The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-14
The President-The Progress of his Recovery
Slow and Tedious.

WASHINGTON, July 12-The rise of
the Presidents temperature last night
caused feeling of general alarm in spite
of the assuring statements of the doc
tors, but this feeling gave way this
morning to one of confidence again
when the morning bulletins showed that
the temperature and pulse had receded.
There has been some increase since
morning, but il is less than has occurred
between morning and noon on any day
of the last few days. The pulse has
gone up by O'Clock in the afternoon TO
10S, and temperature 10 over 100, while
the 1 o'clock bulletin to-day shows the
pulse is only 400, and the temperature
1008-lO.
Doctor Reyburn said after l o'clock
this afternoon that the Presidents con-
dition maintains all the favorable symp-
toms that have caused SO much hope for
the last few days; that there is nothing,
SO far as the surgeons can see, TO cause
any new feeling of alarm. He said the
case was doing as well today as the doc
tors had hoped for; that these hot days
necessarily caused some increase of fever
and that this is to be expected for sever
al days yet; he did not believe the fever
would get as high tonight as it was last
night The wound is doing well, the
discharge from il is all right, and the
feeling of uneasiness growing out of
last nights condition of the President,
was added TO by The opinion of some
outside doctor, who though lie had not
seen the case, predicted evil results.
The surgeons in charge do not share in
these opinions of outside doctors as to
increasing dangers While the doctors
who have the case in hand do not pre-
tend by any means that the President is
out of danger, they grow more hopeful
each day. Very naturally the slow and
tedious process of recovery is wearing TO
the President, but only on two or three
occasions has he manifested any such
feeling. Yesterday he remarked in q
sort of inquiring way that IL was doubt
full il the few years he would get of life
at best were worth all the hard struggle
he was making, but Mrs. Garfield. who
was by him at the time, urged him
not to talk that way, as he
know his life was worth all
that could possibly be expcnd-
ed TO save it. The President promptly
replied that he did not have any idea Of
relaxing any Of his efforts that his re-
mark was more in q reflective or specu-
Iative manner than anything else OF
course, the newspapers and information
generally of the excitement and affairs
outside, are kept from the President, but
occasionally he asks some questions
about these things, and gets some infoE-
nation. He knows what deep interest
has been manifested in his recovery by
the people Of the whole world, and yes
tenday morning he asked II The excite
ment at the time of the shooting was as
great as when Lincoln was killed. at
one time yesterday the noise made by
the arranging for the introducing OF cold
air so annoyed and excited the President
that the workmen had TO be stopped for
awhile The machinery is in order now
and so no more disturbance of this kind
will be necessary. Mrs. Garfield still
keeps mp her courage The ordeal has
necessarily told upon her considerably.
She takes daily rides and sdoing every
thing to keep up her physical strength.
Steadily Growing
NEW YORK, July 13.--The Garfield
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