The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-09-22

public anxiety and quickened anew the boods
in sympathetic veins The last words of theI
doctors last night prepared the mind some-s
what for the occurrences of to-day. Yet thet
shock caused by the intelligence of a recur-s
renee Of the terrible rigors this morning wast
fully as great as that which accompanied theI
reports of yesterday The doctors had said thatI
unless they could control the chills and prevent
a recurrence thereof the case was hopeless fort
the President in his present conf
dition can no longer bear up under the ire
mendous pressure of these combined forces.
The bulletin of this morning, which AM
nounced that another rigor was taking place.
in the same terms conveyed the idea that the!
President was in immediate danger OF dissolu
tion. From that hour the day had been oneI
of suspense and great anxiety, OF excitement!
and alarm. Happily many of these alarms!
were false. The truth was bad enough in all
conscience The solemn truth was that theI
President has been in state OF exhaustion or|
half-stupor most of the time succeeding the|
rigor of the morning. He was able to take al
little liquid nourishment as usual, but this
question of nourishment at this stage is con
|sidered quite immaterial. He slept little|
during the forenoon, according to DR.. Bliss
|but it was the weary, titful, nervous sleep OIL
the man who is on the verge OF terrible crisis
|Durl0p pne IOTcuOOu III. DllSS CttluC over
1.-THE Elberon, and there, surrounded by crowd
|of anxious and eager reporters, detailed bis
Views of the present state of the case. There
Twas steady fire Of questions for about five
minutes, and the doctors frankness in answer
ling was conspicuously noted. This was about
Ill O'clock, and some time after the occurrence
|of the rigOr. The President had been resting
Quietly, he said, but the case was unmistak
IDLY critical and must come 20 q focus wlthin
forty eight hours.
DR.. BLISS LOSES HOPE.
DR.. Bliss spoke very gloomiy of the situa
|tion, a fact which was remarked by every body
present. He has almost given up he says, but
there is still hope, and to that hope they all
lcling with the tenacity with which men cling
Ito life. The doctor to-day admitted for the
first time that the suspicious of DIR. BoyntoD
las to small assesses ON the lungs which DIR
|Boynton calls secondary assesses, were prob
|ably well founded. Last night Doctor Boyn
ton said that what had before been merely 81
sort of congestion or collection of minute
|abscesses were now consolidated, forming ~
decided abscess, and to this abscess, with it'll
lsac of poisoned matter, was due the successive
lrigors which are now bearing the patient dowr
into the valley and shadow of death. 1t i'll
Ieyident that it can make very little difference
now whether the chills are from general blood
poisoning or whether they come directly from
the abscess denoted by DR.. Boyton, for the eff
/ fleet is the same In the present condition of
! the President Dr. Bliss is of the opinion that
Surgical operation necessary to relieve such an
1abscess would certainly produce death. on
; the other hand, unless such relief is given tho
3rigors must continue twice day until life is
/ wiped out.
4 1t is by no means certain that even sue
icayity on the lungs would not have to be fol-
alowed by another and still another operation
as these formations occurred at different points
! AS long as the ood-poisoning exists nothing
1could be done to prevent the formation OF
/ these assesses, and should they be driven
3from the lungs the probabilities are that they
! Twill form somewhere else. 1t is with this ter
! rible alternative before him that even Dr.
4Bliss falters and looks upon the situation with
|1despair.
4 THE PRESIDENT STILL CONFIDENT.
With singular confidence in the great future
j. Mrs. Garfield still clings to the idea that hel
J husband is yet bound to get WELL and with
ljstill more singular persistence President Gar
9field himself believes that he is to survive
Everything.
"How am l looking, doctor?" said he this
morning, after he had revived somewhat from
dthe chill. The doctor assured him that ht
Hooked quite as well as could be expected I'M
Hier the circumstances. whereunon he asked
Hthe attendant for band-glass. The class was
dbrought and he looked into it silently for quite
h minute. Rolling his eyes sadly towards the
ddoctor, for he cannot turn his head he said:
"How strange it is that when / look nc
4worse and feel no worse that I am so terribly
#weak."
4 The words went to the hearts of all who
awere present, and some of the attendants
8turned away to hide the gathering tears
H'How strange it is" they might have answered
a.that this man, with his iron will alone to aid
Hhim, is able to so manfully bear up under q
denomination of ills which it would seem i'm
8poseible for human nature to withstand"
Il With all the suspense of the day there was
livery little reliable news to be gathered since
amorhlng. Inc scenes ABOUT inc Eloeron
EiMefe' however, no !ess Interesting anu excl
8ns. FROM t"enty W thirty reporters paced
up "iu ou wv . .nI oiahu" oa eno no.el' sur
rouhoeu the taoe ~ .he once where tney
1wroSe up INC IcPoI's p'ee.,neai: SAT III chalIs
Hor leaneu against lne pillars LOOKING oyer
Rlo"aTuS Ihe , = ianohyn oot.aGe. NO news i
jSoou news nas oe1n T Tiaie, pul .Iils mas no,
ooelt ru I;, az -. iiiue'ia'o nov oG
e1news slll's ouI uhin.gnlionuly IL Is Telateo
lol tne recurrence Ou tne c',ls last night tha'
le repol!ei Vi slle olicaGo t1n19ss at III cottage
EIno. waiting ior wnat ne couiu gamer "nen
kibiack Dah' one Oh Tie nousehoia Servants
eicane ln.o .he room. Inc reporter sald
well Ian. no" many Y, chllis mas Tie fresl'
fldenG mao Inls evening
NJ Unly ohgs sir, relnlee tne man.
lhis lnieiiigehce WAS received WIN some
ny lnI iepui 'Si ahe o.hcIs WIZ
Fine and talred with Tho nhvScanS and n no
Iina had been said abont the chill Thew war,
H,hont to 90 away and notb;nn would how.
Hboo,' cold ebort Tie chill If # hed NOT haon 20,
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MoLLIE GARFIELD FAINTs AT THE NEWS.
\ While news is scarce to-day since morning
Blthe suspense Is none the less terrible. DR.. Ag
E3new said this afternoon that the case was
Hhopeless, at least he had no hope. This was
hin some way communicated to Mollie Garfield
|and she went into the sick-room by permiss
t|sion 10 embrace her dying father. AS she at
hi''ou W iSaNe 'ne foo,h she leli III IL deao
and oauSna nraat so uaat oPon H .n
Bbonsehold Dr sna,u as.andaJ ba apo ouS . aS
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