The Russellville Democrat., 1889-02-07
REST IN THE GRAVE.
All That Was Mortal of John M. Clayton Laid to Rest Forever.
Funeral Services at Pine Bluff-A Large Outpouring of sympathizing Clti- ns-Resolations of Re-
 gret Prepared.

clear and salubrious. Nature seemed to ! give the sorrowing ones all the comfort
 that weather could afford. The city was
 more sorrowful and subdued, if possible,
 than on any day since the news was
 dashed over the wires that John NJ. Clay
 ton was killed. The streets in the
 morning were dotted here and
 there by uniformed Masons. Citi-
 zens had, to great extent
 suspended business, and every man seemed
 to feel that this was an occasion that
 brought sorrow not only to every tireside l in the State of Arkansas, but was an af- l fiction 10 the South and to the entire
 country. No one knew when and where
 the consequences of the rash deed would
 cease, and this intensified the grief felt | for the dead.
 From the evidence of friendship and
 affection displayed John NJ. Clayton did not have personal enemy. Men who
 had fought him hardest on inc stump and at the polls were bitterest in their l denunciation of the assassin. "Iincoln's assassination was not as 1 cowardly as this," sad one, "for Booth
 did expose himself to Lincoln's friends, if l they had had presence of mind, while Clay
 toms assassins sneaked off in the dark" 1 The desire for just vengeance has not
 yet subsided, though its impotence to render relief to the stricken family is rs- | alized.
 | LYING IN STATE AT THE CHURCH. | Yesterday afternoon about eight o'clock preparations were made to receive the | body, and at four o'clock, escorted by l Damascus Commandery, No. s, the re-
 mains were brought from the house and ! placed in the church. The casket is a | massive metallic one, heavily mounted with silver and silver handles. One wreath | of immortelles was laid on the casket | by some loving hand. The body was l placed to the south of the pulpit between I the two doors on the south side. Four Knights Templar took their positions by the remains, and the doors were opened and a stream of visitors poured in one | south door past the remains and out the
 other. The crowd kept passing in and out
 without cessation until late in the even- l ing. ThIs was repeated this morning and kept up until noon to-day. During this tune thousands had gazed for the last time on the loved features of him whom all Pine Bluff was now anxious to honor. At one o'clock the stores of the entire city were closed. Not one kept open. If | it were not for the crowded streets, the uniformed Tempiars, and the hurrying to | and fro of carriages, horsemen and pe-
 destrians, it might have been Sunday.
 The bells of the city now began their solemn tolling, tolling to the world that the curtain was about to drop on the ter
 rife contest made in the Second Congress sional district of Arkansas.
 About two o'clock the Knights Templar formed iu Court square. The command | cries represented were: Hugh De Payen,
 No 1, of Little Rock; Bertrand dc Gues- | chin, No. }, of Camden; Jacques de Nolay,
 No. g. of Fort Smith; C9ur de Leon, No. ,, of Hot Springs; Palestine, No. 6, of | Russelville; Damascus, No. 5, of Pine l Bluff, and the Grand Commandery of the 1 State. Besides these, the Lincoln Club of
 Little Rock, fifty eight strong, came down | on the noon train, on which arrived Hon. | Powell Clayton.
 l A line of march was formed 10 the l church by these two bodies, the Knights of Honor and the Royal Arcanum also
 assembling and marching thereto and the
 Jacob Brump and Pine Bluff lodges of l Masons.
 SERVICES AT THE CHURCH. | When the church was reached dense
 crowd had gathered, tanning the streets
 and both sides of the church, it being on | the corner of Broadway and Sixth avenue, | for half a block each way. The | brothers and orphans of the dead
 man were first admitted, and remained | alone with the dead for short time,
 aft 1T which the Masons, the civic societies
 and the public were admitted and the l funeral servlces, conducted by Rev. | Horace Jewell, were commenced. Most | impressive were the services, and the music and singing by the choir were grand After the conclusion of the fu- neral services the police cleared away the l crowd and a line of march formed. The | following was the order in which the procession was formed on Broadway: Mounted Police.
 Music
 Damascus Commandery, No. No. 8, K. T., and Visiting Sir Knights Grand Commandery of Arkansas, K. T. Pine Bluff Ledge, No. 69, F. and A. NJ, and Wis iting Brethren.
 Hearse and Pail Bearers. The Family.
 Civic officers and Societies Ct zens on Foot.
 Citizens Mounted and in Vehicles. The pail bearers were selected from the Knights Templars and the representative | citizens. sixteen in number. Hons. Pow
 ell and w. II. II. Clayton and children of | the decoased occupied the nearest car riage to the hearse, and after these came the Masons, the Knights of Honor, Royal | Arfanum, the fire department, etc, and | then those who walked to do honor, and
 then carriages, buggies and equestrians, l making cortege mile long. | All along the line of march crowds had gathered on the sidewalk and as the hearse passed, heads were uncovered and bowed reverently. Bellwood Cemetery is
 nearly two miles from the church. When
 It was reached large crowd had already gathered. It is estimated that nearly | 4.00O people were at the burial. As the Clayton vault was reached the body was
 removed from the hearse, few for the last time on the feat
 ures of John Nj. Clayton, which were
 peaceful and lifelike, the wounds being
 rather back of the neck, and hidden by
 the pillow on which his head rested. The
 Masonic burial services were then read
 according to the Knights Templars' ritual,
 the prelate reading and the Sir Knights
 responding.
 At the conclusion of these ceremonies
 the body was consigned to the Clayton
 tomb amid the sobs and tears of the as-
 semblage and the hysterical grief of the
 orphan children. Judge W. II. H. Clay
 ton controlled h's feelings very well, but
 not as well as General Powell Clayton.
 who seemed as rigid as marble. The red
 eye-lids and the dark circles under his
 eyes, with an occasional nervous twitch-
 ing of the muscles of his month, alone
 told of the grief he bore. At length the last person filed out ot the cemetery, the
 sexton locked the gates and John M Clay ton was alone,
 RESOLUTIONS PREPARED. The following resolutions were adopted as report of the committee appointed by the citizens mass meeting held here on Wednesday and will be presented and adopted at a mass-meeting to be held N