New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-06-28
THE LAST HOURS or JUDGE DAVIS.
HIS FAMILY PREPARED FOR HIS DEATH-CoNDoL-
YNCFs FROM DISTINGUISHED MEN.

HIS FAMILY PREPARED fOR HIS DEATH-CoNDoL-
YxcHs FROM DISTINGUISHED MEN.
BLooMryGTON, Ill, June q (SpecidD -Ihe
following gentlemen have been invited oy Telegraph OF
verbally TO act a. pail bearers at Judg- Davss funeral
Judge Walter @ Gresham, General John A. Logan
Judge Lawrence Weldon. LEONARD SWEET Governor L.
]. Oxlesby. Joseph f. Mcdonald. Judge John NJ scott
Clifton a. Moore. Colonel z. B. Latham. Jesse ". Fell
John Wentworth JUICE oliver L. Davis Judge Thomas
Drummond Daniel W. Voorhees,. II. H. Treat, w. ID
Griswold Robert T. Lincoln. The family mas receive"
kilograms OF condolence from ex-senator Mcdonald
Senator George F. Edmunfs. Senator Logan ROBERT
Lincoln First Assistant P1sfmasterG-ne Stevenson
and many Others. All the public and private ouiioihEs
IN this city draped IN mourning
Judge Davss friends were prepared for his death.
Early on Friday evening there WAS m alarming change
condition ani the Borrowing friends re ,ized tha
the end near About IL o'clock he revived Slightly
and was given little nourshnent and st'mulants, bat
he soon sank and MA low pulse and aoored
breathing marked the approach OF death. At O'Clock
there was CLEAN OF consciousness, and he recognized
his son George ana spoke his name About an
hour before the end no talked
little in deliriou. way, but
recognized no one and seemed to feel no pain. At his
bedside we're his wife. his son. George r.
DAVIS. and wife and daughter; Mrs. Sarah
D. swayne and hu,band; Miss Alice Davis his
granddaughter; Mrs Fannie NJ Pierpont his niece
ami Frank d. Orme, CT Washington.
During sns month OF April. Judge Davis. while In
Chicago noticed his back what he supposed to De
boil and aivs himself uneisiness until It began to
enlarge and become painful On April 30 he called In
his family physician who st once pronounced II a
carbunre Vigorous treatment was at once begun, mn
carbunrr refused To Weld and became more Patul
until three weeks ago when erysipeias set In. After
that time the patient suffered lttle from the car
huncle, hut all the fever AMI phl
which accompany e-yspeias The doctor pro-
nnunced erysipelas the Immediate cause OF DEAN.
bur attributes the breaking down anu ma
ma AIDES To diabetes. which must have begun ats IT.
sidous WORK two wears ago. IL was discovered only
r-rently, ma owing to the patients condition
tire fat withheld from him. one week ago
the family reluctantly compelled to abandon
al hope to the pubic the nrHt knowlrlYr OF
the alarming condition OF the sufferer. Dr. JOhn-on OF
Chicago called In consul alton and only continued
and said that IN hi% opinion every thag
that medical science couli suggest had been done The
In ge rralzsi his condition days ag" AMI bravery
fceh the end until consciousness Departed Wheu hrst
taken hd trlrnl- that lie w"ui either die or
come oat a stronger man with a new ease OF llt+
IbrpugbOn the city there IL genuine s"rr"" among
all Classes the luss Of BloOmngtons most eminent
aud honnred citizen. H~re hOn-, WHARF, MS domestic
life and daily walk and conversation have Oren co>Ty
watched than nall century the people hh""
hun IA AN honest and Kind All unosteniai ious
fi-hunr Mrs Davis has been devotrd vile ana - III
grief but bears bravry. Tie iunrral A. oceh
fixed for Wednesday afternoon, AT O'CLOCK at the
house.