Daily Republican., 1881-08-26
HOPE FINALLY FLED.
SERIOUS AND ALARMING con.
PLICATIONs DEVELOPED.
Strength Failing-Mind wander
1ng-Bey mton Says Garfield
1ust Die-The COndi.
ton Ts.daV.
peciaI Despatch to the REPUBLICAN.

Special Despatch to the REPUBLICAN.
WASHlNGTok, ID. C., Aug. 26--l
A. M.-The President awoke some
what out Of his mind. He passed ;
restless night. His pulse is l0S; TEN
perature, 99,l respiration, H. Tn,
feeling around the White House is thai
the President cannot recover. DIR
Bliss, however, thinks recovery is moi
impossible.
Hope has virtually fled within and
without the Executive Mansion a,
Washington. The failure of the Presi
dent to gain strength from the con-
mountaineering quantities of nour'
ishment taken has disappointed ex.
pectations, and the threatening aspect
of glanda.ar swelling has been taken as
another reason for discouragement.
Enough l''Nt, ~ Is NdiN, 40 gwen W tit
patient daily to sustain HIS strength il
it were all turned iii o blood and vi
tai force, hut evidently, it is not, since
there has been no perceptible gain in
strength during the past three days.
This, it is argued. indicates that septi-
c;rmia or some other unfavorabe inf
ence is at work interfering with the
processes of nutrition and ncutraliz!ng
to great extent the efforts of the stom-
ach to supply the system with food.
The President, his friends say, should
be- gaining strength now to get through
another bad Sunday or meet another
possible re .erse in the shape Of II new
complication, but instead of that he is
hardly holding his own and Las no re-
Yer of strength to draw upon in case
Of necessity. Among the most unta-
vorable dispatches are those OF Secre-
tary Blaine, and the following unotfi-
c:ai bulletin
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHING
TON, August %, 10 2. M-Although no
Information can yet be obtained direct
ly from the attending surgeons, it IL
understood that the Presidents case
has taken an untavorabie turn this
evening. and that the swollen parotid
gland, throughout which the pus is now
forming in small cells or pockets,
threatens immediately dangerous con-
sequences. Unless n favorable change
takes place within the next twenty
four hours the worst is apprehended.
Secretary Blaine's afternoon cable
tel.rram TO Minister Lowell was as
follows:
The Presidents condition shows no
marked change. The symptoms Of yes
terday are repeated to-day. AT this
hour, 80, his fever seems to Increase,
while the parotid swelling has not di-
minished He continues to swallow
LIQUID food in sufficient quantity with
out disturbance to the stomach.
BLAINE, Secretary.
The following was sent by the Secre-
tary at 9 O'Clock p. III.
The President has lost ground to-day.
Some Of his symptoms this evening are
of the gravest character. The condition
of the swollen gland and of the pulse
and temperature suggest serious ana
alarming complications. His mind
at intervals has been somewhat becloud'
ed and wondering. His strength fails,
but he still swallows liquid character,
and apparently digests it. On this fact
rests the hope that is still left OF reac-
ton. BLAINE, secretary.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-To night for
the first time Dr. Bliss gave up hope.
At the Cabinet meeting he was sent TOR
to impart the true state of the case.
He gave protracted review of the
case, touching first on the conditlon OF
the wound, its progress from the hrst
down 10 to-day, and closed with the as
sertion that, as far as this element CT
the case was concerned, he was salts
fed nothing necessarily fatal would
result from it. He now came to the
hardest part Of his announcement. IL
was that the President must shorty
die, as far as human judgment could
decide, and not from the ugly wound
that has been fostering within him, but
from wha, was believed to be com
paratively and insignificant swelling
of the gland below the right ear. He
explained that the blood had become
50 thoroughly poisoned and vitiated by
the long illness, the suppuration OF the
wound and the general debility ana
weakness of the patient that 1t mad
mantle ed Itself in the most violent
form by the parotid swelling which he
now reluctantly confessed would prove
fatal. He said that it had so tar re-
fused to succumb to every treatment
known to medical science. All appll-
cations had been resisted by it, and the
locality of the development was such,
being in the vicinity of the threat and
contiguous to the brain. that should 1T
proceed, as il had done for the last few
hours, in the Presidents debilltated
condition the vital forces could not
much longer resist its inroads uron the
system. Instead of decreasing through
external applications of the strongest
kind, the swelling continued and when
finally it was determined to apply the
lance the heroic treatment OF the knife
seemed to cause no stay in its growth.
But it had gone growing larger if any.
thing and more troublesome, and
spreading deep its roots, bering to the
very heart of the patients vitality.
He even went SO far as to state that,
were the President in the full bloom OF
health and in the prime OF life and
and be stricken with this dis
ease, be would probably die.
The Doctor answered the many ques-
tions that the Cabinet officers put to
him, but from none of his answers
could ray of hope be CLEANED. The
terrible truth rested heavily upon them.
When all were convinced that the end
was near they came downstairs appar-
entity overcome by the gravity Of TIE
disclosures that Dir. Bliss had made to
hem regarding the fatality of the
case. Your correspondent
net Attorney General MacVeagh as he
was about TO enter his carriage, and
asked him if he had seen Secretary
B!aine's despatch. "Yes," replied Mr..
Mac cVeagh, "and: must indorse it.
could not have put more encourage
ny word in it if had been compelled
- Il.