Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-24
NUDGE BIlA( OK DEAD
Death OF Judge Jere s. Hack OF
81 Pennsylvania, who Passed Away
~ it'll q Prayer on His Lips.

8% FehnSyIyanIH. ~ no sESasSed away
" it'll q Prayer on His Tilps. B.
York, Pa, Special Teieggr Aug. Is.
sBfockie is Ia mourning Judge Black, the
the central figure of Brockie, lies cold In
death. His; death was peaceful and calm,
and his eventfni lifewent out beautiful as
the setting Of q snm sur upon the cloud
/ less sky. His death was courageous one,
and in hope Of q blessed immortality. 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
be passed away. His two sons, Chauncey
B.. and Henry, his daughter, Mrs. HornshY,
asd bis son-in-laW, Mr.. Hornsey, and A. F.
the vital spark fed Shortly before death
had laid his 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,
II would that j were as comfortable about
what leave behind in the world When
his beloved wife knelt 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
mercitul heavenly Father, from whom I
he'd my being, and in whom 7 have ever
trusted, if it be thy will, grant that my suf-
fering end and that be called home to
thee. And oh bless and comfort thou my
Mary ~ j. .,
+ 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 a 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- accustonn ed
Wit, he remarked:
You have reckoned without your host.
arm the victim and the only one to be con-
until Drs. Aztec and Garnett can be SUM-
moned in consultation.
Agreeably to the judges desire the doc
tors were brought and he consented 70 the
operation. It was successfully performed,
but blood poisoning followed, which was
the immediate cause of his death. AL
through his sickness, although. suffering in
| tense agony, he was cheerful, and his great
mind gave vent in frequent scintillations of
witty utterances, and st times be repeated
selections from his fayorite authors, Brv-
Mac3eth. IN his dying moments the ijurist
| lost none of bis force OF character, his GENT
ahty and brightness Of disposition, and his
flow OF language, when not under the infu-
| ence, of .opiates. Judge Black suffered
greatly during his illness, but his last mo-
| ments were without acute pain, and
| be passed quietly away, retaining con-
| sciousness within a few minutes of his
| death.
Jeremiah Sullivan Black WAS born in
Somerset county, Pa, Jan. TO- 1910. His
ancestors came from the north of ireland
and settled near the present site OF York,
Pa, the horne Of the statesman, early in
| the seventeenth century. His father, Henry
Black, being a farmer, jerry, as he Was
| Familiarity called, passed his early yeas
upon the virgin fields of the clearing
among the glades," and his love of rural
life remained with him through all his days
It also fixed his religious faith and turned
him to the Campoellite church, which be
| Joined st the age OF twenty eight. He re-
ceived his first mind training in the schools
ABOUT his own home, but he com
| ple.ed his studies at q private acad-
mense. legal prac ice from the first and il
1888 he married Miss Mary Forward, nix
! preceptor's daughter, who survives him
In 1sA2 Gov. Porter appointeds him judge
of Common Pleas. lie was made chic
| 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 anG
Coulter, under the new constitutional pro
vision, making the judges elective. II
| 1854 he was reelected to the supreme
| bench by q large majority. Afterward:
he became Attorney General of the Unitec
States under Mr.. Buchanan. Judge Black
loyalty during those trying months is nh
questionable. The late member of tina
cabinet, furnished in January, 1877, writ
en- tribute to Judge Blacks answering
| loyalty during that period; and Judge Hol
another of his cabinet colleagues, has said
| mo man could have been more ardent O.
earnest in his attachment TO the union O,
more persistent in urging those things cal
| culated to save it from the designs of thu
southern men than Judge Black"
As a lawyer he was considered one of tn
| greatest ia the country. Two years az,
/ he published vigorous defense of th
| Christian religion in the North American
Review against the onslaughts Of Robert g
Ingersoll.