The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-11-20
An open Letter from DIR. Harvey.
WHEELING, Nov. 20, 1875.

WHEELING, Nov. ~, 1915.
Editors Of the Register.
An article appeared In yesterdays
Leader, giving an account Of the death
and the particulars of the disposition
of the body Of Sister Mary
Louis, who died on Wednesday lsst, at
the convert of ST. Joseph, containing
some reflections arr vile insinustions as
to the cause, SC. HI death, which
feel it my du s. he 50 d'"g physi-
clan, as also ii friend 81 Toe rider OF
which she was member, to an wer and
deny. have no comment 10 offer
as to the body of the article,
save that 1t is clssrly evident
that the writer obtained his lniorma-
ton from some one strongly prejudiced
against the Bishop and his church, and
who imbellished the particulars TO suit
his own perverted prejudiced or ignorant
fancy. Neither do / care for the small
and unmanly reflection to my profess
sional self, but wish to conHne my ex-
plantations and deniAls TO the ankind and
unchrlstisn innuendos that occurred in
the latter part OF the article.
As to the immediate cause of the
lamented sisters death, and the disease
which produced it, there is and cosld
have been, no doubt, as to its identity.
1t was fever of the type
known to the profession as
pernicious or congestive REMIT emf.
The dangerous, and in the majority of
cases, fatal characteristic is, great snd
complete prostrstion, occssioned by the
severe paroxysm of fever, Immediately
preceding it. 1t is condition that 1t is
impossible to foretell, with any degree OF
certainty, until it actually exists. AT
different times during her illness | instl.
tuted careful and positive oral and physi-
cal examinations, the result OF which
was to assure me beyond all possibility OF
doubt, that no other disease or comphcs-
ton was present, and most positively
do ! assert that no such con-
dltion existed as was intimated in
the article referred TO, which
was a confederation of the outrageous III
NOR that was circulated and discussed by
the crowds on the streets, on Saturday
evening, which was, It seems, the only
source of Information the writer had. As
a man and MS an editor he should have
known that it was his duty to carefully
investigate this foundstionless rumor,
and il possible to have traced it TO its
true source. 1t would have been an easy
matter for him to have ascertained
whether any such dispatch had been re-
ceived at any of the telegraph offices.
Failing in that, he had only to have in
teryiewed Father Sullivan at the Cathe.
dral, from whom he would have
gotten information that would have pre-
vented hin from giving confederation
through the columns OF respectable
newspaper, to the rumor of Saturday
evening. If the editor Of the Sunday
Leader had been ut home, the article
would never have been published. He,
/ know, has been absent for week,
having left his office in control OF other
parties, and did rot, could rot have
known anything abou. the matter. No
one should condemn or hold him or his
paper responsible for this unwarrantsble
SANDER on the character of pure and
noble womas. Blister Mary Louis, though
Sne Udu OILY Uc'u u nun IOl euOI SiHiCj
had won from all who knew her an
enviable reputation as q pure,
holy, and. in many respects, a
sanity being. She was one of an
order of noble wsmen, in this city,
whose many charitable deeds, and IN
selfish acts of kindness, deserves and
should call forth the highest praise and
admiration, rather than such vile and
csumnious slsnder. Bishop Kane, |
have been informed, returned home on
yesterday, who doubtless, will make a
proper explanatory reply to the article
entire.
1t is now known that the slanderous
rumor of Saturday evening alone had
its origin in the mind OF one low, de-
based and degraded below all expression,
and who " hon known, MS he will be,
should and shall meet with the punish
ment he so richly deserves.
K. 5. HARVEY.