Show IJN j t WESTMINSTER ABBEY I A Beautiful Programme of Exercises and a Sermon on Grant I by Canon Farrar j Unny Lives Lost and Mueli Proper I i Destroyed liy Yesterdays Cyclone I The Cattlemens Protest To Be Considered I Con-sidered by the Cabinet The Booming of Guns at McGregor I MOON McGuEflor August 40n the I mountain brow by the easteriijopjiout a gun J boomed snlltJnly at oclock this morning The shock of the vibrations was yet on the I heavy air when a second report shook the I earth and startled the birds in the trees I The artillerymen had begun firing thirteen I guns to mark the sunrise of GENEKAL GRANTS IAST DAY UPON THE MOUNTAIN MOUN-TAIN I In quick succession and at short intervals I guns were fed The rain had stopped but the mist still concealed the valley The soldiers received orders to break camp and I in less than twenty minutes all tents had I disappeared from among the trees and were I packed away in boxes for shipment Notwithstanding Not-withstanding the heavy and continuous rain of the night the soldiers slept well and were I comfortable Down on the mountain side at G oclock the bugles were sounding reveille and as the strains floated over the mountain they were swallowed up in the booming of guns that will he fired every half hour throughout the day andI I AT SUNSET WILL CLOSE WIn THIHTYEIOHT I VOLLEYS I I The mountain train at G oclock had begun bringing up the people The funeral car to carry the remains from the mountain to I Saratoga came up early and lay waiting Last night the family had taken their final j farewell of the remains of the deal General I and today they gave up his body to the nation At 9 1 oclock the family except Mrs Grant repaired to the hotel for breakfast break-fast and on their return Co1 Grant and his wife with Mrs Sartoris paused upon the ridge at the rear of the cottage and among the pines to scan j THE BRIGHT PICTUEE Or MOUNTAIN AND VALLEY I And then the family entered the cottage and 1 preparations began for the funeral journey T At half past 8 oclock the doors of the cottage cot-tage were thrown open A stream of visitors I poured in steadily for over an hour About Si oclock the head of a long line of buggies I wagons omnibuses and various kinds of vehicles appeared climbing up the steep incline I in-cline area near the eastern outlook and soon the IN THE VICINITY OF THE COTTAGE II Was thronged with horses and wagons and I I I farmers with their wives and families At j 530 a train of two cars brought General I I I Hancock and n number of distinguished visitors The two companies of regulars companes reglarR i were drawn up to receive them They I I proceeded from the station to the cottage in the following order General Hancock and Colonel Jones Admiral Rowan and General Sherman Senator Evarts and General Rufus I Ingalls Senator Miller James W Drexel I I and General Hancocks staff At 10 oclock I services were held at the cottage in presence I of over it thousand persons Cane chairs and nr tic seats were provided for the ladies under 11 L 1 e trees in the grove I The ceremonies ned with the opened reading I of psalm No 90 which was followed by an I impressive prayer bv Eev Bishop Harris The hymn My Faith Looks Up To I Thee was joined in by the whole assembly I present with fine effect Dr Newman then delivered a sermon the family sitting in the meantime about the remains in the parlor I Dr Newman spoke very feelingly in his address which consumed hour and a hal I in its delivery He took as his l text the twentyfirst verse of the 25th chapter of i Matthew I Well done thou good and faithful servant I ser-vant enter thou into the joy of thy Lord Such my brethren said the speaker is I the eulogy that God shall pronounce upon I human goodness and fidelity wherever found among the sons of men He said some I comradeinarms would speak of the splendor of the martial genius of the dead a statesman I states-man would take a review of the majesty of his civil administration historians would I Elace him on pedestal of his renown butt but-t me said the speaker as a minister of I religion dwell upon that great character I which will ever be I HIS CROWN OP GLORY AND IMTEBI6IIABLE HERITAGE HER-ITAGE Of the country he loved so well The minister min-ister dwelt upon the honors which have been bestowed upon him and the homage which was done h memory and declared that the secret of his power on the thought of the world and the love of mankind was his loftiness of character grandeur of intellect and the fact that he was none other than himsel He was one of the few men in history his-tory who exceeded expectation by doing what all others had failed to do HE HAD NO HATRED IN hIS HEART j His holy evangel to the nation was Let us I have peace In his dying chamber he I grasped the hand of him whose sword was the first he had won and as illustrative of I this broad spirit sorrow was national today I in its broadest sense Duty to his conscience I his country and his God was his standard of I I successful manhood He was the humblest of men and the lover of the most lowly j HIS LOVE Or WIFE CHILDREN AND HOME Was supreme Speaking of the deep and tender affection he bore his wife the speaker I I I said i And such was the tenderness of his j love and solicitude for her and hers he surprised I I sur-prised by a letter found after his death that I he had written it secretly and carried the I I sacred missive day after day during the fourteen I four-teen dtiystkiiowing she would hud i at I I last He quoted from the letter as follows I f LOOK AFEB OUR DEAR CHILDREN I And direct them in the paths of rectitude j I It would distress me far more to think that I one of them would depart from an honorable I honor-able upright and virtuous life than it would I to know they were prostrated on a bed of I sickness from which they were never to arise I i alive They have never given us any cause for alarm on their account and I earnestly I pray they never will With these few injunctions and the knowledge I have of I i junctions your I love mid affection I BID YOU A FINAL FAREWELL Until we meet in another and I trust a better bet-ter world You will find this on my person word pexon after my demise This was dated Mount I McGregor July 9th 188o I Dr Newman said the principles of Christianity i Chris-tianity were deeply engrafted upon the spirit I i of General Grant On the 18th of April last he had said 1 believe in the Holy Scriptures j I Scrip-tures and who so lives by them will be bene i fitted Menniay differ as to their interpretation interpre-tation but the Scriptures are mans best I i guide He held broad religious views and believed in the kinship of all mankind I i The closing portion of the address was devoted I i closig prion I voted to a description of the last hours of I I the Generals life His calm fortitude unwavering I I wavering patience and clear brain knowing i I that the end was near and praying for its i I coming I corI1i1 conclusion of the discourse the i I hymn Nearer my God to Thee was rendered I I rend-ered impressively by the congregation The I services ended with a benediction After the I I services ended there was a movement of the I I people towards the cottage to get I I I A FINAL LOOK AT THE CORPSE 1 But it was not deemed advisable to admit one in view of the fact that it was near any anyone I tune for the funeral train to start General Sherman General Hancock and Senator Sheran Evans l Gneral balcony together Mrs I Grant f concluded not to go with the funeral train but to wait over until 4 clock I when she and other ladies of the family will V leave for Saratoga and from there go direct to NewYork U S Grant Post S27 of Brooklyn bore the i remains from the cottage to the station shortlyibefore 1 oclock The military were r drawn up and A SALUTE WAS 1AID THE BEMAINS j As they passed to the depot and the throng 1 stood with uncovered heads while the casket caRet j was home to the car The mountain train i waited at the little rustic depot seven cars I were thereand next to the engine the funeral I car with open sides and solid massive drapery was placed The transfer from the I cottage to the train was completed without I difficulty jmd the train started for Saratoga SAHATOGO August 4The funeral train arrived here at 115 p ni and left for Albany |