The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-29
Echoes Of tho Assassination.


The contributions to Mrs. Garfield ;
Fund are now over S-oo,ooO- Inc
President was insured for 10000; and
had about So, 600 worth of property.
His salary added will give the fam Ily
half of a million dollars to
shuttle along with.
Queen Victoria seems strangely IN
She sent several kilograms
before Garfield died and, aiterward,
ordered the court To go IN mourning
ten days. She also SEN dispatches 10
Mrs. Garfield and ordered a large
floral design to- be prepared and put on
the President coffin.
The shot which the half-crazy ego
fist, Guitteau, fired FROM his borrowed
pistol, on a j July morning, three months
was intended by him TO make a
sensation, whereof he should be the
hero. 1t has far exceeded expectation.
Ii has echoed round the globe. and
brought all civilized Nations into sym
pathy with our own! With Our
Own" Yea, with our own Reunited
Nation for now, at length, after twen
ty years of suffering and oppression.
even the Southern Nazarlne Is admitted
TO fellowship IN tears for the dead
President who was beginning 10 be more
of a Statesman than Politician.
Some singular sequences to the
assassination are being chronlcled. y
wealthy citizen Of Elizabeth. New jer
sey, on hearing the ncwsboys shout
The President is dead fell back in
hi- chair, dead. OF heart disease At
Altamont, Illinois, John W. Pointer, d
prominent grain dealer, after reading
the details, burst into tears, went up
stairs, and blew out his brains, or what
passed for brains. At P%lttsburg, w.
b. Horner, editor Of the Comnerct0l
Grzette, had long fancied that Garfield :
death would be followed by his own.
On hearing the city bells tolllng, he
asked nc questions; but went to bed,
and died next day.
The demand for Grape and mourn
ing c~alicoes at the North last week was
tremendous. A single firm 10 Philadel
phia received orders for 2, 500, 600 yard,
think OF it y and In five hours there
was not a yard OF Grape to be bought III
the whole city More than ten thous
and copies OF the dead Presidents pho
tograph were sold in the same city that
day. All the artist galleries were clear
ed out. One hundred and eleven thous-
aud copies Of the Daily Record were
sold next morning. What a wonderful
thing the population of a great city is !
Mrs. Garfield evidently knows how
10 t.iy. n,ra e la,cf InCt.l ~
mopelng and soldering as many a wo
man would have done, in her circum-
staLces, she never once lost her head,
after u few hours of bitter grief imme-
diately following her husbands death ;;
and SOON manifested great GOODNESS.
All her family furniture, ETC., that had
been brought to the White House, she
had ~re-packed and sent home under her
own eye. All the magnificent floral
pieces that were placed on the Presl-
dents coffin she had boxed and sent
home. And while the funeral train was
journeying t o Cleveland, she had it
from the front to the rear, in order to
avoid the noise of the engine. She
says she will never again set foot in
Washington, and will never hear the
name without aversion. But she is
mistaken. In a few years grief will
have passed, and pride in her own share
of the famous events now TRANSPORTING
will be swelled by the style of living,
and the swarms of .sycophantlc
friends which half-a-million dollars
inevitably %iusures. Within ten years
very likely she will become a resident of
Washington.