The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-07-20
JULY IS, 1892.


One hundred ana thirteen years ago
todayJuly rs. 1892 it was that Pau
Jones died. The anniversary of the
death Of the Father and Founder Of
the American Navy finds his body on
the high seas. borne hither On bat
tleship 70 gain a resting place in the
nation he helped to make ana to re-
ceive homage 100 long deferred
The 1871 of July 1792 feli upon
Wednesday. For three years the
great naval commander had been suf-
fering from an affection Of the lungs
contracted while in the Russian SER
vice. and of late he had been steadily
! declining His friends had observed
fer some time that the end was ap-
preaching, but he bore mp with he
cou-ag that WIS oro II hs rlarked
/ his week.-mrs. ~ sfsT4s al hs We
ltha nost cheerful ana interesting III
IAN when surrounded by his compan
ions. Just three days before his death
/ (iouverneur Morris visited him ar his
house, AZ Tourncn street. Par.s, and
found him lying in hammock stretch
ed in tie little garden in the rear Of
his lodgings He was conyerslng Iii
his happiest vein with group Of
callers.
About ) o'clock Wednesday after
noon Jones made his viii This he
did In response to the insistence OF
his iRtimates thar had extended over
several months, rather than the feel
ing that death was at hand At 3
O'Clock that evening he died.
4 Tae circumstances Of Paul Jones
4 death are gathered from papers left
| by contemporaries The notaries hay.
Ing finished their task with the will
and gone. Nine Arbergne. the house
i keeper, brought Jones a bowl Of broth
This was about O'Clock. Two hours
afterward she went into the bedroom
Ito clear the table. The Admiral had
died in the Interim The upper hall
lof his body lay face downward across
1 the middle Of hts couch. his feet were
on the floor and his arms were out
stretched on the counterpart. AS onS
OF his biographers has just put it,
! He died as he had lived. alone ans
with his boots on From all appear
: ances it was judged that he had OK
lpirad very suddenly. On the floor
halfway between the chair in which
Nine. Arhergne last saw him sIttlnl
and the bed, was one of Voltaire'
books, which had fallen from hi
: hands. In one clenched hand was
3 little watch, given Inn by Mary AIDE
\ laide, of Orleans. and bearing he
miniature. The physicians said h
I dIibtless had been seized with
Y coughing spell and, exhausted, had er
II deavored TO go from the chair to tn
Q couch. only to fall upon it dead iron
tubercular effusion and strangulatior
There We're orations and public err
MONIES, In which prominent French
men led, for to Paul Jones they locke
!, for a reorganization 81 their navy an
for victories over their enemies on tn
X sea. Then the body, in It's leade
y casket, was deposited In vault
d the Cemetery for Foreign Protestant
!, Gouverneur Morris, American Mini
. ter, requested this, believing the Go
4 eminent Of the United States woul
ar havesit conveyed TO American soil X
o, final interment and honorsw which II
"a Government neglected TO do. Lat
u. the body was buried In the cemeter
4 The corpse has been at last +
AZ claimed, thanks to the tlreless al
Of patriotic labors of Gen. Horace Pc
Id ter. The coffin now on Its way
" America contains beyond dispute ii
M mortal remains Of the intrepid COZ
mander. There Ia comfort In II
ng thought therefore, that, late as 1t