The Evening critic., 1881-09-17
Third Extra.
AGO p M
THE LATEST.
An Account Of the Rigor.
How it Affected the Patient.
He is Resting Quietly at 8 p. m.
More About the chill.


More About the Chill.
BY National Associated Press.
LONG BRANCH, N. j., Sept. 1.-THE
authority for the statement that the
President had rigor is DIR. Agnew,
DIR. Agnew was at the Presidents cottage
from IL o'clock until Ills, and when
he left he announced that the President
was suddenly attacked with change and
the change soon assumed very serious
aspect. A rigor came on, and the pulse,
respiration, and temperature rapidly
mounted up, the
Pulse Going as High AS 1877.
The rigor lasted but thirty minutes. II
was pronounced chill. Attorney General
Macveagh says the rigor was not followed
by any vomiting. What really occurred
was that some brandy and water was given
him, of which he swallowed amouthful,
which was rejected by his stomach.
This, however, produced no effect. Mr.
Macveagh says that during the fever accom-.
panying the rigor the Presidents pulse ran
up to 1877, respiration to "a, and temperature
up to 1919. "The rigor appeared he says,
"about quarter past II o'clock, and was
A Pronounced Chill,
which lasted about half an hour and then
passed away. During it there was febrile
rise, which, when the rigor disappeared,
subsidized. The President was carefully
watched for an hour and a.half, and there
were found
No Indications ola Recurrence
of the chill, and the fever had disappeared.
The pulse had gone down. At 1:15 o'clock
the President was sleeping quietly, and
showed no effects of the fever.
After the rigor subsidized it was reported
that the President vomited, but this was
subsequently officially denied.
Resting Quietly Mt 3 y. m.
LONG BRANCH, Sept. 1873 p. m.-There
is no change in the Presidents condition,
as described in the last dispatches. The
President is resting quietly.
The Statement TeIegrnphcd to n
High OfiiciaI.
The following special dispatch was re.
ceived by high official from Long Branch
at noon to-day:
| CDR. Boynton is of the opinion that the
Presidents condition is somewhat i'm
proved this morning, and says the won nd
looks better, but shows no particular i'm :
provement. The President during the night
was given two ounces of
Prepared Beef Blood, ~
and this treatment will be continued, ar
| rangements having been made for a fresh
supply of beef blood every day. DIR. Bliss
says the wound looks better this morning,
l..A IA
Pulse at IL o'clock, 100, with every pros
pect of n better day to-day than yestcr4
day." e I
Intense Anxiety Here.
The feeling prevailing in the city to-day
with reference to the condition of the
President is of the most intense anx-
iety. Not One person a out Of
! ten believed he could live,
and all were of the opinion that his death
was only matter of few hours. Wherever
bulletins were displayed they were
anxiously surrounded. In tho De-
partments very little business was
carried on. The only thing seemed to
be who could get the earliest news from
Long Branch, Secretary. Kirkwood
was at his desk all day. When visited
| by reporter of THE. CRITIC this
afternoon he seemed very much concerned.
He had arranged, he said, with Attorney
General MacVeagh to send him kilograms
but had had nothing from him since morn
ing. "What news have you?" he asked the
reporter.
swell, not good news, by any means, Mr.
Secretary" was the answer.
well. out with it, What have you
heard?"
"That the President had severe chill
to-day, and is worse"
Hardly had the reporter finished speak
ing when newsboys were heard on the
streets crying, Extra CRITIC! the Presi
dent worse!, A copy was at once pro
cured for the Secretary, who read its con
tents and remarked: "Well, / guess l had
better prepare to return to Long Branch.
The most generally concerned persons
however, were District Attorney Corkhil
and Register of Wills Ramsdell. These
gentlemen were found by reporter of TIL
CRITIC at II restaurant taking lunch thi
afternoon.
"What have you heard from the Presi
dent?" they both asked eagerly Us the re
porter entered. The news of the President
chill was detailed to them. Col. C0rkhilP
comment was simply, Good God, is tina
SOP"
Mr.. RamsdelPs echo was, Well, this viii
take him of, sure"
A rumor was out this afternoon that tn
Cabinet had been summoned to Lon
Branch. How true that is cannot be stated
certain ii is, however, that Secretary Kirk
wood had not been summoned at 3 o'clock
The Mail bag Tag Cases.
In Mr.. Meigs' Office to-day, in the case o
George II. Fayman VS.. James Langley ant
George A. Sheridan, a bill to annul an as
signmcnt of letters patent for tag for {
mail bag aud for an account and an injunc
ton filed in May last, the answer of Gen
Sheridan has been filed and subpoena +
testify issued to Langley. Gen. Sheridan
in his answer, charges that he has been in
famously slandered in the matter abov
stated The assignment of letters paten
for the bag fastener, he alleges, was regularl
made and recorded in the Patent Office, an
that after this he set about improving tn
devise that 1t might be made practicabl
and satisfactory to the Department it hay
ing been previously condemned He con
fesses that A. j. Parnal was appointed t.
the Department, but denies that he was az
pointed through his influence. He ais
denies that Parnal was appointed throug
his interest as contract clerk, or tina
there was any combination or contract i
their operations. Col. Enoch Totten AZ
| pears for the defense