Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-09-22
THE Second Martyr Presi-
| dent finds Rest in the
Grave ! ..
The Saddest Death. Save One
in all the Records of Time.
And Now, What of the Future
of Our Country.

4 LONG BRANCH, September 19.--The
apresident is dead.
q 1910 p. m.---The President died at
q 10:35 p. IN. From what can be ascer-
Stained his death was from sheer exhaus-
&tion. Mr.. Warren Young, assistant to
#private Secretary Brown, brought the
&uews FROM the cottage at sixteen min
#utes before eleven. The first indication
that anything serious had occurred was
|&the appearance of messenger at the
#Elberton hotel, who obtained carriage
|Sand drove rapidly off. 1t was supposed
|zthat he had gone to summon the mem
4bers of the cabinet, who left here about
9half-past tonight.
q Colonels Swain and Rockwell remain
led with the President about Is minutes
Safter 10. The President awakened and
Mremarked to Col. Swain that he was
@suffering great pain and placed his hand
Cover his heart. DIR. Bliss was summoned
#and when he entered the room he found
the President substantially without pulse
land the action of the heart was almost in
sdistinguishable. He said at onces the
president was dying and directed Mrs.
SGarfield be called; also the doctors.
8 The President remained
q LIN DYING CONDITlON
Huntil 10:35, when he was pronounced
Sdead. He died of some trouble of the
Nheart, supposed to be neuralgia, but
Sthat, of course, is uncertain. He notified
aGen. Arthur, and sent a dispatch to
8 Messrs. Blaine and Lincoln. who are en-
zroute from Boston to New York.
y THE LAST HOURS.
3 A Telegram extra says: By the presi-
adent's bedside, holding his poor emaciat-
led hand in her own, and watching with
4anguish unutterable the fast vanishing
Sands of life, sat his faithful, devoted
awife during the closing hours of the
a Presidents career. Around him were
Aother weeping friends and physicians
alamenting their powerlessness in the
apresence of the dark angel of death.
%Toward the last the mind of the sufferer
|Swandered. He was once more back in
8Mentor amid those scenes where the
%happiest hour of his life were spent. He
#sat in the dear old homestead again with
a!the loved ones around him. His aged
amother, so proud of her big boy, his
Sfaithful wife and beloved children. 1t
twas a blissful dream that robbed death
8of its terrors and rendered the dying man
#for the moment unconscious of the cruel
Arending of his once vigorous frame that
Slwas constantly going on. The roar of
Ethe restless ocean mingled with the sobs
Bof loved ones as the lamp of life flicker
Sed and went out forever. Nearly every
Zone around the President clung to hope
ITO the last, and refused to credit the ap-
@proach of death until the shadowy door
*opened and the destroyer's presence
ScOlld ha No lopror ,,pfalt Ill ~ 4
ahalf-mast from every house on Ocean
4avenue and the gayety of this favorite
Swatering place is followed by the Deep
Aest gloom. The struggle is over, and
Sdeath is victor.
q LONG BRANCH, Sept. 20-The night was
lone of hurry, excitement, anxiety and
Swork, such as Long Branch has never
seen and will never see again. There
Y twas neither sleep nor quite, except at the
Franklyn, cottage, between the hours Of
II O'Clock, when the last newspaper men
Sleft, and at o'clock when they began to
$arrive from the west end The news
came with
TERRIBLE SUDDENNESS,
zdespite the fact that every ybody was wait
4 ing and watching for, and the anxiety to-
secure accurate facts, which at first prom
Used to be difficult, prevented any at
ltempt at the narration of details. half
the newspaper men, long on duty at
Washington and here, were exhausted and
had gone to bed. The horses had BEEN
sstabled. Only relay of men were on
Telegraph duty, and in another half hour
gall the hotel and cottage residents would
have been asleep. The announcement
THAT the President was