Show AN INSTANCE OF BIGOTRY NEWS has reached us of an incident that lately occurred in shelby county ala which is striking on the one hand for the element of pathos and on the other for the ingredient gred lent of bigotry A member of a family of latter day saints sainta a little girl was wa taken ill it soon became evident that her end was near she was a child of heavenly disposition and devoutly religious with her remaining breath she sang sweety sweetly the hymn on page of the book lord we come before thee now at thy feet we do not thou our conr suit disdain shall we seek thee lord in vain she sang all but the last verse in rehearsing which her lips lipa moved but no sound escaped them and at its conclusion the spirit took its flight from the earthly tenement in due time the remains of the girl were conveyed to the cemetery where the family and a few friends gathered around the grave the parents requested that the hymn that had been sung by their child immediately before her decease should be rendered by those present in accordance with this request the singing was begun but was brought to a premature and abrupt termination by an unlooked unlocked for interruption on the part of mr who was in charge of the grounds he ordered the singers to desist they at once complied he informed them that the body could be interred there but he would not permit any services to be held subsequently he even changed his mind regarding the permission for burial forbidding it to take place the mourners were then compelled to convey the remains to another graveyard where there in charge services were held and the interment attended to this boji to the sad affair shows that there are cemetery keepers in shelby County Alabama who are not steeped in bigotry we do not believe that in taking the course he did mr represented the sentiment of the people in that part of the country we believe that there is too much of the spirit of southern chivalry in the body of the people to admit of a suspicion that they would even approve such a heartless and narrow minded proceeding whatever censure belongs to the circumstance is attachable only to the man whose intolerant spirit cropped out so conspicuously on an occasion when kindly disposed people sought to pour the balm of consolation into the hearts of the afflicted |