Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-20

other daily papers here added together.
The doctors assert positively that Gen. Grants
disease is epithelal cancer, and a microscope
cal analysis of the texture of the growth upon
the patients tongue supports this diagnosis.
Under these circumstances the notable inn
provement which has taken place during the
past few days can be viewed only a tempo
rary rally For cancer there is no curative treat
ment known; whatever is done is simply pallia-
tive If the cancer was in a locality where it
would not involve surrounding tissue the knife
might be resorted TO. But in operations for the
extirpatiOn OF cancer only II per cent of the
reported cases have been successful; that is, the
subjects have died of other diseases before the
cancer reappeared. In Gen. Grants case the
location of the ulcer places a surgical operation
out of the question. Cancers of this character
generally prove fatal in froms ten to thirteen
months, though sometimes not for two years.
Death however, may ensue at any time, either
from exhaustion from putrid pneumonia, caused
by the inhalation of the emanutenis from the
suppurating surface, from an enlargement of the
cancer so as to prevent food from entering the
stomach, resulting in starvation, or from ulcer
alton of artery and the hemorrhage that
would follow. 1t IS sincerely hoped that the
present improvement in Gen. Grants case may
continue for long time, but it will not do to
build up confidence upon such possibility.
There are indications of serious labor troubles
in various branches of industry and in different
parts of the country The telegraphers in the
Western Union office in Chicago are demand
ing return to pay for extra work which they
claim was promised them during the strike
two years ago. The employees on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad have asked for higher pay, and
threaten strike unless their request is COM
piled with. The miners in several of the mines
have struck, and the Philadelphia carpet weav-
ers are dissatisfied with the terms OF the compro-
mise recently effected. The adjustment of the
relations between capital and labor will prob
ably be an unsettled problem for some time TO
come The occurrence of extended strikes how
ever bring so much loss to both sides and so
much privation and suffering to the families OF
the strikers that it is to be hoped a satisfactory
settlement may be reached by arbitration or a
frank consultation and mutual concessions by
the employees and employers. The distress to
the strikers and inconvenience to the general
public occasioned by the last telegraphic strike
is WILDLY remembered, and a repetition of the
occurrences Of two years ago is certainly not
desired.
Although our consul at Madrid has stated
that he is informed no cholera exists in SPAIN
the Geographic dispatches continues to assert
that the disease is spreading from Valencia,
where il was first reported to have broken out
Auu HAS dtIdcheO Jttll, AnualuSlSi, In the south,
and Santiago CompOstella, Galicia, in the
northern par: of Spain, the people of the latter
city being said to be panic stricken. Besides
France, Portugal, and other European coun-
tries are quarantining vessels from Spanish
ports. Private dispatches assert further that
the disease has made its appearance in Paris
There Is certainly the most urgent necessity for
vigtlant quaratine at every American port
and the health authorities of both coast and
inland cities should take active steps to see that
all sanitary regulations strictly observed.
1t Is better to be over vigilant at the commence
ment of the season then to look back after an
epidemic has obtained a foothold, and see what
might have been done to prevent it.
The skating rink is rivaling the private
goodman in the matter of Opponents. The
latest sensation is that of a Baltimore Young
lady, with $4,000 in her own right who has
run off with a graceful skater whom she met at
the rink. Her parents, of course, are furious,
but as she was over Is, and the parties are mar
rted, they will probably accept the inevitable.
Buddensiek, the contractor OF the paper tene-
ment houses which recently fell in New York
and Charles Franck, his Ibricklayer. have both
been indicted for manslaughter. If they are
convicted and punished, perhaps the example
may have some effect upoD the scarnn hnil6e ps