The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-09-21
NUMBER 1.
The Presidential Journey to the Sea-
side.

The President has made the trip to
Long Branch, which was Interrupted
nine weeks ago last Saturday by the
bullet of the dastardly assassin Guiteau,
in safety, and in his new resting place
by the sea there is fresh hope that its
pure and health-giving breezes may re-
store him to convalescence- Between
the events of that terrible Saturday and
those of yesterday there is a wide differ
ence. On the day he encountered the
assassin he started in the full glow of
health to enjoy q brief vacation from
the cares of State, which had been un-
Usually pressing, and looked forward to
his rest with all the eagerness and de-
light of a school-boy entering upon his
holiday. He was more than ordinarily
cheerful, and almost the last words he
spoke before the murderer's bullet
struck him were words of congratula-
ton to Secretary Blaine upon the hope
full condition of public affairs Nine
long weeks he has suffered on his bed.
of pain, fiuctuating between life and
death, bearing his suffering and his
tedium with gentle patience and heroic
endurance, only once alluding to the
country, and then to inform his devoted
wife that it was worth living for, never
impatient except in his touching ap-
peals to be taken home among his kim
dred and the old associations, as If
thinking that he might gather new
strength from them. These appeals
have grown in earnestness, and at
last, though fearing for the results,
his physicians consented to his removal
to Long Branch, and yesterday morn
ing he started, accompanied by his
noble wife and his faithful attendants
and physicians, the swiftly-fiying train
followed by the prayers of his country
men gathered together in their places
of worship and beseeching Almighty
God to protect him on the journey and
restore him to health. The robust and
powerful man was worn almost to q
skeleton, and as he lay upon his bed,
pa.e, silent and apparently i:eless. and
was moved to the wagon that was to
convey him to the cars by tender and
loving hands, swathed in white and his
mangled face bound up, he resembled
q corpse in its cerements about to be
taken to its last home, but the feeble
sufferer was patient and resigned. His
mind was clear, and he took an interest
in all the preparations, as could be
seen by his glad eyes. With that
knightly courtesy and good comrade-
ship which have always characterised
him. even in the midst of his most acute
suffering, he lifted his wasted hand,
with an effort, and feebly waved
kindly good-by to those who were
standing upon the portico of the White
House watching the solemn procession
as it moved away and carried its pre-
cious charge out of the heat and mala-
ria of the Potomac to the cooler and
| purer air of the sea.
Our dispatches minutely chronicle
the events of the journey, the enjoy
ment of the President in the change of
scene and surroundings, the ministra-
tions of his attendants, the saddened
| yet hopeful crowds that watched the
progress of the train, the improvement
! which commenced almost as soon as he
left the malaria of Washington and
found purer air, the fortitude with
which he bore the fatigue of the jour-
| ney, and the cheerfulness with which
he remarked that it had been his most
satisfactory day since he was shot
While every good and true man will re-
| joice that the President has safely ac-
complished the journey, it is not wise
| to assume that he will recover because
he is at Long Branch, but there is GER
tainly new ground for hope. 1t has
satisfied his own intense desire for o
! change, and will therefore substitute
fresh cheerfulness and courage in the
place OF depression and dissatisfaction.
and in his new quarters he will make 9
more determined effort for life. In
this effort he will now be aided by Ma
ture. He is no longer sweltering in q
hot, sitting atmosphere and breathing
the noxious malaria of the Potomac
fats. The pure air of the sea may not
be curative in itself, but it will aid in
his recovery, and may prevent new and
dangerous conditions which would have
arisen from the absorption of poison
in the air. Still more may be
hoped from the change of scene
and surroundings. In that room at
Washington where he has lain so
long everything was associated with
suffering. and, apart from the suffering,
his surroundings all partook of same
ness and tiresomeness that no one ex-
periences like sick man. The removal
of a patient from one room to another
sometimes acts like charm on his con-
dition, and we are therefore justifed in
hoping that this complete change and
betterment of all his conditions may
have like result, and that it may prove
to have been the medicine he so much
needed.
With his devoted and untiring attend.
ants still about him, with his heroic
wife, the noblest type of American
womanhood, still by his side, with the
influences of new sights and sounds,
with the breezes of ocean waiting their
health giving properties into his cham
Der, far removed from the unhealthy
influences of Washington, the President
is in a position to renew the struggle
for life under more promising condi-
tions. The American people viii watch
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almost painful interest. hoping with
fresh hope that Divine Providence viii
restore him to health and allow him tc
finish the great work for the country
. which he had commenced so auspi-
ciously, and upon which he was mod
, estly congratulating himself when strucl
down by the infamous wretch who il
, left behind in Washington. and who car
, no longer gloat over the sufferings o
, his victim Chicago Tribune, Septern
Der z.
Official circumlocution prevented
Captain Charles P. Smith, the hero o
, the steamer Seawanhaka, from receiV
ing any recognition of his gallant serv
: ices by the Government The life-say
! ino service awarded him medal, bu
|. a DELAY was experienced in fling tn,
I testimony necessary in such cases, ant
when the medal reached the Captain h
: had been dead one day.
/,
q The scholars of the municipa
!: school of jean Baptiste Say. of Paris
/, recently visited Waterloo in q body
They also went to the manufactures Q
, Charleroi At Brussels they were n
4 I ceived at the depot by the authoritie
7 and by bands playing the Marsellaise