The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-24
GENERAL PRESS REVIEW

St. Louis ply sicisns on the treatment Of The
presidents case, comments upon these inter
views aud. some 8hst defends DT. Bliss. We
think that in the matter OF the issuance o
the bulletins during the presidents illnese,
vast q. Al Of allowance should be made, II
the first place they had to be written in 4
verbiage entirely free from technicalities thai
all the people could understand .bemi they
had to be non.commi,a because the president
read every one Of them before they were
issued, and tbey could therefQe contain
nothing calculated to disturb his mental
equilibrium, 10 make lin spp,ebensive Of
his recovery, and while they were non-
commitIsl, they must at the sane time
have tendency to bouy the president snd
the people. The Globe Democrat says;
In our local columns to-day We print q
series of interviews with prominent phya~
clans of this city on the treatment OF the
pre.Idenl's case 1t the hands of the physi-
cians in charge oft. Weregret TO note that
most of the doctors Interviewed compent
IuOIb lIbtlI on LII DDcs ho a DhiiChh WAlNoi
than on DR. Bliss as medical practitioner.
As to the latter we do not pretend TO judge,
but rs the former we have word TO say
DR. Bliss, 10 giving information to the public
has simply stated on all occasions the best
instead Of the worst phase OF the case be
might have believed from the first that the
president wouli no, get we'll, but no was not
Obliged 10 tell that to the public. His bull
letins have given from the beginning few
facts ~ to The pulse, the temperature, etc and
little else They have not discussed the pres
ence OF p, pmi0 or the probabilities Of COM
plicati0ns which might arise in the progress
of the case The worst tnst can be said
against DR. Bliss ia that he did not always tell
the whole truth Well, he WAS never obliged
to tell auy part Of the truth If he had
started in to furnish the actual facts each day
be would have bsen denounced long ago as y
pessimist and " Quack, wGO was making the
case cut a great deal worse than IL was IN
order to relieve himself Of the ultimate res
possibility for the patients death. We
think all fair-minded men will agree with us
that DR. Bliss in his bulletins has done what
was TO be expected from physician acting
under such grave responsibilities to his pa
tient and to the public.
The st. Louis Republican says:
Our old acquaintance, Banton Duncan,
hayiug foresworn politics, is slashing around
sensationslly among the southern grangers.
He has issued solemn warning to the Texas
people in particular to prepare for great
grain deficit and consequent high price in
all lines, but has peculiar ideas about cotton,
for no declares there will be an abundant
crop of that staple and q poor market for II.
Blanton never had much reputation for
wisdom and we would not advise the Texss
people to take his predictions with the same
faith that they accept Biblical revelations.
ThiGgs do indicate bad crops in the north,
but unless tho option spectators are very
far out of the way in their estimates of the
future the south will get como compensation
for high prices for food in high priced cot
ton.
Yes, Banton is in Texas, somewhere out
about San Antonio, perhaps in that city, and
he has been great diversion for the past few
months writing abou. glaciers and glacial
eras, and planetary combinations and ithu-
ences. He has amused the people wonder
fully, and we would hardly know how to got
along without him in the future.
Treating of the improvement of the Mis-
sissipp river on the plan recommended by
Capt Eads, of jetty fame, the New Orleans
Democrat says:
Mayor B. T. Horrod member of the
Mississippi River Convention, returned yes
-. a., G. .nnta xphara ha haa ham 10
attend meeting of the commissioner. He
reports favorable progress in the prepara-
tion of the plant at Lake Providence and
Plum Point the points on the river which
have b. en- selected to begin the system of
improvement I'D, pied by the commission,
and fully explained in the able report sub
mitted to congress last year. Several tugs
have been procured, eighty bsrges for trans
porting stone, brush, etc and four pr wer-
full hydraulic pumps TO be used in grading
the banks, so as to prepare them for securing
the brush mattresses which will be msde
precisely similar to those which have given
such excellent results upon the Missouri
river. The pumps have capacity of two
thousand gsllons per minute, and this
Tremendous power will cause the
banks 70 disappear with wonder
full rapidity reducing them TO the required
grade in short order and greatly facilitate
the work. The brush mattresses are TO be
made on very extensive scale, and will be
woven together with wire, forming sort of
thick carpet which will eiiectuAlly protet
the banks from the erosive action of ne cur
rent by arrestng the sedimnr' md OIilding
new and stable banks. iua vntire plant has
been ordered to report st IT'S destination at
the earliest practicable moment, and early In
Oste Der. therefore, the grea! work ofimprov
ing the Mississippi river, upon the plan of
concentrating Its waters, as advocated by
Captain E,ds and bis associates on tina com
mission, will DO practically begun. If the
next congress shall evince proper appreci-
alton Of the Importance Of the river to the
Mississippi Valley and the country M large
We will coon witness the improvements car
ried on upon scale Commensurate with Il o
vast Interests involved.
The Chicago Inter. Ocean, proclsiming the
fact tina, tn DAYS ofgas for lighting pur-
poses aronumbered and virtually ct their
end, It's successor being electricity, gives the
interesting data:
The announcement Of Edisons success
created qnt' dutler aitho time, md gas
stocks II Chicsgo and other cities grew
shaky, bu, interviews followed in which tho
discovery wac poon.poohed and the market
grew rong again 1T tho electric light is
ever DO feet d. said ono authority II will
be man years hence and IL not likely 10 he
over employed save for rare illuminations.'
That was not long ago, but to>dsy secs the