Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-05-22
JEFF. DAVIS'S REMAINS
TIKI: CEREMONIES AT THE
STATE CAPITAL.
The BODY VIII Arrive There On
the SOsh, and the Occasion Will
Have Nothing Spectacular
About It-Exercises at the Calsi
toll.

About tIt-ExerChses at the Cals1
to1.
RALEIGH, N. c., May 2O.-Popular in
tcrcst in the ceremonies attendant upon
the arrival and reception of the remains
of Hon. Jefferson Davis and the lying in
state at the capitol is very great, and
the people, without regard to politics,
or race, will render all the honors posi-
bic. The purpose has been to make the
occasion most solemn and to have no
spectacular features. No military save
the local troops will be here. Even the
marshals will be on foot, and the four
| black horses which will draw the fun
in the procession. The Union passenger
station, where the funeral train will
stop, is but short distance from the
capitol. and as the station building is
spacious it may be used as the place
where the remains lie in state in case the
weather is very inclement.
If the weather be favorable the rem aims
on arrival at IL a.. m. at the station
| will be received by Veteran guard, and
by the Governors Guard, Company c,
First North Carolina Infantry, and be
escorted to the capitol, and there lie In
state in the rotunda until p. M, under
double guard of honor, They will be
| received at the station by Mayor
Thomas Badger and at the southern
entrance to the Capitol Square by Gov
ernor Elias Carr.
The procession will be composed as
follows: Platoon of police headed by
Chief Charles d. Heartt; Governors
car draw by four horses, driven by
James H. Jones, formerly Mr.. Davis's
coachman; veteran escort and general
escort in eight divisions. each i'll charge
of a veteran; first division, President
and Executive committee of the Confcd-
crate Veterans association of North
Caroiina-Dr. + Burke, Haywood, direc-
tor; second division, cx-Confedcrate
soldicrs-N. w. West and w. c. Stro-
/ mach, directors; third division. visiting
escort-Joshua B. Hill and George IL.
Snow, directors, North Carolina escort
which accompanies the body during
it's journey through North Carolina and
to Richmond). Bailey +. Williamson;
the various departments of the State
observation-disclosures Justice Walter
Clark, director; sixth division. Mayor
Badger, city officials. and citizens gen
erally-John M. Heck and George w.
Sandcrlin, directors; seventh division,
Ladies' Memorial observation-disclosures
M. Busbee and Fabius ]. Haywood,
directors; eighth division, composed of
the colleges and schools under the innle-
date charge of their principals, st.
Marg's and Peace Institute, State Agri-
cultural college. the Centennial and
Murphey City public Schools the X Ra1eigh
Male academy-John b. Burwell. and
Claude B. Dedson. directors.
The marshals are Thomas S. kennan
(chieO, Peter E. Hines, Robert H.
Brooks, v. E. Turner, w. II. Hughes,
Richard H. Battle, NJ. W. Page. Rufus
S. Tucker, Thomas p. Devereux, Alcxan-
der B. Stronach, ]. ]. Thomas.
The exterior of the stately Capitol
building will be draped with the red and
white of the Confederate colors, and
these will also be used in the rotunda,
under whose lofty dome the bier will be
placed. The bier will be draped in black
and white and will be quite lofty. The
exercises at the capitol will be brief and
as follows: Singing by the choir of
sixty voices. William S. Primrose, direc-
tor; Prayer by Rev. DR.. Matthias M.
Marshall, rector of Christ church, Raj
eigh, benediction. At o'clock the pro-
cession will, in the same order, escort the
remains to the station.
The outside decorations of the Capital
on the 3Oth will be red and white, the
Confederate colors, and the same will be
used in the interior decorations This is
in accordance with a suggestion made
by Colonel E. d. Hall, commander of the
veterans. The decorations of the bier on
which the casket containing MIR. Davis s
| remains will rest will be black and white.
I-Richmond Dispatch.