Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 12, 1881, Page 1

pequey g M ELEVE FAVORABLE FACTS, Ag Telographed From the White House Sick Room Yosterday. ‘The President's Fever Increas- es in the Afternoon But Finally Disappears. Dr, Bliss Expresses an Opin- ion As to Where the Bullet is. Several More Crazy Individ- uals Arrested in Wash- ington, PR, “George Franois Train Writes a Letter to Guiteau Offering His Services as Counsel. THE REFRIGERATING APPARATUS A SUC- cuss, WasiiNeToN, July 11, —The success achieved by the refrigerating apparatus insures the uniform temperature of the sick room and adds another foa- ture to the favorable circumstances surrounding the case. By means of a steam fan, airis blown over tons of ice, and the air comes immediately into the room, and it is possible to re- duce the temperature to fifty-four de- grees. This morning it is at seventy- five degrees, and the doctors have or- dered the engine to run slower, as the room is cool "gmough. None of the other appliances will be used. VSRY LITTLE DANGER ¥ROM SECONDARY HEMORRHAGE. WasniNGToN, July 11.—The doe torsare free to say to-day that the danger from secondary Remorrhage, if not quito past, is now very uli“fit. Indeed, only some unforseen “accident is likely to precipitate that trouble. The doctors have the very best anti- septic dressing at hand and the most improved instruments of all kinds for any emergen- cy. They do not expect pyemia as a direct result of the wound since the channel made by the ball is so isolated by nature as to forefend tiat complica- tion. The pus corpuscles are too large for absorption into the virus, hence only an accident will produce trouble from that quarter. Thus it will be seen that tfxo immediate danger of the presidents condition is virtually past. The healing process 18 progressing as far as the vreliminary inflammation is -gpncerned and all the patient needs is 0 have his system kept up to an im- pmvini standard, and have close watch kept on every symptom and be made as cumfumb{oupo-ibls. His nourishment is continued in grad- ually increased quantities. One or wmore of the physicians is constantly near him and no efforts have been -spared to add to his comfort. This thorough system will be continu- ed indefinitely and its effect in the opinion of the doctors will be the patients final recovery. MORE ‘‘CRANKS" IN WASHINGTON. WasHINGTON, July 11. —The name “‘cranks” is having a national ventila- tion lately. They are showing up at the capital promiscuously. Thelatest arrival is Matilda Bascomb (colored), who was arrested on the square front- ing the White House this morning. She had been hanging around the ‘White House grounds for some time, acting strangely and talking wildly. «She was taken to the police headquar- ters, where she declared herself as a warm personal friend of ex-Presi- nent Hayes. The latter. she main- tained, was still president. ness with him was to collect the in- terest every week on money loaned Mr. Hayes by her shortly after he entered upon his administration, Gen. Garfield’s wound, she claims, was by no means as represented. It was only a flesh wound, but the phy- sicians had exaggerated the case to make political capital. She was sent to the insane uyfum. Another of the same kind, Hannah D. Klunger, came to the police head- quarters and inquired for directions as to how she could find the attorney- general, The woman, whenquestion- -ed, said that she had been swindled by lawyers out of all her property in Bay City, Mich., and that she had mame here to see the attorney-general 40' compel him to have it restored, She sald she because President Garfield had refus- ed to do what was right and had been punished and that the same would be- fall officials who would not listen to the cry of a distressed people. A letter to President Garfield was found amongst her age, which contained the clause: kindly ask you to send some Christian preachers to look after the wicked town of Bay City, Michigan, and reform its sinful «citizens. The rest of the story was <omposed of attacks on Attorney-Gen- eral McVeagh and President Garfield, and threats against them, mixed with mourning over the sinful lawyers of Bay City. A still more peculiar specimen was a late caller on the police to-day. This man was a well-dressed negro and does not wish to assassinate anybody. The tables have been turned in this case, and the poor negro fears: that a certain white man