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Show IILVLKDV JOHNSON'. Thf Mini n or nl Ioail IEcliec( to bin -Memory. Baltimore, 11. Further detail ol Keverdy Johnson's death are received. For a long time his eyesight had been teehle. .Still he persisted in moving about without aistance. Desiring to po into the executive mansion yard, ho started alone without asking aid, waiked duwn tho house steps across the Rras plat, and appears to have stumbled from his feet, only ns there was no elevation from which to fall it ia supposed he trod on some !oo-e piece j ol coal, oud thus lost his looting, and that his head struck the edi;u of the projected base of a foundation found-ation wall, causing a fractured sku.il. The chief fatal injury is a fracture of the frontal hone, extending from near the outer angle of the right orbit, upward and backward to tho coronal suture. The tragic occurrence causes great griet and gloom. Johnson was in excellent general health yesterday. Dr. Stein thinks he might have fallen in an incipient apopleptie lit or vertigo, ver-tigo, and tnat in addition to the fractures, frac-tures, he probably ruptured eome ot the nrieries at the base of the brain, and thai death must have resulted instantly. in-stantly. lioth houses of the legislature adjourned ad-journed on being notified of the sad event and this altcrnoOn escorted the remains to the depot, to be taken to Baltimore in a special car. A special meeting of the city council coun-cil of Baltimore has been called for thu evening to give expression to tho great loss sustnined by the death of -Mr. Johnson. The Hags are at hall-mast hall-mast on all the public buildings, and the United States district court adjourned ad-journed on the announcement of his decease. |