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Title: The Forfar Directory and Year Book 1886
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Publisher: W. Shepherd, Castle St, Forfar
Contributing Library: Angus Council
Digitizing Sponsor: National Library of Scotland

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d occurred, and many iiuprrtant laws hadbeen passed. Grant then took a trip round the world, during which he was receivedeverywhere with enthusiasm. During his absence his friends again nominated him forPresident; but after a number of votes had been passed for him he retired in favour ofGarfield. His later life was in strong: contrast to his earlier years. Great as he was onthe battlefield and in the White House, as a private citizen he had not the same success.Involved in financial schemes which broke down his health, he was placed on the retiredlist, by which he received 13,500 doUars annually during life. On Christmas Eve, 1883,lie slipped on the ice and hurt his hip. Great pain followed, and he was confined to bedfor some months. In June, 1884, the first sign of cancer in the tongue appeai-ed, beingthe result of his habit of continually smoking, and after about 13 months Ulness, in spiteof the best skill of the country, he succumbed to it, amid the regrets of all who knew him. 28
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PRESIDENT GARFIELD. THE news of President Garfields death, on September 19, 1881, plunged two countriesinto mourning; for the feeling of sympathy with the victim and his family and ofindignation at the crime was hardly less strong in England than in America. From thatsad 2nd of July, the people of both countries watched in spirit, as it were, with thedevoted wife by the bedside of the wounded man. The facts of the attack on thePresident and his illness are too fresh in the minds of our readers to need more than abrief recapitulation. It was on the 2nd of July, in the railway station at Washington, ashe was about to start for the north, that the President, entering the waiting-room on thearm of his minister, Mr. Blaine, was shot twice by Charles Gmteau. He was at onceconveyed back to the White House, where he lay dming the greater part of his illness,attended by the highest medical and surgical skill that his country could furnish, andwatched tlu-oughout by his wife, who was svmimoned

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