The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-09-23
DEATH or THE PRESIDENT.

In company with Secretary Blaine, was |
fired at by Guiteau, and received the
wound which has resulted in his death
and brought sorrow to the people over
whom he ruled. His suffering has been
long and intense, but borne with
fortitude and exemplary patience.
Surgical skill and vigiIant nursing of
no ordinary character have been en-
ploycd in vain; the wound, as we have
thought from the first, proved fatal.
The last hours of tho President are
decribed by Attorney General Mac
Veagh in the annexed statement given
to the Associated Press, dated Wednes-
day:
I sent my dispatch to M mister Lowell
at 10 p. m. Shortly before that DIR. Bliss
had seen the President and found his
beats 1O6 per minute, and all the condi-
tions were then promising for quiet
night. The Doctor asked the Presi-
dent If he was uncomfortable in any
way. The President answered, unCt
at all" Shortly afterward he fell
asleep, and DIR. Bliss returned to his
room across the hall from that occupied
by the President. Col. Swain and
Rockwell remained with tho President,
About 10 minutes after 10 the Prcsi-
dent awakened and remarked to
Colonel Swain that he was suffering
great pain, and placed his hand over
his heart: Doctor Bliss was summon
ed, and when he entered the room he
found the President substantially with
out pulse, and the action of the heart
almost indistinguishable. He said at
once that the President wasdying, and
directed that Mrs. Garfield be called,
also the other doctors. The President
remained In dying condition until
1885, when he was pronounced dead.
He died from some trouble of the heart,
supposed to be neuralgia.
The deceased President was born in
Ohio, November 10, 1881, and was
graduated at Williams College in
Massachusetts in 1856. For several
years he was president of literary in
stitution, and amonghis pupils was the
young lady who subsequently, become
his wife and has patiently watched at
his bedside throughout his late great
trials. Leaving the schoolroom, Mr..
Garfield began the practice of law, and
while thus engaged was elected to the
State Senate of Ohio in 1863. He was
then elected to the Thirty-eighth
Congress, and to seven Congresses
successfully. In 1861 he entered the
Federal army as Colonel of the 42d
Ohio regiment; was promoted to the
rank of Brigadier General in 1862, and
was soon after made Chief of Staff of
the Army ofthe Cumberland, attaining
the rank of Major General in 1868. He
quit the field, and returned to Congress
while acting rs Chief of Staff, and was
a leading member of that body up to
the time of his election to the Prcsi-
dency. With the events which i'm
mediately preceded his election and
tho part he took therein, our readers
arc all familiar.
1t will DO the part of tho historian to
analyse the character and discuss the
public acts of Mr.. Garfield. He was Il
man of great information, which he
had gathered by hard study, and was
laborious in his attention to the public
duties to which no was assigned. In
the House of Representatives. no was
for his great familiarity
with even tho details of the affairs of
government. lilo was a ready, but not
strong dcbater--not such as Mr..
Blaine, or Mr.. Conkling. Hiskinlncss
OF heart and pleasing address made him
more friends among his political oppo-
nents than, perhaps, any prominent
Republican of the past ten years, and
to these qualities Mr.. Garfield was
greatly indebted for his success in
political life. What he would have
been rs President, we arc deprived of
knowing, but the political compilations
which marked his entry into office and
which surrounded his Administration
called for the exhibition of decided
ability and great firmness. His policy
toward the South, as President, pro-
missed to DO fair and generous, and his
death at the South will be decplv
lamented.
Our Old friend Rev. Elias George
arrived hero this morning on the
o'clock train, in an almost diving