Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-13
THE PRESIDENT LIVES.
The Latest Bulletins Chronicle Con-
tinued Improvement and Increas-
ing Chances of Recovery.
A PrinceIy Gift to the Garfield Famiiy-.-PIeas-
ing Story Illustrating the Presidents
Physical Strength.-.Mrs. Gar
fields Heroism.
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON, July 9-1l:I5 A. 4


The symptoms of the President con-
tlnue favorable. Vice President Arthur
called at the executive mansion this
morning. Mrs. Garfield had gone out
for drive, so that he did not see her,
and there happened to be none of the
members of the cabinet present, but he
talked for short time with the attend
ing physicians with regard to the pro-
gress Of the Presidents case.
LOUISVILLE, KY, July 9.-The Cour-
1er-Journal prints the following:
! BEAUvoIR, HARRIS Co., Miss, July s, 1881.
| To Mr.. Ftrsol1eg s. Collin:
DEAR SIR: / have received yours of the 4th
| inst and thank you for the kind expressions it
contains. The evil influences to which you re-
fer as causing the bitterness felt towards south
| ern men it may fairly be expected viii
give way to the sober sense of the
people. If they shall, like yourself, detect a
| sordid motives for which stimulants are admin
istered, will not, like the telegram you cite in
regard to the attempted assassination of the
President, say am thankful the assassin was
| not q southern man. But I will say that
regret he is all American. Crime is black
enough in itself and has a deeper
| dye from the mercenary motives which
seems to have prompted it. l sincerely
trust that the President may recover, and that
the startling event will arouse the people to the
| consideration Of a remedy for the demoraiza-
ton which a wild hunt after office is creating.
With best wishes for your welfare 1 am,
Very truly yours,
! (Signed) JEFFERSON DAVIS.
New YORK, July ga Washington
special has the following interesting
point concerning the attempted assassin
alton: Col. Rockwell, after expressing
a strong hope of the Presidents re-
covery, was asked:
Chow is it that you were not with the
President at the time of the shooting"
"You see," SAID the colonel, "the
boys, James and Harry, started
off in the Presidents carriage to
pick up DR.. Hawks, their tutor, who
was stopping on F Street. The Presi-
dent had arranged the night before for
Secretary Blaine to call at the mansion
to 60 to the depot with him. The Sec
rotary came round in his own carriage.
Mine was in reserve and followed just
behind the secretary's. I had several
pieces of baggage to dispose of, and so
drove directly to the baggage-room, and
Was getting checks, when I heard crack
crack. with an interval between the shots
as long as it would take to cock pistol.
On the sill of the door leading from the
ladies parlor into the general reception
room or main hall stood Secretary
Blaine calling for me, and point
ing to the would-be assassin, Gui-
teau. It was a terrible thought, but
nevertheless one which flashed across
my mind that the President
had been shot. Quickly I had the
Presidents carriage brought to the main
door, the cushions arranged to make the
President as comfortable as possible,
and was prepared to take him directlyto
the mansion. The physician advised
against it, and for the best. After had
written from his dictation a touching
telegram to his wife and hasty examina-
ton had been made up stairs, he was
removed to the ambulance. The Presi-
dent put his right hand in mine and the
driver was cautioned to proceed slowly
over the cobble stone pavement until we
reached concrete at Seventh Street. We
had travelled but two squares from
the depot when he asked, How far are
we now?' and In subdued voice SAID,
1T hurts, oh, it hurts At Thirteenth
Street he again asked, where are we
now p I told him, and he urged US to
ego little faster
+" Has the President said anything
more to you about the affair? %
"He would if we would let him, but
the physicians forbid his talking"
"And Mrs. Garfield %
SIT would be impossible for me to
describe this brave, heroic wife and
mother. She, too, realizes the restraint
which the medical advisers have been
compelled to put on her visits to the
Presidents bedside. The sympathy be-
tween them, the union of their hearts,
impels the President to want to exert
himself, and then we have to protest,
and the good woman retires.'
els it true that on the morning OF the
deed the President turned handspring
over his bed?'
cit was the morning before; this day
pointing to Private Secretary Browns
desk), "came into his fathers chamber
half dressed, and in his Dimble way
turned handspring over the bed and
back again. See here, papa, if you
were not so stout you might do that,
too; couldn't you?' The President
kept on with his toilet until
James bantering, somewhat nettled him
and before the boy coulG real1ze 1t, the
President had turned gracefully from one
side Of the large double bed to the other
and came down with thump on the
floor. "There, my boy, the son
is not greater than his father.
Now finish your dressing" "I
suppose" continued the colonel,
g the story was told to illustrate the
strength of the President and his sup
pleness at his time of life. Very few
men of fifty years, for the President will
be that old on the ninth day of Novem-
Der next, would dare to undertake such
feat. But the story has thrilling
sequel. You know the ladies' room,
where the shots were fred, is almost
twenty feet wide, that is, from the door
sill to the opposite hall. The aisleway
leading to the main hall is formed by
double rows of seats, heavily cushioned
and of large framework. When the
President entered the depot with Secre-
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