Show N ja joseph was suffering from a at salt lake on hid deathbed death bed lie requested that liis old friend and francis A brown now confined in alio llio istah penitentiary bo allowed to preach his funeral germon after his decease application for that favor was made by his relatives some of whom are men of considerable influence but marshal ireland to whom the request was first preferred decided that lie had no au dhority to bermita per mita prisoner to take such n part yet when all the circumstances cum stances were made known to him he agreed to allow mr brodu as a listener only to be present with agaard at the obsequies provided that governor murrays Mur rays consent could be obtained the case was stated to alie executive and without hesitation he granted the privilege and on saturday last mr the coffin of his old associate while tho last sorrowful tribute was paid to departed manhood the courtesy of the governor and marshal in this matter was very appropriately extended many year ago mr weiler and mr brown were together conscientiously laboring as missionaries among strangers in a foreign land mr weiler was attacked during that time by serious illness and his companion nursed him with the love and of a brother and helped hm back to life the bond of friendship then cemented was never broken and mr weiler wanted his old and trusted associate to be near his body in thu basl scene of mortality mr brown deeply appreciated the privilege so graciously bestowed he is an old man now and will naturally part with very few more friends on earth before his own last hour shall come this one act of kindness by federal officials ia the first break in a lang chain of petty tyrannizes tyrannies tyr annies but if the vindicatory vindicators and servants or consciences remaining this mercy wll not be to know tha they have soothed the final hour of a dying fellow creature that they have given to an old grey haired man the blessed opportunity 0 looking epou the form of one whom he dearly loved m life ought not to cause them any shame when they come to reflect upon the matter they may be very much bcd at their lack of cruelty but having once broken precedent they may ba able to continue to act decently no one has been injured by this mercy naj lawyer court or officer has been brought into disrespect no encouragement liaa been held out to past prospective offenders against the statutes of the land only soma worthy people have had their feelings gratified and the officials have demonstrated that they are not entirely devoid the of ahe governor and marshal in dispensing a little kindness was certainly not a dangerous one it is limped that the unusual i m p effort was not attended by any great degree of pain and although the sensation is so new as toj be almost further familiarity wi thit may make it almost a pleasure federal officials ought to subject the novel idea to ft more extended teat by eo doing they can lose nothing but ill willand they might pain a a measure of esteem |