Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1887 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

DB, Z. T. Sowers, one of the most prominent physicians Of Washington, in an interview with a reporter, declares that there is danger that President Cleveland will not hve through his term unless tnere is a change iii his mode of living. Dr. Sowers, six months before Mr. Manning’s illness, made the snipe prediction with legat'd to the Secretary and advised a friend to warn him of his danger. Dr. Sowers says: “-President Cleveland is a large, ! fleshy man, and since he came to the White I House has gained enormously iu flesh, j Now, when lie lived in Buffalo it was his [ habit to take long walks. Since he came ; here, howeyeiv. h ■ has abandoned every form of exercise save carriage-riding. That is of little or no use, with the springs now iu use and the smooth siivets for which Washington is 1 nmou-. The President is a man who works with his head a great de.il; is. in fact, an intense brain-Worker. He is, in other words, a plodder, and his brain is consequently tilled with an excess of blood. What i< the result? He works with his head, eats enormously, an l fails to exercise his muscles; his blood-vessels are weakened, and it is only a question of time when, in a moment of excitement, he bursts a blood-vessel.” The success of a wonderful surgical operation, performed in New Bedford, Mass., nearly a year ago, has just been demonstrated. Seventeen years ago Edward K. Russell met with an accident in which the tendons in one of his legs were severed, rendering the limb useless. Twelve of a dog were transferred to Russell's leg and united with the severed tendons. For ten months after the. operation Russell was not allowed to use his leg, but within a few days he has been. permitted to exercise it. He has now resumed his work, and has complete control of the limb. This is the first time that this operation has been performed in this country, though it has been previously attempted with only partial success. _ Chicago elevators and vessels contain 12,578,003 bushels .of wheat, 8,681,998 bushels of 1,071,608 bushels of oats, 157,719 bushels of rye, and 181,856 bushels of barley; total, 22,671,184 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 18,046,964 bushels a year ago. A bit of political gossip comes from Washington to the effect that Secretary Whitney is in the field as a caddidate for Governor of New York... .E. B. Sellers has been appoin ed United States District Attorney for Indiana, to succeed Mr. Turpie. The brick-makers of the Star Fire-brick Works, at Pittsburgh, have been granted an advance in wages ranging from 15 to 25 per cent. A dispatch from St. Louis asserts that a contract has been signed for the construction of the Missouri Central Road between St. Louis and Kansas City; but not even the names of the contractors are given. A squad of police at Tralee, Ireland, fired upon a band, of moonlighters, killing one of them.... A controversy at Tunis in regard (o burials led all the Hebrew merchants to close their shops, and the City has been placed under military protection.