Democratic messenger., 1881-09-24

swered, "Not at ALL" and shortly after
ward fell asleep, and DIR. Bliss returned
| to his room across the hall from that
occupied by the President. Gen. Swain
and Col. Rockwell remained with the
President.
About 1915 the President awakened
and remarked to Gen. Swain that he
was suffering great pain, and placed his
hand over his heart. DIR. Bliss was
summoned, and when he entered the
room he found the President substanti-
| ally without pulse, and the action of
the heart was almost indistinguishable.
He said at once that the President was
dying, and directed that Mrs. Garfield
be called, also the doctors. The Presi-
dent remained in dying condition until
| 1895, when he was pronounced dead.
He died of some trouble of the heart,
supposed to be neuralgia, but that, of
course, is uncertain. L notified Gen.
Arthur, and sent a dispatch to Messrs.
Blaine and Lincoln, who are en- route
from Boston to New York"
At 11:55 the members of the Cabinet
are inside the Francklyn cottage, en-
gagged in consultation. A great crowd
waits outside tor further particulars,
and their excitement is intense.
The Presidents words when he felt
the death pang attack him were "I am
suffering great pain. L fear that the
end is near"
It is supposed by the surgeons that
death was occasioned by a clot of blood
forming on the heart. DR.. Bliss was
the first one notified of the Presidents
expression of pain, and upon entering
the room he at once said that the end
was near.
The members of the family were i'm
mediately summoned to the bedside.
All came, and perfect quiet prevailed
Mrs. Garfield bore the trying ordeal
with great fortitude. She gave way to
no paroxysms of grief, aud after death
became evident she quickly withdrew to
her own room. There she sat, heart
stricken widow full Of grief, but with
toe much Christian courage to vent
it in an useless lamentation. She of
course was laboring under terrible
strain and, despite her efforts, tears
flowed from her eyes, and her lips be-
came drawn by her noble effort to bear
her burden in silence. Miss MoIlie was
naturally greatly affected and sobbed
convulsively.
The death scene was never to be fol-
gotten. Perfect quiet prevailed, and
there was not murmur heard while
the President was sinking. After death
had been pronounced, the body was
properly arranged by DIR. Boynton.
kilograms were Immediately sent
to the Presidents mother in Ohio,
and to the sons, Harry and
James, who are now at Williams
College, as also to Vice-President
arthur, and other prominent public
men. Mr.. Morris, the undertaken of
the village, will be in charge of the
remains, until an undertaken and en-
balmer, who has been telegraphed for,
arrives from New York.
JAMES ABRAM GARFIELDs LIFE.
The romantic life Of James A. Garfield
began in Orange. Ohio, on the 10Th
| day of November. 1881. In 1880 the
father and mother of the subject of this
sketch moved from the East to Ohio,
where, with three children, he and
bis devoted wife, Eliza, began a clear
ing for home. The father died
shortly after. Until he was sixteen,
James assisted his mother about the
"place.' aud grew stout and strong.
In 1S47 he "hired out" to Captain
/ Letcher of the canal boat Evening Star
as driver of the tcwpath team, but his
tarry there was brief, the unaccustomed
life over taxed his strength and for six
months he lay upon bed of ague, COM
forted by his ever faithful friend aud
mother. Circumstances and his moth
er's advice led him about this time to a
course for reading and study. He
supported himself by planning boards,
cutting wood and looking ont for mat
ters on the farm in summer, but de.
voted himself assiduousiy to study in
the winter.
While student in the Geauga Semi
nary in Chester, he paid a carpenter
$1.06 a week for board and washing,
and this sum he earned by helping his
host at odd jobs. In August, 1851, and
from thence until June, 1854, when he
entered Williams College, in Massachu.
sets, Mr. Garfield studied, worked and
built for himself solid name as an
industrious, frugal, filial youth, who
meant to make man.
IG WIS WIFI Adll
from Williams, and at once, in 1856, ac.
cepted an offer in Hiram College as
teacher of ancient languages, and the
following year, at the age of twenty six,
he was made pres ident of the institution.
There he remained until 1861, when he
entered the army, and off and on con-
tiDued a semi-connectiou with the insti-
tuition until 1871.
Prior to this, in 1853, Mr.. Garfield
had married Miss Lucretia Rudolph, OF
Hiram, lady who rad been bis class
mate in Chester, ten years before, had
attended the school at Hiram with him,
and they had through the whole decade
sustained familiar acquaintance.
In 1857 s Mr. Garfield became locally
kr own and admired Us a stump speaker
of radical type, and in 1859 he was
easily elected State Senator from the
anti-slavery counties of Portage and
Summit Early in the summer of 1861
he was elected colonel of the Forty
second Ohio Infantry and was after
ward made brigadier- general, serving
through the war.
General Garfield was elected mem
Der of Congress in 1862, to represent
the famous Joshua Il. Gjddines dis
trict, and as such he served seventeen
years, from December, 1868, at the close
| of which he was elected Senator from