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THJ S VIENNA PROGRES 18. ■) 2> TERMS, $1. Per Annum. “Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.” VOL. XI., NO 45. VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, .TUNE 6, 1893. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Anil the Bofly ol the Confederacy’s Chieftain Laid to Best IN HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY AT HISTORIC RICHMOND. i ladies of Natchez. It is a silk flag of I tion reached after daybreak, and de- mayor and city council, ministers and j the union; the red and -white stripes j gpite the early hour, 6 a. m’., quite a j prominent officials, the members of , now faded in a common yellow, and it | concourse assembled and gazed with i the Davis family and citizens gener- was borne at the head of the gallant ' the usual intense interest everywhere a ^y■ regiment through all the fierce battles I manifested at the funeral car. By this i When the procession reached the i that proved the fall of Mexico’s capi- , time the massive oak casket wa s ca P ito1 the casket was placed upon the i tol and the end of the Mexican war. j almost undiscernible under the A guard of honor, representing the ' mass of flowers heaped upon it and various camps of the city and state, surrounding it, and of every variety , . were placed around the casket and the of design, from the most elaborate and Hardly had the guard of honor stepped gmia, West Virginia, Alabama, Ten- END OP THE JOURNEY. The journey of the funeral car from New Orleans to Kichmond came to an end at 3 o’clook Wednesday morn ing. At that hour the train rolled into Richmond, and the historic old catafalque which had been erected for city was again in the hands of the con its reception, and which was covered federates. The veterans of Georgia, with a lavish profusion of flowers. South Ca*olina, North Carolina, Yir- gencral public were permitted to pass around the casket and pay their re spects to the dead. The body was naturally decomposed, but was in fair preservation and the face recognizable. Hie guards were relieved at intervals during the night and Sunday morn ing. Incidents of the Journey from New Orleans. LOVING TRIBUTE PAID THE OLD HERO BY A LOYAL PEOPLE. Impressive Ceremonies at Places Along the Route of the Funeral Train. With the dignified simplicity that was inseparable from his life, with none of the fuss of military or civic display, the remains of the ex-presi dent of the southern confederacy were removed Saturday afternoon from the vault in Metaire cemetery at New Or leans, where they have had a tempo- rarary resting place for three years and a half, to the hall where they were to lie in state until their transfer to the funeral train which was to bear them to the beautiful and quiet pre cincts of Hollywood cemetery, Rich mond, where so many of the stirring incidents of Mr. Davis’s eventful life had their being. The strangers in New Orleans may have felt that the city was lacking in the respect duo to the memory of him who was the leader of the cause for which it poured out so much of its precious blood more than a quarter of a century ago. The crowd who watch ed the little cortege with its grey at tendants moving slowly through the streets of the city were made up only of those who stopped in the walks or gathered on the sidewalks to watch it go by. THERE WAS NO DEMONSTRATION. There was no booming of cannons, no glistening bayonots in the parade, no brass buttons, save those of the handful of veterans that formed the escort from the grave to the hall—no dirgeful music—no display of any kind. But the absence of an imposing procession and moving multitude was the mute respect of a patriotic people, restrained from outward show by the Bimple request of the old soldiers who had the arrangements in charge. FROM THE ODD TO THE NEW CASKET. The transfer of the remains from the old to the new casket was made Satur day morning before the city was yet fully astir. Only a small and select gathering were present to witness the solemn ceremony. Comrades Smith, Thomas Higgins and L. A. Adams were present to represent the army of Northern Virginia, to whoseehnrge the remains were entrusted and who have guarded them ever since the "afternoon iqton which they were consigned to the grave. Mr. E. H. Farrar, who is related by marriage to Mr. Davis, was on hand to represent the family. Beyond these there were no others, save the sexton and the undertaker and his assistants. Mr. Davis was enterred in a cedar cas ket, richly covered with black silk plush. The body was laid in a metal lic ease inside the cedar covering. Sexton Sholz took from the vault the black marble plate; the old casket was removed and the metatlic casket lifted out into the handsome new casket. The new receptacle is what is known ns a state casket and is used on special occasions. It is made of an antique oak richly polished and chastely and beautifully carved, and is massive in size. The handles are made of heavy brass and on the cover is simple brass plate. Identical with the plate,on the old casket bearing the unostentatious inscription: * JEFFEKSON DAVIS, * At Best, December 6, 1889. ************ The old casket was replaced in the vault where it will remain as long ns the tomb of the Army of Northern Virginia stands,marked with the black tablet that contains on its face, in gilt recessed letters, a fac simile of the autograph of Mr. Davis and the dates of his birth and death. The new casket stood in the cham ber of the tomb nearly all day. Shortly after 3 o’clock, a guard of sixteen, in uniforms of confederate gray, mounted, slowly rode down the shaded avenue, lending to the tomb of the Army of Northern Virginia. "With heads reverently nneovered, the casket was borne up from the vault to the waiting hearse, in which it was care fully placed. It was simply an ordi nary hearse, severely plain in keeping with the general order of tlieeeremony and drawn by a twain of