Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A TELEGRAM from New York of March 30 says* Gefi. Grant was much weaker today, and his physicians thought that death was not far distant. The disease had gone beyond control, and it seemed likely that the patient would choke trt death. The General’s wife scarcely left his room during the day. She stole Out at intervals in order that he would not see her weeping. A member of the Grant household, in conversation with a reporter.said: “General Grant never doubted that he was dying. He knows the progress of the disease as well as the physicians, and he awaits the filial summons with the stolidity for which he is noted. Perhaps his only regret is that he can not be allowed more time in order to satisfy himself about his book. He expects to die, and has no fears. He thinks that after his death he will be better appreciated, and that he will be better understood by some future generation than by this.” Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, nephew ofR. E. Lee, sent atelegiam to-day saying the heart of the South was throbbing like the Northern pulse, and that the prayers of all were for his recovery. Shortly after the arrival of the Rev. Dr. Newmxn from California Gen. Grant decided to have family prayers daily. He insisted on having every one in the house present at these exercises and has manifested the greatest interest in them. “That is what you doctors always say,” was the General's remark to one of them, when he informed him that he looked better. He relapsed into silence, and listened intently to what the doctor had to say. “Well, we have all got to go, ” he said, and he quickly changed the subject. A fire in Chicago destroyed the building alongside and in the rear of the Montauk Block, in Monroe street, occupied by the National Printing Company and Bradner, Smith & Co. The loss is $350,000. The same building was burned fifteen months ago. The insurance aggregates $112,500. Rowan County, Kentucky, has been brought to a condition of anarchy because of a quarrel over the election of Sheriff last August. The Clerk is the only officer who has escaped death or banishment Armed bands patrol the region at pleasure. Moses Porter, an aged and reputable citizen of Lafayette, Ind., who was recently swindled out of SI,OOO by a confidence man, now alleges that the sharper mesmerized him, depriving him of self-control, and then led him to the bank where the money was withdrawn and handed over.

The President sent the following nominations to the Senate on the 30th nit.: To be Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of the United States: Thomas J. Jarvis, of North Carolina, to Brazil; Alexander R. Lawton, of Georgia, to Russia, and Anthony M. Kelley, of Virginia, to Italy. To be Ministers Resident of the United States: Isaac Bell, Jr., Rhode Island, to the Netherlands; Rufus Magee, of Indiana, to Sweden and Norway, and George W. Merrill, of Nevada, to the Hawaiian Islands. To be Ministers Resident and Consuls General of the United Stages: Edward Parke Custis Lewis, New Jersey, to Portugal; and Rasmus B. Anderson, of Wisconsin, to Denmark. To be Consuls General of the United States: Thomas M. Waller, of Connecticut, at London; Frederick Raine, of Maryland, at Berlin; and Edmund Jussen, of Illinois, at Vienna. To be Consuls of the United States: A. Halier Gross, of Pennsylvania, at Athens, Greece; and Evan P. Howel), of Georgia, at Manchester, England. Brown, Shipley <t Co., of London, England, to be special fiscal agents of the. Navy Department. To be Collectors of Internal Revenue: Nathan Gregg, of Tennessee, for the Second District of Tennessee, and Isham G. Searcy, of -Texas, for the Third District of Texas; Alex. McCune, of New York, to be Solicitor of the Treasury; David Settle, of North Carolina, to be Marshal of, ,the United States for the Western District of North Carolina; Jos. E. Johnston, of Virginia, to be Commissioner of Railrqads; Lewis Mullen, of New York, to ba Appraiser of the District of New York City; Wm. Caldwell, of Ohio, to be SurveyoUof Customs at Cincinnati, Ohio; Clement Dowd, of North Carolina, to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the Sixth District of North Carolina; J.O.Henderson.of Indiana.Collectorof Internal Revenue for the Eleventh District of Indiana; Capt. William J. Volkmar, of the Fifth Cavalry, to be Major and Assistant Adjutant General; Capt. George H. Burton, of the Twen-ty-first Infantry, to- be Major and Inspector General. To be Postmasters: Michael J. Dougherty, at Galesburg, 111.: Wilbur F. Horn, at Idaho Springs, Colo.; Palemon Wiley, at Central City, Colo.; and Ansel Watrous, at t ort Collins, Colo. The Senate confirmed the following: Postmasters—Frederick G. Kendrick, at Mount Clemens, Mich.; Aquila Jones, Sr., at Indianapo'is, Ind.: Mrs. Lizzie H. Flcklin, at Charleston, 111: Claiborne Bowman, at Yazoo City, Miss.; and N. C. Ridenour, at Clarinda, lowa.