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MOURNING.
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of his birth mourns
Dec. 23.—[Special.]—At-
lurns today. . ,
;n ieH ftre weeping and there is
over the city.
■ Grady is dead,
morning at 3:40 the noble heart
owl tbe great soul passed
eir tii to meet its God.
l W i night there were anxious
w about his couch.
o’clock there had still been
iuge a,ul some of tbe watchers
isra,
[stilled
this morning, Mr. Tom Cobb Jackson
moved an adjournment, in consequence
of tbe death of Mr. Henry W. Grady.
Judge Van Epps said: “I yield to
the suggestion of our brother Jackson,
An unmeasured and immeasurable ca
lamity has fallen upon our city and
State, and,as I believe, upon the people
of the United States, in the death of
Mr. Henry W. Grady. Its crushing
weight rests upon my own heart today.
Members of the bar engaged before this
court are so much afflicted by this sud
den death, as. scarcely .to be able to
bring their minds to a proper discharge
of their professonal duties. In my offi
cial o*'parity, I can do no more to testify
our sense of the great loss, than to ad
journ the court. The business of the
court on the calendar for today will
be re-arranged for subsequent dates.”
MB. GRADY'S SOCIETIES.
Hr. Grady was a member of the Chi Phi
secret fraternity at Athens, as well as
of the Phi Kappa literary society.
The Atlanta members of the Chi Phi
fraternity in Atlanta will meet at tbe
Court house at 4 o’clock this afternoon
to take action on his death.
Mr. Grady was a member of the Ma
sons and the Knights of Honor, both of
which organizations will attend the
funeral in a body.
He belonged to Gate City Lodge, No.
2, F. and A. M., and Mount *Zion
The Augusta Cotton Exchange met at
10 o’clock, and passed resolutions on
the death of Mr. Grady. The whole
community is shocked, and a gloom
pervades the city.
an infant but a few months J standing between ihe Chi Phi chapter
old, he went so near the portals which I and the University Faculty, his advice
after eleven o’clock his pliy-
j announced that Mr. Grady was
a* rapidly, and his friends who
but a few hours before were
summoned. Among those who
b*ere- Capt. E. P. Howell, Mr.
Hemphill, Mr. S. M. Inman,
'tt Glenn, Judge Newman, Major
Capt. J. R. Wylie, Mr. W. B
Mr. W. L. Peal, Mr. T. D.
'or and Mr. Donald Bain. Mrs.
- wished that thwe who loved him
I take a last look before the an-
(death came. One by one they
[ upon that face which they loved
II, and could not realize that
r the shadow of death had settled
lit.
etly and calmly he went to sleep
[iwolte in the grey mists of morn-
i the “palace of the king.”
HR. GRADY’S LAST ILLNESS.
gr. Grady,” said Dr. Frank Orme,
oily physician, in speaking of his
i this morning, ‘‘was a men who
so much of doing for other
| lie was careless of his health. He
t to Boston against my advice, and
11 told him that it would not do,
eplied that his speech was prepared
[was too late for him to back out.
him oil' with medicine to take,
: he should need medical atten-
i Boston, gave him the names of
deisms whom he could go to. His
sh was a great effort, especially for
in in his condition, and it com-
i exhausted him. I learn that af-
frards he rode in an open carriage
Governor Ames and during the
(complained of being eitflled by the
On the way back he was taken
i New York, and was compelled
onsult a physician. In Washington
| became quite sick, and expressed
as very anxious to get back
fore reaching Atlanta he tele-
lied me to meet him at the depot,
I when the train stopped in the car-
4, immediately entered my carriage
as driven to his home. From the
le left the train all the way to his
he coughed violently and had
i fever, and I realized then that be
•going to be sick, but thought that
•week or so of good nursing would
! him around all right. The next
.Thursday, he was some hotter and
hopes of his ultimate recovery.