handsome black horses. When the doors had been closed, the guards remounted, and, flanking the hearse, the procession slowly started toward the city. The guard was com posed of sixteen men, all veterans of the war. A delegation from the Davis Monument Association, of Richmond, reached the cemetery just before the cortege took up its measured march to the city, and 6tood with uncovered heads as the veterans guarding the hearse passed out of the burial ground. The journey to the city from the cem etery was remarkable for the lack of incidents. There was no demonstration and it was a slow and uneventful march to the hall. The veteran guards scattered about the small but historic hall, removed their gray slouch hats as the casket was borne in and revently placed upon the cata falque of antique oak that matched the receptacle of the remains. When the coffin had been tenderly laid down several heatiful floral pieces were rang ed about it. The floral tributes came from the veteran organizations and the Ladies’ Confederate Association. HIS ODD FLAG. A flag that came all the way from Texas for the purpose, was placed upon the casket. It had been presented to the Mississppi regiment that Colonel Davis commanded in the .Mexican war and was the handiwork and gift of the SUNDAY’S CEREMONIES. The ceremonies Sunday were just a trifle more important than they were Saturday but were marked by an absence of enthusiasm and were as simple as the funeral of an humble citizen. All Saturday night a faithful guard of honor restlessly paced the polished floors of Memorial hall beside the bier of the dead president of a departed nation. Now and then during the quiet of the night a belated pedestrian timidly made his way into the hall and gazed respectfully at the rich old oaken easket, and then quietly slipped out. These visits were few and far between and they only served to vary the mo notony about the historical building. When day broke, however, the scene changed and a slender stream of hu manity began to wind in and out of the hall, made up of every character of life, rich and poor, white and black, statesman and citizens, the blue and gray. It was half-past 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon when the stream of visitors was checked. Only the gray-haired and gray-clad veterans who formed the guard and escort, public officials, dis tinguished visitors, the Davis family and those who had the right to be present remained in the hall when the ceremonies were about to begin. The narrow limits of the little building was not capable for much of a crowd, and many were denied the privilege of participating in the services around the bier. Governor Foster entered the hall leaning on the arm of General Stephen D. Lee, and behind came Lieutenant Governor Parlange and leading lights in the ranks of the veterans. They gathered on the platform, mingling with the Bichmond committee, who wore the confederate uniform in honor of the occasion. In a few minutes there was a parting of the ranks of the throng in the hall, and Miss Winnie Davis, leaning on the arm of Mr. Ambrose McGinnis, and followed by her sister, Mrs. Hayes, and the husband of the latter, passed up to the platform. Then the ceremonies began. Governor Foster stepped forward beneath an arch of shrubbery, and in a strong, clear voice delivered a touching and beautiful tribute to the dead hero of the confederacy in behalf of Louis iana. When the governor had finished his address, which was listened to with profound attention, Vice President Gil more, of the army of Northern Vir ginia, read the order of Mrs. Davis for tho removal of the body and the letter of Mayor Ellyson requesting the army of Northern Virginia to deliver the body to General Glynn. These letters were here made publio for the first time. ’ Then Rev. A. Gordon Blakewell, who had served all through the four years of bitter war, and who wore a confederate chaplain’s hat, came for ward and led the audience in a fervid prayer. When the prayer was con eluded sturdy veterans raised the cas ket from its resting place and bore it out of the hall and down the stairs to the funeral car in waiting amid the strains of dirgeful music. THE FUNERAL CAR. The funeral car was the same as used on the day of the funeral of Mr. Davis in New Orleans. An immense throng gathered about the funeral car as the body was borne up the steps of an improvised platform covered with black and carefully lifted through one of the windows to a large catafalque draped in heavy folds of black. The car was built especiallly for this pur pose and the superstructure is almost entirely of glass so that the casket will be visible as the train rushes across the southland to the historio Virginia capital. The floral offerings were placed at the head of the casket and they too, will be visible through the trip. A guard of honor was select ed from the escort and was immediate ly put upon duty and the public was permitted to pay its rqspects and to take a last fond farewell of the remains. The procession reached the train at 6 o’clock p. m. and it was nearly eight before the party got under way. . The train was made up of a locomotive and tender, baggage car, an ordinary coach, the funeral car, four sleepers and a private ear. A large escort of honor, compris ing civil and military officers accom panied the remains to the depot. As the funeral train pulled out of New Orleans crowds appeared at every street corner on both Bides of the track until the eorr orate limits were passed. At every station crowds assembled, gray headed old soldiers and ladies and children with flowers being prom inent features. AT DAVIslS OLD HOME. At Beauvoir, Mr. Davis’s old heme, the track and station platform had been carpeted with most beautiful and fragrant snow-white rhododendrons. The little children of Beauvoir thus paid their tribute to the memory of one whose declining years had been passed at that place. It had been ex pected that the escort