The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-02-11

more and more widespread. A sta
tistisian has estimated that there
are IN New York and Brooklyn four
thousand i've hundred women; who
expend annually two thousand4dols
lars each in dress It is no rare
thing when The wedding march
sounds toSee dragging through the
aisle a bridal dress that has cost its
thousand or. fifteen hundred dollars.
Things have come 10 such o pass
that when We cEy over sir.
YE wrpETHg Tears AMY. -.
with a hundred,and-ffy dollar pock-
et-handkerchicf. The tendency to,
exttavagance was illustrated wonder
fully when the late James Fisk. junr
sent the bridal presents to,the home
Eof William II. Tweed, a gentleman
now occppying apartments. at goy,,.
expense. isk sent an Ice
berg of frosted silver, polar bears of
silver lying down on the handles,
polar bears of silver walking over
the gold spoons. There were in the
house that day forty silver sets of
imperial magnifcence. There wasa
diamond set that cost forty-fye
thousand dollars. There was one
dress that had in it thirty-seven
yards of silk, with three hundred and
eighty-two bows. Hundreds of
thousands of dollars expended on
that scene. The reason we have not
q multitude of scenes as extravagaft
is because We have not SO much mon-s
ey.
This wicked extravaganza shows
itself no more forcibly than on the
the funeral day. No one else seems
willing to speak of it, so l. shall
speak off There has been many a
man who has died solvent, but has.
been insolvent before he got under
the ground. One would think that
the two debts most sacred would be
debts to the physician and the un-
dertaker, since they are the last two
debts contracted; and yet those two
professions are swindled more fire.
quently than any other. In the as-
itation and excitement the friends
come, and they want extraordinary
attention, and they want extraordi-
nary expenditure, and then, when
the sad scene is past, neglect to make
compensation.
What are thosatwo professionsto
do under such circumstances? f.
merchant sells goods, and they are
not paid for, Understand he can re-
claim the goods; but if man departs
this life, and, through his friends,
Indebtedness is contracted that is not
met, there seems to be no relief, for
the patient has gone off with the
doctors pills and the undertaker's
white slippers. Greenwood and
Laurel Hill and Mount Auburn hold
to-day thousands of such swindles.
A man dies in our neighboring
city of New York. He has lived a
fictitious life, movedamidst splendor,
and dies leaving his family not
dollar; but they, poor things! must
keep up the same magnifcence,.and
so
THEY RESOLVE UPON AGREAr FUNERAL.
The obsequies shall be splendid l
give you no imaginary case. 1-give
you the funeral of a man in uptown
New York life, the facts authentica-
ted, and in my pocket. The t1nder-
taker was not to blame he sold them
what they asked for. The only
blame was for those who bought when
they knew they could not pay.
Casket, covered with Lyons velvet
silver moulding, ng,............:........- 5 $50
Heavy plated handles, 60
Solid silver plate, engraved in Roman
Letters, ,....... ....:. 20
Ten linen scaris,. ....... $50
Floral decorations, ......... ....-.........- 20
Music and quartet choir at house,. 40
Twenty carriages, walking to GENTRY 140
Fifteen other important expenditures 1856
All expenditures, added up; being sl,s76
for getting one poor mortal to his last
home! Perhaps it would have been
all well if they had been able to meet
the expenditure; but when it was
known they could not, it was vii
lainy. There are families that you
know who in the effort to meet the
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