Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-11-30
CHAPTER OF CHAT.
AN ARKANSAS El0PEmENT UNDER
NOVEL CIRCUMSTANCES.
MacEeaui's Onslaught on the President
Senator Jones on the PreS-
dents Policy.
SOME VERY ODD INTERMeNTS.
ODDITIES OF INTeRmENTS.
Notes GA Some GuriOn~ Happenings at
Recently Reported Funerals.

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\ widuwrr, blinded with tears, fell
into his wif'> grave, Decatur, ILL.,, and
ON being pulled out used such language
that the clergyman had 10 reprOvc him.
Nrum>tablriu Franklin county, Penn,
served Il writ On man ~, with other
members of the family, the debtor was
standing by hi~ fathers open grave.
At Ttmplctou, Mass, the Rev. Gerard
Bushnell died on sunday, February -,
AGED -. Hi, wife, two years his senior,
had died on the preceding day. They
wvr., buried i'm the same grave on Tues
day.
i'm Pari, the percentage Of civil inter-
mcntS varies from 90 per cent. at PaSSy
L. -. / at NcuilmuntanJ. A. the tune
ral~ become humber the rate Increases;
rich people are buried from the church,
Int of the funerals OF the ninth---the
lowest cl,,Ss---morC than Unc-half are
conducted without religious ceremonies.
New attractions are lent To ones
funeral bv Il Baltimore undertaken WI no,
hy the Il~t, of chemical agents, makes
the checks OF the corpse bloom like the
rose.
/ On the tomb OF Brillat-Savarin, at
; Pcrc-I.u Chai>r, an enthusiastic reader
/ uIIhc "ph ~iologic du GOut,' deposited
: nn the pav Of the Dead last yeaf--not
{ a wreath, but 4 pate dc toie graN.
The hate Mr.. John w. Dwincllc of
( san Francisco, aItIr prescribing all the
arrangements for hiS tunsral, wrote as
follows: II desire that there shall be
no adjournment ut court. desire that
the hour nj tine funeral shall he fiXe,! at
| o'clock Z. NJ, ~ that the members Of
the bar who wish may attend ii without
interfering with the business of the
courts. The custom of adjouning the
courts when Il lawyer dies ought To be-
come obsolete. There il no good reason
why the business OF twelve courts Of
record should bc interrupted for day
because a lawyer. even the most dis
tjngui>hvd. happens To die
At the funeral of a resident of East
Prussia recently, his wife caused the
coffin to be- filled with pipes, 'abocco,
cabhvgc, bread, salt and other articles OF
food and luxury.
Mr.. "Far.foot" Walker, of Columbus,
Ga. SO-callcd hcrau$,. he had not Worn
shoes for forty years, had been laid in
his coffin and WAS about to be lowered
into the grave when, rs the mOurnerS
were bending OYER him to obtain a last
view, the corpse arose and asked what
they meant by such treatment
lord Truro i, believer in simplicity
of funerals Hi~ wife was buried in
plain and light wooden box constructed
80 ~ not 10 arrest the process of natural
dpcay. i'm grave dug by himself in the
lawn fronting his residence the spot
having been selected by Lady Truro her
self
Bishop Corrigan, of New jersey, will
not allow services To be- performed ut
funeral, where there are more than
twelve carriages present. Cardinal
Manning, i'm England, discOura%eS lavish
expenditure, an such occasions, ami IL
opn0ssd To- SUNDAY funerals. The arch
hiShup of Canterbury has alSOsconle out
i'm favor of ~impIification in funerals.
Mr.. Wilmarth of this city when the
Newfoundland dog that had saved his
lif, died of old aye, had it buried cncaS-
cd i'm a costly coffin, hearing silver
plate, i'm his family lot in Greenwood.
80 great a scandal was raised that the
trlIStr,, forbade the intermcnt of dumb
animals there thereafter.
Al the funeral of Robert j. smith OF
Pjtt~hurg, Pa, his divorced wife pleaded,
with hitter tears, to be- permitted to look
upon the face of the corpse, but was re-
pulsed 10y the family and clergyman.
sheriff j. r. =. Wilhelm, of Scott
county, VA, wa~, duriu" the war, twice
shot through the body. Each time he
YVES given up Tor dead, and his friend
Mai. Wood, had his coffin made and
! placed in their tent Whenever the
sheriff i buried it will be in his third
coffin.
The relatives of John Hammill, of
/ Sparta, y. =, not thinking that he had
been buried up To his merit, diSintrrred
T inc body, placed it i'm a new ca~kct, ami
rrburicd it, leaving the rejected coffin
beside the grave.
There WAS an extraordinary character
i'm Yorkshire at the beginning of the
present century named Jenny HirSt of
RawclitlJ, who was Il wcll-knOwn figure
at Duuca~trr and Work races When
Jenny had made his fortune II Il tam
nCr. he resolved To cut the lanyard ami
set up ~ a Swcll'' for the remainder of
his lite. The first step he took 10 that
and was To procure a handsome oaken
coffin, furnished with folding lid,
which waS let into the corner of his par
l0r like cupboard and filled with pro-
visions and liquor. When Jenny
Hist ,iir,l, rich and full of years, lie lett
directions i'm his will that he was to he
buried in the aforesaid coffin, and that
hi~ body waS 10 bc carried To the grave
lay eight old maids, VIII" were to receive
half guinea apiece for their services.
The EIGHT old maids, however, were not
forthcoming, and eight huNom widows
were engaged at half Il crown Il head I"
do duty ~ hearers. The motley pro-
cC>>iun Was headed by bag-pipe> and
fiddle, and the country folks tlOcked in
10y hundreds To pay their last respects To
Jenny Hist uf Rawclitle. He died in
1926. Mr.. Ellis King, who lived in
Kings Bench walk some eighty years
ago, kept his coffin in his chambers filed
with wine and spirits, to he drunk by
his friends on the day of his funeral.
| The coffin occupied conspicuous place
| i'm the room and was always sOlemnly
toasted at his cornwall parties the last
thing before the guests took their leave.