The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-01-19
BUTLER'S REMAINS
Viewed Tor the Last Time--A Crowd Of A,
mircrs Aim ost Transformed Into ~ Mob

Viewed Tor the Last Time-A Crowd Of Ad.
mircrs Almost Transformed Into - Mob.
LOWELL, Mass, Jan l6 AT Gen.
Buffers late residence on Belvidere hill
Sunday morning private funeral serv-
ices were held. Rev. DIR. St john
Chambre, of St Anne's Episcopal
church, read the office for the dead.
The body was in the drawing-room.
The stars and stripes were not on tho
coffin during the private funeral serv-
ices. President Harrison's wreath and
4 couple of ferns and lilies were Laid
upon the ccffin. There was no su1ogy
and no address BY the clergyman.
After the short service, closing with
the Lords Prayer. those present looked
upon the general for the last time.
A detachment of comrades of Post 10.
q. A. r., reached the house directly
after the private funeral exercises.
Their standards were draped, and the
banner of tho post. bearing a portrait
of the dead commander, was also ia
mourning Col. Dimon, who has charge
Of the arrangement Cor the funeral,
was in command.
Comrades bore tho body from the
house to the hesrse, drawn By four
horsea A wild wind was blowing f,,eu
the river over the hill. The vetera M
suffered, bat not man sought shelter.
As the body was carried from the por-
tails OF the house tho drums Of tho band
rrmbled, the oolors were dipped and
the company saluted.
Whes the march to the hall was taken
mp arms were reversed and the officers
fell to the rear of the detachment. The
streets were crowded as the band sig
nailed by dirges the passage of the gen.
erals body from the house to Hunting
ton hall. where the body was to lie in
state. A great crowd was waiting to
be admitted to the hall. In the hall tho
coffin was placed in the center of the
floor. From the ceiling to the floor =
wall OF black extended. The dim light
did not extend to this wall of black and
the effect was dismal and gruesome
Grand Army men guarded the casket.
On the coffin rested the sword and epu-
lettes that were worn from Lowell to the
Gulf and back again. Behind the cata-
falque rested bank Of flowers that had
come from President Harrison. from
the convicts of the state prison, and
from all classes of people between those
extremes. President Harrison's wreath
was placed ia this coffin in Washington.
Senators Dawes, Chandler, and Hale,
Gov. Russell, Hon. Frederick Douglass,
militia companies and societies and
friends in Lowell, Boston. New York,
Washington, Chicago and other places
sent pieces that took up one side of the
hall.
When the crowd was admitted to tho
hall they almost carried the doors oif
their hinges They struggled upstairs
andsbowled over the police, who tried
to restrain them. Shouts and cries
awoke the echoes of the hall where tho
dead man lay. Huntington hall, when
ever Gen. Butler appeared there in life,
saw turbulent scenes, but those of Sum
day surpassed anything every seen be-
fore at the. old hall. Down in the
streets thousands pressed forward when
they saw the doors open. All the
afternoon steady stream of people
poured in, but the crowds did not di-
minish. The exit was on Shattucls
street, and stream of people poured
through that door. No impression
could be made in the mass that clam
ored for admission ON the other side Of
the hall