The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 21, 1887, Page 2

OBITUARY. Death at Frankfort. Ky., of Ex-Gov. | Blackbarn—A Sketeh of His Life | And Work. | Frankfort, Ky., Sept. 14.—Ex. Gov. Luke P. Blackburn, the great- ly beloved and revered philanthropist, | passed quietly away at 2:30 p. m. to- day,’surrounded by loving relatives and old friends, after a lingering ill- ness. His death has been daily ex- pected fora month. Five days ago, it is said, Gov. Blackburn predicted he would die on a certain day ata certain hour, and his prediction was | v rified almost to a minute. Last Saturday, in his delirium, he uttered a few intelligible words: “I tell you Gn. Cleburne, it is impracticable,” ae accepted compensation for his servi- ces in epidemics. In 1873 he returned to Kentucky | and settled in Louisville, where he | practised his profession. mS yellow fever broke out in Memphis | in 1878 he at once left for that city. | peare, his life, and howiitings eh | where he remained until the plague | ae aati cana ics | When the | was under control. On the second day of May. an enthusiastic democratic couven- tion nominated him for governor of Kentucky. Then, in the midst of | his canvass, with the election but a j few weeks off, he gave up everything to go to Hickman, Ky., where an epidemic of yellow fever had ap Here he remained for weeks 1879. | peared, helping the ill and easing the dying. The election found him still at his post in Hickman. He was elected by more than 40,000 majority. Of his career as governor but little doubtless alluding to something in his army experience in Mississippi when on the staff off Gen: Price, and when he and Gen. Pat Cleburne were tie warmest and ‘most devoted need be said. He found the state prison a veritable “black hole,” where pestilence was bred and miserable human beings died like fiends. The last. words .he used | hogs. Between 1,200 and 1,300 men distinctly, were uttered on Sunday | ¥T¢ confined in oa gaan age morning, when he said: “Oh, the intended for 600. To reme: ly this b auty of religion.” Dr. Blackburn’s evil he used the pardoning power d ath was brought on. by a combina- with amazing energy, and it is esti- tion of diseases, Bright’s disease of mated that he must have turned out the kidneys and ossification. of the 1,000 convicts during his four years valves around the heart. . Thus pass- ) 7 office. After the expiration of his es from our midst aman whose term he came back to Louisville and memory will be treasured for all time estab ished the darling scheme of to come as one of nature's noblemen, | His old age—the Blackburn Sani- aid to whom Kentucky can ever | 7Um- For two sears he devoted point with finger of pride. his time to this, but it failed through lack of popular support. Then his health began to fail and for more than a year he slowly sank away. BIOGRAPHICAL. The death of no man in the South w.!l cause a throb of sincere sorrow to thrill through more hearts than wil that of Ex-Gov. Luke P. Black- bu.p. His has been a life of sacri- fices in the interest of suffering hu m ity, which has endeared him to all Southerners. Born eighty-two years ago in Woodford county, Ken- tucky, he has passed safely through a bioody war, seventeen yellow fever epidemics, two cholera epidemics,} Wonderful improvements are go and has been connected with more | ing on in railroad rolling stock. The plans for the relief of human misery | Globe-Democrat of Monday says: than any man probabiy now living. |“Prof. Kline, of the Lehigh Uni Luke Blackburn received his edu-| versity, has succeeded in driving an cation in Transylvania university, engine with five cars behind it on the the most famous institution of learn Lehigh Valley Railroad at an equiva- Some six montis ago he removed to the home of his nephew at Frankfort, Ky., where he remained. Gov. Blackburn was a brother of Senator J. C. S. Blackburn. He had been married twice, Dr. Carey Black- burn of Louisville being his only son. Eighty-Two Miles An Hour. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. A Few Words in Defense of His Moral Character. The assault upon William Shakes- sault made by Mr. Ignatius Dome!- ly some years ago upon Mr. Elibu B. Washburne. Curiously enough Mr. Washburne survives. So may Shake- speare. Some idiot started in sim- | ilar pursuit of Sir Walter Scott the other day. But Scott's actuality made sufficient answer, and the would-be sensationalist was driven back into his hole. Nevertheless these things make one tired. There are books to prove and dis prove everything. Once a good ar gument was made to establish the fact that Napoleon Bonaparte hsd never lived. Did Herbert Spencer write Dicken’ novels? Who was the author of Junius’ letters? who struck Billy Patterson? who—? But what is the use? If everything thst is, is not, and nothing that has been ever was, why anything? The true solution is to abolish the interroga- tion point altogether. Far be it from any purpose of mine, either here or now, to lay any of the ghosts raised by Mr. Donnel- ly. The name of William Shake speare is at least secure. It was not born to die. It is immortal. Even Donnelly cannot efface it from the tablets, or the title pages, or the memory of men still living. But there is in the attack upon Shake- speare’s morel character a meanness which ought to be rebuked. The man is down—how far down we shall never know, since no one dares to open his gtave—dead as Julius Cesar. Under such a state of case, to call him a thief, a libertine and a drunkard is downright infamy. I should not think safe for Mr. Don- nelly to visit Rowan county, Ken- tucky, after jumping in this way up- on a man who lies hors de combat and has no friends. Craig Toliver is not there, it is true. But what would be the matter with Cook Humphrey? Perhaps Bacon did write the plays ing weat of the Alleghanies. He be-|!ent of the extraordinary speed of ot Shakeapeare. 