Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Dr. George F. Shrady, one of Gen. Grant’s medical advisers, publishes in the Medical Record of Aug. lan extended review of the “surgical and pathological aspects of Gen. Grant's case.’’ He believes that the disease had its inception in the month of June. 1884, and gives a succinct history of the progress and treatment of the case from the day in October last when Genera. Grant ‘first called on Dr. Fordyce Barker, his family physician, up to its fatal termination. It suggests no new theories in regard to the case, and is rather intended to lea connected narrative lor the benefit of the medical profession, being largely couched in terms familiar only to that. body. A dispatch from Mount MacGregor says: The letter from Mrs. Grant put in the General's pocket when he was laid in bis collin simply read: “Farewell, wo meet again in u better world.” It also contained a lock of Mrs. Grant’s hair. Mrs. Grant visited the remains Thursday morning, and remained alono with them seven or eight minutes. Then she went to her room and remained there until evening, when she again visited the remains. The “American Benefit Association” and the “American Benefit Society,” of Boston, have been declared fraudulent concerns bi' the State Insurance Commissioner of Massachusetts, and will be suppressed by the authorities. A Mount MacGregor dispatch of the Ist inst. says: A considerable number of people came to the mountain to-day to view the remains of the dead General. The expression of the face remains very natural. A magnificent floral memorial was received from ex-Gov. Leland Stanford, of California, and Mrs. Stanford, representing the “Gates Ajar,’’composed of two gates six feet high by live wide, composed of white and purple immortelles, spanned by an arch inscribed with the name “U. S. Grant," and with a flight of steps ascending to the half-cpenel gates. A New York dispatch of the Ist inst. says: “Preparations for the great military pageant, which is to be the principal feature of the Grant funeral on the Sth, continue with great zeal. With the exception of the vast number of detui s which will now take care of themselves, these preparations may now be called completed. Gen. Hancock has appointed all his aids, and is now < ccupied during every working hour of the day in receiving and answering appli atlons fcr p’ace in ti e line, One hundred and fiity dollars has been ofi'ered for the use of a single window on Broadway on the day of thj funeral. The decorations of the City Hall, where the to )y is to lie in state, were finished to day and arc very imposing. The building is being girdled with electric lights, so that the somber center of interest while the remains lie there will be constantly illuminated. General Hancock issued an order charging Major General Alexander Shalcr with the formation of the escort column of treops, in which the army and navy and commissioned State organizations will be represented.” L. D. Munger, of Detroit, at Boston beat the bicycle road record of 207' 2 miles, making 211'i miles in twenty-four hours. It was decided in the New York Supreme Court that a bund of gypsies lately brought to this country on a steamer of the Bordeaux line must be returned to France. Five hundred boys were discharged from the Shamokin (Pa.) collieries, in obedience to a law recently passed by tho Legislature of that State forbidding child labor in mines and coal-breakers.