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Providence, has brought to a sudden and sad end the life of our former 

 respected preceptor and friend, the Rev. Dr. Elisha Mitchell, Professor in 

 the University of N. C. : 



Therefore, Kesolved, That we have received intelligence of this most 

 mournful event with feelings of pain and unmingled sadness. 



Resolved, That as in his life we have have been made debtors to him by 

 his faithful instructions and by his unwearied devotion to our best inter- 

 ests, so now in his death we cherish his memory in our hearts. 



Resolved, That the Rev. Dr. Elisha Mitchell, by his great and varied 

 learning, by his indefatigable zeal in the pursuit of knowledge, his spirit 

 of invincible perseverance in whatever he deemed to be right, by his devo- 

 tion to the duties of his profession, whether as a teacher of science or as a 

 teach<^r of the religion ot the Gospel, by his devotion to the interests of his 

 pupils, to the interests of the University of which he was so distinguished 

 a Professor, and by his devotion to the interests of the State at large, and 

 in a word, by a long, honorable, and useful life of incorruptible integrity 

 and fidelity to duty, has made himself to be an ornament and an example 

 to his profession and to his fellow men in general. 



Resolved, That in view of the eminent services which he has rendered 

 the State, direcili/, by the prompt and faithful discharge of particular du- 

 ties assigned him, and less directly, but not less effectively by his devotion 

 to the cause of education, the deceased has entitled himself to a public 

 testimonial of respect to his memory ; and we hereby pledge ourselves to 

 assist in any measure tending to that end. 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family of the 

 deceased, with an expression of our sincerest sympathy and condo- 

 lence ; and also, that a copy be sent to his brethren of the Faculty, and to 

 each of the Literary Societies at Chapel Hill, with the request that they 

 be filed in their archives. 



The resolutions were unanimously adopted. 



W. J. ANDERSON, Chairman. 



George H. Haigh, Secretary. 



MEETING AT GEEENSBOEO'. "^ 



From the Times, August 23. 



A MEETING of former pupils and friends of Dr. Mitchell, resident in 

 Greensboro and vicinity, was held in the Court House on Monday evening 

 last, for the purpose of giving public expression to their feelings of grief 

 and sympathy, excited by the painful intelligence of his death. 



