| Show REQUIESCAT PACE Last Sad Rites Oyer the Remains of the late Wm H Pitts On Monday a large gathering of the relatives and friends of the late Wm H Pitts assembled at his lute residence to offer the lust sad tribute of respect to his mortal clay The services opened by the singing Nearer my God to Thee by a quartette composed of Mrs McIntosh Miss Louie Wells arid Messrs McIntosh and Crawford i Mr H E Giles organist Bishop Watson of the Nineteenth Ward was the first to address the assembly as-sembly He said that in the year 1863 he formed the acquaintance of Wm H Pitts and that ever since they had entertained the warmest friendship for cach other He spoke in high terms of the character of the deceased and tendered words of genuine comfort and sympathy to his sorrowinc widow and family Dr Benedict then addressed the company briefly His acquaintance with the departed one had extended over about fifteen years and during that time he had never heard one word derogatory to his character He was one of the few men who were always the same day after day always charitable charit-able and kind and considering more the comfort wellbeing of his fellowmen fellow-men at large than his own Ihe quartette then sang Careless hymn Resttor the battles oer Mr AY S Godbe was the next speaker He delivered a most eloquent address in the course of which he said he did not mourn because his brother had left this sphere of action for his life had been as near as possible a perfect one He further discoursed on the many excellent qualities of the deceased and only hoped that his own life might be such that he would have an opportunity op-portunity of again meeting him in the great beyond Mr Gqdbes remarks re-marks were delivered inG his usual eloqdent manner and clothed with the mostbeautiful imagery and appropriate quotations Mr James Watson of the Sixth Ward made the closing address He fully endorsed all the sentiments uttered by the previous speakers and cited several of the > many kind acts which had characterized the life of the deceased 4 Bishop Tuttle brought tho ceremonies to a close with prayer and after the kindred and friends had taken a last fond look on the beloved features of the dead the remains were conveyed to their last restbl place in Mount Olivet cemetery there to await the great day when all shall see as they arc seen and know as they are known The postmortem examination of the remains conducted by Drs Benedict Fowler Potter and Oppen revealed the following There was a small pneumonia pneu-monia of the middle lobe of the right lung but no heart trouble was found The stomach and intestines were unusually un-usually thin and the biliary disturbance disturb-ance was very great as evinced by the staining of the intestines The stomach sto-mach along what is known as the greater curvature for about the size of a mans hand was intensely inflamed and congestedshowing active inflammation inflamma-tion this condition extended along the greater curvature and throughout the tti stti first ten inches of the small intestine The liver was found to be onethird larger than it should be caused by fatty degeneration The immediate cause of death was acute inflammation of the lining membrane of the stomach and intestines or what is known as acute gastro duodenitis causing persistent vomiting which prevented his retaining any food or medicine and exhausted him |
