Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1887 — DEATH OF JUDGE MANNING. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEATH OF JUDGE MANNING.

The Distinguished Southerner Dies Suddenly at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York. [New York telegram.] Judge Thomas C. Manning, ex-United States Minister to Mexico, died at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on Tuesday. He had been ill for about a week, and took sick shortly after his arrival in the city to attend the meeting of the Peabody Educational Fund, of which ho was one of the trustees. The cause of his death was au obstruction of the bowels. Judge Thomas Courtland Manning was aged about 60 years, and a native of Eden-

ton, N. C. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, and after practicing in Edenton for several years removed to Alexandria, La., in 1855. In 1864 Mr. Manning was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. After the war Judge Manning devoted himself to the law and declined the nomination for Governor of Louisiana. He served as a Tilden elector in 1876, and in 1877, when Governor Nicholls was installed, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Two years later he retired, but was again restored to the Supreme bench, and served with distinction until 1885. His next and last position, that of Minister to Mexico, was conferred by President Cleveland. Judge Manning was of massive figure and dignified, courtly bearing. He bore a great resemblance to Salmon P. Chase, and was always very highly regarded as a man and a jurist.