Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-07
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES To THE RECORD
UNION.
THE WOUNDED PRESIDENT.
Reports. Still Encouraging in Regard
to His Condition.
CONFIDENCE AS TO THE RESULT.
he Grumbles Because he Does not Get
Enough to Eat
MISCELLANEOUS GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
Five Hundred Houses Burned in a Rus
sian City.
DOMESTIC.
The Presidents Condition.

DOMESTIC.
The Presidents Condition.
WASHINGTON, July 6sh.-Surgeon Barnes
says the Presidents condition il much i'm
proved. The case is still involved in hidden
dangers, because the course of the ball and
the nature of the wound are unknown but
he feels hopeful of his recovery. He has
not been hopeful before, and has predicted
death.
1P. M.-Pulse 100. temperature 1919, res
piration %. There is an increase of two
beats in the pulse, but the doctors do not con-
slider it bad showing. and attribute it to
the heat of the weather.
$50 P. M.-The Presidents condition con-
tinues as favorable as at the last report. lie
has passed a very comfortable day, taking
more nourishment than yesterday. Pulse
104, temperature 100 q, respiration %. Un-
less unfavorable symptoms develop, no fur
ther bulletin will be issued until to morrow
morning.
10P M-[Unoficial l-Only slight change
has taken place in the Presidents condition
since the date of the last official bulletin, and
that is in the direction of further improve
ment. He is now resting quietly.
During the afternoon he had several evac
uations from the bowels, the first since the
shooting. They occurred without pain or
discomfort, and contained no trace of blood.
During tie early evening, from to 10 p. NJ,
he was troubled occasionally by acid eructa-
tions, but on suspendiug the administration
of nourishment for time this symptom dis
appeared.
WAsBINGroN, July 6:b.-Among the more
favorable symptoms in the Presidents con-
dition to day is the fact that he is beginning
to find fault with his physicians because they
do not give him enough to eat. He called
this afternoon for beefsteak, but upon being
told that he was not able to eat beef, and that
it was not thought prudent at present to al
low him to eat such heavy food, he grumbled
little. but consented to compromise upon an
egg, and say no more about it. The egg was
given him. He wished also to know this
afternoon whether he could not be permitted
to hold Cabinet meeting, and evinced gem
orally disposition to talk, which his ply.
sicians were obliged to discourage ard re.
strain.
II Midnight Unofficial The President
passed most comfortable day, and his con-
dition to night is in every way as satisfactory
as could be expected. He has taken more
nourishment during the past eighteen hours
than at any time since he was woun led, and
the food has all been retained and perfectly
assimiIated. In order to relieve him, as far
as possible, from the oppression caused by the
intense heat, the attending doctors this even.
ing put into operation simple refrigersting
apparatus, which it is thought will render the
atmosphere Of his room tomorrow much more
comfortable than it has been to-day. 1t con-
sists of number of troughs of galvanized
iron, about ten inches in width and fourteen
feet in length, placed on the floor along the
walls, and filed with water and broken ice.
Over these troughs, and corresponding with
them in length are suspended sheets of funnel,
the lower edges of which are immersed in the
ice water, which fills the trough. The water
is absorbed and carried upward by the capil-
larry attraction in the flannel, as oil 10 the
wick of lamp, until the sheets are saturated.
This cold water, both by direct contact with
the air and by the rapid evaporation which
takes place over the extended surface of the
flannel lowers the temperature of the room.
Although only a few hours elapsed since the
apparatus was put into operation, it made q
perceptible change, and it is thought its util.
ity will be still more clearly demonstrated
tomorrow. The day has been c1mrars-
lively quiet at the Executive Mansion, fer
the reason that the favorable bulletins have
to great extent relieved the public anxiety
and decreased the number of callers. At this
hour [midnight) the President is resting
quietly, and all hissymptoms are encouraging.
1880 A. N.-The President remains quite
as comfortable as at the date of the last
bulletin. He takes his nourisnment we'll
Pulse 100, temperature 99.7, respiration %.
ID. w. BLISS,
r. REYBUBN,
J. X BARNES,
J.J. WOODWARD.
2 A. M.-The President continues easy.
There is no change in his symptoms.
sherman TO Sheridan.
CHICAGO, July 9th. General Sherman
Yesterday telegraphed Sheridan as follows !.
1.-THE President is reported to be much
better, and I an more than ever convinced
that he will recover. He stood the first shock
of the wound admirably, and now the only
dang .r is from secondary Inflammation.
have had full conference with Surgeon-Gen-
eral Barnes, and the above is my own infer
ence, The surgeons in charge are able men,
and duly cautious in giving expressions of
opinion as to the future. | will keep you
thoroughly advised. and you may construe
my silence as favorable. The most perfect
order has been maintained, and in any and
every event / believe it will continue"
Mrs. GarfleId's HepefUlness and the Pres
ident's CaImness.
WASHINGTON, July 6tb.-Mrs. Garfield is
very hopeful to-day, although she recognizes
that all danger is not past, and the ninth and
tenth days must be viewed with apprehep-
sion. The Presidents mind was clearer this
morning than at any time since the shooting,
owing to the fact that no opiates were admin
istered during the past twenty.four hours.
He gives the physicians minutest descriptions
Of his feelings and condition, and talks as il
he were detailing the symptoms of some otler
person.
Personal Feeling Toward the President.
CHICAGO, July CHA special from Wash
ington says: Great, big, bluff. hearty
Ingersoll, who has loved Garfield many
years, but has lately teen estranged, during
the most critical and dangerous period of the
Presidents relapse. walked through the upper
hall with tears streaming down his cheeks.
The Presidents good-fellowship has drawn
the Cabinet to him as close personal friends.
MacVeagh has been the most discouraged,
but one of the most loving and attentive.
"Oh !" said he, there was never better
President than at the moment Guitteau's
bullet struck him down. He never saw more
clearly, and never had firmer or better pur.
pose He was going to be all that the best
thought of the country ever expected OF him.
He was going to be great President" He
went on in this strain for whole hour.
The Man who Wanted 10 Kill Blaine.
WASHINGTON, July 6th.-The fool McNa
mara said Yesterday: 81 came on here tt
get the authorities to call off the POWERS whc
are conspiring against me. There is politi
cal conspiracy Of spiritualistic mediums wht
are trying TO obtain possession of my mind
They are trying to put Pysche in my brain
They revealed to me while I was in Sar
| Francisco that ] was to shoot Grant and thu
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