Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1878 — Baron De Palm’s Ashes. [ARTICLE]

Baron De Palm’s Ashes.

After the body of the late Baron de Palm had been cremated in Dr. Le Moyne’s furnace at Washington, Pa., the ashes were carefully gathered up by Hierophant Oleott, placed reverently in a small porphyry vase, embellished with Hindoo mythological designs, and brought to the Lamasery of the Theosophs, at Eighth avenue and Fortyseventh street, in this city. There they have since remained, under the care of the Hierophant and Mme. Blavatsky, corresponding secretary of the society. The cremation of the body is but one of the steps in disposing of the dead, according to the usages of the society.

The final rite among the Hindoos is, with great and mysterious ceremonies, to cast the ashes in the Ganges, and it has been the intention of the officers of the American branch of the Arya Sarnaj to perform this last service to the memory of their late associate. It has been found impracticable, however, if even it is necessary, to convey the ashes to India, and the contents of the urn now at the Lamasery will, instead, be cast into the broad bosom of the Atl an tic. — New York Sun.