Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-29

dents chances were now favorable. to say the
least.
The White House was closed before 10
o'clock tonight. About 9 o'clock DR.. Bliss
sponged the President off and he went to
sleep. When the house was closed every
thing looked favorable. and good bulletin
was confidently expected to morrow morning.
The Day Reviewed.
WASHINGTON, August 2Sth-The improve
ment in the Presidents condition has been
maintained during the day, and tonight
hope is stronger than when the noon bulletin
is believed, is gradually lessening, and very
confident feeling has taken the place of the
dependency which was apparent at the
White House last night. Hope has again
strong hold. the effect of to-day's good
tidiugs. and it is noticeable that better feel
ing has prevailed The gloom has been
lifted from the city. The President has
rested quietly, and there has been nothing to
disturb him. He has perceptibly improved
during the day, though it was not marked
improvement, until it could be said
at o'clock that the President was better
than he was at noon. He has talked but
not allow him to talk His pulse has re-
NAMED pretty steady. and retained its i'm
proved tone and character. There has not
been any marked fever. The beats of the
pulse were from LOG to los per minute. His
general appearance has improved, and his
skin is soft and moist.
At ) o'clock General Swain sent dispatch
that the President was better than he had been
for week past
Colonel Rockwell Endorsed this dispatch,
which was not reserved in any particular, but
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cations. /" He is holding right up
TO the work." said Colonel Rockwell.
Colonel Rockwell, continuing said: "There
is an Improvement all round. / mean to in
clude every symptom. He is going to get
well, l believe; but remember at the same
time that the President is still in a most dan
gerous condition. We take the good that
God sends, and thank him for more of the
same kind. 1t is perceptible that he is i'm
proving"
At half-past o'clock this afternoon Mar
shall Henry, who came from the private part
of the house, reported that the President
which was an alarming feature yesterday, has
disappeared.
Secretary Window said at half. past &
o'clock. as he came from the surgeons room,
'The President is still better"
General Swain said, at o'clock: "There
is nothing in the least upfavorable. Every
thing is the ether way"
Although the Presidents pulse and tenn.
perature rose slightly during the afternoon,
he continued to do well, and at o'clock
General Swain telegrsphed friend, 1.-THE
Improvement in the Presidents condition is
still maintained We are all hopeful-some
confident"
About the middle of the afternoon the
President expressed o desire to see his
daughter Mollie, and when she entered and
came to his bedside he took her hand and
asked her about her health. She replied that
she was well, and inquired how he himself
was. He said, 81 am better. Ask your
mother if the boys cannot come in" Soon
afterward James came to the bedside, and
was greeted by his father affectionately. The
Presidents pulse. however: rose with the
excitement and emotion of this interview
with his childen, and it was thought best
not to allow Harry to see him.
Late this afternoon Mrs. Garfield and her
daughter Mollie, with Mr.. Rudolph and c.
c. Rockwell, of st. Louis went out for q
drive. Mrs Garfield looked bright and
cheerful. The carriage passed through the
main gateway on Pennsylvania avenue,
around which crowd had fingered all day.
She responded with bow and smile TO the
salutations of the guard and to the greetings
of one or two acquaintance passing. Some
one standing near the gateway cried, "That
is Mrs. Garfield, and by spontaneous i'm
pulse almost all the men in the crowd took off
their hats and stood with uncovered heads
while the carriage passed.
All the members of the Cabinet called at
the Executive Mansion, many Of them re-
peatedly, and there was rather more than the
usual number of private callers. The faces
OF all were brighter aud more hopeful, and a
general feeling of encouragement seemed to
prevail.
The evening bulletin was regarded as fairly
satisfactory, although the febrile rise was
rather more marked than had been antici-
pated. During the evening, however. the
President rested quietly, and his fever by II
o'clock had subsidized.
DIR. Boynton, at half-past 9 this evening,
gave the following statement of the present
aspect of the Presidents case: SIN my
opinion, all the patients symptoms tonight
show a marked improvement. La the first
place his mind, which was for week more
or less affected by the vitiated and impover-
ished condition of his blood, is row perfectly
clear and active. Up to Friday night or
power had had for six or seven days any sus-
tanning influence upon his body. He had no
strong will power. Since yesterday morning,
however, there has been in this respect a
noticeable change. Not only is he more
cheerful and hopeful but his will has
recovered his power of sustained effort,
and it is now cooperating with his vital en-
ergies in the struggle OF his whole being for
life. The condition of his stomach, so far as
his ability to take food is concerned, con-
tinue5 good, and [ think there is further
slight improvement in the process of assimi-
lation and nutrition. He has swallowed to-
day more than thirty ounces of liquid nour-
ishment, consisting chiefly Of beef juice,
peptonized milk and milk porridge, and has
had in addition two nutritive enemata. His
supply of food is entirely adequate, if proper
ly assimilated.
A Further Relapse Not Probable,
WASHINGTON. August 2Sth.-It is regarded
this evening that the Presidents rally has
been of such a character that a further re-
lapse, while among the possibilities, is not
probable. Commencing at 4 o'clock yester-
day afternoon, there has been up to o'clock
tonight, twenty.seyen hours in which the
President was pronounced as improving. The
improvement has not diminished in strength,
nor is it less marked tonight To-day is
the 18th since the wound was inflicted DIR.
Woodward said, when the wound was twelve
days old, that the President might live
twenty or thirty days and then die. How
ever, he said, if the President was alive at
the close of the sixtieth day from the shoot
ing, the danger will be over, and be will live
The sixtieth day will be Wednesday.
The White House this afternoon and even
ing looked as it did in the palmy days when
it was believed that the President was GER
tainly ON the broad highway to recovery, and
that the desired ending of the sickness was
but short time ahead There was but very
few people around, not counting three or four
newspaper men and employees. There was
nobody in the public part of the house, and
but very few employees were there. Early
this evening, as the hour for the evening
bulletin approached, the crowd grew larger.
but the bulletin crowd was not to be COM
pared in numbers TO the same gathering yes.
terday.
There is considerable comment about DIFF
ferent predictions made yesterday and to-day
by the physicians in attendance, There
could not be more different views expressed
than those of the last two days When the
matter is looked at in the proper light it will
be seen that the statement is entirely in con-
formity with the progress of the case yester-
day. For instance, DIR. Bliss said in the
morning and at noon that he did not see how
the President could live unless an unexpected
change for the better should be made. Again,
this morning and late this afternoon he said
that he thought the President would live, and
that the rally which had been made was of