Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Touching Gen. Grant’s malady, the following appeared in the Medical Record (New York) last Saturday: There have been so many sensational stories concerning the precise character of tne disease of Gen. Grant’s tongue and throat, that it will be gratifying to his many friends to learn that all the more serious and alarming symptoms connected with them have virtually disappeared. It was one time feared, in professional circles, at least, that the ulceration of the tongue and sauces were dependent upon a malignant disease, not an uncommon occurrence at his time of life, as a result of local irritation from a troublesome tooth. The focus of the trouble on the side of the organ, usually the site of a cancer, and the induration of the base of the sore were ominously confirmatory of such suspicion. We are gratified to learn from his attending physician that all these signs of epithelioma have passed away; that the ulcerated surfaces have healed, and that the adjoining tissues have regained their natural suppleness. There is now remaining only a small excavation in the neighboring tonsil, such as sometimes results from follicular inflammation of the part. * * * IVhatever may have been the cause of the disease, it is a matter for congiatulation that all fears of grave complications are lor the present at an end, and our ex-President is spared an affliction the bare contemplation of which would be distressing in the extreme. Six physicians from Bombay have arrived in New York and will remain there to battle the cholera if It should make its appearance the coming summer. Russell Sage was acquitted in New Yora of the charge made against him by Jonathan S. Purdy of the larceny of certain bonds. Horace B. Ferren, Deputy Postmaster of Batavia, N. Y., killed himself with a revolver in a coal-shed. It was soon learned that a special examination of the accounts of the office is being made by inspectors, who have already discovered a shortage of $2,000.