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Show Death Of Captain Singiser. The news of the death of Captain Singiser Is a groat shock and sorrow to the multitude of his friends in this city. He was a most manly man, brave physically and morally, self-reliant and sanguine san-guine under every misfortune, with a faith in himself and in his country that never faltered, generous and kindly always, in the gloomiest hour believing that he would yet triumph. He worked on as long as any' strength was left to toil, and whatever sorrows were his he never burdened others with them. He was a soldier when but a. child; he was in some of the mightiest battles of the age and won honors at the very cannon's mouth. The war over, he entered en-tered the contest for a fortune, and that he found more trying, if not so dangerous as the battlefield.. Just as his hopes, after long years of struggle, strug-gle, seemed to be nearing a splendid fruition, he is called away. It is altogether sorrowful, and in the dim lights of this world his friends cannot can-not see why it should be. He filled a man's place in the world to the last; no reproaches will follow him to the grave, and he was one of the men who, if given consciousness con-sciousness as the end approached, could have truthfully said: "I have done the best I could." Tender sympathy will go out to his wife and daughter. - They knew just how high and true oi "ml he was, and their sorrow must be great. Peace to the sleep that has come to him. |