Show I E A GOOD MAN GONE s A special dispatch from Carson City Nevada from State Senator J W Pow j ell to tho DEMOCRAT contains tho mournful a mourn-ful announcement of tho death of Jerry l Schooling a former Treasurer of that State Ho was stricken with apoplexy at ono oclock a m yesterday and died a I a fifteen hours afterwards Jeremiah Schooling or Jerry as ho was universally r uni-versally known and designated was a pioneer of both tho Golden and Silver + t l States Ho camo across the Sierras in u ri tho early Territorial days of Nevada and i for a number of years followed his trade us a blacksmith In 1R70 he was unanimously t 1 unani-mously nominated bv tho Demo cratic Convention for the office r of State Treasurer and his great personal popularity i and recognized r rft kt honesty insured for him an overwhelming tr over-whelming majority while his name upon r i tho ticket was an important factor in the success of the Democratic party in Nevada i Ne-vada at tho election of that year This it record as Treasurer fully justified tho I t 4 confidence of tho people and four I years afterwards ho was again nominated ° t by acclamation and again elected by t y moro than his former majority Being by principle an antithird term Democrat ho declined tho nomination in 1878 wri although it was almost forced i upon him and his election would It j as certainly havo followed A t Qi tho expiration of his second term us Treasurer ho engaged in mercantile bus f r ness at Reno Nevada which ho followed up to a couple of years prior to his death il lk n In 1880 he was elected State Senator anti e served during two sessions in tho upper it branch of the Legislature at Carson 1 Ills record as a legislator was in keeping j with his previous official life being marked by tho strictest integrity excellent i excel-lent judgment and firm adherence to r principle Last fall at tho earnest I if solicitation of many of his friends ho was prevailed upon to again accept tho nomination for liirf old position of Stato Treasurer which was conform E upon him by the iiiiuiiinoiin voice of the convention manifested by an oltl fashion lYt Democratic whoop and three cheer rn ± and atiger for Honest Jerry Although Al-though running ahead of his ticket ho wa I defeated with the restof the candidates going down with his comrades under the l golden wavo which swept everything bo nca foro it at tho last election in tho Stato of Nevada At tho reopening of Ihe t4 Carson mint as a United States Assay t As-say Office ho was appointed to a t e responsible position in that Institution which he held at tho time of his death t + i IIo was a native of Missouri and about pry 7 + 6 BO years of ago His namo wa ho was known and a household word throughout tho length and breadth of I ft i tho synonym for honesty wherever the State where ho to long resided ° t l1 and which he had so fathfully served In x him tho uouiago of the lion was blended i k1 with tho gentleness of a child Ho was beloved as be-loved and respected by all and de 5 juried for his final homo without leaving behind an enemy in the world 1 r A good man has gono to his rest May t the turf rest lightly on tho breast which ik + ° never throbbed except to generous impulses i im-pulses and which never harbored a t cA malicious unmanly or impure sentiment |