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Show CLINTON B. LEIGH. 1 ; The sudden, tragio death of Mr. Leigh is a great' shock and sorrow to the whole force of THE TELEGRAM. TELE-GRAM. Up to January 1 last he had been, almost from its creation, the managing editor of THE TELEGRAM. TEL-EGRAM. Of course, his relations were most close with the force, and the affection for him was most sincere. '. ' . , v '' ' . His nature was generous and warm, and when given authority he always enforced it with gloved hands that there might be no friction. ' He was a most capable and accomplished journalist. jour-nalist. Before coming here he served on the foremost fore-most journals of the old "West. He carried into the work exhaustless energy and never-wearying faithfulness faith-fulness and loyalty. . That in his prime, in the very fullness of his powers pow-ers he should be stricken down,' so suddenly that the smile still lingered on his face, is most pitiable, and his friends, trying to look through their tears cannot can-not see why such a fate was reserved for him. . In his home the sorrow is overwhelming it tears one's heartstrings merely to witness it. The poor wife, still with sorrow acute from the recent death of a beautiful sister, stretching her brooding arms around her little children, speechless in her anguish, is a heartbreaking spectacle. To that wife and those little children, to the bereft sister and brothers, the sympathies of the city go ouHn full measure. It is a tragedy out of which not one ray of light issues, save in the thought that he who has died took up the burdens of life cheerfully, worked without plaint, a blessing to those who leaned upon him, and that he died in harness and in honor. HBBlssaaaaaaaSIBBBBBIBBBBBBBSBlBBBBBBSlBBBBBBiiaBBBBBBBSBBMMBMBBaBlllBBB |