Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-11
MINOR TOPICS.

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TIE Indianapolis Journal notes the fac!
| that Booth and Guiteau are both Amcri
cans and adds "The lunatics who want
to kill presidents arc not foreign born
citizens
Born tho Republican caucus " nomi.
nccs in New York arc congressman and il
is contcrded by those who oppose them
"within tho party limos that their elcc
ton will create vacancies not to be filled
before the House meets, which will
throw the organization into tho hands Of
the Democrats.
TIE New York SIN, tho Albany Argus,
| tho Pittsburgh Post and a number OF
! other leading papers over tho country cn-
tcrtain like views with tho INTELLIcEN-
GER of the improperly Of rich mcn max
ing largo present to tho president S
family during his lifetime and in the carly
days Of his presidency. The most forciblc
O. Il. Pottcr's protest to Mr.. Field, which
| we rcpublisll aud which seems to bc IN
answcrable.
MAYOR KINGS anti-iirewOrks policy,
enforced in Philadelphia last week, re
ccivcs ample vindication in tho weekly
| report of tho Pennsylvania hospital, &C
cordiny to which, while there were thirty
six cases of gun shot wounds and powder
burns admitted to tho hospital on the
Fourth Of July and the three succeeding
days of 1879, and eighty cases eight Of
which proved fataD during tho corrcs-
pouding period of 1880, there wcro only
three cases admitted during tho entire
week which closed on Saturday, all of
which were slight. In view Of these i'll
resstibe statistics it will not bo hard to
enforce tho regulations next year.
MIR. GARFIELD has expressed himself rs
deeply moved by the solicitude manifested
hy the Catholic church for his recovery.
The Jews, too, have becn singulally earn
| est in all parts Of tho country in the same
behalf. Mr.. Jefferson Davis joins with
many earnest Soutbcrncrs in expressions
Of profound sympathy for Mr.. Garfield,
ant. Democratic individuals and organiza-
tions have been foremost in Offering their
coincidence. All those things may or may
not p,esasc the dawn of an "cra Of good
feeling but they certainly prove that
there is Il good deal of humanity among a
class of people who have been subject to
the most malignant misrepresentation from
Mr.. Gariicld's political and religious
friends.
Ex STATE SUIT. WuEERsuAM's School
yourual gives notice that it twill continue
to bc recognized as the official organ Of
the department of public instruction under
the new administration, in the sense Of
publishing the current decisions and ex
plantations made by the state supcrin-
tcndent, official circulars and letters, re-
ports, etc In accordance with this AZ
raugemcnt, the secretaries OF school
boards will, Us heretofore, receive u copy
without charge that is without charge
to themselves but at the public expense.
All this is Gin accordance with the law"
the .Schoot yvurnaL explains. And y most
ill bcgctten law it is ! There is no reason
in the world why the School Journal should
be singled out for such favoritism. The
law is not Gin accordance with" any
sense Of right.
THE opinions of some prominent physi-
clans, to be found on our first page, con.
ccrnin. the nature of General Gartield's
wound seem to bo gaining ground. DIR.
Hammond, OF New York, also believes tho
wound to be only flesh wound and that
the diagnosis has been wrong from the
beginning. Ho doesn't believe the ball
passed through the liver and he doesn't
been no wound Of the liver nor any Of tho
pcritoncum. lie thinks the bullet struck
the ribs and probably the thick muscles
in tho side and then glanced oft. 1t will
be found in the back or may be lower
down. DR.. Fancuil ID. Weisse, professor
of practical! and surgical anatomy in the
medical department Of the University of
the City Of New York, has been for sever
a. days past engaged in making some
experiments on cadavcr with i view to
;lscortaininy the probable course pursued
10y the bullet in the presidents body. And
he concludes, top, that the ball has not
touched the liver. A number of physicians
in this city have expressed the samc opin-
ion and if it holds out the attending doc
tors arc likely to be the targets of a good
deal Of ili-natuTed comment, not untinged
perhaps 10y professional jealousy.
A PAPER in indianapolis, called Tile Ito-
pie, contributes the most valuable morscl to
the literature Of the Garfield assassination.
Ii has invoked astrclogy and publishes
diagram, which looks like an illustration
of Il prize billiard shot, to show how tho
planets stool ut the shooting of Garfield
and what they portcsd concerning Gar
fields recovery. 1t seems that tho only
reason he was not killed instantly WIS that
tho aspects of the sky Oh that memorable
Saturday werc favorable for tho prcscrva-
ticn Of life. On Sunday, however, when
his symptoms wcro SO bad, the moon was
meeting the very evil scsquiquadrate of
of Mars "but the aspect Immediately fol-