Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-10-01

German Lutheran Sunday School, 80
members-U. Slineman, marshal.
English Baptist Sunday School, SO mem.
bers-Jsbn N. Yates, marshal.
Methodist Episcopal Sunday School, 210
members-Thomas Rowe and W. Scott
Burton, marshals.
English Lutheran Sunday School, 115
members-John Conrad, marshal
Presbyterian Sunday School, 70 mem
bers-R. Anthony, marshal.
Welsh Congregational Church and Sun.
day School, 1866 members-David p
Thomas, marshal.
Methodist Episcopal Sunday School
Sonth, $40 members-William H. Davis,
marshal.
Welsh Baptist Sunday School, 191 mem
bers-Benj. M. Thomas, marshal.
German Reformed Sunday School, 15O
members-John Weigand, marshal.
A. M. E. Church and Sunday School, Go
members-Samuel wilson, marshal.
Methodist Epi'copal Sunday School
(colored,) so memcers-Daniel Abel, mar
shall
Carriage containing the chairman of the
m .eting Capt. Nelson Beall, Hon. H. W.
Hoffman, orator of the day, and Hon. vii.
liam Brace.
Every organization carrisd hand
some United States flag appropriately
draped in mourning. The Welsh
Congregational Sunday School carried
in addition to flag handsome por-
trait of Garfield.
Upon arriving at the grove the
speakers stand, which was shroud-
ed In drapery, was Immediately sur
rounded and the exercises commenced
by the choir, under the leadership Of
Prof. Samuel P. Thomas, singing
America" followed with prayer by
Rev. DR.. Ruhl. The choir then sang
Mourn, Mourn, Praise, Praise. F."
The chairman then introduced Mr..
Hoffman, who said Never in the
course of public life, stretching back
quarter century, have I ever been
called upon to address an audience
upon such an melancholy occasion.
/
The bells with their changing notes
are but the funeral knells played up
on the ears of a sorrowing people.
Our own hearts like muffled drums
are playing funeral marches to the
grave. Has the sun of our republic
been darkened by clouded sky OF
death ? We are called upon to mourn,
and not since Egypt lost her first
born has the world mourned as we do
now. Never before has the world
lost q man like James A. Garfield.
Let US look at Garfield as the man
he was not unlike his fellows; he was
born to no heritage or luxury; he
came from no one who ever wore the
purple or whose ancestors were noted
in this worlds history. He came
from those who were toilers of the
soil-from the working class. In all
that went to make up true greatness
he stood first and foremost. Take
him in his humble home in boyhood
at an early age he gave evidence Of
the man that was to be. A benef.
cent education, wise craftsmanship
and great ability made him true
man. * How many knew
James A. Garfield personally out o.
the 100000 of people2 Yet in
every town and city in this republic
they have come together on this day
to express their grief. The 4th of March
he stood before 100000 people and
tookthe oath tosupport the constitution
of the United States. To-day he liet
in deaths cold embrace. Garfield
was looked upon as more fitted tc
preside than any of our presidents
from Washington down; he came
nearer being the ideal of what pres
ident should be than any one who hal
ever sat in the executive chair at thu
White House. The speaker in thu
same eloquent strain paid glowing
tributes to Harrison, who died within
a month after he took his seat; t,
Zachary Taylor and The martyret
Lincoln. He referred in touching
terms to Garield's family calling then
a typical American family" and sale