The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-29

by two and one-half in width at the toI
and about two feet in height, increasing
gradually in size to the base This p0r
ton is covered with black cloth arranged
in verticle folds, with large bows of sill
at the corners and heavy silk fringe;
around the edges. A silver moulding a
the top completes the catafalque. The
entrances 10 the halls of the senate and
house of representatives are also taste
fully decorated with emblems OF mourn
ing.
PREPARING TO RECEIVE THE REMAINS
AT CLEVELAND.
CLEVELAND, O, Sept. 21.-The gener
al committee of arrangements appoint
ed yesterday, for the care of President
Garfieid's remains, met this forenoon al
the Mayors Office TO appoint a sub-com.
mittee 10 arrange the details The ten.
dered services OF the combined German
and other singing societies were accept
ed. Secretary Lincoln telegraphs, in
response to the offer of the First Cleve.
land Troop, which was Garfield's escort
at the Inauguration, to escort the re-
mains here, that the arrangements do
not provide for any escort before reach.
ing Cleveland.
WILL GO TO WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2I.-Sergeant-at.
Arms Bright, Of the Senate, in response
TO his invitation has received answers
from the following senators, expressing
their intention to come here: MesSrs.
Hawiey. Edmunds, Sewell, Bayard,
Blair, Mitchell, Sherman, Jones, OF
Florida, Salisbury and HOar. They
will all arrive before Thursday evening.
Senators Morgan, Johnston, Ingalls,,
Garland, Pugh and Mcmillan are not in
the city. Senator Platt's son telegraphs
his father is in the Adirondack noun.
tains, and his health is too precariOus TO
admit of the hurried journey necessary
to be in attendance. Dispatches are be-
ing constantly received by both Sergeant.
alarms, Bright and Thompson, from
members of the two Houses of Congress,
announcing their departure for Wash
ingtOn. Members OF the army of the
Cumberland residing in Washington
will act as a guard of honor tn the re.
mains while lying in state in the rotun-
da of the capitol.
THE POST M0RTEM EXAMINATION.
ELBERoN, n. j., Sept. 20.-The fol.
lowing official bulletin was prepared at
II O'Clock tonight by the surgeons who
have been in attendance upon the late
President:
TEN examination of the body of Presi-
dent Garfield was made this afternoon
in the presence, and with the assistance
of Doctors Hamilton, Agnew, Bliss,
Barnes, Woodward, Reyburn, Andrew
III. Smith, of Elberon. and Acting Assist
ant Surgeon ID. 8. Lamb, of the Army
Medical Museum, of Washington. The
operation was performed by DR. Lamb.
Ii was found that the ball, after fractur-
ing the right eleventh rib, had passed
through the spinal column in front of
the spinal cord, fracturing the body of
the first lumbar vertebra, driving a num-
Der of small fragments of bone into the
soft parts, and lodging just below the
pancreas, about two inches and 4
half to the left of the spine, and be-
hind the peritoneum, where it
had become completely encysted. The
immediate cause of death was secondary
hemorrhage from one of the mesentric
arteries adjoining the track of the ball,
blood rupturing the peritoneum and
nearly n pint escaping into the alb
dominal cavity. This hemorrhage is be-
lieved to have been the cause of the
severe pain in the lower part of the
chest, complained of just before death.
An abscess cavity, six inches by four in
diameter, was found in the vicinity of the
gall bladder, between the liver and the
transverse colon. It did not involve the
substance of the liver and no communi-
cation was found between it and the
wound. A long suppurating channel
extended from the external wound be
tween the loin muscles and right kidney
almost to the right groin. This channel
now known to be due to the burroWing of
pus from the wound, was supposed dur
ing life to be the track of the ball.
On examination of the organs Of
the chest, evidences of severe
bronchitis were found on both sides
with broncho pneumonia of the lower
portions of the right lung, and much
less extent of the left lung, but they con-
tanned no abscess, and the heart no clots
of blood. The liver was enlarged and
fatty, but free from assesses; nor were
any found in any of the other organs
except the left kidney, which contained,
near its surface, small sbscess about
One-third OF an inch in diameter
In reviewing the history Ofthe case in
connection with the autopsy, it is quite
evident that the different suppurating
surfaces, and especially the fractured
spongy tissue of vertebra, furnish suff1c-
lent explanation of the septic condition
which existed.
(Signed) d. w. BLISS,
J. K. BARNES,
id. WOODWARD,
r. REYBURN,
F, H. HAMILTON,
d. HAYES AGNEw