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Godwin. He saw what he was sent to Lexington. Dr. Black-| thought was a mistake in its me- burn at once responded, and worked | chanical construction, and with the night and day with the suffering and | View of remedying this he had the dying. So nobly did he render aid | Valves changed for the express pur- to the plague stricken people that he | PO's of increasing its speed. The won their hearts, and when the black cloud rolled away the citizens who survived compelled him to re main with them. He settled among them, and for four years was exceed ingly prosperous. In 1843 he was elected to the legislature. In 1846 he removed to Natchez, Miss., where he speedily worked up a successful practice. In 1848 he had his first experience with yellow fever. While the scourge was devastating New Orleans he was health officer of Nat- chez, and established a rigid quaran tine which kept the disease com- pletely shut out. He was so im- pressed with the suffering of sailors and river men that he built a hos- pital for them at his own expense. Albert J. Brown, then a congress- 1 a trial trip was made. The run was made from Easton to Perth Junction, fifty-five miles in seventy-six and one-half minutes. The actual run- Easton is an hour and seventeen minutes, which includes three stops and a “slow up.” Between Patten- burg and West End there is x heavy grade, but the Godwin easily ascend- ed it and made up two minutes lost time while doing so. She arrived at Easton a half minute ahead of time. In some part of the run the rate of speed reached eighty-two miles an hour. Railroad men consider the achievement as something wonder- ful.” c That is not the important part in this controversy. Thereal questions are: “Will the coming man use wine?” You see, it is, at the bottom, one of the new issues to be sprung by the Prohibitionists, of whom Mr. Don- nelly is a leader. valves were reset the other day, and argal, he was a thief, argal, he was a debauchee, and—by a parity of rea- soning—the coming man will not and shall not use wine! Don't you see—Henry Watterson in Courier ning time from Perth Junction . to { Journal. 50 cents. Pellets’ are both preventive “Did Shakespeare drink?” and If it can be clear- ly shown that Shakespeare drank, Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. Close the door gently, And bridle the breath: I’ve one of my hedaches— I'm sick unto death. “Take ‘Purgative Pellets’ They,re pleasant and sure; I’ve some in my pocket V'll warrant to cure.” Dr. Pierce’s ‘Pleasant Purgative t and urative. : Whisky and Beer. man, called attention of the govern- ment to this act, and the result was the establishment of the present complete system of marine hospitals throughout the country. Again, in 1854, he protected Natchez from yellow fever by his quarantine. He was at that time the most noted au- e enna acai sh verge searcely one farmer in ten whose land produces enough to make him her vast burden of debt, what is to Within five years the Stateof Kan-/ Government statistics find that since 1840 the use of whisky has fallen off one half in the United States, while the use of wines has has increased from 1.36 gallons per capita in 1840 to 11.01 gallons per of insolvency. There is living and pay his taxes. With sidered a favorable showing, as there capita in 1848. This may be con-|} become of Kansas when the tide of immigration ceases? When the flow thority on yellow fever in the world. In’ 1855 he visited Europe, going through all the noted hospitals of the Continent. In 1857 he returned to America and located in New Orleans. At the breaking out of the war he went into the confederate army as surgeon of the staff of Gen. Sterling Price. After the war he went to Canada.and subsequently, at the solicitation of the governor-general, to the Ber- mudas, where cholera was then rag- ing: | Here he worked so hard and eccomplished such good that the Queen personally thanked him and offered him honors and wealth, but he modestly declined all. He never a is choice even of evils. Were those feeds the state and the population falls back on its grain crops,the only source of sustenance, the income will not be sufficient to pay the in- terest on the public debt.—Chilli- cothe Constitution. sierinestibanstondisea A Tennesee country editor who went off for his summer vacation left the following notice on office door: -——- eee } = rp gone for several days and Rheumatism Cured. we left matters in charge of W. K. Powers, 2933 as Str office boy. People who wish to oe St. Louis,Mo . Paap: aye subscriptions will see our Wife. Ballard’s Snow Liniment cure Those ‘who dices complaints to make me of Rheumatism of 4 Years stand. will please g6 to the devil.” ae Bp nia day when I was in- | now is. It is asserted that the pe- lice records of large cities show that the number of arrests for drunken- ness has decreased quite steadily since 1840.—New York Commercial News. 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