The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-05-12

longing to the StaIwart wing OF the party
is the only subject of public interest to-
night, everybody talking or speculating
about it. A Western Associated Press
reporter in seeking reliable information,
saw representative men OF both sides.
The President is firm and determined.
He has been urged by close friends for
some time to take aggressive measures,
but he hesitated, hoping that some way
OF maintaining harmony in the party
consistent with his honor and dignity
might be found. He could not surren-
der any particle of his executive peroga-
tive, so he has held, by Withdrawing
Robertson consenting to any compro-
mise. He expressed himself on all occa-
sions as anxions to do full justice to both
wings of the New York Republicans.
When Conkling carried through the Re-
publican caucus his policy which was di-
rectly antagonistic to that of the admin
istration with regard to Robertson, the
President felt impelled to take some ac-
tion.
Vice President Arthur and Senator
| Platt we're st the White House this NOR
ming by the Presidents request, and he
talked frankly to them. When the Pres
ident learned positively that nothing
short of permitting Robertson's nomina-
ton to be enacted upon would satisfy
Conkling, he informed Arthur what he
! intended to DO. When the message was
opened in the Senate Arthur was in the
Vice Presidents room i'll The rear cham
bar A Senator went in and told him of
the message. Arthur replied that he had
been expecting that message.
NEwBURG, N. Y, May 4.-Dr. John
Deyo, of this city, has case of skin
grating. The patient is little girl IL
years old, living in Mill street, who was
terribly scalded six weeks ago. She and
an older sister were taking boiler of hot
water off stove, when it fell, the girl
being thrown forward so that her arms
were immersed in the water. The whole
of the right arm was stripped of skin
from the shoulder to the tips of the fin
gers, so that muscles were left bare, and
the left arm was badly injured below the
elbow. The unfortunate child has huf-
fered terribly. The slightest movement
of the right arm would cause the blood
to flow from a myriad of places, but
careful nursing had much improved its
condition. The approach Of hot weather
caused the doctor TO fear that her suffer-
ings might be aggravated and the child
exhausted, so he resolved to hasten the
bealing of the arm by the process of skin
} grating. New skin had already formed
, over the hand and about the shoulders,
eng h thsre Ag WaS Sufs strip ne eSSend5rrf i5r feIPsad
ed two medical students and five or six
other young men to volunteer their aid
and the party went to the child's house
on Sunday. The little girls arm had
been brought into the best possible con-
dition for the operation. The young
men barred their arms, the doctor cutting
from eighth to fifteen or twenty small
bits of skin from each OF the young men
and transferring them to the arm Of the
girl, where he placed them at different
points on the bare, quivering flesh, in
hope that good proportion of them at
least would adhere and grow. Probably
| fifty or sixty gratis were made, and these
will be followed by new batch in few
days. So far the grating has been done
under favorable circum stances, and while
1t is jet too soon to predict the result,
| there is much hope that the operation
viii provo a success.