PRESIDENT GARFIELD'S DEATH.
Just as we go to press, the sad news comes to us of the death of President Garfield. Seventy-nine days ago he was struck down by the bullet of an assassin, and since that time he has been engaged in a struggle for life, with the odds against him from the first. During all this time, an anxious people have been hoping against hope that a strong constitution, unimpaired by excesses, might enable him to recover. The reports for the past week led the people to give up hope; and yet, when the announcement of his death came, it came as a shock for which all were unprepared. No event in the history of the nation has ever before caused such universal sorrow. After twenty years of active public life, no stain attaches to his name, and now that he has fallen at the very threshold of what promised to be a pure and wise administration, all, irrespective of place or party, feel a genuine grief. All feel that a great and good man has fallen. Not only does the nation mourn the loss of its chief magistrate, but the world mourns the loss of one of nature's noble men.