The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-04-09


conversation with him. During the day
no one but Mr.. Cyrus w. Field. stephen Ii.
Ell<ins, the members OF tho family, and DR..
Newman was allowed 70 500 the General.
When Mr. Field went away he was very en-
thusiastic over Gen. Grants pluck. 1T Is
marvellous" he said. .His force OF will and
his courage are astonishing. Just think
of his walking across the room
instead OF being carried like a sick person."
Gen. Grant was feeling better than he had
for days. The family came to his room while
Mr.. Field was there. Gen. Grant determined
to take his own temperature and count his
pulse. He set a stop-watch and placed IL on
his lap, and then put the thermometer In his
mouth. Then he took his left wrist In HIS
right hand and began counting the beats.
The stop-watch spopped on HIS knee and was
gliding toward the floor. The General no
ticed 1t. HIS hands were engaged, and the
asking assistance. The watch was just fall
ing when DIR. Shrady caught 1t. The General
seemed anxious to talk good dea'. The
doctors and family discouraged 1t. The Gen
eral rested well during the night
New York dispatches of the morning
of Saturday, the 4th inst, report Gen. Grants
cordition rs follows: The General slept well
yesterday (Friday) morning, his pulse at
a. m. being steady and full. Up to 1890 a.
m. he had taken nourishment twice, and at
IL 80 was bathed in bed, and afterward re-
cined In his easy chair. At 2 p. IN. his win
dow was opened little while, and about 80
he partook of liquid food with relish. At
p. IN. his mind was reported clear and his
manner cheerful, with soreness OF the
throat noticeable. AS 10 o clock approached
the General walked unaided into his library,
and there signed an important paper. His
condition at this hour was unchanged.
administered the patient retired. The
General has slept continuously up 10 this
time "a a. n.y., only disturbed occasionally by
spells Of coughing 10 free his throat from
mucus. He has taken nourishment regular
ly. His breathing is natural and his pulse is
usual. Several callers were admitted to the
sick chamber during the day, among the
number being ex-senator Chaffee. "Gen.
Grant is the most wonderful man in combat
Chaffee. HE walks about the room I'M
aided, Notwithstanding his extremely weak
condition."
In dispatch from Aspinwall Com
mander Kane says that he holds two of the
chief insurgents who assisted in firing the
town. He does not think it safe to hand
them ovdt to the Colombian authorities, who
has been made to the War Department at
Washington for tents to shelter the destitute
people of Aspinwall. The department was
only able to give fifty hospital tents. Adj
miral Jouett left New Orleans for Aspinwal
on the Sd inst. Two hundred and fifty ma
rines left Brooklyn the same day for Pana-
ma, and 200 more sailed on the 9Th. Secre-
tary Bayard says that American citizens will
be protected, and the transit across the
Isthmus kept open at all hazards.
The failures throughout the United
States for the week were 1877, the smallest
number since the year commenced. The
movement of merchandise throughout the
country during the week was some what heav-
Ter, although not SO large as at the CORE
spending period one year ago. At various
cities, as reported TO Bradstreet's, there was
an Improvement in trade. This was noticea-
BILE ut Cleveland, st. Paul, st Louis, Kansas
City, and Philadelphia, although at none Of
them was the volume said TO be as heavy as
in the like week of 1884. At Boston the dis.
tribution of goods to the West is gradually
improving, but at New York the record
was only equal to that OF preceding weeks.
The industrial situation is complicated by the
Efforts making to form an organized re.
sistance to the depression In the current rate
of wages paid to anthracite coal miners In
Eastern Pennsylvania. The total number of
manufacturing and mining employees who
are actively demanding higher rates of wages
is neariy If not quite as large as at any time
within two years before or since the strike
of the Gould railway employees. The iron
market is quite as dull as heretofore.