Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-01-28
LAID TO REST.
Funeral of Rutherford B. Hayes
Nineteenth President.
Thousands Attend the Obsequies at Fre-
mont, O.--A Vast Military and Civic
COrtege in Line--All tho Great
Government Offices Represented


Government Offices Represented
FREMONT, o., Jan. 2l.-By Friday
morning every preparation had been
completed for the funeral Of Ex-Presi-
dent Hayes, and nothing had been left
undone to care for the large crowd OF
visitors that came on every train.
Presdent-elect Grover Cleveland ar
rived at . o'clock Friday morning in u
special car on the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern road. He Is the
guest Of Col II. S. Buckland.
Fou. members of the cabinet, Secre-
tary Foster, Secretary Rusk, Secretary
Noble and Postmaster General Wana-
maker and many other distinguished
pr csonages also arrived. Capt Howell
and Commanders Dickinson and Hous-
ton represent their department at the
funeral.
Gov. Mckinley and the state legls-
lature arrived at noon, as did also
troop of cavalry, ten companies of the
Sixteenth regiment and company of
artillery.
At 9o'clock a. m. the Hayes mansion
was thrown open and the body lay in
state until noon. Hundreds viewed the
remains.
The elegant plain cedar casket in
black cloth rested in the center OF the
room, with no decoration but three
palm branches tied with purple ribbon
at the foot, the gift Of Mr.. and Mrs
David Y. Norton, Of Cleveland.
On his breast rested the beautiful
| decoration of commander-in-chief of the
Loyal Legion, and on the left lapel of
the dress coat the decoration of the
Army of West Virginia. Across the
wide window seat in the south end of
the room stretched large American
| flag held in place by punches of white
and yellow roses and wreaths of many
colored heliotropes exhaling their per-
fume on the freezing air.
The wide windows of the mansion at
Spiegel grove, through which the Janu-
ary sunshine was streaming, were filled
with most distinguished company
when the farewell services of the dead
president began at 2 O'Clock In the
south parlor and the large bed-chamDer
in the rear of it, long occupied by Gen.
Hayes, were President-elect Grover
Cleveland, members of President Harri-
sons cabinet, representatives. of the
| United States senate and house, and
the officers of the army and navy sent
to represent their departments.
| Across the wide hall in the north par
lor, and the library to the rear of it,
were Gov Mckinney and his staff, the
members of the Ohio general assembly
and other representative bodies and
| friends In the far north end of the
room many stood, the throng of distin-
guished men being too great to permit
of the seatng of all. In the front hall
was the double quartet under the lead
ership of Prof. Alfred Arthur of the
! ci~s&.u'Hs Conservatory OF Music.
member of Gen. Hayes old regi-
ment, which, with Mrs. L. II. Dorr
of this city, sang the hymns chosen by
, the family with tenderness and feeling.
Rev. j. L. Albritton, of the NJ, T..
church of Fremont, standing between
the doors of the parlors in the expansive
hall read the Esd Psalm after hymn
and was followed in prayer by Presi-
dent j. W. Bashford, D. D., who
some forty-five years ago united in
marriage Lucy Webb and Rutherford
Birchard Hayes, in Chillicothe, o. An.
other hymn the Lords prayer repeated
impressively and the simple, solemn
services at the house were over The
bodybearers lifted the remains, bore
them from the hushed mansion, amid
sobs and tears, and the long procession
wound out through the native forest of
Spiegel grove, which the illustrious
dead had nourishcd with such care,
| down Birchard avenue and out Buck.
land to 0akwood cemetery where, after
the brief and simple ritual of the Grand
Army of the Republic, all that was
mortal OF rutherford b. Hayes, nine.
teenth president of the United States,
was committed to the tomb, to rest be.
side the ashes of the beloved wife gone
before.
The order of the funeral procession
was: Honorary pall-bearers, Hon. Chas.
Foster, Gov, William Mckinley, Hon.
]. l.. NJ. Curry, ex-minister to Spain
Senator Calvin S. Brice Maj. E. c.
Dawes, Gen Wagner Swayne, Gen. NJ,
F. Force and Hon. William Z. Haynes,
members Of the family, ex-Presiden,
Cleveland, Hon. William Henry Smith,
members of the cabinet, Att'y-Gcn. W.
II. Ii. Miller Secretary Stephen b. Ell
kins, Postmaster General John Wana.
maker and Secretaries Noble and Rusll,
representatives of the United States
senate, representatives of the house,
representatives Of the officers of the
army, Col. Henry G. Corbin Gen.
j. c. Breckenridge, Gen. George d,
Ruggles, Gen. NJ. |. Ludington, Capt,
Tasker N. Bliss, Of Gen. Schofield's
staff; Representatives of the United
States navy, Capt. Howell, Command.
ers Diclins and Houston; representa-
tives of the several Communicates Of
the Loyal Legion, officers and ex-offi
GERS of the Regimental association Of
the Twenty.third o. V. l., officers and
ex-officcrs Of the G. A. R., of Ohio
and all the civil officers of the state in
the order of precedence, mayor and
common council of Fremont, mayor
and common council of Cleveland
mayor and common council of Toledo
mayor and common council of San
dusky.
One Way to stop Smuggling.
i SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21.-Hitherto the
importation Of opium into Hawaii has
been prohibited and rs much as $40 9