The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-26


: sible to tell to what extent the deSir
t Of the President to be taken from
the White House will have effected
F, his chances for recovery, but it i
+ undeniable that some OF his physi
? clans believe that unless he is re
) moved he has not the ghost of ;
chance to live. The very worst ma
} larial season in Washington is be
tween August 18th and September
18th, and the. President is at present
where he will be certain to inhalt
the most deadly breath of the poi
sonOus Potomac marshes.
MAKING MERCHANDISE OF HIM.
I7lter-OceGn'S Washington: 1t is
rumOred lately that some Wall
street brokers had means of know
ing the condition of the President
and what was occurring at the
White House. 1t is now positively
known that some one in New York
knew of the intention to summon
Agnew before the Presidents FAM
lily did. 1t was kept a profound
secret here but was known in Wall
street bynoon that some one who has
special means of knowing the Presi-
dents condition is employed in fur
niShing information to stock Job
berS. 1t is shown by the fact that a
gentleman three days ago appeared
here and told several persons that he
had come to make arrangements for
direct wire from the White House
to brokers Office in Wall street, but
found that he had been forestalled.
He offered to prove by files at the
Western Union Telegraph Office that
dispatches went directly from the
White house to Corbin's place in
New York, a brokers' Office. This
gentleman said he would give So
900 to know five minutes in
advance that the President was
dead. If more convincing proof is
needed it only remains to give the
CIPHER by which it is believed COM
munication is carried on between
the person who has special facilities
for knowing the patients actual
condition, and certain other parties
on Wall street. 1t is not asserted
that the key given below embraces
quite all Of the code, but there is
enough given to show that someone
is trafficing upon the life and death
of the nations President. The cipher
is as follows, being literally tram
scribed as far as known at this hour:
"One. Harry" will mean he is i'm
proving; 1.-TWO. Mary" improving
nicely; Three. II. Co." failing;
-Four. Frank" failing rapidly !;
give. New York" holding his
own; "Six. NJ. b." probably die;
Seven. s. d." sHrely die; Eight.
ID. X. B." undoubtedly recover;
mine. john" surely recover; "Ten.
Bats" gaining; Eleven. Sam"
growing stronger; Twelve. Jersey
City," do not credit reports; "Thir-
teen. Brooklyn" no danger; -Four
teen. Washington" out Of danger;
Fifteen" it is not clear what is
meant by No. Is. There is reason
to believe that No. II has been sent
more frequently than any of the
others.
BLISS INTERVIEWED.
Washington, 25.-The Posts Wash
ington interviewed Bliss after the
morning dressing. He looked care
worn and less composed and buoy
ant, but spoke cheerfully and had
evidently not abandoned hopes. The
swollen gland was the cause of fear.
We incised it and got out little
pus, but the trouble is to get out all
the matter and keep it under con-
troll. 1t is probably all around in
the gland and we cannot tell where
it may burrow. If we cut any
where else in the infamed part We
might strike more puS. We cannot
know exactly about it for several
days, certainly not for two or three,
and meantime we must control the
gathering matter. We do not ap-
prehend any new or immediate bad
results from it, but we must be pre-
pared, of course, for bad develop
mentS. However, it was learned
this morning that the Presidents
bowels were not acting, and
have, to a certain extent, given
way. Long continued injections
always weaken the lower bowels,
and yesterday they rejected their
injected dose. involuntarily and
even the use of opium did not avail,
so the injections we're given up I'M
til they regain strength. If the
stomach shoald yield now there
would be great danger. ~
I asked the doctor if he had fol-
lowed the strict antiseptic treatment
called Listers mode-that is, the
treatment with dressing impreg-
mated with carbolic acid to destroy
life in germs floating in the air
which would cause decomposition
of the pus and reduce py@mia. Yes,
said he, we have done that very care |
fully from the start. When we
dress the wound we are all envel- |
oped in carbolic spray. There is |
a little apparatus worked by |
steam which is suspended over
the bed above our heads, and at the |
time of the dressing orr persons.
clothes, instruments, the patient and
everything is enveloped in this car
bolic mist. This we have done all
along for the purpose of securing
a perfect safeguard against any |
pyBmic trouble.
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