The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-09-20
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s Augusta. Me-, 10. = Secretary
d Blaine and wife left this afternoon
sfor Long Branch.
& ElberOn, 10, 1850 p.m-President
nGarfeld is dead.
Long Branch, 19.-The first indi-
scation that anything serious had oc-
scurred, was the appearance of a
smeSSenger at ElberOn Hotel. who
contained carriage and drove rap
sldly OH. LII IS supposed he had gone
to summon the members of the
scablnet who left here about $50 to-
night.
Acknowledgement MacVeagh has
notified Fice-President Arthur of
the Presidents demise.
Chicago, ia telegram extra
says: at the Presidents beside,
holding his poor emaciated hand in
her own, and watching with anguish
unutterable the fast vanishing
signs OF life, sat the faithful and de-
voted wife, during the closing hours
OF the Presidents career. Around
him were other weeping friends and
physicians lamenting their power
lesSness in the presence of the angel
of death. Toward the last the
mind Of the sufferer wandered
He was once more back I'M
Mentor, amid those scenes WhereI
the happieSt hours of his life WereI
spent. He sat in the dear old home
stead again, with the loved ones
around 'him-the aged mother, sol
proud Of her big boy, the faithful
wife and the beloved children. IT.
was blissful dream that robbed
death of its terror and rendered the
dying man for a moment uncOn-l
lsclOuS of the cruel rending of his
|once vigorous frame that was con-
lstantly going on. The moan of the,
restless ocean mingled with the Sobs
IOf the loved ones as the lamp of life
lfickered and went out for ever.
Nearly everyone around the Presi-
dent chung to hope to the last and
refused to believe the appearance of
death until the shadow deepened
and the destrOyer's presence could
be no longer unfelt.
Flags hang at half-mast from
every house on Ocean Avenue, and
the gaiety of this favOrite watering
place is followed by the deepest
gloom. The struggle is over and
death is the victor.
THE CHICAGO "TI0IES" REVIEW.
The Times has column of an ed
sitOrial, chiefly devoted to a sketch
i of the wonderful career of the late
President Garfield. 1t says the
most important incident of his five
months administration was that to
which he owed his death. the con-
test with Mr.. Conkling. Through
] out its course he bore himself with
sfrmness and dignity which served
. to confirm the public confidence and
gave promise that in the discharge
/ of his high trust, the President
would not fail to remember what
was due to his own self-respect and
l to the office of chief magistrate. In
] closing this brief review 1t is hardly
worth while to recall the fierce as
saultS from time to time upon the
character of it's subject. No public
men in this country escape such at
.tackS, and in most cases, it must I'M
Happily be confessed, they are de-
served To say that General Gar
field erred at times is but to say that
be was human, but proof that his
lerrOrs were corrupt or criminal,
has never been produced. The
fact that, after twenty-five years
LOT public service; most of them
years in which the accumulation of
wealth by the venal was easy and
temptations for a public man were
constant and strong, he was still a
poor man when chosen PreSid94t,
must be accepted by the candid
mind as conclusive proof of his in
|tegrity. He served his country well
and faithfully, according TO the
lights his conscience gave him. aud
will be held in grateful remem-
brance for this service, and for the
manifestation AM high purpose
which he has not been splre TO
IeXecute-to rescue the executive
IOffice from the deci ed Mentality in
to which it had fallen in the hands
|of his predecessor.
Eiberon, n. j., Ills p.m.-The
cabinet has Just arrived and gone in
a body to Francklyn Cottage. All
are here except Blaine and Lincoln.
Acknowledgement MacVeagh has
photographed them of the Presidents
death. Great excitement prevails
here. and particulars cannot be OBJ
|tained. The guard around the cot
|tage has been doubled and no one is
ALLOWED to approach it.
GOVERNMENT TAKES THE WIRES
Government has taken possession
of the only telegraph wire which is
connected at ElberOn. 1t will be
almost impossible to get further
particulars tonight, as we are shut
off from all communication with
the cottage and its inmates.
THE LAST BULLETIN TO LOWELL
At 10 tonight the following was
sent to Minister Lowell by Attorney
General Mac Veagh:
"The President had another chill
of considerable severity this morn