would have time to visit Davis’s residence, but the stay was too short for this purpose. Sev eral large tributes were at Beauvoir laid upon the bier. At Scranton, Miss., Major General Whiting and staff had their car at tached to the train, and the special bearing Governor Jones and staff join ed the • Davis train. The run over from New Orleans was a quick one. AT MOBILE. At Mobile the Semmes camp of Con federate veterans was drawn up on the platform with the eamp flag floating in the breeze, while a battery of Ala bama state artillery fired a salute of twenty guns. There was a great crowd there to welcome the tra ; a and view the easket. The train pulled out for Montgomery at 12 :*20 a. m. Monday morning. AT GREENVILLE, ALA. Greenville, Ala., was the first sta- costly to the simple bouquet. AT MONTGOMERY. Just as the gray hour of dawn made silver of the waters of the Alabama river the train rolled into the gates of Montgomery, the “cradle of the con federacy.” The depot is immediately npon the brink of the beautiful river, and the train came to a stop just be side the cool, clear, mnrmnring waters. It was saluted by the roar of artillery. It did not take long to awake the sleepy watchers in the funeral car with such a demonstration as Montgomery gave. Governor Jones was at the train when it arrived. At 8 o’clock a very unwelcome rainstorm hurst over the city, which lasted an hour, very much delaying the parade. But the people were in the streets, just the same. It did seem that every living soul in Montgomery and for miles around was there to render honor by their pres ence to Davis. When finally the rain held up and the sun peeped out from behind the clouds to beam God’s benediction npon such patriotic devotion, the casket was taken from the funeral ear and placed upon the caisson arranged for its re ception, and the procession started. Ahead of the procession went the mounted police, then the governor and his staff, next the brass band, next the caisson and then the military, the Ca dets from Auburn college following first behind the caisson. Hundreds of soldiers tramped on in the parade. The procession was watched by thou sands of men, women and children from the windows and sidewalks of the city. The parade was the handsomest ever witnessed in the city of Montgom ery unless it were when Davis went there to be made president of the south ern confederacy. When the procession reached the statehouse, whieh is the historic birth place of the confederacy, there was a long halt for the thronging multitude until the military guard of the day escorted the casket into the capitol and placed it in the hall of the supreme court. The path of the pallbearers was right over the same spot in the great portico where Mr. Davis stood February 18, 1861, and took the oath of office as president of tho southern confederacy. It was a moment of excitement, for there were many aged oitizes there who saw him stand there that day, Fully five thousand people visited the hall where Davis lay within the two hours allowed by the authorities in charge of the train. Meantime, the hill-tops fairly shook like a mighty volcano with the roar of cannon. But the most' touching and, surely, the most interesting o_ the entire scenes about the bier of Davis was the pres ence of so many colored people. It seemed that every old cotton planta tion in the valley of the Alabama river had emptied its negro laborers into Montgomery, and they pushed their way to the front as eagerly as any class of citizens. A GEORGIA FLAG. The battle torn banner of the Thirty- second Georgia was placed on the cas ket while it lay in state at Montgomery. The flag of the Sixtv-fourth Alabama was also thrown over the coffin, and the old flag that Davis took to Mexico with him at the head of the gallant Mississippians. These old relics of war times made the ceremonies take on additional solemnity. Jnst before the train pulled out from Montgomery for Atlanta hun dreds of fair women and school girls came down to pay their respects to Miss Winnie Davis. After leaving Montgomery, the fu neral train somewhat delayed, dashed forth across the smiling valleys of the “land of rest” at the rate of fifty miles an hour. At Opelika a great concourse of people stood ready to greet the train. An old battle flag was waved in salute and a great green arch at the depot was inscribed with “He is not dead.” At West Point another grand demonstration awaited the train. It was at West Point that Governor Nor- then and his staff boarded the train. They were received by Governor Jone6, of .Alabama, and were soon introduced to all members of the Louisiana es cort. The train did not stop at any other stations. ATLANTA’S TRIBUTE. The funeral train reached Atlanta at 4:30 o’clock Monday afternoon. As early as 2 o’clock the crowds began to gather at the Union depot and along the route of the procession. Five thousand persons were standing on the streets in and around the depot.. The shed was surrounded by a great mass of surging people. These were divided between two impulses. They wanted to see the casket and they were anxious to catch a glimpse of Miss Winnie. When the train came to a stand-still Governor Northen and his staff and Governor Jones, of Alabama, and his staff stepped from the coaches. Gen eral John B. Gordon and Major Sid ney Root passed along looking for the coach bearing Miss Winnie. In a mo ment she and her sister, Mrs. Hayes, appeared. As they stepped down, the general kissed Mrs. Hayes, and the daughter of the confederacy, her eyes half swimming with tears, kissed the gallant old soldier twice. The meeting was so filled with ten der affection that the few who were standing by felt their hearts go out to the two children of the dead president as never before. The Confederate Veterans' Associa tion had charge of the removal of the casket. General Clement A. Evans directed the removal of the casket from the car to the caisson, drawn by six iron-gray horses. Several