New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-08-22
sHRRIDAS's FUNERAL.
= Compliance With his Request tho Last Rites
We're Unostentatious.

= Compliance With his Request the Last Bites
j We're transformations.
The funeral of Gen. Sheridan took Mace at
Washington. Thesentry had paced up and
down In front of the .catafalque and the
dImly lighted church allnight; the guard of
honor OF the Loyal Legion had been sitting
I'M the front pew at his side. When the light
of the early morning drove the dark shadows
Der drapery that hung in festoons
about the church the frequenters of
early mass came, and with them q great
number of working people to take one look
at the easketfor thelast time Twice only
mad the easket been opened-once to permit
the brother John, who had Just arrived from
the plains, to see the remains for the first
and last time; again to permit Mrs. Sheridan
to have one more look at the soldiers face.
and then all withdrew
After early mass thechurch was closed Ior
time and when it was reopened those pro-
Nlded with tickets began to arrive.
i The invitations had requested that those
who held the cards should be in their seats a
little before 10, and the suggestion of the
military officers was "a command None dis
regarded it except the president and Mrs.
Cleveland and Secretary Baynard They
came ne alter the family had entered. The
civilians for the most part were
dressed in black, and the army
and navy officers were in full uniform.
Inc congregation, OF persons of mixed re-
1lg1ous belief, ornone, was not very familiar
with the ceremonial of tn. Catholic high mass
And some reared in Calvinistic faith made
4 poor work of it when they undertook to par
i ticipate. The incense burning, the Jingle of
pelis, The genutieetlons, the clapping of the
1 master OF ceremonies, the intonations of the
/ dominican priests were the features of a re-
l1glous ceremony which were new to many
1 who were present, and the religious attitu DIES
/ which some of them attempted were not
characterized by military precision. A few
minutes before 10 o'clock, as the m11ffied
| voices OF the officers in command of the
troops forming outside could be heard
through the open windows, the altar boys
ilghted the high candles about the altar, and
/ the low strains of funeral music from the or
/ gan mingled with the chanting of the priests.
/ a procession of sanctuary boys issued from
the sacristy, the clergy entered in solemn
/ procession, a chorus of Dominican priests be-
gan the information of the s;Miserere'' and the
Wailing notes of the dirge music broke forth
from the organs as the cardinal in his red
robe OF office knelt before the altar and as
cended the cardinals throne The mass
ended and the cardinal delivered an address.
Alter the sermon, the ceremony of absolu-
| ton was begun. The cardinal was arrayed
by his assistants in black cap decorated
with gold. On his head was tall white hat.
Thus, preceded by the altar boys and the
clergy, he left the place at the altar and pro-
/ ceeded to the casket of the dead. The car
dlnal knelt, the choir of Dominicans chanted
] sLlbera me Domino, !" the cardinal rose and
sprinkled the casket with holy water and in
/ censed 1T with burning incense and pronounced
the absolution. The cardinal re-
turned to his throne, the Dominicans
chanted 'sBenedictus,n the priests, as they
finished their parts, silently disappeared into
! the sacristy, and the high requiem mass was
/ at an end. While the services were in progress
the caisson was placed in a position to re-
ceiye the casket, and the generals horse was
led to place Immediately behind The
morse , e, is q dark bay, and was bought by gen
| eral Sheridan in Chicag, about four years
ago. It was bridled and saddled just as when
last ridden by the general. The generals
| military boots were in the stirrups with the
toes pointing backwards. The animal was
led by tall sergeant in full uniform
In accordance with the wishes of Mrs.
| Sheridan the funeral was strictly military
| affair, and the escort was formed precisely
4 as prescribed by the army regulations for an
ohcer OF the rank OF the deceased. just be-
1 lore the close OF the services Gen. Schofeld
| and his aides arranged themselves in front of
the troops and prepared to receive the funeral
party The clanking of sabers and
geants coming up the aisle succeed
ed the final notes of the ssBene-
/ dictus,' and the strong arms of the sergeants
| bore the casket to the caisson at the door.
Then the long hot march to Arlington COM
menced. Gen. Schofeld, mounted up
on o splendid horse, gave the word of
command. That word was echoed down the
line. The bugle sounded and the procession
moved: Two score of mounted police
reached Arlington half an hour before the
| procession, and proceeded at once to clear the
space about the grave. Not only was
sitting room cleared for the family
ana Official mourners, but sew
eral acres were vacated, so that the hundreds
/ OF worthy citiz ems were unable to get even a
glimpse OF the ceremony of the interment
This was needless, and could serve no other
purpose than to permit some one clothed in
brief authority to exercise his power. A
young staff officer gave the order. 1t ex-
4 GUIDED from the line a man who had made
many campaigns with Sheridan, and another
who recounted from behind the sacred
boundary experiences he had had in the bat
Ties OF his country years before the gilded
/ young lieutenant was born. The earth had
been removed twenty feet from the grave
and placed under an adjacent tulip tree, and
the sWard SO carefully cleaned that there were
was IN fact a soldiers grave. It was simply
an excavation in the earth. There was no
brlckWork and no cementing or sheathing-
nothing to keep the earth or water from clos
4 ing IN about the casket. The man in charge
said that that was Sheridan's wish. He de-
sired to be buried as soldier A more APP
proprlate spot could not have been selected
| for the grave of the general of the army.
| Fhllp Sheridan living was always at the
head of his army; Phil Sheridan dead also at
the head of his army, but it is a vast silent
army-l6, AGO strong. Their graves lie be-
hlnd him, marked by long lines of white head
stones; line after line column after column;
ike regiments and brigades at rest. In this
enclosure there are LOO acres, and room, 1T
is estimated, for 100000 graves, and every
soldier OF the army or old soldier of the war
who desires, has the right Of sepulture there.
A Carnival OF Crime.
The city of Shenandoah, Iowa, has been in
an upro az Of excitement On Friday night
Frank Phillips a drayman, who had as
sauited the six-year-old daughter of E. J..
Pine, prominent merchant, was taken from
the Jail by q mob OF masked men, who bat
tered the door down. The prisoner struggled
desperately, but his clothes were soon