Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-07


EXECUTIVE MANSION, July $50 p. NJ.
The condition of the president has re-
mained substantially unchanged since the
date of the last official bulletin. The
slight increase in pulse aud temperature
since morning is said by the at
tending physicians to be only the
natural iiuctuatiOn of the fever
from morning until noon. The president
has eaten chicken broth to-day, and ex
pressed strong desire about noon for
toast and oatmeal with milk. The latter
was given to him as probably the least
Objectionable kind Of the solid food which
he seemed to crave.
More Than an Even chance.
In conversation this afternoon with DR..
BOynton, the presidents family physi-
clan, DR.. Bliss expressed the opin-
ion that the presidents chance OF
recovery was now considered more
than even. The danger of peri.onitis,
he said, was rapidly passing away, and, al
though it might still occur, its occurrence
had become improbable.
The Present Peril.
The only accidents now to be apprehended'
DR.. Bliss said, and the only ones likely to
terminate fatally, were secondary hemor-
rhaec and py:emia, or blood poison
ing. Secondary hemorrhage might
occur at any time up to the
seventh day, but on account of
the course which the ball took, and the
place where it is supposed to lie, the dan
ger of secondary hemorrhagc was not, in
Dr. Bliss, y opinion, 4 serious one. Py;r-
mia, cr blood poisoning, was the ac-
cident mos! to be feared, and of that thelc
was not yet, lie said. the slightest indca =
tion. An abscess also might form at any
point along the course of the ball or at the
extremity of the wound, but with this he
said they could deal successfully.
@.The President an Admirable Patient.
DIR. Bliss expressed great reliance upon
the presidents vigorous constitution,
streng vitality and calm courage. He was,
the doctor said, the very best patient he
had seen in the course of his surgical prac
ticc.
Secretary i:laine'S Continued Assurance.
WAsnINGToN, July THE following
dispatch was sent to-day by Secretary
Blaine to Minister White at Berlin:
"rhe president has been steadily i'm
proving for the past thirty six hours. Ex-
press to the crown prince the thanks of
this government for his sympathy
He also sent the following to Minister
Noyes at Paris " The president continues
to improve every hour. The SYMPTOMS this
morning are favorable.
Numerous kilograms are received at the
state department inIairing after the presi-
dents condition.
ChicagO's Councils Condemn tho Crime.
CHICAGO, July 7.-The city councils
have adopted appropriate resolutions con-
cerning the attempted assassination OF
President Garfield.
From the Pacific Coast.
San FRANCISCO. July Tho Tax
tions scouting the idea of Guiteau's in
sanity and endorsing the acts OF the presi-
dent, and expressing sympathy with his
family.
The Grcenback central club denounce
the crime.
What Mr. Gladstone Said.
LONDON, July "A special dispatch
from New York says Mr.. Gladstone is
criticized for suggesting in the House of
Commons that the shooting OF President
Garfield was the result of 4 political con-
spiracy." Mr.. Gladstone made no such
suggestion publicly nor, so far as known
here, privately. What lie did say in the
House Of Commons on Monday in re-
sponse to Sir Stafford Northcote's inquiry
whether the government could cOmmuni
cate anything touching the terrible and
atrocious crime was simply that lie could
not be surprised that a question should be
asked in regard to the outrage, the charac-
ter of which was such as to attract the at
tention of the whole civilized world, and
which SO greatly affects the feelings and
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England, but growing more friendly
yearly