Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 12, Number 2, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 July 1881 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

PTTBLICATIOK OFTICX,

No 16 Booth 6th KL, Printing HOOM Square.

TERRE HAUTE, JULY 9, 1881

TWO EDITIONS

Of thta Papei£a»e published. *hs FIRST EDITION, on Thursday Evening, has a Urge circulation in the rorrotrndlng towin, where it is sold by newriwjri and agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes into the hands oQieariy every reading person in the city, and the farm era of thin Immediate vicinity. Every Week's lane la, in fact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

In which all Advertisement* appear for THE PRICE OF ONE ISSUE.

THE PRESIDENT.

A great nation breathes easier. Its chief magistrate ia slowly but hopefully coming hack from the grave. He will be spared to carry through the high trust to which be was called and upon which he had entered with such humility and honest purpose. Thanks to the Ruler over All, who has heard the united prayers and petitions of a great people, Jainea A. Garfield will uotgodown to an untimely grave at the hands of a miserable assassin. He will yet be spared to the nation which he has so signally honored and served throughout along and illustrious career, to the faithful wife whose loyalty and devotion have been the theme of universal praise, to the happy children who so much need his guiding hand, and to the silver-haired old mother who, of all the women in the land, alone can speak of the President as her "baby."

When the news, last Saturday, was flashed to the four quarters of the world that President Garfield had been assassinated, and was in a dying condition, ul 1 hearts wero stunned and deadened. Men felt sick, and, throwing aside their ordinary employments, gathered in groups on the stroets, anxiously awaiting each new detail of the crime, which tho electric wires could not bring swiftly enough, and hoping, for a time, almost against hope, that the loved and honored President might yet survive. For two days there was no encouragement, and when Sunday evening came, it brought the news that the wounded rnnn would dio by midnight. Yet the Fourth of July dawned and ended without witnessing his death,—an Independence Iay that was spent in supplication and prayer by the Christian people of the Nation for tho recovery of their l'resldout. God seemed to hear their prayors, for tho sky began to brighten a little. The crisis came, and the evil chango which the physicians so much dreaded did not occur. Tho resigned but wonderfully cheorful and hopeful sufferer held his own with marvelous enduranoe. "I have not lost lieait," he would say, when tho faith of those around him was growing faint. And how could he lose heart while his brave and faithful wife was saying from the first, "I know he will get well."

And so ho is coming back to life again from tho very verge of the grave, to llvo yet, lot us hope, for all those years of usefulness and success which may reasonably tie expected for one of his splendid physical powers and temperate habits. And when all danger is past the nation, from ond to end, and from Ride to side, will Join in a universal thanksgiving for the dreadfal calamity which has liooti averted.

THK talk of hedging the President round with a Ixwly guard to prevent assassination will not meet with popular favor. Tho plan Is not successful In tho old world whoro it has boon thoroughly tri««l and it would not bo more effective hi'to. llosides, it would l»o repulsive to American ideas and a stigma on our svstom of government. That a omty man hail once shot the President affords no presumption that similar attempts will hereafter be made, It is tho first Instance of the kind (for Booth was not crazy} in a hundred years of the nation's life and may never occur again. Let us not put a shame upon the whole nation /or ^he act of one irresponsible lunatic.

THK San Francisco Bulletin says there are not less than two thousand prospectors in the mountains of California, most of whom have been prospecting for the last ten or twenty years. They are all poor, live on the coarsest food, wear the cheapest clothing and are always hard up. They work hard, too, (mi gvt little or nothing for their labor but they keep on their unending hunt for gold, still hoping that some day they will strike a rich lead and becomfo\ablc for the rwt of their lives. The proapocinr'* life has its drawbacks as well aa other line* of labor.

THK terrible comet, after causing a short wheat crop, the destructive storms, this terribly hot spell, the assassination of the President, and other ills too numerous to mention, has now split itself in two. and the astronomers tell us that KIIKV Wednesday night there are two

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and the seceding head is forming a reepertafele tail of its own.

