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Show Funeral. The funeral 6erv;c;s of the late major William Pitt, took place on Sunday morning at the 14th Ward assemb'y rooms, as announced, and were very largely attended, hundreds being unable to get inside the building. build-ing. The remains were escorted from his late residence by Capt. Croxall's brass band and Capt. Bcezley's martial mar-tial band, the surviving members of the Nauvoo brass band acting as pall bearers; and after the usual opening exercises, appropriate and consolatory addresses were delivered by Prest. D. H. Wells, Kldcrs Wilford Woodruff, and John Taylor, and Bishop Nathan Davis. At tho close of the obsequies the friends and relatives of deceased took a farewell look at his mortal remains, re-mains, which were followed to the grave by a large concourse of mourners mourn-ers and sympathetic friends. |