The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-05
PRESENTATIONS DEATH

nuary 4, lSQ0, at Kingston, N. r., gives columns heavily bordered in black an count of washington's death and fu- ral, extracts of which we give:
 Congress,
 House of Representatives,
 Thursday, Dec. 29, 1799. Mr. Gocde of Virginia was qualified and ok his seat in the House. Mir. Mar nall, with deer sorrow on his counte- nce and in a low, pathetic tone of oice, rose and addressed the House as flows;
 ''The melancholy event which was yes krday announced without doubt has been endered but too certain. Our Washing on is no more, The hero, the sage and le patriot of America, the man of whom times of danger every eye was turned nd all hopes were placed, lives now only
 his own great actions, and in the carts of an afflicted people, Then fol- bws a long narrative of Washington s fe and resolutions were offered, and MT. larshall and Mir. Smith were appointed wait on the new President and pre- ent to him these resolutions and the ondolences of the House. The speaker d6ressed the President in the follow lg words: ''Sir-The House of Represen- atives, penetrated with a sense of the rreparable loss sustained by the nation, y the death of that great and good man, he illIstrious and beloved Washington, wait On you, sir. to express their con- olence on this melancholy and distress ng event"
 TO which the President made the fol- owing answer:
 "Gentlemen of the House of Represen- atlves-I receive with great respect and ffet tion the condolence of the House i If Representatives on the melancholy and nlicting event in the death of the most lustrious and beloved parsonage which his country ever produced.
 T sympathize with you, with the na- ion and with good men throughout the world, in this irreparable loss sustained y us all JOHN ADANIS.'' A message was received from the Sem te informing the House that they had greed to the appointment of a. joint con- ,ittee to consider suitable manner of laying honor to the memory of the man rst in war, first in peace and first in he hearts of his country and that they lad appointed seven memb CTS to join g. ommittee for that purpose. Adjourned pill Monday.
 The Senate also waited on the Presi-
 
 residents reply was couched in terms f affection. admiration and sorrow.
 WASHINGTON ENTOMBED
 Georgetown, Dec. 20, 1799. On Wednesday last the mortal part Of Na shington the great, the father Of his ountry, and the friend of man, was con- igned to the tomb with solemn honors nd funeral pomp.
 A multitude of persons assembled from M.,,, s11- at ,nf a hoice abode and last residence of the H. klstrious chief There were the groves, he spacious avenues, the beautiful and ublime scenes; the noble mansion: but las! the august inhabitant was now no Rnore. That great soul had gone. His nortal part was there indeed, but ah! low affecting how awful the spectacle If such worth and greatness-this to nor al eyes fallen; yes, fallen! fallen! In the long and lofty portico, where oft he hero walked in all his glory, now lay he shrouded corpse. The countenance |tilI composed and serene, seemed to ex- press the dignity of the spirit which late v dwelt in that lifeless form There those Fho paid the last sad honors to the bene- actor of his country took an impressive a fal ewell-view.
 On the ornament at the head of the offin was inscribed Surge ad Judiciunl,', bout the middle of the coffin, Gloria bec,' and on the silver plate:
 General
 George Washington beparted This Life on the fifth December
 1799 Act. 6S.''
 Between and 4 o'clock the sound of rtillery from a vessel in the river firing minute guns awol1e afresh our solemn orrow-the corpse was removed, band ith music, with mournfus melody, melt |d the soul into all the tenderness of zoe.
 The procession. was formed and moved h the following order:
 Colonels Sims, Ramsay and Payne, pall- carers.
 CorIse
 Coienels GiIpin. Marsteller and Little, allbearers.
 MOurnerS.
 Masonic brethren.
 Citizens.
 When the procession had arrived at the bottom of the elevated lawn, on the anlx of the Potomac, where the family ault is placed the cavalry halted. the Infantry marchad toward the mount and prmed their lines; the clergy, the Ma onic brothers and the citizens descended the vault, and the funeral service of he church was performed. The firing as repeated from the vessel in the river Ind the sounds echoed from the woods
 
 Three general discharges by the infan- bry. the cavalry and II pieces of artillery hich lined the banks of the Potomac lack of the vault. paid the last tribute to he entombed coDlmander-in-chief of the rmies of the United States and to the eparted hero. The sun was now setting. Alas, the son If glory was set forever No, the name f. Washington, the American President md general. will triumph over death! The pclcuded brightness of his glory will H. nmniate the future ages! MARTHA WASHINGTON'S WILL Guarded as jealously as the crown ewels of England, the original last will md testament of Martha Washington, fife of George Washington, is back once lore in the vaults of the historic Fairfax eunty courthouse at Fairfax, Va. Taken by the Union soldiers from the ourthouse during the civil war, the will as been an object of search by the peo- le of Fairfax county for more than 50! ears. Discovery of the relic among the ffects of the late ]. Pierpont Morgan, wo years ago, led to a controversy be- ween the state of Virginia and J. F. |Tcrgan, Jr who refused to surrender it. Not until two weeks ago, October, 19l5 hen the contention was about to be fred before the supreme court Of the nited States. did the New York finan- fer capitulate.
 With the coming of the victory to the eople of Virginia, and particularly of fairfax has come for the first time the ecret of the wills disappearance. For lasted on the fiyleaf of the handsome older. wtich the elder Morgan had used D protect the will. was found the fol- e;c cta hxv oy,