THK patriotic heart of every true American has swelled with pride this as he mad the dispatches of sympathy from the heads of the big government" of the world, and we haw xneoowiously looked around for a bigger "N" with which to print that thisia a Nation.

iTRAf has given a black eye to the Mtying, "I am a stalwart of the Stalwarts."

THE SPOILS SYSTEM.

The murderous attack on the President will be likely to have on important influence in reshaping some of the features of oar government a* they exist si present. Many important suggestions have been made already. One, and parhaps the most important, is that the official patronage of the nation should not be so entirely in the hands of the chief magistrate. As the case now stands, it is seen to be dangerous to vest the appointing power wholly in the President. Shameful as it may be, it is nevertheless true that the pressure for office is increasing in this land from year to year, so that with the incoming of each successive administration the struggle for the offices becomes wilder and madder. Never before was the pressure HO great as at the inauguration of the present administration. President Garfield's life was rendered a burden during the first few months by this insane craze for office. And it will be worse next time, and continue to grow worse as the patronage of the country increases with its steady and rapid development.

Now the purpose of Giteau, wbother sane or insane, was to put Garfield out of the way and make Arthur President. He deliberated over the matter, and concluded that this was the way to help Conkling and Arthur out of their fight. But one man stood between them and all the offices of the Government. L«t him be put out of the way, and Arthur would be the disposer of them all. But for this control of tho official patronage the dastardly assault upon the President would not have been made. There have been strong arguments for civil service reform before this, but this one must prove conclusive. Some other and wiser method of dispensing the offices must be found. Otherwise the President's prerogative may prove his death warrant at the hands of some hair-brained scamp. The spoils Bystem must be reorganized. How, upsn what basis, and by what branch of the government the appointing power shall be exercised, is a matter to bo worked out by the ablest men the nation can call to the task. But the time has come certainly when a change of this kind must be made.

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of the most beautiful examples of

domestic affection in modern times is that afforded by President Garfield and his wife. Iu the dreadful blow that came upon her husband "thebravelittlewife," as she is fondly called, although herself just risen from a sick bed, nerved herself for tho ordeal and hastened to the side of the wounded man to encourage him by her brave faith and loving ministrations. In the darkest hour, when all other hearts were failing and the physicians themselves losing hope, she stood steadfast in her faith that the great life would be spared to her and to tho nation. Her faith was in God to whom the prayors of her stricken heart went out for the restoration of her husband. For her love, hor courage, her fortitude and hor faith, Mrs. Garfield's uaino will stand in history by the side of Martha Washington's.

CINCINNATI suffered on Thursday the greatest lire the city has ever andergone, The fire started in a large factory of children's carriages, situated in a region densely built up with various factories and machine shops. The whole territory was swept by the flames, many factories filled with valuable machinery and valuable materials and work, being destroyed. The total loss is estimated at a million and a half. Several persons lost their lives in the flames and many •there were more or less seriously inrod. _________________

GITKAU'S brother-in-law says the members of the family consulted several years ago about putting Giteau in a lunatic asylum but concluded not to do so. They ought to have dono it. It is not a good plan to havo crazy people running about at large. The attempted assassination of tho President ought to be a lesson on that subject.

THE past week has paralleled the most exciting periods of the war in the sale of newspapers. For several days after the President was shot all the leading papers issued frequent editions which weut off like hot cakes. The Indianapolis News last Saturday disposed of about 27,000 papers.

Nxw YORK dty ia frightened at her death rate which has been twenty per cent, larger during, the past six months than for the corresponding period of last year. The number of deaths within the time mentioned was 18,590, being at the rate of thirty per annum for each 1,000 Inhabitants.

A OFUBAT engineering work has been undertaken by the English and French, namely the excavation of a tunnel under the English Channel. It is proposed to make it large enough for the passage of railway trains. Including the approaches it will be twenty miles in

THK cheerfulness and good nature of the president are admirably illustrated by his patient bearing in his present suffering condition and are gaining for him an irresistible hold in the affections of the people. It is safe to say that if he recovers he will be the popular idol of the day.

