Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-10-06

knows, madam, I do not wish to be Presi-
deht!"
ECHOES OF THE NATIONS SORROW.
The burial lot presented to Mis-. Gar.
field by the directors of the Lake View Gene
terry, Cleveland, is the one for which $4,000
has been repeatedly offered and refused. The
Directors decided not to sell it, under q
vague impression that it would some day be
needed for great occasion-perhaps as the
site of grand Masonic Monument. The
cemetery is one of the most beautiful in the
United States, combining exquisite natural
scenery with all that landscape gardening
and art could do for it, and overlooking the
broad expanse of Lake Erie. The lot given
is by all considered the most desirable within
its bounds.
- The bullet which was cut from President
Gar6eld's body at the autopsy was given into
the hands of DR.. Bliss, who Immediately
handed it over to the custody of Private Sec
retary Brown. Mr. Brown carefully wrap
ped up the bell and sealed the package, and
will preserve it till such time as it may be
needed in the evidence in the trial Of Guiteau.
The fractured vertebra, which was taken
from the Presidents body, is in the hands of
scientific gentlemen, who are cleansing and
preparing it, after which it will De placed on
exhibition in the National Museum in Wash.
ington city.
- Queen Victoria directed the British
Minister to have prepared and presented in
her name, suitable floral tribute to be
placed on the caskes containing the~Presi.
dents remains. The wreath was very large,
and is an exquisite specimen of the florists
art, composed of while roses smilax and
stepharatis. 1t is accompanied by a mourn
ing card bearing the following: "Queen
Victoria, to the memory Of the late President
Gar6eld-an expression Of her sorrow and
sympathy with Mrs. Garfield and the Amer.
ican Nation, September 81, 1881"
The Nashville american remarks as a
peculiar phenomenon, that Gen. Gar6eld's
assa ssination is the first event which has call.
ed forth from the women of the South wide
and profound sympathy. This, it thinks, is
sign of restoration worth all the rest, and
also fact highly creditable to the man WHO
could inspire Southern feminine instincts,
long dead, to the beat of any national
chord, or for the North any sympathetic
chord, with such feeling.
The New York Herald editorially states
that the President probably received as care.
full and effective nursing as medical skill could
suggest but it nevertheless appears that had
not the case been improperly diagnosed at
first, had not professional courtesy caused dis
tipguished surgeons, called for consultation,
to accept the diagnosis already made, and had
the bullet been extra ted at any time during
the first three weeks, T resident Garfield would,
in all probability, been alive to-day.
"A medical man who heard the report read
said that the treatment of the President by
the surgeons was condemned by their own re-
port, and that the diagnosis of the case made
at the time of the shooting was now proved
to be wholly wrong and at fault. Drs. Ham,
lton and Bliss expected to find the ball where
they had insisted for a month it was-in the
front part of the right groin-but the autop.
sy disclosed its presence in another part of the
body.
A Washington dispatch says that tele-
grams from all parts of the country show that
during the funeral ceremonies in that city
over the body of the late President Garfield,
there were marks of respect to the occasion
shown everywhere by the suspension of busi-
ness, tolling of bells and holding of religious
services.
- Dispatches have also been received in
Washington from all parts of Europe, an
nouncng meetings and the passage Of reso-
lutions of sorrow and sympathy for the
family of President Garfield also, that
business was suspended and religious SER
vices held in various portions of Europe,
as we'll as in the United States and Canada.
The mother of the martyred President
passed her 80th birthday week ago last
Thursday in seclusion and sadness Though
she bears up better than might have been
expected, she feels that with the death of her
son her work of life is ended, and her sole as
piration now is to be soon reunited with him
in the world above.
DIR. Hammond thinks the President died
of embolsm of the heart. He takes care to
state that he lost hope on the 23rd of July;
had little hope after the first forty-eight
hours, because the bullet had not been loca-
ted and no operation made to extract it while
the President was strong.
- Garfield was sensitive, impulsive, poetic
man, easily annoyed by the cares and impor.
tunities of the Presidency. Arthur is of
tougher fibre, more stolid, and better used to
the assaults of the political rabbe. He no
doubt incarnates the New York money power
and ought to be, therefore, conservative.
- President Arthur will not move into the
White House for some months, but will oc-
cupy the residence of Senator Jones, Of Ne
vada. In the meantime the White House
will be thoroughly overhauled.
- Mr.. Garfield was born and died upon the
same day of the month, which was also the
of the battle of Chickamauga.
- Secretary Brown estimates that the Pres
ident's sickness will cost $25O,0OO. Congress
will pay it. .. ...@,