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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13
Honor TO whom Honor Is Due.

That fellow-feeing makes one won
drous kind" has been amply illustrated in
our town since the dreadful news of the
shooting of the president arrived here.
From the moment of the reception OF the
news TO the present our bulletins have been
eagerly scanned by all classes of citizens,
young and old, rich and poor, democrat and
republican.
1t is with the greatest of pleasure that we
record the undoubted fact that the demo-
Gratis have felt, and have expressed, the same
hope and anxiety for the recovery Of the
president that republicans have done. To
say that no right thinking and patriotic
man should feel otherwise toward the head
of his nation, is easy enough; but when we
stop to consider how short time has
elapsed since the close of the campaign re-
sulting in the election of President Garfield,
campaign almost if not quite unexampled
for violent vituperation of opposing caudi-
dates how the democrats smarted from
the defeat of gallant union general, after
Jney udu Debuu bno phObie WIN piiiiahV
prospects of success,-when we consider all
this, we must give our political opponents
great praise.
And we believe that they heartily respect
General Garfield, not simply because he is
president, but because of his manly, gener-
GUS and honorable qualities. We say this
deliberately, notwithstanding we wildly re-
member how many of these same men last
fall were shouting DE Golyer," "Credit
Mobilier,' and chalking 1929" on fences
and dead walls. Can anything better illus
trate the degeneracy of politics, or rather
the conducting of presidential campaigns ?
There is another feature which is not less
gratifying, and that is the interest felt for his
recovery by the young people, little boys
and girls who have been born since the close
of the war and the shooting of President
Lincoln, and to whom the war of the rebel
lion is almost as distant an event as the
revolution of l776.
Terrible as is the tragic event which may
yet result in the death of this great and
noble man, it has its compensations, and it
may be that the All-wise Providence, "who
chasteneth whom he loveth," has wisely Or
dered this for the good of the country.
While we await the result, let us devoutly
hope so.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13

A Coon SELECTIoN.-The appointment
of Hannibal lIamlin as minister to Spain is
commented upon in the kindliest of terms
by the leading journals of both parties.
Never was high honor more worthily be-
slowed. Mr.. Hamlin's public service has
been long and varied. For well nigh half a
century he has been servant of the people,
as governor, as vice-president of the United
States, as United States senator. Nature
did not fashion him 10 dazzle mankind, but
he has done better than that lie has per
formed all the duties devolved upon him in
high official station with conspicuous fidel-
ity. No mans record is more honorable
Washington life, which spoils so many men,
did not touch him for the worse. lie is
to-day the same, simple, unpretending, old
fashioned man that he was when he first set
his foot in the national capitol. His pro
verbal dress coat has become little rusty
but there is no stain on the man beneath it
We trust he may vastly enjoy life in the
Spanish castle which will now open to re
ceiye him.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13

PRESIDENT HAYES, just as he was going out OF
office, pardoned young man who had been con.
fined for defalcation while holding a clerkship in
a Newark, New Jersey, bank. There were extern
uating circumstances connected with the perpetra
ton OF the crime, but the pardon was obtained
mainly through the efforts Of the young lady u
whom the prisoner was engaged, and who has
chung to him with the most faithful devotion.
large company gathered to see them married al
the house OF the brides father In Newark a few
nights ago, and all were happy, with tears only
for the past. But when the brides father at the
close of the ceremony approached to kiss the new
wife, he was seen to totter, and an instant later
fell dead In the arms of his son in-law
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13

any other than the sole unaided conception
and execution of creature through whose
fantastic brainwork and vacuity Of moral
sense runs slight vein Of religious fanat
icism. Every known evil in the body pol
tito could as readily be made responsible for
this crime, and If all could be made to Ego "
as peremptorily as Office seeking has been
exercised under the spell of this great ca
lamity, the sun of political millennium
would rise over the land as the bright star
of President Garfeld's life sink towards the
horizon of earth.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13
The Perils of Power.