OWIJW* to a alight accident to the press during shipment Col. Hollo way's new paper, the Indianapolis Times will not appear until Wednesday. The fliat number was to have been issued not Monday.

Ir the President recover* from the deadly wound he has received, there will hardly be anyone to oppoae him for a recomiaation at the end of his present term. Indeed he willbeUkely to receive the nomination by acclamation.

YKNNOB'S prediction of weather for UIM month is intervals of torrid beat and destructive rain, hail and lightning storms, rm

Ir it was notoriety that Giteau sought he succeeded admirably. His name will be the synonym of in&my for all time to come.

GRISCOM and Tanner have been outdone. John Burns, a lunatic in the Bloomiogdale Asylum, New York, fasted twenty-three weeks, after which he died.

LAST Monday, when the death of President Garfield was hourly expected, the remarkable fact was called to mind that three Presidents (Adams, Jefferson and Monroe) died on the Fourth of July.

A MURDER trial was postponed in Virginia on the ground that the exdted feeling growing out of the President's assassination rendered it impossible for one charged with such a crime to obtain justice.

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AN American dog has licked a full blood French tighter, the American owner pocketing $10,000 of French money. What next can we send over to take the conceit oat of those old world fellows

THE Chicago directory now figures the population of that city at 5*0,7n, an increase of some 37,000 since the last census. There is nothing like an enterprising directory man to stimulate the progress of a dty.

HOWEVER the President's wound may result one thing is certain Roscoe Conkling will not be the gainer by it. It will make him deader, politically, than ever ho was before. Roscoe may as well turn to the law.

THK suggestion comes from Washington—and it is a good one—that in case of the recovery of the President there should be a national celebration, a sort of postponed Fourth of July, to give expression to popular rejoidng.

THE New York Chamher of Commerce, headed By Cyrus W. Filled has undertaken to rafse f250,000 for Mrs. Garfield and her children. As the President is in a fair way to recover is not this enterprise a little premature

GRISCOM, the Chicago faster, entered the 39th day of his fast with dull eyes, parched mouth and colorless face, but firmly resolved to continue his fast until next Tuesday noon, thus completing a fast of 45 days. The sdence of living without eating progresses.

VENNOR'S weather prophedea for July bit it well so far. The heat for several days has boon intense and deadly, causing many prostrations, some of which wero total. It behooves everyone to keep as cool as he can.during the next sixty days.

Two assassinations of the President in twenty years looks bad for republicanism. The monarchies old world do better than that. This will be the argument against free government by those who distrust it. It is a blot upon our institutions which makes every patriotic dtizen bang his head in shame.

QUITE A IPS PROBABLE PUNISHMENT. Buffalo Express.

The comparative immunity from punishment tne assassin Guiteau is likely to enjoy after his enormous crime will be very far from satisfactory to the American people. In case he is adjudged insane he cannot be punished, but will

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be kept in confinement. If he

not aajudgoa insane, and tho President survives, Guiteau can only be punished for assault with intent to kill, the penalty for which in the District of Columbia is imprisonment for not less than two nor moro than eight years. Of course, if the President dies and Guiteau isdceidedto be sane, ho will be pretty sure of the fate of other murderers. The suggestion that assault on the President or Vice President shall be made treason, punishable with death, will no doubt be received with favor.

HER BABY. Ind. Journal.

There are many who cannot understand the difficulties between the factions in New York, also know no difference between half-breeds and stalwarts, and care less who are undedded as to the responsibility for the deadlock in Congress or the trouble at Albany, and who at times are indined to blame Conkling, then Garfield, for all this unexpected and unseemly row about the sectors!

