Show A NOTABLE MAN MAI GONE A notable man of the community has gone to the better land dr J st bernhisel of salt lake city died at ten tell minutes before 12 yesterday at th the ripe age ge 82 years having been born july 23 1799 at sandy hill pennsylvania the D doctor octor joi joined i ned the church u when it was in ita its infancy and was an intimate friend and close associate of the prophet joseph smith he ile was first dalt gato to congress and anif held that position several years until succeeded by capt W 11 hooper he ile was a gentleman of liberal education justly esteemed for ilia bis uprightness and sterling integrity of character allied to unusual modesty dr bernhisel was a marked individuality divi duality we never beard his ever ev having exhibited the emotion of anger there was placidity in the tono tone of his voice and mildness in the manner of hia his address but these qualities did not imply a lack of firmness which we believe he possessed to a marked degree hia his habits babits were puritanically strict bein being simple frugal and abstemious he used no stimulants any kind to which fact it is probable that his almost unvarying good health was larg largely ely due it is not unlikely that his life might have been prolonged to even greater length but for a severe accident which occurred to him between three and four years ago when he be was knocked down at and id trodden by a band of horses in a corral in salt lake city we presume he be never fully recovered from the injuries ho he then received the doctor died poor in the riches of the earth but wealthy in the unblemished bloom of integrity A few years ago lie engorged in mining business in which he was unfortunate his property passing away like snow now thrown into the gloomy T river of misfortune the appearance of dr Bern bernhisel bil was exceedingly venerable we do not know of any one in utah who remembered him head lead was not adorned by the silver glory of age often we have observed hie his almost gliding unobtrusive figure on the streets of the city and we never saw him bim without being inspired by a sentiment of intuitive respect peace to the ashes of tho the departed veteran who passed through the vale of life lif e in the semi silence of innate modesty and as noiselessly passed away to the great beyond MR GARFIELD was the fourth president of the united states to die in office the first event of the kind occurred april 1841 when william henry harrison just one month from his inauguration died and was succeeded by vice dent tyler the second case was that of zachary taylor whose decease july 1850 made IN millard fillard fillmore president and the third was that of the lamented lincoln who forty days after entering upon his second term and less than one week after lees surrender at appomattox po mattox was assassinated and survived but a few hours in an unconscious state garfielda Gar fields death at the hands of guiteau ends the list |