[th» following day, Friday, there was
oge tor the worse. He suffered
i a violent, bronchail cough, and the
r was stronger.
’ was then that the pleural pueu
• developed, and this, combined
i a complication of diseases and an
|wual degree of nervous prostration,
T «<1 such a determined attack upon
[entire system that he was unable to
it, and could do nothing but
hr.
Itho
I
LuciusMorso. formerly of Mem-
an<l Dr. A. S. Everett, of Denver,
'ratio, were both called ip by me
kindly consented to join me in an
al consultation. We all agreed
character and treatment of the
,se > and we realized that there
hut one result, It was just one
l0Se cases where the determined
acter of the attack is just irresista-
cannot be coped with by human
' • If I had such a case to begin
now in the very first stages,know-
'1 taat I do of Mr. Grady’s illness,
wd at once realize that it was ut-
mpeless and that death was the
result,”
TIIE FLOWERS BELOVED,
tiring his life Mr. Grady often ex-
a a desire to have a wreath of
aat * 0a pinks placed on his casket
1 he was dead.
1,10 these beautiful flowers that
'"1 so well could he obtained in
an d Mr. W. L, reel telegnfph-
"ushingtoii for them.
THE CITY COURT ADJOURNS.
■liacoinuiencipg of the city court
Royal Arch Chapter, No. 19.
He was also a member of Gate City
lodge, Knights of Honor.
“He was one of the best, one of the
truest friends the order ever had,” said
Mr. Steve ^Johnson, “and he was a
friend in time of need. At one time
our lodge owed $180 and we wanted to
get Mr. Grady to give a lecture at the
opera house, the proceeds to go toward
conceling the debt. ‘*There’s no use in
the lecture,” said Mr. Grady. “Give
me a pen and some ink.,’ The pen and
ink were brought and Mr. Grady wiote
out a check for a hundred dollars. We
raised the eighty dollars in a few min
utes. That was the sort of man Grady
was, a big hearted man, one willing to
sacrifice his own interests to serve bis
friends.”
Mr. Grady was an auxiliary member
of the -Confederate Veteran’s associa
tion, his father having been a soldier
for the lost cause.
The only othei man belonging to the
association who was not a Fulton
county veteran, was Jefferson Davis,
who was an honorary member.
Tbe tears of the old soldiers for this
grand old man have hardly ceased to
quiver on their eye-lashes before they
are again called forth to testify to the
worth of this young man, the soldier’s
son, the soldier’s friend, who has been
cut down in the bloom of his useful
life.
“A better friend I never had, I never
expect to have. I never asked Mr.
Grady to do me a favor, it mattered not
how great nor how small, but that he
was ready to respond to my request.
He was a friend the like of which I
shall never find again.”
It is probable that the chamber of
commerce banquet, to have been given
on the 16th of January, will be post
poned on account of Mr. Grady’s death
THEY ALL LOVED HIM.
When Chief Justice Bleckley of the
supreme court was told of Mr. Grady’s
death this morning, Be was so overcome
with grief that he eould not talk, but
sobbed like a child.
“It is a personal grief,” he said
to a reporter. I loved “Mr. Grady, and
the thought that I shall see and hear
him no more weighs heavily upon my
soul to-day,”
Among the telegrams received this
morning, one was from ex-President
Grover Cleveland saying that he was
very anxious f to hear from Mr. Grady.
Captain Howell telegraghed that he was
dead.
Mayor Glenn has called a meeting of
some of Mr. Grady's personal friends in
his office at 4 o’clock this afternoon to
advise with them what public action
should be taken on Mr. Grady’s death
The attaches of the Constitution held
a most affecting meeting in the edito
rial rooms at noon to-day.
Every man, woman and cuild present
keenly felt the loss, and it seemed as if
a pall of sorrow hung over the entire
assembly.,
A committee was appointed to draft
suitable resolutions on the death of
their [associate, Mr. Grady, and it was
further decided that the entire Consti
tution force would atterd the funeral
in a body. Atlanta Journal.
