Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-21
THE PRESIDENT ATTACK ED BY CHILLS
The Physicians and Others MOmenIari!y
AIarmed-KoepiDg tho illness
Close secret.

Tho Physictans and Others MOIneRJ8r1!J
Alsrmed-KcopiDg tho Illness
Close secret.
The president was taken with chill
Thursday night on board the TallapoOsa
off Savannah. He has kept his bed all day.
Plans for going home have been so much
upset that it is now doubtful if he will
venture on sea trip. He returned to the
TallapOosa to sleep at II o'clock Friday
night after day in town and an evening
at Captain Botts', on Monterey square,
where he dined. The night air was cool,
and going from a warm room to the ship,
where he had arranged to sleep, he wat
chilled. The chill not leaving him upon
reaching his quarters, he sent for MIR.
Black, the ships surgeon. Restoratives
failed iu their effect and the president
took to his bed with q perceptible rigor.
The surgeon then drugged him with NOR.
phine. He lay in a stupor until O'Clock.
The rigor had not abated and the temper
ature of the body was falling.
Word was conveyed to the commanding
Office that congestion was threatened and
it was agreed that medical aid should be
summoned from Washington if the symp-
toms continued unfavorab!e through the
night. About o'clock the body was
cooler and the chill more pronounced.
More morphine was injected and the
stupor deepened. Indications of improve
ment appeared between three and four
o'clock and from then until nine o'clock
this morning, when weak coffee was
ordered, in the hopes of stimulating the
stomach and eliminating in part the effects
of the drug. Two spoonfulls were swal-
lowed but at once rejected. The president
lay with closed eyes for another hour,
when he took and retained two spoonfulls
of ginger ale. He complained of drcwsy-
ness and a buzzing head, which he seemed
to think little exercise might work off,
but he was weak and the surgeon caution
ed him not to think of leaving his room
and to keep his mind free from worri-
ment for the rest of tho day. He dozed
at intervals, tho part of the ship in which
he lay being shut off from crew and visit
ors alike. At noon he was better and was
slowly mcndiug throughout the after
noon.
The commanding officer and tho sur.
geon were the only persons attached tc
The ship who knew up to noon that the
president had been sick, and suspicion
outside was warded off by tho appearance
of Secretary Chandler, Mr.. Phillips aud
MIR. Miller riding for pleasure on the river
!! and driving and walking around town all
the morning. The carriages of friends,
moreover, who had been invited to meet
the president at Captain Bolts and lunch
there, drove to the residence in Monterey
square, some of them remaining an hour
or so while people within awaited the pres
dent. They went away disappointed, but
ignorant of the cause of his appearance
Reticence and evasion were kept up dur
ing the afternoon aboard the ship and in
in town beyond a casual announcement
in any evening paper that the president
was indisposed and would rest aboard to-
day in order to transact some importan.
business of state. There was not at sun.
set a shadow of a rumor of the truth. The
special car that took the president to
Jacksonville is at the station. Secre
tary Chandler says that should tho presi-
dent be well enough he will start to-
morrow for Washington by rail, going
directly through, according to the after.
noon's plans. In that case he will reach
Washington on Sunday night.
The president came out on deck last
night, feeling much better, he said, with
out apprehension of further trouble. He
will decide this morning by what route he
will return home.