Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-08-29
THE PRESIDENT.
He is not Dying To-day, by a
Large Majority.
Dr.. Hamilton Says he Will Recover
and Bliss is More Hopeful.
A Decidedly More Encouraging
Turn for the Patient at
the White House.
YESTERDAY,

YESTERDAY.
Executive Mansion. Aug. 27, midnight
Col. Rnckwell reports the slight i'm
provement of the afternoon fully MAIN
tanned. Pulse 1Ol. The president is
sleeping quietly.
Executive Mansion. Aug. %, 1:3Oa. m.
AT this hour the president is resting
quietly with no indication of any mate
rial change since midnight.
LAST NIGHT.
Executive Mantion. Aug. %, z a. NJ
Information just received from the phy-
sicians' room is to the effect that the
president held his own during the night
and the favorable symptoms previously
still continue. His fever subsided about
midnight and he passed good night,
resting and sleeping quietly.
DIR. HAM1LToNs FAITH.
New York, Aug. 29.-Dr. Hamilton
told q Post reporter that the president is
In a more hopeful condition than 1 have
seen him at any time. There is more
ground for encouragement, and should
teel greatly disappointed if he does not
get we'll. The improvement is due TO
other causes than the suppuration of
the gland. l have reasons to believe the
symptoms are not due to pyamia. 1
cannot now give my reasons, but can't
conceive of anything that will defeat the
wished for and now almost certain reco.
very. Fears that we shall now be disap-
pointed are. I.beleive,and my colleagues
believe, unfonnded.
BLAINE TO LOWELL,
Executive Mansion, Aug. 29.-The
president had good night and is hay-
ing good day. at this hour, p. m.,
bis pulse is lob, showing decrease from
the forenoon. For many days past the
pulse has shown decided increase at
this time In the afternoon. His respi,a.
ton is normal, aud all other symptoms
are reported by his surgeons to be ia
vorable. BLAINE.
BLISS AGAIN HOPEFUL.
Executive Mansion, Washington. Aug.
3-Dr. Bliss at 2:25 said the president
is getting along much more easily to-day
than vest erday. The extreme range of
the pulse since morning has not exceed
ed Six beats, and is now 102 to 1O4 and
is fuller and stronger and has no fever.
Yesterday at this hour there was little.
We have examined his lungs daily and
they are perfectly sound, not an abnor-
NAL symptom. The story was absurd
that there was pus in the knee joint or
anywhere else except in the wound and
gland. If pus formed and was re-
tanned it would at once affect the pulse
and temperature. The glandular SWELL
ing has decreased in size. Tho gland
discharges freely and is now perceptible.
We took at least a teaspoonful of pus
out this morning. He eats perfectly.
He took and relished chicken broth and
milk toast to-day. I certainly think him
better now than at the same hour yes-
terday. The progress is much more
even. The expression of the face, char
acter Of the pulse and absence of fever
makes his condition more favorable.
GOING ALONG NICELY.
Executive Mansion, Aug. %, 4 p. m.--
The presidents condition continues as
favorable as when last reported upon.
Mrs Garfield was met few moments
since in one of the corridors, and when
asked now the president was she replied
pleasantly. Everything is going along
nicely"
MRS. GARF1ELDs FAITH AND HERo1sM.
New York, August 29.-The Posts
Washington special says: AS hope re-
turns more is learned in detail of the ter.
rlble anxiety of the last few days. 1t ap.
pears that the surgeons, after the alarm.
ing symptoms Of the morning, decided il
was useless to longer continue the strug.
gle, and two Of t..eir number were select,
ed to wait on Mrs. Garfield aud inform
her that medical science could do nc
more, and that she must prepare for the
worst. This interview which occurred
between the surgeons and Mrs. Garfield
will, if repo is are true, be regarded al
one OF the most dramatic incidents in this
extraordinary case. Captain Henry Mar
shall. of this district. . friend Of til.
president and family, says Mrs. Garfield
heard the news and smothering her emo
tion, arose and said: "Gentlemen. 70,
shall not give him up! He is not go,nt
to die-he is going to live. 1 feel.
know it! Go back to your post, an,
leave it not until every remedy is ex
hausted-until death itsolf has set it
seal upon him; for will not believe h
is dying. Go buck and do what you cal
You cannot do more; but don't give NJ
l am his wife. say that we will no
give up till the end itself is upon US.
Mrs. Garfield has never surrendered fo
more than a moment or two at time {
her grief and thenlshe has retired to he
room, and after a brief absence has RI
turned 10 her post at the presidents bee
side.
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