Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-09
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DOMESTIC NEWS.
The President.

The President.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, August
Sth-S:30 A. M.-The President passed a com
Portable night, and slept well without an ano-
dyne. The rise OF temperature yesterday aft
ernoon subsidized during the evening, and did
not recur at any time through the night. At
present he appears better than yesterday
morning. Pulse 80, temperature 9S. Al, res
piration IS. Signed by Hamilton, Agnew.
Bliss, Barnes. Woodward and Reyburn.
SECOND DIspATcH.l
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, An.
gust Sth-10;30 A. Mt having become
necessary to make further opening to facih-
tate the escape of pus, we took advantage of
the improved condition of the President this
morning. Shortly after the morning bulletin
was issued he was etherized, the incision ex-
tended downward, and counter opening
made into the track of the ball below the
margin of the twelfth rib, which it is believed
will effect the desired object. He bore the
operation well, has now recovered from the
effects of the etherization, and is in an excel.
lent condition. Signed by Bliss, Barnes,
Woodward, Reyburn, Hamilton and Agnew.
THIRD DIsPATCH.l
WASHINGTON, August Sth.-During the
past three days the President has periodically
experienced rise of temperature, indicating
another obstruction to the flow of pus. A
surgical operation was performed at 8 this
morning by DIR. Agnew, assisted by all the
surgeons in attendance, by which free COM
munication between the pus cavities and the
surface of the body has been established
The operation was performed under the in
ffuence of ether. The President endured it
well, and ct this hour (f0:30 A. NJ. J is doing as
well as could be hoped. Signed by Blaine,
Secretary.
WASHINGTON, August Sth. -Notwithstand-
ing the assurances of all the surgeons that
the President is improving, and that there is
no cause for apprehension, there is feeling
of uneasiness in the public mind over the
continued stubbornness of the fever.
FIFTH DISPATCH
WASHINGTON, August Ssh.-There is
tendency in certain quarters, and it is much
to be regretted, to exaggerate every upward
movement of the Presidents pulse and tenn.
perature, however slight, into dangerous
symptoms, and people feel alarmed upon
hearing OF the rumors, which have little or no
foundation in fact, and all this with a readi-
ness that does more credit to their hearts
than their wisdom. From the beginning of
the Presidents illness physicians have said
that variations in the fever symptoms were
to be expected, and that an unbroken down
ward tendency Of these would be an un-
precedented record that such cases should
cause no serious alarm. It certainly gives
rise to apprehen in the minds of the
physicians.
Postal Changes for the Pacific Coost.
WASHINGTON, August Stb-Foliowing are
the Pacific coast postal changes fer the week
Office, established Sutter coun-
ty, Cal, Thomas NJ. Bruce, Postmaster
Hsrdman, Umatilla county. Or, David N.
Hardman. Postmaster Damon, Chehalis
county, w. T., Albert O. Davis, Postmaster.
Offices discontinued-B Tuolumne coun-
.mador county, CAL; Walker, Sacramento
county, CAL; Monitor, Marion county, Or.
Postmasters appointed-David M. Churchill,
Churchill, Tulare county, CAL; Carl Winkel-
man, Greenwood, Ell Dorado county, CAL;
VIM. Gwin, Jr., Gwin Mine, Calaveras coun-
ty, Cal.; john Schnell, Saucelito, Marin
county, CAL; Albert A. Smith, Susanville,
Lassen county, CAL; Eugene d. Hapgood,
Timbuctoo, Tulare county. CAL; G. B. Van
Roper. BONANZA, Lake county, Or; Milton
E. Anderson, Enchanted Prairie, Coos coun-
ty, Or; I. J. Cartwright. Fossil. Wasco
county. Or; Charles E. Dietz, Freedom,
Coos county, Or; Andrew S. Moon. Sans
Valley. Jackson county, Or; Charles Fl. Ba-
con, Seaside Home, Clatsop county, Or; J.
w. Stewart, Springfield, Lane county, Or:
a. Z. Hamilton, Suver, Polk county, Or.
A Desperate Tracked 10 His Lair
ST. LOUIS, August Sth.-The Repu5lican's
ST. Joseph special states that Poke Wells, the
notorious desperate, is in the swamps with
twenty men, and will be attacked by the
Sheriff and q posse. He was connected with
the bank robbery in Riverton, Iowa, and is
to have been in the Winston train
robbery.
National swiss Festival.
NEWARK IN. j. j, August Sth.-Over SO, 900
persons were at the opening yesterday of the
National Swiss Festival. Delegates are
present from almost every city in the United
States.
The South Carolina Lightning Disaster.
CHARLESTON, August Sth.-The details of
the lightning disaster in Darlington county
show that twenty whites were working on the
highway and rested under an oak. Clouds
We're visible at distance, but the sun was
bright and hot, and there were no indications
Of electricity. Soon terrific crash startled
one who was little way off, and he beheld
his companions dead, wounded or paralyzed
and in the throes of DEATH -Four were killed
outright, and some of the others were prob
ably fatally wounded Rain fell an hour
later.
Death.
PHILADELPHIA, August Sth-General Rob-
ert Patterson died to-day, aged 70 years, of
Bright's disease.
New York Mortality Report.
NEW York, August Stb.-The Tribune
says: Certificates Of death sent to the Bu-
reau of Statistics yesterday showed that 14S
persons died in this city Saturday afternoon
and yesterday morning. In about 60 cases
death was either caused or hastened by the
heat. Abont dozen children died from
diphtheria and scarlet fever Saturday. DIR.
Hewster, who received the certificates of
death, said the mortality from these conta-
gious diseases appeared to be as great in such
hot weather as in the coldest days of winter
Death in Church.
New YORK, August Sth.-After service in
the Fourteenth-street Presbyterian Church
yesterday, search for the cause of certain
noisome, gaseous smell in the lecture.room
discovered the janitor, J. B. Osborn, who
had been missing since Wednesday, dead and
nearly nude in the basement,