on the
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