The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-22

Mollie Garfield sat upon lounge in
the hall The colored servants of the
cottage were grouped outside the
door of the sick room peepiDg 10.
The President was breathing heavily
and at increasing intervals The
doctors whispered to each other two
or three times, but aside from this no
word was spoken. Two or three
signs and some suppressed sobbing
from the groups Of negroes in the
door was heard, but all the rest were
silent. The heavy breathing of the
President continued for about fifteen
minutes, and then ceased Conscious
ness did not return Death was
absolutely painless When all was
over Mrs. Garfield quietly withdrew
to her room. DIR. Hamilton smooth
ed the features of the dead President,
and the other physicians and attend
ants Strengthened his limbs. Mrs.
Garfield returned half an hopr later,
and sat silently upon the bedside,
the tears running in foods over her
cheeks, but her whole demeanor man
Tested her heroic spirit and self
control in this supreme hour of her
grief"
Secretary Blaine on Tuesday sent to
Minister Lowell a despatch officially an
nouncing the death of President Garfield
and the accession Of Vice President Ar
thur to the Presidency Of the United
States. General Arthur took the oath Of
Office as President at his residence in New
York, on Tuesday at 2 o'clock A. M.
The arrangements for the funeral of
President Garfield have been completed.
The body was removed to Washington
by special train, leaving Elberen at ten
o'clock yesterday morning and reached
Washington at four o'clock in the after
noon. No stoppages were made at any
Of. the stations on the route. In Washing
ton the remains will lie in state in the
rotunda Of the Capitol until 5 o'clock on
Friday afternoon. They will then be
taken to Cleveland, Ohio, where. on Mon
day afternoon, they will be inferred in
Lake View Cemetery. No ceremonies
beyond the tolling of bells are expected
in cities through which theJ pass.
kilograms from New York, Brooklyn
Boston, Baltimore, New Orleans, Savan.
nah, Charleston. Montgomery, St. Louis
Nashville, Chicago, Omaha, Little Rock
Knoxville, Chattanooga, Albany, Buffalo
Detroit, San Francisco, Louisville, Pitts
burg, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Harrisburg
Memphis, Macon, Norfolk, Toledo, vii
mington, Del, Reading, Wilkesbarre
Chester, Pa, and large number Of
other towns and cities in the Union speah
of the profound gloom caused by the
death of President Garfield. In all OF
nearly all of the cities named, meetings
were held, the bells were tolled, and Off
cial action taken in view of the public af
| Fiction. Flags were half.masted, and
emblems of mourning displayed every
where. The newspapers, South as well
as North, expressed the deep sorrow fell
by the people the unity of their senti
ment, and their admiration for the noble
qualities of the deceased President. Ii
Ottawa, Montreal, st. Johns and othel
cities of the Dominion of Canada thu
public feeling was also deeply moved.
By previous arrangement post-mor
tenn examination of the body Of Presiden
Garfield was made on Tuesday afternoon
in the presence and with the assistance o
Drs. Hamilton, Agnew,. Bliss, Barnes
Woodward, Reyburn, Andrew n. Smith
of Elberon, and Acting Assistant Sur
geon D. s. Lamb, of the Medical Museum
Washington. The operation was perfor
med by DIR. Lamb. 1t was found tina
the ball, after fracturing the right eleventh
rib. had passed through the spinal column
in front of the spinal canal, fracturing thu
body Of the first lumbar vertebra, driving
humber of small fragments of bones int
the adjacent soft parts, and lodging below
the pancreas, about two inches and ;
half to the left of the spine and behins
the peritoneum, where it had become.com
pletely encysted. The immediate caus
of death was secondary hemorrhage from
one of the mesenteric arteries adjoining
the track of the ball, ,the blood rupturinl
the peritoneum, and nearly pint escap
ing into the abdominal cavity. This hem
orrhage is believed to have been tbs
cause of the severe pain in tho lower par
OF the chest complained of just before
death. And an abseess cavity, six inches
by four in dimensions, vas found in the
vicinity ofthe gall bladder, between the
liver and the transverse colon, which were