Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-05-30

County commissioners,
fOther County Officials.
Mining Superintendent.
Citizsns In carriages.
The procession marched down Main
street, and then ont TO the cemetery,
where tho graves Of, Gold Hills honored
| dead were decorated ~ follows:
The names OF those OF the honored
dead who sleep in Gold Hills cemeteries
are:
Captain John Y. Paul, Of the Army Of
tho Potomac.
John Broadwater, Mexican Veteran
and Pioneer.
John Grisnsr. Of the United States
Army /; served in the war Of the re-
bellion.
Mat. T. Hsenan ; served as buglsr In
Battery B, Second Artillery, under Cap
tain Robertson, and afterwards In Col.
Demands troop.
~ExERcIsEs ON THE GROUNDS.
After these ceremonies were concluded
the literary exercises were held a. fol-
lows: Music by the band, prayer BY
the Chaplain. music. Grafton by Pro-
lessor Young, music. Poem by Professor
Hyde read by Miss George Wright,
singing by the school children. bono
diction. The Grafton and poem will be
found below. The music by the band
was excellent and the singing by the
school children one Of the best features
OF the occasion. Following il the Grafton
Of Prof. Young:
The 0rasiou.
Like noble impulses have prompted
hitherward the steps Of both the old and
the young. Tho old entertain sad rsool.
l~ections ; the young. gleeful spirits but
anxious inquiries. The older minds arc
now looking over memory's pictures OF
the departed, some Of whom lie In the
narrow houses Of this cemctsry, others In
cemeteries Of more genial soil. The
| younger minds see naught but friends and
flowers and smiling nature; or gazing, ~
they do, perhaps, upon tho mountains
towering high upon every side or upon the
SHOWS Of Summer that cap their summit,
they inquire, "why this gatheringl"
Nearly two decades have passed. Nevada
had not yet become . State. Just . few
months after that gold excitement which
peopled this ravino, upon the other coast
there were heard
POLITICAL RUNBLiNds,
More ominous, more terrible than any
ever heard before In the history Of the
continent. Our philosophers. 10 whom We
had hitherto gone for counsel In national
dangers, stared each other in tho face, turned
pale and shook their heads. Our states
men had pittcd themselves against each
other for the last time upon the floors OF
Congress. Vital questions Of State which
had hitherto been there discussed by
CLAY, Calhoun and Webster could no
longer be adjusted by the arbitrament OF
logic-the alternative was the sword.
Already eleven sister States had said .
farewell to the Union. Fort Sumter had
been fired upon. Men, once neighbors
and friends, had donned the vesture Of
bitterest foes. A civil war had actually
begun. To rscite at length the incidents
Of those four years Of bloody conflict, |
which commenced with the firing upon
Sumter and ended with the treaty at
Appomattox Court House. would DO
tedious. II 10 enough TO know that We had
q Lyons at Wilson'S Greek. . Mcpherson
at Atlanta. II 10 enough 70 know that We
had Q Sherman in Georgia, . Robert Z.
Lee at Richmond and . Jackson, who stood
a Q stone wall ut Bulls Run /; that ct
Balls Bluff We had . man who. by his
oloquence, had stirred this whole Pacific
coast to patriotism and q love Of country; |
one, though he knew he were doomed. yet
he obeyed the behest Of his superior, and |
fell at the head Of his troops, pierced with
six wounds. / refer to ono whom you all
know and love
EDwARD d. BAKER.
Even now, ct this distant period, all
nations Of the Garth vie with each other In
giving magnificent triumphs to the great.
est living soldier, the victorious hero OF that
civil war. But there are thousands whom
We cannot name-brsve souls whom we
would not forget. The world stood abashed
and In awe before them. Both armies
were fighting for what they betiered to be
right. Instinctively We honor them. That
very same spirit which sacrificed life for
principle Il still our country's hope. Men,
who, for Q love Of justice, will sink into .
nameless tomb, unsung. are worthy 70
stand before kings. To them II 10 we
would do homage; upon their graves dainty
fingers should delight TO lay these floral
tributes, smblems Of love and Immortality. |
The Spartan mother did not forget 10 teach
her son that before life was country-as sen.
timent emincntly worthy to be instilled
into tho minds Of the American youth, for
princes and lords may flourish or may fade,
A breath can make than a. . breath has made.
But o bold peasantry. their country's pride.
When once destroyed can never b supplied"
England dates back to the Heptarchy, |
France to Charlemagne-each nation more
than Q thousand years old. Perhaps on
account Of our age. but few. indeed, fewer
than in any country In the world are the
holidays OF this United States. Natural
and pleasant 10 10 for individuals period
ically to celebrate some important event OF
their history. 80 II 10 with families and
communities. Why should IL not DO 10
regarded by Q nation? To trace the public
festivals Of any nation Is to trace their civ.
ilization-to read their history. The Athe-
mans set apart fifty or sixty days every
year for this purpose. No nation was more
famous for them than tho Romans. In
Ancient Greece, however remote, however
embittered by internal faction, however
hostile against Zach other. those States
Ilihht ~ eAVsJs skN /
their numerous festival days they laid
aside their
WEAPONS Oh WAR,
And met as brothers, to hold sweet COM
munion at . common altar. To feast OF
tho graves Of the departed, or TO scatter
flowers there, 10 not Of recent origin.
In Ancient Egypt, not fewer than thirty
six DAYS every year we're devoted TO the
Offering OF oblstions at the tomb OF friends.
Herodotus mentions n Of these fetes
where were assembled seven hundred thou
sand people-seven times the population
Of Nevada. Tho natives Of Burmah and
Siam annually 60 to such . place a. this
and ask spirits to cat and drink with them.
A native Of Madras told me that In British
India, kings and priests meet the multi
tudes in the burying grounds, and after
the orator Of the day has eulogized the
virtues OF the dead-complimenting, by
words Of highest praise, heroes and public
benefsctors-their graves arc unearthed,
the collins are strewed with flowers, then