Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-05

OnlGeu k0bdbcS 10 III Ctu3ty DOuuO 10 pay
him the Government price of 81 % per
acre for the lands which he transferred
The claim only amounted to $780, 600, a
pitiful sum weighed against the benefits
bestowed by him upon the State, the ma
ton and the world by his early labors and
discoveries. The only property which
General Suffer leaves to his widow is the
homestead described above, with perhaps
$1,000 do not believe there will be a
dollar left to the broken and aged wife of
the old pioneer after his funeral expenses
shall have been paid.
THE LAST SAD RITES.
In the parlor of the humble Suffer man.
sion, very plainly but tastefullyfurnished
room, lay the remains of the good old man
from Sunday until yesterday Thursday
inclosed in rich rosewood casket. They
were dressed in citizens suit, and on his
breast were medals and badges marking
the hours conferred upon him while living
He treasured especially the badge of men,
bership in the little Society OF California
Pioneers of which he was President, for
they have been faithful and devoted to
him to the extent of their means and infu.
cuCt. IHciI UduSc Was CONSPICUOUS among
the emblems on his breast. The face as
it lay in its last sIumber, wore an express
sion of entire peacefulness. The remains
were viewed by hundreds of people from
the surrounding country, who fiocked into
town when they heard of his death. They
were tenderly borne to the Moravian
Church at half past 2 yesterday,
on the shoulders of six of his
friends, residents of the town. Fol
lowing the remains were the following
members of the Society of Associated Pho
neers of the Territorial Days of California
who went up from New York and Phila-
delphia to pay their last respects to their
comrade: General John c. Fremont, Gen.
eral H. G. Gibson, E. c. Kemble, j. G.
huffman, Francis D. Clark, j. Sherwood,
J. F. McCloskey, w. W. Walton, R. w.
Bowling, John Sickles, Fl. K. Cummings
and S. FL. Quint. This delegation brought
with them the bear flag Of the society,
which was raised at half-mast on the
square in the town. After the Pioneers
walked about two hundred of the towns
men of the General. The cortege passed
silently and sadly through the quiet
streets to the church, where the
remains were laid, according to the
Moravian custom, IN a receptacle adjoin-
ing the church while the funeral services
were being conducted. These were ex.
ceedingly simple. The quaint, plain
church was full of the friends of the de-
ceased. Rev. Chas. Nagle. the minister,
preached discourse in which he dwelt
upon the many noble attributes of the de-
ceased and his marvellous life-work. He
said this life had been sealed book to the
people of the town. His grand passion
during his residence among them had
been work. Their sympath.es had been
warmly enlisted in his efforts to
obtain justice from the Government. He
criticised with severity the action of Con-
gress, and believed the neglect which he
had suffered had hastened his death.
After the discourse the funeral procession
was reformed and slowly wendell its way
to the burial ground, preceded by the
I" trombone choir, as it is called, which
furnishes the music for Moravian funerals.
The cemetery is three hundred yards from
the church, browning shaded and pleas.
There the earthly part of John A. Suffer
services of the church, chiefly prayer and
singing After they were concluded Gen.
H. G. Gibson, acting President of the
Pioneers, spoke as follows:
EULoGY BY GENERAL GIBSON.
We stand beside the grave of one en-
deared to us, not only by proud and Pc
euliar associations and tender and grateful
recollections, but by the golden memories
of the Golden Land ever bright in our
hearts. Our beloved chief, revered patri-
arch and illustrious pioneer, whose career
was rich in incident, noble in achieve
ment, grand and pure in word, act and
deed, has passed from among US.
The kindly, gentle face, that bore the i'm
press of the purity and benignity of his
heart, the beauty and bravery of his life,
will meet US no more this side the Golden
Gate of the Golden Celestial City. With
our tribute of love and honor we lay him
beneath the clods of the valley on Susque-
hanna's side, fair Lancaster, far from the
scenes of his eventful career, far from the
land transformed at his touch into bloom
ing, golden Eden-the farest, richest and
best of the fair commonwealth OF this
goodly republic The brilliant flowers of
California's golden cline may never bloom
on his grave, but the white rose of York
and the red rose of Lancaster will minge
and blend their hues and odors
sweet with the fragrance and beauty of his
life, as its golden virtues blossom with
them in his dust In return for his services
to the Republic, so brilliant and enriching
in result, the nation which should have
risen up and called him blessed pouring
its tokens of grateful appreciation and re-
ward at his aged, faltering feet, left him in
his declining Years, poor and needy crushed
and broken hearted. No grateful sense of
the deep obligations for the rich boon con-
ferred under God, by his golden discovery
grand and unselfish hospitality and benevo-
tie, develop, beautify and enrich the
fertile, golden wastes of California; no
recollection of the fact that to him, more
than to any other actor in those eventful
scenes, was due the acquisition Of
the peerless Golden State, seems even
to have stirred or touched the heart of the
nation. That which was rich boon to the
generations Of our day, and whose far
reaching effects and benefits no man can
determine, was far from a blessing to him.
The princely estate founded by him in the
wilderness, where he led, among his kim
dred, people, focks and herds patriarchal
life of serene felicity or wild and rough
adventure, was swept away from him, and
the fruits of the labor of his hands, of his
golden discovery, of his enterprises and
undertakings, gathered, not only by stran-
gers and despoilers, but wrested from him
by the very land that he had richly blessed
and nobly served. Old age found him
shorn of the wealth, luxury, ease and CON-
fort that were rightly his, no portion of his
grand and hunlficent endowment of the
republic, that made by her progress de-
cade OF California better than fifty years of
Europe or a cycle of Cathay, being left to
him or his children.
Cypress and laurel wreaths we bring to-day
To crown the Patriarch,
Whose hand unlocked the golden ore
In guich and canyon dark;
OH Pioneer thy name we still