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Cextre Hav, Pa., Taure, Dec, 19,
THE DAVIS FUNERAL
The South Reverently Honors Its
Departed Leader,
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MEMORIAL SERVICES EVERYWHERE
An Imposing Funeral Cortege, Both in
Numbers and Ceremonial—HRishep Gal-
leher’s ¥Eloguent Faneral Oration.
Ceremonies at the Grave,
New ORLEANS, Dee. 12,—By universal
request Jeflerson Davis was given a
funeral in full accord with his superior
rank as military officer, in addition to
which numerous civic and other organ-
izations combined to render the cortege
in all respects most imposing, not only
with reference to numbers, but in the
pomp and circumstance of its elaborate
ceremonial. :
The obsequies, which were according
to the ritual of the Episcopal church,
were conducted by Bishop Galleher, as-
gisted by five officiating clergymen of
various denominations as follows:
Father Hubert, Rev. Mr. Thompson, Mr,
Davis' rector at Biloxi, Miss.; Rev. Dr.
Markham, Rev. Mr. Blakewell and Rev.
Mr. Martin,
The Funeral Sermon.
Bishop Galleher delivered a feelin
tribute to the dead, which visibly af-
fected the large gathering present. He
gpoke as follows:
“When we utter our prayers to-day for those
who are distressed in find, when we lift our
petitions to the Most Mer {ful and ask a bene
diction on the desolate, we remember that
one household above others is bitterly be
reaved and that hearts closely knitted to our
own are deeply distressed. For the master of
Beauvoir lies dead under the droop flag of
the saddened city; the light of his dwelling
has gone out and left it lonely for all days to
come.
Surely we grieve with those who weep the
tears of homely palr and trouble, and there
is not a sigh of s gulf breeze that swings the
swinging moss on the cypress trees sheltering
their homes t Is an Answer in our own
burdened breath 5:
The end of s long and lofty life has come
and a moving volume of human bistory has
been closed and clasped. The strange and
sudden dignity of death has been added to the
fine and resolute diguity of living.
A man who in his person and history sym-
bolized the solemn convictions and tragic for-
tunes of millions of men cannot pass into the
gloom that gathers around a grave without
sign or token from the sur harged bosoms of
those he leaves behind, and when Jefferson
Devis, reaching “the very seamafk of his ut-
most sail,” goes to his God, not even the most
igpoble can chide the majestic mourning, the
sortowing honors of a last “salute.”
I am not here to stir, by a breath the embers
of a settled strife; to speak one word unwor-
thy of him and of the hour what is writ in
the world's memory and in the books of God.
But I am here to say for our help and inspira
tion that this man, as a Christian and a
churchman, was a lover of all high and right.
eous things as a citizen, was fashioned in the
old, faithful type; as & soldier, was marked
and fitted for more than fame—the Lord God
having set on him the seal of the Hberty of
men.
Gracious and gentle, even to the lowliest,
nay, especially to thems tender as he was
brave, he deserved to win all the love that fol-
lowed him.
Feariess and unselfish, he could not well es-
cape the lifelong conflict to which he was
cofumitted. Greatly and strangely miscon-
ceived he bore injustice with the calmness
befitting his place,
At the Cemetery.
The pageant reached the cemetery in
due time, When the progress of the
procession finally brought the military
to the monument the police and soldiers
were drawn up all around the circle, and
as the funeral car with the long line of
carriages in its wake drew up the
line of soldiers facing the monument
were given ‘‘right about” orders to
salute the bier. The choiresters had
preceded the funeral and took up .
tion in a group to the left of the tomb.
There was not a covered head in the
entire multitude of 10,000 people when
the bereaved came. Mrs. Davis, heavily
draped, leaned on the arm of Gen. Jo-
seph R. Davis, a nephew of the dead
ex-president.
Bighap Thompson opened the cere-
monies by reading the first portion of
the Episcopal burial service. Then T.
H. Bappington, of the Nineteenth in-
fantry, soupded “taps” and Bishop a
lagher the second jortich of
ritual consigning the y to the grave,
Memorial Services Elsewhere.
RICHHONRD, Va., Ded. a SouAinem
was @ suspen re, bells were
yma hd services for Jeffer-
son Davis were held in all the principal
churghes. Re from all principal
points in the south indicate that similar
observances were universal throughout
all the southern states,
Politics In North Dakota
Bismarck, N. D,, Dec, 10.-~In the
senate Senator Jud Lamoure, of Pem-
bina county, made a savage attack on
ex-Governor Ordway, ghia ng him with
ing and other mis
ng the recent contest for
the, United Statice Senate sx yoverhor
way was bitterly opposed A
moure, who now A ted 3 the
senatorial fight Ordway has been mak-
ing all manner of charges against him,
A Pennsylvania Cyclone,
rrepung, Dec, 13. Jeannette
visited by a terrific storm. us
large new occupied frame be
louging jo Cort rife were de-
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the of Mr.
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tims of the Johastown Panic.
The Pennsylvania Soldlery.
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to the river a jumped in
fished him © wd locked him up
man refused to tell his name or
dence
Death of John J. Fitgpmiviek.
Lascasrin, Pa, Dec. 16.-John J.
Fitzpatrick, a well known railroad con-
ractor, died. He was born here in
1840. his father being Hugh Fitzpatrick.
a pioneer railroad contractor he son
was concerned in the building of the
North Penn road, the Bound Brook
road from Jenkintown to Yardieywille,
the Pittsburg and Lake Erie, the Shen-
andoah Valley, the South Peunsyivania
and the Chestnut street bridge in Phila
delphia.
sorrow fer Mr, Gowen's Death.
PriLAbELPRIA, Dec, . board
of managers of the Reading railroad
adopted resolutions expressing Sorrow
for Mr. Gowen's death. The general
offices will be draped in mourning until
Jan 1.
Porrsvitax, Pa, Dec 17.~The
Schuylkill County Bar association
adopted resolutions of sorrow for the
death of F. B. Gowen, who was once
district attorney of this county.
Dr. Higbee's Funeral
Laxcastenr, Pa., Dec. 15. ~The funeral
of Dr. E. E. Higbee, state superintend-
ent of public instruction, was the most
notable in years. Services were held in
the First Reformed church. The sobiool
children sang a dirge. Governor
Beaver, Adjt. Gen. Hastings, Secretary
of the Commonwealth Stone, and other
state officials were ., The ro
mains were taken to fo ttsburg, Md.
Three Killed by the Cars
WiLKESBARRE, Pa., Dec, 17.—A party
of Polanders who were walking on the
Lackawanna railroad track on their way
home from work were tum into at
Duryea by a train
sah ay a al one