Show DEATH OF COLONEL SHEPARD the altogether unexpected announce anjou r ce ment of the death of colonel elliott fitch shepard came over the wires tact evening he was a few months jew item than sixty years yeara of age williah to a mn man of regular and nu temperate habits like meant that he was waa about va at HWA meridian not much beyond it and he be seemed to be in the teet of health so the news was a great surprise the colonel had been editor of the new york mail and express for several years and it must be said to his credit that be made it much more of a newspaper than it was before he be took hold of it one peculiar anu quite original innovation of his hie was wag the publication ut of a few lines from the scriptures at the head of the editorial columns every evening not as a text of course but to impart an air of reverence and sanctity to the paper he was a son lu law of the late cornelius vanderbilt was a republican of the hobt extreme views anu possessed po messed of consider able wealth that tie he was strictly moral aud and ilc posed to be charitable goes a f rung ong way toward making his record 8 a whole a good one |