Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1881 — THE PRESIDENT. [ARTICLE]

THE PRESIDENT.

Washixotox, July 28. There was a very decided imjirovement in the President’s condition yesterday, and he seems to have already recovered the ground lost by the relapse which set in Saturday. He took an increased quantity or nourishment and relished it. He expressed himself repeatedly daring the day as feeling much bettar. There was an entire absence of febrile feeling yesterday afternoon, which the physicians Regard as a most-hopeful sign. For the first time in three weeks the patient’s temperature at the evening examination was normal. There was a full, free discharge of healthy pus during the day... Tjie patient has obtained more sleep than usual, ana has been greatly refreshed thereby. The physicians express tho belief that the improvement of yesterday was a permanent gain, and that the patient is on the way to complete recovery. The examinations of the President’s wound which have 1 ' been made within the last four days have led to a different conclusion as to the course and Ideation of the ball from that which was at first entertained. It is now pretty certain that it did not penetrate the liver, and that, if it touched it, it grazed it in its downward coarse ; that it is not located in the anterior wall of the abdomen, and did not traverse the abdominal cavity, but went downward after being interrupted by the rib, and is now located in what the doctors describe as the right iliac fossa. This is the cavity between the front of the hip-bone and the ribs which contains the small intestines. No effort will he made to extract tho ball at present unless'it is found to be troublesome. A morning newspaper publishes an interview With Gen. Crocker, Warden of the jail, about Guiteau. Crocker said, speaking of Guiteau : “There has been no event in his life during the past week that has been worthy of mention. He eats, sleeps and wakea up like any other prisoner. No one has come to see him from the day he was brought here. No one has manifested any friendly interest in him. He does not seem to have any friends. Guiteau is as quiet as any other prisoner. He seems to have mado up hu mind to patiently'await the result. He has not asked for a lawyer. He has not asked to see any one. I asked him if he wanted a . lawyer. He said no, not at present. He claims to he a lawyer himself. He knows enough npt to talk. is sane enough not to talk. He'reads mostly the Bible and serious works. There is nothing peculiar about him. I take no stock m his insanity. Thero has been nothing in his actions here to indicate it any more than in the condition of other criminals. I don’t think he is a man of strong moral convictions.” Washington, July 29. The condition of the President continues favorable and encouraging. It is believed by one of the physicians that the patient will be able to leave his bed in ten days. While this appears a rather too sanguine statement, the medical staff believe that tho wound is healing, and that, unless Home unforeseen change should occur, his re* eovery now is merely a matter of time. Last evening there was a slight rise in the pulse and in the temperature, caused by a stoppage of the drainage-tubes, which prevented the regular flow of the pus. When the tubes were cleaned the flow rebutned and the fever sub-ided. The , patient rested quietly during the night, and this morning is doiDg nicely. In the belief that the carpets in the sick-room secreted too much dust and absorbed impurities from, the atmosphere, they were yesterday taken from the floor, after the President had been removed to another chamber, overlooking Lafayetlo Park. Washington, July 30. Yesterday was substantially a repetition of the day before in the President’s case, except that the fever came on later in tho evening, and was not so marked. The temperature through the day was normal, and the pulse ranged from 92 to 98. .The patient said that fie felt decidedly better, and expressed a desire for more solid food. He also said that ho felt stronger, and asked to Ini propped up in bed fer a while. This request was granted by the surgeons, and for half an hour or so the President, supported by pillows, sat lip nearly erect in bed. This change of position gave him considerable relief, and, upon lying down again, he fell asleep. All his surgeons speak most hopefully of him. None of them really fear an abscess, though they are prepared forit should one form. Dr. Bliss said that the wound is healing slowly, but fast enough, and the surgeons do not now fear an abscess. The fever declines so quickly every evening that the doctors now attribute much of the rise in temperature to the dressing of the wound. That is necessarily painful, and the President seems to dread it more in the evening.