The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-09-24
THE DAILY CAIRO BllET MORNING a.


his assistant scrambled ms best they could;
but the goods were nearly all either lost or
ruined. Mr.. Robert Bibbs, the ferryman,
who was near by with his skif at the time
the accident occurred, lent Mr.. Tanner all
the assistance in his power, and succeeded
IN fishing up some OF the goods and secur-
ing the skiif.
The Paducah Enterprise says: "The
Cairo papers are at war with each other
while THE BULLETIN is nicely scoring the
prosecuting attorney" The Enterprise
is mistaken. The Cairo papers are not at
war with each other. The BULLETIN finds
it necessary sometimes to administer some
wholesome advice to the evening paper, but
Sat war;" No. For little while the
evening paper obstinately refuses to learn
anything or to recognize the gross errors
into which its inexperience often leads it
and then it rudely-like an angered child
strikes away TIE BULLETINS gently
Gliding hand; but soon its better judgment
| Gt has better judgment, the opinions Of
many good people to the contrary notwith-
standing), cornpels it to acknowledge its
guilt; it does so mutely-wlthout a muir
muir, and then all is well again. "At war;"
No, indeed. The happy millennium certain
ly pervades the newspaper offices of Cairo.
Even now THE BULLETIN lion is longing
for a sight of the Argus lamb, to press it
to his paternal bosom as though
it weresone of his own young cubs.
And as for States Attorney Damron, why,
we haven't SCORED" him at all. We
never said a word against him. His
actions were the subject of our criticisms
and not himself We have tender spot
in our editorial heart for both Mr.. Damron
and for the editor Of the Argus and they
both know it. 1t is against the strange &C
tions Of the one and the peculiar notions of
the other that our sense of right sometimes
breaks out in words of gentle reproof.
A number of Chicagos most eminent
surgeons have been interviewed with re-
gard to the manner of treatment pursued
in the case of the president and their opln.
ions are worthy of reproduction. Dr. Ed
win Powell, being asked his opinion said,
at (the treatmenD was perfect in every
respect, so far as I can see. Everything
was done for the president that surgical
skill could do The wound was neces.
sarily mortal one" Being asked if the sur
geons ought not to have traced the ball bet
ter than they did he replied: "No. Track.
ing bali Is the most difficult thing mag
Unable. The books contain an instance in
which ball entered the Adams apple,
went around the throat, and lodged where
it went in. No probe, can, in every in
stance, follow ball" DR.. Edmund An.
drews was asked what he thought of the
presidential surgeons, and said they did
everything as well rs it could be
done, so far aa c0n be seen
at this distance lrom the patient.
Being asked if they could not have found
the ball he said "No; the fading of ball
is very difficult. The different folds of the
body slip over each other after the ball has
gone through them, and the continuity Of
the channel is broken. Then the probe |
slips in between the organs and the surgeon
can't tell but he 10 still sounding the
wound when he is feeling at great dis
lance from it," DR.. Norman Bridge SAID |
"The only way in which they could have
discovered the course OF the wound and the |
location Of the ball was by thorough prob |
lngwhich in that location would have been |
hazard that few surgeons would have
dared assume. Had they attempted it, the
hands of the whole surgical profession would |
have been raised against them instantly,
and they would have been charged with
meddlesome, hazardous and wholly unjusti-
fable surgery, both by the profession and
the people, You must remember that the
bullet perforated the body of one of lumbar
vertebra, which was separated from the sur
face Of the body by two or three inches of
the muscles and two inches perhaps of bone.
The bullet became encysted, and therefore
of itself was perfectly harmless. The I'm.
mediate cause was rupture of little
blood vessel, presumably severed by the
liberation IN the track of the wound. Back
of that, however, septicemia would have
killed him and more than that, he had an
abcess about tho gall bladder, which must
have held half pint, and a small abcess in
the left kidney, holding probably a tea
spoonful. These suppurations would have
destroyed his life if the rupture of the blood
vessel had not" But of what account are
the opinions of these men who