Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. O’Donovan Rossa is preparing a manifesto, and is also planning a lecture tour. At a recent conference at the residence of W. H. Vanderbilt in New York, at which George B. Roberta, Dr. Hostetter and George M. Pullman were present, arrangements were made for harmonious relations between the Pennsylvania and South Pennsylvania Roads, and the ultimate acquisition Of the West Shore Road by the New York Central. A special dispatch from New York, based on what is claimed to be reliable mod' leal authority, says: Notwithstanding the rose-colored report of Gen. Grant's health recently given in a medical journal, the truth is Gen. Grant is a very sick man, and his death is apparently not far distant. The public have no conception of the shattered condition of hi* physical system. It is hoped the affection of the tongue may not prove fatal, but there is, as yet, no appearance of its not developing a malignant and fatal disease. Although somewhat- better now than some weeks ago, the enlarged and inflated tongue continues, making it painful to speak or swallow fluids, the only nourishment he can take. In addition to this malaay Gen. Grant is a terrible sufferer from neuralgia, and it seems to have taken possession of his whole system. He has had most of his teeth drawn to lessen the neuralgic torture, and his injury in the hip, caused by his fall a year ago, is still a source of very great suffering and forbids physical exercise. It is a fact that should no longer be concealed from the country that Gen. Grant is rapidly breaking down and apnarently without hope of reaction, and unless there should be some unexpected relief, he will not be long among the living. The Albany and Susquehanna Railroad freight house, with several adjoining buildings, was destroyed by fire at Albany. The burnt district covers some acres. It is said that agents of American and foreign dynamite societies have been experimenting in a secluded valley near Huntingdon, Pa., the results of their investigations being the perfecting of a destructive machine of great power which can be timed with the utmost nicety. At the Court of General Sessions in New York City, Richard Short, who stabbed Capt. Phelan in O'Donovan Rossa*s office, pleaded not guilty. His bail was increased from $3,003 to $5,000. Mrs. Dudley, the woman who. shot Rossa, was held in SSOO bail. A plea of not guilty was also entered In her behalf.