The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-12-15
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Fast

The process Of cremating the body Of the
late Baron de Palm, at DR.. lie Moyne's Crems-
tory, near Washington, Pa, was successfully
accomplished ON the 9th inst.
A New York telegram says John Morrissey
has declared off all pools sold in his house on
the direct result Of the Presidential election.
A large majority OF those who perished in
the Brooklyn fire were men and boys. Only a
few women and children we're lost, as FAR Rs
known. Most of those lost were occupants Of
the gallery or third tier Of the theater. In do
scending the stairway they were met on the
second landing or second floor of the theater
by & binding and suffocsting volume Of
smoke and fell in heaps on the stairway.
This gave way under their accumulated
weight, and they were precipitated upon the
LOBBY on the first floor Of the building. This
also gave way, and the entire body OF men
thus entrapped fell victims to the flames. OF
focr) and family circle (second tier) only a
Few appear to have been lost.
Mayor Wickham, Of New York, has appointed
John Kelly Comptroller Of the city, in place of
Andrew II. Green.
Such Of the victims Of the awful Brooklyn
calamity as had not been identified and claimed
oy friends and relatives we're buried at the
cember. Prom Brooklyn paper we CLEAN the
following particulars Of the mournful funeral /:
The burial Of the bodies Of the victims this
afternoon was fitting end to one Of the mott
doleful histories Of modern times. This morn
ing all the bodies in the morgue we're removed
10 the temporary dead-house in the old
market where there were in all 100
o: the charred corpses. A hundred collins with
German silver mountings were brought in
and placed upon the floor, and into them the
unidentified and destitute dead we're placed.
shortly after / o'clock the ghastly cortege
started through Berum place, and then en-
tered Schermerhorn street. Hundreds Of men,
women and children followed, rushing along
the sidewalk In a state Of great agitation.
When the hearses and wagons reached Scher-
perhorn street, they we're formed in parallel
Lines, and there was a delay Of nearly three
quarters Of an hour. Although the weather
wss bitterly cold, and a cutting wind was blow
ing gale, the neighborhood Of Schermerhorn
street and Flstbush avenue was crowded
with participants and sympathetic spectators.
The sadness in the faces Of the women waiting
On the pavement was very marked The soldiers
who we're awaiting orders to move suffered in
:ensely from the cold. The procession imme-
diately moved from the head Of Schermerhon
street into Flatbush avenue amid general
mourning, and timed by the measured roll Of
drums and by the ftful sobbing Of the almost
broken-hesrted people. Within the houses
and without them, far along the wide avenue
and across the broad streets many an eye was
moist and many lip quivenng rs the dead
were borne TO Greenwood, leaving behind them
sacred memories and cruel poverty, too, which
Will not be efsoed, and By their very stiffness
and seciusion appealing more loudly than the
noise Of words In behalf Of their stricken and
1amishing loved ones for q wise and generous
charity. Compared with other funeral pro
oessions, the great procession of today
hadk many charscteristics of its own.
The number and appearance OF the MANY
crisped and dismembered forms. he econ.
pants OF carriages, all Of them nearest friends
OF The dead, none Of them. a. Ia often the
case, distsLt relations aud mere scouain.auces