Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1886 — GENERAL ARTHUR. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL ARTHUR.

The Kx-Preshlent Sahl to Be Fatally 111. L Special from \Yashington.l A gentleman who had a high position under President Arthur’s administration, aud who recently visited him at New London, says that, while there is nothing in General Arthur’s condition to excite immediate apprehension, the fact is well known to General Arthur's friends, and better known to himself than to anyone else, that he is suffering from a disease of the kidneys from which he does not expect to recover. The progress of the disease has probably been somewhat stayed by medical treatment and careful nursing, but theie is only one result that is expected, or can he expected, and that result General Arthur awaits with resignatiou. This gentleman says ihat those who are the most in the confidence of the physician do not think that the ex-President can long Survive. It is quite certain that he has not been as much benefited by his visit to New London a s been honed-