minutes passed in making the transfer and get ting the procession formed. The procession was more than an hour passing a given point, and was one of fhe largest ever seen in Atlanta. All along the line of march from the depot to the capitol the- streets were fringed with the eager crowds. Men, women and children, all of them eager to see the procession and to catch a glimpse of the casket. There were, perhaps, as many as two hundred carriages in line. They ] were occupied by Senators Gordon and i back when the peojde pressed forward nessee, Mississippi and Louisiana were to pass by the bier and on through the ; once again in control of the city. They capitol. The military came first, all were there not on a war-like mission, of the companies with the guns at n but to pay their tribute to the illustri- trail arms. Following the uniformed ons dead who was their leader in days militia came the grizzled old confed- ! gone by. The waning moon hung low erate veterans, some with an arm miss- in the western sky, casting long beams ing, others minus a legj and many limping, but all of them were unable to conceal the emotion which was only too plainly visible on their features. One old veteran with one arm missing leaned over and pressing his lips against-the polished cover of the cas ket kissed the covering that held his beloved chief concealed from view Most of the veterans were content with being allowed to touch the casket. More than forty thousand people yiewed the casket while the remains were lying in state at the capitol. At one time, while the crowd was passing slowly through the capitol, the pressure at the Washington street doors became too strong for the guards and they were swept aside. Finally a squad of policemen armed with Winchesters ar rived upon the scene and succeeded in maintaining order. THE DAUGHTERS RECEIVE. While the sisters were at the Kim ball, whither they had repaired for a brief rest, many ladies called there and were cordially received. Shortly af ter 5 o’clock General Gordon, Colonel Ellyson and others accompanied the ladies on a drive, which they enjoyed very much. the departure. It was getting dark when the casket was carried out of the capitol and re placed on the caisson. The return to the union depot was direct, the guard of honor acting as escort. A bugle sounded taps as the train rolled out into the darkness, bound for Vir ginia’s capital. An immense crowd was in waiting at Gainesville for the train. All the bells in the city were tolled, and when it arrived a great shout went up from the waiting hundreds. The train made a halt of only five minutes. OVER IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Seneca, South Carolina, was +l j first place passed over the Georgia line, and although it was midnight when the train sped through a great crowd was there to testify their love for the dead hero by volleys of musketry and booming of cannon. Greenville was reached at two o’clock Tuesday morning. Two companies of soldiers were there, behind them be ing fully a thousand people, half ladies and children. At every town along the way people were up and at nearly every South Carolina town salutes were fired. Governor Tillman boarded the train at Greenville to go on to Richmond, INTO NORTH CAROLINA. Charlotte was reached at half past five and a thousand people were there to greet the illustrious dead and the loved daughter of the Confederacy with booming guns. Miss Winnie re ceived quite an ovation at Salisbury where Bhe held an informal reception, and at Greensboro the entire party on the train was tendered a breakfast by the veterans and citizens. At Charlotte the Hornet’s Nest Ri fles and Queen City Rifles fired three volleys as the train drew in. A body of Confederate Veterans was drawn up in front of the line, with battle flag furled and draped in crape. By this time the funeral car was loaded with flowers. They were heap ed and piled at the head of the casket for four feet out, and on the side had to be arranged to allow passage. AT RALEIGH. Kaleigh was reached a few minutes after 1 o’clock, and it seemed as if the whole of the city’s population had turned out to do honor to the distin guished dead. The mayor of Raleigh and the adjutant general of the state received the train at the depot and welcomed the escort. The casket was placed upon the funeral car. This was an elaborate affair. A caisson fitted with a platform, above which, sup ported on four pillars, was a dome shaped canopy. The whole structure was covered with black cloth trimmed with white fringe, and at each corner of the platform below the casket sat bright-faced, golden-haired girl, dressed in white and holding in her hand a confederate flag, its folds gath ered up with crepe. Six black horses drew the oar, driven by James Jones, formerly a servant of the Divis family. The exercises at the capitol were deeply impressive. A choir of seventy- five voices sang Pleyel’s hymn, “How Sleep the Brave.” Chaplain Marshall offered prayer, and the choir sang O’Hara’s stirring ode. As the casket was placed npon-the catafalque under the great dome of the rotunda a quar tet choir standing above sang “Asleep in Jesus” in a remarkably impressive manner. This ended, the doors were opened and a steady stream of people flowed through the building for nearly two hours. It was 3:30 o’clock when the casket was taken from the capitol to the sta tion, escorted as before. On the de parture from the capitol a chant and ode were sung by a choir. On the ar rival at the station Miss Davis and Mrs. Hayes gave several hundreds of persons the pleasure of hand clasps and kind words as thev stood on the of light upon the bosom of the tree- fringed bridge spanning the river, as the train rumbled over the historic stream. At the depot two thousand people, many veterans and ladies, to gether with a large number of sol diers, waited in silence for the coming of the dead. Many of them had been up all night, as the train was expected