The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-11-17
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WHEELING REGISTER.
Associated Press Report. by Western
Union Line, Office Northwest cor.
of Main and 18th Sts.
THE GUIBORD FUNERAL.
Large and Excited Crowd
Present. Military and Po-
lice Out in Force.
The Remains Encased in Ce-
ment, and the Bones
Put to Rest at
Last.

MONTREAL, November lG.-Early this
morning the Chief of Police received in
structIons from the Mayor to send a de-
tachment of armed police to the Catholic
| Cemetery, TO protect the men who were
digging the grave of Guibord lie was
| Instructed to send the remainder of re-
serve force to the Protestant Ccmctcrv.
( Forty OF his men were armed with
brecch-loadiEg rifles, the remainder
merely carrying their batons. The vol.
untcsrs tureed out in the Champ de
Mars in the following order: Victoria
Rides, numbering 80 men; Engineers,
Numbering about 81 files; the Sixth
Hospclagas, $50 men; Prince of Wales
Rifles, 25O men; the garrison of artillery,
POO men, and Col. Stevens battery. At
10 o'clock the grave was ready for the
coffin. At this time not over twenty
spectators were present at the Cath
olIc Cemetery, but large crowd
was collected from all d..
rectons. The police formed hollow
square around the Protestant cemetery
and he and his men entered, followed by
the friends of the deceased. After u lit
tie delay the coffin containing Guibord's
remains was produced, when NJ. Bois-
seau asked if those were the remains of
thcIate Joseph Guibord, kept by him the
sexton for six years, delivered up on the
second Of September, and returned to
him Tor safe keeping on the same day.
The sexton said they were the same.
The Chief of Police thcreupon gave
command shoulder arms, and the fu-
neral procession started, which at that
time consisted of a couple Of carriages.
the police being the sole guardians, rs
the military were far behind and never
going up 10 the cemetery at all The
road to the Catholic Cemetery wa,
crowded with people Of all classes in cabs,
carts and on foot while the stream of ve-
hicleS which had been going west to meet
it now doubled about, making IL sort Of
lane for small funeral procession to pass
through. Great quiet prevailed, and 10
one showed by look, word or deed any
hostility toward the procession. About
five minute, after the Catholic
Cemetery gate. had been taken
down, the funeral procession On
tered, portion OF the police preceding
and the remainder following the Acarsc.
The military were halted at the village
Of Cate Dcs Ncigcs. A crowd began
gathering from every direction and ran
with speed up various avenue, towards
the grave. The police formed large
square around the grave and kept the
crowd back while the coffin was brought
from the hearsc borne by four men and
placed in the centre of u bed of cement
prepared for it. The process Of filling
up the grave then began. The moment
the c, fin was lowered into tho grave
the work of mixing cement with water
was commenced, The workmen shovrlcd
in liquid cement mingled with odd, and
ends from TN shops and scraps Of sheet
iron. The comments of the
spectators were various as the
work went on. Some thought it
additional desccration of the cemetery,
aud hinled that it Wa, one more reason
why