ROME IN TEARS.
the errr of his birth mourns.
Henry Grady is dead, and the South
is once again draped in mourning.
No sooner had the solemn and sacred
funeral rites of the Confederacy’s dead
Chieftain, Jefferson Davis, been per
formed, and the crape removed from
every door, than another death strikes
the hearts of every man, woman and
child in the South with equal sorrow,
and replaces the crape upon every
building. The leaders of both the Old
ana the New South have passed over
the river to join the great majority,
and a doable sorrow bows every head,
and pains every throbbing heart in the
Sunny Southland.
Mr, Grady died in Atlanta, yesterday
morning at 3:45, and by breakfast time
the news had been flashed all over the
American continent, carrying gloom
and sorrow to every home and every
heart. It was the saddest hour the
South ever knew, and is one that will
never be forgotten in the hearts of
Southern people.
MR. GRADY’S ILLNESS.
For several weeks Mr. Grady had
beeu sick with cold, which seized him
before he went to Boston to make bis
last speech in that city. While there he
grew worse, and the night of his speech
he was very unwell, even while he was
speaking. The nervous excitement of
the moment caused a general collapse
of his.system, which began to weaken
from that night on until his death yes
terday morning. He reached Atlanta
last week, and was met at the depot by
his physician, Dr. Frank Orme, who
has attended him during his illness.
He was at first not serious ly ill, and it
was believed that by remaining athome,
he would in a few days be well enough
to resume his duties at the Constitution
office. But it was not so decreed
day brought no new developments of bis
disease that indicated improvement,
and the physicians began to grow
alarmed about him. A dreadful case of
pneumonia, and in fact a complication
of diseases, began to develop the latter
part of the week, and grave apprehen
sions of his death began to be enter
tained by his friends and relatives.
HIS MOTHER TELEGRAPHED FOR.
Last Saturday morning Mrs. A. E
Grady, mother of Mr. Henry Grady
suddenly determined to go to Atlanta t
see her son. She made the deteruiina
tion so suddeuly that several were
prompted at the breakfast table to ask
if any late news had been received that
caused her to decide to go to Atlanta.
"No, site said, “I simply feel that
Henry is worse and I am going to see
him.” Alas, how true is a mothers’ in
stinct in discerning an impending dan
ger. No* sooner had the breakfast
been over than a telegram was receired
calling her to Atlanta as Mr. Grady was
much worse.
Mrs. Grady and Jliss Mattie Grady
left Athens that day on the Covington
& Macon railroad for Atlanta. At
Watkinsville the train was delayed by
a break about the engine, and they ar
rived at Madison ton late to make sced-
ule time with the Georgia railroad for
Atlanta.
Rome, Ga., Dec. 23.—[Special.]—It
was with profound sorrow that the cit-
zens of Rome heard ef the death of
Henry Grady. He ^has a host of per
sonal friends here and all feel as though
Georgia had lost one of her best friends
and most zealous advocates.
COLUMBUS^MOURNS HIS DEATH. ™
Columbus, Ga., Dec- 23.—[Special.
—The intelligence of the death of Mr,
Grady is received with expressions of
regret by all. Mayor Dozier has called
a meeting of citizens at she court house
to-night to take suitable action in regard
to the sad event. ■., s V -
Augusta is Saddened.
Augusta, Ga., Dec. 23—[Special]—
A SPECIAL TRAIN.
A special train was sent from Atlan
ta to take them to Atlanta and they
reached the Gate City about 8 o’clock
Saturday night. The news of-this was
most discouraging to the people ofrAth
ens when they heard, for; they knew
that Mr. Grady’s condition must bo
much worse than the Atlanta .papers
had stated
All day Sunday telegrams were sent
to Atlanta from Athens asking about
Mr. Grady’s condition and the replies
were anything but encouraging. Sun
day afternoon a telegram was received
by Prof. Wifite stating that but little
hope of his recovery was felt. Sunday
night brought another telegram from
Dr. King to Prof. White stating that he
was in a dying condition and all hope
had been given up for him.
