St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-15
GARFIELD!
ANOTHER WEEK OF HOPE
AND FEAR.
NOT OUT OF DANGER.
LATEST ACCOUNTS FAVORABLE.
THE LATEST BULLETINS.
UNAVOIDABLE SYMPTOMS ABATING.

WEDNESDAY,, { IA. IN.
\ bulletin has just been issued as
follows: The abating of the mfavora-
BILE symptoms which made their APP
pearance Monday afternoon and
evening has steadily continued, and at
this hour his pulse is 90, temperature
9St, and respiration nearly normal.
The President takes readily all nour-
ishment allowed by the physicians,
and suffers no Inconvenience from it.
His sleep was more natural and re-
freshing last night than that of any
other night.
"HOPEFUL BUT ANXIOUS"
This is the general expression among
the doctors. They still consider the
President "a very sick man, and not ont
of danger, but are very hopeful of re-
covery. They do not color the bulle-
tins, but give the symptoms exactly as
they occur. 1t is said to he IA fact,
however, that the attending physicians
have not deemed it due to the public
us yet to inform them that the Presi-
dent has been suffering for some days
from circumscribed peritOnitis, and
that the well-defined indications of
that dangerous condition are the indi-
cations which have made them so CON
! tident i'll locating the ball in the ante
riOr wall of the abdomen. The danger
from that symptom, medical authOri-
| ties say, will not have passed until the
temperature is materially reduced, and
remains reduced. The doctors think
Tuesday night was the elimination OF
the danger of this circumscribed peri
tonitiS.
DIR. IAMILTON'S VIEWS.
DR.. F. II. Hamilton was asked again
Tuesday evening to give his opinion OF
the Presidents condition. He replied
that nothing had occurred within the
last twenty -four hours to cause the
alarm that some profess to feel. The
rise i'll temperature and increase i'll
pulse had occurred for several evenings,
and both were natural at that time of
day even i'll a well person. He added,
however, that the Presidents condition
would be more favorable if these symp-
toms were absent altogether. There
bulletins, which he thought were
scrupulouSly correct, or in the private
intelligence sent him by the attending
surgeons. He repeated the assertion
that he had made from the beginning,
that every hour that elapses without
more dangerous symptoms increases
the patients chances of recovery.
GUITEAU CONSIDERED SANE AND RA-
TIONAL.
District Attorney Corkhill says that
no action will be taken regarding
Guiteau's case till the result of the
Presidents wound is finally deter
mined. Referring to the papers taken
from Guiteau, Col. COrkhill is reported
to have said "These papers are not
so very important. The only very i'm
pOrtant thing have is full, detailed
history of the crime, from its incep-
ton to its elimination, which, | be
lieve, is correct. That in due time
will be given to the public. | will say
i'll addition that | think it exceedingly
cruel, considering the fevered state of
the public mind on this subject and
the horror with which every man re
CARDS the assassin, that any mans
name should be mentioned in connec-
ton with him. He is an egotistical
presuming, dishonest man, attempting
to borrow money of people by claim
ing acquaintance with persons whom
he only knew by the fact of his going
to them and speaking to them speak
ing of persons as his friends whom he
had no acquaintance with at all, and at
tempting to obtain money by repre-
Senting himself as Il man of great pO-
litical influence both here and in New
York. TO mention the names of these
citizens in connection with this man at
this time is improper and unjust.
There is necessarily and very properly
Il great anxiety on the part of every
body to learn the minutest detail i'll
connection with the commission of this
crime. am met on the streets peo-
pie come to my residence day and
night | have not IA minutes leisure
in my office. | have said but very
little, but think it proper to say that
there are no startling revelations that
will be developed. From present in
dicatiOns the assassination was cold
bloOded, prcmeditatcd attempt at muir
der, by ii man that knew what he was
doing and the consequence of his act.
| have no question that the man is
rational and sane
a DISPOSITION TO MAKE \ NEW CRIME.
There is general disposition to create
IL new crime, and to punish i'll some
special manner assaults upon the Pres
ident and other high officers of the
government. One of the oldest jur-
lists i'll the District thinks that the OBJ
ject could he effected by grading as
saults with intent to kill according to
their malignity, as murders are graded.
There is now legal difference be
tween the crime of one who in cold
blood lies in wait and kills, and anoth-
er who kills in hot blood. If the
attempt at homicide is effective the
two criminals occupy very different
positions. One is tried for murder and
the other for manslaughter, but if the
attempt fails both are tried for the
same offence, assault with intent to
kill, and a difference can be made only
in the discretion of the Judge, as he
pronOunces sentence. If assaults with
intent to murder in cold blood.
assaults with intent To murder, as
saults with intent to manslaughter and
assaults with intent to MAIN or disfig-
ure, etc, were thus graded, and death
or imprisonment for life made the pun
ishment of the first, the law would
certainly be more reasonable and
probably more effective than it now is.
a TRIBUTE TO MRS. GARFIELD.
At special meeting of the New
York Chamber of Commerce on Thurs
day it was voted to raise S250, 900, in
vest it in government bonds and pre-
sent it to Mrs. Garfield as testimonial