r Nicholas Philip Trist, veteran of
1 the civil war, retired sugar planter
I and for several years assistant coin
1 er of the New Orleans mint, died sud
ienly last Saturday morning shortly
after 10 o'clock in Cusachs' drug
" store at Canal and Baronne streets,
New O-leans. Mr. Trist had entered
the place in company with his daugh
ter, Mrs. Benjamin T. Waldo, and
,- hiie the latter was using the tele
I ;hone in the rear of the establish
ment her father was talking pleas
antly with the young lady cashier.
All at once he was seen to raise his
arms and grab his breast tightly, ex
claiming: "Oh, my heart hurts ter
ribly."
He then reeled against the front
door, and before assistance could be
rendered he sank slowly to the floor.
"'This is the last of me," he said,
"I know I am going to die." Dr. J.
N. Roussel, who happened to be in
the neighborhood, together with a
Jesuit priest, both rendered all the
assistance in their power to the pros
trate man, but while the good priest
arrived in time to administer the
last rites of the church, the services
of the medical man were of no avail,
as the end came within ten minutes
after Mr. Trist had collapsed.
Deceased was born 69 years ago on
Hermitage plantation, in Ascension;
parish, the estate of his grandmother,
Mrs. Bringier. His boyhood days
were spent on his father's place,
Bowden plantation, in the parish of
St. James. At an early age he was
sent north to complete his education,
which was received in various col
leges of New York and Virginia.
When the civil war broke out he
was living with his uncle, N. P.