early in the evening. After considerable delay a hearse drawn by four white horses was drawn up close to the funeral ear, and the cabinet was transferred to it. To the muffled tap of the drum the procession started on its way to the capitol through the silent streets of the old capital of the confederacy. As the steep hill leading to the government building was reached, the silent air was stirred by sweetest strains of music from the hand. REMAINS GIVEN TO RICHMOND. In the uncertain light of the coming day the grand procession swept into the capitol grounds, and the hearse halted for a moment beneath the Wash ington monument, on the base of which the bronze figure of Patrick Henry stood with outstretched arms above the hearse as if pronouncing a benediction npon the dead chieftain. Col. R. E. Pollard, of Camp R. E. Lee Veterans, made a short speech, thank ing General Glynn and the escort for having cared so well for the casket; and then General Glynn replied, turn ing the sacred dust over to the veteran followers of Bob Lee. The casket was borne inside the capitol, where it was placed in the rotunda, surrounded by a veteran guard, while a detachment of young soldiers stood guard on the oat- si4e. WAGON LOADS OF FLOWERS. From daylight till 8 o’clock, hun dreds of strangers and city people passed through the capitol and viewed the casket which was almost enveloped in floral tributes of the various designs from the north as well as from the south. Between the hours of 9 and 11 o’clock, about five thousand public school children passed by the bier, each one dropping flowers as a tribute of affection, until the huge mass had assumed the proportions equal to sev eral wagon loads. Mrs. Davis arrived from New York Tuesday night and was joined at the Exchange hotel by Miss Winnie and Mrs. Hayes. The pressurein and out of the build ing by the ever streaming crowds was almost frightful. Men, women and children, rich, poor, white and black, poured in a great river of hu manity through the building all the forenoon. At 1 o’clock the procession began to form. No canopy of any description cover ed the casket. It stood out in full view on the top of the caisson with the sun shining brightly on the pol ished and glittering brass. On arriving at Hollywood cemetery the distinguished guests, the Louisi ana escort and staff, the Texas, Missis sippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia delegations, whieh came on with the funeral cortege, descend ed from their carriages and formed a circle which contains the grave. A feature was the large gathering of con federate veterans. Most every camp had a battle flag and fife and drum corps. The display of veterans was undoubtedly much greater than at the unveiling of the Lee monument, and never since the war have so many confederate soldiers been seen in one body in Richmond. They marched in fours, headed by the mounted officers, and swiftly and steadily assuming the places assigned to them, seemed to come in endless HEDLEVAL CHEAT GUNS. THE MARVELOUS HEAVY ORD NANCE OF THE MIDDLE AGES. I T i : The Turks Made the First Great Im provements in Artillery—The Most Extraordinary of Cannon. is almost startling at the present day to recall that the first great improvements in artillery were all made by the Turks, as indeed were most of the innovations, whieh transformed war into a science. It was their supremacy in this branch, re marks the London Standard, even more than the discipline and ferocity of the Janissaries, which caused the Ottoman Army to be thought invincible for two centuries. The natural genius of the race for war was well displayed by the readiness with which they grasped the importance of gunpowder, and the methodic way they set about developing its capabilities. We look on our own Artillery Company with which it preceded. There were regular batteries at the siege of Constantinople which did not belong to the Jansissary organization; we may suppose, there fore, that the Topji ortas of that time were composed of native Moslems. The amalgamation of them with the Janis sary force occurred in the early part of the Sixteenth Century. A hundred years later we find them numbering THE PROCESSION MOVES. The time set for the procession to move was 3 o’clock, but there was a short delay in starting. First came General John B. Gordon, cheif mar shal and staff of some fifty prominent confederate veterans. Then the in fantry headed the line and was followed by the artillery with three batteries, under command of Major W. E. Sim- monds. Four troops of cavalry fol lowed, commanded by Colonel W. F. Wickham. They were the Horse Guards, Ashby Light Horse Guards, Henrico, Chesterfield and Albemarle troops. These were followed immediately by the catafalque, beyond which came carriages in which were seated Mrs. Jefferson Davis and Governor McKin ney, Miss Winnie Davis and Mayor Elyson and Mr. and Mrs. Hayes. These were followed by the honorary pall bearers in carriages. They were Governors Tillman, of South Carolina; Carr, of North Caro lina; Brown, of Maryland; Turney, of Tennessee; W. E. McCorkle, of West Virginia; Jones, of Alabama; Generals J. A. Early, D. H. Manry, William H. Payne, M. C. Laws, L. S. Baker, Stephen D. Lee, Harry Heth, George H. Stewart, Major John W. Daniels, Senator E. C. Walthall; Messrs. Moses, Milhiser. M. A. Allen, Hugh Blair, John Purcell, P. P. Win ston, A. S. Buford, Colonel John T. Weed, John B. McCaw, Colonel E. P. Reeve, P. T. Glascow. Other carriages contained distin guished persons, among them Bishop H. H. Thomason, Senator Vest and wife, Mrs. General George C. Pickett, Mrs. General A. L. Long. Colonel John Goode, the members of the Jef ferson Davis Monument association, officers of the Hollywood and Hebrew memorial associations. Brigades then came as follows: First Brigade—Brigadier General Theo S. Garnett, commanding, and staff; Stonewall Brigade Band, B. E. Lee Drum Corps, B. E. Lee Camp No. I, Maury Camp, Pickett-Buehanan