The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-09-27

duty, WIN troops forming escort
in full dress will form right
in front on either side of the
hearse, the Army on the
right and the Navy
and Marine Corps on
the left, and COM
pose the Guard
of Honor.
Family of the late President.
Relatives of the late President.
Ex- Presidents of the United States
The President.
Cabinet Ministers.
Diplomatic Corps.
Chief Juttice and Associate Justice:
of the Supreme Court of
the United States.
Senators of the United States.
Members of the United States HOUSE
of Representatives.
|Governors of States and Territories
and Commissioners of the
District of Columbia.
Judges of the Court of Claims.
THE Judiciary of the District o.
Columbia and Judges of the
United States Courts.
Assistant Secretaries of State, Treas
ury and Interior Departments.
Assistant Postmaster Generals.
Solicitor General and Assistant At
torney Generals.
Organized Societies.
Citizens and Strangers.
The troops designated to form the
escort will assemble on the east side
| of the Capitol, and form in line front.
ling the eastern portico of the Capitol
precisely at 2 p. IN.
The procession will move at the
conclusion of the religious services
| at the capitol (appointed to COM
mence at 3 o'clock, when minute
guns will be fired at the navy yard,
| by the vessels of war which may he
lin port, at Fort Myer and by the
battery of artillery stationed near
the Capitol for that purpose. AT
the same hour the bells of the sew
eral churches, fire engine houses and
school houses will be tolled. Off
GERS of the army and navy selected
to compose the guard ofhonor and
accompany the remains to their fl
nal resting place will assemble at 4
| P. NJ. at the Baltimore and Poto-
mac Railroad Depot, where they
will receive the body of the late
President and deposit it in the car
prepared for the purpose.
ROBERT LINCOLN.
Secretary of War.
WM. A. Hunt,
Secretary of the Navy.
J.DENT.
President Board of Commissioners,
D. c.
THE FUNERAL SERVICES
will take place tomorrow at 8 P. NJ,
|in the rotunda, where the body
will remain until taken to the train,
Rev. Mr.. Powell of the Christian
Church, officiating. The Philhar-
|monic Society of this city, under the
direction Of Prof. Gloetzner, will
render the following selections !;
anthem, "To Thee Oh Lord / Yield
my Spirit" from the oratorio of
list. Paul" and the familiar hymns,|
FJesus, Lover of My Soul" and
asleep in Jesus, Blessed Sleep"
At the conclusion of the services
the remains will be borne to the
hearse, and thence to the baltimore
and Potomac Railroad depot, where
the same train which brought them
to this city from Long Branch will
convey them to Cleveland, Ohio, forl
final burial. Mrs Garfield has Sc
lected six gentlemen, all members
of the Christian Church, to act as|
pail bearers to carry the body of the
President from the Capitol to the
hearse and from the hea-se to the|
cars. They are A. X. Tingle, HI
c. Their, w. w. Dugan, Benz. Sum
my, d. F. Moore and w. S. Roose.
A special permit was issued this
morning by DR.. Smith Townsend,
Health Officer of the District of Co.
lumbia, to remove the remains from
he City to Ohio.
THE FUNERAL TRAINS.
Two trains will take the funeral
,ortege to Cleveland, the first one
will carry the corpse, the family
If the deceased, the Cabinet and
heir families, and the escort COM
mittee and pail bearers. Another
rain will follow this carrying mem
bers and officers of Congress, ex-
Presidents Grant and Hayes and
sx-Speaker Randall and ex-Cabinet
Ministers. The Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad officers telegraphed to-day
hat they will put special train
NTH sleeping cars attached at the
,ervice of newspaper men going to
Cleveland and then get one hour
head of the funeral train, without
,harge.
THE CONGRESSIONAL ESCORT.
A meeting of the members elect
If Forty-Seventh Congress was held
% day in the hall of the House Of
Representatives. Mr.. Tucker was
allied to the chair, and Mr.. Thomas,
Il Illinois, made Secretary. The
]ergeant-at-Arms announced the
blowing members had informed
nm of their intention to be present
it the funeral ceremonies tomorrow
l1d that a majority would 60 to
cleveland; Messrs. Bayne, Belmont,
3eltzhoover, Briggs, Buck, Brumm,
Chandler, Clark (Missou-