Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-23
JUSTICE MATTHEWS DEAD.

The Supreme Bench Meets With a
 Great Loss-Passes Away Yesterday
 Morning HIS Visits to New Haven
 at Yale Commencement in 1887 and - 1888.
 WASHINGTON, March 22.-The Hon. Stan.
 ley Matthews, associate justice Of the United
 States Supreme court, who has been serious-
 ly ill for some time past, ,died at 10:3O o'clock
 this morning.
 MT. Matthews has been sick for three
 weeks, although his original illness dates
 much further back. For two weeks past his
 condition has been considered serious. Dr. Johnson has been in constant attendance,
 and during the latter part of his illness pr. Lincoln has been in consultation with him, Last night Justice Matthews was so much worse that DE. Johnson remained with him during the night. He passed away peaceful ly. All of his family, with the exception of his son, was present at the death scene. Justice Matthews was born in Cincinnati July 21, 1924. He was graduated at Kenyon college in 1S40, studied law and WAS admit ted to the bar, settling in Maury county, Tenn. He shortly afterward returned to Cincinnati and became editor of the Cincin- nati Herald, the first daily anti slavery paper in that city.
 In 1851 he became judge of the court of common pleas in Hamilton county, was State senator in 1855, and in 1S56-61 was United States attorney for the southern district of Ohio.
 He served with distinction in the Union army during the war, but in 1863 he resigned his commission as colonel to become judge of the supreme court in Cincinnati.
 He was presidential elector on the Lin- ! coln-Johnson ticket in 1884 and on the Grant Colfax ticket in 1868. He was defeated as Republican candidate for Congress in 1876 and in the next year was one of the counsel before the celebrated electoral commission, opening the argument in behalf of the Re- publican electors of Florida and making the principal argument in the Oregon case. In March, 1877, he was elected United States senator in place of John Sherman, who had resigned.
 In 1881 he was appointed associate justice of the United States Supreme court by Hayes just before the latter vacated the office to which he was not elected. MT. Matthews nomination was not acted on, and he was re- nominated by President Garfield. His ap- pointment was confirmed by the Senate on May 12, 1881.
 Justice Matthews had been an invalid for year or more. During the winter of 1S87-SS
 he frequently complained of indigestion and
 muscular rheumatism, and as the spring wore
 on began to suffer from obstinate diarrhoea,
 from which he lost great deal of strength
 and flesh. At this time it was thought that
 his great devotion to work was to large de-
 gree responsible for his illness, as no doubt
 it was, and acting upon the advice of his
 physicians and friends, who had great hopes
 that change of air might prove lasting
 benefit, he went to Massachusetts, stopping
 for some time at the Lenox and
 then at Nantucket, but he con-
 tinued to lose ground. During the
 summer he had several attacks of muscular
 l.
 would confne him to his bed for several days
 at time. On his return home he began to improve somewhat, but he continued to suf- fer from the intercurrent attacks, which all ways greatly reduced his strengh and flesh. These came on at intervals of three or four weeks. Between them he would have peri ods or marked improvement and several times when Dr. Johnson was confidently hop ing to get him out another attack would prostrate and leave him weaker than ever. During last February he suffered great ly with complication of cystitis and irititis. About this time an ulcer of cornea appeared with an efusion in- to the pleural cavity which were attributable to his rheumatic condition. He recovered, however, from both of these latter complica-
 tions. For about eight weeks previous to
 his final illness he had been pretty free from
 pain and his physicians and his family had great hopes of his recovery. That hope was modified, however, by the fact that while he
 had good appetite and good digestion, he did not gain flesh, although his strength im- proved daily. At this time he sat up during part of each day and walked about his room and into the other rooms. But about the fourth of March he had an acute attack of high fever which
 lasted several days and which very much ex- hausted him. After this passed he seemed to be improving, with return of appetite, but @ recurrence of the chills and fever, as-
 sociated with cystitis, still further added to his exhaustion and debility. During all of
 this time his pulse was exceedingly feeble
 and the action of the heart was sustained by remedies administered for that purpose.
 Yesterday afternoon he had @ prolonged chill
 and high fever, which brought on intense lo- cal suffering. This was followed in few hours by another chill from which he could
 not rally. He continued to lose strength
 and died few minutes after 10 o'clock this
 morning. The immediate cause of death
 was exhaustion of the heart and conges-
 tion of the kidneys with partial suppression
 of the urine. Beside his regular attendant
 Dr. William w. Johnston and other eminent
 physicians including Dr. William Pepper of
 Philadelphia and Dr. Lincoln of Washington
 were called in consultation from time to
 time.
 The arrangements for the funeral were practically completed this evening. Religious services will be held at his late residence on Connecticut avenue Monday afternoon at 1
 o'clock. They will be brief and simple and
 will be conducted by Rev. Dr. Hamlin, pas
 tor of the Church of the Covenant. At their conclusion the remains will be removed to
 the Baltimore and Ohio railroad station for
 transportation to Glendale, Ohio, by way of
 Cincinnati. Religious services will be held
 there at Christ (P. E church under the con-
 duct of Rev. Dr. Price, the rector, Tuesday afternoon, and the remains will then be re-
 moved to Spring Grove cemetery for inter-
 ment. Members of the Supreme court will accompany the remains honorary pail bearers, and the messengers of the court will be the active pail bearers.
 Justice Matthews was guest at Yale col lege commencement in 1887 and one of the speakers at the alumni dinner, at which also Chief Justice Waite, who has also passed away, was one of the speakers. Mir. Mat thews' remarks were characterised by gen. ial and bright humor with flashes of wit and bonhommie which was very pleasing. He was man of commanding and noble pres- ence, genial and refined, full of repartee and the life of and a brilliant ornament to the social gathering when his time and duties permitted him to unbend from the dignity and cares of the law. When in New Haven in 1887 he was the guest of Professor Wm. K. Townsend of Yale, our present corporation counsel, and many of our leading New Ha- veners had the rare pleasure of meeting him then, and banquets were given in his honor | at ex-GoVeFnor Ingersoil's, Hon. Colin I NJ. Ingersoll's and at Hon. James M. Town sends residence in the Annex, attended by | many men of national renown. MT. Mat thews visited New Haven again last year, when he delivered the oration at Yale Law schools commencement, finished and mas- ! terly effort as was to be expected from gen. tleman of such scholarly attachments and national renown as 8 lawyer. MT. Matt ! thews was especially distinguished at the I bar, says prominent New Haven lawyer, for his great learning and erudition in con | stitutional and admiralty law. In these l special fields he was particularly eminent ! and often was he consulted in difficult and l noted cases, in these departments of the law | When in New Haven last year MT. Matthews | was not we'll and remained qniet l