The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-14

| ports since the last bulletin show that
the President continues to improve. lie
has suffered some Inconvenience from
being changed TO a narrow bed, as il
: does not allow BIN to move about as
much as in the wide bed he was in, but
his appetite is good and he continues
cheerful and improves right along. His
room is cool to-day, nice breeze circu-
lating through it.
THE WEAPON USED BY GUITEAU.
1t turns out that the pistol used by
Guiteau was a cheap, common weapon
after all. 1t Is a self-cOcker, and as it is
so easy to shoot, many wonder he did
not fire more shots. The pistol was
bought from Omara, on the eighth of
June, for ten dollars.
DIR. BOYNTON ARRIVES AT WASHINGTON.
DIR. Boynton arrived today from Ohio.
He will devote himself exclusively 10
Mrs. Garfield, who, it is feared cannot
stand the excitement much longer
though as yet she has stood it nobly.
BETTER ADVANCEMENT.
The bed the President was laid upon
when first carried to the White House
from the Baltimore 81 Potomac depot
was wide but short and low. 1t was so
short that the Presidents feet rested
against the fOotboard, and he COM
planned OF this cramped position.
Another trouble was the low bed placed
the President too low in the room to get
the benefit of the breeze. The bed was a
foot or two lower than the window Sills
The bed he is now in is Z feet long so
that he has plenty of room for his feet and
it is high enough to come above the win
dow.
! AQUIET DAY.
WASHINGTON, July This has been
a remarkably quiet day at the White
| H0uGn hnf ia
President was Shot. People seem to
have exhausted themselves in constant
attendance upon the White House since
Saturday, and now that the President is
| apparently getting well they stay away
and let him have the quiet he needs.
Except cabinet officers and messengers
from The different departments. very few
people have called. Matters have drop
ped back 10 where they were before last
Saturday. The clerks have gone To
their regular work, and they have plenty
of it on hand, though nn new executive
business is transacted, except the regis
| tering of appointments. The visits at
the White House by Office seekers and
others are the same as week ago, while
the house has about the same appear
ance as it wears when the President is
absent. The telegraph instrument is al
so quiet today, and but few messages
are sent or received. The physicians
can now come and go without being
stopped on every step and questioned AS
to the Presidents condition. DR.. Bliss
is i'll the very best of spirits. He looks
brighter, having managed 10 get some
rest since the President has taken IL turn
for the better. He says everything is rs
nice as could be expected
| ALWAYS BRIGHT.
The Presidents humor, always bright
| and apt, has not deserted him. He
makes humorous remarks now and then
on pleasant subjects and quotes passages
from Shakespeare. The temperature in
the sick room to-day was not rs low rs
might have been desired, but the apart
ment was comfortable. An artificial APP
| pliance for lowering the temperature
which was put in last evening, works
very satisfactorily.
OPEN TO THE PRESIDENT.
The stOrehouses of the whole country
are open to the Prcsidenct Large pack
ages containing fine wines and liquors
are received every day. Everybody who
has some very old wine, whisky or bran
dy, is sending it to the White House for
the use of the President. Some port
wine fifty years old arrived this morn
ing.
One gentleman, in sending his cOntri-
button of old wine, said, that he was
temperance man, and that the wine had
been placed in the family cellar thirty
years ago by his father, and had never
bees torfclfeei, S'sEntl he lIof5cd thai tlso
/ President would accept it and find it TO
! be beneficial
/ The President will soon have n large
stock of fine old wine and liquors. Large
quantities of patent medicine arc re-
ceived with their healing qualities fully
set forth in accompanying circulars.
There is usually a card urging that the
medicine be given fair trial.
SUGGESTIONS AS TO TREATMENT.
The doctors have received any number
of suggestions by telegraph as TO the
treatment when the President was first
shot. There has now been time for mail
advice to come in, and they do come
in. Mr.. Bliss is overwhelmed with rec
concentrations TO use this or that rem
way or that way. Even Mrs. Garfield
receives such advisory letters.
INTERESTING LITERATURE.
Mr.. Morton, of the clerical force at
the White house, is preparing separate
scrap book OF the newspaper accounts of
the shooting and dangerous illness. The
different accounts are cut up and pasted
in Mark Twain scrap book. Editorial
remarks and comments are scissored and
put in alongside. Telegraphic accounts
of public meetings held are also pre-
served. The literature of this character
will make big volume, which it will
take the President some time TO peruse
after he is able to read. He has express
ed desire to have the reports of the ca
lamity and the press comments prcserv-
ed. The kilograms of sympathy which
have been received will all be preserved,
and they make q big collection. The
kilograms from foreign governments and
rulers were nearly all addressed TO Sec
rotary Blaine. These will be kept in
the records of the State Department.
be put in some convenient form so they
will be readily accessible to the readers
and sympathiZing callers.
THE PRESIDENTS VIEW OF GUITEAU's
ASSAULT.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., July Snow
that the Presidents condition has become
SO hopeful that most of his friends, and
himself are confident of his final
recovery, it will he interesting to know
what lac himself thought of the attack
made upon him, how lie viewed it when
the shock was over and he had chance
to think of the subject at his leisure.
When this subject was introduced yes
terday, when he had revived after q good
sleep, he turned to Il friend present and
said: "There is one thing about this
affair that
IS STRANGE AND UNPRECEDENTED
as far as my reading goes. They say
this man is fanatic. Now, ] believe
that all fanatics, who have accomplished
! such violent deeds, have invariably dis
played reckless regard of their person
al safety. They would deliberately rush
forward at the almost certain point OF
, their lives, in fact, forgetting the future
of the case altogether, would make
in front. When Charlotte Cor.
day dispatched Marat there was no
) cowardice displayed. She went right to
! work before the victims eyes and &C
: complished her purpose. When Ra
vaillac shot Henry ", of France, he
! and fired in the mOnarch's face" and
! the President then proceeded TO give II
E Illustrations called TO memory from his
| EXTENSIVE ACQUAINTANCE WITH HIS
: TORY,
; but which the narrator had forgotten
/. The President, continuing the same
strain of thought, said: "But this fel
: low, supposedly fanatic, had violated
| all the precedents with which I an
his personal safety and gave me nc
4 chance to defend myself when he took
\ me in the rear. / can only remember
2 that when I entered the depot my mind
Q was full of sending dispatch to my lit
j. tie wife, before the train moved Oft, just
3 TO let her know that we had started, fol-
: she is always pleased with such remem
!. brances. I paid no attention to the frs
: shot at all, and when fell at the second
= the first impression was that had beer
the victim of some accident, some 4th o.
!, July fire works gone off ahead of time
!. That there was any real design, it nevel
entered my head, until they got me uI
stairs and convinced me that the attack