The Dillon tribune., 1881-10-01
DUST TO DUST.

Ane SCcnc Ii one OF confusion and buStle
Arrangements for keeping the route of the
procession clear are said to be as near per-
feet as possible. Thousands Of persons are
gathered about the Public Square waiting
the commencement Of the exercises. The
city is much over.crowded, all the hotels
being overrun with guests, and notwith-
standing the inequalities extended by pri.
vate families, many persons find great diff.
ficulty In obtaining meals, to say nothing
OF lodgings. In order to meet the demand Of
strangers, temporary branch counters and
every other conceivable mode to supplv
food have been erected in every available
space throughout the city, even to the oc-
cupancy Of unfinished buildings, where IA.
bles are formed of bricks and properly
spread with linen. The citizens are using
every endeavor to accommodate the crowd
All the places Of business are closed, and
the city may be properly said to be in
full mourning In memory Of Ohio's illustri.
Gus patriot, soldier and President.
Promptly at 10 go o'clock the ceremonies
at the pavilion began. The immediate
members Of the family and near relatives
and friends took seats about the casket, and
Ut each corner was stationed a member of
the Cleveland Grays, each of whom stood
like statue during the entire programme.
The committee members about the pavilion
were almost cloaked In Grape, their drapery
being very heavy. The exercises opened
by singing by the Cleveland Vocal Society
Of the "Funeral Hymn by Beethoven.
Appropriate scriptures were then read by
the Right Rev. Bishop Bedell, Of the Epis-
copal diocese Of Ohio. The Rev. Ross c.
Boughton, pastor of the First Methodist
Episcopal Church, then offered PRAYER,
followed by the singing Of hymn:
Rev Isaac Everett, Of Cincinnati, then
delivered an eloquent address, taking for
his text the following: "And the archers
shot at King Josiah; and the King said to
his servants, have me away, for am sore
wounded. His driver therefore took him
out Of the chariot and put him in the sec.
ond chariot that he had, and they brought
him to Jeruselam and he died, and was
buried in one Of the se2ulchres Of his
fathers, and all Judah and Jcruselam
mourned for Josiah; and Jeremiah, and all
the singing men and the singing women
spake Of Josiah in their lamentations to
this day, and made them an ordinance In
Jeruselam: And behold they are written
In the lamentations. Now the rest of the
acts Of Josiah and his goodness according
the Lord, and two deeds first and last
behold, they are written in the hook tf tine
Kings Of Israel and Judah. For behold,
the Lord, Lord Of hosts, doth take away
from Jerusalem and Judah the stay and
staff The whole stay Of the bread ana
the whole stay of the water, mighty
man and a man Of war; and prophet,
and prudent and ancient captain Of fifty, an
honorable man and counselor and church
artificer and an eloquent orator. The
voice said cry, and he said, What shall I
cry' All flesh is grass and MI the yoodli-
ness thereof is as the flower of the field.
Surely, the 7ear:e is grass. The grass
withercth, the flower Ea,!c:!,, bat the word
OF our God stand forever"
1t Is time Of mourning that has no
parallel in the history OF the world. Death
Is constantly occurring and every day and
life expires, and some where tl,~re are
broken hearts and. desolation. Blu. we
have to accept mortality and we stay mo.
ment and drop tear, and away again to
excitement and ambitions and forget it all.
a man Is called that plunges a large com.
munity in mourning and sometimes whole
nations mourn the loss OF a king or a wise
statesman, or friend, or a great philnso-
pher, or philanthropist, or a myrtvr who
has risked his life on the alter Of truth and
won for himself an envious immortality
among the sons OF men, but there was
never a mournin. in all the world like
unto this mourning. am not speaking
extravagantlv when sav it. From the re-.
suit of calculations carefully made from
reliable data it is found that certainly not
less than 3oo.ooo,ooo OF the human race
share in the lamentations and sorrow that
belongs to this occasion. Here to-day its
chill shows fearful calamity, that has ex.
tended itself into every house in all this
land, and into every heart, and that has
projected itself over vast seas and oceans
into distant lands, and awakened the sin.
cerest and profoundest sympathy with us
in the hearts of the good people Of al, ma.
ticns and among al people.
The reverend gentleman then ai!u:,.i to
Garficld's early life and told how he was
induced to accent the guidance Of Christ
for his life and turned his back upon the
sins Of the world forever. The boy is
father to the man. and that pure honesty
and integrity. and tina. fearless spirit to
inquire, and that brave surrender OF all the
charms of sin to a conviction Of duty and
right, went with him from that bovhood
throughout his life and crowned him with
the honors that wcr.. so carefully awarded
to him from all hearts over the vast land.
He passed all the conditions of virtuou,
life between the log cabin in Cuyhoga and