DEATH OF MIR. COLBY.
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It becomes our melancholy duty to record the| death of respected fellow citizen, and profession Ial Brother MR. ELI CoLDY, Editor and publisher of the "Times and Adyocate.''

 Our personal acquaintance with MT. Colby was livery slight and mted as, since residence here, The has been almost constantly confined to his room |by the wasting disease, of which he died. What we did know of him, however, untitled him to our respect, confidence, and esteem, as man and an editor We were opposed to him, on the great po- 'itica questions of the day, yet we ever found him honorable, courteous, manly and independent, in .al he said and did. He may truly be said to have

 been one of the most candid and independent and at

 the same time, firm and decided politicians who ever conducted the public press. His example in these respects is well worthy of observance and imitation iby all his surviving brethren, of all parties We respected him while living and we most sincerely gdeplore his loss.

 Mir Colby died, of Pulmonary Consumption al the residence of his Brother, Mir. John Colby, in s this city, on Friday last, March, 10th.

 We copy from the "Times and Advocate" ofMon- Sday, the following particulars

 ssThe remains of MT. Colby were inferred, Raccording to his dying request, with Masonic ahonors. The procession, which conveyed ; them to their last resting place, vas compos- Bed of the Masonic Fraternity, the Editors, sEx-editors, and Printers of this place, in bo- Edy, and his friends and citizens generally, all Sof whom constituted large concourse.

 H Mir. Colby was born December 25, 1874.

 Eat Warner, New Hampshire. In his native

 f State he learned the trade of printer, and

 Eaiter employing several years of his life as [ 'k koi the Union, settled, permanently, in Little sk Rock, in the spring of 1888. Shortly aftel E his arrival here, he became Publisher ant tkEdtor of the Times and Advocate, and its

 readers will recollcct with what zeal, energy

 kand fidelity to his principles, he has distin

 Eguished himself as gentleman and partizan

 k In the summer of l843, he was elected Mayo

 \ of this city, at special election called to fiji

 "a vacancy; while lie continued in this office 'She performed its duties faithfully and satis

 efactorily to the public. Indeed such was th' :, Eesleem in which he was so generally held, tha ,kii hls declining health would have admiite'

 oi II, ne might have been reelected, withou

 any serious opposition. For some years, h \ had also acted as a Justice of the Peace. Ii as,S the iall of ls42, he received large and re u,fspectable number of votes for the House 0 T Representatives, and his defeat grew ou, o IS the multiplicity Of candidates of the sam 1-&politics. rather than any intrinsic demerit Q 'eEh his own

 aS The disease of which he died, was con f-E Esumption, which, for the last three years, -Ewas evident to hismany synpathizing friend

 egwas making ravages upon his constitution '-swhieh were but too certain promoaition { ,rs l.;s ,Helancho!E aeceasc.'