Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-09-24

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the head Of the catafulque. and read in clear and
distinct voice the following selections from Script
| ure: "The Lord reigneth. The floods have lifted
up their voice. The Lord on high is mighter than
| the voice of many waters. Clouds and darkness
are around about Him. Righteousness and judg-
ment are the habitation of His throne. By Him
kings shall reign, and princes decree justice. He
changeth times and seasons He removeth kings
and setteth up kings-for there is no power but Of
| God. The powers that be areF ordained of God.
Whosoever, therefore, resiseth the power resisteth
| the ordinance"
| Rev. DR.. Isaac Everett then offered prayer He
spoke a clear but low tone, and with much evi-
dence of deep feeling
| Rev. F. L. Power, of the Vermont-avenue Christ
ian Church, of which President Garfield was men,
Der, delivered feeling address.
The funeral services were concluded at about P.
NJ, when the casket at once removed to the
hearse in waiting in front OF the Capitol. few
minutes later the procession marched through The
military escort preceded the hearse, which fol-
lowed by long line of carriages two abreast. The
military marched up the avenue to the depot and
dispersed and the casket was taken at once to the
train waiting at the Baltimore and Potomac depot
The sidewalks of the avenue and at the intersecing
street corners were thronged with thousands Of
spectators. The funeral train left Washington at
Sis, and Baltimore at 6.49
Preparations for the Funeral at Cleve-
land.
CLEVELAND, September 23d.-Tbe programme for
the music at the funeral on Monday is adopted as
follows: The Cleveland Vocal Society will sing
Beethovens Funeral March :" the hymn begin
ming Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not
deplore thee" Mendelssohn's chorus st. Paul, 'To
the. Lord yield my spirit" and Garfelds: favorte
hymn, beginning
Ho respers of lites harvest,
Why stand with rusted blade
Until the night draws round thee
And day begins to fade?
At the grave the United German Singing Societies
Seclerisq@ Pueres."
The main decorations will consist Of nine mag
nifeent arches, one at each entrance to the Monu-
mental Park, two at the corner of Euclid avenue
and Erie street. two at the corner of Erie and Su-
peror Streets and one at the entrance to Lake View
Cemetery.
Draped banners stretch across the principal
streets bearing notices and quotations from the H.
lustrious dead. Large banners with appropriate
decorations span Euclid avenue at the Pittsburg
railroad crossing, where the body will be taken from
the and the procession formed to enter the
city,
Elaborate decorative work will be done upon the
four arches the square. That facing the pavilion
on the west will consist of two massive columns
Joined by an arch. Two other and shorter columns
and e;1 oS
way, one bearing bronze eagle, the other repre-
senting a broken column. The columns will be ap-
proprately wreathej in flowers, flags and draperies
portion of the arch will consist OF flags and
flowers, woven together to form ladder At the
foot will be the words 60 Canal Boat :" then
Hiram" then step above that CHI camauga -
then House of Congress-; next, Senate" and
at the top "The White House." The arch facing
this upon the east viii be similar in general design.
The decorations consist principally OF the flags of
all nations, internixed with flower and drapery OF
sable.
The floral decorations in the standards will be four
by eight in size, and in the archways eight BY
ten feet.
The decorations facing the catafalque will be
two colossal floral gates, with standards at each end
90 feet in hight.
The space between is occupied by several posts 1C
feet high. Each standard will be clothed with
sable drapery and decorated with wreaths and flags
J. II. Wade, II. B. Fayne and Joseph Perkins are
appointed committee to receive subscriptions and
decide on monument.
CLEVELAND, September 23d.-Workmen are using
electric and calcium lights to work nights and com
plete their aboIs on the catafalque and other ar
rangements for the funeral. The town is already
overcrowded, and citizens throwing open theil
doors in the efforts to accommodate the immense
crowd 1t is feared that half cannot be housed OF
fed, and all sorts of shifts are resorted to.
The Dead Presidents son.
| SPRINGFIELD (Mass.), September 3d. James A
Garfield left Williamstown this evening for Cleve
land, accompanied by five students. including Dor
Rockwell They will reach Cleyeland tomorrow
morning.
seitENplanafOry Dispatches.
WASHINGTON, September q, 1851
| Hon Fl. F. Page: The funeral services OF the latt
| President will take place at Washington on Frda,
| at P NJ and at Cleveland on Monday at p NJ
You are requested to attend Ansrer;
GEO. w. ADAMS, Clerk.
JoHN G. THOMPSON, Sergeant-at-Arms.
THE REPLY.
SACRAMENTO, September 49, 1881
To John 9. Thompson. Sergeant-at-A Arms Hous,
| Representatives, Washington d. c.: Your Telegram
| received. Regret that distance prevents my at
tendance on Monday at the funeral of our lamentec
Chief Magistrate The people of California will, OF
that day. share the grief and render their tribute o.
sorrow and respect in common with our Who'll,
country. H. T. PAGE.
The Mrs. Garfield Fund.
New YORK, September 23d The Garfield fun,
now amounts to s2s7, 7,514.
Confessed Humiliation.
CHICAGO September 23d.-The Stats Zeitung, il
leading editorial, says: '' 1t is deeply humiatn.
to American Germans that neither Emperor William
nor Bismarck has found time to send personal dis
patch of coincidence to MIS-. Garfield, or to expires
sympathy with the United States over the sever
Affections which have befalen them"
Statement ef DIR. Hamilton.
NEw YORK, September 23d.--Dr. Hamilton, whit
attended the late President yesterday dictated to
Tribune reporter few general facts, anticipator1
of the detailed account of the autopsy. Referring
to the ball, he said that the presence of the ball ii
the situation in which it found was not the i'm
mediate cause of death, as it was completely en-
cysted, and must have long since ceased to caus
irritation. The small fragments of bone and thu
great lesion of the lumbar vertebra are the Patio
logical facts which could alone endsnger thu
patients life. This lesion of the vertebra tn,
surgeons had no means of repairing, nor could i
have been repaired save by the process OF nature
The small fragments of bone, widely disseminated
in adjacent tissues, certainly could not hav,
been removed by any surgical operation.
was determined by the autopsy that tn,
necessity did not exist for the removs
of the ball; or, in other words, if it had
not been for the lesion it might have beer
carried for many years without causing death, o.
even Inconvenience. There were no possible mean
to know the situation of the ball during life,
gave no indications of its presence nor could i
possibly have been reached and recognized by an!
form OF surgical probe That death would hav'
been the immediate and inevitable result of any
such daring adventure is almost absolutely certain
| cannot believe that one intelligent surgeon vii
hereafter think that at any period in the progres
OF the case the ball, or the fragments o
bone which went hafora could hay