The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-18
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A Dark Day.

Jacksonville mourns today more deeply than
AT any time since her present calamity came
upon her. Those Of her people who are still well
aud strong, and the great outside world we'll
read from day to day the terrible record which
disease is making in her midst, and they shudder
at the recital Of the painful story. But if we
could all look into the homes that have been
made desOlate and into the hearts that have
been wrung with untold anguish, how would our
sorrow and our sympathy be multiplied hun
dred fold The humblest life which has fallen "A
sacrifice 10 this dread visitation has lett behind il
somewhere deep mark Of suffering and misery
We cannot measure the degree ot anguish, tor
every heart best knOweth lis own loss" But To-
day the hearts of the whole city mourn. Death
has laid is band upon two Of JacksOnvillcs most
distinguished and bcst-beloyed Citizens and the
grief thereat cannot be contiEed To the homes aud
the families and the immediate friends of those
who are gone forever
Almost in the self same hour Yesterday Louis
l. Fleming and Henry A. L'Engle departed this
lifc-the one last approaching The allotted three
score and ten years, the other having scarcely
halt spanncd that period. Both were native
born Flordians, and both had been closely identi
fed with the growth of the city which they had
made their home, and which they loved So well
They were closely allied by family ties, and this
double death is almost ovcrpowering in the deep
grief which it thus brings 10 many household
to-day.
Mr. Fleming was man of brain and heart
OF broad attachments, of sterling integrity
which was universally recognized, possessing
abilities which gave him rank among the lead
ing lawyers of the State, Of high Christian char
acler, and of warm sympathies, both public aid
private, he has for two score years walked in and
ont before his people a true man and model
citzen-unobrusively alwa;s, yet stamping his
individuality everywhere. High public honors
had been offered him, but rarely did he accept
Ia ok.o tb.r IN h,o i,,n I,s,,
man and citizen leaving the hOn0rs 10 others
Almost at the very height Of his lifework and
usefulness he has been called across the dark
liver. To his stricken family, TO his law part
ners to whom long association and close com
partnership had endeared him, and to all who
knew and loved him, the deep sympathy of the
people of Jacksonville goes out in this dark
hour.
The meridian line Of life had hardly been
reached by Mr. LEngle. Brilliant success had
constantly marked his pathway, and, had death
spared him. still greater achievements would
undoubtedly have been his In executive
ability few men have cqualled him. He was de-
voted to business, but delighted in throwing The
full force OF his activity into public affairs. He
was easily and naturally leader, and the peo-
pie unfailingly looked to him in any emergency
10 aid and direct their efforts jacksonville can
never forget the untiring energy with which he
entered upon great public labor only one
brief month ago, nor the measure of self-sacrfce
which il cost him. He was mantully fighting
The enemy when he fell in The heat Of the battle
No man could nave been taken from us whose
loss would have been more kcenly telt at this
lime and frsm the ranks of The faithful few his
place cannot be easily filled. The whole city
mourns with the bereaved ones.
Death has tn IS united two whose public and
private virtues were conspicuous among the peo-
pie. The prayers Of that people are for a stay
ing of the hand which is so sorely shifting them