Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1888 — DEATH OF HON. DANIEL MANNING. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEATH OF HON. DANIEL MANNING.

Ex-Hecretary of the Treasury Daniel Manning died at the residenco of his son

James, in Albany, whither he had gone to spend the holidays. He passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family and near relatives. Mrs. Manning received many tender telegrams of condolence, including the following from the President: Though in this hour of unuttorable grief your sorrow is too sacred to be shared and too deep to be reached by earthly comfort, may I express to you my sincere and tender sympathy, saddened by my own affliction at tho loss of a true and trusted friend and a loyal associatte, who but lately stood at my side in the discharge, with patriotic zeal, of solemn public duty. Grover Cleveland. The President caused an order to be issued directing that the flags on all public buildings in Washington be placed at half-mast, as a mark of respect to the memory of his dead ex-Minister. Mr. Manning was born in Albany, N. Y., Aug. 16, 1831. His parentage was of Irish, English, and Dutch extraction. Ho was a poor boy, and fils early opportunities for schooling were very limited. At 11 years of age he went to work as an office-boy at the establishment of the Albany Atlas, which was afterward merged into the Albany Argus, with which paper he was, in one capacity or another,connected until his appointment by President Cleveland as Secretary of the Treasury. In 1873 he assumed sole charge of the Argus a and was elected President of the company. He was a member of the New York Democratic State convention of 1874 that nominated Samuel J. Tilden for Govern*’r, and was a delegate to the St. Louis convention of 1870 that nominated Mr. Tilden for President. Ha was also a member of the New York Democratic State Committee since 1876, was its Secretary in 1879 and 1880, and was elected Chairman in 1881. He was warmly interested in the nomination of Mr. Cleveland for President at Chicago. Several months ago Mr. Manning's heal’h compelled him to retire from the Cabinet. Mr. Manning was active and successful outside of journalism and politics. The funeral ceremonies over the body of tho lato ex-Secretary Daniel Manning wero held at Albany December 27, and it was placed in the mortuary chapel of the Rural Cemetery to await interment in the family lot next spring. Flags were hung at half-mast in the city out of respect for the memory of the dead statesman, and in accordance with the Mayor’s request business was suspended during the time of the fimeral The President, all the members of the Cabinet, and many other prominent people were present.