Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . ,— his rejiose being easier,his breathing more regular, and his gen-eral condition improved. At two oclock,in the morning, a change occurred for theworse, and from that hour he failed rapidl
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . ,— his rejiose being easier,his breathing more regular, and his gen-eral condition improved. At two oclock,in the morning, a change occurred for theworse, and from that hour he failed three oclock, the last rites of theRoman Catholic Church were adminis-tered to him. At four oclock, he hadfallen into a state of insensibility, fromwhich he never emerged. He neveruttered a word after four oclock. On the following Saturday, the lowerpart of the Union Hotel was thrown opento the public, and all day a vast concoursethronged in to view the body of thedeceased senator, as it lay in state. Thecorpse was placed in a metallic coffin, inthe inner aj)artmcnt of the hotel, theapproach to which was hung with Ameri-can flags. The outside of the buildingwas draped with habiliments of woe, and GREAT AND MEMORABLE EVENTS,. THE IiOD\ itl~ srNATOIt BRODERICK everj- face wore that unmistakable expres-sion which denotes that some publiccalamity has fallen upon the coffin was so placed that the movingthrong could file past and around it andout through another door. The hands offriends had wrought wreaths and bouquetsof flowers, with which the coffin wasloaded, and so numerous at last did thesebecome, that, no room being found forthem, they were placed on the floor aboutthe bier. The corpse was dressed in asuit of black, with collar and neckcloth,the hands lying along the sides, crossedupon the body. The face was somewhatshrunken, probably from the intense painwhich the sufferer had undergone duringthe previous three days. It wore, how-ever, the same expression
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