Show Deatn ot Bishop Hunter Edward Hunter presiding bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints died on Tuesday I at 745 pm He was born in New town Delaware county Pennsylvania Pennsylvan-ia on the 22d of June 1793 and was therefore 90 years and nearly 4 months old at the time of his death His father and mother were Ed ward and Hannah Hunter of the same county and State and his ancestry still bears a name and place among the records of the proudest families of England during its later history The Bishops early life was that of a farmer and through this occupa t1 In he acquired many of those plain blunt and rugged business points in his daily intercourse with his fellow man which weresome times regarded as eccentricities and while this was partly true he having certain peculiari arites of character not to be met with every daythere was at all times and everywhere in his disposition dispo-sition and acts something above and beyond all this something I some-thing that made him a man to be noticed and respected Apart from r his mere variance from the conventional con-ventional method of doing things the n ost casual observer of men and methods would have been apt to discern dis-cern in him at the first interview a wholesouled disposition a regard for the rights of his fellows whether they agreed with him on questions of principle or not a keen regard for the welfare of those with whom he was associated a watchfulness watch-fulness for the intere3ts of tile toiler and a contempt for those conventionalities and hypocrisies among men which produce pro-duce caste distinctions and make one superior to another by the mere force of fortune accident or birth He was a Democrat in the strictest and simplest sense to him there was a universal Fatherhood and a common brotherhood and while rigidly maintaining and upholding the tenets of his own faith no word or act of his ever placed at unfair disadvantage any opponent from whatever source He was honest i not because that was the best policy bat because it was the only correct policy humane not that the people might like him for so being but because it was right just not because of certain rules that have been established but because be-cause there was no other correct principle ani charitable for the reason tnat this quality descended upon him from the very fountain foun-tain head of charity and was a part of his whole being He had no enemies even those who differed with him most widely on points of doctrine respecting his sterling qualities as a man and honoring his traits of head and heart The deceased attended the late conference and several times since has teen at his office His sufferings suffer-ings during his last illness were we are pleased to state very slight The funeral takes place on Friday Fri-day nextat 2 p m at the Assembly Hall The body can be viewed from 12 oclock till the hour of commencing com-mencing the ceremonies |