Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-07-21
ECHOES OF THE ASSASSINATION.

- Garfield will very likely get well, but
about q half dozen persons have been killed
at the North for expressing wish that he
might die. One crime begets many.
"A fan worked by an electric motor was
placed by the Presidents bed Friday. 1t
has two large fan.like arms, which revolve
slowly. Ever since the President has been
suffering from the wound some one has been
constantly tanning him, and this apparatus
will relieve his attendants.
- Secretary Blaine says he is confident
that the President will now recover. He
says that the expression of sympathy mani
tested by the people in every section Of the
country has gone great way towards bracing
the President up. 1t has cheered him more
than anything else, and will prove an impor.
tant factor in his struggle for life.
- An effort, is to be made by means of an
electric apparatus, contrived by Prof Bell,
the electrician, to locate the ball in the Pres
ident's body. 1t is said that the experiments
tried have been so satisfactory that Mr.. Bell
has no doubt tina. his apparatus will designate
precisely the locality of the ball, so that the
doctors can 60 to work with certainty of sue.
cess.
The records show that during the four
years of President Hayes term, there were
thirteen persons arrested for hanging about
the Executive Mansion, eleven of whom were
sent to the asylum. Among the number
were two women-one very wealthy young
lady from Indiana, and another an older wo.
man, both of whom were under the halluci.
nation that President Hayes had sent after
them to marry them.
Mrs. DR.. Edison is trusted with greater re-.
sponsibiIities by DR., Bliss than any one else.
She is not, however, regarded during the ply
siciaus' long consultations. Mrs. Edison is
tall, broad shouldered, robust looking woman,
dressed in plain and rather ill-6tting gar
ments. Her yellowish grey hair is cut short
and combed down straight like mans. She
wears gold bowed glasses, which are continu-
ally falling off her rather prominent nose.
She is tender and the most knowing, and is
trusted almost to any extent by Mrs. Garfield,
who gives up her place at the Presidents
bedside during the night onl y when Mrs. Ed
son is summoned to it.
speaking of the chances of the Presi-
dents recovery, DR.. Hamilton says: 81 do
not attach much Importance to the mere fact
of his being strong and robust man. A
small thin man stands just as good chance
of recovering from gunshot wound as
large and heavy man. Large people, as
rule, make the worst patients. They suffer
the most, and their recovery is apt to be very
slow. On the other hand, thin. wiry people
develop extraordinary recuperative powers.
The fact that President Garfield has been
temperate man all of his life certainly is
great advantage to him now. No human
system overcharged with alcohol could have
withstood such shock as his has received"
A correspondent, describing an interview
with the Presidents wife, says, she remarked
"If it were only possible for my husband and
me to go around and see all these dear peo-
pie who have been so grateful in their remem-
brance for US here of late days, l would be so
happy; and know he would, too want
to thank them-to tell them all how kindly
feel toward them for what they have said
to me. l never could understand anything
about politics, and if liked person it made
no difference whether they we're Republicans
or Democrats and now I have grown to
think that there is not much difference be.
tween the two great parties, for one says just
as kind words in our present afliction as the
other"