Show Over 100 and Well Lre arved A remarkable old lady the repre en ative of a distinguished family and of along a-long line of distinguished ancestors celebrated in New Orleans last Saturday Satur-day her 100th birthday This venerable woman is Mrs Judge T Witherspoon Smith whose home it with her dnugh tel Mrs J P Labouiise at No J17 Thalla Street On the occasion of her centennial birthday five generations assembled to do hunor to the sweet faced whitehaired gentle voiced old lady whose white crown of years is right with good deeds and usefulness and who new rests on her stair waiting in her quiet home for the summons to eternal rest Mrs Smith was born in I New York on the lthof Novernberl7i Her msidn name was Duet her mother > eln Lady Catherine Du rd u4hteo Maj Gen Lord Sterling of the Revolutionary Revolu-tionary Army Early m the century she married the son Samuel dtauhope Smith President of the Princeton College I Col-lege who was th grandson of JOhn Vitherapoon President of Princeton College and a signer of the Declaration I or Independence She was also anit iii bv marriage the distinguished Vice I j rsident John C Breckenridce of Keatn ky In IIT dar Mrs Judge I Smith was one of the most beanthul I and brilliant women in Now Orleans and if she chose could give recollections ol life in the Crescent City when the ron was a mere village that she has seen grow and extend its limits snap = ping np into its metropolitan maw plantations and farms without number Mrs Smith although 100 years old is I pressed clearly of all her faculties B ve eyeiight Of late years she bcs last In r sight but her bearing speech memory are all good and notwith landing h = r conury of life her lit i e and beautiful face it but little linen with wrinkles ani her abundance of snowwhilA hair U bound over a bro Ilt 8ceiul artrung girls Mr + Bnh vck I < f aan Fraiico a Ercatgrandson of Mrs Smiths ucom parted by 1 his htUu boy was mal nose who took part in the fstiv it 1 f the centennial birthday Hid tir > at grandmother roogmzed his voice although she had not leer him for year and remembered him perfect When ln I nlnced he bund of hsr UtIle areat great ga s i In her osn he said witD a sigh I wieh I could see himbut my eyraigh seems to be failing me lately Mrs Smith has two living children one a daughter bng 70 ears of age aarv cmndcbitdren ant grentgrand children and of the great great grandchildren grand-children it is understood there are four or live The old lady remains in good health Shielded and t rOle tld she still queens it in a home where all conspire to do her honor and fill her midwinter days with love and care New Orleans iicoyu November 10 John Scott a retired manufacturer died on Saturday night November 0 it his home 18il W od State Pnua iir > lphi alter a brief illness His age was S2 years Mr Scott cam from Ireland at the age of 22 and for up vards or ftrtv > raM was engsgei in the luanufnctuMnf of carpets an ISO loC3 be wa superintendent of th > spring Garden p auks For nearly a ban century he lived in the Fifteuitn Ward 11 wa > acl eely engaged during dur-ing his lung ff n church work boiif < n elder in the fourth Reformed Presbyterian Ciiuich at Eighteenth and Filbert Streets I Rev Lucius L Tilden a retired cer gyman died at ass home in Nashua November He wa btrn Cornwall Vt November 11 1s2 and was gun lu ated at Middlebury College and at the Andover ThtoIORtcal Seminary Mr Tilden was ordained at West outland Vt in 131 and settled as the pastor of the Congregational Church at that place where he remained til hit His healtu failed aud he men became principal prin-cipal of the female seminary at Middle lour where he remained twelve years He att r N8rd resided six yean at Bethel Vt and from lCO to 1372 when ht went to Nashua to reside was employed in the Treasury Department and Congressional Con-gressional Library at Washington DU Hon Charles Thurber formerly of Brooklyn N Y died at riaanua N Hon H-on Sunday morning November 7th in the 8Kb year of his age OThe deceased was a son of Rev Laban Thurber and a native of BroofiVld Mass Mr Thur br was graduated at Brown University in 11127 und in the four years that followed fol-lowed was preceptor at the academy at Milford Mass In 1832 he removed to Worcester Mays where he was master at the Latin grammar school for eight years He then entered into mercantile life and twelve years after retired Uuring his residence n Worcester he served four y as as County Commissioner Commis-sioner and was State Senator in liCii aud 1853 Upon retiring from business he traveled In foreign lands and returning re-turning home settles Brooklyn |