4-28-1883

DAILY MORNING DEMOCRAT.

Saturday..........April 28, 1883

LAID TO REST.

Just as the DEMOCRAT was going to press on Thursday night word was brought to the office that Dr. M. B. Scott had crossed the point which separates Time from Eternity, and was no more in the land of the living. Yesterday at 2 o'clock a large number of the Masonic Fraternity assembled at the residence of the deceased and followed his mortal remains to the cemetery where they were rest until the Judgment Day.

It is an old saying and a good one, "de mortuus nil ni si bonum," and we do not propose to say aught of the deceased save what there was of good in him. The writer of this article was not in Austin, and therefore did not know Dr. Scott when he was in the zenith of his glory; but report saith that the deceased was a man of intelligence, education and highly talented. One of the best orations that Austin ever heard came from his lips, and many of our people will remember him as a man who could have attained the highest honors in our community. The writer only knew him when he was his own greatest enemy, but even then we are prepared to testify that he had a good heart and was a gentleman. Many of those who have turned their noses up at the deceased, could not have held a candle to him in classical education, even in his worst days. We have naught but kindly feelings for his memory, and since he has answered the summons which has called him to that bar where a merciful Creator will blot out the foolishness which caused him to succumb to his own enemy, we say

Requiescat in pace.