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The Hillsborough Recorder
Hillsboro, Orange County, North Carolina
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Hon. Lucius Q. C. Lamar, a respected official in Milledgeville, Georgia, died by suicide on the 4th instant due to despondency from dyspepsia and fear of insanity, shocking the community.
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A fatal accident occurred at Milledgeville, on the 4th instant, which has overwhelmed our community with astonishment and grief. Our most estimable fellow-citizen, the Hon. Lucius Q. C. Lamar, has fallen by his own hand! Discharging the arduous functions of a high office with distinguished ability, esteemed and beloved by his fellow citizens, possessing in an extraordinary degree the confidence of his political opponents, blessed in his domestic relations and in those relations a most amiable and affectionate man, of unblemished morals, entertaining a profound regard for the truths of revealed religion, who could have expected this fatal act from such a man, so situated? It is no doubt the effect of aberration of mind. He is the victim of dyspepsia, that gloomy scourge of the student. Laboring for some months past under this depressing disease, a deep despondency had settled over him; he feared that the faculties of his mind were impaired: the awful apprehension of insanity, was a sword piercing his brain; it became the terrible disease of his soul. In an agony of despair, believing himself insane, he committed the fatal act. Milledgeville mourns with deep sensibility, the untimely fate of this talented and virtuous man. The state is bereaved of one of her most valuable sons.
Milledgeville (Ga.) Union.
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On The 4th Instant
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A fatal accident occurred at Milledgeville, on the 4th instant, which has overwhelmed our community with astonishment and grief. Our most estimable fellow-citizen, the Hon. Lucius Q. C. Lamar, has fallen by his own hand! Discharging the arduous functions of a high office with distinguished ability, esteemed and beloved by his fellow citizens, possessing in an extraordinary degree the confidence of his political opponents, blessed in his domestic relations and in those relations a most amiable and affectionate man, of unblemished morals, entertaining a profound regard for the truths of revealed religion, who could have expected this fatal act from such a man, so situated? It is no doubt the effect of aberration of mind. He is the victim of dyspepsia, that gloomy scourge of the student. Laboring for some months past under this depressing disease, a deep despondency had settled over him; he feared that the faculties of his mind were impaired: the awful apprehension of insanity, was a sword piercing his brain; it became the terrible disease of his soul. In an agony of despair, believing himself insane, he committed the fatal act. Milledgeville mourns with deep sensibility, the untimely fate of this talented and virtuous man. The state is bereaved of one of her most valuable sons.