The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-09-27
LAID TO REST.
The Funeral Exercises at Cleveland,
Ohio. Yesterday.
Impressive Ceremonies and an Impos-
ing Demonstration.


members of the family and near rela-
tiyes and friends took seats about the
casket, and at each corner was stationed
q member of the Cleveland Grays, each
of whom stood like statue during the
entire programme of the committee.
The members about the pavilion were
almost cloaked In Grape, their drapery
being very heavy. The exercises opened
by singing by the Cleveland social So
ciety Of hymn of Beethoven; reading
Of the scriptures by Bishop BedelI, Of
Ohio.
AT this point the vocal society sang
follows:
ITO Thee. o Lord yield my spIrit
Who breaks In love this mortal chain;
Ny life but from Thee inherit,
And death becomes my chiefest gain"
In Thee live; in Thee / die;
Content, for Thou ait ever Nigh"
Rev. Isaac Everett, of Cincinnati,
then delivered an earnest address, tax
ing for his text the following: "And
archers shot at King Josiah, and the
king said to his servants, have me
away, for I am sore wounded, His
servants therefore:took him out of. that
chaniot and mt him n the .scond ch.r-
lot that they had, and they brought him
to Jerusalem, and he died and was
buried in one ~ the ssnuIchrss :, ~.
fatber,s and ali Indah and Isrn..,aa.
mourned for Jos,ah. -Iarsm,.h ..m.nt
ed for Josiah ana ali ths sire;ro me-,
and the singing woman snoka 81 Jo,;ah
in their lamentat;ops 70 th;s d.v .nd
made them an ordinanca IN Israel bc-
hold thew are wr;tten IN Tomsn,.
tionsn
. This ia a time of mon, n,no that hos
no paral,eI in tbe history - tha wor,d
Death IN constantlv occurr;n, svorv
day and every hour and almdst everv
moment some life expires and some
where tbere are broken hearts and des-
olste homes: but we have learned to
accent tbe unavoidable and VIA nause
a moment and dron n tear and awav
AGAIN To the exc;tement ana the am.
bilious forget Il all Sometimes a life
ia called for that plunges commun;tv
ip/mouruiup. and sometimes vhola ma.
tions mourn the loss Of king or 4 wise
statesman, or an eminent sage or a
great philosopher. or philantbropist. or
. martyr who has laid his lie on the
altar of truth, and won for himself an
Immortality among the sons of men.
but there never was a mourning in ali
the world like unto this mourning. am
not speaking extrayarantly when say
for am told it is the result Of calcula-
tions, carefully made from such data as
are In possession, that certainly not
less than three hundred millions Of the
human race share in its lamentations
and sorrow and mourning that belenr
to this occasion here TO-DAY. It a a
chill shadow of a fearful calamity that
has extended itself into every bome in
all this land, and into every heart. and
that has projected itself over the vast
seas and oceans into distant lands. and
awakened the seyerest and profoundest
sympathy with us in the hearts Of the
good people Of all nations.
1t is worth while, nv friends. to
pause a moment and ask wby this il.
1t is doubtless attributable in part to
the wondrous triuufphs Of science and
art within the present century, by
means OF which time and space have
been 90 far conquered that the nations
once far distant, and necessarily alien
ated from each other, are brought into
close communion, and the various ties
OF commerce, and Of social and religious
interests bring them In contact Of fel-
lowship, that could not have been
known in former times. It is likewise
unquestionably partly duo to the fact
that this nation Of ours, which has
grown to such wondrous might and
power before the whole earth, and
which is In fact the hope Of the world
In all that relates to the highest civiliz-
alton; that sympathy with this nation,
and respect for this great power, leads
to these offeringsof coincidence and ex-
pressions Of sympathy and grief from
the various nations of the earth, and
because they have searned to respect
this nation and recognize that the ma
tion is stricken q fatal blow that has
taken away our president from us; and
yet this will by no Means account for
this marvelInns ana world-wida avn.