Connecticut western news., 1875-11-19
GuibOrd Buried.

Everybody has heard of the trouble ir Montreal between the Institut Canadienne, of which the late Joseph Guibord was g member, and the Catholic Church, in the right to bury Guibord in the consecrated ground of the Catholic cemetery. The mer- it's of the quarrel we'll not discuss either for the one side or the other. It is suffi- cient to say the feeling between the two parties is intensely bitter, and the Catholic church has succeeded in preventing the bur ial of Guibord, who died six years ago, till Tuesday of this present week, when he was inferred under the protection of the gov ernment authorities, subject to the order of the mayor of Montreal. We give below an account of his burial last Tuesday.
 MONTREAL, Nov. 16.-Early this morning the chief of police received instructions from the mayor to send detachment of armed policemen to the Catholic cemetery to protect the men who were digging the grave of Guibord. Forty of the men were armed with 5reech-loadlng rifles, the re- mainder merely carrying their batons. Vol unteers turned out on the Champ de Mars in the following order: Victoria Rifles, numbering 250; Montreal Engineers, num- bering about 30 files; the Sixth Hoshela- gas. 2so men; Prince of Wales Rifles, 25O; the garrison artillery. 200, and Colonel Ste Yens' battery. At 10 o'clock the grave was ready for the coffin. The police formed a hollow square around the Protestant ceme- tery vault, and the sexton unlocked the doors, he and his men entered. followed by friends of the deceased. After little de- lay the coffin containing Guibord's remains was produced, when MT. Boisseau asked if those were the remains of the late Joseph Gulbord. kept by him for six years, tieliv- cred up to him again on the 2nd of Septem- Der, and returned to him for safe keeping on the same day. The sexton said they were the same. The chief of police there. upon gave the command shoulder arms, and the funeral procession started, which at that time consisted of couple of car riages, the police being the sole guardians, as the military were far behind and never going up to the cemetery at all. The road to the Catholic cemetery was crowded with people of all classes in cabs, carts and on foot, while the stream of vehicles which had been going west to meet it now doubled about, making sort of lane for the small funeral procession to pass through. Great quiet prevailed, and DO one showed, by look, word or deed any hostility towards the procession. About five minutes after the funeral procession entered, q portion of the police preceding and the remainder fol- lowing the hearse. A crowd began gather ing from every direction, and ran with all speed up the various avenues towards the grave. The police formed large square around the grave and kept the great crowd back while the coffin was brought from the hearse, borne by four men and placed in the bed Of cement prepared for it. The process of filling the grave then began. The moment the coffin was lowered into the grave the work of mixing the cement with the water was commenced. The workmen shovelled in liquid cement min gled with odds and ends from the shops
 and scraps of sheet The comments of spectators were various as the work Went on. Some thought it an additional dcsecra- tion of the cemetery, and hinted that it was one more reason why the cursed Gui- bord would have to come out of that.
 The animus of the crowd collected was SO unmistakable and their threats to dig Gulbord's bones out of the grave if occa sion offered, were so openly expressed, that Mir. Boisseau determined to secure If possi- ble, guard of police from the mayor to watch the grave for at least twenty -four hours, thus giving time for the cement to harden into solid rock. The mayor prompt ly consented to this, and wrote out an order for sufficient body of police to be sent out as guard till such time as the note re-. quired. The cement was filled in over the coffin to near the surface, when the tor dressing of earth was piled on and Guibord was buried at last.