The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-04-11
Flom the London Star Mar, u.
Funeral Of Artemus Ward,

tended by bis friends and admirers. III
, funeral cOytege, which consisted OF Il
: hearse, four mourning coaches and mar
, private carriages, conspicuous among whiC
was that Of lis Excellency, the America
Minister started from the residence of NJ
Charles Milward, Princes Road, Haverstoc
Hill, about 1 o'clock in the aftesnoon an
soon after o'clock reached, the cemetery
where large number of gentlemen con
nected with the drama, fine arts and gene
al literature were assembled.
The ground at Kensal green was reache
at quarter past 2 o'clock. and there til
number of mourners in the funeral train wa
increased tourfoid: the cemetery gates beiu
surrounded 10y well known faces that ha
watched the coming of the sad procession
/ Indeed, if ali those contributors to the pleas
ure and instruction of society who waite
the arrival Of the hearse had followed It il
stead, the line must have stretched a mil
from end to end. The chapel was Of cours
flied TO the fartherest corner before tn
doors were closed; and then the crow
without was larger than that within Whe
the church service had reached that poin
at which the priests voice mingles with tn
sound Of earth cast typicalIy on the bier 0
man that is born OF a woman" the coffi
of Charles Browne began to sink iuto vauI
or subterranean passage communi
eating between the basement of the chape
and the contiguous catacombs The by
ISLANDERS closing round could read, on the
unadorned brass lid, this short Inscription
suggested by him whose breast it covers;
Charles + Browne,
Aged 33 years,
Known to the world as
"Artemus Ward"
The chaplain, by whom the ritual haC
been very feeIingly aud impressively read
then announced that the Americans ano
English assembled to pay the last tribute OF
regard to their departed brother would have
an opportunity of listening to an address
from one Of his own countrymen in another
chapel; the building in which the burial ser
vice was read being presently required again
for the purpose to which it is consecrated,
The funeral service being completed a
meeting took place in one of the chapels of
the cemetery to hear a funeral Grafton de-
livered by Mr. Conway, an old aud esteemed
friend Of the deceased. lie said 1t had
often been remarked that the fountain of
laughter was close to that of tears. Comedy
was closely followed by tragedy. In the
ground where they were assembled lay
many brilliant aud fine wits, whose memo
ries were intimately associated with our de-
lights and also with our tears for their loss,
for their own sorrows, and, as too often hap
pened, for their early deaths. How often
did it happen that nIoralizng on the fate of
the man of initiate jest and humor must be
made as III the play of Hamlet on his
skull. And how melancholy was the re
Election in the present case that when they
were sitting before the friend whom they
had lost, convulsed with laughter at his
brilliant saIi IS, and delighted with the fine
touch Of his hunor, he was wasting away
before them and that the flashes of his eye
were mingled with the same fire that was
CONSUMING his life. There was something
in all this; but the reflection was still more
melancholy that he should die in strange
country, far from his native land, and far
away from that mother in whose arms he
had longed to expire. Still he had been
here surrouuded by friends, and tended by
them with feelings true and genuine fact
that he (Mr. Conway was sure the coun-
trymeu Of deceased would never forget. =
That was not the place to dwell on any
criticism upon his works. The verdict of
the entire literary world has been given on
the subject, and that verdict placed him in
the ran. s Of the finest and most exquisite
humorists Of his time. They all know how
fine, how bright and how delicate were the
SensIbilities which were required to make
up a man OF fine and genuine humor, and
the verdict given in both countries in respect
to hIm would, he Was sure, be confirmed by
posterity. In Artemus Ward there was no
IneaDness, no cOarseness, no vice. He had
lived IN the public eye from his youth up
wards He had been known, while yet a
boy, as an editor of a paper in far Ohio He
had also been known IN the same capacity
in New York and San Francisco, and all
the way from New York to San Francisco
Thus he was man who had lived in the
public eye, and been criticized during his
whole lifetime, and he (Mr. Conway would
venture to affirm that he had never met
with one whom he had not made his friend,
and never lost friend that he had once
made. lie had never used his great DOW.
ers Of humor for that biting power which
was amplIhed in the word sarcasm, but had
all through touched with the most delicate
humor the follies and the weaknesses of the
age in which re lived. He had been man
not only of humor, but man of good hui
NOR. lie had never made an enemy and
there was no man who did not feel that he
was the better for having known him. Af-
tectlonate and simple as a child, a fine fan
cy aud line Intellect he possessed the high
est elevation Of character; and all who knew
him felt that with him had passed away
fine genial spirit, as true gentleman as
ever lived. Ever since his landing in this
country he had been taken by the hand in a
feeling Of generosity and sympathy-sym-
pathy so deep that it was chiefly owing to
1t that he had not returned to his native
land when he felt that the climate of this
country did not agree with him. This was
highly creditable to the Republic of letters,
and would tend to cement feeling of broth
erhood between those Of the two countries.
DR.. Spencer Hall, of Browness on Wind
next addressed the meeting in a
short speech eulogistie of the merits of the
deceased