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DIR. BOYNTON ON THE PRESIDENT
BLOODY WORK OF THE APACHEs.
BOOM IN THE CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET.


BOOM IN THE CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET.
THE LORDS AND THE LAND BILL.
The Presidents Condition.
DIR. BoYNToN SAYS HIS RECOVERY ONLY A
MATTER OF TINE.
ST. LOUIS. August 15-The Globe Democrat
contains the following: Mr.. c. o. Rockwell of
this city, brother-in-aw of President Garfield.
yesterday received the following very hopeful
letter from DR.. S. A. BOynton who has been for
years the physician of the Garfield family. and is
now in constant attendance at the White House.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington Aug 12. 1881.
Ihy Dear Sir:-Y our favor of the 10th received
The newspapers get things mixed somewhat.
The President is in much better condition now
than at any time since the injury. and is improv-
ing every day with every prospect of going
steadily on to recovery. Since you left he was
obliged to undergo a pretty severe operation.
which promises to be the last in the way of cut
tlng 1oy need feel no anxiety. for his recov-
cry is only matter of time. In regard to nurs-
ing we now have things well arranged. Mrs.
Edson takes him one night until a. m. and
General Swain follows her. and remains until
a. m. then take him and remain with him
until Mrs. Edison returns some time during the
day. and then she and | take turns staying with
him during the day. The next night stay with
him until 3 a. M: then Col. Rockwell follows
me, and remains until a. m. when again take
him, and so it goes day after day. and night after
night read your letter to the President and
Mrs. Garfield. They send their love. and say
you need not think Of coming back for he is get
ting along so well that he will not need so much
care after few days. He is weak. but is much
stronger than when you left and in very good
condition every way. S. A. BOYNToN.
The BlOodthirsty Apaches.
THEY SwOOP DOWN ON A MEXICAN VILLAGE AND
KILL ITS INHABITANTS.
CHICAGO, August ia Times special from
Las Vegas, n M, of yesterdays date saws
''Meagre news reached this city at a very late
hour last night. that the Apaches had swOoped
down on a small Mexican village eighteen miles
from Rio PuercO. a point on the Atlantic and
Pacific railway and murdered twenty-eight out
of the twenty-nine inhabitants. The two Mexi-
cans who made good their escape were nearly
exhausted when they reached the railroad and
had their horses shot down from under them
before getting out of reach of the Indians
From the. .scanty news attainable on account of
broken Geographic communication. it appears
that the Apaches completely surrounded the vii
lage thus making escape for the doomed inhabit-
ants impossible The track of the Indians on
their outward march through the wilderness is
continually marked by murder and bloodshed.
and the Justly indignant citizens of this section
OF the country demand that the government put
a large force of troops in the field Immediately
and wipe entirely out of existence the savages
who are committing such terrible slaughter and
atrocities among the whites and MeXicans.'
NARROW ESCAPE FROM THE sAvAGEs
A Times Santa Fe special says: "Mr. Charles
>. Cough came to this town yesterday after
noon with the report that he was attacked by
seven Apache Indians, sixteen miles from here
on the road to Wallace; that he killed one and
wounded three others, escaping without a
wound. but bis hat was full of holes. The sheriff
and posse of men have gone out to the scene
of the fight, and will report Tomorrow"
Boom in the Grain Market.
WILD EXCITEMENT IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO. August 15.-Thnre was wild excite
ment at the opening on Change this morning
which has continued unabated until this hour
01:30 a.m.) 1t was believed that the reports of
ram IN the western states would send markets
down, but they had no effect and prices started
with an advance, which has progressed almost
without a break. and every article has shared in
the rise. September and October wheat opened
at 1904. October corn at 5954. September oats at
351s, Septemberpork at s17:87l5 and September
lard at S11 671SS At this hour prices are jumping
rapidly upward and wheat is selling at 1907 for
cash and August, and 1908 for October Corn
is the most active and excited, having sold up to
6OI for August, 621 for October, 62 Is for No.
venlber Oats sold at 36 for September; pork at
$17.95 for September, and lard at Sll 7213. Ex-
cept wheat. in all the articles named there is a
fractional reaction at this moment, but its up
ward tendency is very strong.
The Land Bill Deadlock.
THE EARL OF PEMBROKE DEFENDS THE HOUSE OF
LORDS.
LONDON. August 15-The Earl of Pembroke
writes to the Times protesting against the cry
being raised that the amendments of the House
of Lords to the land bill are an attack on the
principle of the bill. He saws this is not true i'm
thaf
dealing with the termination of existing leases
and that amendment only restores the bill to the
shape in which it entered the House of Com
mons. The obstinate injustice of the govern
ment towards the land bill, he says, is the sole
cause of the deadlock.
PRESS OPINIONS
Ihe Tunes, in leading article, says: The tenn
perate judgment of rational men is unanimous
that the differences between the two houses
ought to be composed: nor is there the slightest
reason to believe that a fair, moderate and prac-
tical arrangement is out of question.
The Daily Ne,rs. in a leading article. says: If
Mr.. Gladstone resigns he would make the Peers
our masters. If the vote of a majority of the
hereditary legislators could at any moment over
bear the decision of the country parliamentary
government would become farce. The same
may be said of dissolution of Parliament and a
general election. The Ne,os discredits the idea
of conference between the two houses.
Old World Affairs.
RAIN WANTED FOR CROPS.
LONDON. August 15.-The Calcutta CORES
pondent of the Times says: An official report
in regard to the crops in the province of Mysore
says they are somewhat more hopeful, but that
more rain is greatly wanted.
1NsURREcTION AT MuNEEP0oR
News received here from Muneepoor reports a
serious insurrection there, but no details are
given. The Maharajah is suppressing it with
the utmost severity. He has already executed
II men and imprisoned 800.
THE BOER FLAG.
DURHAM. August 15.-The Boer flag was
hOisted at Pretoria, in the Transvaal, on the Sth
instant.
Murder at q Dance.
ST. LOUIS. August ia special dispatch
from Hannibal, Mo-. says: During dance at a
low and disreputable den on the island in the
Mississippi river opposite that city about 8
o'clock yesterday morning, Winston Barnes and
Johnny Gibbons got into quarrel, during
which Barnes shot Gibbons through the body
and Boyd Robinson plunged knife into his
neck. seyering the iugular vein. Gibbons fell to
the floor and expired almost instantly. During
the excitement Barnes and Robinson escaped in
a skiff to Missouri and disappeared. Gibbons
bedy lay where it fell until 3 p. m, when cor
oner from Illinois held an inquest. The parents
of Gibbons reside in Dubuque, Iowa.