Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1881-08-25

Tho enc Of NIB Long btruskio ior
Life Evidently Not Far 0n-His
Battalion Of DOCTORS Unable TO
Save Him - The Wound and
Stomach all Right - Dying Of
Blood Pohoniny-Latest Oflclal
News today.
New Yonx, August 2l.-A Tfibuns's
Washington special says: Dr.. Boyuton
told a reporter yesterday be thought yet
that the President would get we'll. "In
less than twenty days." said hs. II
should say. u there are NO bsckssts be
will be out Of danger. There 10 q gen.
sral opinion throughout the country that
the physicians In attendance should id.
minister solid food. but those who hold
this opinion simply know nothing about
the case. The President has not bad
much, II any. real sppetits since be was
shot; certainly he has never been bun.
cry. he has lost perhaps eighty pounds
since this wound was received, but bis
cancellation 10 confined mainly to bis
body and limbs. His face shows little
signs OF the suffering through which be
has passed. Il still retains almost its
normal fullness. and bis eyes are neither
dull nor sunken. To see bis face alone
one could not realize that he has bern 30
sick. In fact little change could DO
noticed.
BLOOD POISONING.
New YoRx, August ga Herdld's
Washington reporter yesterday inter-
viewed DR.. Boynton. who . Id be had no
doubt the President was suffering from
blood poisoning, but whether p yemia or
sspticemia be would not care to say.
A pIscoURAoMo VIEW OF TIE CASE.
CHICAGO. Angus, ga special from
Washington says: Dr.. Reynolds. an
army surgeon, now on the retired list,
In talking Of the P~resident's case. said:
"Ths physicians In attendance have
about given him up. Idont believe they
have yet communicated this opinion to
Mrs. Garfield, but they will likely do 90
tonight or tomorrow II no does not i'm.
prove any. regard 1t impossible for
hin to recover. He 10 30 weak that he
cannot rally. The splendid physique
that the President started With 10 now
gone. and he lie but . skeleton. have
It upon authority that no has not been
able to recognize any one. even his wife,
for several days. There 10 nothing left
on which he osn build, and 1t 10 we'll
enough now that the people should
know the truth. painful as II H."
"Will the nourishmsnt now given him
strengthen him anyf"
Hardly. It will servo to keep him
alive, probably. for . while longer; but
that 10 about all. He has NO recupsr.
alive power. II has been . miracle that
he has lived % long - he has. His
physicians have not bad any confidence
10 bis recovery for over . week. but they
have thought II best to appear cheerful,
In the hope Of sustaining the patient.
thinking there may come some change
for the better"
"Do you approve OF the treatment he
has hadf"
"Y.s; I have known Of everything
that has been done from q OF the
physicians. All that medical skill could
do Or suggest has been done. No man
has had better treatment; but the shock
from tbs wound Was too great for him
to recover from. He has not rallied
from the Arst relapse. This has slwsys
been Dr.. Hsmilton's view, when speak
ing to medical men,"
'.sscretary Blsine's description, then,
was not ovsrdrawnf"
Mot In the least. he stated the exact
truth. It wal from him. indirectly. that
I learned the President could not recoR-
uixs those around him. he felt II his
duty to state the fact, and hs did 90.
though to write the telegram Affected
him to tears"
"wbat will bs the cause Of his death.
in your opinionf"
1.-THE bullet, and that alone. Other
things wers but incidental. The most
srisvous Of these 10 the parotid swelling.
Il 10 that which affects his mind and
makes his case hopeless. There 10 no
escaping the anticipated result. It may
bs delayed Q day longer. or II msy run .
week, but the Presidents life 10 slowly
sbbips away, and no one nouns 1t more
than I do"
Oos OF the attending surgeons. when
approached by . person who had q right
to know. said, In effect. that the case
was almost hopeless.
TIE FINAL cEIsIs APPROACHING
CHICAGO, August 26.-A Times special
from Warrington ssys: Evidently the
anal crisis In the Presidents case has
arrived. The rs,iosncs Of the doctors
during the day yesterday 10 nuslly eI'
planned on the hypothesis that the sur
geons have given him up and are now
preparing to take desperate chances.
DR.. Hamilton last nisht advised the
removal Of the President from the White
House to Tallapoosa - . last chance Tor
saving his life. This course was not
approved by DR.. Bliss and one or two
Of the consulting surgeons. and 1t wss
thought best to have = conference with
all the surgeons in the case.
Secretary Lincoln, who came out for .
few moments, In answer 10 the inquiries
Of . Times reporter. said: "Tb.rs 10 no
conc.alipg the fac, that the condition OIL
the President 10 absolutely Desperate"
The opening Of the parotid gland re.
suited In the discharge Of 20 small an
amount Of pus that the surgeons fear
that this ineision will not relieve It suf.
Hcisntly, 90 that ''slougbipg." . fatal
symptom In bis case, 10 possible.
WILL not CONSENT 10 REMOVAL.
It can be stated upon the highest d
thority that whatever may DO the dscis.
lon Of the surgeons. Mrs. Garfield will
not consent to the Prssidsnt's removal.
She believes that moving him would
merely accelerate his DEATH go.
The surgeons are bowed down With
the great responsibility Of the question
presented to them BY DR.. Hamilton.
DEATH DRAWING NEAB.
I. DR.. Bliss, whom he left the Executive