Camp, Stonewall Camp, B. E. Lee Camp No. 2, George E. Pickett Camp, John R. Cook Camp, John Bowie Strange Camp. Second Brigade—Brigadier General Micajah Woods, commanding, and staff; Fourth Kegiment Band, Drum succession. Except for the absence of . - „. * , , , , , .. .. i tlie reverence clue to age; but it is al- musKets and swords, it was as if the ! ——a, „_„,i m™;; confederate armies were on the march once more. As the veterans ponred by the car riage in which Miss Winnie sat, one fife and drum corps after another softly played a dead march. But when the Maryland men came up, their band gave “Nearer My God to Thee,” and the daughter of the confederacy hurst into tears and hid her face in her handkerchief. When the militia move ment was completed, the open grave and the family were surrounded by three solid walls of men. Outside the circle was a dense crowd of thousands upon thousands. A broad and massive color of polish ed oak for the lower vault lay by the side of the grave and across was stretched eight or ten lines of new webbing of red and white. Four car riages held the floral offerings and everything of this kind, which had been received from New Orleans and Richmond. As everything was in readi ness the Stonewall hand played a fun eral song. Rev. Dr. W. W. Landrum then read the hymn “How Firm a Foundation,” which was sung liy the crowd. At the close of the hymn Dr. Hoge stepped forward and said: “Let ns pray,” nearly every head in the vast assemblage was bowed. The prayer was eloquent and touching. After the prayer was concluded Rev. Dr. O. S. Bar ten, of Norfolk, prononced the benediction. Mrs. Davis was led to the grave by Governor McKinney and looked down at the oaken casket until her eyes filled with tears and forgetful of all the thousands about her she seemed lost in fervent prayer. Her two daughters, Miss Winnie and Mrs. Hayes, were at her side. They, too, bowed their heads conquered by the grief of the moment. Then the bosom of old Vir ginia closed on Davis forever. After the benediction the casket was lowered into the grave. After the bu gle signal came “taps,” and the infan try fired a salute, which announced that the services were over. The column then moved to Gettys burg hill, where the annual memorial services of the Ladies’ Hollywood asso ciation took place, which consisted of the decorations of the graves of 16,000 confederate soldiers. Thus closed the most memorable day Richmond has known since the shells were bursting amid the carnage and the fnrv of war over the hills that brow the beautiful waters of the James. and other deadly material*” About fifty of these remarkable guns ectu rn anded the spots which o hostile ship was most likely to approach. "Tht mouths of some are six feet wide, and they are said to throw a hundred oan- tas of balls or stones”—about 10,000 pounds. The range is not stated, but the falling projectiles covered an area of three hundred yards. Doubtless such an avalanche would “mnko dread ful havoc” among a detachment of boats, if all went right. It would make havoc somewhere, probably, anyhow. But Brydone does not say that the experiment had ever been tried. WISE WORDS. A kind word is a crutch to a cripple. Stand Fast is greater than Get There. Spring time is the music time of all the year. ^ One touch of money makes tho whole world grin. Do the right thing first, and reason most modern compared with the Topji about it afterwards, service of the Turkish Army, that came j a rose bud is Nature’s thought, tho down intact from the Janissary force, fn q bloom is its expression. There will be music in the heart al ways if you touch the right strings. The call to religion is not a call to be better than others, but to be better than yourself. When Cupid finds a heart which he can not shoot an arrow into he goes away and cries. One-half our forebodings of ill to oui seven thousand men ; and their strength neighbors are but our wishes, which we CHANGE OF VENUE. The Central Receivership Case to be Settled at Savannah. Saturday ended the hearing of the Central Railroad cases in Atlanta. The three days' session was of unusual interest. There were gathered togeth er more legal brains under one court roof than ever before in Georgia. Justice Jackson has set June 26th as the day, and Savannah as the place to settle the question in dispute. The most sensational incident of the pro ceedings was Justice Jackson’s state ment as to the duties of a receiver. In plainest language he gave notice that the court would tolerate no receiv er who in any way attempted to fur ther the plans of any party, clique, combination or reorganization com mittee. The court, he said, would most postively not sanction the help of any receiver or officer of the court to further the schemes of any reorgan ization committee. The status of the case which will be heard in Savannah is about as follows: The question of the validity of the endorsements or guarantees made by the Central on the bonds of its auxili ary roads will he determined. The question of a final decree in the suit of the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Com pany for the foreclosure of the tripar tite mortgages will also probably be passed on, and it would seem that un less some arrangement is made either by the receiver or by some of the other parties at interest by which the tripar tite bonds and the floating debt can be carried upon favorable terms, that a decree of sale will be rendered. An other important point in this connec tion is the suggestion of the court that in the event Messrs. Alexander Brown & Co., or any other parties, shall pre sent a receiver with sufficient financial backing the court would hear their application for another receiver. The hearing in Atlanta waB of a pre liminary character. Little pleading and evidence were introduced. Justice Jackson called upon the lawyers to aid the court to co-operate in arriving at a was doubled presently. Nowhere else in Europe had any