Show TWO distinguished MEN GONE the death of john E kenna beuna one of the youngest ablest and most moat thoroughly representative members of united states Se senators natele reported in last nights dispatches from washington mr kenna was boru born at virginia but now in the state be has represented so many beirs on the lotzof of april 1848 he began life as a farmer and youthful as he be was entered the confederate army as a private soldier and fought to the close his bis surrender taking place at shreveport louisiana in april 1865 he be carries with him to the grave a wound received in that struggle he subsequently studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1870 occupied the bench tor lor a short term and was elected to four consecutive congresses as a member of the lower house the first commencing with the forty fifth he was then chosen to the united states senate served out a term of six years and was elected reelected re his term expiring in 1895 1695 mr kenna was waa one of the most thoughtful and studious oua of men not greatly gifted as an orator or debater he be nevertheless elew made his hia potato points and mille made them count his argument in ill in favor of the mille milla tariff bill was waa one of the best beat delivered in ia that body on OB that subject and all hla his speeches evince thorough mastery of the discussed disc umed in all ats details and the ability to prepare and present them in the most moat effective form it was our pleasure to see and auar ht ar him while a member of the house when the perilous days of the tilden vs hayes hayea controversy were upon the land mr kenna favored the electoral commission scheme by mearia of which mr tilden was deprived of the presidency but he was of course hopeful for a different result beinie being a thorough 9 h and all ail along democrat his low lose will be keenly felt by his associates on both attles side of the chamber and by all who knew him by two humble elders of this church he will be gratefully remembered they had been arrested on some trumped up charge of petty theft and surrounded by a howling mob were about to be consigned by the pv pro Judi oed pompous and ignorant justice of the peace to a term in jail before passing sentence the magistrate asked the accused it if they hey bad anything to say may when mr kenna who was making a stumping tour in that part of the state and bad been attracted to the scene by the he news that two cormons mormons Mor mons were on trial bluntly declared that he had a few remarks to offer he reviewed the evidence pointed out its inconsistencies ten cies soundly berated the justice for his bis manifest bias beai and secured the prom prompt pt discharge of the prisoners m a well an aa a warm interest in them by b y those who had been so clamorous for their punishment the incident has been frequently told with much glee to later missionaries in that field some of those who witnessed it being now members of the church in the cue case of benjamin F butler death waited till the shining mark was dimmed with age and measurable obscurity and then bore him henbest hence at a time when the country wag was neither surprised nor expectant at half past one this morning he ceased to exist the immediate cause of death being heart failure super induced no doubt by advanced adva aced age he was wa born bora in deerfield now new hampshire on the jtb of november 1818 being therefore in his seventy fifth year the deceased was a graduate of waterville Wat erville college maine and two years after graduating was waa admitted to the bar ami aej practiced law with signal success he was a democrat and in 1860 was a member of the famed charleston convention the adjourned section of which at baltimore nominated john 0 breckinridge for president butler voted for jefferson davis throughout fifty nine times if we remember correctly but did not participate in the baltimore proceedings nor did any of his massachusetts colleagues in which state he had settled settle ct meanwhile on president lincoln Is c call all for troops in april 1861 butler placed himself at the head bead of a regi meat and went to the front the remainder of want his a ja pretty won wen known his success in the field wm scarcely soa realy a parallel to that ach achieved lived at the bar his manou maneuvers vers being mainly blunders and bis control at times op and always baron the war over he entered politics as a we and was several times elected to we lower house of congress later he returned to his first love and was elected governor of massachusetts as a democrat following this performance with a campaign lor for the presidency as ae a labor reformer in opposition to grover cleveland and james Q G blaine he failed to receive a single electoral vote and his hid popular following follow oe was so go limited that he retired from politics and nd has hag since been looking quietly after his great manufacturing interests hift bin law practice and hla his book which was issued last year and proved a flat failure from a financial point of view at least ton ten years ago or br perhaps even less ion the announcement of his death would have created considerable emotion it if not consternation in the land now it is simply a commonplace event the details of which do not occupy nearly as much spam space as the prem bestows bestons almost every day upon what some broken down or broken brohen up prizefighter prize fighter Is saying and doings doing in such a lire and such n death the ups upa and downs of this mortal pilgrimage its probabilities and certainties bertal titles are more vividly illustrate 1 than was ever so ao complis hed by the use uie of words |