Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1884 — A SUDDEN CALL. [ARTICLE]

A SUDDEN CALL.

Death of Congressman Maokey, of South Carolina. Another Congressman has joined the silent majority, the Hon. E. W. M. Mackey, of South Carolina. His death ooourred at Washington on the 38th ultimo. Judge Mackey represented the Seventh Congressional district. He was the only Republican in the delegation, and was a native of South Carolina. A Washington dispatch says of the occurrence: “Nothing since Congress met has exceeded, so far as comment Is oonoerned, the sudden death of Representative Mackey, of South Carolina. , Pour days ago the deceased talked concerning the appointment of several Postmasters In his State, and a few minutes after was compelled to rest on a sofa in the rear of the hall. To Inquiries as to what was the matter, he replied that he had a severe pain In his stomach, and thought he would go home and take some medicine for his trouble. This was his last appearance in Congress. A sad feature of the death of Mr. Maokey is the fact that his wife soon expects to become a mother, and it Is feared that her sudden bereavement will have a fatal effect, as she Is stated to be almost wild with grief." Mr. Mackey is the sixth Representative in Congress who has died since November, 1883. Those who have preoeded him wefp Herndon, of Alabama, who died before the adjournment of the Forty-seventh Congress; Cutts, of lowa, who died during the vaoation; Haskell, of Kansas, who died shortly after Congress convened; Herron, of Louisiana, who also died last summer; and Poole, of South Carolina, who died before the assembling of Congress.