The sun., 1889-12-24

memory hi. manly and generous virtues and none VII
| msmbrance than your friend. EHoRT sFEEh
| BosroN, Dec %
sion a. t6s rev. Ii. persona Ioss g te5 iSan|
great! The republic loses It's most brilliant son. aud tht
| PArRtcE A. CoILiNS
NEW YORK. Dec. 22.
Ss to you and children aSGs sad hour IN
scn oSn SUpc yo a' [.HS OF %
Him. He viii not forSako you ROswRLL T. FLoWE&Ii
Mas urya w. op.p! There frV vsfiGvISs g2EF Rss ;ym p
pathy for your noble husbands undyinR fame But low
n'd Goa h d hBSnSy
| CLINTON B. FISK.
Among the messages was the following from
| c. II. j. Taylor, the colored lawyer:
~. Sas .,,s sP:% S,h 4:
personal friend true and tried win lsays for Atlanta
RICHMOND. Va. Dec. 2s.-The announcement
OF the death Of Henry W. Grady was received
here Ej.h pEGfound sogTr9w The RGhmond
syo, sef-reiant optimistic character, who.
Hays %hsn he Spfs Rpt his hand to the plough
Henry W. Grady was born in Athens, Ga,
ments. Ho was educated at the University Of
was an athlete as we'll as 4 brilliant scholar,
and he won the same warm popularity among
but rscss hs s hs
ine ups and downs. At 40 he was the editor Of
was TOO slow for him and he left 1T to establish
with two. partners. the Atlanta Herald; He
vitriolic OF Southern newspapers. Everything
was managed on the high-pressure plan. One
G ay r Sq snns PsyGs eS
hundred papers to Macon when the Herald was
being printed on AM an old-fashioned cylinder
The crash came In 1876. and one day Mr..
w. ehid9Tep: sPd j, Sit He stsTts% l0F {I;%S NV
Thomas B. Connery's room in the Herald office.
He asked for work: but the best that was Of
to look after the electoral count. and after
dE an Sfdavit is that Tiden had carried the @ State
He followed the matter to W MaShingt9n: M and the
benns 6R and who the
frauds they themselves had committed.
In 1880. Mr., Grady bought an interest in the
the stock. which is now worth $500; To that
Journal he devoted alI bis energies during the
o from that time m wa was unbroken, and he rapidly
became not only the central figure OF Sonthern
journalism. i possible eXceptlonl be made OF
whose social and political influence in his own
State was second to nobody's: AZ u journalist.
believed in bold. dashing exploits at every op-
portunity., His enterprise In collecting the re-
nG two mountain &c, tain districts Of Georgia has not
and couTiers he gathered In day figures that
ordinarily were two weeks In reaching the cap
ital. His reports OF the Charleston earthquakes
were masterpieces OF enterprise and descrip-
There is no sense Of editorial dignity about
me-" he once remarked. " hold that the edi-
tor Of newspaper or ANYBODY about me ,Lss es,
TO his hand. for news is the feature and op1n-
ions are Of secondary importance II / see
dog fight and think can hit 1t OIL to suit the
Following out this idea, Mr.. Grady often had
columns Of matter EN- bracing every grade Of
subject from an interview with Q street car
driver to an editorial on Jefersonian Democ-
Mr.. Grady was a spasmodic worker. His san
guine. enthusiastic temperament precluded his
capacity as q high pressure worker was great
or than his, but when the mood or the occasion
esa ss
field 81 the daily C1"st,iut,on ~ was neeess aFy th
weekly issue. Since 1881. he has pushed the
circulation OF that paper from 5000 to more
than 100000, and It Is more widely read than
Mr.. Grady's progress from local to ma
tional reputation was made at single bound.
England Society dinner. in December, 1886.
electrified the country. 1t was mastery
a
resentatiye leader OF Southern thought and
Political honors Mr.. Grady always refused.
although almost anything within the gift OF
his people might have been his; His personal
would be more sincerely mourned to; day south
Of the old Mason and Dixon line Mr.. Grady
lived in one Of the most beautiful MANSIONS IL
Atlanta, his family consisting OF his vile, his
son Of IS, and his daughter OF II. 49,,
Mr. Grady's last public words were uttered
already % t upon him. While suffering with cold
he went to Boston to Sttend the the MMsrehants' M
an address with great effort and then started
physciaER; who ordered him home with AL al
end His last speech was upon the negro
problem in the South. and It was one o. his
most forcible addresses The most striking
passage it contained WAS this:
In the South there are n1gro lawyers teachers cd
ae sby o hs s
support them IN villages and towns they have their
S
eou OY IN
fsIones to misdsmeanors, and have led the world in
f.r as p0sSe hi. M It's
the ana
negro criminal strikes tho eo3rod inIer that white
fsn soah one siS in
e l the
.seord e s a% IT IN
courts.
Now, Mr.. President can 1t bo seriously maintained
hands comes every year 81 6O 60Ooo OF farm cropsi
or have robbed a people who twenty Ave years from
slavery have amassed In one state $40
OoOo) Of property or that we intend 20 oppress the
are educating them to the utmost limit Of our ability
or outlaw them when work side by side with themf
re1nslaye them under legal forms when for their
and
countrymen you yourselves may some time hayoto
appeal at bar of human judgment for justice and for
right give my people tonight the fair aud unAnsWer
able conclusion OF these uncomfortable factsl
ELIzABETH'S NEW HIGH SCHOOL.
The Mnrnlacent Galif of ME- sIOaenh hniIln