Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-09-24
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER "a, 1881.
ID e A d.
The Struggle for Life
Ended.
After Eighty Days Of Suffering
life's Pickering Lamp
Goes Out.
A SOrrOwing Nation is ShrOuded
i'm Gloom.
The End Peaceful and Like a Bliss
full Dream.

Fellow cltlZenS! Cl0uuS ana darkness
are around about God! His pavilion is
dark waters and thick clouds of the
skies! Justice and judgment are the hab-
itation of His thronel Mercy and truth
shall go before His face! Fellow citi-
zensl God reigns and the Government
Of Washington still livesw These words
were spoken to an angry and excited
crowd, clamoring for vengeance, for ex-
pressions of sympathy by New York
journal for the assassins of the lament
ed Lincoln. 1t is needless to say they
were spoken by the lips of the man for
whom 100000 of freemen mourn to-
day. They are equally applicable to the
mourning nation in this hour of sorrow.
Notwithstanding the death of James A..
Garfield, "the government of Washing
ton still lives" and will continue to sur
vive the death-dealing blows of assas-
sins.
Garfield is dead. Eighty long days Of
heroic suffering, Of loving and devoted
care on the part of the Doble little
woman, his wife, of anxious sOlicitude
of millions of people the world over,
now buOyed up, now cast down into the
deepest dispair, as the different changes
in his condition were announced, all, all
is ended. The one brief word tells the
stOry-Dead.
THE OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
ELBERoN, N.J., Sept. 10, 11:30 p. m.-
The President died at 1926 p. m. After
the bulletin was issued at $50 this
evening, the President continued in
afternoon, the pulse varying from 102 to
ume. After taking nOnrnishment he
minutes before his death, and while
asleep, his pulse rose to 100, and was
somewhat more feeble. At 10 minutes
after 10 o'clock he awoke, complaining
of severe pain over the region of the
heart, and almost instantly became un-
conscious, and ceased to breathe at 1926.
ID. W. BLISS,
FRANK ii. HAMILTON,
~. hUNEWs
The New York Telegram, extra" gives
the following touching description of
the
LAST MOMENTS.
At the Presidents bedside, holding his
poor emaciated hand in her own and
watching with anguish unutterably the
fast vanishing sands OF life, sat the
faithful, DEVOTED wife during the closing
hours of the Presidents career. Around
him were other weeping friends and
physicians lamenting their pOwerless-
ness i'm the presence OF the dark angel
of death.
Toward the last the mind of the suf-
ferer wandered. He was once more back
in Mentor, amid the scenes where the
happiest hours of his life were spent.
He sat in the dear old homestead again
with the loved ones around him; his
aged mother, so proud of her big boy;
his faithful wife and beloved children.
1t was blissful dream that robbed death
of it terrOrs and rendered the dying man
for q moment unconscious of the cruel
rending of his once vigorous frame that
was constantly going on.
The moan Of the restless ocean min
gled with the sobs of the loved ones as
the lamp of life flickered and went out
forever.
Nearly every one around the President
clung to hope to the last, and refused to
believe in the approach of death until
the shadow deepened and the destroyer's
presence could no longer be unfelt.
Tuesday was indeed day of gloom
throughout the country. The fact that
all were in a measure prepared for the
announcement of the end, did not lessen
the sorrow in the least. From all sec
tions of the country, north, south, east
and west, comes tidings Of the deepest