NEWS OF Hts DEATH IN ATHENS.
Early yesterday morning Prof. White
received a telegam from Dc, King, say
ing that Mr. Grady was dead and that
hejdied at 3:45surrounded by his entire
family. It was a bitter message to Prof.
White. For he was one of Mr. Grady’s
most intimate friends and ardent admi
rers. It was a sorrowful word of news
to the whole of Atnens, for here he was
born and reared, here he reoeived his
education and spent all of his early
years. Naturally enough that
Athens should have drooped
its head upon the receipt
of their news. All day tho streets
were filled with inquiring friends, not
only every bouse in Athens, but from
the surrounding country, who in some
way had heard of tbe unfortunate and
sorrowful death. The Banner office
was crowded all the morning with
throngs of anxious friends who refused
to believe that the worst was i rue, and
who asked with something of hoveful-
ness of the contrary, “Is Mr. Grady
dead.” Alas! it was too true The
great heart was still, and every report
that came from Atlanta only confirmed
it.
.THE SAD NEWS.
Since early morning yesterday dark
ness and gloom has settled on our city.
In the midst of the bustle of the merry
Christmas times there was the sadness
of sorrow.
Henry Grady is dead!
Such was the announcement that
made hearts bleed, and that bowed the
head in grief. The news traveled
quickly, and it was not long before it
was generally known throughout Ath
ens, the city of his birth. Hundreds
were unable to believe it and it was not
until evening that the sad trnth begun
to impress itself upon our people. It
was not until the darkness of night be
gan to hover over our city that the
thought that Athens’ noble son was no
more began to become a dread reality to
those who knew and loved him. Then
it was that heart answered to heart in
the silent clasp of the hand, and tears
involuntarily came to eyes unaccus
tomed to such weakness—weakness, per
chance, hut Henry Grady was dead
How many had a word to say about his
cliild-hood dsys, when but an infant he
yet displayed the qualities of mind and
character which have made him
sir.ee the idol of his country
There was the aged mother in Israel
who wept yesterday as she.
told of the' time when, as
opened for his entrance yesterday,
when She, together with his loving
mother, fanned back to life the spark
of vitality about to leave his little
frame—and now for him to die when at
the pinnacle of fame and honored with
jbucIi lore as gratitude seldom gives to
fidelity, ’twas too dreadful for contem
plation, and she wept anew and refused
to believe It. Then there was the aged
citizen who knew the little boy when
he first began the duties of his school-
day hours—how he has watched him
since and with what pride 1 Alas, the
honors that he coveted for him never
came. God took him to the higher
honor, which remain above. And then
there wore his classmates at the Univer
sity—those who had known and loved
and idolized,him. For these the thought
of death to him whom they had loved
was something which they could not
contemplate. ’’Twas but as yesterday
when he stood with a classmate upon
the sidewalk near the campus and when
parried at each other with those thrusts
of wit of which they each were masters.
’Twas but as if an hour or two ago
when with his nearest friends in Ath
ens, he stood and talked
on subjects dear to him: the
University and the Technological
school. ’Twas only yesterday that lov
ing hands were clasping his and bidding
welcome to his native heath. But
life has ebbed away aud leaves us but
the body of our ga.lantson. His spirit
sought a wider and a holler sphere,
Christmas may come, and childhood-
happy e’en in sorrow such as this—may
prattle and make merry in this hour of
gloom. But, to the masses of our peo
ple, ’twill be no Christmas. The pleas
ures of the season will be as dead sea
fruit—they’ll crumble '.iu the grasp.
Henry Grady is dead!
the news Spreads.
