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Show ANMUIt-ViIU OP A lIHTOItll'.ll, MIST. Tina day, April 14th, 1. the Suth anulveraary of ouo of thotaddtstaud uiost luexcuaable tragedleaeverenacted In American hlbtory tha a. ahslu.tlon of Abraham Lincoln. It occurred at the moment of triumph ovir rilwlllou, and when the last etlge ol tlavcry waawlia-dfromtlie republic. JelTur-kiii JelTur-kiii Uavu had tied Ironi Itkhmoud, and Lincoln a. received lu that ilty but a.hort time oefora hi. deplorable (ul. Lou, army had t-endlsbandLd. Utucral Hherman had Johiitton'. forte, wi .Itualixl that uegotlalloni for .urrtnder were already lu jrogrt.i. Lverj thing looked tusj lclou. for the nitlou, amli.lncoln wa. glal. In a Jo)ou. mood he and hi. cabinet visited r ord'a Tin aire on the evening of 0 jo I Friday, April 1 1, 1S'. Lincoln occupied oc-cupied Ihx ovtrlooklng the atae, lleMu.actvmipanlt'dliy Mr.. Lincoln, Major Ilnthtiouu and Mr., llarrl.. (Itneral Clrant wa. t'iwcleil to be pletelltthat eTeulug alio, but being called from Ihe city, he could not attend. at-tend. At fifteen uilnutt. put ten John Wllki. Booth atcilthlly entcre.1 Iho hoxlronitho Mkllbule, doting and looking Iho door Uhlnd hhu. In hi. right hand he held u plalol, and lu hi. left n dngL,iir. He flrtal and .hot tho l'rt.ii.ut through the lack of the head, IWUf boneaelKl llooth, but the latter iistnl his d.ggtr, and got away, .houllng' Su wmptr linmnl: He fell un the stoge, I ut recovering hlmatlr, hu aliont-ed aliont-ed HtheHouth U avenged,1 Ltncolu uovu regiluei vonaclous- new, and died nine hour, artcr the fatal .hot wa. fired. Un the aame night an attempt wa alto tuide on tha life of Hecretury Howard. Iloolh wa. pjruued and overtaken at Inrn on Uarrett'. farm, near lnt Iloyal, on the Iliprnlianock Illver,nnd wa there .hot while attempting to cecal-. |
