Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-27

fronting on Market street SO feet by depth of
ITO feet divided as follows: Three lots of 20 and
one of % feet by depth of 20 feet front on
Market street, and one 4OxS3. fronting on 4th
street. Brick house No. 1926. on lot 20x11O feet.
was sold to E. T. Offutt for 500 Brick house
No. 152o, on lot 23x1l0 feet to Jas. Heenan for
$500. Lot 40x70 feet, uf{lnproved. at $40 per
foot and frame house on a lot 30x4O, for $500, to
Jas. Heenan.
GONE TO BALTMORE.-Mr. H. NJ Talbot n
weli-knoWn business man of this place. who has
engaged in the commission business here for a
number OF years past, has removed to Balti-
more to prosecute the same business in that
place.
BUILDING AsseCIATION.-Atth the 95th regular
monthly meeting of the 9th building association,
held last night at GOddard's hall. the proceeds,
500. were absorbed by last months retirements
of stock.
The Coal TRApE.-Twenty-nin boats left
Cumberland Monday with 3,34S.09 tons of coal
as follows. for Georgetown: Consolidation Co,
l,2Sio2 tons; New Central Co.. 795 IS tons:
Borden Co., 46S. l6 tons; Blaen Avon CO.. 225. II
tons; Georges Creek Co.. 11a.02 tons; Individual.
LILO. TONS. For Alexandria, American Co.,
The ATTENTION Of country dealers is called to
a copartnershlp notice of David Dreyfuss and
jacob hamsburg's Sons. They advertise for
sunac.
The Nelaton Probe.
Dr. Bliss says that soon after President Gar
heid was shot he explored the wound to a depth
OF three and half inches with ''Neaton
pTope, which showed no traces of contact with
lead. This probe is well known among surgeons,
and is kept for sale by every dealer in surgical
instruments; but great curiosity has been ex-
pressed by people not connected with the pro-
fesson as to how it indicates contact with lead
as DISTINGUISHED from contact with bone or
other hard substance. The simple explanation
is That the minute, pear-shaped bulb of the un-
glazed. white porcelain. about the size of the
smallest pea, which is attached to the tip of the
problng needle, is discolOred by the metal it
touched, whose particles can be identified. if
necessary, by the magnifying glass or by chem
This little instrument has curious history, as
was related by DR.. j. N. Hyde, of this city, in
paper read before literary society some months
ago. Gen. Garibaldi was wounded in the battle
at AspromOnte, in 1862. by ball which pene-
trated his boot and stocking and lodged in his
loot; After two months of suffering at-Spezza
MS Italian physicians, Rpari and Albanesse, de-
elared that there was no ball in the foot Cy-
prlani supposed, merely that the reverse might
be true. Then they summoned the foreigners.
The Russian. Pirigoff, said, 'No ball." Par
fridge. the Englishman. who insisted on receiv-
consent to leave England, said "There is no
ball in the foot" On the 2Sth Of October. fifty
nine days after the infection of the wound, Mel
aton who had been summoned from Paris ar
rived at SpeZzia. There was consultation with
tO( nations in the front parlor anxious to hear
the result. and seventeen surgeons in the upper
front bedroom. only one of whom was capable
OF carrying off the honors.
by the aid of stylet," wrote NelatOn. 81 eX-
plored the wound and at the depth of two and
a half centimeters | encountered dense resist
ing mass, giving dull percussion sound very
dlf1erent from that resulting from impact upon
lndurated TISSUE or the rOughened surface of
spongy bone. Incining the stylet passed be-
yond the obstacle. and at the depth of five or
six centimeters felt the resistance of bone"
The obstacle was the ball. In order to prove it
he fastened bit of Sevres porcelain to the ex-
tremlty OF probe, which Garibaldi himself in
troduced into the wound. There it was firmly
pressed against the ball and withdrawn, when
the extremity of the porcelain. no longer white,
was found to be covered with delicate black
layer OF metallic aspect. which was subjected to
analysis and found to be lead.
For fully five years after the lucky probing at
SpeZZia there was scarcely photographer in
France who could not supply purchasers with
the famous picture. representing the surgeon
standing by the side of the wounded general
VINO reciined on cOtWith his foot swung above
IN portable frame. and the words underneath:
DIR. Nelaton Declares that Amputation will not
be Necessary. Chicago Inter, ocean.
President Garfield.
OF DR.. FRANK H. HAMUTON-NA-
TURE OF THE RECENT TROUBLE-PROBARI
POSITION OF THE BULLET-GENERAL WARMERS
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. RECOVERY FROM A
WOUND.
The New York Post of last evening has the
DR.. Frank II. Hamilton arrived in this CITY
from Washington. where he was summoned for
consultation in regard to President Garfield at
half-past six O'Clock this morning. reporter
OF the EceniaJ Post found him at his house,
when the following conversation took place
lion cir Il i
How was it." asked the reporter. ''that the
deposit OF pus, which has caused all this recent
trouble in the Presidents case, was not discov-
cred sOOner?"
1T was discovered. - answered the DOCTOR ''by
the gentlemen in attendance. and that was the
reason that they sent for DR.. Agnew and me-
They would have opened the abscess themselves
had they not thought the duty a very RESPONSE
BILE one, and that it would require but few
hours for us to reach there. / got to Washing
ton in four hours and forty-twO minutes. and
when | arrived we did not think it advisable to
open it until morning.
"How does this complication affect the Pres-
dents chances of recOvery?'
Not very materially. OF course it produces
an impression upon the system, but other SINH
lar distractions and complications NAV ensue
and still not cause serious ALARM
lit has been suggested doctor, that a series of
these assesses or lateral pus pouches might be
apprehended all along the tract of the wound.
Is that to be fearcd?"
''They are not likely to occur because this one
has occurred, and the chances are more than
equal that similar pouches will not be formed at
all. This one had special cause.-the irregular
projection of the fractured rib
HAS anything further been discovered as to
the course of the ball and its present position?"
continued the reporter.
EYES, think that there has, The presump-
ton seems to be from certain indications that
the ball lies in the right lilac fossa
" Did it enter the peritoneum ?''
9 1t is doubtful whether it did,"
I" Did it enter the liver?''
I" do not think it did. although the evidence
at first as presented to the gentlemen in attend
ance was very conclusive that it had entered the
liver. and they are very accurate, experienced
and observing men. DR.. Wales, surgeon general
Of the navy, most trustworthy man. explored
the wound with his finger very soon after the
injury was inflicted, and felt confident that it
had penetrated the liver
The suppuration will now be watched with
great care, and every eXpedient, mechanical and
otherwise, will be adopted to convey the disin-
fecting fluid to the bottom of the sac and wound.
and thus render innocuous the pus which NAV
fOrm.' There are also some pieces of bone to
come out but no serious results are appre-
hended from the operation.
The right lilac fossa, mentioned by DR.. Hamil-
ton, is the cavity between the front of the hip