Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-10-06
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n Description of the Invent as Seen by
Dean Stanley.

Description or the Event as seen py
Dean Stanley.
The following account by Dean
Stanley of the coronation of Queen
Victoria is taken from recently
published life of the eminent &C.
clesiastic:
At 1880 another gun announced
that she was at the abbey door. and
in about a quarter of an hour the
procession appeared from under the
organ, advancing up the purple APP
proach to the chancel everyone
leaning Overland in they came.
First the great dukes, struggling
with their enormous trains; then
bishops, etc, and then the queen.
with her vast crimson train. out
spread by eight ladies all in white,
followed by the great ladies OF the
court in enormous crimson trains
and the smaller ladies with delicate
sky-blue trains trailing along the
dark floor When she came within
the full view Of the gorgeous abbey
she paused, as if for breath, and
clasped her hands The orchestra
broke out into the most tremendous
crash Of music | ever heard. Al
was glad when they said unto me,
Let us go into the house Of the
Lord.
Everyone literally gasped for
breath from the intense interest and
the rails of the gallery visibly
trembling in ones hand from the
trem bling of the spectators. never
saw anything like it; tears would
have been a relief; one felt that the
queen must sink into the earth under
the tremendous awe. But at last
she moved on to her place BY the al.
tar, and las l heard from my cousins.
who had place close by) threw
herself on her knees. buried her
face in her hands, and evidently
prayed ferrently. For the first part
the silence was SO great that ut my
extreme point | could hear quito
distinctly the tremulous but articu.
late voice OF the archbishop; after.
ward it was quite inaudible.
The great drawbacks were the
feeble responses to the service and
the teebleness OF the acclamations-
| hardly any at all at tine recognition
and only tolerable at the coronation.
That was the crisis Of the ceremony
and the most striking part The
very moment the crown touched her
head the guns went of. the trumpets
began, and the shouts. She was per.
\ fectly immovable. like a statue
The duchess OF Kent burst into tears
and her lady had to put on her cor.
onet for her The amounting was
very beautiful from the cloth Of
/ gold: the homage, also. from the
magnificent cluster In the very cen
ter.
It was a take-off. though q
necessary one. suppose that
throughout her face was turned
away from the spectators toward
the altar. All the movements were
beautiful She was always accom-.
panied by her eight ladies. floating
about her like a stlvery cloud Il vas
over at 3:30-i. e. she went ott then
with her crown, her orb, aHd her
scepter. | walked home. The rest
had to wait till eight o'clock for
their carriage, which was forced
back by the length Of the line 10
Remington common. The crowd in
the street to see the return process
sion was stupendous. 1t was all
moro ike dream than reality
more beautiful than / could have
conceived possible. | should almost
wish never to see her again, that as
this was the first image had ever
had Of her so it should be the last.