The daily gazette., 1881-08-31
SECOND EDITION
A SATISFACTORY DAY
PROGRESS OF THE NATIONS
HEAD ON HIS WEARY
JOURNEY.
STILL MOVING IN THE RIGHT
DIRECTION.
Another IncisiOn I'm the Parotid
Gland.


The President has passed comfortably
through the day. He has taken the usua
amount of nourishment by the mouth,
with stimulating enemata at stated per
iods. His rise of temperature this after
noon is degree less Than yesterday al
the same time, and his pulse is less fire.
quent han at noon to-day. The parotid
swelling has been discharging more
freely and is continuing to diminish In
size. Pulse, 100; temperature, 99.5;
respiration, l5.
d. W. BLISS ROBERT HEPBURN
j. x. BARNES, D. HAYES AGNEw
j. J. WOODWARD.
EXECUTIVE MANSION 1890 p. NJ.
The following was just sent by Secre-
tary Blaine -
To LOWELL, Minister, London:--
The President, II not rapidly advane-
ing. is at least holding his own. His
lever is less than last night and his swol-
len gland steadily improves. His pulse
continues rather higher, running this
evening from ITO to ia. Perhaps the
best indication in the case is that the
President himself feels better, and his
mind being now perfectly clear be read.
lily compares one days progress with
another. BLAINE, Secretary.
WASHINGTON, August III, ] A. NJ
At A. M. The President was sleeping.
During the evening he suffered consid-
erably from the swollen gland. IL in.
terfered somewhat with his sleep.
HISTORY OF THE DAY.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 80, 1881.
The President is no better. Neither
is he worse. The twenty-four hours
closing at six p. m. have not presented
a favorable symptom nor have they
given evidence of retrogression.-
The reports of this morning, SO far as
they applied to his condition, may
therefore be taken to-day as represent.
ing almost exactly what can be told ol
the last tweLty-icur houts. He has
slept some, eaten some, taken some
nourishment, retained the nu ritive
enemata, has held control oil his mind i,
but has not strengthened bis grip re-
mains hopeful and Is vastly better
than he was on Friday night when
the word went forth that lie was dy-
ing.
HOPE IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
There is lots of hope about the White
House. Nobody can be found to say
there is any great degree OF probability
that death is only delayed. On the
other hand few can be found without
the Executive Mansion who believe
otherwise. The situation as presented
in The Herald this morning was read
here with interest, and has been can
vassed as presenting the only concu-
sions to be drawn fr m the repeated
relapses and the failure of the patient
to recover the ground he made good
after The relapse preceding. To day,
after it has been spread broadcast that
the improvement Of the President Is
marked by the most favorable symp-
toms, the pulse dancing up TO 116 at
noon tells how the fiuttering heart
struggled to perform its functions.
WHAT THE BULLETIN DID NOT iELL.
But the bulletin leaves an Important
fact untold. 1t does not say that
which ls none the less true that within
the last thirty-six hours that pulse has
nearer 100 than 106 that it
touched 120 more times than ID reach
ed ITO, or at The morning examination
when it was recorded at 102, the mini
mum figure was taken and The average
of that cool morning hour following a
tolerably restful sleep was ITO. These
are facts not told in the official reports
whose object clearly seems TO be, and
enough. too, to give the
most hopeful.
THE BALL SHIFTING.
There has been new compiication,o
rather the change OF an old one in |
another direction, and this is In the re- |
puted shifting OF the ball to another poi
ton of the body. Precisely where IL Is |
now to be found they do not undertake |
to say, but have different opinions. The
theory of this change is founded on the |
fact that the hard resistance heretofore
met with by pressing en- the anterior
wall of the abdomen has disappeared. IL
has beer frequently declared by various
surgeons that che presence OF the ball
within that particular portion of the body
was the real cause OF the Presidents
severe stomach disorders. II this be
true his surgeons have reason to cpngrat
ulate themselves on account of his pre-
sent shifted quarters. DR.. Bliss is of the
opinion that it has probably fallen aud
Is now somewhere between the point OF
its former location and the rec'um. DR..
Reyburp states that he had case some
years ago In The army where the bullet
was carried in the abdominal cavity for
years, the patient becoming reduced to
mere skeleton. When the bullet had
become located in the rectum 1t was cut
out ard the patient recovered and alter
wards became rubust man.
NOT PLEASANT OUTLOOK.
From the facts that have been learned
to-day, and even from these same hope,
ful bulletins, no one can draw the con-
clusion that healing wings have been
spread over The sufferer, aud that under
their shadow he moves Gnlnterfuptedly
on toward complete recovery. Every day
of prostratlon adds to his weakness. His
body already begins. TO show slgus offhf
sick bed sores, whose fietful influences
are as certain to work for evil. The
sixtielh day Of bis prostraLion Is nearly
at hand, and not one word of st ronger