The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-08-16
whole, less satisfactory. His pulse Is now
100; temperature, oo.e; respiration, 20.
ID. w. BLISS,
j X. BARNES,
j. J. WOODWARD,
RoBEgr RErBuRv,

SITUATION CONSIDERED vgET GRAVE.
EXecUr1vE MANSION, August 1850 p.
M.--(UnOfh eial). AT this hour The ini0rma.
| ton obtained from the attending surgeons
l. 10 the ffect that while the indications are
that the Presidents wound IL doing very
well aud Is not the cause OF the present
trouble. the fact caOnot be concealed that
tue patient Is very wesk. sHd that his disa-
bllity Is such as to cause anxiety, IL has
been determined not to disturb his stomach
by permitting him to eat for the present,
and nOurishment is being administered
by means OF injection. The surgeons
explain the difficulty by the assertion that
the Presidents stomach has failed Ia re-
spOLd as 1t should; hence the determina-
| tion TO inject nourlshment. There Is de-
cided feeling Of anxiety among the mem
bers OF the Cabinet and the attending sur
geons, aud at this writing The situation Is at
leust very grave. Nothing has been heard
from the sick room during the last hour.
and The Cabinet officers are now in waiting
TO bear tue latest news. AttOrney-General
MacVeagh has Just said. in response TO a
question. We have beard nothing since
the bulletin was issued. OF course we are
very anxious. We expect to hear some
thing very soOn."
OFFICIAL DISPATCH TO MINISTER LOWELL.
The following cablegram was sent at $3.50
O'Clock this evening:
LODeH, Minister. London The Presl-
denps condition Is less satisfactory. The
! irritabilily OF the stomach has returned. He
yomiied three times since O'Clock. Tenn
perature, 80 6-less than for several days;
pulse, 1870; and respiration, %.
[SigneO] Hit, Aching Secretary.
BETTER THINGS HOPED POR THIS MORNING.
The following was also sent few min
utes past s O'Clock:
General X. b. Hayes, Fremont, Ohio 1:
Have reached another very serious point in
the case. The conditions at this hour Is p.
NJ are OF a character that causes great
anxiety. We hope for better things In the
morning. II. e. GOBLIN.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, 9P. M.-(UN0FFICIAL.)
| The President has experienced no trou-
bic FROM nausea since Z. NJ. An bypo-
dermic Injection Of morphia was admins
tered a short time ago, and at this hour be
| is sleeping.
SLEEPING NATURALLY AND PULSE DECREASED
TEN BEATS.
| EXECUTIvG MANSION, $3.50 Il. N.-(Un-
official. notwithstanding Brown, who has
! lNsi EOtNt HUM tue SUI SDVu- lbOiIf say
| that the President is still sleeping. He also
said that the sleep was natural and that no
morphIa bad been administered 10. day. The
statement heretofore made 10 that effect is
erroneous. The patients pulse has de-
creased ten beats, being at the present time
about 1870. No further trouble from nausea
ha. been experienced. The surgeons eSli-
mate temperature at this hour TO be about
! normal The indications are that the pulse
Is still subsding.
| ALARMING RvMORs AFLOAT.
The Star this evening says
"The night with the patient was not a
good one. He had spasms OF retching and
vomiting. This OF course weakened him
and broke in on his sleep. This morning
he was e1k, with rapid pulse and high
temperature. The White House was early
besiCged to-day by score or more of anX-
| iOus newspaper correspondents. When the
noon bulletin was read Private Secretary
| Brown remarked - Ii is favorable one"
| This showed though that the Presidents
pulse had gone up to 1lS. yet the temperd-
ture bad gone down FROM 100 and
| fraction to 90 and a fraction. II was almost
| impossible TO see the doctors to-day. Not
one OF them had come into the room up TO
the hour the noon bulletin was issued. or
course all kinds OF alarming rumors were
afoat. One was that another operation was
being performed. Still another that the
| President was too weak TO take food. and
was being sustained by injections through
the bowels. Priyate-Secretary Brown gave
fiat denial to the first rumor, and the noon
bulletin contradicted the second, inasmuch
as it sets forth that the President had taken
nOurishment and that the wound continued
to discharge.
GENERAL UNEASINEss AND ANXIETY.
"When the noon bulletin was issued, ii
created great deal OF uneaslness and anX-
| iety throughout the city, and more espe-
ciqlly so in the departments. The high
pulse and reduced temperature was con-
strued by many TO mean that the President
was i'm so weak a condition that he could
not have fever. At the White House but
little OF the Presidents condition could be
learned save what the bulletins themselves
officially vouchsafed. 1t was known,
though, that all The doctors were Ia attend
ance upon the distinguished patient.
"The son OF DR.. Bliss came out OF the
surgeons room after O'Clock. He admit
ted the frequency Of the Presidents pulse,
but added that the reduced temperature was
a favorable sign. 1t was noteworthy, how
ever, about the White House to-day, that
there was not that degree OF confidence
which has been manifest during the week.
The stomach OF the patient is giving the
doctors anxiety. To-day, to allay II, small
doses Of sub-nitraie Of bismuth were given.
THE TROUBLE WITH TIE STOMACH AND NOT
TIE WOUND.
"Those who have had adYiceS from the
sick room say that 1t is net denied that the
President was nOurished to-day by food
injections. The doctors, however, are said
not to be alarmed. They hold that The fact
that all the conditions OF the wound are
satisfactory is evidence that ii is only the
rebellious stomach and not the wound Itself
which is now Completing the case. What
they want 10 do is to give the patient
strength, and he is nouriShed through the
bowels until bis stomach Is restored In tone
10 again take nOurishment that way. TO
the bad night, the retching and vomiting, is
ascribed the frequency Of the pulse noted
in the noon bulletin. IL is announced. too,
that the doctors say that the pulse shows
debilitation and not fever. Since morning
the fever has subsidized"
The Case Considered Most Critical
Secretaries Blaine and Lincoln and
Yico-PresIdent Arthur Telegraphed
For.
Especial telegram 10 the Dispatch.I
WAsHINGTOY, August l5.-The President
yomited all day. and was able to retain no.
thing on his stomach. His pulse at half
past this evening was 1870. Al O'Clock
he was able to retain a wine-gIsss Of water
OH his stomach. At hali-past the official
bulletin announced that his pulse was 100,
and that he wa. sleeping. At twenty min