The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-10-20

| IioA eAtt IL any one uloS III q mouse his sp1rl
will return and take up his abode in tha
, house and Lang Lung objected to having hi
: cousin with him in such guise. The funera
took place on Sunday with as elaborat,
Chinese rites as the city authorities woule
permit The Chinese consider music as al
essential, but Mayor King said that M
band of music should be heard in the street:
: OF Philadelphia on Sunday, and all en- trea
les were of no avail. The corpse was taker
to Lang Lungs house-not in it, and ther
the ceremonies began. Wing Kee, the di
rector, wore q curious costume-a red and
white covering for his head long sword
set with Jewels and a long, rich, flowing
robe. All the Cinnamon wore mourning
pieces OF red, white and black cambric
upon the arms, shoulders and head, A
large red flag with white border, bearing
an inscription, colored handkerchiefs and
two banners we're given to the chief mourn
ers. The first half hour was passed in
drinking tea and singing doleful sort of
chant, each man patting another mans
shoulder to keep time. Then they made
ready to display the corpse On the sidewalk
it was covered with large winding sheet
OF the richest texture-and had begun the
ceremony of gratifying the spirit of the
dead by building fires and preparing hot
meat and tea, serving wine and burning
incense, when the police interfered and
prohibited al! such rites. Coins were then
put oil around the corpse, quantity of
rice at each end of the coffin, banners were
waved over it franctically, and then the sig
nal was given for the procession to move.
There were fifteen carriages. All the Chi
nese of the city, about 200, contributed
money to defray the expenses and took
part in person. Hong Chuck had been q
close attendant at the Chinese Sunday
School Of the Epiphany Church, and the
intention was to have a service there, con-
Quoted by Rev. DR.. Syle, but the crowd
| that followed the procession was so dense
and unmanageable it was deemed unwise
| to open the church doors.
at the grave the people thronged SO and
were so boisterons that the poor Chinese
had hard time. Decency and sympathy
were forgotten in the effort to crafty
curiosity. The coffin was covered with rod
paper and lowered into the grave, which
was twelve feet deep. One of the mourners
then scattered hundreds of tiny bits of
paper to the winds, every ono gesticulating
frantically and fighting the air with their
handkerchiefs. Each bit of paper was
represented nine deities and the paper
symbolized money. The Chinese believe
that those deities had to bo appeased or else
they would have prevented the passage of
the spirit to the next world, hence the scat
tering of the papers. The dsattterir,g of
handkerchiefs was to drive away those that
would not be appeased by money. After
the banners and flags had been waved suf-
ticiently over the grave, they, with q basket
of rice, can of tea, an opium pipe, pack
ages of opium, lamp, a tobacco pipe,
several bags of tobacco and bundle of
small papers resembling money were low
cred into the grave. DR.. Syle said q prayer
IN Chinese and English The grave was
closed, incense was burned and the service
was over. At once the sadness of the |
mourners was changed to JOY. They tore |
the emblems of mourning off and threw |
them on the ground, laughed, sang gay
tunes, romped on the grass until they were |
tired, and went homo. They had done all |
they could to give Hong Chuck an easy,
comfortable entr6e into the next world and |
they were happy.
Philadelphia went mad over the Athletics, |
the champion base bailers. Tho reception |
was something costly and elaborate One
might have supposed some great conquer
ing hero Of many battles had come laden |
with trophies. IN Alexander, Hannibal, |
a Washington Or q Napoleon forsooth! The |
streets we're surging mass of men, women |
and children. Every store on Chestnut |
street and the press buildings were drapod
with flags, and the whole line of march was
made brilliant and weirdly beautiful witt!
the calcium, electric and colored lights. A
grand dinner, served to 100 people, crowned |
the magnificent reception. Soon after all |
were seated the champion banner was pre- /
scnted to the victors and with it, the con
gratulation5 of the city. Even the Mayor,
who rarely, if ever, fails to retire at s
O'Clock, remained at mis- Office until after 10
in order to watt his blessing to the Athlet-
les as they passed in procession.
The Athletics and the Philadelphias
played on Wednesday and again the Athlet-
les won. The game seemed a drag ell the way
a congregation of COCO
spectators was not enough to enthuse them, |
Four of the champion players received
handsome presents from their particular
friends.
dent occurred. 1t was collision between
q steam train on the Pennsylvania railroad
and horse car of the Ninth street line.
There was no conductor on the horse car
and just Us the driver neared the crossing
he conceived the idea of looking after the
fare OF one passenger and gave the rein5 TO
a boy. There were no bars to keen pedes-
TRANS and vehicles off the crossing at the
approach of trains; the switchman, it seems,
y, and the boy drove the ill-fated car on
the track just III time for al express to 60
crashing through it, just back Of the mid
lie. There were sixteen people aboard;
five were killed and the rest injured severe
y. One mans boot, with his foot in it.
was picked up ten feet from his body; an
other mans legs were found in one place.
his head and arms some distance off, and
one woman was mangIed beyond recogni-
tion. Think Of those poor working people,
with their baskets Of dinner and materials
for work. seated in the car, peacefully
looking forward to return home after the
duties of the day, and i'll the twin1ling of
IN eye, as it were, sent into eternity OF into
the very depths of physical agony. Talk
about damages. That is not punishment
enough for such gross carelessness.
FRAGMENTS.
Straw hats must goi