The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-07-07
ExECuTIvE MANSION BULLE.
TINS.
Favorable News Regarding the Presi-
dents Condition.

washington j uiYo, le:3Oa a. m. The
president has passed most comfortable
night, and has slept well. His condi
tion has remained throughout as favor
able as when the last bulletin was
issued. The pulse Is becoming less fire..
quent, and is now 90; temperature 9S-
Q; respiration %. Surgeons D. W.
Bliss, J. X. Barnes, ]. J. Woodward,
Robt. Reyburn.
II a. m. Blaine cables to Lowell,
minister at London: The president
passed very comfortable night, and
for the first time since he was wounded
his pulse this morning is below 100.
His physicians feel fresh encourage
ment, but are intensely anxious, for the
trying days are yet to come.
II a. m. Pulse still better, 81, and
every other condition is equally favor
able. Some progress has been made in
cooling the presidents room, and later
experiments will it is believed, wholly
overcome the effects of the heat, which
still prevails, although a stiff breeze
has sprung up, modifying it somewhat.
The president is feeling better than at
any time yet, and hope is almost exu-
berant.
New York: A physician says that
medical men believe the symptoms
demonstrate that no vital part has been
wounded. If wounded, the tempera-
ture would have fuctuated and risen
higher. He believes the bullet turned
upward and lodged in the dense tissues
of the spinal column. This accounts
for paua
1l:30 a. m. Pulse 90; other condi-
tions favorable; everybody in the sick
room cheerful. The president told
Col. Rockwell that he felt very much
refreshed. and slept well all night, and
felt better than since Saturday morn
ing. His voice is strong and manner
cheerful. Mrs. Garfield is gaining
strength.
IL m. The president has taken some
nourishment with an evident appetite,
and his stomach shows excellent diges-
tive powers; state of blood in perfect
assimilation. Mrs. Garfield is very
hopeful to-day although she recognizes
that all danger is not passed, and that
the 9th and 10th days must. be viewed
with apprehension. The presidents
mind is clearer this morning than at
any time since the shooting, owing to
the fact that no opiates have been ad-
ministered the past "a hours. He gives
his physicians the minutest description
of his feelings and condition, and talks
as if he were detailing the symptoms
Of some other person. Experiments
are now being made, under the super
vision of the physicians, with different
sorts of refrigerating apparatus. in or
der to relieve the president, if possible,
from the unfayorable influence of the
great heat, by artilicially cooling the
atmosphere Of his room.
1890 p. m. The president remains
quite as comfortable as at the date of
the last bulletin; pulse 100, tempera-
80, respiration %.
2:55 p. m. There has been slight
rise in the presidents pulse since the
laet official bulletin, caused by changing
the bed and movement of the PATIENTS
body, which it necessitated. symptoms
still regarded very favorable.
Chicago, July 6.-Gen. Sherman yes
terday telegraphed Gen. Sheridan at
2 p. IN. as follows: The president is
reported. SO much better this morning
that l am more than ever convinced
that he will recover. He stood the
FIRST shock of the wound admirably,
and now, after 72 hours, the only dan
ger is from secondary inflammation Of
peritoneum. had full conference at
midnight with Surgeon General Barnes,
and the above is my own inference.
The surgeons in charge are able men,
and duly cautious in giving expressions
of their opinion as to the future. l
will keep you thoroughly advised, and
you may construe my silence as favora-
BILE. The most perfect order has been
maintained, and in any and every event
l believe will continue.
p. m. The attending physicians
say that every minute that the presi-
dent continues to get along as he has
since yesterday morning, greatly in
creases his chance of final recovery.
Some fear was expressed of eangrene
in the wound, but the surgeons do not
apprehend this. They say that there is
not single symptom of gangrene yet,
and il gangrene has set in it would
show itself by unmistakeable signs.
The president still has his appetite, and
his stomach retains nourlshment. To-
day there is every hope of his recovery.
City doctors who have not seen the
president, but have been kept profess
sionally informed, now generally agree
that the chances are good; even those
who yesterday thought he could not re-
cover, now admit the signs to be in his
favor. A lowering pulse is pronounced
the best sign. The quarrel which the
doctors had over his case continues to
be the cause of comment; some favor
Bliss course, others condemn him.
5p. m. Surgeon Barnes says the
presidents condition has much Inn
proved, though the case is still involved
in hidden dangers, because the course
of the ball and the nature of the wound
are unknown, but he feels hopeful of
recovery. He has not been hopeful be-
foro and has nrpdicted death