The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, November 24, 1886, Image 4
rey SUH A CHESTER ARTHUR DEAD. . The Ex-President Expires at His New York Home, END OF A LONG ILLNESS. His Journey from a Cottage to the White House, The Last Republican hief Magistrate. Close of a Great Life Mall of Startling Events and Noble Deeds—Skotch of the Lawyer and Statesman. NEw York, Nov. 18. —Ex- President Ches- ter A. Arthur, after a lingering illness, during many periods of which his friends and himself were buoyed up with the hope that he would recover, succumbed this morn- ing to his disease at his own home, No, 123 Lexington avenue, For a few days past his death had been hourly looked for by his friends Sketeh of His Carcer, Chester Allan Arthur was born Oct. 1, 1830, in a small log cabin in Fairfield, Franklin He of a Baptist county, Vi. was the son yr. William Arthur. Hav- years a youth, Dr. was able to give his son a good home He fitted Chester for college at an nd gant him to Union, then at the f under Dr. Eliphalet Nott well asa scholar, To ¢ his exponses he taught Is parts of two winters, but kept i graduated In the ito the old home but without the I Determined not to be a further burden s father, he taught the village « i At the end of time, 3 ¥ in hb woket, he came r siudent in the Two years later Mr. Cuiver his promising In was elected civil judge in and the partnership between Boon on to the bench, Mr. with Mr Henry DD. They went west, and spent three in prospecting for a lo- cality to their taste, but they did not find it, and returned in a dejected frame of mind, They hired an office in this city, and before long | lenty of Soon after his establ profession Mr. Arthur married Miss Herndon, daughter of the late Liout. Herndon, of the United States navy. Two children, a son and a daughter, who are living, were born to them. Mrs Arthur died in January, 1580, HIS MILITARY AND POLITIC! Before the war he was ] the Second brigade of the Early in 1561 bim engi } $ hia mil On the 27th of SJRRUAry, i moted to quar teacher of stood means to pr office he I bar. showed his appreciation of student by taking him into partnership. 188 M Brooklyn, him and after Mr Arthur was admitiet 0 the » (‘uly r. Culver sived, svat partnership clients in the legal I. REL s advocate of militia, Morgan appointed itary staff, 862, he was pro- general. He held this office until Governor Morgan's term expired. Mr. Arthur has been an active Republican since the formation of the party His first vote for president was given for Gen Win. fleld Scott in 1852 He was active as a ORD, stale on HIS RESIDENCE, WHERE JHE DIED, worker and speaker in the Fremont campaign of 1856. Boon after the close of the eivil war he became prominent in the manage- ment of his party in this city, He was for a time chairman of the county commits tee of the Republicans, who met at Broad- way nod Twenty-third street. [no 1871 he was appointed collector of the port of New York. That office he held for over six years. On the 2ist of July, 1878, Mr. Arthur was suspended from the office by President Hayes, with whose administration, as is well known, he had not been in accord. Mr. Arthur returned to the practice of the law, In 157 he was elected chairman of the Republican state committee. Ile was nominated for vice president at Chicago in June, 1880, and elected to that office the November. On the death of President Garfield; on the 19th of Beptember, 1581, he, in accordance with the constitution, succeeded him to that high San NA ma 1 SARI a wn og evs. Mr. Arthur resumed the practice of the law with his former partners, Messrs. Knevals and Ransom, A PLAIN FUNERAL. No Attempt at Display nt the IDurial of Mr. Arthur. New York, Nov, 22.—An absence of all pomp, a simplicity and severity of ceremonial so rigid in its plainness as to seem almost un- suited to the national character of the sad rite characterized the arrangements for the funeral of Chester A, Arthur. Notwithstanding the fact that the family was desirous of a private funeral, the gather- ing of notable men at the church was an ex- ceptional one, The cards of invitation to the religions coremonies were limited to 1,000, On the lst of names of those to whom the in- vitations to be foumd men prominent in all the walks of life. The body of the dead ex-prosident placed in the casket this morning, and one except the family and most intimate friends were allowed to look upon the face of the dead. No one except the inmates of the house and i wore admitted into the house this morning. Police arrangements had been mads to keep the avenus from Twenty-eighth to Twenty-ninth street clear antil after the departure of the cortege from the house. Promptly at 8:30 the casket placed in the hearse, and the family and pall- bearers entered carriages and drove up Lex. aud were sent are wus no the twelve pallbearers wns ington avenue to Forty-seventh str through Fifth avenue to the All military or civic escort was di the army and navy guard, haw rdered from Washington, w snly guard of honor, The sachment, the naval officers and the ul, opposi church. sxeept been « regular arn sorps remained in Fi te the church, during the cer The religious ceremont vest kind, Noaddress w music of the hymus accompanying for the dead were heard The casket was taken from the and, followed by the palibearers and | laced in the hearse military escor she lead, the duiet procession procesd woe to the Grand Central depot, where pecigl train 10 convey the body and t nembers of the family &8 well as the x warers to Albany, was in readiness rain started at 10 o'clock. No reception at Albany, but th taken fmmediately to the cen i Wepre of is made, an eatafn The { pallbearers was as follow ‘alter Q Gresham general; war: William the navy : master general; attorney general; m. Philip Aguew, M. D. G. Dun, Cornelius R Bliss, Robert Sharpe, Charle ferbiit. Gen. The president am cabinet, Judg Waite and n Cussran A. ARTHUR, K 1 Ot 6 ™ h A 1 ima Prominent Arrivals. 1 ® Raw x ORK, 3 00 SOY 2 ~James G. BI Wil EB Rutherford and New Ben jami “ 4 SeOTRO F. Butler, Edmunds Hayes wero amo the Fifth mus hotel lay. TI same to the cily to attend Gen, Art sbsequics. Other arrivals at an early to<day were the § accompaniod by Secretary Bayard, Postinaster OG ral Vilas, Col. Lamont, Secretary Lamar and District Commissioner Wheatley, all from Wash ngton. n F. yvesterda resident, Mostreal, Nov. 10. —1t is announced that Cardinal Tascherenn will leave carly in De rei hat at the hands of the pontifl himse the consistory to be held next month, When in Rome the question of the charcl snd the Knights of Labor will. be def arranged. AS present a difference of opinior sxists among the bishops on the subject, Archbishops Lynch, of Toronto, and Fabre, of Montreal, being disposed not to interfere with the order, while the cardinal and the sther bishops are strongly opposed to it. A Coal Famine in Cleveland, CLEVELAND, Nov, 18. Cleveland is threat sed with a coal famine, and that at a time when a cold wave Is predicted by the weather burean, The tons of bard coal in the hands of dealers could almost be counted on one's fingers. The supply of hard conl is entirely mit off, and soft coal is scarce, Dealers were sround town yesterday trying to get coal from each other, but none was to be hal The cauw of the difficulty is lack of transpor- ation, Big Indians at Beocher's, InookLYn, Nov, 23 -After the close of the regular services in Plymouth church a delegation of christianized Dacotah and Choctaw Indians, under the charge of a mis sionary, sang religious hymns in thelr native tongue, and the bead man made an address, which was interpreted to tho andience. Mn Beecher, in introducing the Indiane, said that the work of evangelizing the Indians was rapidly progressing, and was producing remarkably successful results, Blood on the Deck. New Yong, Nov, 22. The small schooner Long Island came ashoro near Sea CHIT with na one on board and with blood marks and signs of a struggle on the deck Sho bo longed at Oyster Bay and had sailed thence in charge of Capt. Thomas D. 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