Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-08-18
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SpectdI Correspondence Q5 Tie dlesH. Gazette
WAbEINGTcN. D. G.. Aug. Is, 1881,


WARRINGTON. D, G.. Aug. IS, 1881.
The Presidents condition, recording to bis
physicians, Is considerably improved to dsy.
Dr. AgneS has gone 10 his home with the in.
tentlon Of not returning for two or tbrse days.
lie told Mrs. Garfield AMI Private Secretary
Brown teorc he left that they need anticipate
90 trouble, IS tho President was doing ss well
as Was expected III, feeling at the White
House, in ooosequatcs of what The Presidents
physicians say, is more buoyaut b 40 it has been
to: several days past. Abou. al ounce Of LIQUID
nourlSbmeot was administered TO the President
to day by the natural chaDnel and was retained,
out oysters continue 10 be the msi1 SOURCE
from which he receives Tho pourishnent that
sustslos him. The midday bulletin gives his
pulse as los, his temperature as 9S and bis
restoration % s. Bat it ssys that ''inoipieot
lntau OF the hight parotid glaod is de-
VeIoplog liself. Now, the psrotid gland is o
gland ar the i-lat CT the i,w, is the gland tho
lttsn III Alton OF which cJtsitutea the disease
called mumps, and lho 'neipiant ill,mma.
ton mentioced 10 tho bnllatin may mean very
little or gteat doa!. Tho gland is as isbe TO
Inflammation as any other glaud 10 tho body
and may DO lttl,med by Various o,uses fire..
queutly by simple s0rn throat. Bot and this
Is Legitimate source Of alarm, it N ~ be eau cd
by j. God poisoning, p!Gmlt, or nus in The
bl00d-iynDngmouS termi-and it this be
30 10 tie Prt 5 dents clsn bis chances of
recovery ere poor ildeed. Poison. whether of
SNAKE, mad dog, or dead body, ia tho leg,
arm. or ;cx aud fac, FIRST maaitos,s itself by
the swelling or inti.msticn of the glands 10 The
groin. arm-pit or throat % the case may be.
and il is by no mears improbable that tie I'm
cplent defamation Of tho Presidents right
psrotcd gland may DO tho result of the absorb
too Of the pus from his wound into what ply.
siologllls call his lympholc5. that i, into tho
small veiu Ike abscrbaats. Should this BIO so
it will SHOW that Dr.. Hammond, who ssy5 that
tho President has boen suffering from pJ 70 MIA
Tor some timo past, though in New York,
knows moro about The Presidents condition
than tho physicians who are 10 constant attend.
snco upon him.
A well informed Ohio republican who arrived
hero to day says thu. politics arc 10 abeyauos in
that State 10 con,qlenoo of tho President 3
ince4; that had lt rot been for that illness
many Republicans Wculd have made tho coming
election the cc,asion for showing their Couk-
hoglsm, but that they thiI k that doing so now
would be hSo shrinking man when be is down,
acd that, therefore, Foster will be likely to got
Tho whole republican vote, tu! be ass says that
should tho Temperance ticket, which has been
endorsed by the probbitionisls, receive fifteen
thoushnd votes, which is highly probable, the
demoertic ticket will no elected.
1nc San Francisco liz irnincr says tho dsmo
Gratis @!l r!eos the next Secretary of tho Senate.
but that should the rcru olica. do 81, Mr.
Marcus ID. Bnu,k, a ptoniocut California
reiuoi''4n. will robablg be tho successful can.
olus's' ~ nif. "othsm halls from California.
such talk il not favorable to his el,c lon.
Mr.. David Turoer, formerly Of Altxaudris,
ssI that he did cote 1platc publishing pa
per at Falls Church. but that tho Northern
people who compose almost tho whole pop1ls-
lion of that plac' aud nearly all Of whom arc
republican, sro so inhospitsbo that he has
abandoned tho idea. When it ia understood
that MIR. Turncr is q Ncrihern man himself aud
q republican this will seem strange to those
who beli:vo with GeDeral Mahono that it is tho
native democrats of Virginia who arc tho 10
hospitatle snd ilhbnral people Of the State.
Bat tcw canal boats were arriving at George
towa 10 c,nst q lenc, OF tho low stsgo Of tho
water 10 The oansl. a ilrpo numbet of boats
sro on their way COVE, tn. they are delayed for
tho reason named.
Senator Ben Hill waa among tho callars at tho
White Huusa this morning. He ssys tina opera.
ton on hs tongue Was successful and that tho
sore has healed. That an operation has boon
performed on his tntGua. howovor, ia distinctly
a?raront 10 all who hear him talk.
Commissioner Dent, o! tho District OF Co:um-
bls called upon Senator Johnston to-day 10
know if the commissioners in their official cspa.
city could do anything toward adm the York.
town Centennial. The Senator expressed his
thanks. and replied thai he would coasult with
commissioners to-day or to-motrnW on the sub.