"The most blameless sovereign in Europe,
Queen Victoria" says the Chicago Tribune,
"has not been free from the danger Of as
sassination by lunatics. Her death could
produce no change in the established order
of government. She has barely the shadow
of political power. If royalty were abol-
ished, Great Britain could not be freer
country than it is. Yet the queen has been
three times shot at, once struck in the face,
once threatened with loaded and with an
unloaded pistol. The first attempt upon the
queens life was made June 10th, 1910, by
Edward Oxford, lad of seventeen. He
fired two shots deliberately, but missed.
His was much the same kind of a character
as Guiteau's. He was half-crazy with long
ing for notoriety. He was pronounced in
sane by jury, and sentenced to be confined
in a lunatic asylum during her majesty's
pleasure. John Francis, son of machinist
in Drury lane, fred at the queen May Both,
1912, from the very spot where Oxford had
stood. He was but few feet from the car
riage, which fortunately was driving at a
rapid pace, and missed his aim. He was
condemned to death, but his sentence was
committed to imprisonment for life. The
very day after this mitigation of punishment
became known, hunchback boy named
Bean made another attempt on the queens
life. He presented pistol at her carriage,
but was not permitted to fire it. The pistol
was loaded with powder, paper tightly RAM
med down, and some scraps of clay pipe
Bean was imprisoned eighteen months. An
Irish bricklayer named Hamilton fired pis-
tol loaded only with powder at her majesty,
May 10th, 1919, on Constitution hill,-where
two previous attempts had been made. His
sentence was seven years transportation.
Robert Pate, cashiered lieutenant of hus-
sars, struck her majesty in the face with a
stick, May 9th, 1850. His sentence also
was seven years transportation. Arthur
O'Connor, boy of seventeen, presented an
unloaded pistol at the queen, February Goth,
1872. lie was whipped and imprisoned for
year. The modified law, which author
ICES whipping to be prescribed in the dis
erection of the judge, is thought to have had
the effect of discouraging attempts upon the
queens life. Whether there is enough sense
in Guiteau to hang or not, there is certainly
enough to whip, and the crazy part of him
ought at least to be confined in an asylum
| for the criminal insane for the remainder of
| his life."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13

A CHICAGO firm is sending out circulars offering
to furnish sermons printed on fine clear, white
paper with bold face type" etc, to ministers and
students who will send their addresses, The firm
sends specimen sermon and proposes to furnish
others to order from a list of three hundred dis
courses ON different subjects at the low price Of
thirty cents each. The sermons are warranted tc
be non-denominational and are to be SO sent thai
two ministers in the same section will not have til,
same sermons,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13

A LETTER was lately received from Ger
many addressed to " Herr Garfield, Unions
President, Washington, Virginia" 1t went
to Washington, Rappahannock county, Vir-
ginis, and the postmaster there kept it three
weeks, advertised it, marked IL " not known"
and sent it TO the dead letter office. That
feat would have delighted the late Post.
master General Key, but Mr.. James does not
like it, and the Virginia postmaster will
have 10 60.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13

THE son OF Jacob Neu OF Canandagua, New
York, who killed his wife in a fit of drunken
frenzy and then committed suicide, has recovered
5000 damages from the McKechnies OF that vii.
lage, from whom Neu purchased the beer upon
which he became intoxicated.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13

PRESIDENT GONZALES of Mexico tele
graphs for daily reports of President Gar
fields condition.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13

A GREAT ESrERrRisE The Hop Bitters Man
uiacturing Company is one of Rochester's greatest
business enterprises Their Hop Bitters have
reached q sale beyond all precedent having from
their intrinsic value found their way into almost
every household In the land. --Grdphic.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13

puRK blood helps to make clear conscience.
Hoods Sarsaparilla purihes the blood Enough
said Send US big bottle
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13

SURGICAL OPINIONS


DR.. Weisse, professor OF anatomy at the Uni
versty Of the City of New York, after experiment.
ing on a cadaver, concludes the ball did not touch
the presidents liver. Ex-Surgeon- General Ham
mond, who at first considered the president case
hopeless, now says: 81 think the diagnosis has
been wrong from the beginning. don't believe
the ball passed through the liver, and don't be-
lieve it Is in the abdomen. / think the bullet
struck the ribs, and probably the thick muscles in
the side, aud then glanced off. 1t will be found
in the small of the back, may be lower down"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13

The normal resprations of a man of his age are
about IL to the minute. Commencing with the
evening Of July list, they have been as follows
July LIST, 90 I'd, 2O 3d. 2s 4th, 49, 9th, 26 9th, %
It'll, Sth, and 9th %, His normal pulse is "a July
LIST, l2i; 3D. 40; Sd, 1876; 4th 1os; 9th, 10s 9th,
10S; It'll, 9Th and 9th, 100. His normal tempera-
ture is $50 Fahrenheit. July 1st 800; I'd, 1000
ID, 102o; 4th, 1910; 9TH, 1910; 9th, 1000; It'll,
1910; Sth, 1920; 9TH 1O2o. All the above figures
are those OF the evening of each day There was
much variation at other times in the day. The
figures are close approximations, but we have
made no attempt to give small fractions
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13

Respecting his appearance correspondent says
There was no pallor or haggard look on his face
The flush upon his cheek was almost as marked
as when last seen in full health. The only thini
noticeable was kind Of wearied expression, a.
though he was tired Of lying in bed so long, ant
anxious to be up. He was covered with a thir
white Counterpart drawn close up to his chin
His eyes were open, and in a moment he turned
his head and looked out of the window towart
the Potomac The only person in the room be
side the president was Mr.. Crump, the steward
who sat between the bed and the window, slowl,
moving up and down broad palm-leaf fan. Tn
bed was about six feet from the window, which
was open, and current OF air was passing
through from it to the door opposite, There wa
TO be seen little 70 Indicate q sick room
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13
AN AUDACIOUs LETTER.

