Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence of the Monitor
NEW YORK. July IL 1891

outcome of the vile assault on the chosen |
chief of the nation with which the couu-
try rings is the sympathetic subscription
of $250,Oo0 at the Chamber of Com
merce. Mrs. Garfield, who seems to be
an uncommonly good specimen of the kind
of American wives the most fortunate of
US are proud of, has thus comfortable
provision, in any event, and as an easy
mind is great thing for invalids, the
the knowledge of this may help the IL
lustrous victim very greatly. We all
know that this modern Cincinnatus is
not rich, but rather the reverse, al
though the nasty anti-election stories
made him out an omnivorous gobbler of
unlawful gains.
Your Radix is not, perhaps, quite as
courteous as the doctors, but ventures
to say that he believes the President
will pull through all right, and further
enunciates an opinion which so far has
not been expressed, based on the evidence
as published. That is, that while the
wound is extremely severe and danger
Gus because of its possibilities in its
secondary features. the surmise INDUCED
in as to its primary features eventuated
in very exaggerated statements. 1t is
evident enough now, if for nothing else
because of the unjaundiced complexion
of the patient, that the liver was not
cut through. If the abdomen were en-
tered there would be other and severer
symptoms than have appeared. Where's
the bullet Your Radix thinks the bull
let is somewhere about the Baltimore
and Potomac Depot, Washington. D, c.,
and not in the White House in other
words that, thanks to insufficient pow
| der and the muscles of the President,
the murderous missile hoped out again
after inficting its painful visit The
sloughing that precedes and accom-
panies the formation of new flesh
may break through the thin partitions
of vital cavities, and thus cause portion
tits, but if the doctors will leave Nature
alone and trust to cold water and the
victims excellent constitution, instead
of progging about for bullet, which |
maintain isn't there, the king of cowboys
will be all right again in no time.
I'm glad to see they have had sense
to cool off the temperature in his room by
means of trough of water within il
and blanket to gather it up by capil,
larry attraction A better arrangement
would be to hang up the blanket in
window, closing the others. so that nj
air from the outside could get into the
room except through the blanket. This
is the way they do in Italy. In Iudi;
still better appliance is "tattie, o.
mat of the fragrant 'kuskus" root. very
loosely woven and kept wet, wherep.
the thermometer inside house is Otter
, sent down 20 degrees below what it i
outside in the shade. The scientific ex
PLANTATION of it is this: water has nor
: NAL temperature of 81 degrees Fahren
heit If hot blast of ITO degree
| strikes sponge or mat full of water
and is detained in its passage through
7 it loses considerable of its heat.
What shall we do with the assassin
7 1t seems ten years is all he can get fo
e an attempt to kill, and we don't wan
: the President to die in order to give U
: the satisfaction of hanging his murder
: er. Not anticipating such treatmer
: of the elected Chief Servant of the pei
g pie, we have no laws about high treason
: as affecting individuals. but there is I
b reason why we shouldn't. When til
# Duke of Edinburgh, the second son
i Queen Victoria, was shot in Australi
though not very severely, the assassi
d was hanged in three days. Is Guitea
e insane? Perhaps everybody angl
t. enough to kill anybody is insane. but
IT proportion of such lunatics are annual
% judicially jerked into eternity. In Il
" province of Farther India, when NJ
r lay, after getting intoxicated on lit
Of to much "bhang.'' or India hemp, ru
1t 'amok" with naked kris" or wav
edged dagger slashiDg right and left
/ every one he meets, man. woman
Sc child, the people turn out with al
s. weapon they can get, just as they
~ here when an over-driven steer brea
loose. and kill him like mad dc
ID The suggestion has been made that
TT "cranks" are initiative, and several ha
W already been locked up for threateni
y. the lives of Vice-President Arthur, G
! Senator Conkling and other promine
no men, that the best deterrent effe'
n might be produced by giving Guitear
re good fogging for his disgraceful, co
&c ardly crime. If all he is to get is t
.; ~ years in Jail, l certainly am in favor
- the flogging. but I'd have it admin
x tered in installments, say 100 lashes
D. Washington then, when he gets pre-
ed we'll over that. so lashes in New Yol
\, ~ in few weeks so lashes somewh,
lot else, and SO on till his ten years W