CHAPTER XXXVII.

THE ASSASSINATION. Garfield's Domestic Felicity--His Masonic and Literary Relations-- The Garfield Family at the White House--Perplexities Environing the Administration--Mrs. Garfield the First Lady in the Land--Her Illness--The Assassination--The Long Agony--Death of President Garfield--Funeral Ceremonies at Washington--Interment at Cleveland --Trial of Guiteau--His Conviction and Execution.