named Webb in- tends to assassinate him for express- ing his admiration of the president aud his hopes for his recovery. The { “‘crank” remarked from his cell: ‘‘I “ / don’t want the man to be hung or imprisoned, but T merely want to be allowed to say what 1 please in regard to the president without being in dan- ger of my life.” BLISS' OPINION ON WHERE THE BULLET 1, The physicians in the president's case seem to leave most of the talking to Dr. Bliss, but they agree with him in its general aspect and almost every particular. His latest remarks on the special features of the case havelbeen in regard to the location of the ball. DR, -regard to the president's Her busi- | NTH YEAR. He says there are now certain indi- cations which make it {»n»huh)u that they can remove the ball without dan- ger. ‘‘At present,” says the doctor, “wo deem it prudent to withhold them, but they are such as to make it clear that the track of the ball was rightly stated in the first diagnosis, We know where the ball entered the body. We have felt and develeped the course of the ball so far. Where it went we do not definitely know, but from the direction of three inches of the course, which has been ascer. tained, it is certain that it must have flied the liver and probably passed on tirely through the abdomnal cavity and it is lodged in the interior wall of the abdomen. That is where I think it it now, in the interior wall of the abdomen and not in the abdominal cavity. The ball entering the body where it did, and passing inward three inches, must of neces- sity pass through a por- tion of the liver. At that point of the body the liver lies close alongside of the ribs and a ball could not penetrate the body at that point and enter so great a distance and strike the liver. The liver is there and must have been hit. “Even if the ball dropped downward afterward it must have grazed the liver in its downward course, but, as T said, the indications of which we have private. ly advised Drs. Agnew and Hamilton by letter, are that the ball went through the liver -to the abdominal cavity and is lodged in the interior wall of the abdomen, as at firat sup- posed, and it will be easy, when the time comos, to remove it. from that point without danger. During the afternoon the oresident has had considerable fever, but it has been the outgrowth of the inflaming process of heating the preliminaries of which has been noticeable for twenty-four hours, and is consequently not of an alarming nature. It had an increasing effect on the pulsation, respiration and temperature, but it was accompanied by mno un- favorable symptoms, and caused no alarm to his physicians. It subsided a little towarda night and left no bad traces. This fever was caused partially by the experiment under which the president labored while the cold air apparatus was be- ing brought into his room. He notic- ed the noise of the pipes and was an- noyed by it. It was fora long time thought that it would be necessary to give up the whole plan of ventilation but a remedy was discovered and_the prosident became calm. Dr. Bliss said to-night that when a patient’s pulse had been up to 166 }le called it a very small matter to be worried about the pulse when it was 108, and as to the tem- perature, he' shiould not be alarmed until it reached 103, and then only unless it was accompanied by sther unfavorable symptoms, such as fluctu- ations. No changes were to be ex- }:okdinrth case, and wers fiot to be ared. Dr. Woodward was asked in outward symptoms. Hesaid: ‘“We can tell better to-morrow what this increase means, if indeed it be one. We are in hopes it will prove only a local in- crease,” Such, too, proved to be the case. Tho president fell asleep soon after the examination, and it was deemed to be inadvisable to wait to take the temperature. Later, how- ever, if was taken, and showed a perceptible decrease. It fell about three-tenths in half an hour and the pulsation dropped to 106 in the same time. The conclusion was therefore reached that the increase had been !emporu&lnd had no seri- ous significance. hile this anxiety was at its heirht the cabinet and their wives happened to be at the White House. After the second test of temperature they all went home in good spirits and continued hope. Dr. Woodward's attention was called to the fact that the pulse of the nation fluctuated with that of the president, as indicated on the bulletins and that continued high state of temperature and pulse was the occa- sion of much unfavorable comment, MONDAY’S BULLETINS. National Associated Press WasHiNGTON, July 11.