Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-27
3:l5 O'CLOCK P. M.
SAD SATURDAY.
THE PRESIDENT NO BETTER.
BUT HE MAY LIVE SOME DAYS,
so SAYS DOCTOR BLISS.
OTHER VIEWS MORE HOPEFUL.
3:l5 O'CLOCK P. M.
BUT HE MAY LIVE SOME DAYS,
so SAYS DOCTOR BLISS.
OTHER VIEWS MORE HOPEFUL.
CABINET CONFERENCE.

Review of the Situation this Morning.
THE LAST RAY OF HOPE ExTINGUIsHED BY TIKI
| $50 BULLETIN.
About o'clock this morning the first intel
gence bearing on the condition of the President
was received from the physicians room This
information, though meagre, was discouragng
1t was substantially to the effect that the
Presidents condition was little less
encouraging than at late hom
last night; that his pulse had not yet been taken
but that it was nOticeably less firm. This feeble
rise of pulse was not noticed until DR.. Bliss
went to his bedside about o'clock this morn
ing. He then observed that although the fire.
quency of the pulse had not materially changed
its character was weaker and more unsteady
He did not interpret this as certain
evidence of the nearness of the end but a cir.
cumstance calculated to narrow still more the
residents chances for recovery. A painful pc
Rod of suspense interviewed between the receipt
OF this information and the appearance OF the
morning bulletin, and the latter was
waited for with an ominous forebodinp
that it would confirm the worst fears.
The bulletin when it made it's appearance with
the positive statement that the President had
grown feebler since yesterday and noting a
marked increase in pulse and respiration. ex-
tinguished the last ray of hope held by the gen.
eral public, and cast deeper gloom over those
near and dear to the President. The physicians
do not say, however, that hope is dead
Secretary Blaine to Minister Lowell.
THE PRESIDENTS SYMPTOMS ARE OF THE MOST
ALARMING CHARACTER.
Secretary Blaine sent the following telegram
to Minister Lowell this morning:
EXECUTIVE MANSION August q.
Lo,ceu. Minister, London:
The President had bad night and his symp-
toms at this hour-9 o'cock-are of the most
alarming character.
BLAINE. Secretary.
THE PATIENTS CONDITION SHORTLY AFTER TEN
O'CLOCK
was pronounced by one of the physicians to be
about the same as it was yesterday afternoon
when, 1t will be remembered. his condition was
very low, his pulse going up to 1873. The con-
ditlOn OF the gland and wound continues about
the same. Suppuration still goes on, but the
current report that the pus is of thin character
is generally believed.
lO:3O-THE PATIENT MORE COMFORTABLE
Dr. Reyburn reports that the Presidents
strength up to this hour has not perceptibly
failed since the morning examination. He con-
tinues to take food about as we'll as heretofore.
and the frequency of his pulse has not increased.
He has just been spOnged OFT and seems more
comfortable.
1850 P.M.-GEN. SWANS STATEMENT OF THE
PRESIDENTS CONDITION.
Gen. Swain in an interview with a repOrter
OF the Associated Press at 1910 this morning.
said that the Presidents pulse had varied good
deal since the morning dressing. The least ex-
ertion, or any slight movement of the BODY was
enough to increaseits frequency SO that although
Its average rate might not change great deal
1t was occasionally higher for short periods.
The swollen parOtid gland" he said, ICON
tinues to discharge through the ear and through
the 1ncision made several days ago, and the
discharge seems to afford relief" The surgeons
still hope that the nourshment which the pa
tent takes will sustain his strength and keen
him on the present plane of vitality, until the
glandular abscess becomes less threatening,
when there will be, in Gen. Swaim's opinion, a
chance at least of recuperation.
ii a.m.-Dr. Bliss Says There Is No Change
Since the Morning Bulletin.
At eleven O'Clock this morning. Dr. Bliss said
to THE STAR reporter that there was ''no change
in the Presidents condition since $50 o'clock
'HOw about the wound and the gland?" asked
the reporter
"Their condition is about the same" answered
the DOCTOR
Is there any improvement in the genera,
condition of the PRESIDENT"
81 cannot say that there isl
Glow is the pulse, now?'
1.-THE pulse has gone down to ia. There ia
nothing can say other than what is contained
in the statement that there has been no
change"
11:3O A. VERY CRITICAL.
The situation of the President has not changed
much since the earlier parts of the morning, but
continue very critical. The members of the
Cabinet are all still here.
WHAT MEMBERS OF THE CABINET SAY.
Secretary Window said that it was useless to
disguise the fact that the morning bulletin was
very discOuraging. He was not ready, how
ever, himself, to cay that the case is hopeless
He intended to hope, and think, and believe to
the end, that the President will live. Post
master General James would only say, "while
there is life there is hope" Attorney General
MacVeagh declined to converse Upon the
situation, but admitted that it seemed to him
less hopeful this morning.
NOON.-vARIOUs OPINIONS AS TO THE PREsI-
DENTS CASE.
Representative Dezendorf, of Virginia, was
at the White House this morning. He went to
the telegraph office after his conversations with
the people at the House and sent two dispatches
home to the effect that while the Presidents
condition was very critical he did not believe
that there was absolutely no hope
DR.. Reyburn says that the relief to the Presi-
dent from summation Of the GLAND hoe ,o+ oo,,