Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-11-17
BURIAL OF SING pu.

of Perfect Purity inside the walls Of the
twenty. eighth Buddistic heaven. If the
hackmen scooped in little silver over the
Second.street Odd Fellow, wide-mouthed
cornucopia of dollars was overturned above
the pockets of the jehus when the Fourth-street
Lodge rode to the cemetery. If Lung Vets
pork and rooster found favor in the eyes of
| the spiritual host who now encompass his
soul, the incense that assembled from Sing
Du's desth-banquet was snutfed by the
mightiest diety in the lofty Chinese celsi-
tude. If Master Charley All Sing, day be.
fore yesterday, had an opportunity to display
his tact in organizing and managing, Grand
Marshal All Van yesterday exhibited ring.
master powers such as are only calculated
| to come in play when worlds are to be en-
| gineered through their intricate orbits.
The funeral of Sing Du, the young China
man who was killed in the I-street revolver
exercise Sunday evening, took place from the
hall of the Lun Wing Tong Society, on
Fourth street. The ceremonies were similar
to those held over the dead Lung Yet on
Thursday, only grander in dimensions, richer
in arrangements and gloomier In funeral
pomp. The two hogs were fatter, the chick
ems more spring-y, and the pyramids of
| dOughnuts reached a greater altitude. An
addition to the former bill Of fare was large
blly-goat, which possibly was desd-mass
offering to the soul-repose of deceased from
Billy Ho Lung in gratitude for his release
from under the 81, 900 bonds heaped upon
him in consequence of charge of assault to
murder. This was an unlooked-for appear
ance to the large assemblsge of spectators, as
this animal is not generally used as a symbol
of that lofty purity gained by the soul on its
entrance within the veil. However, the
goat was there on the burial. board, butch
Oh Ho1 in q Loot n
lard. The body of the animal was not d.
vided, but lay whole on the bier, its head
surmounted by huge horns, secured in
natural, upright position. Amid
the load of sacriioial eatables were
bowls, cups of tea and chop-sticks for ten
persons-probsbly the deifed ancestors of the
deceased, personages who always receive the
first worship of Chinaman. At the head Of
this death-lunch lay the remains of the pis-
toled Sing Du, in beautiful metallic casket,
with rich silver ornaments, that shone
brightly in the sun. Two glass plates were
set in the iron lid, through which the body,
folded in its red shroud, could be
seen. The priest, Sin Shong, stood
by the bier and chanted the requiem service,
with gong accompaniment, the responses b.
ing made by clarionet. that screeched like
the cries OF lost high. binder in hades. Sew
eral women armed themselves with large
napkins, and walled over the corpse during
the intervals in which the Rev. Sin Shong
stopped for breath Two relatives of the
deceased, dressed in white, with bands of
same around their brows, walked TO the foot
of the coffin, and slipping off their shoes,
Frustrated themselves on the ground. Their
grief was tame and stacy in comparison to
the bowls OF the mourners OF Thursday;
probably while bowling beneath their over
whelming sorrow they were quietly taking
in the grandeur of Sing Du's send off,
and mentally concluding that his transit to
the tomb was so intaitely finer in detail than
the average "Melican mans " march thither,
that he was more to be envied than mourned;
that while be was reposing like Mandarin
in his cot of polished metal and silver, they
were lying outside slsvishly on the ground for
few dimes consequently their loss Cd the
outside was his internal gain.
The street in front of the Lodge-room
was crowded with carriages and people,
the former drawn there for the occu-
psncy of the fraternsl brotherhood, who
were to follow the hearse to the cemetery, and
the latter for the purpose of seeing the novel
performance of a half Oriental, half Occi-
dental funeral About 2 P. NJ the coffin was
placed IN a beautiful hearse. drawn by two
white horses, the other properties. including
a live duck, were loaded into the different
vehicles, the pall-besrers took their positions.
and the procession started. Two gong bands |
had been engaged. and placed in wagons next |
to the hearse, and their plain:ive strains |
soothed the murdered mans spirit on his |
march to the grave, no doubt. A duck is tie |
most sacred bird in the Chinamsn's |
celestial avisry. and its presence in
his religious ceremonies never fails to |
draw down the approval of the gods, |
but this heaven-blessed fowl nearly lost them |
the favor of the great spirits by trying to /!
escape from the express wagon in which it |
hsd been deposited However, the driver, a ]
good-natured Irishmsn, apostatizsd from his |
mother-faith for a moment, and assisted in |
the heathenish rites by snatching the duck |
back into the wagon. The long procession, |
moved slowly from Fourth street into J, |
down J to Second, to I, passed the rival |
Ledge, up to Sixth, thence to j, to Tenth, to |
l, and out to Helvetia Cemetery. At the |
cemetery the casket was taken from |
the hearse and placed on a stretcher |
in the China burial Enclosure, and |
the closing ceremonies gone through with. |
A fire was built ia a small brick furnace, and |
the sacred joss paper was burned for the re- !
pose Of the soul. A roll of mating was |
placed on the ground, and the Lodge breth- |
renkuelt in turn, with faces toward the spirit |
victuals. The rites having ended, the re- |
mains were again placed in the hesrse, and |
all hurried back to the city. The remains |
will be embalmed, and Sing Du, with his
brother in misfortune, will go rolling home in
the next steamer. Far off in some little hole |
on the grassy banks of the Yangtse his bones
will be resolved to earth again, and his soul will
be attending en- everlasting tea-party amid
the fadeless bloom of the Flowery Kingdom. |
After hfe's ftful racket Lung Yet and Sing
Du sleep we'll; no highbinders, no rival
10 8 80,
sters, can touch them further.