The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-04-30

tion produced by this announcement. The
very sky wrapped It's face in storm The
thunders ratified and rolled as if Jupiter
was hastily evacuating Mount Olympus.
The winds, as if furloughed by Eolus, sighed
and whistled in the strangcst manner The
lightnings, taking advantage Of the suspen-
sion of municipal rule, pounced relent-
icssly upon suburban stable, and utterly
destroyed 1t. The streets ran wild with
water ana Woe. The walking knights Of
the "hnoHy club" gathered in knots at
fayorite corners, and moralized experimen-
tally on the instability of all worldly
honors. Everything joined to echo a
thousand times the mournful story g Tho
invisible fathers are dying"
Just as the sun, after stcalinga sly pccp
from behind the lifting bank of cloud.
was dipping his golden footsteps in the
mystic seas of the west, the tidings, sad
and crushing, went out that "the Board
had breathed its last" Oh, grief!
A meeting of the hcart-broken people
was at once called, and arrangements
adopted for paying suitable honors to the dis.
tinguishcd dead. For that worthy purpose,
seven of our best citizens were, with great
unanimity, selected. A physician, as the
first, was chosen to take the detunct func-
tionary through post mortem examination !;
another was chosen with the understanding
that he would supply soap to wash the body
of its various impurities third. a mer-
chant grocer, promised to give enough mo-
lasscs to sweeten the memory of the de-
parted: fourth, a carpenter, generously
proffered nails and plank for the coffin a
fifth, justly famed for kindness and candy,
gracefully offered any quantity of cologne
or other perfumes necessary for amounting
purposes and the sixth and seventh gen
tlemen thoughtfully proposed to shoe the
body, that it might not get foot t-sore in ira
verSing the vast obscure into which it was
passing. The committee very properly de-
tcrmined that the body should lie i'm state
at the Town Hall during Tuesday. While
there, several relatives and friends came
and took leave of the precious remains.
The hour fifty chosen for the burial was
midnight. At the appointed time, the
committee, with the police and other vene-
rablc appurtcnanccs of the now defunct
Board, gather at the Town Hall. The body
dear to the Board in its lifetime, and the
procession thus formed slowly moved away.
Just then the moon passed behind a cloud,
the police and venerable appurtenanccs
wcpt aloud, the committee of seven joined
hands, and the clock struck twelve.
The spot selected as the receptacle for
the sacred dust of Fallen Power was
Just in the centre of one of our most quiet
and romantic back streets. Arriving at
the scene, the body, amid the ominous
bowling Of dogs and lowing of kline, was
sorrowt'ully committed to its final resting
place. Whcp the grave was filed, several
venerable appurtenances flung them
selves tratcrnally upon it, and cried, "Oh,
father, we loved each other in life, and in
death we are not divided"
The services were then beautifully
closed by band OF Ministries that chant
cd the original and appropriate dirge,-
Rest in peace and sin no more"
The procession then returned to the hall
and disbandcd.
learn that il has been proposed to erect
a mud monument in honor of the lamentcC
dead. 1t is to be one foot and seven inches
in height. and two feet in depth. The mud
is to be taken from the winter shoes of their
former friends. To meet the difficulty "i
the mud's having become dry. it is pro.
posed that it shall be put into Il pile and
wcpt over until reduced to the proper con
SiStcncy.
The night is wearing rapidly away, and
must hasten to bed. STRUGGLE.
p. 81 acknowledge my obligations tu
Stranger" for most of the facts ot this
letter. In my next, | have some suggeS-
tions for our new Board Of Trustees
which may furnish them valuable food for
thought.