Daily Republican., 1881-09-22
of any great length which

| Eesluen' paluelu nau WIN any One
was with Secretary Blaine. This occur.
red on the evening of the first of July
and but few hours before he was shot.
Mr.. Blaine spent the greater part Of
the evening with him, az 1t had been
arranged that the Secretary of State
should remain In the city and finish
some details Of business which the
President had not been able to do.
Among other things said by the Presi-
dent to Mr. Blaine during the conver.
sation that evening, before his coLtem-
plated vacation tour, was this: 81 have
now completed four months of the ad.
ministration, and everything is going
well. The cabinet each day is becoming
more welded. There never has been Au
unkind word said across that cabinet
table"
A HEAVY LIFE INSURANCE.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2O.-The Wash
ingon agent.of the Equitable Life In
surlnce Company said this morning
that President Garfield had twenty
thousand dollars insurance on his LIE
in that company, and that he also had
policies in other companies.
HOW THE DEAD PRESIDENT LOOKED.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2l.-The Evening
Posts FL oeron special says: The Presi
dent is laid out IN the suit of clothes
which he wore on inauguration day.
His left hand is laid across his breast
after the manner he had in life.
The body is so greatly shrunken
that artificial means had to be rssorted tC
IN. rviy, ma s,ln lAl hp ,,f
fitting In addition to the natural
shrinking from his illness, the opera
tion connected with the autopsy has
lett the body in an even more emaciated
state.
A plaster cast was taken of his face
Yesterday, as well as of his right hand
The effect of the Oil used upon the face
prior to taking the cast disfi cured the
features somewhat, and slightly altered
the color of the tace so that the ap,
pearance is very much less natural even
than uot after death. The President
had massive head, and the large bones
show very prominently. His cheeks
are fallen in. The beard has been SO
arranged about the parotid gland as to
conceal that terrible scar, and such ar
ran geueuts have been made about the
pillow as still further to conceal the
swelling which helped to sap his life
away. The undertaken says taat in
his opinion it will not be safe to ex-
pose the body after it leaves here.
The effects Of the fluids used i'll en-
balming are such as to lave already
hardened the features.
The coffin was black with silver han
dies. Black rods ran along the sides
with the ins criptioI:
JAMES ABRAHAM GARFIELD.
Born November 10Th, 1881
Died President of the United States.
September 18th, 1881.
The coffin was lined with white sat
in. Across the top, and crossing e.ch
other, were two long leaves OF palm.
Only the face and shou ulders were visa
BILE, and one needed to know that
all that remained Of James a. Garfield
lay there to recall the features so fAmil'
lar during life. The face, to those who
knew General Garfield only from his
portraits, could not have been recognlz-
ed. The cheeks were gone. The brow
had lost its massive appearance which
had characterized it in life. The lnvol-
untary whispered remark of all rs they
gazed upon the loved form with ashud-
der was, 81 never would have recog-
uized him. How he must have suffer.
ed" The shrunken earthly form told
how much. IL was most marvellous
that he lived so long.