Los Angeles daily herald., 1885-12-02
AT THE TOMB.

Al THE IOmb.
INDIANAPOLIS, December |. = The
scenes at the grave were impressive.
There was no restraint upon admittance
to the cemetery, and several hundred
persons had gathered about the grave
before the funeral party arrived. The
body of the procession had disbanded on
passing beyond the city limits, and only
the military, with mounted escort, en-
tered the cemetery. The space about
the grave had only been defined by
placing a line of planks and ever
green twigs, which was quite sufficient
to protect it from intrusion. Just
before the head of the column came up
the crowd was pushed back still further
to give ample room to the friends who
were assigned to the side of the grave
from whence the column approached.
This order was cheerfully obeyed, when
Mrs. Hendricks, leaning upon the arm of
Mr.. Morgan, stepped upon the mating
placed beside the grave, and before the
casket was removed from the hearse she
paused to look down into the last rest.
ing place of her dead, only to see pie.
ture OF loveliness in it's lining of green
leaves and flowers. Then she
turned to the grave of her child,
which had been made glorious
with covering of smilax and flowers,
and read in letters white his baby name,
"Morgie, and on top of the grave on a
field of white in purple letters thezsen-
tence, "And three.fold cord shall not
be broken The tender love which she
discened in this treatment of her treas
ure by sympathetic friends seemed to
give her courage for the last ordeal. Her
glance then caught the monument with
its display of the national flag envelop.
ing life-life portrait of her husband
facing the grave, and she turned with
the bravery of heroism to witness the
last rites. There had been no rainfall,
but the sky was lowering, and Just as
the coffin was placed beside the grave
there was slight sprinkling of rain,
causing many to recall the old saying,
blessed are the dead whom
the rain falls on" Columbus Barracks
band at this point played the
American hymn and the reading of the
service followed. Mrs. Hendricks only
leaned more heavily upon Mr.. Morgan,
resting her head at last upon his shout
dch, but htf npti-cohtiot WaS oiafCD
maintained while the service was read.
The Congressional Committee, members
of the Cabinet and other distinguished
visitors stood upon either side of the
grave. The words OF the clergy.
men were now and then drowned
by the sound oil the minute gun
which kept firing until after the inter-
ment was over. When the coffin had
been lowered into the vault by four
colored assistants and the undertaken,
there was nothing remaining to be
done, for the placing of the stone and
filling the grave was to be attended to
by the cemetery force. There was few
moments of pause and the silence was un-
broken ouly by minute guns, when Mrs.
Hendricks and friends of the family
passed by the still open but not repellant
grave, and took their carriages. The
people who had waited so respectfully
then tiocked to the grave to get nearer
view. The military order forward.
march," started the soldiers homeward.
Carriages rapidly rolled away and the
distinguished dead was left alone.
essS AT WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, December LIN ac-
cordance with the Presidents order all
of the offices of the general govern
ment and of the district government
were closed to-day as a mark of respect
to the memory of the late Vice. Presi-
dent. The public schools and many
business houses were also closed and at