Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-21
The Nations Loss.

The Sympathy and Sorrow i'm This City.
 The city was in mourning yesterday for the dead President By the early part of the afternoon public buildings, private buildings and store fronts everywhere bore the em- blens of the national sorrow. All up and down the chief business streets the eye rest ed on these tokens of sorrow, telling of the grief of sad people. It was solemn day Business was not suspended, but one great topic and the shadow of a great loss filled all hearts. The highest and the humblest shared in the universal feeling of regret. It was truly personal sorrow to all. Party dis functions were forgotten and men of opposite political faith communed together, lamenting the dead President. One common sense of bereavement dwelt everywhere. In all parts of the city the national flag dropped at half mast in the sultry August sun. Out in the harbor the stately ships resting at anchor in the glassy waters were likewise in mourning for the dead chief. Far out on the hillsides the national banner could be deserted at pri vate residences, telling the same story of universal sorrow. A large manufactory here and another there, and palatial stores, were decked in mourning, richly festooned in white and black Out in the suburbs the lit tie village grocery was draped in humble modest way, but eloquent just the same with the national sorrow.
 In the little quiet hamlet nestling amid the trees, where the din of machinery and the rattle of the wheels of traffic conflict not with the quiet of the adjacent woods, the in- habitants gathered at the village store after the days work touched as deeply by the common grief as the men of trade and com merce or the men of power in the common wealth. The humble laborers deplored the tiaings and all alike bowed before the blow which had touched everywhere so deeply vi- | brating chords of feeling and sorrow. AS in our city, so by the far away Pacific, in the | teeming cities, by lake and forest and noun tain, men grieved at the news flashed over ! the wires, ''The President is dead" Notes.
 | The County Commissioners, yesterday af ternoon, ordered the county court house tc be suitably draped in mourning out of re- spect to the Presidents death. Mayor Robertson has ordered the Court ot | Common Council to convene at noon to-day | has been appointed by the Mayor to draw uI @ series of resolutions.
 l The New Haven county bar held 8 meet ! ing at two o'clock yesterday afternoon in th' | Superior Court room. The president of th' association, State's Attorney Doolittle, called the meeting to order and inquired what ac ! tion was best to be taken in regard to thu
 calamity which had befallen the nation. I
 was decided, on motion of Colonel Wright
 to adjourn the civil side for one week. Judg
 Sanford made appropriate remarks. President Porter, of Yale, after prayers a
 college yesterday morning, paid a tribute O
 personal love and regard to the dead Presi
 dent. AS scholar, statesman a Chris
 tian, and man, the dead chief was a maj
 commanding admiration and esteem.
 | At 9:3O am. yesterday there was a universi
 ty meeting in Alumni hall to adopt resolu
 tions concerning the death of President Gar
 field. A committee was appointed consisting
 of Messrs. Hand and Whitney '82, Jenning
 '83, ,Evarts 'S4 and Wells '85 for the academi
 department, and Messrs. Williams '82, Bar
 rows 'S3 and Colt '84 for the scientific school
 They reported to ameeting called at 2 p. ID.
 when the resolutions were unanimousl
 adopted. Several of the college building
 will be draped in black.
 On many of the residences in this city ar
 tokens of sorrow.
 Steps will probably be taken this morning
 with reference to draping some of the prin . cipal churches in mourning.
 It has been suggested that on the day o
 the funeral of the President all the peopl
 wear some badge of mourning.