The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-09-29

severe spasm, and called to Daniel, Who
was at the door, TO tell DR.. Bliss and
Mrs. Garfield to come in immediateiv
and glanced st the small clock banginp
on the chandelier nearly over the fool Of
his bed and saw that it was ten minutes
past ten o'clock DR.. Bliss came in
within two or three minutes. told
Daniel to bring the lght-a little can.
| Ole which habitually set behind the
scene near the door. When the LIGHT
shone iull on his face saw that he Was
dying. Wien DR.. Bliss came in mo.
ment after, 1 said doctor have Won
any stimulants; he seems to be diving"
de took hold of his wrist as if feeling
TOR his pulse and said: "Yes. he is dy,
ing" then said to Daniel "Run and
arouse the house." At that moment
Colonel Rockwell came in and DIR. Bliss
said: Let US rub bis limbs" which we
dld In very few moments Mrs. Gar.
heid came in and said: "What does
this meanY' and moment after ex
claimed, "Oh, why am I made to suffer.
this cruel wrong" at 1926 D. m.
the sacrifice was completed. He breath
ed his last calmly and peacefully.
AT the final moment tho following
persons were present: Mra Garfield and
Mollie, Drs. Bliss, Agnew sad Boynton
General Swain, Colonel and Mrs. Rock
well, J. Stanley Brown, G. O. Rockwell
and Daniel Sprigg.
special from Solon saws the news
was broken to Grandma Garfield about
nine o'clock this morning. At first she
was very much shocked, but soon came
20, and talked calmly and said: at was
probably all for the best, if the people
were ready to receive it," "It is not nos.
slble that my son Jamas is dead.
don't. wish to live any longer. I will
soon be with him."
| Post Norton Examination.
ELBERoN, n. j., SEP .ember 2i.-The
following official bulletin was prepared
at II o'clock last night by the surgeons
who have been in attendance upon the
late President:
ny previous arrangements, post NOR
tenn examination of the body of President
Garfield was made this afternoon in the
presence and with the assistance of Drs.
Hamilton, Agnew, Bliss, Barnes, Wood
ward, Reyburn and the Rev. II. Smith.
of Elberon, and Acting Assistant Sur
geon Lamb, of the Army Medical Mu-
scum, Washington. The operation was
performed Uy DR.. Lamb. II was found
that the ball, after fracturing the right
eleventh rib, had passed through the
spinal column in front of the spinal
canal, fracturing the body of the first
lumbar verterbra, driving a number of
small fragments of bone into the ada
cent soft parts and lodging below the
pancreas, about two inches and half to
the left of the spine and behind the peri.
t0neum, where it became completely en-
cysted.
The immediate cause of death was
secondary he@orrhage from one of the
mesentelic arteries adjoining the track of
the ball, the blood rupturing the perito-
neum and nearly a pint escaping into the
abdominal cavity. This hemorrhage is
believed to. have been, the cause of the
severe pains in the lower part gof the
chest complained of just before death.
An abscess cavity, six inches by four in
dimensions, was found in the vicinity of
the gall bladder, between the liver and
the transverse colon, which were strongly
adherent. 1t did not involve the SUBJ
etance Of the liver, and no communities
ton was found between it and the wound.
A suppurating channel extended from
the external wound, between the loin
muscles and the right kidney, almost TO
the right gvoin- This channel, now
known tC due to the burrowing of pus
from the wound, was supposed during
life to have been the track of the bali.
On examination Of the organs of the
chest evidences of severe bronchitis were
found on both sides, with bronchial pnen-
monia of the lower portions of the right
lung, though to much less extent on
the left. The lungs contain no abscesse5
and the heart no clots. The liver was
enlarged and fatty, but free from alb
scesses; nor were any found in any other
organ except the left kidney, which con.
tanned near its surface o small abscess
about one.third of an inch in diameter.
In reviewing the history of the case in
connection with the autopsy, it is quite
evident that the different suppurating
surfaces, and especially the fractured
spongy tissue of the vertebre, furnish
sufficient explanation of the septic con-
dition which existed.
DIR. Bliss stated at late hour last
night that the autopsy had been very te.
dious, and the time occupied in search
ing for the ball alone was nearly three
quarters of an hour. In reply TO an in
conclusion of the autopsy Mrs. Garfield
tablished the fact that the patient's death
was inevitable. He stated further that
the point OF the ball was somewhat blunt
o. in battered condition, caused by the
force by which it struck the rib in other
respects its original shape was not
altered.
Looking on Death.
9 WASHINGTON, September 22.-There
has never before been such scene as the
Capital witnessed day. The stream of
people was endless. They stopped pass
ing by the body of the late President
about O'Clock this morning. There was
g respite until o'clock this morning,
when they commenced to come again !.
They have kept it up all day long it
would be simply impossible to estimate
the number Of people of all ages who
passed by the clay of President Gar
field to-day. 1t was Q bewildering, con-
stantly moving stream. rnW
Outside the Capitol from the east por-
, tico theis was scsue os moving life. AS
far as the eye could take lii q stream of
people were formed into line. There
was no pushing anywhere along the line.
There was no excitement. Pe,ple waited
| for hours contented to stand in the sSn
aHG!. advanced toward tho bier inch by
| inch. Some people had stood in line
fully three hours before they passed the
coffin, and with one brief glance paid
their tribute.
People who did not get in line stood by
in crowds ana watched the faces of thc9e