The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-10-08
A MAN named Bayley, an attache Of the Army

A MAN named Bayley, an attache of the Army
Medical museum, has made sworn statemen,
to the Washington police that, while lying in
bed at his room the other night, he heard two
men, who were standing in front of the house.
plotting the assassination of President Arthur.
One asked the other if he would swear TO do II
and the other answered that he 'swould kill
him within MONTH" Mr. Bayley saws be
saw the men as they walked off, and can fully
recognize them.
PROCEEDINGS in the star route eases were
begun the other day by the filing of an infor-
nation by George D. Corkhill, United States
attorney for the District of Columbia VIM. A.
Cook, special assistant acknowledgement Col
onel George Bliss and B. H. Brewster, who
prosecute on behalf of the United States. The
information sets forth in effect that on the first
day of October, 1878, in the city of Washington,
D. c., and within the jurisdiction of the court
Thomas J. Brady second assistant postmaster
general; John L. French, chief clerk; VIM II.
Turner, clerk in contract Office, together with
Geo. L. Mcdonald, Samuel P. Brown and cer-
tain other persons, knowingly, willfully, unlaw-
fully, fraudulently and corruptly did conspire
combine and agree together to defraud the
United States out of large sums OF money in
causing and procuring unnecessary and i'm
proper and extravagant additional compensation
to be paid by the United States for additional
service in carrying the mails.
JOHN W. FOSTER, who has been in Washing.
ton direct from ST. Petersburg, rendered his
resignation of the mission to Russia
THE superintendent of the mint at Philadel-
phia has been authorized by the director of the
mint to strike memorial medals having the
heads of Presidents Lincoln and Garfield on
opposite sides. The medals are to be sold at
the following prices Large size in gold, 50,
small size in gold, $3.50; large size in silver,
sixty cents small size in silver, twenty-five
cents Small medals have also been author
lied bearing the head of the late President
Garfield on one side and wreath on the other,
and will be sold to the public at the same
prices.
HE official report of the autopsy of President
Garfield, prepared by the surgeons in charge,
has been published. The report says that
Iicle Holo uo lung dDSCeSS6S, tlat - the Qlf
ferent suppurating surfaces, and especially
the fractured spongy tissue of the vertebra,
furnish sufficient explanation o f the septic
conditions which existed during life,' and that
the immediate cause of death-the fatal
hemorrhage-" proceeded from a rent nearly
four-tenths of an inch long in the main trunk
of the splenic artery, two inches and half to
the left of the cnliac axis
The last debt statement shows the decrease
of the public debt during September to be
ST, 483, GAL sc; cash in the treasury, $780,
$685. 547.32; gold certificates s5,248, 920; silver
certificates, s64 149, 91O; certificates of deposit
outstanding, sS,315, 900; refunding certificates,
s636,950; legal tenders outstanding, s346, 6S1,-
016; fractional currency outstanding, 7,09S,-
50602
THE payments made from the treasury by
warrants during September, 1881, were as
follows:
On account of civil and miscel-