The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-11-24
a6IsCELLANEoUs oLEANINcs.

4ISCELLANEOUS 0LEANlNGS.
The December number Of the North
Ame.ican Recien contains the professional
opinions of Drs. William A. Hammond. John
Ashurst, Of Philadclphia, J. Marion sims Of
New York, and John 7. Hodson, Of st. Louis,
on the surgical treatment Of President Garfield.
Dr.. Ashurst says the mistake made regarding
the course Of the ball Was unavoidable; that
there was no evidence Of malaria In the Prcsi.
dents system that there was no pynnlia in the
modern sense Of the word, implying metastatic
absossscs in the lungs and liver after death !;
shat 1t no time would the surgeons have boon
warranted in attempting to remove the ball |;
that during his entire illness thu President was
insufficiently nourished, owing to the rcbellious
disposition Of his stomach that the antiseptio
treatment was carried ~ far as should have
been and that, in short, everything was done
that should have been, and nothing left undons
that could possibly have been oi benefit. DR..
Sims says that probing was impossible.
Death was inevitable with his spino injured %
Il was. The wonder il that ho lived 50 long.
He had pyamia from July "a at least The
surgeons did oil that was posSibls-all that the
present state Of medical science would permit
DR.. Hodgen says it IL incomprehen.ble how ths
President lived six hours with such wound.
Everything possible was properly done. Moth.
Ing even impiudent was attempted, and every
hour the President lived beyond six after he
was shot was the result OF every available re-
source OF medical science being sklllfully and
constantly applied. DR.. Hammond believes
the President did not have the best medical
treatment, and that the wound was not noces.
sarily fatal.
A session Of the Industrial League Of
America was held in Philadelphia Joseph
Wharton presiding- which resolutions were
adopted condemning tho decision OF the
Treasury Department inmcal to protective
duties, and calling on Congress to remedy the
ssil results growing from these decisions
favoring the appointment Of civilian Com.
missioners to report on tho progress,
needs and conditions OF American in
dustries; advocating the reduction of in-
ternal-revenus taxes, aud The encouragement
Of American shipbuilding aud shipowners' i'll.
tsrcsts. National Tarif Convention, com.
posed Of delegates from every section Of the
country, held : two days session in Chica.
70. Resolutions were adopted that the
protective policy had provided tho rev.
enus to subdus tho Rebellion and
diminish tho public debit aud also turned the
balance Of trade In our favor; that maritime
property should be exempt from State, mum
cipal and local taxation, and that the internal
revenue should be gradually reduced. Tho
National Labor Congress met in Pittsburgh.
Resolutions were offered demanding tho repeal
of the Conspiracy net and the abolition OF
prison labor, and declaring that no man should
be permitted to hold more land than he can
till.
Daring tho month of October 81, ,927
immigrants arrived in this country.
A contract has been made between the
Huntington railroads on the Pacific coast and
the Gould system in tho Southwest, by which
they will be- operated as a joint line from the
Mississippi river TO the Pacific ocean, with 4
| division Of earnings on tho basis of mileage.
The point Of junction is eighty miles east Of El
Paso, where the Southern and tho Texas Pacific
roads will within few days be connected.
The Mexican town Of Manzanillo was
, completely destroyed by hurricane.
Tho seventh new comet of the year
has been discovered by Director Swift, OF the
Rochester Observatory, in the constellation OF
Cassiopaa
Edward Deatrey, Indian Commission
er for Manitoba. has been appointed Lieutenant
Governor cf the Northwest Territory. The seat
| Of government. will be removed from Battleforl
! to some point Oh the Canadian Pacific road.
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