The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-08-18
THE NEWS,
Compiled from Latest DISPATCHES.
From Washington.

Compiled from Latest Dispatches.
From Washington.
.A-REPORr recently current that Post
master-General James contemplated re.
signing his office to become bank Presi.
dent is said to be without foundation.
OWING to unfavorable symptoms in the
case of the President-au decreased pulse
and temperature, due, as was thought, to a
further accumulation of pus-another Incl
sion was made on the morning Of the Sth, in
the neighbOrhood Of the wound, in order to
facilitate the discharge of the matter.
Shortly after $3.50 the patient was etherized,
and the incision was made, with the desired
effect. The pus flowed freely through the
Jew opening. The patient bore the opera
ton well. He did not fully recover from its
effects, however, until after the evening
dressing. The etherization gave rise to-
nausea, from which he suffered Throughout
the afternoon. He was rather weaker than
on the previous day, and was not able to
take the usual quantity Of nourishment.
Early in the evening the fever began to SUBJ
side, and the President went to sleep with
out anodynes, and his pulse and tempera-
ture began to subside, and his general con-
dition to improve. DR.. Bliss said the SUR
geons did not apprehend any further
trouble from the wound. He also ex-
pressed the opinion that the President would
recover slowly but surely. ..
1T wac stated on the sth that the Treasury
Department had SO far received about $4O,-
N0, 600 worth Of bonds. from English hold
far Thn
would be closed at once.
1T was stated in Washington on the 9th as
singular fact that no one had yet called
upon Guiteau in Jail with friendly pur-
pose; that during his wanderings in that
city he never made one friend who mani
tested any substantial interest in him; that
no letter had been received by him proffer.
ing him counsel or assistance. He had never
asked to have anybody sent for; showed
little concern for anything except his meals;
had lost no flesh since his confinement, and
II anything was in better condition than
when he was taken to Jail.
THE counsel for Leo Hartmann, the
Russian Nihilist, recently asked of Secretary
Blaine an assurance that his client would
not be extradited. The Secretary declined
to give his opinions on the issue.
ABOUT 1850 pilots were examined by the
Marine Hospital Service during the year
ended June 30 last, and ZIG were pronounced
color.blind.
On the 10th the President performed his
first official act since the shooting. He af-
fixed his signature to document which ex.
tradited criminal wanted by the Canadian
authorities for forgery. He signed his name
firmly and suffered no evil consequence
from the eXertlon.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD wrote his first let
ter since the shooting on the 18th. 1t was
to his mother, and it assured her of his
confidence in his recovery. He was begin
ming to take much interest in public affairs,
and asked that the principal items of inter-
est I'm the morning papers be read to him.
THE Secretary of State and his family left
Washington OH the afternoon of the 10th,
for Augusta. Me. They expected to be abb
sent from Washington several weeks.
THE forthcoming report Of the Agricult-
ural Department will, it is said, place the
shortage of wheat in this country at IL, OOO,-
900 bushels.
The East.
On the evening of the sth the Irish Amer.
leans Of Lawrence, Mass, celebrated the
liberation of John Dillon from Jail.
A NUMBER Of Chinese students who wei
being educated in New England colleges
left Hartford, Conn.,, on the Sth, for home,
via San Francisco. Other parties would
soon follow.
WILLIAM GALE, the noted English pedes- |
trian, recently completed, at New York |
City, the unprecedented feat of covering |
5000 quarter miles in 6, 900 consecutive ten |
minutes. At the conclusion of his task Gale |
shouted out that he would bet $500 TO 81 600 |
that he could commence at once and cover |
five hundred miles within seven days.
THE funeral of Orville S. Grant was held |
on the Sth, at Elizabeth, n. j. Ex-Presi- |
dent Grant, his mother, Colonel Fred Grant |
and Mrs. Abel r. Corbin were present.
THE Castle Garden New York; Labor |
Bureau is said to be in daily receipt of tele. |
grams from all parts Of the Union. but es.
pecially from South Carolina, Texas and |
Pennsylvania, asking that emigrant families |
be sent to those places. Farm men are |
everywhere in request. Competent hands |
get SIS per month and board, and railroad |
laborers $3.50 per day. Servant-girls are also |
in request. =
J. NJ. SwANK, Secretary of the American |
Iron and Steel Association. has recently is |
sued his report for 1880, according to which |
there were produced in the United States |
during the year 4, 3d., Ala tons of pig iron;
,S3S, 9O6 tons Of rolled iron, including nails |
and excluding rails; 954, 400 tons Of Besse- |
mer and steel rails; 1865 tons of "open |
HEARTH steel rails; 49,, 762 tons of iron and |
other rails; 72,424 tons of crucible steel in
gots; 1908, 173 tons Bessemer steel ingots. |
During the year $50, 49,, S65 worth of iron
and steelwas imported, and $l2 800 1913 ex-
ported. The Lake Superior region yielded |
1887, 59S gross tons Of iron.ore during the |
year. The productions of anthracite coal |
during the year amounted to q, 437, PAP tons,
and of bituminous coal to 1900. 600 tons.
AN additional $3O, 700 donation has recent
~ been given by George J. Scney. the New
York philanthropist, to the Wesleyan COL
lege at Macon, Ga. This makes 500, 900 in
all contributed by him to that institution.
On the 4th of July the house of a negro |
named Charles Moody, at Lake Village, N.
H., was burned, three children perishing
in the flames. A Coroner's Jury has re-
murdered by their parents and the house
set on fire to conceal the crime.
A FEW nights ago the residence of DR..
William Bowen, in South Scituate, r. l.,
was burned, with nearly all its contents.
His family were aroused in time to save
their lives. After the house burned, fire
broke out in the doctors barn near by. Help
being at hand, the flames were extinguished,
when it was discovered that the fire was
caused by an internal machine operated by
clock.work. A Providence dispatch says
DR.. Bowen had been very active in enforc.
ing the law against liquor selling, and had
before suffered In consequence.
AN agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company has recently purchased the main
Exposition Building at Philadelphia, which
cost originally 81, COZ, 900, for $97 200.
THE following important failures were
reported on the 9th: Alexander Whilliden
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