—9 a, m,— The president says he feels better to-day and thinks he is getting well. Dr. Bliss says the president is right. July 11— a. m.—The official bul- condition at 8 a. m. as follows: The president has passed a comfortable knew hewould do it |y night and his condition shows an im- provement over that of yesterday. 5?‘“ 98, temperature 99, respiration [Signed.] Dr. Briss, Dr. J. K. BArNES, Dr. J. J. WooDWARD. Dr. R. REVBURN, July 11, 8 p. m.—The president has rather more fever this afternoon. In other respects his condition is un- changed. is pulse is 108, tempera- ture 102, respiration 24. [Signed.] D. W. Buss, J. K. Barngs, J. J. WoobwakD, Rosr. REYBURN, July 11,—11 p. m.—The president’s temperature has been reduced to 102 5-10, and pulsation to 106, All the doctors say there is no cause for the relinquishment of hope in any de- gree, July 12.—1 a. m.—At this hour the preiident is restidg quwtly, No change in his condition since the last report. A LETTER FROM GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, This morning District Attorney Corkhill received"in his care a postal card dated Madison Square, New York, July Oth, addressed to the “‘Citizen assassin,” reading as follows: “‘Citizen Assassin;— Having saved thumrlv cabinet and Star routes, smiashed stalwartisui, kill:d the dem- ocrats, immortalized Garfield, smoth- ered Grant, Arthur and Conklingism, collapsed Depew, brought tears to the white house, obtained a quarter of a million gift for the family of the resident, he should pardon you as Lis friend. 1In the name of Zion, for quoting three columns of the bible before the revision to save Woodhull OMAHA DAILY IMAHA, TU from Beecher, declared of unsound mind, thought harmless by the high est medical experts, as no one seems your friend, will yon accept my ser- vice as counsel. Success guaranteed in advance, * Signed) "‘Glo. Fraxcrs Axn Interview With O.Leary, National Associsted Pross. New Yorx,July 11. —~Dan O'Leary, the veteran pedestrian, arrived in thia city to-day by the steamer Arizona, from l,iu-rpm{. Mr. O'Leary made his trip for the purpose of witnessing the match between Rowell and Wes- ton. It was not much of a match, he said, for it was all one-sided. Rowell was so far ahead of Weston after the third day, when the latter gave up, that the walk was discon- tinued, ““To what do youattribute Weston’s TrALN, letin just issued gives the president’s | I failure.” ““He was troubled with dizziness in the head, a disorder of which his daughter, who accompanied him, also complained.” “})id youf observe any great inter- ost in the match on the part of the London people.” “Taking into consideration that the building at Olaphan was fully four miles from on Bridge, there was great interest manifested from the first night. When you consider that there were only two men in the race, 1 was s that the match was so well atfonded, but from our ex- perience in “this country, the match was a decided failure.” “To what do you attribute the de- cline of lic interest in walking matches?’ ¢ “Illness "@f Weston and lack of proper acoomodation for the pnblie.” *‘Have gx any engagements on hand in pedestrian line just now?" . “‘None whatever, I leave for Chi- ufig}: tomerrow.” e champion was evidently much improved by his trip, having gained fourteen pounds in weight. . R U A Big Storm Throughout Iowa. Des Moines, Towa., July 11.—A terrific rain storm passed over this city and vicinity early this morning. Great damage was done to the North- western roady washing out several hundred yards of road bed and bridges. e'Des Moines river here is at flood , tide to-day. . The storm was @& regular water ‘spout. At Marshalltown the water raised oversome flat cars standing on the track. At Colfax the water is run- ning over the track on the Rock Is- land road: The train_which left here: at noon on the Rock Island for the oeast got only to Kellogg and returned to Wilton June- here. . From Kell tion the traok i badly washed, but no | chosen by bridges goe In central Iowa the wires azo down badly and it is ime possible tg get particulars. PR 05 S Beaten to Death By Her Husband. Natlonal Asoclated Press. New York, July 11.