Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-08-23
He Is growing Weaker Day
by Day and Hour
by Hour.
To-Day's Reports from the White
House Contain Little in the
Way Of Hope.
From the Accounts of His Con-
ditiOn it Seems that the End
is Drawing Near.
HIS CONDITION EXPLAINED.

HIS CONDITION EXPLAINED.
New York Washington special: Au-
gust pa very considerable amount of
nourishment has been retained upon his
stomach during the past 4s hours with
out the least gastric disturbance and
without increasing the strength of the
patient. In fact he is showing unmis-
taxable signs of growing exhaustion, ex-
pressed thus: there is lack of ability
to assimmilate even such easily digested
food as has been given. That the presi-
dent is noticably weaker now than at
any time since his illness is admitted,
even when his condition is compared with
that at tue close of his sixty hours of
starvation on last Friday. When awake
he lies still, scarcely moving to
look toward his attendants
unless it be necessary to
take something from them. Only to
his wife does lie attempt to offer greet
ing. To all others he is Indifferent.
There is evidently an effort to keep his
consciousness. An attendant describes
him as lying, this morning, with his
knees drawn up and his right arm pass
ed over his head, just us he lay on the
stretcher when he was brought into the
white house that fatejul Saturday seven
weeks ago. He slept feverish sleep,
which is all he has had to rest him since
Wednesday night. The great head NOV
ed slowly from side to side, and the once
eloquent lips mnrmured uninteligibly.
Such picture will give to public daz-
ed with ccotlicting reports, AN
idea how low lies the president.
He is taking increased quantities of
nourishment, and this circumstance, OF
course, affords rational grounds for a
feeling of encouragement, but the same
uncertainty which prevailed yesterday
with regard to the future course of the
glandular inflammation prevails to-day,
and there is still some question whether
the patient can take nourishment enough
to sustain his strength through the pres
ent critical stage of his case. Indica-
tions are that he can, but until there is
a more decided change than has yet oc-
cured, confident predictions must be
withheld. 1t can only be said, the pa
tient is certainly no worse in any respect,
and that his ability to take noulishment
is steadily increasing.
IMPROVEMENT MAINTAINED.
Executive Mansion, Washington, Au.
gust 90, 1880 p. m.-The condition ol
the president has not materially changed
since yesterday afternoon, and is yet tho
subject of grave anxiety. The improved
tone of the patients stomach which gave
some encouragement to the attendant.
yesterday is still maintained, and this il
the most hopeful feature of the case
He has taken this forenoon six ounces O.
beef juice with no nausea or any othe
symptom of gastric disturbances. Upol
the continuance for several days at leas
of his ability to take ana assinnIate foot
and upon the continued absence of fur
ther complications would seem to res
the patients chances of recovery.
If the wound continues to do well; i
no serious consequences result from til,
swelling of the paroitd gland, and if til,
stomach continues to take food enough
to make good the waste caused by sup
puration, there will at least be improve
ment enough within the next four or fiv'
days to carry the patient to a highe
plane of vitality and perhaps to put hin
on the road, although not on the sur
road, to recovery. The continuance o
these favorable conditions, however
while universally hoped for, cannot b.
confidently predicted.
Doctor Agnew returned to Philadel
phia this afternoon.
BLISS ENCOURAGED.
Executive Mansion, Aug. %, Ia. M
DIR. Bliss feels encouraged at the condi
ton he finds his patient in this morning
He says the president rested we'll during
the night and that beef tea was givel
him several TINES and retained by. th
stomach His pulse this morning at a
early hour ranged ut 100.
| a GLOOMY OUTLOOK.
New York, Aug. 23.-The Posts Wash
ington special says: There is a despond