The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-07-13


purchase it, promising the Pres
ident of the bank as an inducement
that he would secure his election as
Governor of Illinois. The project
was not entertained In numerous
places Charles Julius has lectured
to very small audiences, advertising
himself as Charles ]. Guiteau, the
celebrated Chicago lawyer Of emf
hence and ability, ETC., and skipping
out without paying his hotel and
other bills. The brother above
quoted says that he never knew
that Charles was a drinker or given
to any ruinous species of dissipation;
that he has seen little of him for
twenty years, but has often heard
from, or, rather, of him; that he
has long considered him crazy
and expected sooner or later, if he
lived, that he would bring up in
lunatic asylum or meet worse fate.
WHAT IS MOST TO BE FEARED.
WASHINGTON, July 7.-2.30 P.
M.-The condition of the President
has remained substantially unchang-
ed since the date of the last official
bulletin. The slight increase in
pulse and temperature since morn
ing is said by the attending physi-
clans to be only the natural fluctua-
ton of the fever from morning un-
til noon. The President has eaten
chicken broth to-day and expressed
strong desire about noon for toast
and oat meal, with milk. The lat
ter was given to him, as probably
the least Objectionable kind of the
solid food which he seemed to crave.
In a conversation this afternoon
with DIR. Boynt0n, the Presidents
family physician, DR.. Bliss expressed
the opinion that the Presidents
chance of recovery was now cOnsid
eaably more than even. The dan
ger of peritonitis he said, was rapid
" passing away, and, although it
might still occur, its occurrence had
become improbable. The onlv acct
dents now to be appFehended, he
said, and the only ones likely to
terminate fatally were secondary
hemorrhage and pyaemia or blood
poisoning. Secondary hemOrrhage
might occur at any time up to the
seventh day, but on account of the
course which the ball took and the
place where it is supposed to lie, the
danger of secondary hemorrhage
was not, in DIR. Bliss opinion, a
serious one. Pyaemia or blood
poisoning was the accident most to
be feared, and of that there was not
yet, he said, the slightest indication.
An abscess also might form at any
point along the course of the ball
or at the extremity of the wound,
but with this, he SAID, they could
deal successfully. He expressed
great reliance upon the Presidents
vigorous constitution, strong vitality
and calm courage, He was, the
doctor said, the very best patient he
had seen in the course of his surgi-
cal practice.
With regard to the supposed
course of the ball and is present
location, DIR. Bliss said that while
they had not thought it prudent to
probe deeply in search of it, either
Immediately after the inficton of
the injury or since that time. He
did, on Saturday, introduce a nellie
ton probe into the wound very gent
ly and traced the course of the ball
about three and a-haf inches. So
far as he could judge it had entered
the back above the right hip and
taken a nearly horizontal course
forward through the body, striking
and slightly fracturing rib, and
being thence detected a little to the
right, where it penetrated the liver
Whether the ball remained in that
organ or passed through it and
lodged in the anterior wall of the
abdomen he was unable to say, but
he hoped that the latter would prove
to be the case. He said he regarded
the wound as, in a surgical sense, a
very fortunate one, since the slight
DETECTION of the ball to the right
had carried it away from the re-
gion where it would have been
likely to prove fatal in few hours,
and into region where it left a
chance of recovery. Speaking of
the pain in the Presidents feet DR..
Bliss said that it was probably due
to the laceratiOn of one the sym
pathetic ganglia. The motor and
sensory nerves Of the leg had not,
he said, been injured. In conclusion
DIP. Bliss expressed the opinion that
while the President was still in
serious danger every day was carry
ing him past the critical points
one after another, and he had a
strong hope that he would recover,
NO CONSPIRACY.
Mr.. Brooks, the chief of the de-
tecive force of the Treasury Depart
ment, said to-day that he was thor
oughly satisfied, after the most
searching examination and investi-
CATION of all the details connected
with the affair, that there was no
conspiracy to assassinate the Presi-
dent, and that no one watever beside
Guiteau was concerned in it. This
has really been the belief of most
intelligent people from the beginning,
but the detectives, perhaps naturally
enough, want to work out their own
theories before they would be salts
fed.
NOTES AND INCIDENTS.
The first ball fired by Guiteau did
not strike the President at all, as
was first supposed, but merely
grazed his coat sleeve. The most
diligent search in every nook and
corner of the room at the depot has
failed to discover 1t, and the mystery
is what has become of it. 1t is
thought that perhaps some relic
hunter has picked it up and in
tends to hold on to it.
A GENERAL THANKSGIVING SUG
GESTED.