Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-09-27
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Death of President Jas. A. Garfield.
In token of sorrow for the death OF 3
President Jas. A. Garfield, we clotheH
our columns in the ''sad habiliments OH
woe" His death occurred between Lon
and II o'clock on Monday night. the8
10Th inst, and the sad news was not re-
ceived here till after IL O'Clock, after
our issue of last week was put to press.
The first intelligence that our citizens +
generally had of that sad event was
communicated to them whilst in bed by
the tolling of the bells of the City, which
was followed by minute guns fired by
the Artillery. The next morning found
the Post-cffice and City Hall buildings, /
the Halls of the Fire Companies, and
q number of the business and private
houses in our City draped in mourning
AS it.was the opinion of his distinguish
ed and able physicians the day before,
that he would, at least, survive few
days longer, the news of his death wasI
sad surprise to our people.
The act of the assassin who fired the|
fatal shot that struck down the Chief
Magistrate of our country, excited the|
horror and indignation of the whole
people, irrespective of parties or sections,
and the protracted sufferings of his vic
tim have elected their profound sympa-
thy, and his heroic fortitude, and that
of his devoted wife their highest admit
ration. AS Providence is, "even from
evil, still educing good" we have mol
doubt that this sad dispensation will bel
made the means of accomplishing some
compromising good, and, probably, in al
way least expected.
providence moves in mysterious way,
His wonders to perform"
We can already see that it has had the|
effect of ameliorating party and section
al prejudices, and making the people of
both sections feel more kindly disposed
towards each other.
The body of the President was taken
from Long Branch to Washington City
on Tuesday, where it lay in state in the
rotunda of the Capitol on Thursday and
Friday, whence it was transported toI
Cleveland, arriving there on Saturday
There the body lay in state till q
o'clock, P. M, yesterday, (Monday)|
when, under the direction of the State|
and municipal authorities, the burial
took place in Lake View Cemetery, on|
the outskirts of Cleveland. in which re-
pose the remains of the Presidents uncle,
Thomas Garfield, killed by train 81
fortnight before the assassination, and
of cousin who died four years ago.
POST. MoRTEM EXAMINATION.
The result of the autopsy of the body
of the President, which was held Tues
day by the attending physicians, dis
closed the fact that the ball had lodged
two inches and half to the left of the
spine, and behind the peritoneum,
where it became encysted. The imme-
diate cause of death was secondary
hemorrhage.
sit is to be observed" says the Bait.
Sun, .'that the President died, according|
to the official report of the physicians
who made the autopsy, of secondary
hemorrhage from an artery adjacent to
the track of the ball." and only remote
ly from the wound, the py@mic trouble,
or the assesses which formed near the
gall-bladder. 1t is held by some per-
sons that it was illogical not to have
used the probe Immediately after the
shooting, either to extract or ascertain
the whereabouts of the ball, "for if the|
ball had gone through the body, as was|
supposed, he was a dying man, and al
probe would not have hurt him, but i'll
IL had not gone through into the abb
dominal cavity, the probe would have
shown that fact in half a minute. n
Guessing had to take the place of scien-
tific inference. On the LIST of August
the belief was that the ball was in the
front wall of the abdomen, about five|
inches below and to the right of the ma
vel and just ov5 the groin, whereas the|
autopsy showns that the bullet went in|
the opposite direction fracturing theI
right eleventh rib, it had passed rather
upwards along the anterior side of the|
spinal column, fracturing it, and lodgs|
ing below the pancreas, about q inchesi
to the left of the spine, and between it'll
and the peritoneum, the membrane
which contains the internal organs.
Here it was encysted and was not, i'll
seems, doing any harm. But the track
pursued by the bullet was never found
nor drained, and the report says it isE
Especially the fractured spongy tissue
of the vertebrae" that furnishes the suf.E
ficient explanation of the blood-poison-E
ing. What the physicians have beent
draining so long was borrowing pusE
cavity. It Is of course by no means cer-E
tain that correct diagnosis of the dill
rection of tine ball in the beginning
would have averted the Presidents
death, yet it is certain that his treat
ment would have been radically differ
ent had the position of the bullet beenE
known. 1t may be noted also thatk
there were no Assesses found INF
the lung, as had been confdent-E
ly anticipated by physicians-the Newt
York Herald included-and the onlyE
one of importance In the interiorE
of the body was one of which the medi-
cal attendants had notsuspected the ex
istence."
CT.