People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Jules Eichberg, the famous composer and musical director, who for a generation had been a notable personality in Boston, died of pneumonia, aged 69 years. It was announced that John G. Carlisle had resigned as United States senator from Kentucky. Sam Small has given up his evangelical work and will go back to his old desk in the Atlanta Constitution office. W The/Mineral services oveqfche remaiW’Of ex-President Hayes took place at Fremont, Ct, on the 20th. Many national and state officials, naval and military veterans and thousands of citizens followed the remains to Oakwood cemetery, where the body was placed by the side of the ex-president’s wife. Public buildings, churches, stores and many private residences were draped and bound with black, and on every hand the emblems of mourning bespoke the deep regard and sorrow of the community.

Charles L. Pool, of NewAlbine, la., •elebrated his 107th birthday. He has seventy living descendants. Mrs Catherine Sharp, widow of John G. Sharp, a hero of the war of 1812, died in Phil delphia, aged 115 years. She was said to be the oldest pensioner on the rolls of the United States government. Associate Justice Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar of the United States supreme court died suddenly in Macon, Ga., on the 23d of Bright’s disease, after an illness covering a period of several years. He was 67 years of age. In 1885 he entered President Cleveland’s cabinet as secretary of the interior, and on the death of Justice Gray was appointed to the supreme bench. Phillips Brooks, D. D., bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Massachusetts, died suddenly at his residence in Boston on the 23d of heart failure, brought on by a spasm of coughing. Bishop Brooks was 58 years old, a man of commanding appearance and of great popularity, and his death has called forth expressions of deep personal sorrow from clergymen of all denominations and people in all walks of life.