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t CEMETERY NOTES i 
At a recent special election held at Utica, Mi-s.. for the pur- 
pose of levying a three-fourths mill tax for cemetery purposes 
the proposition was carried in favor of the tax by a vote of 3 to 
1. “The world do move.' 1 
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Judge Stewart, November 29, confiimed the finding of the 
auditor in the estate of Annie McGovran, Chambersburg, Pa., 
by which finding $5,000 is set aside for the erection of a monr. 
ment in Cedar Grove cemetery, $300 for the trustees of the 
Cemetery Association to keep the burial plot in order and other 
minor sums, the total making $637 7 The finding was approved 
by the Supreme Court. 
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Gold Bible Hill, the mound where Joseph Smith, the 
founder of the Mormon faith, claims to have dug up, under ce- 
lestial direction, the golden plates on which were inscribed the 
Mormon Bible, is situated on the farm of Admiral Sampson, 
near Palmyra, N. Y. The Mormons tried to buy the mound in 
1893 to erect upon it a memorial chapel, but the Admiral re. 
fused to sell. 
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Another item showing the trend’of public opinion is the 
following from the Signal, of Crowley, La. : “There is over $200 
in hand to be applied to the purchase of lumber to build an in- 
closure around the cemeteries south of town. The greater part 
of this sum has been raised through the efforts of the ladies, who 
now want the men to act and go on without any delay to raise 
the balance of the money necessary to put a neat fence around 
‘Gods Acre,’ the sacred resting place of our beloved dead.” 
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Those interested in the Wequetequock cemetery in the town 
of Stonington, Conn., are making an effort to restore the an- 
cient burying ground. This cemetery has buried in it ancestois 
of some of the noted men of the state and country, including 
some of those of General Grant, of Governor Miner of Connecti- 
cut and of many well-known judges. About $700 has been 
raised to put up a monument to ancestors and to beautify and 
preserve the grounds. 
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A curious interest attaches itself to the following dispatch 
from Houston, Tex. “Thomas Tinsley, a New York million- 
aire, who has been for two years in jail for contempt of Court in 
not producing the books of the Glenwood Cemetery Company, 
and whose incarceration has been affirmed by the Supreme Court 
of the United States, has made another effort to secure his re- 
lease on the ground, that the books were not in his possession. 
The Judge ordered him back to jail, where he will probably 
spend the rest of his life. It is a case without a parallel in the 
State.” 
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The burial ground adjoining the old church in London, 
where John Whittled preached, and wherein John Wesley later 
preached his funeral sermon, has an interesting history, and con- 
tains the bones of some 30,000 people, including those of Mrs. 
Whitfield and the Rev. Augustus Toplady, author of the beauti- 
ful hymn, “Rock of Ages.” When Whitfield approached the 
bishop of London to consecrate the ground as a burial place, the 
latter refused, whereupon the indomitable Whitfield hauled sev- 
eral cartloads of consecrated earth from cemeteries in the 
neighborhood and sprinkled it over the surface, as an act of 
baptism, and said it was sufficient. 
Tue employs "f the Lake Erie & Western R. R., have 
raised a fund fir the pm chase of a tract of ground for a ceme- 
tery to be used for the interment of dead railroaders whose bod- 
ies are not clainu d by fi ends. Ground was purchased adjoin- 
ing the city cemetery at Tipton, O.. which place is the junction 
of the two mun branches of the road. F unds have also been 
raised to defray other funeral expenses. All trainmen who meet 
death by accident on this road will be buried by the employes 
in all cases where the corpses are not claimed by relatives. This 
is an innovation in railway circles, says the Sandusky 'Journal, 
and other roads are likely to take similar action. 
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Under the active presidency of Dr. H. Wohlgemuth, the 
perpetual care idea is making rapid headway among the lot- 
owners of Oak Ridge cemetery, Springfield, III., and sevetal 
bequests to the fund were reported at the recent meeting of the 
board. In the president’s, message to the board he took a de- 
cidedly encouraging view of the progress made in this direction. 
In relation to the subject he said: “Cemetery memorials that 
are more enduring than the mere sarcophagus, shaft or colossal 
tombs that mark the place of repose of the dead, noticed by 
passers-by, are in the thought emphasized by the gifts being made 
by persons to cemeteries here and there over the country that 
shall perpetuate and preserve for all time to come the sanctity 
of the grounds so set apart and dedicated to what is to be the 
final resting place for all.” 
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The annual report of the Oakland Cemetery Association, 
St. Paul, Minn, shows total receipts, including collections on 
securities falling due, and including balance from last report, 
$2,940.28, amounting to $38,500.97, and expenditures $38,101 95 
leaving a balance to carry forward of I405.61. Among the re- 
ceipts are the following: Sales of lots $6,645, single graves 
$1,221 00, interment fees $1,749.00, tomb fees $416.50, miscel- 
laneous labor and foundations $1,149.50; greenhouse sales, 
$3,987.00. Among expenditures are: Pay rolls, $12,341.68; ma- 
terials for foundations, $6,565; greenhouse, $536 77; fuel, $466.80; 
general expenses $1,42995; greenhouse construction $495.34. 
The item for greenhouse construction represents only about one- 
fourth of work now practically finished. There have been built 
4 new' houses 11 by 80 feet, with new boiler 4.8 inches by 12 feet • 
The principal of the Perpetual Care fund and interest increased 
during the year $3 422.80, making a total of $95,972 99. 
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On the subject of embalming a note in a leading daily paper 
says: The conservation of the human corpse appears to have 
been brought to a pitch of perfection in Italy which Egyptian 
professors of the art never in their most ambitious moments 
could have dreamed of. There is, to begin with, nothing leath- 
ery about the appearance of the subject when dealt with by an 
artist like Dr. Elfisio Mamniof Naples. And he does not incise, 
neither does he inject. He simply submits his subject to a ser- 
ies of baths in a liquid, the composition of which is such as ef- 
fectually to prevent the decomposition to the end of time. For 
anatomical purposes, the body may be made to regain all its 
primary lreshness. Let the treatment be carried to a further 
stage and the subject attains the density, as well as the consist- 
ency, of marble. A final process will restore to this deathless 
marble the softness, the flexibility and even the complexion it 
possessed when alive. 
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Improvements of a very permanent character arc being con- 
structed in Forest Park cemetery, Troy, N. Y., the new ceme- 
tery on which work was begun in Oi tuber 1897. The roadways, 
paths and drainage are being very carefully constructed, and all 
the necessary equipment has been provided to secure best re- 