As soon as the news of Mr. Grady’s
death became generally known, the first
thought of our people was to take some
means of honoring him. Before twelve
o’clock many of the most prominent
buildings in Athens were draped in
mourning. The Athenaeum club House
wore festoons of black and white by
early morning. The store of Mr. W. L.
Wood was adorned with becoming
drapery by the afternoon, and the
grocery house of Messrs. O’Farrell &
Ash was covered on the outside with
black and white emblems of mourning,
and was bea utifully draped. Upon the
outside, iu black letters, was the in
scription :
The Merchants of Athens and
The Entire South
Blend their Tears and mourn
The death of our loyal
Friend and Champion
H. W. Grady.
On this spot he was born and
here spent several years of his
youthful life.
“When a good man falleth the
people mourn.”
A fine portrait of Mr. Grady, draped
in crape, was exhibited in front of
Davis & Garebold’s yesterday and was
the first intimation given to many of
the sad death.
The stores of E. I. Smith and John
Hope Hull were among those draped on
Clayton street.
The grocery houses of Mr. S. C.
Dobbs, O’Farrell & Ash, Hodgson
Bros., and J. S. King were all covered
with mourning and drapery. The
Banner office was also densely draped
throughout its whole length, and in the
center of the ornaments was the in
scription :
In respect to the memory of
Henry W. Grady,
Athens’ Most Gifted Son. The South’s
Yaliant Champion.
The brightest Star in the Constellation
of Journalism has been removed.
His Native City and the Southern Press
Mourn Their Loss
The whole of lower Broad street was
a mass of mourning and drapery, and
the work of decorating the' stores with
these somber emblems of sorrow was
to the hoys, as to the line of conduct
they should pursue, was eagerly sought
and as strictly followed. He was prob
ably the most distinguished alumnus in
the whole Chi Phi fraternity, and his
death creates an irreparable vacancy in
their ranks.
the citizens’ meeting. IS!®*
Pursuant to a call of the Mayor Dr.
J. A Hunnicutt, the city council and a
number of representative citizens met
at the council chamber yeasterday„to
take action on the death of Mr. Grady.
On motion of W. B. Burnett Dr. Hun
nicutt was called to preside over the
meeting, and Mr. W. B. Burnett was
appointed secretary.
Prof. D. O. Barrow offered the folow-
ing resolutions with amendments mov
ed by Mr. W. A. McDowell:
BBSOAUTIONS.
Whereas, it has pleased Almighty
God in his wisdom to take from this
sphere of activity the soul of our belov
ed fellow citizen Henry W. Grady; and
whereas this city in which he was born
and reared has always felt especially
proud to claim him as her own, and
feels most keenly and tenderly his loss.
Resolved 1st That the Mayor and
council and citizens voice the sorrow of
our people in this bereavement, no
where more deeply felt than here.
Resolved 2nd. Th-t in the loss of Mr
Grady the Union, especially the South
ern States and most of all his own loved
Georgia has met with a loss which we
regard as irreparable.
Resolved 3rd That we recognize the
great good he has accomplished to the
Liter.iti re he was passionately foncl of,
and his .leisure mon 8.its were spent in
the library. Here he would read away
every spare moments beween recitations*
and never was without a book at home
which he had taken from the " library.
After he had graduated from the
University at Athens he went to the
University of Virginia to complete his
education in Literature and the lan
guages- Here he was a close student,
and after one year’s study graduated,
taking a prominent stand in his class.
When he returned from Virginia he
was at borne but a short time when he
went to Rome and was an associate edi
tor of the Rome Commercial. He wa3
not long iu working himself up to a
prominent stand among the staff, and
the paper flourished under "his able
manipulations.
It was during his first year in Rome
that he married Miss Julia C. King,
daughter of Dr. W. C. King, of Athens,
who then resided in the old Allan
bouse, in Which Mr. T. L. Gantt now
lives. He was married in 1S71, and tbe
ceremonies were performed in the First
Methodist church on Hancock avenue.
He carried his bride to Rome, and lived
there until 1873, when he moved to At
lanta and entered upon the editorial
work of the Atlanta Herald, in which
Messrs. Bill Moore, Bob Alston and St.
Clair Abram were his associates. At
that time the Herald and the Constitu
tion were at daggers points and their
excited rivalry caused many feats of
journalism to be performed, the line of '
which were never seen or heard of be
fore. At one time Mr. Grady charter
ed a car to run in opposition to tho
Constitution to Macon, and sent the
Southern States by his earnest, constant. Herald into that city an hour or two
nnrl anthnainoti/l n /I /\f fkniw 1 V 2 a.1 _ j.1 n j*
and enthusiastid advocacy of their
rights and possibilities. He
never sought office, tbe esteem in which
his fellow countrymen held him was
higher honor than office can confer.
Resolved 4tli. That we extend to his
bereaved family the sympathy which no
one but an Athenian can fsel, at this
their overwhelming [sorrow.
Resolved 5th That the city council he
instructed by the Mayor to attend the
funeral of Mr. Grady in a body, and
likewise a committee of fifty citizens
and as many others as may desire
Resolved 6 th that the citizens of
Athens be instructed by the Mayor to
exhibit emblems of mourning and that
the stores and public buildings be drap
ed in sueh.
Resolved 7th That next Wednesday
be set apart as memorial day in Athens
and that the bells of all the churches he
tolled at 2 o’clock.
Resolved 8th That a copy of these
resolutions be sent to the bereaved fam
ily.
The resolutions passed unanimously
and Mayor Hunnicutt appointed the
following names of the delegation to at
tend the funeral in Atlanta next Wed
nesday:
Mayor and Council,
Chancellor,faculty and local trustees,
Hon H H Carlton, C W Baldwin,
Hon Pope Barrow, W L Wood,
Judge Howell Cobb, Wm Ash,
R KReaves, Dr E S Lyndon,
A H Hodgson, Julius Cohen,
W D ’OFarrell, Moses Myers,
Y LG Harris, Col W J Morton,
Col S Thomas, L Sehervnel,
Mayor-Elect E T Rrown,
Mr. T L Gantt, Geo D Thomas,
Capt Jas White, T W Rucker,
Judge J M Nicholson,
E I Smith, Dr Jno Crawford,
Capt G H Yancey, J Y Carithers,
W S Holman, C D Vincent,
R L Moss, .. W A Gilleland,
Dr S C Benedict * John A Benedict,
ProfW G VVoodfln, Judge A S Erwin,
interrupffd only by sunset. The work j.H N Wilcox,
will he renewed this'morning, and by
noon today the [native city of the
South’s most brilliant son will be
wrapped in a dress of mourning.
Such were the spontaneous signs of sor
row that our people show. How many
hearts are aching today that show no
outward signs of their grief!
HIS POPULARITY AT THE UNIVERSITY.
In no portion of Athens—unless it be
in that'suburban home In which reside
his beloved mother and sister—was Mr.
Grady so ardently admired as on tbe
University campus. His many acts
of service to tbe University had endear
ed him to the boys beyond any other
alumnus of our State institution, and
had the University been in session, the
studer^sjwould have united in a meeting
of sorrow. Mr. Grady was a member
of two societies at the University, his
literary society, tbe Phi Kappa and his
secret society, the Chi Phi.
THE CHI PHIS,
or as many active members as are in the
city at this time, held a meeting yes
terday and took appropriate action
with regard to the death of their most
prominent member. It was decided at
that meeting to drape their hall on
Clayton street for thirty days and the
active members of the chapter will
wear the badges or fraternity colors—
scarlet and blue—covered with crape,
for the next two weeks. A committee
of five, consisting of Messrs. W. D.
