Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-06
HOPE FULLY RESTORED !!
President Garfeld's Condition
Steadily Improves
Throughout the Entire Day Yes,
terday-The Crisis Thought
to be Passed.
He Rested Quietly, With Favor
able Symptoms, at $50 P. NJ.
No Further Bulletin During the
Night, Without a Change.
Telegrams OF Sympathy and Graft
fca,ion Continue to be
Received.

EXECUTIVE MANsIoN.-The Executive
Mansion has been thronged again all day to-
day by anxious people seeking to obtain
later and less technical information with re-
gard to the Presidents condition than that
contained in official bulletins
The members of the Cabinet have spent
nearly the entire day in the library, and all
the prominent executive officers, as well as
the representatives of foreign governments,
have called, many of them repeatedly, to
make inquiries. kilograms in count
less numbers have been pour
ing into the Executive Mansion, and
State Department all day from the United
States, from Canada, from every country in
Europe and even from Spain, all express
, ing the warmest sympathy and most earn
est hope for the Presidents recovery. The
President and his Cabinet have been es-
pecially touched and gratifed by the evi-
dence of affection and sympathy which
have come from all parts of the South.
Hundreds of kilograms, coming from every
Southern States from Virginia to Texas,
and representing both sexes and
and all classes of Southern peo-
pie, have been received since
yesterday, a. H., and still continue to come,
it has been utterly impossible in the ex-
citement and anxiety of the present crisis,
to acknowledge these kilograms, or to ex-
|,
good wishes and warm sympathy have given
the President and his Cabinet A general
telegram of acknowledgements to the people
of the United States will shortly be prepar-
ed by the Secretary of State and given to
the press.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 4.-The Sec
retary of State furnishes the following, with
a request that it be given the widest posi-
bic circulation:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, July
4.-11 p. m.-To the Press: On behalf of
the President and Mrs Garfield desire to
make public acknowledgement of the very
numerous messages of coincidence and af-
fection which have been received since
State in the Union. From the South
as bountifully as from the North,
and from countries beyond the sea, have
come messages of anxious inquiry and ten
der words of sympathy in such numbers
that it has been found impossible to answer
them i'll detail. l therefore ask newspapers
, to express for the President and Mrs Gar
} field the deep gratitude, which they feel fol
the devotion of their fellow -conntrymen and
friends abroad in this hour of heavy affiic
. ton.
t Signedl JAS. G. BLAINE,
, Secretary of State.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 5, 9 a. m-
j The following is the official bulletin Just
: completed:
= $50 a. m.-The President has passed
. comfortable night, and his condition thi
: morning is decidedly more favorable. There
has been no vomiting since last evening
at 8 o'clock, and he has been able to retain
the nourishment administered There il
g less tympanites and no abdominal tenden
It eies, except in the wounded region. Pulse
ia, temperature 1905, respiration "a.
ft (Signed) D. w. Bliss, j. K Barnes, J. J.
III Woodward, Robt. Reyburn.
n EXECUTIVE MANSION, $50 a. m.-Th
T. attending physicians announce that shoul,
the Presidents condition continue as it is a
=. the present, no further bulletins will be is
D. sued until p. m.
ga. m.-The situation of the President
much improved, and he slept better than a
any time previously, for an hour and hal
3 at time. The tympanites has disappeared
"a and he has not vomited since p. M Tn
:, pulse is in better tone. He has takel
;. some chicken broth, this morning and ha
e retained it.
e UNOFFICIAL BULLETIN.
# EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 5, 10. 40 a. M
W The anticipations of the Presidents attend
d ing physicians last night with regard to the
p probably transient character of unfayorabl
symptoms which then manifested themselve
have been fully justified by the result
Col. Rockwell, who spent the last part O.
' the night in the Presidents room, says tina
a the latter slept more quietly and
/ TRANQUILITY than at any time since h,
q was wounded. He took nourishment
!, in the shape of chicken broth, milk an6
:, lime water and beef tea repeatedly, and re-
tanned it. His restlessness abated, the nerv.
!. GUS contractions of his fingers ceased and
!. he slept quietly for as much as an hour and
. a half at time. The improvement shown
by this mornings official bulletin is still
maintained, and the physicians regard
the case with feelings of encour-
Y agement. The hours from 6 to 8 p m
E seem for the patientto be the most unfavora-
BILE part Of the day, and it is possible that