Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-11

physician in charge, left the house early |
this morning to go home and take some |
sleep, the first time he has done so. The
President lay all day until dark without
special change.
BUT HIS CONDITION is STILL CRITICAL.
The physicians say that, while the day
has been most favorable, it was expected
that the President would have his ups and
downs. They all agree, even those who
speak most favorably, tonight, that the
wound is very, very dangerous one. The
Presidents condition is most critical, and
the chances are greatly against his recov-
cry. 1t will not be safe, should the Pres
ident linger, to say that he will be out of
danger under three weeks, and he is liable
to die at any time. Still, to-day has been
the turning day so far as one crisis is
concerned, and he has lived through it.
One or two of the physicians, however,
thought that the crisis would not be
reached until this evening, and at this
writing word has just come from the
White House that the President is worse
again. Your correspondent, an hour ago,
had brief chat with DR.. Bliss, who said
that he was more encouraged than he had
been at any time, and more than he ex-
pected to be to-day. He said, however,
that the President was very far from be-
ing out of danger, and he could announce
nothing definite until the location of the
ball was determined. He said the condi-
tion of the stomach was much better than
it had been. There was no vomiting.
The doctor said that the relapse last
evening was probably caused by fatigue.
The great danger now would be the for
nation of pus cavity and a secondary
Inflammation, although as yet there was
no sign of this.
| The wives of nearly all the members of
the cabinet have rendered constant and
valuable service through the whole peri
cd, and have stood up with heroic cour-
age and almost superhuman strength.
| Mrs. James has been in constant attend
ance at the bedside and has never lost
have greatly differed in the degree of con-
| fidence with which they have awaited the
result. Postmaster General James and
his family have been, perhaps, the most
buoyant. Mrs. James seems never for
moment to have faltered or lost her cour-
age. Mrs. Blaine has also been extreme
ly sanguine of favorable results. This
band of heroic women constantly in at
much to give confidence to all, but none
of them equal in their hope and confidence
| Mrs. Garfield, who looks at the situation
with great calmness and singular forti-
tude and continues to be scarcely less a
| marvel of will and strength to the physi-
clans than the President himself. Mrs.
Garfield, Notwithstanding she is GONZALES
cent only from an illness that nearly re-
fatally, has not yet needed the physicians
care since she received the terrible mes
sage of Saturday morning.
MRS. GARFIELD VERY HOPEFUL.
Tuesday morning Mrs. Garfield was
very hopeful and well-spirited. She said
to Mrs. Secretary Blaine, who seemed still
somewhat fearful of the results: 'Keep
up your courage; all will be well yet. -
The Presidents son James visited him
this morning. The patient shook hands
with the boy, giving his hand a hearty
grasp, and said that he was feeling much
refreshed and stronger. The boy was
overjoyed with delight, and very soon
slipped quietly from the house and has
tened to the mansion of Secretary Win
dom, where he gave the joyful tidings to
his sister Mollie.
There has been no more significant
point i'm the history of the tragedy al
Washington to the waiting, breathless
nation, than the part which the Presi-
dents wife and mother have borne in it.
Millions of men and women to whom the
President was really but vague name, 8
symbol of power, and Gen. Garfield, per-
haps, political enemy, have felt theil
hearts throb and eyes fill at the thought
of the fair and delicate woman, SO dear to
him, whom he had with his own hands
just faithfully nursed back from the Dor
ders of the grave, hasteniog to him on the
flying train to hold him in her weak arms
| to help him with her prayers and love, in
his long and heroic fight with death. The
sight brings the White House down to 6
level with the poorest cabin where there
is love and faith, and makes its inmates
the kin of every household in the land.
Nobody has forgotten, too, how in the
day of his Inauguration, when he took the
oath which made him ruler of fifty mil
lions of people, he quickly turned from
the waiting diplomatists, bearing the con
gratulations of all other rulers, and from
the applauding crowds, to little, plainly
dressed, haired woman seated be
) hind him, stopped ana reverently kissed
, her. 1t was his mother. Yesterday thu
news of his assassination, which had beer
kept from her, was broken to her by he
, daughter. She heard it with a kind o
stunned amazement. Chow could any
body be so cold-hearted as to kill my ba
) by?" she said.
, He was soldier to others; patriot
the representative of a certain far-reach
ing national policy; to the world beyond
, the chosen ruler of mighty people. Blu
: he was only cher baby" still to her
"James," who, as she SO often while il
| Washington said with simple dignity
'shas always been good boy" 1t doe:
not seem SO long ago to her since
she held him in her arms, or trained hin
: to be true, obedient son. He NIGH
command millions of people of every rac'
, and country, and he still obeyed the aged
J trembling woman, who when she heard