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collect orsbip in New York. It is a misty mace to them, and they have no patience nor indlnatien to dig down to the bottom facta. But there ia nobody who did not understand that grief stricken old lady, the mother ol the President, when she said: "How could anybody be so cold-hearted as to attempt to kill my be by?" Her baby! The Chief Magistrate of fifty millions of people. Her baby! The grandest figure before the world, the full-armed type of American manhood, physically ana intellectually the superior oi any ruler of any people on the earth. And yet to her be was, not the representative of the people in Congress, net the Senator fronf Ohio, not even the President of the United States in all his honors and dignities he was her baby still. How in that the mother spoke. Honors, titles, offices were nothing. His first claim to her consideration was the fact that ha waa her babv, and aba could not more comprehend enmity to him as President than injury to him as a child.

How wonderful, how inexplicaable Is a mother's love. We call it instinct, but it is the link that binds the world tober. Opposed, the shrinking woman roes a tigress and dies for her offspring rather than desert It. Over disgrace, over crime, over home affections and over all other tiea it rides and rules, defying fate and scorning death. It waa the art of a master that made Lady Maobeth say: "I have given rack, and know How tender Us to love the bane that milks me."

Before this sorrowing old lady the world stands uncovered In reverence, In sympathy, and In tears. We had not thought of him as ever anybody's baby, but he was and is, and there Is a grief in that fond old mother's heart anrpswing all that the Nation feds.

•1 NATION'S GRIEF!

LIFE OR DEATH?

A WEEK OF ANXIETY!

ASSASSINATION OF PRE8IDENT GARFIELD 1

STATEMENT OF AN EYEWITNESS.

THE ASSASSIN A CRAZY OFFICE SEEKER! .*

HE REGARDS HIS CRIME AS A POLIT1CAL NECESSITY. •L. ..ll

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GARFIELD'S" BRAVE LITTLE WIFE!"

This has been a week of intense anxiety—a week of hope and fear. The President of the United States has been ahot down like a dog, by afool,alunatie, a genteel tramp. Like a thunderbolt out of a dear sky the news came last Saturday morning. Laconic and terrible read the first telegram from Washington "President Garfield was shot in the depot while on his way to Baltimore this morning." The second edition of The Mail was just going to press and the awful news could be only briefly told. Tbeie are so many who get their information solely through these columns that it is necessary to go back to that terrible hour—one week ago.

President Garfield, in the very best of health and spirits, left the White House at nine o'clock Saturday morning, in company with Secretary Blaine and his son, Harry Garfield. His wife, convalesdng at Long Branch, was to meet him at Jersey City, and then with others they were to visit at several points in New York and Massachusetts. Postmaster General James and his wife and Secretary Windom and his wife had already teen driven to the depot, and were there waiting the arrival of the President, in a special car which had been set apart for tnem. The depot was thronged. In the ladies' room was a nervous, short, thick-set man, restless in his movements, passing back and forth, his conduct striking enough to attract the attention of the woman in obarge. The President, on arriving at the depot, asked an offidal how much time be had before the train left. ."You have ten minutes, sir," was the reply.

Tne President made no haste to leave the carriage, but sat talking with Secretary Blaine in the most informal and chatty manner. They did not expect to see one another for some weeks, for it was Mr. Blaine's purpose to go to his home in Maine in a day «r two for a prolonged stay. The President stepped from the carriage, Mr. Blaine after him, and as he stood there waiting he lifted his hat to a lady. His physical health seemed so robust as to cause the ladv to speak of it to her husband. The Presidepot, Mr. asslng along the aisle

