Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-12
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. LUNG TROUBLES. IA New Danger for the
 President. High Pulse and Temperature. The Doctors Not Disturbed
 by the Symptoms. An Attempt to Shoot Guiteau.
An Attempt to Shoot Guiteau.
A NARROW ESCAPE FOR THE
 ASSASSIN.
THE PRESIDENT.


 Another Complication in the Case-- Trouble with the Lungs--High Figures in the Evening Bulletin--The Surgeons Not Alarmed--They Report Progress in The Case--Happy Effect of their COnd- dence on the Public Mind--An Effort to Shoot Guiteau i'm His Cel1--A Soldier the ORender--PIaced Under Arrest.
 E1BERoN, LONG BRANCH, Sept 1.-The weather this morning was delightful, being clear, sunny, cool and rather breezy. The Presidents condition continues to improve. and his pulse at noon was from 95 to 99, tenn perature and respiration normal The high pulse of the morning bulletin was due to the effects of the daily febrile rise, which, having
 lately been occurring at later hour each day,
 began at so late an hour last night as to have l extended over the period of this mornings ] examination. The President partook of the
 necessary amount of liquid and solid food by i the mouth, and no enemata are now 8iven ATTORNEY GENERAL MAovEAGH SATISFIED. Attorney General MacVeagh said: s'Of course this evenings bulletin will cause | anxiety among the people. but really there is l nothing in the present condition of the Pres ident to cause alarm. The high figures will be satisfactorily explained by the physicians and shown to be due to temporary disturb l ance. If something far more serious than anything which appears in the bulletin had occurred to-day we should not even then l have been alarmed. This is Sunday and every Sunday since the President was wound I ed he had had bad disturbances, and if one ! should have come today it would not have been surprising But none did come and | this slight temporary affection is 8 mild wis | itation for the usual periodical trouble It | is really getting through the periodical dis \ turbance day with but little trouble and 1 should not be considered serious The Pres 1 ident is actually getting along nicely He ! had quiet day and passed it well. He has been comfortable, bright and cheerful. do l not believe there is any periodicity in this" I Attorney General MacVeagh was more cheer | full and expressed himself more positively and with more warmth when speaking about what he all along described as the continr ed l favorable condition of the President than at | any time since he has been at Long Branch. GENERAL GRANT AT ELBERoN.
 General Grant and wife have returned to enquired about the condition of the President He expressed himself as satisfied that the President was doing well and even improv- ing.
 ! DR. AGNEw EXPLAINS THE BULLETIN. The official bulletin when posted caused a sensation in the hotels and cottages at Long Branch. It's entire character was surprise
 
 fore finally accepting it as an official descrip- I tion of the Presidents condition at the be- ginning of the eleventh week of his illness All unofficial reports during the day had been so favorable that the people were sure of favorable bulletin this evening Not more than twenty minutes before the official bull letin was given out some of the immediate attendants upon the President publicly said there was every reason to believe the exami-
 nation then going on would result in the most favorable bulletin issued for many days. Dr. Agnew refused to be inter viewed or to make any extended ex- planation of the bulletin. What he did say, however, was in it's full meaning rather favorable view of the situation. He would not say the President had really gained any thing since yesterday. He was willing to Ee quoted stating that he had lost nothing ! and he had absolutely held his own This | the doctor explained was not to be under stood as statement that the Presidents con ! dition had remained merely stationary. It would bear more favorable construction | than that. Ever since the President was | shot he had relapses more or less depressing l on every Saturday or Sunday At l these relapses the President usually ran be- low the condition he held immediately preceding the relapse and generally had had l 8 very marked rise in pulse, temperature and ! respiration. During the present Saturday ! and Sunday he had suffered no such relapse ' ! who had held himself over Sunday in the ! condition he was in Saturday, which was fa- vorable and better than that of Friday when
 he was and had been improving. That be- l ing the fact, the statement that he had held his own, that he had had no relapse, had not l slipped back, had passed the weekly period
 of relapses safely, meant something better
 than that the case was stationary. To have l held his own over such period was indeed | gain and might be accepted as favorable Dr. Agnew concluded by saying that this is mere
 ly one of those little temporary fluctuations and there is nothing serious about it; ssalso you can say that there is nothing malarious ! about it."
 TALK WITH DR. BLISS
 l It was extremely difficult to secure an in ! terview with Dr. Bliss night He met a 1 crowd of reporters three different times and
 left them without giving any explanation of | the bulletin. It was only after Mr. | MacVeagh sought him out at last and induced him to come forward and talk that he gave \ any information at all. He appeared less I willing than usual to discuss the Presidents l case and what he said was uttered with | some hesitation and much caution. He said: l the figures in to-nights bulletin are due to lung trouble The trouble is not serious Of l course 1t causes us some anxiety, but it does 1 not cause any fear of the result. We expect | to surmount the trouble, and we believe the President will easily pull through it. I feel | sure of this for more than one reason, but particularly on account of one. We have seen the President when in a greatly ex- hausted state, both mental and physical, pull I through the worst Complications have ever ! witnessed in all my surgical experience, the parotid disturbance. He did that not only | when greatly exhausted, as have said, but | serve strength, his fatty tissues ! having all been gone. The present complica- | tion is a slight affair compared to the one surmounted and he will surmount it. There | is at present local lung trouble. The thing has existed for some time, but was not de- veloped until tonight. Some time ago we examined him and we noticed very small 1 area of dullnes over the lower portion of the | right lobe of the right lung. This area has 1 not extended since It indicated either of | two things then. I learn there was much | trouble with the parotid Some | and caused trouble in the throat, the Presi- | dent being constantly on his back One of | it's results was 8 distressing cough or more properly hawking in his efforts to throw out the mucus. As the parotid improved 1 the ability to throw mucus has increased and
 lately the President has easily spat it out. Now the parotid disturbance is almost subsi- ded. When the subsistence began to be | strongly marked and the amount of pus emitted from the parotid was very small, l it was observed that still smaller quantity found it's way into the mouth. At the same
 time the throat began to show signs of in- fammation further down, and the trouble with the mucus in the throat did not decrease | SO far as the amount to be ejected was con-
 cerned. This mucus trouble descended from
 the throat to the larynx and thence to the I pharnyx, and thence lower. Of course,
 then it was clear that the trouble was no longer from the parotid, but appeared to come from inflammation of the mucus
 membrane making it's way downward and it might. further appear thatthe continued prog ress of this inflammation would eventually push things. But the trouble is now so far developed as to show that such is not the
 case, and the new lung trouble has not pro- duced that. The stuff that comes up is not pus l; it is mucus and shows an independent source, and that it is ejected from an affected lung. The amount that is emitted is small I but it is not pus. The developments show
 that there is very limited local lobular in-
 fanmation of the lower part of the right lobe
 of the right lung. The area of inflammation
 is quite small and is not increasing The