—The dead body of Mrs. Margaret Johnson, aged 22, was found by a policeman in one of her rooms in Brooklyn yesterday. Near it were the woman’s two chil- dren. Her sister said her husband choked and beat his wife to death over a quarrel for money to buy liquor. It appears that the couple were both intemperate, Twenty Cases of Sunstroke at CIn- oinnati, National Amociated Yress. CiNoINNATI, O., July 11.—Twenty cases of sunstroke have been reported to-day, which proved fatal and the actual numbers is probably much larger. Nearly fifty cases which. did not prove fatal, are also reported. Among the fatal cases were John O. E SDAY MORNING, WANT ANOTHER CAUCUS, The Stalwarts Issue a Memor- ial Stating Their Reasons For Not Attending the Ca acus. Which Was That Two Vacan- cles Would be Created in Congress. ‘mairman of the Cauocus Committee Thinks Anoth- er Caucus Would Raise New Complications. 7 Rumors Again Current That Conkling Will With- draw. But His Friends Most Emphatic. ally Deny Such to be the Oase. Molenhoff, merchant, Clement Os- kamp, jeweler, and Col. Williamson. FOREIGN FRAGMENTS. Natonal Associated Press. Loxpox, July 10.—Should the land bill pass a convention will be held for the object of concerted measures to- wards the operation of the bill and 1ts working. A dispatch from Calcutta says that Ayoob Khan's prospects are more hopeful. He has left here with a large force and it is supposed he is moving on Cabul, A struggle is ex- pected soon, The Standard’s Constantinople cor- respondent learns that the sultan will certainly pardon Midhat Pasha fand other parties, but will banish them to some remote corner of the country. It is expected that the sultan will give to Turkey a new constitution, Loxpox, July 11.—A dispatch from Alfiien says there was a desperate fight between the Benebuali and Ben- ibupasha tribes in Arabia, in 1650 were killed. A dispatch trom Tunis says the Arabs are assembling largely in coast districts of Tunis and & serious disturbance is imminent. 2,000 French troops arrived at Meneba, CoNTANTINOPLE, Jul 10.—Mu- surus Pasha, the Turkish ambassador at London has telegraphed the sultan that a bad impression prevails in En- glund regarding the trial of the mur- erers of ex-Sultan Abdul Assiz and implores the withdrawal of the sen- tence of capital punishment, FRESCH PILGRIMAGE POSTPONED, Roye, July 11.—French pilgrimage has been postponed for fear of huu?i‘fu demonstrations by Italians against the pilgrims, THE AUSTRIAN HARVEST, Viensa, July 11.—The Austrian harvest promises to be fully up to the average. THE WILBERFORCE LIBEL SUIT, which Loxoox, July 11.—There was quite a sensation in the Wilberforce libel case to-day. The plaintifi’s counsel announced his retirement from all connection with it in consequence of the receipt of letters disproving the plaintif’s statcments. These letters were from Senator Morton, of Indian- apolis, and from Dr. Sandwich, and a brother of Gay, & correspondent of The Daily Telegraph, ALpany, July 11.—The joint con- vention resumed its session at noon to-day. Nocompromise has yet been offectod between the half breeds and stalwarts. The joint ballot for a sue- cessor to Conkling resulted: Conk- ling, 38; Lapham, 060; Cornell, 10; Hauilton Fish, 1; Potter, 48, Total, 138. The joint ballot on a successor to Platt resulted: - Miller, 61: Wheeler, 18; Rogers, 8; Adams, 3; Fish, 2; Chapman, 2; Staren, 1; Kernan, (Dem.) 48; Evarts, 1. Total, 138, This was within nine votes of elec- tion, The convention adjourned till noon to-morrow, THE STALWARTS WANTANOTHER CAUCUS, ALpANY, July 11. — The information comes that the stalwarts to-day in- structed a special committee of five to issue a memorial to the caucus com- mittees of the senato and assembly, stating the reasons for which the stal- warts insisted upon a full and regular caucus. The memorial states the ex- act position assumed by the stalwarts, mainly, that the election of Lapham and Miller to the senatorship would create two vacancies in the house of representatives, thus giving the democrats a majority, or at the very best afford- ing the democratic clerk of the house an opportunity to ensure the organizas tion of the house by his party friends through the simple method of reftis- ing to recogmize any successors to Lapham and Miller, who may be by election on the 8th da JULY 12, 1881, The Show at Red Oak. Spocial dispatchto Tim: fwn. Ren Oax, Ia,, July 11.