The Durham daily globe., 1893-05-30

ate colors, Six pure white horses
with black trappings and black net
tings reaching to the ground will draw
the caisson; besides a driver to each
pair Of horses, a guide will march at
the head of each animal.
The caisson will pass the procession
in review and diverge from the line of
march when the military escort will
again take the lead to the place Of
burial
The line of march will pass the old
Confederate White House and St Paul's
Episcopal church where Mr.. Davis at
tended services, and both these build
ings will be dressed in mourning by the
Ladies Hollywood Memorial Associa-
tion. The ceremonies will be very i'm
pressive and will blend with those in
celebration of Confederate Memorial
Day which is always a great s0lemnic
display in Richmond
The ceremonies at the grave will be
conducted by the Venerable Rev
Charles Minnigerode, d. D., who was
pastor of St PauI's Church and |he
friend and spiritual adviser of the Con-
federate President while he lived in
Richmond.
Although now very feeble and so en-
riched in years that he cele brated his
golden wedding on the 18th ins stant he
will not be deferred from officiating on
this occasion. The ceremonies will be
of very simple character and except
an artillery salute will consist of a
prayer, a hymn and conclude with a
funeral ode.
The spot in Hollywood selected by
Mrs Davis for the repose of her hus-
hand and family is one of the most
beautiful in this famous city of the
dead, where besides many distinguished
men lie nearly 20 900 Confederate killed
The burial plot occupies a level plane
upon an abrupt slope in full view of
the James which dasheS over a bed of
immense boulders and gives wild and
picturesque setting to the quiet of this
rather secluded spot Rising to a
greater height behind is a well swarded
back ground. In the centre of this
| sub-plateau Mr. Davis will be buried.
The grave will be in a circular plot
| and will be briclled up. His children
will be buried around him.
With the settlement forever Of the
hOnOrs to be conferred upon the MEM
Dry of the Confederate President, the
Southern mind turns naturally to
the future of his family. This is a ques-
| tion which the friends Of Mr. Davis
would have settled in, a way that would
| have relieved them of all anxiety for
the future but for his steady refusal to
| accept any of the many offers Of aid
made to him. Mrs. Davis shared this
| feeling with her hus band. and these
delicate considerations make it impos-
sible to retrieve her fortunes as they
| would like to do
A suggestion made by the meeting of
| United Confederate Veterans in New
Orleans, in April last year, for the
Southern States each to award Mrs
Davis an annual pension was taken up
by several legislatures but the Ques-
ton of the constitutionality of such an
act by State was raised and the pro-
| ject abandoned rather than create an
| unpleasant public discuss ion of a deli
| cate subject.
Mrs Davis has made little out of her
| book and her income from the 'Brier-
| field and other plantation property is
| merely nominal Fortunately it is said
| that she derives an income of So 600 per
year from bonds which have in some
way been secured 10 her,
In this connection may be told an in
teresting story how Mr.. Davis prop
erty was saved from confscation. -
After the war the Freedman's Bureau
attempted to levy upon and confiscate
his magnificent plantation "Brierfeld, -
| and another one lower down the Mis-