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Show DEATH OK A CELESTIAL FUSE- II A L NOTES THE YAM KWuL 1 AT WOUK. On yc.-lcrd:iy the iuueral ol" lit. Hon. W'oo.j iling Sqd, --presideut ol' the Ning Yung company, acd one ol' the nblc.-t and best financiers of the Chinese merchants iu our city, took place. Wong lling died on Sunday, a thing not much to be woudered at, if we regard at all the method of treatment treat-ment which hi.i Celestial physicians employed. Their treatment of his case was to blow in his ears, turn his eyelids wrong side ou'., and POKE A KTllAW UP HIS NOSK.' I'tvjui vaium-i f-ymptoms observed in the course ol'thoao investigations, they concluded that he was poa.ses.ied of Ian Kwel (evil spirit'), and accordingly muat be exorcised. Tins exorcism eon.-i.sts in b:;a:ing the bed of llie sick man, iu filling the rooru with tho din of tam-tain :tud gciig.i and making 'merry confusion generally. The patient pa-tient must curse and swear during all these proceedings, and do his best to add to the uoiseaud frithteu oil' the dc-lesubla dc-lesubla . - VAN KWEL. Theu a priest comes and holds lengthy converse with the Ju-sieu or spirits of the dead a cosily operation), and prays for an hour. If all these fail, they get all the near friends -of llie invalid to come into the room aud how!. This generally is the la-t resort. It was in the ease of poor Wong, who died dux-iog dux-iog it. Then the able M. D. 's thought that they must have been mistaken, and beau to wrangle among themselves them-selves as to which was the wrong man. Yesterday they had the funeral with all tho CKLEsTIAL HOUR Oil. The procession was as follows: First came a sort of marshal mounted and robed in mourning costume, and then an open wagon with tom-toms and other instruments, making o justle din to drive oil" evil spirits, and scattering Joss papers fur the same reason. Behind Be-hind this came the hearse, a very elegant ele-gant affair with plumes, alongside of which were twelve pall bearers, robed in white. Behind the hearse walked twenty of our richest merchants robed in white, and supporting the two chief mourners, who seemed to be BOWED DOWS WITH OKIEP. Three carriages followed (his, filled with female mourners, whose bawling was dismal in -the extreme. These were entirely enveloped in a sort of shroud of muslin. After them came six carriages filled with high digui-taries, digui-taries, who wore fur dresses, but had a white badge on the left breast. Then came citizens (Chinese) in carriages, forming a long and curious procession. The funeral passed dmvn Commercial street to KearDy, along Kearny to Sacramento to JJupont, thence to Bush street and out to lioue Mountain, where the remains were interred in a vault until they can be taken to China, The body was inclosed in an elegant rosewood collin, craped with embroidered embroid-ered silk. During the procession nearly all the Chinese stores were closed and all evinced the greatest interest. Poor Wongl may he rest in peace! & F. Chronicle. |