Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-16
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE PRESIDENT. More Alarming Symptoms
 Apparent. RAPID INCREASE OF PULSE Cabinet Officers Anxious but
 Hopeful. WEAKNESS OF THE STOMACH. The Latest Bulletins From
 the Physicians.
WEAKNESS OF THE STOMACH
THE PRESIDENT.

THE PRESIDENT.
 The Presidents ConditIon-AIere Excite. ment Than at Any Time Since the
 shootfng-RumOrs Upon Runners Fly Thick and Fast-Some- Grounds FOl
 Sensational Reports-Temperatur and Respiration Unsatisfactory.
 ! WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-There has been
 more excitement in the. city to-day than al
 any time since the first week of. the shooting
 of the President, and all from the effect of | the announcement in the morning bulletin
 that the President had been vomiting during
 the night. The idea that one in the Presi-
 dents weak condition could stand such a I strain and exertlon was not for 8 moment en- tertained. The figures showed what effect it
 had upon him: The general improvement of the last day or two had almost been effaced by the effect of this new trouble. Rumors l upon rumors flew thick and fast At one
 time the President had died in convulsions i; 1 another had it that the doctors had decided
 that the ball must be cut out if it killed him
 and the operation was being performed There was no ground for such sensational re- I ports. The best was bad enough Those ! who had watched the case closely saw at once that the trouble was no new one. They re- membered that the Presidents only annoy
 auce in usual health was dyspepsia. This he
 contracted in the army and it had existed more or less ever since. The physicians in
 this case had often spoken of it as one of the weak points of the case. They had tried to l exercise care in the food given him and suc- ! cess has heretofore been satisfactory. To- ! day they were unable to trace the I direct cause of the irritation of the \ stomach. They kept aloof from the press. ! Meanwhile the people were growing more \ anxious. The news from the sick room was I meagre, it came second handed and it grew as | 1t travelled. Colonel Corlin came from the doctors room at 1O:30 8. m 'sHas his irrita- | tion subsided ?' Pretty much" was the | reply and that was the most satisfactory in- formation. received until it was reported that | the President had been able to retain the nourishment last given. Then the fair mid | day bulletin was expected. At noon the tenn | peratnre and respiration were not nnsatisfac- | tory but hls pulse at 118 was most alarming. \ The figures were good and the indication of 8 | high pulse was due to some cause aside from | the condition of the wound or else the tenn perature would have been increased. The | physicians insisted that the rise was due to excessive weakness.
 All may yet be well, hence all are watching and waiting Dr. Agnew has received word ! that Dr. Hamilton will be here tomorrow \ afternoon and says he will then probably go ! home unless worse comes to worse. At 8:3O p. m. Postmaster General James came from the doctors room. He was asked how it ! was. He said, ''None is there but Drs. Woodward and Reyburn. Drs. Agnew and ' Bliss have gone out for short while.''
 | lr,k Trriv ! deed; it looks bad, but there is good | chance yet"
 At 1O:45 p. m. one of the attendants in- | formed one of the executive force that he \ need not feel anxious. The President had \ had no vomiting during the last six hours \ and was sleeping naturally. In his opinion ! everything that could be was being done for | the patient and he felt confident he would be | better in the morning. The crowd of callers | is thinning out Nnd all are slightly gaining ' hope. Justice Harlan, Judge Lawrence and | Sergeant at-Arms Bright of the Senate were ' among the late callers to night. Judge Har- | Ian sat with the members of the Cabinet | awhile and stated afterwards that they felt | the gravity of the situation, but had by no | means abandoned hope.
 Resulting from the stomach disturbance, \ of course they ware anxious. There was 8 unrest did not become alarming for the irri- \ tation of the stomach was allaysd by small ! doses of subnitrate of bismuth and held it in | check as the day proceeded. The President | could not be given much nourishment, but had no further trouble up to o'clock D. m., at which time his pulse had subsided to no \ and all began to take heart again. Dr. Az ! new told Mrs. Garfield this afternoon that | there was no cause for alarm. This was | when the irritation had subsided. The case \ will be watched more carefully than ever | now, for the recurrence of vomiting would L4-,4 present weak condition. There were more | callers during the day than usual, among l them were ex- N mister Hilliard of Brazil, and | Minister Langston of Hayti The latter brought message of sympathy and hope to Mrs. Garfield from the President of Hayti. The improvements of the Presidents stom- | ach trouble during the early part of the af- ! ternoon was too short lived. Before p. m. | there was recurrence of nausea. It came | when the President undertook to swallow 8 little beef extract. The first vomiting was so I slight it was hoped it would not prove seri- ous At that time his pulse was no, but | was so perceptibly quickened that much | alarm was caused, Two more vomiting spells | followed and at the time of the evening | dressing there was a pretty bad state of af | fairs. The pulse was 13O, and was in itself ! an alarming circumstance. The cause, how ' ever, was not alarming. The Presi- ! dents stomach had evidently gone back | sSA4kS64oto4S | still at 8 comparatively low figure was \ unmistakable evidence that the wound was doing well. This was admitted by all who are acquainted with the details of the case. | The marked effect of vomiting on the the pulse shows concIusively that unless this t irritation is stopped most dangerous results must be expected. To stop this the physic- ians have decided to give the stomach com | plete rest. NourishmeEt is now administered hypodermically, and the only hope seems to ! be that by complete rest the stomach may re- | cuperate The physicians do not give up yet. At this writing, 7:30 P. m., Dr. Hamil- ! ton has not been sent for and no messages | have been sent to either Vice President ! Arthur and Secretary Blaine. In other words | the physicians have not given up hope and ! are making every endeavor to gain ground. \ All at the White House are very anxious The \ alarm has not yet seized any of the family for
 the physicians say that. | Attorney General McVeagh said of course we are very anxious about the pulse but we
 have heard notbing since the bulletin. He also says that neither the Vice Presiuen or Secretary Blaine has been sent for. The President has had milk and extract of beef
 administered by injection and no further dis turbance of the stomach has been reported since the bulletin The following dispatches
 were sent at 8:30 p. m.
 | Secretary Lincoln will return tomorrow.
 Secretaries Hunt, Kirkwood and Windom, |
 General James are still at the White House.
 Mrs. Garfield went to lie down few minutes
 ago. She remains cheerful and hopeful as
 ever Dr. Bliss isthe only one of the physi- | clans seen outside of the sick room tonight.
 He reasserts that the present trouble is due | entirelyto weakness of the stomach and is not at all sympathetic with the wound. He says
 the stomach will be given all possible rest and
 they hape for an improvement tomorrow.
 Re says the physicians all recognize the gray
 ity of the situation, but they feel as if there
 was way out of it.
 A dispatch from London says: Much ex- citement was caused throughout the city last
 night over the report of the death of Presi- mt Garfield, and the residence of the Ameri-
 can minister was besieged with enquirers. | Members of the Cabinet remained at the
 White House until II o'clock At that houl the President was asleep. There had been no recurrence of vomiting and his pulse was slightly subsiding. These facts were slightly
 reassuring and none of the members were
 despondent. Secretary. Hunt seems very