Gardyloo

[Fr. gare l'eau, beware of the water.] A common cry, in former days, of the dwellers in the high flats of the houses of Edinburgh, who were in the habit of throwing urine, slops, . out of the window. Garfield, JAMES ABRAM, twentieth President of the U. States, B. in Cuyahoga co., Ohio, Nov. 19, 1831, graduated from Williams College, Ma ., in 1856, and adopted the profe ion of law. In 1856-60 was a member of the Ohio Senate, in 1861 entered the army as Col. of the 42d O. Vol. In 1863 he was appointed Chief of Staff to Gen. Rose crans, and was promoted to Major-General of Volunteers (Sept. 19, 1863). He resigned from the army to take his seat in the 38th Congre from Ohio, and continued to serve in Congre up to 1880, when he was elected Senator from Ohio. On June 8 of that year he was selected as the nominee of the Republican party for President of the U. S., and elected the following November. On July 2, 1881, he was shot in the back in the Potomac Railroad depot at Washington, by Charles J. Guiteau, a disappointed office-seeker, and died at Long Branch, Sept. 19, after a prolonged agony, The mourning of the nation was as spontaneous and universal as it was deep, and surpa ed in its expre ion anything of the kind ever seen in America. The sympathy of foreign countries was also most profound. After a long protracted trial, and in spite of his claim that he was insane at the time he committed the crime, Guiteau was condemned, and hung June 30, 1882, Garfield was IMG:content-0324.jpg:[graphic][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed] IMG:content-0325.png:[blocks in formation]