Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1895 — INCONSOLABLE GRIEF. [ARTICLE]

INCONSOLABLE GRIEF.

Three Hundred Negroee Mourn at the Funeral of the Late Senator. A Memphis, Tenn., special says: The funeral of Ex-United States Senator J. L. Alcorn at Eaglo Nest, Miss., presented, perhops, the most weird scene ever witnessed in this country. The obsequies were attend' ' by 303 negroes, the majority of whom wore the former slaves of the dead Senator. The negroes were inconsolable in their grief and gave vent to their feeling in shrieks, religious songs and prayers. At the grave the old grayhaired colored men threw themselves upon the coffin and finally had to be removed by force in order to allow the body to be buried.