The Russellville Democrat., 1881-08-11
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 | Washington.
 l IRE Assistant Attorney General has re. signed.
 THE Yorktown centennial commission had meeting to make provision for the con- struction of wbarves at Yorktown to accom- modate vessels that will be there at the cen | tennial.
 DUBrSG the first fiscal year there were l taxed at $l.75 per thousand 567 3S6, ,9S2 | cigrettes, netting a revenue of $992 929 Dur ing the preceding fiscal year the revenue from cigarettes was S715,227.
 COMPTROLLER KNOX gives notice that de- 1 positors in the Freedman's Bank and Trust company who have not filed any claims or received any dividends must prove their claiNs and appear for dividends on or before August Fist, or they will be forever barred. EXPORTS specie exceeded the imports dur ing each fiscal year from 1862 to 1879, but during the last two fiscal years the imports exceeded the exports, such an excess amounting during the year ended June 30, 1Ss0 to S75,S ,39l, and during the year ended June 30, 1881, to $91, ,168, 650 WHITE, minister to Berlin, has rendered his resignation, to take effect August 15 at which time he will return to the United States. No appointment of successor can be made while the President remains in his present condition. II is not probable that the appointment will be made until con- gress meets.
 Miss ELLA Cook, of California, has chal- lenged Miss Lizzie Williams ot Kansas, to ride 10 mile race for 5000. The chal- lsnge has been accepted, and the race will
 he run on Wednesday, September ', on the track at the exposition grounds at St. Jo- | seph, Mo The exposition association will ada $2 900, If the race Is run in less than 29 minutes.
 TIE national hoard of health has revised the rules concerning the prevention Of the spread of small pox. As the changes must be approved by the President, the board declines to make the changes public at present. |. was ascertained, however, that the principal change is the require ment that all persons coming to the Uuited States shall be vaccinated before sailing.
 THERE can be scarcely doubt that when the receipts and expenditures &C., counts for July are adjusted it will be found that the surplus revenue was considerably below $10, ,000, GOO and that Secy Windom was compelled to draw upon this cash bal ance to make payments for bonds presented for redemption; and between now and No vember this policy will have to be pursued in larger measure, in order to redeem over | $50, 900 900 of the called bonds.
 ATTY. GEN MoVEAGH has, at the request of Postmaster-Gen. James, given an opinion as to whether, under the act of Congress of April 7 1880, the allowance for expedition in carrying the mails is limited to 50 per cent of the original contract. The Attorney General holds that the law specifically makes this limitation, and that it cannot be exceeded; that the Postmaster General cannot go beyond this limit, and expedited service must provide an increase of office and material employed to correspond with the increase of pay as compared with the official condemnation of the system followed by Brady in the star-route matters of increasing the pay of expedited routes out of all proportion to the original service contracted for and the in- crease of material and men actually era ployed to carry out the expedited service. The department will follow this opinion and stick to the 50 per cent limitation in the increase.
 UUNDER supervision of the attending sur geons, Profs. Bell and Taintor made an- other application to the President's body of the electrical apparatus known as the in- duction balance, with view to completing the tests of Saturday, which were not en- tirely conclusive and asceItaining definite ly and certainly the possible location of the ball. Profs. Bell aud Taintor have been almost constantly engaged for two weeks in experiments with the induction balance, and have made several notifications and Improvements which greatly add to it's efficiency They tried this improved appa- ratus upon the Presidents body for the first time last Saturday, and although 1t indi- cated faintly the location of the ball it was afterward found to be slightly out of ad- iustment, and the experiment was not re- garded as perfectly conclusive. The result of these tests, however, are entirely satis- tactsry both to Profs. Bell and Taintor and to the attending surgeons, and it is now unanimously agreed that the location Of the ball has been ascertained with reason able exactness and certainty, and that it les-as heretofore stated in these dispatches in the front wall of the abdomen. imme- diately over the groin, about five inches be- low and to the right of the navel. The ex- periments were repeated several times and were made by Profs. Bell and Taintor in dependently, so as to guard as far as possi- ble against errors arising from the fau ty perception of single individual or from one persons mistaken judgment IS to the comparative intensity of the sounds. In every instance, however, when the small dishes attached to the machine were placed | in such position on the patients body as to indicate the location of the black and blue spot which appeared on the lower right side l Ot the hDdOfIlcn soou dlteT llt IISniueul
 was shot, the listener at the microphone said that he heard the evidences of disttr- l bance Tt made no difference whether the experimenter could see the disks or not,
 whenever they were placed in that par ticuar position he became instantly aware
 the fact and announced it. The experi- ments were varied and continued until all
 were convinced that the bullet had been found, or at least located on straight | line running through the body from the | front to the back, just above the groin on
 the right sinc;. It was not possible to as- certain with any degree of certainty the depth at which the wall was imbedded on | this imaginary line, but as the front wall Of the abdomen at this point is about two and a half inches in thickness, the ball must lie
 within that distance of the surface. These
 results fully confirm the original diagnosis
 of the case made by the attending surgeons soon after the President received his injury, | and that fact is as gratifying to them AS the l complete success of the induction balance l is to Profs Bell and Taintor. This is the 1 first instance in which an imbedded bullet l has been accurately and definitely located
 without probing by purely seientihc meth 1 ods. There is no intention on the part of
 the surgeons to perform an operation for the removal of the ball at present: So long
 as it gives no trouble it will be allowed to
 remain in it's present place. The question
 of the disposition to be finally made of 1t
 will be finally considered when the Presl-
 dent shall have recovered his strength, East,