Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-09-23

but as this was not deemed advisable in this
case il was finally decided to dispense with
an inquest. In this decision the governor
and attorney general of the state and the
sheriff of the county acquiesced, and thus the
matter was settled. About 3 o'clock p. NJ.
Gen. Arthur, Secretary MacVeagh and Gen.
Grant called on Mrs. Garfield at tho Franck
Ign cottage. AT 4 r. NJ. President Arthur re-
turned TO New York by special train.
How the Presidents Mother Received
the News.
The news of the Presidents death was re-
ceived by his aged mother at Scion, o.,
where she was visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Larabee. For several nights anxiety about
her son had deprived Mrs. Garfield Of sleep,
but on Monday night she slept uninterrupt-
eddy from II p. NJ. till A. NJ. The daughter
thought best not to break the news till after
breakfast then, in response to some sugges-
ton about having bad news the aged mother
quickly asked us he deady" "He is" was
the reply. The quick tears started. and with
quivering lips she said, 'Then the Lord help
me- for il he is dead, what shall do ?" Later
she said, 81 cannot believe that James is
dead. 1 cannot understand it. 1 have no
further wish to live, and 1 cannot live il II is
So" Her fortitude can be better appreciated
when it is remembered that the following
day, Wednesday of this week, was her SOth
birthday.
The Funeral Observances.
The following official announcement of the
arrangements made by the cabinet for the
funeral was published on Tuesday evening"
LONG BRANCH, N. j., Sept. 90
The remains of the late President OF the
United States will be removed TO Washing
ton by special train on Wednesday, Septem-
Der 81, leaving Elberon at 10A. NJ. and reach
ing Washington at p. NJ. Detachments
from the United States army and from the
marines of the navy will be in attendance on
the arrival at Washington to perform escort
duty. The remains will lie in state in the ro-
tunda of the capitol on Thursday and Friday
and will be guarded by Populations from the
executive departments and by officers of the
Senate and House of Representatives. Re-
ligious ceremonies will be observed in the ro-
tuuda at 3 Friday afternoon. At o'clock
the remains will be transferred to tho funeral
car and be removed to Cleveland, o., via the
Pennsylvania railroad, arriving there Satur-
day ut . p. NJ. In Cleveland the remains will
lie in state until Monday at . p NJ, and will
be then inferred in Lakeview cemetery. No
ceremonies are expected in the cities and
towns along the route of the funeral train be-
yond the tolling of bells. Detailed arrange
ments for final sepulture are committed to
the municipal authorities of Cleveland, un-
of Ohio. JAMES G.. BLAINE
Secretary of State.
Many messages were received asking that
the people at various points might be allow
ed to look on the dead President The cabi-
net would have been glad to crafty this pop
ular sentiment, but it was decided to hold
Mrs. Garfeld's desire for simplicity and alb
sence of ostentation paramount to all other
| considerations. The coffin is handsome one,
| upholstered in white satin, covered with rich
black cloth with velvet trimmings and black
silk cording with richly chased silver plate
bearing the inscription, James Abram Gar
field. Born November 10th, 1881. Died,
President of the United States, September
| 10Th, 1881" The burial at Cleveland seems
| proper from the fact that, although Mentor
was his home, Cleveland is the metropolis Of
| that part of the state of Ohio, and in his ac-
tive political life it was here that he formed
the most of what may be called home ac-
| quaintances. When Garfield returned from
a long stay at Washington he never failed to
| 90 to Cleveland on his return, and it was
common remark that everybody in Cleveland
knew General Garfield. 1t is also said to
have been the Presidents wish to be buried
| at Lake View in a lot given him some years
ago.
The Sad News sent Abroad.
LoNo BRANCH, N. j., Sept. 20.
TO LOloeH Minister, London:
James A. Garfield, President of the United
States, died at Elberon, N. j., last night at ten
minutes before eleven o'clock. For nearly so
days he suffered great pain and during the
entire period exhibited extraordinary patience,
fortitude and Christian resignation. The sor-
row throughout the country is deep and mi
versal. Fifty millions of people stand as
mourners by his bier. To-day at his resi-.
| dapna in tho nitv Of Naxv AXnrE Cbactar A
Arthur, Vice President, took the oath of Of
fee as President, to which he accedes by vir.
tue of the Constitution. President Arthur
has entered upon the discharge of his duties.
You will formally communicate these facts to
the British Government and transmit this
dispatch by telegraph to the American Min.
listers on the Continent for like communica-
ton to the governments to which they are re.
spectively accredited. BLAINE, Secretary.
The Oacial Report of the Autopsy.
The following official bulletin was issued al
II o'clock Tuesday night by the surgeons who
had the Presidents case in charge;
By previous arrangement, post-mortem exAminA
tion Of the body Of President Garfield made th
afternoon in the presence and with the assistance
Doctors Hamilton, Agnew, Bliss, Barnes, Woodward
Reyburn Andrew H. smith Of Rberon, and Actin
Assistant Surgeon d. s. Lamb Of the Army Medica
Museum, Washington. The operation was performed
by DR.. Lamb 1t was found that tho ball. after frac
turing the right eleventh rib had passed through tn
spinal column in front Of the spinal canal fraeturn
the body Of the irst lumbar vertebra, driving mum
Der Of small fragments Of bone into the adjacent sof
parts and lodged just below the pancreAs, about tw
and half inches to the left Of the spine and behn
the pertoneum, where 1t had become completely en-
cysted. The immediate cause of death was secondar
hemorrhage from one Of the mesenteric arteries ad
joining the track OF the ball the blood rupuring tn
peritoneum and nearly pint escaping into the alb
dominal cavity This hemorrhnge is believed to hav
been the cause Of the severe pain in the lower part
the chest, complained of just before death. An ah
scess cavity, six inches by four in dimensions, wa
found in the vicinity of the gall bladder between tn
| liver and the transverse colon, which were strongl
inter-adherent. 1t did not involve tho substance o
the liver, and no communication was found betweel
it and the wound. long suppurating channel e1
tended from the external wound, between the loi
muscles and the right kidney, almost to the RICH
groin. This channel now known to be due to tn
burrowing of pus from the wound, was supposed dur
ing life to have been the track OF the ball ON an
animation of the organs of the chest evidences Q
severe bronchitis were found on both sides, wit
bronchopneumonia OF the lower portions OF the RICH
lung and though to much less extent, of the left
The lungs contained no Assesses and the heart n
cots The liver was enlarged and fatty but free froI
Assesses, any found in any other organ,
cept the left kidney, which contained its surfac
q small abscess about one-thrd Of an inch in diane
ter. In reviewing tho history Of the in
ton with the autopsy it is quite evident that the d
ferent suppuratng surfaces, and especially the fra
tured spongy tissue of the vertebra, furnish sun
cent explanation Of the septic condition which exis
| ed. ID. W. BLISS,
: ]. X. BARNES,
III WOODWARD,
ROBERT REYBURN
FRANK II. HAMILTON,
, | ID. HAYES AGNEW,
ANDREW II. SMITH,
, d. S. LAMB.
Expressions OF Grief and sympathy.
Throughout tho country expressions of Sol
' row have been universal and spontaneous. L
) New England and the Middle states, at tn
8 West and the South, flags are at half mas
, and public and private buildings are drape
e in mourning In some places bells were toll
= ed during the darkness of Monday night, g
I soon as the sad news was received. In tn
I leading cities of the Dominion of Canada til
!. expressions of grief are as general as in tn
= country. In London, Eng, the news We
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