—<Red Oak is to-day a surging mass of people. Such a crowd was never seen before in this town. Coup’s show is the at | traction. Barnum’s exhibition eclipsed, for without doubt this is the of all Eight pick | pockets have been arrested to-day is greatest shows. while operating on tho strects and in tho tent. - News From Hong Kong. National Associated Iress 8ax Fravorsco, July 11.—The steamer Oceanic, from Hong Kong, { brings datos up to June 14th. It is | now stated that the wild rumors lately | current in regard to the dangerous illness of the young emperor aro the grossest exaggeration. The emperor has recovered from the attack of smallpox, and the western empress is very much better. Fresh attacks are made upon Li Huing Chang, the vicoroy of t, who holds the ‘my- et wh!eh I!PI':' n\:oh‘e‘ved to wlfi cabal, overcome, has been instituted by the palace party againat him. e M o e Y Subscriptions to the Garfleld Fand. Natlonal Awociated Press. New York, July 11.—Additional subscriptions, amounting to $5,069, wero received to-day for the benefit of the wife and family of President Gar- field, making the total received to date, $122,755. LalD AT REST. Obsequies of Senator Hitchcock Yesterday. The Remains Followed to the Grave By Many Friends. The funeral of the late Hon. P. W, Hitcheock took place last evening at five o'clock. The remains, hand- somely encased in a rosewood casket, rested in one of the parlors of the family residence at Twentieth and Dodge streets. Religious services were held at the house, which was filled for an hour before the funeral by many of the best known citizens of Omaha, and quite s number from abroad. Afteran openingprayerby Rev. W. Harsha, the anthem, ‘O, Para- dwe,” waa rendered by a choir con- sisting of Mrs. M. Latey, Miss Maul, Mr. Frank Smith and Mr. J. L. Smith. After another brief prayer BEE. AN ADDRESS In Trinity on the President's Recovery Sunday, When wo were gathered together hero in God's house on Sunday last, awo struck, and alarmed by an awful crimo and an impending peril, little dared we hopo that light would bogin 80 soon to dawn upon our darkness. And as we tried then, as christian people, to take our stand upon the overlasting hills of God’s righteous- ness, notwithstanding we were sur- rounded by the mysterious depth of his great judgement, so now may we to-day comfort ourselves by the brightness that already tinges the clouds that overhang us. Though our special prayers of thauksgiving to-day are for the begin- ing of the recovary of the _pres- dent, and '?9 the hopo that God has given us, that a life precious and Jvaluable to the nation, and to the world, is, after all, to be spared and saved. This is by no means all we are to be thankful for in jconnection with the events and incidents of the past week. What a grand and magnificent spectacle has been vouchsafed to us of human sympathy, and of the God-likeness of the nature that he bears. A spectacle that but for the great ealamity our vision might never have been blessed with, and our minds could never have conceived of it. A whole nation in tears, a whole wide world moved with compassion. ‘‘The most far-reaching and wonderful mani- festation of national brotherhood and love that the world has ever wit- nessed.” Is this not something to be thankful for? All discordant voices, over the whole land, hushed in the presence of a great national sorrow; all the turbulent waves of party strife dying away in silence at t‘w feet of a prostrate ruler; all the genial, tender, holier feelings of men's hearts ressserting them- sincerest have the gracious promise to rest on: ‘‘As thy day thy strength shall be.” You remember the beautiful story of Dean Stanley, told him by a rough sea-faring man: “‘One of the few survivors of a great wreck, which took place a few years ago, when a crowded steamship foundered on the stormy waters of the Bay of Biscay. As soon as those who had escaped from the sinking vessel found themselves in a small boat on the raging sea, they discowered that their chief danger came not from the marine sweep of the mighty waters, but from the short and angry waves which decended upon them from time to time and against which every eyo and hand had to watch with unabated attention. As selves in spite of t aninosities, are alike touched by tm“-ighl of sufferin, and the thought of death. For al these manifestations of a nature, that with all its feebleness is yet allied by the incarnation to what is still divine, We thank Thee to-day, Oh! God and Father of all. Moro atill is there in the history of of November, the firat day- upon w ‘ml’ an. election