The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-09-01
EDITORIAL C0RRTSP0XDENCE.
Letter from ChicagO-Thc Presidents
Condition and RuSIneSs-The Grain
Market-A Talk with Editor MedIII.

NHICAuO, AuRubt ~, 1881.
arrived here on Saturday evening and
found everything gloomy and Responding
about the hotels and public places In con.
sequence OF the news from Washington
about the President, 1t seemed us II every.
body had at last given him up, including
Dr. Bliss and even Mrs. Garfield and
accordingly tidings Of his death were ex.
pected Sunday. wrote ont little memo
rial "reminiscences Of the President for yoil
columns, and took 1t to the telegraph Office
Just before midnight, surprising you would
issue Sunday edition, and Just as hand
ed 1t in for transmission over the wire.
some one inside said that the President
had changed for the better. In order L
see what the word really was went up t
the rooms Of the Associated Press and
there read the details Of the news as Il wa
coming in, including Blaine's dispatch tc
Minister Lowell, and after seeing that there
really WIS u change for the better, and thnt
the President might not only live for days
yet but finally get well, hurried back tc
the telegraph office and suppressed my dis
patch after II page Of 1t had gone of.
There WIS an Cagerhess 10 see the Sun.
day morning papers here that have never
seen exhibited since the war, save on
the morning after the Presidents assassina.
tiOn, eight weeks ago, and all day Sunday
great crowds thronged the sidewalks in
front of the Tribune and Times newspaper
offices to read the bulletins In the windows.
The Tribune Issued All extra ut ten O'clock
in the day, which was eagerly bought iron
the newsboys, and here at the Palnpf
House, where everybody comes In times ri
excitement tue constant inquiry among
the crowd In the rotunda was, us there
any more news from the prrsident?o and
w hat do you think Of his chances tow?'
There was Of course, any variety n
opinions as 10 his chances. Some thoiphi
that this was simply last rally, such ns
frequently takes place before dissolution
and there were only few who proipsspd
to feel decidedly confident fiat f6e ptesi.
- NN"'N ItAhg yet Well. Even az late
us eleven o'clock lust night the sidewalks
were thrunged at the newspaper offices bV
rager crowds looking for more news, THE
news was, ineagre, but, nevertheless. AMI
good, and on every hand YOU could hear
expressions OF satisfaction and cohgrainla.
lions over it, encouraging tenor.
ms morning brought a confirmation nj
the change for the better that has cn,Do ~
the President, and by the Opening nj hal.
ness there WIS Il grand let UP In lie iepi;n,
Of dependency that was so noticeable NJ,
Saturday evening The expression Was
common that the President would now MIL
through that he had touched his lowest
point and passed hls last crisis, and mnsi
now recover. On the strength Of This ieCl.
ing \ was confidently predicted that there
Would bea bull market" al the Rrdih ~.
change TO day. Qpefaton aid that Ind
news In regard To the President had beCn
used TO bear the market, and now In, VnSj |
news had come prices ought 10 fStiSEs n
the buoy9nt feeling. But there "a mn ioyjc
IN such dealings rs they arc having bSss"
The cliques that have been mSnibS,",,r:
wheat, corn and pork 80 wildly i6f S wSoIs
past have astonished the bows with ibsis
Irregularities and to-day Il was, A. usual
the unexpected thing that happened,