Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Reports from Mount MacGregor leave little room to doubt that Gen. Grant’s disease is steadily progressing toward a fatal termination. The swelling in the throat and neck is hardening and increasing and the ulceration burrowing deeper, and the illustrious patient is slowly but surely growing weaker, although he continues to devote a little time each day to work upon his memoirs. The following bulletin of the General's condition, prepared by Drs. Shrady and Douglas, appeared in the New York Medical Record of June 27:

The progress of the disease from which Gen. Grant is suffering is, barring accidental complications, slow. Comparing the condition ot the patient with what it was a month ago, the changes which have taken place can be appreciated. Taking this period of time into consideration, it can be said that the swelling under the angle of the lower jaw, on the right side, has increased, and has become harder and more deeply fixed. It has shown * tendency to pi-ogress in a direction downward and forward upon the right side of the neck, the infiltration extending into the neighboring glandular structures. The lancinating pains in those tarts, although, fortunately, not frequent nor severe, have a significance which can not be ignored. The ulceration on the right side of the base of the tongue has become deeper i nd more irregular, although its superficial area has not perceptibly increased. This is the seat ot the pain occasionally in swallowing and when certain examinations of the throat are made. The destructive process on the right side of the uvula is apparently quiescent, although a new portion of the margin of the palatal curtain is showing a tendency to break down. The voice has been reduced to a whisper, due partly to inflammatory involvement of the vocal chords and partly to nervous atony of the latter. There is some Impairment of general strength and some loss In weight, although the appetite is unchanged and the usual amount of nourishment is taken. The removal to Mount MacGregor has so far proved beneficial. It has enabled the patient to recover lost ground, and thus in a measure has counterbalanced the effects of his local malady.

John McCullough, the tragedian, has been placed In the Bloomingdale (N. Y.) Insane Asylum.

At Boston W. A. Rowe, of Lynn, lowered tho fifty mile bicycle record to three hours fifty-three minutes and twenty-five seconds. James D. Fish, the convicted President of the late Marine Bank of New York, has been sentenced to ten years' imprisonment In the State Prison at Auburn. Fish showed little agitation when sentence was passed. The New York, Philadelphia, and Boston banks are still accumulating a surplus of money. Lorin Blodgett says that the banks are mistaken in thinking that the business of the country cannot go on without this money, and that if a commission was appointed to report on the subject it would say that whether this reserve was used wisely or not used at all, is not supreme to the great interests of actual production and of legitimate exchange.