Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-09-07
ORDER by THE ADJuTANT GENERAL.

The Adiutant General has also issued the
following order to the National Guard
GENERAL Headquarters, STATE OF ONO,
Adi't Gems Office, Columbus, Aug. 20, 1868.
General Orders No ~
The painful duty dcvolves upon this De-
partment of announcing to the National
Guard of Ohio the death of His EXcellency,
John Brough, Governor and Commanderin-
Chief of Ohio, who died this day at o'clock
P. NJ, at his residence in the city of Cleve-
land. In token of respect for the memory
of the deceased, it is ordered that all officers
of the National Guard wear the usual badge
of mourning for the period of thirty days. and
that the armories and colors of the Guard be
draped in mourning for the same length Of
time
[Scned1 B. r. CowEN,
Adiutant General of Ohio.
. THE FUNERAL
Columbus Aug. 29--It has been decided
to have the funeral services at the Governor
residence, No 80, Prospect Street, Cleveland
at eleven o'clock A. NJ. on Friday next The
State officers and clerks and other friends
from this city will go up on the 1920 A. M
train on Thursday.
AN ACCOUNT OF HIS AFFLICTION.
The Cleveland Leader gives the following
account of the last illness and closing scenes
in the life of the late Governor of Ohio:
On the Goth of June the Governor came II
this city to recuperate He had then beer
suffering week or more from foot ant
hand made sore in the manner detailed b,
Surgeon Barr to the Secretary of War. w
reproduce the diagnosis of the Surgeon, writ
ten July Goth:
To be brief, in the first place he had beel
much broken down by overlabor and anxiet
since the death of President Lincoln. Abou
five or six weeks since he slightly injured hi
foot by stepping on small pebble one evenin
AN injury which he supposed to be simpl
a bruise or sprain of the foot, and to rest tina
foot walked about for week after, leanin
heavily on cane, which produced the sam
condition in his left hand.
Violent inflammation of the periosteum an
entire cellular structure of both hand and foe
followed, with phagadenic sloughing and gar
creme of the soft structure, which was followe
with much irritative fever and deterum deaf
of some of the bones of the toes, and ais
frequent hemorrhages from sloughing I
small arteries and enormous assesses ia di
ferent parts of the limbs and body. He We
at his home in Cleveland at the time of Il
most violent onset of the attack Not appr
hending so serious matter, l had, three da!
before he telegraphed me to see him, advise
. him to go home and rest, and nurse his sore
, Immediately on seeing him the first time, c
consultation with his family physician, I a
: vised free, deep, and numerous incisions
f his hand and foot These gave him great r
lief, but, owing to the condition Of his syste
and the virulency of the attack, much sloug
J ling and frequent hemorrhages followed; an
t as l suppose, by absorption, morbid materi
g through the lymphatics, or from great pre-
4 tration or poverty of blood, followed the
. terrible assesses
Surgeon Bars treatment was approved
n Surgeon General Barnes at Washington, b
r such was the Secretarys interest in the &c
lernor, he requested Surgeon Barnes to deti