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had been fired. President himself did not apprehend trouble, not even paying the slightest heed to the report. Had he done so, had he turned, he might possibly have seen the assassin, who stood there cool and quiet, not more than three feet behind him, with a revolver pointed at his back. But the President did not turn. Mr. Blaine did not manifest the slightest uneasiness, and even, thronged as the dopot was, people within arms' reach of the assassin, no one seemed to realize or to know that murder was about to be committed. It was in an instant. The reports were only such a time apart as sufficed for the recocking of the revolver. Then came the second one. The President stopped, turnod, saw the assassin standing there with the read revolver, and for an instant the PL— ,dent ana his murderer were face to face. Then the President reeled. He fainted not to anconsdousness but to weakness, and even before ho could be caught he fell to the floor, striking the bench as he did tao. There was terror at once. The Secretary of State seemed instantly to realize what had happened and what its consequences were. He shouted for help. He called "Rockwell, Rockwell, where is Rockwell?" Then he turned and seemed about to purse the assassin, but the assassin was already in the firm grasp of an officer. Then the Secretary of State knelt down beside the President, but already tender hands had raised Mr. Garfield's "head. Mrs. Smith, the lady in charge of the room, in an instant was by his side. She had even in the brief tune that was necessary for her to reach him, givingorders that water be brought at once. Kneeling there beside him, she raised his head and placed it in her lap and bathed his face. The President uttered no sound and said not a wordv but when his son Harry came running back from the outer platform and saw hi»*fhther, who but a moment ago he left in such splendid health and vigor and now prostrate, with half closed eyes and feeble brow, he knelt by his father weeping, and the President seemed to recognize bis son's voice. He said something to him which no one but the son heard. .He made a brief reply in a low voice and then the President dosed his eyes again.

THE ASSAJSSXN. ..

Charles Jules Guiteau ia a native of Illinois, about forty years of age. He is a son of L. W. Guiteau, who for many years, and up to the time of his death, which oocured about two years ago, resided at Freeport, til. About twentyfive years ago, the father accompanied bv his soil, Charles Jules, then about sixteen years old, left Freeport and joined the Onedia Community in New York State. The father remained with the community, but a short time, and then returned to Freeport. The son remained in the community several years and next turned up in Chicago as a lawyer. When a .boy, and up to the time of his arrival in Chicago, he was known aa Charles Jules Guiteau, but in Chicago he dropped the Jules. He visited Washington abouttwo years ago and lectured in Lincoln Ball on Seoond

i»— always claimed to be American born. He bastjeen hanging: about Washington dace the inauguration seeking aa appointment. SCITUO HIS CB0TS A* A rouTScax. MCMUIT.

On Sunday Guiteau sent forjfetrict Attorney CQ&bilL On the arrival of

the latter at the jail, Guiteau said he was desirous totalk about the assassination. He commenced the conversation by saying that he wanted to set the matter straight in the mind of the district attorney. He wanted his motive as dearly understood as to the circumstances surrounding the crime. "What was your motive asked Corkhill. "It was just what I said it was in my to the public," responded the as"I attempted to kill Garfield

letter sasain. for the good of the republican party, of which lama member. I attempted to kill tiVm because I was a stalwart. I thought I would in that way make Arthur president and aid the party. I am only sorry to hear that I was not at once successful. I hope however that he will die, so that I may have the pleasure of success I didn't want him to linger in pain. I wanted to shoot him dead. I regret his sufferings, although I would not regret his death." "Do you realize what a terrible crime

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ou have attempted, perhaps succeeded committing 7" said the district attorney. "Yea but I do not consider it a crime. It was a political necessity," "Well, permit me to assure you," said Corkhill, "that it is regarded outside as a dastardly crime. It is regarded as so important that every one who is even suspected of being your accomplice is arrested as an accomplice. You know the stories of having a carriage waiting, and of your having company

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ions in and around the station." "Are all those things said he asked. "Yes," said Corkhill. "Then you had better let me tell you about mysftlf up to to-day."

Thereupon he talked for three hours about his antecedents and his actions since he had been in the dty. :X NOT MUCH INSANITY.

A prominent Washington lawyer said: "Insanity does not contemplate the risk and coolly plan to avoid it. Insanity is not capable of such accurate calculations of danger, (for the danger of being mobbed for such an act is the chief one,) and of BO systematically planning to escape it. No, sir that man is as sane as you or I, and he is le-

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lly responsible for his act. I tell you should be swift in this case. Should the President die, Guiteau should be indicted to-morrow, tried Tuesday and executed Wednesday, but before his execution he should be forced to divulge the names of his confederates in this conspiracy."

