The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-09-02
PRESIDENT GARFIELD.
WASHINGTON. Auo.

expected that the end is nigh. Hope still re-
mains In the breasts of those nearest him, but
it is the hope which exists as long as spark of
life remains in the PROSTATE form. The patient
is losing strength, and the liquid noufishment
administered seems 30 have no Strengthening
effect whatever. His mind wandered nearly all
of yesterday. The trouble appears to arise
from the condition Of the swollen parotid
gland. The phs has accumulated in at least
half dozen cells in addition to the one in
which the incision was made on Wednesday, and
the inflammation is spreading. it is feared, in
. the direction of the brain. ALI these indi-
cations point to klood-poisoning. One who
is In position to know says that the pus which
flows from the wound is no longer of healthy
character, but has become thin and Watery
that it ia the exception now when the Presidents
mind is clear, and that for greater portion of
the time his mind is in wandering, partially
stupid, condition; that there is no longer
hardly possibility that he can live. ard that
the final result, it is faared; 1nAy be expected
Saturday or Sunday. He has vitality enough
= is believed, to last at least forty-eight hours
Mrs Garfield, either blinded by her hope or
misguided by the physicians, has not until
within few hours realized that the President
was IN so low a state. or that it was possible
that he would die. She was very much over
come when informed how very low he was,
and that the physicians feared the worst
Blaine's midnight dispatch is almost hopeless.
The only hope he has is In the fact that the
stomach retains small quantity of LIQUID food
Beside that, all is dark. The President has
lost, not gained bad symptoms have appeared.
The swollen gland is red and angry. Other
symptoms excite alarm. The mind is wander
ing and somewhat beclouded. His strength is
falling. That is the startling story.
WASHINGTON, Aug. n.
Twenty-four hours have elapsed since hope
of the Presidents recovery was abandoned, and
he still lives. He may continue to live for three
or four days, the doctors say, but the mournful
conclusion remains that each day draws him
one day nearer to the grave. The capital is
i'll mourning The outward signs of grief
have not been yet put on, but all hearts are
as deeply stirred as though the end had come.
The nation is watching at the bedside of q
dying President, and the vigil is nearly fin
ished.
To describe the painful anxiety with which
every word uttered by the physicians to-day,
every look and gesture by the men who are
fighting with death, has been re.
most encouraging words which they
could utter conveyed SO little hope that the
worst would almost have been preferable.
When the President was shot, and the physi-
clans could not tell whether he would live out
the night of the I'd of July, all hearts were
gladdened by the news that he had one chance
to live. Twice since then has he been down
almost into the depths of death, and
stout hearts trembled, but did not fail.
Even now he has a chance for life
the chance that glimmering spark of vital
ity always holds OUTPUT too feeble and uncer-
tain for human hearts to grasp. The thought
of the grief which prevailed in the sick-room
was sufficient to bring tears to many eyes. A
strong, true and patriotic man. faded and vast
ed almost beyond recognition, lying upon his
COUCH at times his mind wandering and his
nervous fingers nodding in accord with some
unfathomable symphony of IA unsteady brain,
the face disfgured by an ungainly swelling,
from which the accumulated poison slow
ly dropped departed strength visible in
shrunken features and motlonless limbs ;
his stricken wife seated by the bedside per-
forming, with loving hands, every comforting
ministraton. She who has been the great
supporter of her husband in his trouble,
feeds HIM as she would feed child, and gives
no evidence of the agony which is Juggling at
her heart. The physicians are constantly by
the sick mans side watching anxiously for some
new danger to be met, or eagerly looking for
the first manifestation of favorable change.
In this manner the hours fly by and night
falls without sign of hopeor rayo of comfort.
While it cannot be said that there was much
Improvement IN the patients condition yester-
day, it is at the same time true that he did not
lose ground and that he held his own better
than was anticipated by the physicians. He
took more than the usual quantity of liquid
food, and assimilated it, and no symp-
toms of gastric disturbance followed.
His mind was clearer than on the
day before, due, doubtless, to the fact that the
suppuration through the ear of the parotid
gland removed the pressure from the brain.
The patient rested more easily and slept more
than on the previous day, and the color of his
skin and his general appearance was more
healthy. The pulse and temperature were
somewhat higher than on the previous
day, however, and the character of the
pus flowing from the wound was not as healthy
as it had been. There was less of it, and it
appeared to have watery appearance. DR..
Boynton thinks that this is owing to the Presi-
dents enfeebled condition and the thinness of
his blood. Mrs. Garfield has not vet lost hope
She firmly believes that her husband is going
to recover.
There was very touching episode in the
sick-room last night The patent recognized
his wife sitting by his bedside, and, addressing
her in a weak and trembling voice, said:
"Crete, you had better go to your room and get
a little rest" Mrs. Garfield begged to be per-
mitted to stay a little longer, whereupon the
L
was at hand when they should separate for
ever. Mrs. Garfield was severely shaken BY
this last remark, bat, like the brave good
woman that she is, she mastered her feelings
and appeared composed.
Col. Corkhill, District Attorney at Washing
ton, has been summoned home from Cape Nav.
He says secret organization has plotted to
take Guiteau from Jail and infict upon
him torture which will be q warming to assas-
Ekos o,1 L.,
shoot the fend, who has had scarcely any sleep
since the first relapse of the President.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2s.
Despair has again given place to hope. Yes
terday at noon few persons in Washington
expected that President GARFIELD would live
forty-eight hours. Some even of those about
him had privately begun to make arrangements
as to what they should do after the fatal result
should come, but to-day no words have come
from the sick-room but those of good
cheer. The President is still improving. The
danger seems to be growing less. There
have been three continuous favorable bulletins
GenssRSwaim and COL Rockwell have tele-
graphed to their friends that the President has
not been so well for a week. Secretary Blaine
has sent a cheering message to Europe, and the
physicians all speak words of hope
~ ~ SASOO0AhSAl AOPSlu bd1Q LII
Agnew. as he and DR.. Hamilton were leaving
the White House grounds after the evening
dressing. "We are exceedingly hopeful.
There must be a turn in all cases, and it may
be this is the crisis, and that favorable turn
has come" DR.. Hamilton exp essed similar
views. DIR. Agnew earlier in the day had said :
1.-THE President now has more than an even
chance"
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.
The Presidents condition this morning is
decidedly encouraging, and the feeling among
physicians, nurses and friends is that if this
improvement can be maintained for forty-eight
hours there will be reasonable ground for con-
fidence in ultimate recovery. The one draw
back to this hopeful outlook consists in the
fact that fears are entertained of the
formation of assesses upon the lungs =
a complication that has been dreaded ever
since the existence of blood-poisoning became
fully established. One of the surgeons Is re-
ported as having said that in sounding the
Presidents chest somewhat dull response was
produced by the percussion, and that there was