Daily Kennebec journal., 1875-12-11
est We ever heard. followed BY the Lords Prayer

best we ever heard, followed by the Lords Prayer
by the congregation. 1t was very fne and i'm
pressve. Another hymn (the pastor stands while
they sing) and then the sermon. 1t was just forty
minutes long, and didn't seem over fifteen. The
subject was, "whst's that to thee; Follow me-"
II we had heard it in Universalist church, we
should never have dreamed what denomination 1t
was. 1t was plain instructive appeal to all men
to follow Christ, and s would be right. 1t Is the
kind of doctrine we want to hear, and would not
travel grcst way beyond DR.. Storrs' to 60 to
church again, be be Methodist, Cniversalist, Or
ihodox or anything else. He is very much beloved
bv his parish and all Brooklyn. and for wonder
there was no contribution box passed round.
Since we wrote last, among the leading events
has been Thanksgiving" and the funerals Of two
remarkable men-Vice President Wilson and
VIM. B. Astor. Not one but tried to do honor to
the great poor man. Nobody cared about the old
rich map, but to tell that he left from one
hundred to one hundred aud fifty mill.
ions of dollars. 1t was a solemn sight to
see the dead Vice President borne up Broad
way. We stood there just two hours, in such o
crowd that we could hardly move. The troops be-
gan to move at five in the sfternoon. the heavy
artillery at the front, then the different ments
Of infantry. One regiment wore the spike he'll
NETS and uniform Of Prussia. We suppose they
were Germans. Another wore plumes of green.
We suppose they were Irish. We liked the looks
of the former best. 1t was fine thing to see the
officers of the "Fifth Maryland" marching as the
guard Of honor. The splendid Seventh Of New
York hardly looked better. They were just half
L oe thot tiypo hon
the hearse passed, that we heard the dead hero
tell in GaIdiner-eleven years ago, the story Of
his boyhood. 1t was trough hewed," and so was
the speech Of Brooks, who spoke the same fall in
Gardiner. How near they have followed one
another to the silent land.
Thanksgiving in New York and Brooklyn is
grand holiday, but one does not see much Of the
New England part Of it, the family reunions and
the love for the old home. The children make a
grand carnival Of it, and, in the part Of Brooklyn
where we were, marched about the city in squads
and youthful companies with masks. costumes
drums and trumpets as we have seen them in the
old countries. Any amount of eating of turkeys
was done, and good deal of drinking. But we
doubt ii there were many thanks given, or much
said about the boun.cous harycsts Of the past sea-
Among the amusing things We have noticed
since we have been here the sale of tickets for
the concert ofthe Philharmonic society at the Acad-
emy of Music These are the concerts of Brooklyn
we are told, and so great was the rush to get the
first choice Of seats, those who desired to purchase
tickets either went themselves, or procured sub
stitutes at high prices to take their places in the
file that was waiting, the night before, and stad
there through the entire nj ght, the sale was 10
commence at eight the next morning. pretty
looking set they we're, many wrapped in blankets
from top to toe, and noddns off to sleep while
they stood there.
A curious and serious accident happened IN
rain storm one evening not long since. \ gentle
man coming along an unfrequented street IN the
evening holding his umbrella down, was run into
by another coming from the opposite direction.
Both were knocked senseess on the sidewalk one
had his arm disloca:ed and his leg broken, while
the other was badly bruised. Another gentleman
coming along, saw the accident and rescued them
Crossing Wall St. ferry the other day with our
consignee, he said "do you see that lady there !"
Eyes, why:" Well her earrings cost S5,OOO.o0
apiece. WHO is shei :" OH the daughter Of
some politician upon the heights. We should
never have known they cost over 500 apiece
"That's where the money goes
A friend said to us on the street the other day
"Do you see that man going up those stairs =
"Yes"-and he was great stout, greyish man
with moustache like blackiug brssh-"who is
III" That's Frank Swift the Scavenger. lie
keeps New York..and Brooklyn clear offlth by con-
tract and has made his millions at it." lie looked
like it. One can see most anybody or anything
they want to here, by standing in one place lit
tie while.
A friend Of ours said he was walking up Wall
street one day with young fellow, who said;
"Just see how quick can get crowd here :" He
teok up his position at corner and began eagerly
to look at the top Of one Of the buildings, and
presently some one noticed him and stopped and
began to look then in few moments over hun
dred men were looking. till our friend got
ashamed and left the young man with his crowd
increasing every instant. ID.