Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-06-18
FUNERAL OBSEQUIES.
RECEPTION OF THE REMAINS OF HON.
JAMES L. ORR
The Body TO be Taken 10 South Carolina
for Interment.

The Body TO be Taken TO South Carolina
for Interment.
NEW YORK, June 13.-At 2 O'Clock, =.
NJ, all the municipal offices were closed as
mark of respect to the memory of the
late United States Minister, J. l.. Orr.
Among those who called at the Cover
nor's room to-day to view the remains
were Major General Hancock and staff,
who also accepted invitations to participate
in the funeral ceremonies.
President Grant telegraphed from West
Point, his regrets that engagements would
not permit him to be present.
Willmot DeSaussure, Grand Master of
the Masonic fraternity of South Carolina,
telegraphed he was was on his way to this
city to attend the funeral. Twenty Ma
sonic lodges reported at the City Hall
this morning, that they will Join in
the funeral escort and about forty more
lodges from this city, Brooklyn and Jersey
City, will participate. AS the City Hall
clock struck high noon to-day, band of
the New York Commandery, stationed in
the rotunda, played a durge from Lucia
Di Lammermoor
A large crowd of people We're in attend
ance.
WASHINGTON, June 13.-There will be
no official recognition of Minister Orr's re-
mains here as they pass south.
Respect TO the IIustrious Dead.
NEW YORK, June 1.-the funeral SER
vices of the late Minister Orr took place
this afternoon at $50, when the arrange
ments for the procession to the church
with the remains were perfected. The
City Hall Park was crowded to excess. q
sea of faces being turned toward the main
entrance, eagerly looking for sight at
the splendid coffin which encased the
body. The pall-beareTs were Hon. 5. II.
Johnson, w. DeSaussure, Jas. Jenkinson,
y. j. Warning, J. ID. Evans, j. Phillips,
John w. Simons, Daniel Sickles, and AL
bert G. Mackey. \ band assembled in the
entrance of the City Hall and played
several solemn and mournful dirges. The
pall-bearera, with their heads uncovered,
took up the coffin and carried it down to
the hearse. The Sir knights formed on
either side as the coffin passed. and then
filed into marching order. Mayor Have
meyer and the Common Council, with
Grape rosettes and wands of office draped in
mourning, occupied carriages in the rear
of the procession. The knights made a
most imposing spectacle, drawn up in
the park five deep, with their gorgeous
uniforms, the sun brilliantly rejecting
from their swords and other ornaments
Henry Clay Preston, Grand Marshal,
headed the procession, ACCOMPANIED by
Mayor Edward II. Kent, Chief of staff.
The procession started up Broadway to
Twenty-Third street, then up Madison
Avenue to the church of DR.. Hopworth,
where the funeral services were performed.
The Fifth an Sixth regiments of Washing
ton Greys were already assembled at the
church in full uniform. After the SER
vices were over, the cortege marched down
Fifth Avenue to Fourteenth street, where
the remains were placed on board steam
er and taken to Jersey City and put on the
train for the South. The eldest son of the
deceased Minister accompanied the re-
mains. Also many friends and brother
KNIGHTS