The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1881-09-23
The Dead President.


All over this land households suffer
bereavement as for devoted son,
husband, father. at whose bedside
they have prayerfully watched for
eighty weary days and nights, now
hoping, now fearing, always knowing
almost to certainty since the first
RELAPSE that sooner or later the in,
tense physical suffering endured must
roverbear the stalwart frame and grand
heroism Of the President and death
claim him victim. This dreaded hour
came on Monday. Sept. 10Th, at IS
minutes past 10 O'Clock. Although
the President had been given up to
die, yet life remained and with ithope
on the morning of Sept 10. At the
hour ofthe morning dressing the pa
tient was attacked with a chill and
vomiting. His pulse ran very high
and feebly, but at evening he appear
ed to rest very comfortably. At 10
minutes after 10 o'clock he awoke,
complaining of severe pain over the
region ofthe heart, and almost i'm
.mediately became unconscious, and
ceased to breathe at Io:s5.
There were present at the time of
the Presidents death: Mrs. Garfield
and daughter Mollie, Drs. Bliss and
Agnew, Gel. Swain and 0. C. Rock
well, Mrs. and Miss Rockwell, Score
'taries Brown and Young, III. l.. Atoh-
ison, John Kicker, 0. Lancaster and
a colored servant, Daniel Spriggs.
At ten minutes after midnight
dispatch was sent to Vice President
Arthur from the members of the Cabi-
net, informing him of the death of
President Garfield, and advising him
to take the oath of Office as President
of the United States without DELAY.
Gen. Arthur received the dispatch at
1890 O'Clock, at his residence, 1913
Lexington Ave-, New York City. The
oath of Office was administered at his
house by Judge Brady Of the New
York supreme court two hours later,
and Gen. Arthur proceeded to Long
Branch by the noon train on Tues
day.
The autopsy on the body of the
President was made on Tuesday after
noon in the presence and with the as
sistance of Drs. Hamilton, Agnew,
Bliss, Barnes, Woodward, Reyburn,
Andrew III. Smith of Elberon, and
Acting Assistant Surgeon D. S. Lamb
of the army medical museum, Wash
ington. The operation was perform
ed by DR.. Lamb.
The examination showed that what
hao been supposed to be the track Of
the ball, was caused by the burrowing
of pus, and the bullet was found COM
pletely encysted. There was no alb
cess upon the lungs. The immediate
cause of death was hemorrhage from
an artery near the track of the ball, from
which about pint Of blood was fore
ed into the abdominal cavity.
Wednesday between the hours of
$3.50 and o:3o all necessary arrange
ments having been completed the
Presidents remains were viewed by a
sorrowing throng of people who be-
gan to gather near Franklyn cottage
at sunrise. The body was dressed in
the same suit worn at the Presidents
inaugural. The face is said to bear
little resemblance to that of Gen.
Garfield, being marked by the intense
physical suffering he has endured.
The doors Of the cottage were closed
at the hour appointed, brief funeral
service was held in the parlor of the
cottage, the casket borne to the same
car now heavily draped in black, in
which the sick President was brought
to Long Branch, and at 1910 the flu
neral train left for Washington where
it arrived at 4:35 P. M. The entire
way from Elberon to the Capitol in
Washington was marked with mani
festations of profound sorrow and
sympathy. In Washington, the I'm
feigned and reverential grief shown
upon every face marked the picture
with shadings that years cannot efface
from the memory of those who stood
about the bier of the dead President
His remains were escorted from the
train at Washington to the Capitol by
a procession of military and other or
CARNATIONS through crowded, silent
streets. The casket was placed upon
the catafalque in the rotundaprepared
for its reception and the face exposed
to view. The remains will lie there
in state until tonight, when the funer-
al frair, ,,,;ll et.~t A. Cio,,.1anI