Ellis, Jr., W. A. Hemphill,* Jr.,Eugene
Black, Albert Boylston and Dudley
Youngblood, were appointed to repre
sent the chapter at the funeral on Wed
nesday A committee of three, consist
ing of Messrs. W. H. Pope, W. D. Ellis
and N. L. Poullain were appointed to
draft resolutions to be published in the
papers and to be forwarded to the family
of Mr. Grady. Mr. Grady has always
been regarded by this chapter'of the
fraternity as one of its main supporters
aud most brilliant lights, and his death
deprives them of their most illustrious
and er.thusiastic alumnus. It was he
who, assisted by Mr. Peter W. Meldrim,
Mr. J. H. Rucker, Judge A. Pratt
Adams, and others, founded the chap
ter in 1867. A year or two afterwards,
upon leaving the University, he went
to the University of Virginia, where
he was equally prominent in the coun
cils of Chi Phi, and it was there that
the associations of friendship were
mad?, with Prof. Hv C. White, which
have only matured and intensified as
they both grew older. A year or so ago,
at the Chi Phi convention held in At
lanta, he was elected the official head of
the fraternity, a position which he filled
with dignity. In the recent misundei-
J H Rucker, W C Orr,
G G Talmadge E R Hodgson,
A J Cobb, Chas Stern,
Lamar Cobh, J J McMahan,
T W Reed, E K Lumpkin,
A E Griffith, A L Mitchell,
H N Layton, F B Lucas,
J M Hodgson, D C Oliver,
J S King, S-M Herrington,
T P Vincent, John W Weir,
EC-Branson, GGBond,
D O Smith,
E W Speer.
The following were appointed as a
committee on arrangements to super-
intend the arrangements for attending
the funeral: EE Hodgson, Chairman,
WD O’Farrell, W B Burnett, G D
Thomas and Hon Pope Barrow.
MEMORIAL EXERCISES.
Dr. H. C. White last night received, a
telegram from Mayor John T. Glenn, of
Atlanta, stating that the memorial ex
ercises of Mr. Grady will be held in
Atlanta on Thursday, and also stating
that Prof. White would be expected to
make one of the addresses on that occa
sion. The friendship—as pure andjas
beautiful as that of Damon and Pythias
—Which has always existed between
Prof. White and Mr. Grady, has often
been the subject of remark. They were
school-mates, club-mates, and friends
in the closest ties of college life, and
their subsequent lives hare been knit
together in many ways. It is certain
that no one eould more appropriately be
called upon to speak at these exercises
than Prof. White. A large number of
our people will he present to mingle
their tears with those of Atlanta’s peo
ple, in their grief for the model citizen
and patriot who has gone before.
UR. GRADY’S LIFE.
Henry Wood fin Grady was born in
Athens on the twenty first day of May,
1850. The house in which he was born
is the one-now occupied by Miss Fannie
Anderson, and is situated opposite Dr.
E. 3. Lyndon’s residence. He was the
oldest son of W. S. Grady and A. E
Grady, and was in his thirty ninth year
when he died.
His young boyhood was spent in
Athens, and was educated at the local
schools and at the University of Geor
gia. i. *
He entered the University in 1866
with the Sophomore class, and grad
uated with the class of ’68. Daring his
college life he obtained the name of “the
silver-tongue orator] of college,”* and
has deservedly retained it to his death.
While at college he began his first at
tempts at newspaper work, writing sev
eral letters to newspapers, and cultivate
his talents in a work that has always
amounted to a passion with him. While
in college Mr. Grato was a great favor
ite with the students. His genial man
ners and never failing courteous deport
ment won the hearts of the hoys Jn
deepest affection and his brilliant i»-
tellect*and magic- eloquence captured
their admiration in the halls of the two
lituerary societies and in the recitation
rooms. He did not like mathematics,
and never studied it with any degree of
fondness. The languages he studied
very closely and .with a hearty zest.
earlier than the Constitution reached
there. This and many other feats
which were expensive in tbe extreme
soon bankrupted the Herald and almost
bankrupted the Constitution. It was a
touching scene in the office of the Her- .
aid the morning after the paper failed.
