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many of the friends present, after which they were taken to Blossom Hill Cem- etery for interment.

At the next regular term of the Supreme Court, after his sad death, at a meeting of the Merrimack County Bar, the following resolutions, presented by Hon. Asa Fowler, were unanimously adopted :

Resolved, That in the recent, sudden, and untimely dentli of Anson S. Marshall. Esq., a prominent member of this bar. struck down in the via:or of life and the full possession of all his powers. throuo:h the culpable, if not criminal, carelessness of others, we regret the loss of a frank and courteous ffentleman, a kind and genial associate and companion, a generous and public-sphited citizen, and an active, zealous, and able lawyer, always untirinij in his devotion to the interests of his clients, and ever laborious and patient in the practice of his chosen profession.

Hesnlved. That we tender to the family of our deceased bi'other, our sincerest sympathy in the afflictive dispensation which has deprived them of an affectionate Husband and indulgent father.

Resolved, That these resolutions be presented to the Court, with a request that they be entered upon their records, and their clerk instructed to transmit a copy of them to the family of the deceased.

At the conclusion of the business of the Court, Judge Fowler presented the above resolutions and made eulogistic remarks upon the character of the deceased, and was followed by Samuel C. Eastman and H. P. Rolfe, who spoke in the highest terms of the character and attainments of Mr. Marshall. The presiding justice, Hon. W. L. Foster, spoke as follows :

"The Court most cordially approves of the resolutions, and it is ordered. That they be entered upon the records of the Court, and that the clerk transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased.

The Bar seems to have adopted unusually appropriate terms in their brief allu- sion to the characteristics of our lamented friend and brother: 'a frank and courteous gentleman; a kind and genial associate; a Sfenerous and public-spirited citizen; an active, zealous, able lawyer; devoted to the interests of his clients; laborious, but iintiring, faithful, patient.'

This would almost seem to be extravagant praise, but our experience fully verifies it. He was conspicuous in all these qualities so praiseworthv and com- mendable, so essential, moreover, to the constitution of an accomplished and successful lawyer.

Snatched from us in the middle of the conflict of life, whilst his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours; his untimely depart\n-e reminds us affain, even as we are constantly reminded. ' that life's but a walkinof shadow" — a brief dream of the night— a vapor of the dawn, floating away and fading in the blue, eternal sky.

Our thoughts inevitably turn into the channel of such reflections as these when amid these common scenes we look around us in vain for faces so recently familiar and conspicuous, and sadlv iniss .Tudsre Perley. and Judge Bellows, and ex-Judge Bartlett. of the bench, and Brother Marshall from the bar.

Happy were it for us. who linger yet a little longer amid these scenes, if the examples of the departed inspires us to fulfil the purposes of our existence by doing our several duties in our allotted stations.— most happy, indeed for us, if these frequent suijijestious of life's brevity mieht teach us so to live that we may not fear to die— so to live that our yesterdays may smile upon us, and not, like Parthians. wound us in their flight."

The following resolutions were unanimously passed at a meeting- of the Board of Trade of the city of Concord :

Resolved. That in the sudden and untimely death of Anson S. Marshall. Esq., this Board of Trade is called to deplore the loss of one of its earliest and most valued members.

Renolved, That the Board hereby exnresses its sense of the srreat loss which the city has sustained in the removal of a citizon, whose abilitv and success in his nro- fession, whose nublic snirit manifested in his sunnort of all measures calculated to advance the public welfare, whose genial disposition, rare conversational powers, .and <rentlemanly bearing, will cause his memory to be long cherished by his friends and fellow citizens.

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