The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-01-24
lie Had Been Failing in Health for Several
Years, and Month ago Went to Macon.
Ca, Where His Demise Occurred.
Death of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of the
Diocese of Massachusetts.
iii but Few Days with Cold, Which Devel-
oped Into Diphthsretical Complaint That
Caused Fatal Fit of Coughing.
DEATH OF JUSTICE LAMAR.

The Eminent Jurist Dies Suddenly of Heart
Trouble. Near Macon, Ga.
MACON. Ca, Jan. 23.-Justice L. Q. c. La
NOR died here at $50 o'clock this evening.
His death was sudden in the extreme, for
although he has been ailing for some time.
Justice Lamar appeared to be gradually
gaining health. He came from Washington
to Macon about a month ago. and has been
w. II. Virgin, in Vineville a suburb
of this city. This afternoon, about
o'clock. the Justice took his
overcoat, intending to 60 to the city, but
was met at the door by friend. DR..
Lewellyn. with whom he returned to the
sitting.room. At that time and during the
afternoon he was in good spirits, and at
dinner this afternoon he seemed to have q
good appetite. DR.. Lewelyn left the
house about S o'clock, and n few minutes
later the Justice was seized with violent
pains in the heart aud died ut the hour
mentioned.
For months past Mr.. Lamar has been
almost too ill to take more than per-
functory interest in the proceedings of the
Supreme Court. His health has been fall
ing for long time. He left Washington
for the South about q month ago. He had
then been for some time confined to his
house in that city. and was unable to at
tend al. the sessions OF the Supreme Court.
his absence causing some little de-
lay In tho rendering of the we'll
known Chicago lake-front case de-
cisi0n. However, Judge Lamar was
thought to have considerably improved.
He took advantage of an improved feeling,
and the day before his departure from the
national cspital he made two or three calls
on friends there. Itwas not without dis
NAL forebodings that his friends learned
that he had been compelled to take one or
two intervals of rest before arriving here.
and his death. while it will cause very
was so widely known and atectiOnately re-
garded. will not be in every particular
great surprise.
MIR. LAMAR'S PUBLIC CAREER.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar was
a Georgian by birth. having been born in
P1tnam county. Georgia, Sept. l. 1895. He
graduated at Emry College in 1s45. studied
law at Macon, was admitted to the bar in
1S47. occupied the chair Of mathemat-
les in the Mississippi State Univer-
slty for q short time. returned to
Georgia and in 1853 was elected to the Leg
islature of hls native State. He had a d.
versifed career. very like many other un.
settled Southern statesmen who were
heart and soul with slavery and
secession From the Georgia Legs-
lature he went to plantation
life in Mississippi, and was elected TO the
Thlrty.fiith and Thirty sixth Congresses.
He resgned at the outbreak of the war,
and took part in the secession convention
OF his State. He entered the confederate
service as lieutenant colonel, was made a
colonel, and In 1868 was sent 20 Russia to
secure recognition of the Confedercy. In
1866 he was back as teacher; now profes-
sOr of political economy and social science;
then he becomes the law professor of the
university. lie now reappears in politics
by being elected to the Forty third Con-
gress Ho was reelected to the Forty
fourth. but was elected to the Senate to
succeed Alcorn, of Mississippi. before he
could serve again In the House. Student.
lawyer. planter. legislator. teacher, soldier
dlplOmatist scientific Instructor. law pro-
fessOr. member of Congress and now Sem
ator we're the positions he held in ORDER
lie was re- elected in 1882 for the term to
expire March 3, 1889. During his term as
United States Senator be served OH the
committees on judiciary. on railroads and
on civil service and retrencbment. On
March 5. 1885. Mr.. Lamar was appointed
Secretary of the Interior by President
Cleveland, and was appointed to the Su.
preme Bench by Mr.. Cleveland In 1887.
Lamar was almost the first Southern
leader who recognized the fact that the
war was over. He saw that his country
was crushed, and that il could not get mp
again without help. 1t was he who first
sought TO have the south shake hands with
tho North, and to eliminate the last traces
of the bloody quarrel. 1t cost him much to
take this stand. His constituency was made
up of men ruined by the war, who cursed the
North with nearly every breath they drew.
Lamars acknow wledgment that secession
was q great mistake, his praise of Charles
Sumner-in fact. his entire position-made
the barbarous residents of the backwoods
counties of his district wild with ragc.
1t would be absurd to assume that Lamar
really loved the North any more than the
most unreconstructed MissIselppian.
But he recognized the inevitable.
Lamars face was peculiarly striking. He
had rusty brown hair combed back straight
as an old maid'a, curling OF the back ends.
This made his long face with its great.
shaggy eyebrows. look all the LONGER.
With his msEe of hair and sharp chin
" hiskers 1t was often remarked that his
profile suggested that OF q horse.