Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1889-12-27

felt. BY half past 10 o'clock he began
growing worse, and at o'clock he was
said 70 be dying. At $40 he quietly
and the news of his death spread over
the city it created sorrow never before
equalled here. The arrangements for
the funeral have not been made yet. Mr..
Grady was born at Athens, Ga, in 1851,
and will probably be buried there beside
his father. who was killed while gal
lantly leading the Twenty-fifth North
Carolina regiment at Petersburg. Mr..
Grady leaves widow and two children.
Mr.. Grady was the best known editor in
all the Southern states. He stood in the
front rank of American journalists, and
the prospect of none was brighter. His
father was a colonel in the Confederate
army, and lost his life in battle when his
son was only IA years old. Young
Grady was educated in the University of
Georgia, in his native city, where he
graduated at the head of his class, and
his studies were afterwards continued at
the University OF Virginia. From the
first Mr.. Grady was strongly attached to
journalism, and on leaving college, lad
of 19, he started daily paper on his
own account at Rome, Ga, which failed
of support. He moved to Atlanta and
issued the Atlanta Herald and after
wards the Atlanta Courier, both
of which ventures proved unsuc-
cessful. His ready pen, however,
found plenty of employment. He wrote
for The Atlanta Constitution, The Louis
vile Courier journal and other papers;
and James Gordon Bennett, the elder,
appointed him Georgia correspondent of
The New York Herald, post which he
held for six years. A fortunate specula-
ton, it is said, in railroad stock, netted
him SEQ, 900, which he wisely invested in
a quarter interest in The Atlanta Consti-
tuition. This interest, now enormously
enhanced, he still owned when he died.
In the December following the Charles
ton catastrophe. Mr.. Grady delivered an
address in New York at the annual din
ner of the New England society on the
New South" That speech was, and
still is, applauded all over the country,
South as well as North, and helped to
make its author famous in remote places
where his name had before been un-
known. He appeared at the Boston
Merchant club last week, where he and
ex-President Cleveland played star parts.
His theme then was the status of the
negro in the South, and newspapers
throughout the country are still quoting
from its ringing sentences and comment
ing upon his stirring utterances on that
occasion.
At 2 O'clock i'm the afternoon of Christ
mas day the funeral ceremonies will
take place. From every section of the
state has come the request that his body
might lie in state, that the people might
look upon his face once more. In re-
sponse to this request the family has con-
sented that the remains shall rest in the
First Methodist church, of which Mr..
Grady was leading member, from 8
o'clock in the morning until the funeral
hour. Mrs. Grady's request is that there
be no display. nothing but the simplest
funeral These requests will be carried
out, and on Thursday special memorial
services will be held at the capitol, in
which all the people, the military and
the societies of which Mr.. Grady was a
member will take part. The speakers
will be chosen from among Mr.. Gradys
classmates at the University of Georgia.
All the courts have adjourned, and
many of the city buildings are draped in
mourning. kilograms of coincidence
have been pouring in from all sections of
the country, many being from men most
prominent in national affairs. Public
memorial services will be held Wednes-
day or Thursday in nearly all the cities
of Georgia.