When Guiteau was taken to his cell, some one asked what the President dia when he fired his first shot. Guiteau replied,

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ing up his right elbow with his hand hanging downward, shook his hand, remarking, "That's the way he did but the next shot got him. When he .was struck first he sort of turned and looked scared."

He see ins to have been very deliberate in all preparations, and to have been so careful in some of them as to preclude the idea of insanity. He was embittered by disappointment, and desperate for want of money. There are many evidences that a craving for notoriety had much to do with prompting thief act.

INOERSOLL'S OPINIONS.

Col. Robert G. Ingersoll said to a re-

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rter: "My acquaintance with Guiteau in this city early last Spring. He called at my house and requested my indorsement for a consulship. I am used to all sorts of requests for inflaence and pecuniary aid," said the colonel, "but this fellow's impudence for a moment startled me. 1 saw him again last week, on which occasion lie wanted to borrow money." "Do you believe him insane?" "I do not," was the quick reply. "Eccentric he certainly is, but not insane from a legal standpoint. If at allinsane it is not oi that character which touches his moral perceptions." "What then, think you, was the motive of the crime?" "His motive? Ob, the man was soured and embittered against the whole world his life was a failure. There was nothing in the past or present as an augury of nope for the future. He was ready to die, and had determined, with the malignity of a fiend, to drag some one down with him, and he did it, and a whole nation at this moment, regardless of creeds or politics, is plunged Into the profoundest depths of grief/'

STATEMENT OF AN EYE WITNESS. Simon Camacho, Minister from Venezuela to the United States, was an eye witness of the shooting of the President. He was on his way from Washington to New York. To a New York Sun reporter he said: "A more brutal, rovolting, and cowardly act was never done on this earth. Like Lincoln, the President was first shot in the back, but unlike Lincoln, he struggled and staggered away before he received the other shot. Itwas frightful. Right among a dozen strong men to be shot down like a dog!"

There were few people in the waiting room probably not more than fifteen or twenty, including the employees. Almost all the passengers haa boarded the train. I strolled back and forth leisurely, and looked about carelessly, awaiting the arrival of the ladies. 1 had just sent my carriage home from the street door, walked to the other end of the waiting room, and was returning to the street door again when a carriage drove up, and President Garfield and Secretary Blaine alighted. Their carriage was dismissed, and they entered the waiting room. As the President's carriage drove away another one drove up, and a man with a pale, set face jumped out, told the driver to wait, and followed tho President and Secretary Blaine into the room. Let me say right here that the man did not look insane. He had a hard, determined look, but was not at all wild, and acted throughout with amazing coolness." "Was the President oonsdons of the man's presence

I think not. for he had one hand behind him ana was listening attentively to Mr. Blaine, who was speaking upon something of apparent importance, for be was very decided in his language ana emphatic in gesture. The President and Mr. Blaine had advanced about twenty feet into the room when our eyes met. We raised our hats and I stepped forward to speak, when the man who had •lighted from the second carriage jumped forward and shot the President from behind. Blaine, on the impulse of the moment, jumped aside, ana the President, without a word, half sprang, half staggered forward, and turned half around to face his assailant. The man, without a muscle moving in his pale face, advanced two steps in a half crouching position, deliberately pointed his pistol at the President, and fired another shot into his body. My God, it was horrible! Garfield fell forward on the floor, and Blaine, after making a convulsive start after the sassin, dropped on his knees beside Garfield and tried to talse him, The assassin turned, after the second ahot, and sprang toward the street door. I had jumped forward at the lint shot, and was nearer the door than be, so woen be started for It I waved my arms and he darted back. His carriage

