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     QUEBEC, Sept. r2. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ The remains of Rufus McDonald left by yesterday’s afternoon train for 
     
     Charlottetown. The coffin containing the body was wrapped in a Union 
     
     Jack and borne to the steamer on a gun carriage drawn by six horses, pre- 
     
     ceded by a firing party of “B " battery and band with draped instruments. 
     
     The rank and file of “ B" battery and a group of officers followed the 
     
     remains. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “Arriving at Charlottetown, before eight o’clock, throngs of people 
     
     had assembled at the station to meet the body of the late Corporal 
     
     Rufus McDonald. At 8.15 the station house was packed, and the streets 
     
     around were one mass of human beings. Immediately on the arrival of the 
     
     train, the coffin was conveyed to the hearse. which was in waiting, and in 
     
     a few minutes it moved off followed by the immediate mourners—the 
     
     late Corporal’s comrades at Quebec—and a very long rocession of citizens. 
     
     The body was taken at once to the deceased's late rest ence on Kent Street. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ Who ever heard unmoved the solemn wail of the Dead March in Saul i 
     
     For hours, and even days after, does it not ring in one's ears, as though 
     
     the wail and sob of anguished hearts were mingled in that grand funeral 
     
     symphony ; and so among the crowds of eople who had assembled 
     
     Sunday afternoon to witness the obsequies o Corporal McDonald, while 
     
     comparatively few had known the deceased or could mourn for his sad end. 
     
     every heart must have been touched by those strains of saddest music, and 
     
     all must have realized anew 
     
    
   
   
    
     That their hearts tho' stout and brave, 
     
     Still like muffled drums were beating 
     
     Funeral marches to the grave. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ The funeral Procession shortly after two o'clock, started in the following 
     
     order: 
     
     Military Band 
     
     Firing party in cha e of Sergt. R. Matheson. 
     
     Corpse on gun carriage drawn y members of No. 1 Battery, G. A. 
     
     Chief Mourners. 
     
     Military Escort, composed of No. 2 Battery, G. A., Charlottetown Engineers 
     
     and 82nd Battalion, under command of Lt.-Col. Dogherty. 
     
     Citizens Band. 
     
     Fire Brigade. 
     
     Veteran comrades, former members of No. 1 Battery. G. A., who were 
     
     under the command of Majors Pollard and Morris. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Citizens. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ The service at the ve was conducted by Rev. James Carr-others, of 
     
     the Church of Scotlan . Then three volleys from the firing party bid an 
     
     everlasting farewell. " 
     
    
   
   
    
     A beautiful marble monument marks the resting place of the 
     
     honored dead, on which is inscribed the motto : 
     
     ahrquz 
     
     Qua fas ct maria Durant. 
     
     so