The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-30
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The District Attorney at Washington
holds that Guiteau need not be taken to New
Jersey for trial, while his assistant has reached
a conclusion directly the reverse. The As
sistant Solicitor of the Treasury declares that
the assassin can legally be tried and executed
in the District of Columbia.
In letter to George @. Gorham re-
sarding the threats to lynch Guteau, Gen.
Sherman asks every soldier and citizen to re-
member that we profess to be the most loyal
nation on earth to the sacred promises of the
law. He admits, however, that shooting or
hanging is too good for the assassin.
The Warden of the Washington Jail
visited Guiteau the morning following the
death of his victim. The assassin's first ques.
ton was: Show is the PRESIDENT" Upon be-
ing informed that he was Dead the miserable
wretch instantly sank down upon his bed and
appeared very much agitated. After remaining
in this position for few minutes, he arose and
paced the floor, muttering something to him
self, as if praying He then inquired what
time he had died, and, after being informed,
said he was glad the President had at last been
relieved from his sufferings, as he would not
have committed the deed if he had known that
he was to suffer as he did.
Mrs. Garfield, upon the arrival at
Washington Of the train bearing the remains
of her lamented husband, expressed a strong
desire not to see the White House again, and
she did not visit it while in Washington but
remained at the residence of Attorney General
MacVeagh. Since she entered the White House
she has passed many days of sorrow, anxiety
and sickness, and her objection to going there
again is quite natural.
A Washington dispatch says that Gui-
teau 80 breads the vengeance OF the people
that he has become Ill, and the jail physician
has put him on sick diet. Every time he sees
guard, he inquiries if there is any indication
of an attack on his cell.
The citizens of Alaska held an cleo
ton Sept 5, and chose Col NJ. ID. Ball delegate
to Congress.
The day succeeding the death of Pres
ident Garfield, the Equitable Life Assurance
Society of New York. forwarded to the appro-
PIRATE agent its check for the full amount of the
Presidents policy in that company-$25, 900.
The President died poor man, and
left no will. His property consisted OF the
Mentor farm, which is incumbered by mort
gage held by DIR. Robertson, his next-door
neighbor, and the benefactor of Lis early
youth, and residence at Washington, which
is incumbered by mortgage held by Gen.
Swain. The Mentor farm is worth perhaps
$4,000, and the Washington residence about
$4,000, and the mortgages represent about
half their value.
Up to Sept. "a the fund for the fami-
" of the lamented President Garfield had
reached S2S7,5
As good old Mrs. Garfield was pack
ing her little sachel'at Mentor, previous to her
departure for Cleveland to attend her beloved
sons funeral, one Of the clasps refused to
yield, and she called out flames, 1 can't
unfasten my sachel." The words had hardly
escaped her lips when she recalled the terrible
truth that James could never again on earth
afford her any assistance. Poor old lady