The following letter, dated at New York, was
written to General Garfield last fall by Guiteau:
" Dear Generdt:-I, Charles Guteau, hereby make
application for the Austrian mission, Being about
to marry wealthy and accomplished heiress of
this city we think that together we might repre-
sent this nation with dignity and grace. On the
principle OF first come first served | have faith
that you will give this application favorable con-
sideration." The letter shown to President
Garfield as a curiosity and he afterward several
times referred to it half humorously as an illus
tration of unparalleled audacity and impudence.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13

At a meeting of socialists in Chicago, Sunday
resolutions were adopted denying Guiteau's m EN-.
bership with the socialists declaring that social
ism does not tend to the crime of assassination
that Guiteau's act grew out Of the falsity of the
present state of society, that the elevation of a
citizen to such an exalted office as president is
opposed to the principles OF equality and imperils
the interests OF society by inviting desperate and
reckless men to the crime Of assassination, and
that the presidency and senate should both be
abolished
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13

President Buckham of the University of YER
mont delivered on Wednesday evening an in
structive lecture on matter of the greatest i'm
portance, "Choice and Use OF Books" The lee
turer's ability to Judge correctly and advise
wisely gives decisive weight to what he has to
say on this subject, Passing to the selection OF
list OF English works he recommended Chaucer
and Spenser Milton and Shakespeare, Burns and
Woodwork among the poets, Gbbon, Hume,
Hallam, Robertson and Macaulay among English
historians. American historians have written
European history, but the great history of Amer
lea Is yet to be written. The best history OF the
civil war Is by Frenehman. Biography, the
speakers observations showed him was less APP
preciated by general readers Plutarch's Lives,
Boswell's johnson, Johnson's Lives OF the Poets,
SCOTS Lives of Dryden and swift, Lockhart's
Scott, Lord Campbell's Lives OF the Chambers,
Irving's Columbus, Marshalps Washington,
Franklin's Autobiography and Wir's Patrick
Henry were the chosen biographies for special
reading Voyages and travels especially the
more modern and distinguished OF which Living
stone is a type were recommended. Works of
science like Darwin on the Species, Guyot's Earth
and Man, George p. Marsh's Man and Nature
and Tyndall and Forbes ON Alpine Glaciers were
mentioned. Among essaysts he selected Mon
tagne Bacon. and Addison. II but volume OF
essays could be chosen the lecturer gave his
preference TO Lambs Essays OF Ella Macaulay
and an ample list OF other English literary es-
saylsts were selected Such works of fiction as
strengthen the mental and moral qualities were
admitted. Among the modern noyelists he gave
high preference to Scott abjured Dickens and
praised Thackeray. Variety in the choice Of
authors, selecting some OF the lesser as well as
the greater lights in literature, was advised,
President Buckham's address occupied somewhat
more than an hour in delivery, and like every
thing that comes from him was able, interesting
and instructive. We conhne our report to an
outline OF the works he recommended 10 readers,
The varied subjects which directly and indi-
rectly go to make up the sum total Of an educa-
ton were discussed in lengthy addresses during
the session of the Institute. President Mowry $
remarks upon the " School curriculum and its re-
lations 10 business life" were OF a sensible and
practical character There are but few teachers
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-10-18

Says q correspondent A youthful
wife is one of the wonders of Saratoga
at present; not SO much because she is
only IL as that her husband is 60. The
difference in their ages is fully apparent.
face, manners. and dress are extremely
girlish. More than that, she has a baby
a dot Of a thing only 8 months old. II
seems like a doll in its girl-mother's
arms and she is mighty fond of display
ing it. When the nurse brings it to her
for he looks all of his vears, while her
in the midst Of party of young fellows,
and she demurely walks of to her room
to give it nourishment. they get mad
with envy at the veteran husband. That
makes the young women Jealous of her,
and altogether she is a highly aggrava-
ting little creature. The most affecting
thing She has done yet was at a big
hotel hop. She q dress quite low
in the back, and was ravishingly pretty.
While she danced her venerable spouse
sat out OF the veranda smoking and
chatting with q circle Of men-old and
Suddenly she ran out to him,
put her hands on his knees. bent her
head into his lap. and said. in tone Of
a child to q parent : ~
"Please scratch my back"
, The old fellow thrus. his hand down
the back Of her dress, a little, clawing
iher soft skin with his brown. wrinkled
fingers. s
"a little to the other side," she MUIR
INJURED. there, that's the spot. Thank
ya
ner. totally unconscious (p) of tho
o t.raxl..- clA l-I --.-@ Al
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-10-18
America and Europe.

