Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-02
GAMBETTA DEAD.
Tse Great Statesman and Patriot Passes
Away After Days OF Suffering
and Torture.
Comments Of the English and German
Pres Sketch Of His Remark
able Career.

PARIS, JAnus-y IN. Gambstia died at
hi- re-idence at Vile D'Airsy at miduigh..
he was quite conscious to the lasf. The
death agony lasted Two hours. Speaker
Btienne and Dr. frenzaI were present at the
lsst moment. Tue physioiens who attended
Gambetta stale that bis death was due 10
pTomia, caused by suppressed cripipetas. A
clot OF blood formed in the heart and suffo-
Gated the deceased. A plaster cast Of the
feee was taken this morning. There will be
an aGtopsy tomorrow. A state funera al is
expected to be given. The death of Gam
BETA created an immense sensation here.
Groups gathered on the boulevards By 8
o'clock this morning discussing it. II is re-
ported that ne will be buried at Nice, beside
his mother Presiden, Grew was much af-
fecsed by the news. Gambetia left
no political testament. He made a
private will Saturday. The papers re-
porting his death are selling 10 every
street, and crowds are struggling to procure
them. kilograms were seut President Grevy
and other authorities Immediately after his
death. Gsm5etta died IN a state of uncon-
sciousuess, but in the course OF the after
neon he exclaimed: "Je suis perdu, IL est
inujs de dissimuler, nlais ai tout sOufert que &C
AGRA Uss detiUeTdnee."
For nearly twenty hours before Gambeita
became unconscious he complained that he
WIS tortured with pain, as II red-hot iron
were inside him. He had recently become
asthmatic, and it was therefore not perms-
sible 10 yentiiate his room properly. S4ve-
raj times he spoke 10 BsTt, member OF the
Chamber OF Deputies, upon some matter
weighing on his mind, but always briefly.
Ranc and SpTter we're summoned to bis
bedside for the purpose of recsiyIng aeon
municztiop, but the syncope preceding death
hsd begun when they arrived. Il is believed
that the hopeful to1e Of the bUllelins issued
during Gambetta's illness was due TO the
advice Of DR.. Cnarcoi, who did not wish the
sick man, whfn the papers were read TO him,
10 hear any thing that might have depress.
pgtfset. The funeral will be conducted
with purely civil rites. The family are
snxious for the burial 10 take place al Nice
but bis friends desire that il be at Paris.
In consequence OF the high positions the
deceased had filled, ibe authorities have
thought 1t expedient 10 place seals on his
paper. But few newspapers appeared to.
day, in sequence of its being a holiday
None OF the articles published q far Re q ,ct
on the political effect OF GambesyA's death
but copfiue themselves TO deplori1g the los
Of the statesman who did MOI despair aflel
Sedan.
The Repabique Frdncaise states that at {
O'Clock yesterday evening the doctors presen
in the room with Gambetta perceivtC
| that the abscess had bnrst internally. A
| 10:45 O'Clock Gsmb.tta recovered conscious
| meas sufficiently to thank his friends for thei
attention, which he did with perfect calm
ness. His breathing then became more diff
| cult A stream OF the most notable Rspub
licans is now passing through The dealt
chsnber. The face OF the deceased hs
already bee ne swollen, and is great.
changed.
THIS afternoon man selling copies OF
newspaper. The Radical, containing a sour
rilous article concerning Gsmbelts, wa
seIzed BY a crowd on the boulevard. Hi
pspers were destroyed, aud the police hs,
| great difficulty in rescuing him from the ex
cited popuiace. Tue Opportunist part
| appears stunned by the death of Gambetls