Connecticut western news., 1895-08-15


 Since that time his family and friends re- alized that the end was near, and his death yesterday was not unexpected.
 The news of Judge Jackson's death caused general sorrow in this city, where he was so well known and admired The arrangements for the funeral have not been fully completed, but it will take place next Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.
 When Justice Jackson was SO seriously i'll this spring that he was not expected to recover, the name of his successor was considerably speculated on. Tho idea was suggested by some that the president would again name Messrs. Peokham or Hornblower of New York, while the seleo- tion of a man from the west fell to Don Dickinson Postmaster General Wilson was strongly spoken of as among the pos abilities, while the majority of opinion was that Secretary Carlisle could have the place if he wanted it. Mir. Carlisle would be especially eligible, as he would be ap- pointed from the same district that tho death of Justice Jackson has made vacant. Justice Jaokson's Last Act.
 The last time Judge Jackson was in Washington was on the occasion of the re- hearing in the income tax cases last May. He had been absent from the city and from the bench since the preceding fall, when, soon after the convening of the Oc- tober term of the court he had been com pelled to go south on account of his rapid ly declining health. During his absence there had been contradictory reports as to his physical condition, but the prevailing opinion among his colleagues on the bench was that he would never again be able to resume his seat.
 Mir had hn rtafin inr1 i'm hia city, and especially about the supreme court, of being very sensitive concerning any discussion ot his health in the public press and he referred to tho subject very sparingly in his own conversation. The aoher members of the court were therefore poorly advised as to his condition. This state of affairs is said to have been the req son for the equivocal character of the an nounoement of tho decision to grant re- hearing in the income tax cases, which of necessity depended upon Judge Jackson's presence.
 He was in Washington on the occasion of the rehearing for several days and gave his attention assiduously to the income tax cases. He sat through the argument, which continued for three days; took part in the consultation of the court and when the day arrived for the announcement of the decision not only listened patiently to the opinions of most of tho other mem | bers of the court, but delivered n vigorous opinion of his own in support of the valid- i ity of the law. This occurred on the goth | of May and was his last public appearance. When Judge Jackson was there on this occasion, 1t was evident to all who came | in contact with him that life was slowly but surely ebbing away, and that the ef- | fort he made in performing his duties in that emergency was made at the expense | of his vitality.
 i As senator and justice of the supreme | court Mir. Jackson had resided in Wash ington about eight years. His associates | there were confined largely to his col 1 leagues on the bench and in the senate i chamber. by them he was universally esteemed as n man of high moral worth and rich intellectual attainments, as was ] evinced in nothing so much as in his ap- pointment to the supreme bench by Presi- dent Harrison and his confirmation by a Republican senate, notwithstanding he ; was Democrat.
 ! Howell Edmunds Jackson was born in i Paris, Tenn, April s, 1882, so that he was in his sixty-third year at the time of | his death.