ENGLISH & FOREIGN.
[betjteb's telegbams.] The Death of President Garfield. WASHINGTON, September 20. Accounts to hand this morning frota Long Branch state that the President died calmly at 10.50 last night. At 10.25 he was sleeping quietly, when he awoke with pain in his heart, and in fifteen minutes he breathed his last. Mrs Garfield waß present at the deathbed. The New President. In consequence of President Garfield'* decease, the Cabinet has summoned General Chester Arthur, Vice-President, to fill the presidency for the unexpired term of nearly three years and six months.
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2330, 21 September 1881, Page 3
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