Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1882 — The Garfield Funeral Flowers. [ARTICLE]

The Garfield Funeral Flowers.

It is generally known that the magnificent floral tributes which were presented by Queen Victoria, the Emperor of Brazil and others on the occasion of President Garfield’s funeral are in Chicago, bnt it is nht so well known that they are stored away in the office of a justice of the peace. The flowers were brought from Cleveland toChiago to be embalmed and to be copied in wax. This work was undertaken Mrs. Annie Lucas, who Vas to get her leturn by exhibiting the flowers and by selling photographs of them. The exhibition was made very brief, objections to their display being strongly urged hy the Garfield mouumaut committee and others. The consequence was that Mrs. Lucis had not suffieent money at hand to carry on the work, and was compelled to borrow. A Mrs. Anuie L. Childs advanced aboui S6OO. The work of making duplicates in wax was going on rapidly when Mrs. Childs came to the conclusion that the flowers should belong to her, and she, therefore, on April 14, secured from Justice Robinson a writ of replevin for them, placing their value at S2OO. A constable took the flowers to Justice Robinson’s office, where they still remain. On Monday next a receiver for the flowers will be prayed for before Judge Gardner.—[New York World. If yon are a frequenter or ft resident of a miasmatic district. barricade your system against the soouge of all new countries —ague, bilious and intermittent serer the use of Hop Bitters. LtDTNGTON, Miob., Feb. 2, 1880. I have sold Hop Bitters for four years ftnd there is' no medicine that surpasses them fsr bilious attao&s, kidney complaints and many diseases incident to this malarial climate. H. T. ALEXANDEB. Some young men, pqpils of M. Caban el, in the School of Fine Arts at Paris, dressed up in the stupio a catafalque with a lay figure representing the body of the eminent artist Lehmann’ lately deceased. Around this they performed a parody and the funeral service, and then sallie forth in the street. A student with his face painted white to represent a dead man was stretched upon a coffin. A procession was formed, which marched to s neighboring wine shop, singing mock litanies and scattering holy water. M. Jules Ferry has ordered M. Cabanel’s school to be closed till the guilty parties confess or are found out. Susie Green might have had her pick fronnamong the young men of Lexington, Ky., for she was handsome and rich: but she preferred a gambler of the flashiest kind. He was known to her for a month as a stock broker, and «t the end of that brief ( courtship she married him. They stopped at Louisville hotel on their bridal tour. He brought her a lemon ade in her room, and she founp it bitter. He hap put an opiate in it. When she was unconscious he stole her purse and $2,600 worth of diamonds, and deserted uer. Lieutenant Bchwatka, who became noted a year or more ago on account of his Arctic journey in search of the