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SANTO DOMINGO. 



SAVAGE, JOHN. 



nized as the foremost surgeon in New York 

 city, astute in diagnosis, sound in judgment, 

 and dextrous as an operator. He was called 

 for consultation in President Garfield's case, 

 and also in ex-President Grant's illness, and he 

 attended Eoscoe Conkling in his last illness, 

 performing the operation on his head. Dr. 

 Sands was too busy to devote much time to 

 publishing his results, but among the descrip- 

 tions of operations that he contributed to 

 medical literature are " Case of Cancer of the 

 Larynx successfully removed by Laryngoto- 

 my " (1865); "Aneurism of the Sub-Clavian, 

 treated by Galvano-Puncture " (1869); "Case 

 of Traumatic Brachial Neuralgia, treated by 

 the Excision of the Cords which go to form 

 the Brachial Plexus " (1873) ; " Case of Bony 

 Anchylosis of the Hip - Joint, successfully 

 treated by Subcutaneous Division of the Neck 

 of the Femur " (1873) ; " Esmarch's Bloodless 

 Method " (1875) ; " Treatment of Intussuscep- 

 tion by Abdominal Section " (1877) ; "The Ques- 

 tion of Trephining in Injuries of the Head " 

 (1883) ; and " Rupture of the Ligamentum Pa- 

 tellsB and its Treatment by Operation" (1885). 



SANTO DOMINGO, a republic, occupying the 

 eastern portion of the West Indian island of 

 that name, the western portion being Hayti. 

 The population of the republic, by the census 

 of 1887, is 504,000. 



Government. The President is Gen. Ulysses 

 Heureaux. His Cabinet is composed of the 

 following ministers: Interior and Police, Gen. 

 Wenceslao Figueredo; Foreign Affairs, Don 

 Manuel Maria Gautier; War and Navy, Gen. 

 Miguel A. P. Pichardo ; Finance and Com- 

 merce, Gen. Julio J. Julia; Justice, Public 

 Works, and Instruction, Don Juan Tomas 

 Mejia; Public Works, Seilor P. M. Garrido. 

 The United States Charge d? Affaires is John 

 E. W. Thompson, resident at Port-au-Prince, 

 Hayti. The American Consul at Puerto Plata 

 is Thomas Simpson. The Dominican Consul 

 at New York is Don Leoncio Julia. 



Finances. The public indebtedness on July 

 1, 1888, included an internal debt of $1,650,- 

 000, a balance of $234,250 of foreign debt 

 (which is being paid oft' by an extra 2-per- 

 cent, import duty), and the old 6-per cent. 

 English-Santo Domingo loan of 18fi9, of which 

 750,700 is still held in London. The republic 

 in July; 1888, made a loan in London and on 

 the Continent to the amount of 770,000, 

 bearing 6 per cent, interest, to be paid off 

 within thirty years, the amount to be applied 

 as follows: First, 142,860 for canceling the 

 Hartmont loan of 1869; second, 151,660 

 toward canceling the internal debt, the re- 

 maining 475,480 to bear interest dating from 

 July 1, 1888. This debt is to be pnid off at 

 par by sixty half-yearly drawings, the first of 

 which is to be made on June 15, 1889. This 

 loan was placed at 83. 



Communications. There is in operation a line 

 from Sanchez to La Vega, 115 kilometres. 

 Besides the telegraph running along the San- 



chez and La Vega Railroad, there is one con- 

 necting the capital with Puerto Plata. Santo 

 Domingo has been connected with the world s 

 telegraph system since April, 1888, by the 

 submarine cable connecting Mole St. Nicolas 

 (Huyti), Puerto Plata, and Sunto Domingo 

 with Santiago de Cuba. 



Commerce. The imports in 1887 amounted 

 to $2,057,928, and the exports to $2,660,471. 

 The chief articles of export were tobacco, 

 sugar, coft'ee, honey, wax, mahogany, and 

 cabinet and dye woods. Guano exportation 

 has been resumed on a large scale. The 

 American trade exhibits the following figures : 



SAVAGE, JOHN, author, born in Dublin, Ire- 

 land, Dec. 13, 1828; died in Spragueville, Pa., 

 Oct. 9, 1888. He was educated in the Jesuit 

 college at Colougoues, and took a course in the 

 art school of the Dublin Society, where he 

 gained several prizes. While studying art he 

 began to contribute patriotic articles and 

 poems to John Mitchell's Dublin newspaper, 

 and when that was seized by the British Gov- 

 ernment, and its editor sent to Australia, he 

 joined several friends in establishing another 



JOHN SAVAGE. 



newspaper devoted to the popular cause. He 

 gave much aid with his pen to the revolution- 

 ary movement of 1848, and the suppression of 

 his newspaper led him to undertake more act- 

 ive and personal work. At the outbreak of 

 the revolt he organized and commanded a 

 body of armed peasantry in the south of Ire- 

 land, and at their head captured several Brit- 

 ish garrisons. On the failure of the movement, 

 he came to New York city and secured em- 

 ployment as a proof-reader in the " Tribune" 

 office. While so engaged he contributed fre- 

 quently to newspapers and periodicals, wrote 



