Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-11-17

.r:tS NJ nohlAL - The bones of Jas,rb
Hulbord we're yesterday laid to rs in CIR. w.
N'ege', the parish cemetery at Mnnrea) Csn.
"a 10 Which be purcha>ed a lot during his I;fa
time, bu from which his body was tch,rrsI
Tor SIX years by an ecclesiastical decree wh;st
was hnaIly annulled 10y the Queens Priv
Council. Joseph Guhord Was u French g..
madam printer 10 Montreal, whose fame ant
prominence have been entirely post.u,orem
as 1e was 10 bis life unknown outsid his own
circle OF friends. Wien the ln<ti,u Cam.
dlen,, free reading room and library, r..
ROUNDED, ne became member. The Insti,nr
had upon its shelves certain books thai wn u,
lnterdicted by the Papa IDdex. and B;.h-,
Bourget exoomnunicated its members en-
oord, however, refused to sever his coonec,;on
with the lnstitut. In 1869 he died so sudden
that no priest could be summoned, ard cr
course, without opportunity to confess, reran,
aad receive the last sacrament of the Church
% the h OF November, 1869 bis frienG.
sought to bury his remains, and were retus.I
admission to Cote des Naiges, the parish eem...
terry, as the Church authorities would not ner.
NIT an sxcommunicated person to be buried in
consecrated groupd His wife, herself trns
daughter of the Church, besought her Fathrr
Coufessor to reeot, and 6nally, a, the ipslips.
ton OF her late husbands friends, appied ~
the Superior Court for 40 order to comnel m.
Church to allow his burial in the LOT h. had
bought, and at the time of his death owned
10 the cemetery. She obtained the order, and
from Roman Catholic Justice, but the Cburrb
appealed The widow Guibord soon after d;ej
aud was buried 10 the lot alluded to. The In.
| stitut Canadlen appealed the case to the h;,h.
est tribunal, the Queens Privy Council, and
| on November 90, 1874, that body granted an
order ommandug the Church authorities tn
receive the body Of joseph Guibord for burial
with the full rites of the Church, 10 the cons.
| Grated grouad Of his own lot, right of which
they declared bis remains individually possessed
under the old French law Ga recei wing the
PrlVy Couucl'f order last July, the Superior
Court Issued mandamus commanding the
faorlaue de Notre Dame, who coutrol the GENE
terry, to bury the body with the usual rites
This was served August 30 h, and on Septeu-
Der "a the remains were aiken from the tomb
| where they had rested six years, and borne to
Cote des Neiges The French Canadian peo-
pie OF the parish e cked to the cemetery to
he number OF thousand or more, and vio-
lently resisted the entrance of the funeral cor
tege, which was attended by about three hun-
dred OF the friends of Guibord NJ. D1ure,
President OF the Institute, and counsel aud
leader OF the Gulbord party, attempted to al
dress the mob, which so Infatuated them that
they attacked the hcarse with stones, aud cou-
PEELED its driver to seek safely 10 fl ght. The
driver Was seriously Injured, and numerous
wounds and bruises We're inflicted in the con-
a'ct of the day, nut DO lives we're lost. The
body was returned to the tomb, where it has
since been guarded by an arnel force. -
Bishop Bourget, evidently alarmed at the
serious results of his preach ngs, at once
published a letter in which he deprecat
ed the riotous proc ling, and urged bis
people to refrain from further violence, prom.
slng au easier and more satisfactory SO utiop of
ne difficulty by cursng the spot OF Guibord's
lu'erment, thus protecting the cousecraed
cemetery from pollution. The uext Sunday
Bishop Bourgeois decree cursiug Guibords lot
Was read in the Church of No,re Dame. Since
then there has been great DEAF OF talk over
the affair and it was anticipated that aoy at
tempt on the part of the friends of Gubord 10
bury him 10 the cemetery would be violently
resisted by the populace Nevertheless his
remains were yesterday laid beside his wile
and although strong military quad acted -
an escort, they found the duty entirely peace.
full Bait American.