The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-05
NATIONAL CALAMITY,
TIE PRESIDENTS SERIOUS CONDITION
The Assassin's Father Writes . etter
sympathy Fer the Presi ideHt
Throughout Europe, Canada
and Ameriea-Mrs. Garfield is
Hopeful and thesrful-
Surgeons from New
York and philadeI-
phia Visit The
President, Etc.

FIRST DISPATCH.
Special to the Herald.
Washington, Jaly "a p. m.-This is indeed
a sad Fourth of July for the whole nation, but
probably the force of the cal nifty which has
heavily here where the presence of the i'm
pending death casts It's awful gioom over
everytni &. say impending death, for IL is
evident that there Is out little hope for the
presidents ecoyery. There IL Thought to be-
hope, but that Is about all that can be said.
The bulletin issuei by the att ending physi-
clans at l2 80 indicated but little char In the
presidents condition fGom previous reports.
lie comp aimed less of pains In his feet; the:o
was S light vomiting; his pulse was no. tenn
peraiute 100, respiration n. 1t was then un-
nounced tnat no more tlicial bulletins would
be given to the public until 6 p III. The woret
phase vi these bulletins Is that there is no i'm
provement- The best that can be said 10 that
ttee Ia no change Tor the worse
PfiVate information from the white house
little before noon showed n far less enc, ur-
..ging condition of AFFAIRS. Attor, ey General
McNeagh is au,h ,horiiy Tor the report that the
chances for orrecJvery are becoming less favor
able
Mrs. Garfield SAYS, 'the case is very bad -
ms last is inpCftaht from the fact tnat she
mas tteadly maintained that her husband
would recover. From the bedside OF the sui.
ierer come 1t lies OF mis- wonderful Courage
IL 10 evident that though hts run ii1es
NV Eiuat ilc ius utltTnlneu not
TO surrender. IL Is said that the
supreme moment Is last approaching and
news ofa decisive character, go u or bad ia
anAlously awaited, and tuere IN Ii general leei-
ins that IL must come soon. Among the dis
courasiLg circumstances Is the remark abl,
guarded tone OF tho dispatches seLt out by
cretary Blaine. He sps ks of the presi-
ueuts conultion q encouraging, but qu al liie-
the atement with he woids, "At least
hopeful -
IN relation to the presidents wound II is
said thorough ex mination shows that the
Dali struck the presIdenO on the siue of the
spine f,rlhest from the ASSASSIN, aud hence
tooK direc.ion slanting outward The force
OF the ball, II is thought, WAS
somewhat retarded Dy striki x wO lbs, which
Were splinJ.red. The bal Q tered the lower
lobe OF the liv, T, and Is lOdg d in a very slug
sish gland. Surgeon General Barnes recall il
10 nina nua ber of remarkable recoyeries s
frnni WOUNDS Though the liver, and saws the
president may be o. @ of the few men who
nave survived bullet through this organ,
Inc latest authentic and direcs statement
rom he attending physicians was from Sur
geon General Barnes last night. HIS words
were, \" can not Soy we are sanguine of re-
covery, yet we are justified in h ppipg for IL ),
SO, careful survey of the field whereon the
nineteenth president of ths United States on
contending with the king of terrors, shows a
giimmer and only glimmer OF hope that ouly
serves TO Intensity the darkness OF the cloud o.,
| despair that hovers over all. This is the ii H.
alton as viewed by your CORE spondeut Al ter
sitting the thousands Of rumurs In circulation
aud the teoor of the public bulletins and pri.
| Vate reports from the bedside