Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-11
THE DAVIS OBSEQUIES.
Last Day Of the Bedy's Ly.
ing in State.
MAGNIFICENT FLORAL EMBLEMs.
Seventy Thousand People View the
Remains-The Funeral Pag-
cant today.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HHEALD.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HEEALD.
NEW ORLEANS, December 10.-Owipg
the fact that it was virtually the last
day upon which Mr.. Davis remains
could be viewed, people crowded to the
City Hall. The march by the bier Was
rapid and orderly, and full seventy
Thousand people trod the corridors of the
hall during tho day. General EARLY,
Governor Lubbock. OF Texas; Bishop
Wilmer, of Alabama; General Young,
ex.Minister OF Russia; Ex-Governor
Mumford of Virginia, and George Jones,
of Iowa, were among the distinguished
visitors. School children, not only
decorated the schools but came to show
their respects to the dead. The city is
decorated on grander scale than ever
bsfore in it's history. The funeral to-
morrow will virtually pass through solid
walls OF black, for there is scarcely a
house on the route that is not draped.
Pictures and paintings of the deceased
are everywhere displayed. The Ameri-
can flag is at half mast over the City
Hall and other prominent buildings. A
few Confederate flags are shown. One is
across the coffin. Among the magnifi-
cent floral offerings is ten.foot cross
with wreath Of smilax and camelias, in
the center of which nestles dove hold
ing streamers of ribbon, upon which
appears the inscription '"The Sympathy
and Love Of the Confederate Association
of Missouri" The base is of wheat and
ferns, upon which two doves seem to
have alighted and caught the ends of
the streamers. This is one offering of
many.
There will be seven Governors of
Southern States here tomorrow, besides
Ex-Governor McEnery, of this State, and
others. Business will be entirely eng
pended and almost every society in the
city will turn out. Dispatches from all
parts indicate that memorial services
will be held in almost every city, town
and village in Mississippi and Louisiana,
and very generally throughout the
South.
The funeral will be the largest ever
seen in the South. Every benevolent
organization in the city, military schools,
athletic clubs, commercial bodies, ship
masters, fire department aud clergy will
be largely represented. The route will
be four miles long. The funeral cers-
monies will be conducted in front OF the
City Hall by Bishops Galleher, OF Louis
lana, and Wilmer, Of Alabama, and five
clergymen of various denominations. At
the grave the ceremonies will be con-
dncted by Bishops Galleher and Hugh
Miller Thompson, Of Mississippi. Minute
guns will be fred all day, and at the
grave there will be guns and bugle calls,
as becomes military funeral. Visiting
military organizations will come from
Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and the
country parishes of Louisiana.
Sr. LOUIS, December 10.--The Cotton
Exchange of this city has decided to
close tomorrow, on account of the funeral
of Jefferson Davis. Resolutions of eulogy
and sympathy have been adopted by the
members of the exchange, in who
Davis is referred to as man tried in
many high offices and found faithful in
all tested in many critical junctures and
proved true to his country and his peo-
pie; statesman of the very highest
order; man of the purest character,
tenacious of principles, the slave of con-
science and duty.
DENVER, December 10.--An ex CoHfed-
crate soldiers meeting was held here
today for the purpose of taking action
deemed appropriate to the death of JEFF
ferson Davis. Resolutions OF coincidence
were adopted, which were wired to Mrs.
Davis at New Orleans.
RICHMOND, Va, December 10.--The
Legislature today passed joint resolu.
ton requesting Mrs. Jefferson Davis to
allow the remains of her husband to be
inferred in this city.