Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-09-22

What Is Being Said and Done in Reference
to the Death Of President Garfield.
AN HISTORIC HEARsE.
Mayor Ewing, OF st. Louis. yesterday tele-
| gmphed Mayor Herrick of Cleveland tender
| ing. on the part of the owner Mr. Jesse Arnott,
| the use of the hearse used at Springfield. Ill.
| on the occasion of the burial of the remains of
| President Lincoln. 1t is described as massive
| and handsome vehicle, the body being of black
| gold ana silver. and the sides of glass. with
| gold figures burned into the surface and silver
columns dividing it. Mr.. Arnott had the hearse
built in Philadelphia in 1860 at a cost of 81 600
| PRAYER FOR GUITEAU's SOUL
The union services at st. Johns Lutheran
church, HagerstOwn. Nd, last evening. Were very
| largely attended. Rev. DR.. J. H. Dashiell con-
Quoted them. They consisted of the reading of
appropriate selections from the Scriptures. sing
| ing of hymns, prayers by DR.. Dashiell Reys S
l.. e. Kramer, j. 8. Kieffer. and S. w Owen.
and addresses by DIR. Dashiell. Revs. Kieffer. s.
b. Moore, S. w. Owen and J. A. Roundthaler
In making the closing prayer Rev. Mr. Owen
petitioned for Heavens mercy for the soul of
the poor wretch who had stricken the President
before his life should be taken by law and
| justice.
The Masonic Lodges of Chicago have deter
mined that If their late brother Garfield is to be
inferred with Masonic honors they will attend in
| body.-COmmttees from the board of superyi-
sOrs. chamber of commerce. board of trade and
produce exchange and number of leading citi-
zens Of San Francisco have decided that on the
day of the deceased Presidents funeral there
should be procession Of military and civic
| organizations. The various places of public
amusement were closed Tuesday evening.Gen-
eral CullOm, of Illinois. has issued procama-
| ton recommending that during the hour of
the funeral the people shall assemble at their
respective places of worship and observe such
s0iennities as may be fitting. The governor
also sent message of sympathy to Mrs. Gar
d deed mnu Columbia c. Tuesday, one hun
placed at half-mast on all public buildngs.-At
New Orleans the Veterans of the Army of North
ern Virginia were among the first to drape
their headquarters in neutrality-suspicious.
General Smith, of Columbus. Ohio, has issued
orders to all the batteries connected with the
Ohio militia to fire minute guns next Monday
at two o'clock. An order has been issued for
Governor Fosters military staff to assemble at
Cleveland next MOnday.-At st. Louis delega-
Federal, and merchants, has been appointed to
attend the funeral at Cleveland. public mass
meeting has been called for Saturday-The
members of the produce exchange. New York.
met yesterday and adopted suitable resolutions
relative to the Presidents DEATH as did also the
cotton exchange. The theatrical managers have
decided to close on the day of the funeral
Mayor Prince and the president Of the board of
| aldermen and council of Boston left Yesterday
to attend the funeral of the Presidential
Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday, memorial services
were held by the various religious, military,
secret and other societies. The city
buildings will be draped for thirty
| days. The committee having charge of the
| burial has accepted the services of the German
| and other singing sOcieties-The New York
Chamber OF Commerce have appointed thirteen
prominent gentlemen to represent that BODY
at the funeral of the late observation-disclosures
Ludlow of New Jersey. has issued a proclama-
ton recommending appropriate religious exer-
OF the Port of New York yesterday appointed
committee of ten to represent the association
at the funeral Obsequies.-The public schools of
| New York will be closed on the day of the fune-
ral-A committee from the Army of the Cum
berland Association will attend the funeral
Gen Sheridan has been selected as one of the
pall-bearers, and lett Chicago for Washington
| last night.-The Louisville (Ky.) Board of Trade
yesterday passed appropriate resolutions.-GOv.
Littlef1eld has issued proclamation recon-
mending that all public offices be closed and
business suspended on MOnday.-One of the
largest meetings held in years convened in
Charleston yesterday and passed appropriate
| resolutions, one of which asserts that Garfield
remembered as President of an indissoluble
union of indestructible states resting as it does
and through his tragical DEATH on the affections
and confidence of the people. Cornell of
New York, has designated Monday as day of
fasting and prayer
Capt. Hanselman commander of the Knights
Iemplar of Cincinnati, of which Gen. Garfield
was member. has rendered the services of the
commandery as an escort. Magnolia Lodge.
OF Columbus which enjoys the distinction of
| having made the President Mason while he
was at Camp Chase, in 1862, has adopted proper
resOlutions.-A proposition has been made i'm
Plttsburg to erect grand memorial monument
over the remains OF President Garfield by twenty-
i've cent subscriptions. q
Gov Cullom, of Illinois, has made proclama-
ton announcing the death of the President and
expressing the sympathy of epeope of Illinois
with his family, and recommending that during
the hour OF the funeral the people shall assemble
at their respective places of worship and OBJ
serve such sOlemnties as may be fitting to the
occasion.
MESSAGE FROM GOV. CULLOM.
Gov. Cullom, of Illinois, has sent the follow
ing dispatch to President Arthur" Deeply
mourning the untimely death of the nations
Chief Magistrate, the people of Illinois turn to
you, his constitutional successor. with strong
confidence. and promise that in all acts of proper
administration in the maintenance and execu-
ton of the law they will give you unwavering
support"
DIR. AGNEw AND THE AUTOPSY.
DR.. Hayes Agnew, who returned from Elberon
to his country seat at Haverford. Pa, yesterday.
said that the Presidents case was one in which
from the first there was very little hone. and
that the autopsy should have been satisfactory
as setting the public mind at rest upon that
point. The penetration of the spine by the ball
and the scattering of the small slivers of the
bone, wounding the surrounding tissues, would
sufficiently account, he remarked, for the subse-
quent septic conditions, and, with the injury to
the vertebrR, was the inevitable cause of that
train of sequences which resulted in the burst
ing of the mesenteric artery and the ensuing
fatal hemOrrhage. DR.. Agnew was asked if he
was disposed to make any explanation relative
to the charge in one of the public prints that the
diagnosis had been incorrect from the beginning
and that the consulting surgeons had accepted
and endorsed it through courtesy. His reply
was: II would refer those who may credit any
such statement to the individual who originally
furnished the information to the public press"