Power dreamed of employing such force for the management of big guns alone. Since the gunners of the Janis sary force were transferred en masse to the Sultan’s new army, it is a fact, however curious, that the Turkish artillery of the present day is the old est military body in the world. We may wonder how many of its officers are conscious of Vhe distinction. Enormous cannon are mentioned at the siege of Constantinople. Having been wise enough to see from the be ginning what a great port artillery must play in warfare, and having formed a body of men to cultivate that branch the Sultans shortly perceived that the bigger they could make their pieces the more effective they w.ould be. The result startled Europe at the siege of Rhodes, not because it was a novelty then, but because the story of that gallant defence sent a thrill through Christendom. While the Kings of France and England were priding themselves on popguns, so to speak, they heard that the Turks had sixteen great “bombards t ” each twen ty-two feet long, of which the least “casted stones, every stone of iv. spannes compass stboute,” as it is put by John Kay, Poet Laureate to our Edward IV. It must be observed, however, that the Topjis were not equal to the construction of these great engines. Their merit lay in the conception and in the readiness to em ploy foreigners. “Puthermore were there called counyny men in makvnge of instruments of warre, that is to say, bombardes, gownes, cnlverynes, ser pentines, and such other.” They were Genoese and Venetians mostly. The great guns seem to have been cast by a certain George, a renegade Greek, who afterwards deserted to the Chris tians, whether with designs of treach ery seems doubtful; anyhow, he was “dampned to deth” after a while— whatever that process may have been exactly. are ashamed to utter in any other form. With the vulgar and tho learned, names have great weight; the wise use a writ of inquiry into their legitimacy when they are advanced as authorities. The crown of all faculties is common*, sense. It is not the men of thought, but the men of wise action who are best fitted to push their way to wealth and honor. He is not poor that hath not flinch, but he that wants more. Want lies in wishing. He lacks most that desires most. He is richest who does not covet and desires least. The most contented are the most happy. Some insist that all the property of the community ought to be equally di vided among its members. But, if so divided to-day, industry on the one hand and idleness on the other would make it unequal to-morrow. He that hath never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. Constant success shows us but one side of the world, for it sur rounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits; and it also silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects. Pictures Taken by Skyrockets. An exceedingly interesting English invention consists of a camera com bined with a parachute, especially de signed for obtaining photographs of fortifications and of the camp of tho enemy, although pictures may also bo made for general surveying purposes.' The parachute is snugly folded in a thin case at the end of a rocket, which is fired to the required height and burst open by means of a time fuse. The explosion sets free the parachute, which is protected from injury by means of a casing of asbestos? . Tho parachute has a number of thin um brella ribs, and these are forced out ward and kept in that position by means of a strong spiral spring. From the parachute a camera is sus- Fighting Cholera With Oranges. : 1 It seems that we fan successfully| fight cholera with oranges and lemons.! The Imperial health office, of Berlin, 1 has issued an announcement to the ef- Many facts and stories ; feet that oranges and lemons are both. _ he recounts that seem strangely old- j fatal to the cholera bacillus. Placed platform of their ear. * A private car, Corps, A. P. HilfCamp, J. B. Stewart speedy*and just determination of the vorld to ns > though the date is little j in contact with the cut surfaeeT'of the containing Governor Carr and staff Camp, Magruder Ewell Camp, Stone- • cas es. In this he evidenced a desire to save the property, whieh, in many cases, is held by people in very reduced •u»_u m stances. The siege of Rhodes is one of the I P“ ded ; an ' a held h ? th ? . °P; most glorious struggles on record, but ! f at « r “ at + tached ft a universal joint we are concerned only with the great i to the bottom of the device, for the guns. They did all that could be ex- ! P" r POBe of pulling the parachute back, pected of them. So terrific was the : The camera is fitted with an instant i- roar of the bombardment that the in- ! neons shutter, operated by clockwork, habitants of a town called Reede heard I 80 “ to . fJ, e 8 f e F al “£*"}?“ ' it, as we are assured, a hundred miles ™ la - At ‘ be ba f* °ft he bo * 18 an ar ~ to the eastward; and the concussion rangement by which the plates may be was such that “grete pyles and postes i manipulated the same as clockwork, strong and myghty that were stykked j A swinging motion can be given the in the gronde behynde atte tayle of ™niera by tho operator, and this will the aforesayde grete bombardes, gave enable him to obtain successive pic tures over a wide area. The whole arrangement is exceed ingly ingenious, and if it can be em ployed practically it marks an impor tant step in the science of modern warfare.