Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-04-14

Large Attendance Upon the Obsequies al
Dover on SATURDAY.

Special Correspondence OF Hazetteand journal |
DOVER, April 1.-THE funeral of Chan
cellor Salisbury took place at Christ |
Church cemetery, Dover. Saturday after |
noon. The services were conducted BY the |
Right Rev Bishop Coleman of the Diocese |
of Delaware, assisted by the Rev. Lewis L. |
Gibson, rector of Christ Church, and by
the Rev. b. j. Douglass former rector of
st. Paups Episcopal Church, Georgetown.
The services were according to the
funeral rites of the Episcopal Church. The
remains were enclosed in plain, cloth
covered, metallic casket. On the lid Of the
casket was silver plate inscribed with the
name and age of the deceased;
WILLARD SALISBURY,
Died, April 6, 1899.
Aged II years, 10 months, days.
The only floral offering was handsome
bunch Of palms and roses placed on the
casket.
The remains were followed from the de-
ceased's late home to the cemetery by a
large procession of his personal friends
and acquaintance. The honorary pail
Sewell G. Biggs, Attorney-genera John +.
Nicholson, Ex-Governor Benjamin 7.
Biggs, J. Alexander Fulton, C. II. b. Day,
Edward Ridgely, Samuel Wharton.
Besides those present from New Castle
county, including Hon. Thomas +. Bayard,
United States Senators Gray and Higgins,
Judge L. t. Wales, Hon. Charles b. Lore,
Ex-Governor James Ponder and others
already mentioned in EVERY EVENING, the
following attended from Sussex: Joseph
L. Cahall Thomas B. Giles, Edwin II.
PayiIter, Philip G. Penuel, Everett Hicll-
man, Charles W. Whitley, Jr., Charles w.
Melee, Alfred p. Robinson, Charles +.
Richards, j. Francis Bacon, w. 4. Layton,
Isaac n. Fooks Edward Hearn, Robert G.
~ n
Lemuel NAPLES. Paynter Frame. Speaker
Sirman. Auditor Dulaney, Secretary Of
State Marvel, Congressman John w.
Caiisey, w. T. Parvis, W. Fred. Causey,
William s. Stevens, John Ponder and
others.
Kent county was represented by dele
CATION of leading citizens, including State
Treasurer Burnite, Senators Williams and
| Richardson, ex-senator Lavender. Repre-
| sentatives ]. IL. Jones, Perry, Richards
| p. NJ. Ridgely and nearly all of the county
| delegation in the last General Assembly.
| The citizens of Dover turned out in large
| numbers, and in all respects the funeral
was one of the most generally attended
and impressive ever known in this State.
SERMON BY BISHOP COLEMAN.
| In Christ p. L. Church. yesterday morn
| ing, Bishop Coleman preached sermon,
| in the course of which he made the fol-
THAT is the truest sort OF obedience
which comes through suffering, through
Self.denial, through self-surrender
II think may fairly illustrate my
meaning further by a reference to the dis.
tinguished jurist-your own honored
townsman-whom we buried yesterday in
this revcred churchyard. He certainly
suffered. 1t was his conquest over sell
which more than anything else won tbs
respect and admiration of those who knew
him.
He had splendid natural endowments
and was q man of no ordinary acquire
ments. But he had that which is bette
than genius, better than learning-namcly
the grace from God whereby he may b,
enabled to devote his talents and his gains
without stint and without mercenary con
siderations, to the service of his fellows.
while possessed of strong political con
victions, he could not be honestly accuse,
of following. them to purposes of meal
ambition. He recognized the high an,
! honorable trust committed to him as on
that gave him an opportunity of benefit
ing others in their righteous cause. S
despite his physical intirmities-one ma
say. all the moresbecause of the disclpln
: which these intirmities imposed upon hir
he gave himself to Others with an intel
: rity and perseverance all too rare in thes
: days Of selfish aims and schemes.
e Delaware may well point with just
s fable pride to its list of worthy and illlis
e trious men who have filled the post c
Q chancellor, and in that list | venture {
: predict that the name of Willard Saul
bury will stand out not the least prom
f nently as illustrative of devoted energ,
! well-used talents and surrendered life
' obedience to those higher maxims an
purer motives which ever in busy an
voluptuous age still have, thank God,
: place and power invincible and imperisl
I able.i