can be held. The memorial is brief, cites -8 sum. mary of the laws oquitable to the case in point, and urges the caucus com-’ mittees to unité on & call for a gen- eral republican caucus, gromi;ing to abide by the result. Senator Mc Carty, half breed, chairman of the caucus committee, issued a reply stating that the conference or caucus at which Lapham and Miller were nominated for senators was called over the signatures of sixty republi- can members of the legislature and was amended by sixty-six members and no formal complaint had been made of irregularity. Furthermore, that sixty-eight members com- prised two-thirds of the re publicans in the legislature and the call of another caucus would de- velope * complications heretofore avoided, and hence it was deemed un- advisable to open a question decided by so large a majority. Rumors arc current to-night that Mr. Conkling has withdrawn from the contest. They eannot be traced to a reliable source. Conkling’s friends deny that he has issued any letter of withdrawal and that no concessions will be mads. CONKLING'S FRIENDS DENY THAT HE HAS WITHDRAWN, New York, July 11, -The only caller ex-Senator Conkling admitted to his room at the Fifth avenue hotel last evening was Mr. Louis Palmer of Brooklyn. All other cards were re- tained and a steoreotype return mes- sage was sent: ‘‘Room No. 38 is not in.” Those who are supposed to be close to the stalwarts ex-senator, de-| ny in the most emphatic terms that Vfr. Conkling has written a letter withdrawing his name from the can vass at Albany. They agree that if such a step was contemplated it would be only on condition that Conkling should name his suc- cessor with a further agreement that his colleague should be a man in every way acceptable to him and developed in a caucus called 1 the regular way. It appears to be a settled fact that neither ex-senator Conkliug nor Vice Presideut Arthur will return to Albany, the management of the canvass being leit to Jacob M. Pat- terson and Jacob Hess, who will re- ceive instructions from time to time by wire or special nessenger. Mean- time Conkling will remain in New York bl et PACIFIC COAST NOTES. National Amocisted Press. BaN Francisco, July 11.— Edward Bowers, an old_citizen of Mariposa, quarreled with D. K. Pitzer, a neigh- bor, about a line fence, and attempted to shootjhim, but was overpowered. The next day, Pitzer drew a revolver when they met and shot Bowers through the heart. A quarrel about a pawned watch led to the death of John A. Noyes in Ne- vada, Francis E. Johnson shot him through the heart, after being van- quished in a fist fight. Rev. Mr, Sherrill said that it was hardly the time nor the occasion for an extended addvess on the lifc and public services of the deceased. Other hands would pen the words ot eulogy and other lips speak the praises which would be read and heard over the whole country. In a community where Mr. Hitchcock was so well- known and respected, with whose in- terests he had been so prominently identified and in a state for whose welfare he had striven so long and so earnestly any studied address would be superfluous. Tt would only be appropriate, said the speaker, to call attention to a few of the prominent characteristics of the deceased. Chief of these was his practicality. He was eminently a practical man, devoting much time to work, and little to mere talking. If he had been 1dentified withthe church he would have been found among the workers and not among the talkers. His strong devotion to friends was another prominent trait of the deceased, but above all was his strong affection for home and family. It was acom- mon remark among his friends that he died of abroken heart. The death of a wife whom he loved with tender affection, and of a daughter of whom he was proudly fond, had weighed upon his spirits and seriously impair- ed his health. Aftér referring to Mr, Hitchooek's services to the city and state, Mr, Sherrill closed with a beau- tiful prayer of consolation.’ After another hymn, “The Pity of the Lord,” having been sung by the choir, benediction was pronounced by Rev. W. J. Harsha, after which an opportunity was given to everybody to view the remains, » The body rested in a casket, which was placed in the center of the room. The casket was of rosewood, elegantly centre of the lid was placed a silver plato bearingthe simple imscrip- On the casket were laid a wreath and an anchor of evergreens and immortelles, The face of the dead senator looked perfectly natural, and it was a subject of general remark that his severe illness had caused so little apparent change. After the friends had all taken their last view, the lid was fastened James Gannon, Jr., son of a well- known politician, accidentally killed White huntiuu, near Duncan Mill. s R i Big Fire, Jorigrre, Quebee, July 11.