—Chicago Times. j such a grete and myghty shakying that the houses of Rhodes otherwhyles *baked in such a wyse lykei iff hyt hadde ben an yearthquake. ” As for the effect, it was just such as we read of a bombardment in modern times. The fortifications crashed down, whole streets fell, and the inhabitants had to live in their cellars. Another novelty was the use of bombs. They do not seem to have been fired from the cannon. The '‘engine” whieh discharged them was a “sling.” But we are told that it threw barrels full of great stones into air, which fell upon the houses, wreck ing them entirely with great “mur der” among those within. It is not . . . ,, easy to see why barrels full of stones , m en t of particles of food between the were employed instead of solid rocks, ! teeth is generally the cause of decay unless they exploded. The use of bombs ftn, I cavities, and wheie the floss ia A Dentist’s Hint. One of the best dentists in this city* advises all his patients to use what is called “dental floss,” and which is sim ply a heavy waxed silk thread, regu larly every evening to remove parti cles of food from between the teetji.L- ■ He favors the use of the tooth brush, 1 but says if he were to be. deprived of either his “floss” or his tooth brush he would sacrifice the latter. The lodg- also reappears two hundred years af- '«'> ue^iilariy every evening before re- terwards, when Louis XU. wished to punish the Algerian Corsairs. His fleet could do little; he was not pre pared to land troops. In this perplex tiring there is little opportunity for food to lodge, ferment and destroy the tissues. A young lady whose chief charm ia lty a young man called Petit Renuud, society is the whiteness of her teeth hitherto a peaceful sailor, suggested the use of mortars to Colbert. Had that great man been a eoldier, doubt less he would have paid no attention. Being also a civilian, however, he gave Petit Renand an audience, and grasped the merit of his scheme. In dne time Algiers was laid in ashes. The most extraordinary great guns on record, as we may boldly assert, are those described by Brydone, whose travels in Sicily and Malta won renown well deserved towards the end of the last centnrv. told me in great confidence that the use of “dental floss” was the secret ofj the beauty of her teeth, and she added 1 that it cut down her dentist’s bills ninety-five per cent. This secret ia too good to keep, so I give it to the public.—New York Mail and Express. i ■ was attached to the train, which left at 3:45. ON TO DANVILLE. When the cortege left Raleigh the train retraced its course to Greensboro and thence to Danville, a change in t-iie original programme having neen made to allow a brief stop in that city. BeidsviUe was reached next, the last stopping point in North Carolina. Two thousand people were assembled. Two extra cars were added to the train, one wall Jackson Camp, Louisiana Camp, Page Puller Camp. Third Brigade—Colonel Thomas H. ; Carter, commanding, and staff; S. W. Traverse Band, Howitzer Associa- j tion. Parker Band Association. Society of the Army and Navy, Confederate Survivors of Maryland, Beneficial Association of Maryland, the Confederate Veterans’ Association of the District of Columbia, Bowanna Company Veterans’ Association, Sum- more than a hundred years ago. So grandly did the French Revolution transform Europe. Malta was full of wonders more or less droll while the Knights held it. But nothing fruit the bacteria survive but a few, hours. They remain active for some time longer on the uninjured rind of the fruit, but even then they die with in twenty-four hours. The destructive equalled the gun stones, perhaps—it ! property as regards the cholera bac- may be as well to say that our author- I teria is supposed to be due to the large amount of acid contained in those fruits. In consequence of this quality for Governor McKinney and his staff i ter Cflm P Survivors’Association, South and one for the Richmond Li a ht In- Carolina bearing palm branches, Cabell fantry Blues, who came on as an hon orary escort. Fully six thousand peo ple were at the station, and a proces sion was formed, headed by the gov ernor and staff. After leaving Dan ville Miss Winnie, accompanied by her sister and others, visited the funeral car, where they closely inspected the Colquitt, Governor Norfhen and his floral tributes. Miss Davis broke staff, Governor Jones, of Alabama; the j flown and hurriedly turned away. Grove Camp, Danville; Confederate Survivors’ Association of Augusta, Bichmond Light Infantry Blues As sociation, Person Company, North Carolina Veterans, Sons of Veterans, B. T. W. Camp and R. J. Chew Camp, Sons of Veterans. ( Cavalry Division—General FitzLlie, Commanding, and staff; mounted vet erans. Deed to a Railroad A deed to the Atlanta and Florida ity is unimpeachable. Everybody railroad was signed and delivered at knows that the fortifications were cut Atlanta, Ga., Monday afternoon, to of the solid rock, bnt Brydone was the purchasers of that line. The doc- right in saying that a “kind of ord- ument is signed by Mr. Thomas W. nance” used to defend them was “nn- Garrett, the receiver of the line, and known to all the world besides. ” As is made to A. Dutenhofer, chairman we understand his description, the of the bondholders’ reorganization Knights left a great block of stone committee. The deed states that the where they hollowed out an embra- purchaser has paid to the receiver of sure in the cliff, which afterwards the Atlanta and Florida railroad one they shaped and bored- in the form of hundred thousand dollars in cash, and i a gigantic mortar. These engines bonds and coupons of the same road j contained a whole barrel of gunj»ow- An Italian who recently committed amount to about four hundred thous- | der. That shoveled in, they stopped i suicide in California left a statement and dollars. it with a great piece of wood, fitted - declaring that he had no education,and exactly to the bore, as “wadding,” and j that a man with no educatiouhas noth- J the health officer considers it unne cessary to place any restriction on the transit and sale of these fruits, even if it should be ascertained that they come from places where cholera is prevalent at the time. Not a single instance was noted in which cholera was dissemi nated by either oranges or lemons.— New Orleans Picayune. g Always keep posted on all public mat ters, to be able to do this subscribe now. loaded up with “cannonballs,” shells, j ing to live for-