Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-15

Who il in Attendance upon the President
The New York Herald correspondent tel
egraphs the following interesting interview
with Mrs. DR.. Edison:
"How did your patient spend Sunday"
pretty well for man as sick as he is"
"What is he thinking himself about it ?"
GAN along he has been 80 cheerful and
hopeful that you could imagine he felt his
recovery a sure thing, but yesterday he
seemed to grow little respondent for the
first time"
Still he understands that his case is pro-
crossing favorably."
"Yes, he knows that, but he was very
restless all day yesterday, and seemed more
than ever conscious of the struggle he was
making between life and death"
"Then he is conscious of the chances"
Perfectly. He became quite tired out
yesterday, and said to his wife, I wonder if
all this fight against death is worth the little
pinch of life I will get anyway? Mrs.
Garfield said to him. Don't talk that way
Of course it is worth while"
MRS. GARFIELD KEEPS HOPEFUL.
Just as cheerful as ever. The President
wanted her near him good deal yesterday,
and she remained. We are trying though,
to reserve her strength, for as the President
convalesces, he will want her more and more
with him"
did not all the work of putting up the
cooling apparatus annoy you yesterday ?"
Yes, it did frequently. Once we had to
have the work stopped altogether, as the
President grew quito restless and excited
about it. At night, after tho hypodermic
injection had been given him, and he fell
asleep, tho work started again and progress
ed rapidly. 1t will probably be in opera
ton to-day"
"Do you think the wound is healing?"
at is suppurating nicely-the President
when his wound is getting along so well
but that, of course, was expected"
"Is he getting tired of the bed ?"
"Dreadfully so. Yesterday he seemed
sick and tired of the whole affair. That
| EXALTED SENSE OF HOPE
which had overwelghed al the suffering at
first, is fast deserving him, and you could
see he was canvassing his chances this way
or that with some misgivings as to the re-
suit Besides, the muscles of his back are
30 sore and painful that for heavy man it
must induce severe pain ond WEAKNESS"
6 Is he anxious to know the purport of
the bulletinsY"
Though the physicians told him yester-
day after consultation how he was progress
sing, he did not feel entirely satisfied, and
asked to see the bulletin. 1 procured the
early morning and noon bulletins and read
them to him. told him once before that
the bulletins were an1iously looked for out
side, and he said yesterday 1.-THE people
must be sick and tired reading them What
is life? What difference does it make, any
way?'"
You do not like to hear such despairing
remarks, do you ?"
mo. we do not,
BUT HE Is SUFFERING SO,
putting in day after day in pretty much the
same state, and we attribute the less hope
full view he is taking iast now to these rea.
sons. He was SO full of encouragement the
first days, and had no idea that the process
of recovery would be SO tedious"
HAS anything been told the President OF
, the New York gift to his wife,"
"No, nothing hae been said about it te
him at all. As for Mrs. Garfield, she il
| unable to talk about such an unlooked-fol
and magnificent expression of sympathy
and the very thought Of SO much kindness,
quite overcomes her."
Has the President any intimation of tn,
excitement the shooting caused?"
"Oh, yes he has some idea. He asked
me last week one day what people were say
ing about it, and told him that though
: it his right to know something of the in
tense excitement pervading all classes o
people, and that he had the sympathy o
the whole civilized world. I told him tina
messages from every direction and from
distinguished people
ALL ovER THE WORLD
were continually arriving, but said: "W
can not let You zee them" He answered
don't want to; but do you think the ex
element greater than in Lincoln's time /?
I told him that thought it Was; that thel
the end soon came; while now everybod,