The frontiers of European States are
iron-like in their rigidity. Armed mil
lions on the one side brandish their
weapons on other armed millions
facing them. Ncighbors are not per-
mitted to visit neighbors without per-
mits and passports. In brief, every
impeachment that cultivated barbarism,
financial ignorance, and intense ma
tionalism can erect, is placed between
men hailing from coterminous geo.
graphical areas. Worse still, the pro-
gressive elcments among the peoples
are ruthlessly eradicated, and the type
forcibly restrained to its ancient form.
Fortunately, for the good of mankind
and for the peace of laggard political
systems, the energetic minds Of Europe
cannot be prevented from reaching the
United States.
But the consequence is to give new
energies and broader vistas to Ameri-
cans; to quicken the march and swell
the triumphs Of the young giant Of the
West. Tho discomfort Of Europe finds
content in America; and discomfort,
translated into mechanical formula,
means q search for lines Of least resist
'ance. The United States have no rigid
boundaries. Our own line Of colonies
is the most yielding of barriers, through
which people pass freely. 1t is true
that hostile tariffs bristle on each side,
but these do not produce tho deaden-
ing paralysis and the hatreds that OBJ
tain in Europe. The Mexican frontier
Is even more flexible than tho British,
and In time will become merely an at
mosphere limo. Nowhere does ar
armed people menace the Great Repub-
lie. Hence it goes forward untaxed by
the militaryism under which every
European State is stagnating.-C Cham
berS Journal
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-10-18

Low-tido shoes arc best for sea bath
ing wear.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-10-18

Mr.. Joe Beasley, an experimental
gardener near Columbus, Ga, has sue
ceeded in raising some melons with q
delicious lemon flavor. He makes an
incision in the vine o short distance
from the root, to which he attaches o
lemon. and by BAR of absorption the
juice is taken into the melons.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-10-18

Gen. Harding, speaking for Tennes-
see, considered Hungarian grass to be
the best forerunner of timothy. He re-
that this be sown in summer
and harvested in August or early in
September; and that timothy be sown
upon the stubble and narrowed in. The
Hungarian grass, he thinks, destroys
all weeds and gives a certain compact
ness to the soil necessary to secur q
good stand of timothy.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-10-18

Edwin Booth told a Philadelphia in.
terviewer the other day "The papers
In London were very liberal In their
criticisms Of me and very kindly made
D farewell speech for me, which l was
supposed to have made before the cur
tain at my last performances. | knew
nothing about It until I saw 1t In the
papers the next morning. 1t was q,
much better. speech than I could have
made myself."
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-10-18

THIS PAPER pp1y d S : II:% Gs q s sS 9. aso
Advertising Bureau n Sprnce 81 wh--n ndvcrttsint
utracts may IL mado for s. IN NEW xOILtA
Subecribe for the LEADER.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-10-18
New Raoes Of Bees.

ID. A. Jones. a Beeton, an enthusi-
astic apiarist, has sent Frank Benton, q
New York bee-keeper and linguist, on
a tour around the world in search of
new kinds of bees. Mr.. Benton re-
NAMED last Winter upon the Island Of
Cyprus, starting an apiary and shipping
queens to Mr.. Jones. and this year he
is taking a trip, in search OF new races
of bees, through the Indian Ocean,
visiting Hindustan, the Island of Java
and perhaps the Philippine Islands.
Writing from Columbo. Ceylon, Mr..
Benton says 81 have seen two native
races of bees and the comb of a third.
Ono is stingless, hut worthless. One
race is Apis Indica. but Apis dorsata
is certainly q wonderful bee, whether it
ican be domesticated or not. 1t builds
in the open air. on branches, often
making combs six feet long, and |
have good authority for saying that
thirty natives have each taken a load
.of honey from one tree. / call it Apis
dorsata; but l do not know positively
as that is the name. as l have not yet
seen the bee. Everybody says, though,
that there is a large bee. from which.
.great quantities Of honey are easily
gotten. in the interior of the Island"
MIR. Benton did not go TO the interior
of the island, because, as he says. lit
was too late when l learned where to
find it to go to that part otthe island
and reach this French steamer" He
will stop at Ceylon again upon his re-
turn trip. Writing from Java, he says (:
II have not yet seen q bee of this race
apis dorsata). but have seen two
combs of these bees. which are 8 feet
by 81 feet, are II inches thick where
the brood was reared. about twenty
icells to the square inch. These be9S
must be seven-eights of an inch long"
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-10-18
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