Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-08
this country have erected the hope OF
more glorious future for themselves and
for their posterjty forever. Tony.
QUINTILIAN SHRINE.
Tho Death of Peculiar and Re
markable Man.
FROM the augusta (Ca.) Chronicle.

From the augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
Mr.. Quintilian Shrine is dead. On yes
terday morning, at his summer home,
near Bath, in this county, he breathed his
last. At the time of his death he was in
his 18th year. Mr.. Shrine was born in
Washington county, Georgia. lie was
the son Of an eminent physician who
moved to that county in the first part of
| this century from Charleston. His father
was man of letters, and OF great promi-
nence in his profession, and OF
| considerable wealth in those days.
Quintilian Shrine was classmato
of Robert Toombs and Alexander
ii. stephens, and graduated with high
honors. BY all who knew him he was
considered the best scholar of his class,
especially in mathematics. MIR. Toombs
said that Mr.. Skrine had as fine an ana
lytical mind as he had ever seen. After
leaving college he commenced the prac-
tice OF law in Sandersville, Ga, and was
considered In q short time one OF the most
erudite young lawyers in Georgia, and
did fine practice in that circuit. He
then entered politics and considered Mr..
Calhoun the greatest statesman and
certainly the greatest logician Of the
nineteenth century. He was an intense
admirer Of Mr.. Calhoun and followed him
which was unpopular in Georgia at the
time. Mr.. Shrine became disguised with
| politics, left the bar, retired to private
| life, purchased a plantation in Burke
county, Ca, where he removed his
negroes and became recluse and book
worm. He amassed around him mag
nIfcent library OF mathematical, scien-
| titic and literary works, and up to
the day of his death was per-
fectly familiar with the classics, reading
Greek, Latin and French with as much
ease as English. Prior to the late war he
spent his winters in Burke county on his
| plantation and his summers at Bath, and
made botany and minerology his constant
study. He collected very valuable min
| eral and genealogical cabinet, and since
1865 he purchased very valuable micro
scope in London for the purpose
of pursuing his botanical or other studies.
He had few intimate friends, was rather
cynical in his character, though possess
ing all the gallantry and polish of an old
| Southern gentleman, whose type is about
extinct IN this country. He was never
married, though always a great admlrer
of ladies, and was considered the toast in
that coterieo Of refinement that inhabited
Bath prior to the war. 80 -
He had the most delicate idea of honor,
and while totally void sef call religious
sentiment was always, just3 and fair in
his dealings with his fellow men. In fact,
! be was the5most, learned Tfian that has
| lived in this section Of Georgia for fifty
years at leasto He was ,agsplendid mathe-
matican, Ea9d gooda Historian, deep
thinker, and perfectly familiar with the
political history OF this country, from
| the formation Of the constitution
to the present day. He has
| left behind anEHeil selected library
and cabinet, but through some fatality of
| idiosyncrasy his vast accumulation of
learning has been of no service to the
country. He left some means which, it is
said, will be distributed very equally
among his relatives residing In South
| Carolina and Georgia. He has had a vault
built at Bath for the interment Of his re-
mains, and has been looking calmly for
ward to his death for some time. He died
| from a cancer on his hand.