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Anti-cremation

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
March
Year
1878
Copyright
Public Domain
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The excitement in this city over the extraordinary prooeedings attendiBg the cremation oí Mrs. Pitman is still unabated. Ainong the good people of Washington, Mr. Pitman is regarded as a stoic of the most remorseless kind, one who is deaf to all human sympathies. and unmoved by human affection. The details of the funeral in Cincinnati nre certainly not calculated to diminish this feeling. Among the poems read was one containing the lines: Let no stern priest with soleinn drone His formal liturgy intone, "Whose creed is foreign to my own ! Let no stale words of ohurch-born song Fioat out npon the sileut air, To prove by implication wrong The soul of her then lying there I Why should such word be glibly sung O'er one upon "whose lively tongue Such empty phrases never hung ? Among tlie orthodox residents of Washington such languagé is regarded as little better than blasphemous. Mr. Pitman's eulogy on Ms wife, that she never could have accomplished what she lid had she been a woman who wore corscts or high-heeleü ehoes, together " " HKiá4- - ■ Sj ier personal habits, is also oondemned j as an exhibition of unseemly levity. The Doctor and his furnace are hourly jrowing in disfavor, and threats of blowng up the "Le Moyne bone-roasting establishment," asit iscalled, are widely

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus