The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-09-27
- From Wednesdays Daily.
MOURNING IN MEMORY OF THE
DEAD PRESIDENT. mt !
OUR CITIZENS UNITE IN EXPIRES
SIONS OF DEEP GRIEF.
Universal Response ofthe People in
Sympathetic Sentiment.
Immense Demonstration Last Night.

Immense Demonstration Last Nicht.
can We that are about him. bemoan him; and
staff broken, and the beautiful rod!"-HoLY
BIBLE.
Yesterday mornings MINER, containing
the first s%orrowful lie vs. of the death of our
martyred President published in the CITY, was
seized and read with intense eagerness by the
people. Not a syllable of the sorrew-convey-
ing telegram escaped the eye of the reader
The news was expected. Still, from the lips
OF every man a measured murmur was heard
of "Garfield is gone!' Here in Butte, a gla-
mour of gloom settled over everything, which
the brilliant rays of a bright sun could not
dlspel. Earnest men met in knots to de-
n0unce the deed of the black hearted assassin.
whose fatal bullet had draped the emblem OF
the most powerful Nation on His ~footstool in
mourning and made fifty millions of people
mourners. In thousands Of loca! cOm,uuni-
ties, like our own, throughout the land, the
same universal sorrow prevailed. A mighty
representative of a tree people had fallen. ! e
WA " Wy tlIS SelcI dIlOn--DuC DIS
memory will live forever. The Presidents
death is a National bereavement, keenly felt
In ever local nook and corner of the ccun-
try
But the night-dew that falls, though in silence
1t weeps.
Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he
sleeps"
While the melancholy news was being
discussed and expressions of grief were heard
on all sides, steps were being taken to show
that the people of the Silver City of the
North West desired to be counted in the great
multitude Of mourners. During the fore
noon Mayor Beal issued a proclamatin an to
the citizens of the city announcing in brief
but appropriate words the sad intelligence of
President Garfield's death, and requested
that all places of business in Butte be closed
from the hour of l O'Clock to the hour of 7
O'Clock n. IN. At the appointed hour all
places of business were promptly closed and
the city wore a still, ~liteless appearance for
six hours.
The District Court met at 0 o'clork yester.
day. Stephen De wolfe, ESQ.,, submitted the
may HiSooC 1iC
Court: Since the adjournment of yesterday
the sad intelligence has been flashed through
out the land of the death of the President
OF the United States, an event we have all
apprehended, but which we all hoped might
be avelted. In this sad event., which is
nothing less than a National calamity, and
in sympathy with the universal sorrow it ex-
cites, it is only appropriate that the Coult
should adjourn. | therefore move that the
Court adjourn until Tomorrow morning."
In accepting the motion Judge Galbraith ad-
journed Court. The motion was entered on
the journal Of the Court, Clerk Irvine draw
ing black mourning lines above and benz ath
the record, which will remain until old Time
in his flight of years grasses or obliterates it.
All the inferior courts suspended business
for the day. ProbatesJudge Irvine entered
on the journal of this Court a record of sus-
pension of Court work, out of respect to the
memory of the dead President. Police Judge
Wilcox postponed cases and adjourned he
city court. In Justices O'Meara and Will
coX's courts no business was attempted.
Nv ~Ny ooNhSii WOO uitV tcpSIiltT. "A
committee was appointed to draft resolutions
expressive Of the sense of this community
under the present great National affection.
The committee reported a series OF resolu-
tons couched in suitable words of sympa-
thetic sorrow and expressing the unanimous
voice Of the people in terms of the highest
appreciation on the exhalted character of
President Garfield as a faithful official and as
a citizen of the Republic. The resolutions
conclud ne by rendering to the mother, the
wife and the children of the deceased Presi-
dent the tenderest sympathy of the citizens
of this community.
Main street was drsped and Grape was tied
to the knobs of many doors. On the side
streets the draping was extended as far as the
line of business houses reached. In all parts
Of the city the stars and stripes were dis
played at hall: mast. The bells OH the Cath
olic Church and School House were tolled
for hours, marking funeral time, while the
large triangle at Good Trmplars' Hall was
struck at regular intervals during the whole
afternoon. Artillery doomed and the sound
ings were all like those of a funeral knell.
The flags waving at half mast-the city draped
in biack-told plainly the deep sense of sill
cere grief prevailing among our people.
A mass meeting of the citizens of Butte
Was called to assemble in front of the Cen
tennial Hotel at I o'clock last night for the
purpose of expressing sorrow at the loss of
our Chief Magistrate. Long before the ap-
pointed hour ii vast crowd gathered together
on the street and sidewalks in front of the
hotel. At the fixed time the Silver City
Cornet Band discoursed the solemn strains
Of Webb's funeral march, when Mayor
Beal called the large audience to order and
introduced Judge Knowles. The judge de-