Chapter 80

ASSASSINATION OF GARFIELD AND EVENTS FOLLOWING. I Return to Mansfield for a Brief Period of Rest--Selected as Presiding Officer of the Ohio State Convention--My Address to the Delegates Indorsing Garfield and Governor Foster--Kenyon College Confers on Me the Degree of Doctor of Laws--News of the Assassination of the President--How He Differed from Blaine--Visit of General Sherman--Reception by Old Soldiers--My Trip to Yellowstone Park-- Speechmaking at Salt Lake City--Visit to Virginia City--Placer Mining in Montana--The Western Hunter Who Was Lost in a "St. Louis Cañon"--Sunday in Yellowstone Park--Geysers in the Upper Basin-- Rolling Stones Down the Valley--Return Home--Opening of the Ohio Campaign--Death of Garfield.