Mr. Grady afterwards wrote it up in
a manner that would almost bring tears
lo every eye that read it.
This failure, nowever, did not deter
Mr. Grady long in winning that fame
and success that was destined fOr him.
He went to New York; not upon re
ceiving an offer hut simply to apply for
a position. He reached the great Met
ropolis City with only one dollar in his
S ocket. He applied at the office of the
Tew York Herald for a reporter’s po
sition. The Editor-in-Chief told him
to sit down and write an editorial on.
the South and watch for his answer by
the morning paper. “If your editorial
is published you may come again to
morrow and enter upon your work; if
it is not published we will not need
you,” said the Editor-in-Chief.
Ihe editorial was. soon written and
hnng upon the copy hook. Mr. Grady
went to his room and was soon asleep,
half dreaming that tho next day would
herald his future greatness. The next
morning the sleeper was awakened by a
porter who brought him a paper with
his editorial in full, and a note from the
Editor-in-Chief asking him to come
and take his position. Thus it was
that Mr. Grady began the newspaper
work in New York, where he attained
some little fame, as a reporter.
Not until his report of the Tilden.
campaign in Florida, however, did be
spring into national fame as a journal-
ist. The story of how he went to Flor
ida representing the New York Herald
and got the first news of the Florida
vote which the republicans were trying
to smother and taking possession of a
telegraphoflice at {some (little station
flashed the news on to the New York
Herald t and showed the electoral vote
of Florida to the world.
Another great feat of newspaper work
that brought Mr. Grady into notoriety
was when the great Louisville & Nash
ville railroad deal was made, and Mr.
Grady was sent to Cincinnati to report
it. He v approaehed the President in the
honest capacity of a news gatherer, and
was received with insulting language
by the President, who demanded with
an oath, “Who are you, young man ?”
“I’ll let you know tomorrow,” said
Mr. Grady, and he left him. His arti
cle in the Herald the next day caused
the expulsion of the discourteous Pres
ident from office, and was read with in
terest by the whole railroad world.
In 1875, Mr. Grady entered upon his
situation with the Atlanta Constituion
as a member of the staff. He has since
that time, step by step, climbed higher
into the estimation of the South. His
brilliancy as an editor has increased
each day, and the Constitution has,
under his control, grown to be the most
excellent newspaper in the Southern
States.
Henry Grady was a man whose equal
has not been seen for many a day. He
has lived a career that is peerless in the
annals of the South’s history—a career
that has been a pride of the old South,
a blessing to the new, and which can
never he replaced. As a brilliant
writer, and a matchless orator, Mr.
Grady was known to the world. Those
who knew him personally, knew many
more virtues that were his.
Hr. Grady was a kind-hearted man, a
man who loved everybody,andwho hated
no one. He could not bear reproach,
and would not allow anyone to be an
gry with him. He came as near “re
turning good for evil” to those who ever
felt moved to reproach him, and thus
smoothed over every augularity that
might have arisen in his life before it
fairly appeared above the surface.
Amiable and generous, he was beloved
by all who knew him, and was adored
wilh all the power of earthly love by
his relatives.
THE SOUTH’S LOSS.
The loss that the city of Atlanta, that
the State of Georgia, and the entire
South will feel in the death of Henry
W. Grady cannot be estimated—not at
all.
The noblest champion that eyer main
tained a noble cause has gone to his last
resting. The pen that has proved
mightier than any sword that was ever
wielded by a stout warrior’s hand is
sheathed: and the greatest heart in tho
Sunny South has ceased to beat forever.
The loss to Atlanta, to the State and to
the South caused by the untimely death
of Mr. Grady is incalculable and irre
parable. The loss of the life that was
most closelybleudcd With the future of
the South has changed from one of
brightness almost to one of uncertainty
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