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was at the street door, with the door open -waiting for him to enter. When I drove him baok ho started for the Sixth street door, intending, I suppose, to run around the corner of the building and enter his carriage that way. At this moment Blaine jumped to his feet and sprang after the man. But before the assassin had gone ten feet he was pounced upon by half a dozen man, and secured. Blaine shouted to have the doors dosed, and they were at once barred by the employees. Tho President was then examined. He lay as he had fallen forward on his face, apparently dead. Men were sent for phyaidans, and an ambulance waa summoned. The exdtement increased when the significance of the deed beeame known, and the people became almost uncontrollable. The assassin was as cool as any man I ever saw, and as determined ana defiant looking aa possible. Don't understand me that he looked like a mud man, for I assert positively that ho did not," "Was he roughly handled?" "He was firmly held and roughly addressed, but notinjured, so far. as I could see. The wonder is that he wasn't mobbed."

CONDUCT OF MRS. OARFlRI,D# "Garfield's brave little wife," as die ia familiarly and lovingly called, is likely to make as deep an impression in American history as that of Martha Washington. The sick woman who conquered her own ills to take her place by the bedside of her wounded husband has found a spot in many a manly and womanly heart where before she was unknown. A Washington special says: Mrs. Garfield has been almost constantly with her husband since her return from Long Branch. She endures the trying ordeal in a manner which commands the admiration of all who see her. She is perfectly self-possessed, and does not exhibit any nervousness or excitement. Her meeting with hor husband for the first time after the shooting, last night, is described as an affecting scene. Attorney General MacYeagh and Mrs. James went to the door to meet her as the carriage drove up. "How is he she said, as she placed her hands in those of Mrs. James. "We think he is greatly improved," said the Attorney General. Mrs. Garfield walked quickly up the stairs, along which her nusband had been borne faint and bleeding. She was directed to the room where he was lying. The door was thrown open and sho entered. The President opened his eves and saw who who it was. Mrs. Garfield knelt by the side of tho bed thaew her arms around him. "It is all right now," she exclaimed. "I am here

The President murmured an almost inaudible expression of love, and returned her embrace as best no could. The single witness of the meeting was moved to tears, but Mrs. Garfield's bearing was such aa to inspire confidence in those around her. She refused to entertain tho idea that her husband might die. "How does she bear it?" asked the President of Mrs. James, when Mrs. Garfield had left the room. "Nobly she is full of courage," was Mrs. James' reply, "Thank God for that," said tho President "1 would rather die than be the cause of bringing on a relapse of her illness."

MOTHERS should learn that Dr. Holman's Ague and Liver Pad is a perfect preventivo of Cholera infantum and other infantile and summor diseases without modidne. Be sure and get the true Dr. Holman's Pad—the only gon» uine. All druggists and dealers. H-.5t.

The last lot of Silks at "Moving Prices" went off in a hurry.

MORE SILKS.

Desirable, stylish, good fabrios, marked down to reduce an immense stock. ^TTHIS LOT IS VERY OHKAP

DOWN

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NOTIONS, TRIMMINGS FANCY GOODS.

To Make a Big Hole in the Stocks

We will sell

10c BEAD GIMPS for 5c. 26c BEAD GIMPS for 16c. 40c BEAD GIM PS for 25c. 76c BEAD GIMPS for 56c. fl.00 BEAD GIMPS for 78c. $1.60 BEAD GIMPS for fl.10.

GIRDLES were $1.25, now Kfc. GIRDLES were 85, now 50c. GIRDLES were 75, now 50c.

$2M FRINGES at $1.75. 1.50 FRINGES at 1.06. 1.00 FRINGES at 83. 75 FRINGES at 56.

N.B.

Importers are receiving Jet and Steel Trimmings for fall trade. Worth and Pingot's costumes as last reported were trimmed in Passementerie Steel, Cords, Tassels Fringes, Laces, etc. They are good for a year.

Fancy Ribbons, Trimming Laces, EMBROIDERIES

Will be Cut.-.

LOTS OF GOODS,

Too numerous to mention, have been reduced.

HOBERG, ROOT & GO.