The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-09-21
DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT.

IInE phVSEb ~ bbhOhhHl DUH
oNE,Is AT HAND.
II is with feelings of sincere regret that
THE BULLETIN this morning confirms the|
rumor of the presidents final demise, given|
in yesterdays issue. The rumor that dis
patch passed over the wires to st. Louis att
II 100 Monday night, stating that the presi.
dent had brcathed his last, proved only tool
true Yesterday morning, when a dispatch
arrived here saying that the sad event oc
cured at 10;35 the night before. 1t isl
needless to say that, though prepared for|
J. this turn in the presidents case, every mani
and woman was yet shocked at the news
and many were the EXPLANATIONS Of regret
that were INDUCED in by pedestrians.
Business men stood in their doors in al
sort OF stupor hardly paying civil attention.
: to their customers, and these also expressed
plainly in their faces the disturbed feelings
within. All the forenoon dry goods mem
! were kept busy in selling black and white
3draperies, which were used in decorating
business houses and private residences
without number. A large number of flags
were raised at half-mast-the custom house,
and the Hancock and English poles being
. the first to watt over the house tops of the
city, by this mute, but painfully expressive
sign, the sorrowful news of the death of
the country's chief executive. Other flags
soon appeared on other poles, on house
tops and from the mourning windows of
residences. Limp and motonless hung|
these signals of the city's grief as though
even the elements shared in the sacred sor-
4 row and ventured not to disturb the unusu-
: a silence which prevailed everywhere
Soon the dolefu tolling of a bell broke in|
upon the universal stillness-it was the|
4 bell of one OF our fire company's, and soon
. every bell in the city, church bells and all
Joined in general death knell, which ex-
pressed more strongly than words could dol
the feelings with which every manly and
1womanly bosom in the city was filled
1These demonstrations were made without
respect to party feelings democrats and
republicans alike giving thus external
proof of sincere internal grief. Thus
: while the strangely quiet and black dra-
period streets we're silent evidences, the toll
ling bells spoke IN unmistakable and power
! full tones, of the feelings Of an entire com
|munity bowed down with sorrow. 1t is need
less to say that the day will stand forth
prominently as the gloomiest this city has
ever seen and will be marked IN the mem
DRY OF all now living, both young and old
las fraught with an interest that is as deeply
painful as the crime to which 1t was a seque
was dark and Infamous.
Yesterdays dispatches announcing thcI
presidents death were not very|
full in their descriptions of the circum'
stances of the last moments Of the presi-
dents existence as they might have been \
but the hows and why's, sunk INFO utter IN
in the presence OF the startling
fact that the end had at last comes and theI
people, who had been watching closely andl
anxiously every slight change in the pa
tients condition, were too much aborbed inE
the all important announcement of the|
presidents death, to inquire for the minor
particulars except on second thought.
The following are the dispatches of yes
Iierdsy;
DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT
ELBERoN, Sept. 10th, 1881.
The president died al 10 ;35 p. IN. FROM
what can be ascertained he died of sheer
exhaustion. Mr. Warren Young, assistant
TO Private Secretary Brown, brought theD
news from the cottage at 1880. The frs.
indication that anything serious had &C
Icurred was the appearance OF messenger
|at the Eberon hotel, who obtained car
|rlage and drove rapidly Off 1t was sup-I
posed he had gone to summon members of
the cabinet who had loft here about 0 :3Of
tonight. Attorney General McVeigh has
notified Vice President Arthur Of the pfcsi
dents demise.
TIE CABINET ARRIVE.
l115p, m.-The cabinet has just arrived
and gone IN body to Franklin cottage,
All are here except Blaine and Lincoln.
THE LAST OFFICIAL BULLETIN.
ELBERoN, N. j., September 90, ll5 A.
|M.-The following official bulletin has just
been issued: