The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1881-09-30

| In Cne u. y. OeildUe, UuC DelnB uOInl
mated and elected as President h,
resigned his seat in the senate before
his term commenced. His administra
ton of the Presidential Office promised
to be remarkable in the degree of salts
faction that it gave the whole country
and, its eminent practical success.
The story of his assassination on July
2 and of the desperate struggle for life
that has been kept up for 79 days are
known to all our readers. A strong
constitution and an indOmitable will
sustained him through sufferings that
would have brought death long since
to most.
The aged mother of the deceased
President received the sadSintelligence
of her sons death the day before her
S0th anniversary. She was incOnsOla.
BILE and expressed the belief that she
would follow him before the year clos
ed. The Army and Navy have been no.
titled of the nations loss and of the ac-
cession of President Arthur by gener-
al orders, and Secretary Blaine has nc
titled the representatives of the govern
ment at foreign courts. On Tuesday
morning President Arthur arrived at
Elheron, where he was met by the Cab
met. After a consultation he paid a
visit of coincidence to Mrs. Garfield and
returned to New York. The following
bulletin gives full particulars of the
autopsy on the body of the late Presi-
dent:
LONG BRANCH, September 20.-By
previous arrangement post mortem
examination of the body of President
Garfield was made this afternoon in the
presence and with the assistance of
Drs. Hamilton, Agnew, Bliss, Barnes,
Woodward, Reyburn, Andrew III. Smith
of Elberen, and Acting Assistant Sur
geon d. S. Lamb of the army medical
museum, Washington. The operation
was performed by DR.. Lamb. 1t was
found that the ball, after fracturing
the right eleventh rib, had passed
through the spinal column In front of
the spinal canal, fracturing the body of
the first lumbar vertebra, driving a
number of small fragments of bone in
to the adjacent soft parts and lodging
just below the pancreas, about two
inches and half to the left of the
spine and behind the peritonium, where
it had become completely en-
cysted. The immediate cause
of death was secondary
hemorrhage from one of the mesenteric
arteries adjoining the track of the ball,
and blood rupturing the peritOnium
and nearly pint escaping in the ba--
dominal cavity. This hemorhage is
believed to have been the cause of
the severe pain in the lower part of the
chest complained of just before death.
An abcess cavity six inches by four in
dimensions was found in the vicinity
of the gall bladder, between the liver and
the traverse colon, which were strong
ly inter-adherent. 1t did not involve
the substance of the liver, and no CON-
munication was found between it and
the wound along the suppurating chan
mel, which extended from the external
wound between the loin muscles and
the right kidney, almost to the right
groin. This channel, now known to
be due to the burrowing of pus from
the wound, was supposed during life
to have been the track of the ball. On
examination of the organs of the chest
evidences of severe bronchitis were
found on both sides, with broncho
pneumonia of the lower portions of the
right lung, and though to much less
extent of the left. The lungs contain
ed no abcesses and the heart no clOts.
The liver was enlarged and fatty, but
free from abcesses; nor were any found
in any other organ except the left kid
ney, which contained near the surface
small abcess, about one third of an
inch in diameter. In reviewing the
history of the case in connection with
the autopsy, it is quite evident that the
different suppurating surfaces, and es
pecially the fractured spongy tissue OF
the vertebra, furnish sufficient expla
nation of the septic condition which
existed.
d. w. BLISS,
j. V. BARNES,
J.J. WOODWARD,
ROBT. REYBURN
FRANK III. HAMILTON,
ID. HAYES AGNEW,
ANDREW HI. SMITH,
ID. S. LAMB.
The following messages of condo
| lence are among the hundreds received
by Mrs. Garfield on the day following
| the Presidents death.
Detroit, Mich. September 20, 1881
Mrs. Garfield, Elberon, Long Branch
New Jersey.
The death of the President bring
sorrow to every heart.
Speaking for the whole people o
Michigan. 1 extend the most sincer
sympathy and coincidence.
DAVID H. JEROME,
Governor OF Michigan.
London, September 20, 1881.
Mrs. Garfield, Long Branch.
| The citizens of London feel the deep
est sympathy with you and America il
the sad loss sustained.
| LORD MAYOR OF LONDON.
| Words cannot express the deep sym
pathy feel with you. May God SUP
port and comfort you as He alone car
THE QUEEN,
Balmoral.
I Gov. Jerome has issued the follow
ing proclamation.
ra EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
LANSING, September 20, 1881.
The President of the United State
lies dead at Long Branch, stricken b
the hand of a brainless and deprave