--A fire broke out yesterday which at one time threatened the destruction of the whole town. It was not checked before 19 valuable buildings were consumed. Loss $100,000, down and the remains transferred to the hearse. The pall bearers were J. H. Millard, J. N. H. Patrick, P. L. Perrine, L. P. Kennard, J. T. Shee- ley, W. J. Kenneday, Chauncy Wiltse, C. E. Yost, O. A, Abbott and O, F. Davis. The remains were followed to their last resting place in I’rospect Hill cemetery by a large nwwber of carriages. mounted in silver. Immediately in the | F the past week to call for our thanks- iving. What a week of earnest, anx- ous, incessant prayer jt has been to the one only Power that can control and order all things,~ What an exhi- bition it has been of the religion and the faith of the nation, in the face of the fact that brilliant blasphemers would have us believe that the idea of an over-ruling God is tast fading from the consciousness of mankind. How manyhundreds and thousands of men, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, whose voices are seldom raised in prayer, have in the week cried out in their hearts, if not with their lips, as they went to their work, or walked by the way, or sat in the silence of their saddened homes, “‘Oh! God save him and spare him;"” thus recognizing in their distress an Omnipotence. Bless- ing themselves by the very act of sup- lication and helpmg in some inscruta- ble way that we do not now under- stand, to move the very springs of a divine providence. For this unmistakable recognition, by a stricken people, of a God above who can hear and answer our prayers, we may well be thankful to-day: And there is another thought that we may commend to the consideration of the devout and beleiving mind. Was there ever a man so prayed for since the world began, or was there ever a rescue from the very grasp of death so like & miracle? Can we not say here is an evident and direct answer to prayer that ought to biing convie- tion to every heart and silence forever the cavils of every doubter, For the evidence of the truth of what we be- lieve all Christian people should be thankful. But perhaps youmay say: Suppose the president's life should not be spared after all these numerous supplications in his behalf, what be- comes of your theory of the efticacy of prayer?” - Why! I should still cling to the thought of God's everlasting righteousness, and hold that the bene- fits that the calamity brought to us all in the special calling to the front of the devout traits of our nature; in the the wonderful display of political and public trust in God; in the calming down of the wars of parties and fac- tions; in the still and silent resolves of an imperiled people for more elevat- ed and patriotic public life, were com- pensations sufticient for the few years that might yet have remained of the life of the president. I should still hold that in all these ways God had answered our prayers in the manner that was best for us, even 'though he still allow the bullet to do a fatal work. I believe that God can arrest the evil effects of the man’s insanity and violence in & thousand other ways than by a visible interposition that would say: *“T'ouch not mine anointed and do my chosen servants no harm.” There- fore, whilst our present prayer is that God will rawse up the president from his bed of suffering and grant him a longer life among us, we must not let go the thought that even should he ordain otherwise, there will be lessons of discipline, of warning, of human brotherhood and loving sympathy of individual and of national chastening, and of elevation in this sad event that will be of use to us as long as we live and as long as the nation lives. Nor should we distress ourselves needlessly as to how we shall be able to bear any disaster, personal or civil, that may yet be in the future. We the shades of evening grew on, the sailor said that his heart sank within him, at the thought that in the dark- ness of the night, it would be impos- sible to see the murderous breakers, and that sooner or later the boat would be engulfed by them. But with tho darkness there came a corree- nding safety. Everyone of those rous waves as it rolled toward them was crested with phosphorous light which showed its coming and enabled the seaman to guard against it aa carefully as if they had been in full daylight. The spirits of the little company revived as the unlooked, for corruscations guided them through the night, and in the early dawn they caught a view of the distant vessel that at last saved them.” This crest of phosphorus light on the top of those breaking billows was aa the light of divine grace, the com- msating power of Providence in the H:rlmeu of this mortal night on the waves of this troublesome world. The perplexity, the danger and the grief often brings with it its own re- medy and its own blessing. At each burning wave of disappoint- ment and anxiety therc 18 a crown of heavenly light, which reveals the past and shows the way and guides us through the storm. Out of douot comes faith, out of grief comes hope, and to the desponding there cometh up hope in dardness. Thus has it ever been to those whose trust is stayed on God, and thus it shall be with us in the day of darkness and of sadness. Elder Shinn's Sioknesa. Rumors were generally circulated throughout the city yestoraay to the effect that Elder Moses F. Shinn was dead. Foralong time it was believed that they had some founda- tion in fact, but an investigation proved their falsity. Elder Shinn has been, and still is, seriously ill. At noon to-day, however, he was much better, and there are atill hopes that he may live for years. A TEMPLE TUMBLES, Frightful Loss of Life by the Fall- ing of a Methodist Church, Orry or Mexico, July 10.—The details received here are very meagre regarding the falling in the roof of a church at San Matteo, on the Oaxaca district. Reports received here two days ago advanced the killing of 69 worshipers, but later dispatches say the number killed will probably be much larger, Fourteen Eodieu {ave en taken from the rui The church was in an uncomplete state and workmen were on the roof putting the finishing touches to the structure when the frail supports upon which they were working broke and the roof fell' into the body ot the church, where, unfortunately, a number of persons had congregated to attend the afternoon services which usually be~ gin about 5:30 o'clock. The congregation consisted mostly of women, many of whom were killed and wounded. Twenty of the workmen were instantly killed and the rest badly wounded. The accident occurred at b o'clock and had it occurred half an hour later, when the services which are generally large~ ly attended, were being conducted, a terrible calamity would have been the result, Further details are anxiously awaited. Dispatches received at the govern- ment palace to-day states that a number of Indians of the Chihuahua tribe escaped from the reservation and at- tached surveying party on the Mexi- can Central railway now in course of construction in the neighborhcoda of the reservation, killing two engineers and four workmen. Then they attacked a diligence which was going to Chi~ huahua, killing seven passengers, and burned the mail and coach. The government troops are in pursuit of the marauders, The government has closed a con~ tract with an English firm, for sup- plymng the city with iron water pipes. Frightful Railroad Collision. Sr. Pavi, Minn, July 11.—A frightful railroad collision occurred yuuturdny near Hudson, Wisconsin. The rear portion of a freight train, consisting of fourteen heavily loaded cars broke loose at the summit of a steep grade, and ran back toward T Py e g e T Standing on the main track at the station was another treight train of forty-five cars drawn by two lecomo- tives. Allon the train jumped in time to save themsolves, except En- ginoor (Geo. Tredor who' appeared too dazed to move in time, and was in- stantly killed in attempting to jumt out of the cab window. The trac was rooted up for a distance of one hundred rods. The amount of the wreckageis enormous, nearly every car being ruined. Both engines and several cars were driven back several rods, and broke through a trestle, Tyler street, Rochester, es: “Your SPRING BrLossou is won- derful; I never used anything that acted so well on the bowels, and at the sae time was s free from the drastic properties of mediciues usually sold for the purpose.™ Price 50 ceuts; trial bottles 10 cents,