The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-08-16
UNOFFICIAL BULLETINS.

UNIT C1S4AA D OAAEI1NO.
III A. M.
Private Secretary Brown reports at this
hour that the Presidents condition has consid-
erably improved since the official bulletin of
this morning was issued. He has taken lit
tie nourishment, which has been retained on
his stomach.
The President is said to be considerably bet
ter at this hour than when the morning bullet
in was issued. He has taken some milk and a
small quantity of beef extract, and also par
taken of some whiskey with egg, all of which
he retained.
In response to an inquiry as to the cause of
the Presidents vomiting, Private Secretary
Brown said that it was due entirely to a weak
stomach; and while it was more or less aggra.
waited by the wound, that it could not be at
tributed solely to its effects. He added that
the President contracted dyspepsia while he
was in the army and has at no time since
been entirely free from it and that when he
was in apparent good health he was oftentimes
troubled with nausea. Mr.. Brown says that
the surgeons are not at all alarmed at the
Presidents present condition. During the last
hour he has slept some and appears to be
stronger.
1t having been intimated that the operation
performed on Monday last was in fact an at
asked if the story had any foundation. He re-
piled that it was entirely erroneous, and said
that there was no immediate Intention of dis
turbing the ball.
[215 MI
Much anxiety is exhibited throughout the
city regarding tae Presidents condition, and
numbers of enquiries have been made at the
Executive Mansion throughout the day. The
feeling throughout the country was similarly
manifested by the large number of press CORES
pondents who called at the White House to re-
ceive u. 30 p. m. bulletin flor their respective
papers which they represent; aside from this
many requests for the "latest news which has
been received from the several departments.
The temperature and respiration as stated IN
last bulletin are generally conceded as fayora-
BILE indications, but the pulse, which was given
as 118, causes considerable uneasiness in the
public mind. Since the issuance of the bulletin
it has been impossible to confer directly with
any of the attending surgeons.
Attorney General MacVeagh called short
time ago, and as he was leaving the White
House said in reply to an interrogatory that
DIR. Agnew attributed the unusually high
caused by nausea with which he has been
troubled. The Attorney General further said
that the surgeons informed him that there
were no indications of "pus fever" and that
they hoped that they had overcome the
tronble caused by nausea. If no further
trouble from nausea is experienced it is
thought that the patient will soon rally from
the bad effects of the attack. The surgeons
took the pulse at ]. As p. m. when it was 112,
being decrease of six beats jim ltss than one
hour at this hour.
1880 P. M
At this hour the information obtained from
the attending surgeons is to the effect that
wound is doing very well and is apparently
not the cause of the present trouble, the fact
cannot be concealed that the patient is ex-
tremely weak and his disability is such as to
cause anxiety. It has been determined not to
disturb his stomach by permitting him to eat
for the present, and nourishment is being adj
ministered by means of injection. The sur
geons explain the difficulty by the assertion
that the Presidents stomach has failed to re-
spond as it shoald, hence the determination to
inject nouri shment. There is decided feel
ing of anxiety among members of the Cabinet
and attending surgeons, and at this writing
the situation is at least very grave Nothing
has been heard from the sick room during the
last hour and the Cabinet officers are now in
waiting to hear the latest news. Attorney
question, eve have nothing since the bulletin
was issued. OF course we are very anxious
We expect to hear something very SOON"
[9P.M.]
The President has experienced no trouble
from nausea since p. m. A bypodermic in
lection of morphia was administered short
time ago, and at this hour he is sleeping.
$50 P. MI
Private Secretary Brown, who has just come
from the surgeons room, says the President is
still sleeping. He also said that the sleep was
natural and that no morphia had been admin
istered to-day. The statement heretofore
made to that effect is erroneous. The patients
pulse has decreased ten beats, being at present
about 100. No further trouble from nausea
hes been experienced. The surgeons estimate
the temperature at this hour at about normal
Tho ipdioo tiOnn orr hot ho ruI &c cfiI c,,h
siding.
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Although there has been feeling of anxiety
at the Executive Mansion all day no alarm
was felt regarding the Presidents condition
until late this afternoon. The fact that none
of the attending surgeons have entered theibus-
mess apartment of the Mansion during the day
occasioned an unfavorable impression which
evening bulletin proved was warranted. Since
the bulletin was issued there has been con-
slant arrival Of anxious inquirers at the White
House. The room of Private Secretary
Brown has been crowded all the evening.
Among the first to arrive were Postmaster
General James and Attorney General Mac
Veagh. Shortly after these came Assistant
Secretary of State Hitt Secretary Window
and Secretaries Kirkwood and Hunt, Second
Assistant Postmaster General Elmer, First
Comptroller Lawrence, Gen Francis A.
Walker Associate Justice harlan, Gen. Sher-
man, Gen. Dunn and many more of promi.
nence.
Secretary Lincoln is in New York and Sec
rotary Blaine in Maine. Both of these gentle
men have been communicated with by tele-
graph concerning the serious condition of the
President. Private Secretary Brown said to-
night he expected Secretary Lincoln to return
to Washington tomorrow. One of the atten-
dants upon the President said at 10. 80 he did
not consider the Presidents condition neces-
sarily alarming, although it certainly warrant
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