The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-06
THE DEAD ARCHBISHOP.
A Painless Death-The Funeral Appointed
for Wednesday.

CINcINNATI July 5.-Bishop Elder arrived
to-day from the death-bed Of Archbishop
Purcell The reaction of yesterday was
slight, but Rev. DIR. Callaghan, the faithful
secretary of the Archbishop, who was con-
stantly by his side, was greatly rejoiced at
the signs of returning consciousness. They
did not include the power to converse, as the
Archbishop's tongue had been stilled by
paralysis. He was able, however, to give
some tokens of recognition to friends. His
death at last was peaceful and apparently
without physical pain. Slight commissions
appeared toward the end, and in
one of these he passed away.
At his bedside were Bishop Elder his coad-
tutor and successor; Rev. F. J. Calaghan,
Dr. Hecht, of Cleveland Seminary; Father J.
]. O'Donough, of Dayton; Father Michael
O'Donough. of Wilmington, and the sisters
of the Ursuline Convent where his Grace has
been in retirement since he quilted the ca
thedral residence.
The body will be embalmed and brought to
this city tomorrow afternoon, where 1t will
lie in state in one of the rooms of the Cathe-
dral residence until Monday. when it will be
taken into the Cathedral. The funeral serv-
ices will be held on Wednesday at 9 A. NJ.
The burial will be at st. Martins, where his
brother and sister are buried.
How He Looked at the Time of His Golden
JubiIee-The Last of the Family.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The ceremonies eliminated on Tuesday.
In the morning pontifical high mass was
said, with the Archbishop as celebrant. At
its conclusion steel portraits of himself were
frt4r 20 oil N,,A. 81 flNA
the Archbishop termng bis portraits "dupli-
Gates of original sin" amid much merri--
ment A grand banquet was rendered him
and the visiting dignitaries by the Cincin-
natl clergy at the Grand Hotel in the after
noon, nearly two hundred guests being
present OF the many after-dinner speeches.
none were more felicitous than that of the
Archbishop himself. The exercises of the
day closed with a grand concert and ad-
dresses at the great Springer Music Hall in
the evening The appearance OF the vener-
able prelate on that occasi on will never be
forgotten by those present, As he stood up
before that vast assembly of seven thousand
people in response to repeated calls. the
great building fairly shook with applause.
He was dressed in his pontifcal vestments.
A large gold cross, studded with diamonds,
was suspended from his neck. The head.
large and massive, the face broad and unfur-
rowed by time, the expression as innocent
as that of child-a perfect index to the
warm generous heart and childike simplic-
ity of the man. The hair was thin and
white. Full of health, life and vigor, he
was more active than many men at fifty.
His voice rang out clear and strong as on the
first day he came, to Cincinnati. His humili-
ty and concern for fear the great demon
stration in his honor would cause his people
even for one moment to lose sight of their re-
figion was indicated by the opening remarks
of his address.
With the death of the Archbishop his i'm
mediate family become extinct The father
died at Mallow shortly after the great famine
of 1867, and the mother and her two
daughters then came to Cincinnati. Mrs.
Purcell and her daughter Kate went to Mar
tinsville, Brown county Ohio, close TO the
Ursuline convent, where they lived with
Mrs. Carr. Mrs. Purcell was here when she
received the title of countess from the Pope.
She died there April Is, 1857, in her ninety
second year. Kate, before this, came to
Cincinnati and died at the orphan asylum,
in Cumminsville, March IL, 1879. She was
buried by the side of her mother in Ursuline
graveyard, in Brown county, and she was
followed, one year later, by her brother Ed
ward. Margaret Purcell married Mr.. Pugh,
and removed with him to New Orleans
where her brother Edward practiced law for
a short time. She died childless few years
before the war.