Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-03-20

who was with him sent this mess ge to
Speaker Blaine:
"There is no material change in Mr..
Summers condition. His physicians
think him sinking. think he will sur
vive your session of to-day.
(Signed) f. II. HoAR.
HIS LAST WORDS.
Soon after this Mr.. Sumner slept lit
tie, and had his consciousness perfect ex-
cept when in doze, until ten minutes
before his death. Three quarters of an
hour before his death, Juoge Hoar, who
sat holding his hand, said: 81 wish we
could do something to make your hands
warm :" to which he answered You
never will" He several times commend
ed the Civil Rights bill to Judge Hoar,
saying "Don't let the bill be lost, )" and
was gratifed by the Judges assurances
that he would look after it. About ten
minutes before his death, as Judge Hoar
was sitting at his bedside, he turned to-
ward him and gave him this message for
their mutual friend, Ralph Waldo EN-
erson, at Concord. Said he, "Tell EN-
ersou how much love and revere him."
The Judge replied Emerson said of
you that he never knew so white soul.
Mr.. Sumner turned over in bed and ap-
peared to be suffering greatly. Just then
Mr.. Hooper came in, and Mr.. Wormley
said l.: Mr.. Sumner, this is Mr.. Hooper"
Mr.. Sumner turned over, opened his eyes,
looked at his old friend and said, waving
his hand sit down" These were his
last words. Mr.. Hooper and Judge Hoar
soon afterward left the room, thinking
that Mr.. Sumner was sleeping but he
was almost Immediately seized with a
violent spasm, succeeded by vomiting.
When Judge Hoar returned he found
them bathing his face. The Judge took
his hand, he made one or two movements
of his mouth, as if to speak, but the spir-
it had departed.
AT THE DEATH BED.
There were present at his death Judge
Hoar, A. B. johnson, DR.. Joseph Taber
johnson, Mr.. Wormley, Mr.. Downing
and the writer. When all thought him
dead, Judge Hoar relinquished the grasp
of his hand, which fell motionless, and
DR.. johnson, placing his ear to his heart,
announced that it had ceased to beat.
Just then Montgomery Blair and Sena-
tor Scburz entered the room. All pres
ent we're greatly affected, and when the
sad tidings reached those in the parlors
down stairs and the crowd around the
outer door, nearly all wept, and especi-
ally the many colored people present.
CONSULTATION OF PHYSICIANS.
DIR. Brown-Sequard, who arrived by
the FIVE o'clock train, Immediately pro-
ceeded to the house of Mr.. Sumner, but
he was, alas, too late. He then drove to
the house of DIR. johnson, the attending
physician, whom he found suddenly pros
trated with a short attack of disease of
the heart, induced by the grave respon-
sibilities and physical exhaustion of the
last twenty-four hours. The other attend
ing physician was called, and consul
tation had upon the condition of Mr..
Sumner at the time of his death. The
counsel was agreed that the violent spasm
Immediately preceding death was accom-
panied by angina pectoris, or rupture of
the heart. That the serum was rapidly
distributing itself throughout the body,
that in fact modification had already be-
gun. 1t was therefore determined that
the body should be Immediately en-
balmed.
THE BODY EMBALMED.
Arrived at the house, the embalmers
found that the body had already become
greatly swollen and disfgured, and it
was feared that the decomposition had
been so rapid that the features might not
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