The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-03
The Last Hour OF Governor wright,
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Late 3. Minister 70 Berlin.
Governor Wright was native of
Washington county, Pa, and lived for
some time in wellsburg, in this State.
In 1854, during the Presidential cam
paign, he visited his old home in Wash
ington, and on hisreturn made a speech
at the Court House IN this city that
many of us viii long remember. All
who knew the man, and all who heard
the speech alluded to, VIII read with in
terest the following extract from let
ter In regard to his last honrs:
Last August Mr.. Wright visited the
baths OF Hombourg and. Wiesbaden,
hoping 70 find in their famed waters re-
Lief from an uudefinable Rilment. Re.
turning without benefit, he Submitted
70 mild regime Of diet and exercise
prescribed by DR.. Traube, body ply
slctan to the King. As the autumn
wore away he became more concerned
about what had been Considered ONLY =
protracted tndisposition; and thonVh
he was always In his place on the Sab
bath, In the little chapel In Junker
strnsse, he was less often TO be seen
walking in the Thiergarten with a
friend, or pointing ont the lions OF the
city TO some itinerant.
He presided with wonted dignity, but
with not to be concealed WEAKNESS, at
the Thanksgiving dinner in November,
and week later opened, as he thought,
his regular winter receptions; but by
New Years Day he had become 80
feeble that the honors of his table were
done by his estimable lady alone, the
guests Just slipping into his little par
lor, as they departed, to press his hand
and receive hearty ''GOd bless yOu.n
The physicians now acknowledged that
dropsy was ensuing; but, though they
disagreed concerning the vital arrange
ment of which 1t was an accident, they
continued, in accordance with the eth
les peculiar to their craft, to give assur-
ance of an ultimate, IL not speedy re-
covery, until wish was expressed by
the family that Prof. Prerichs should
be consulted; then they expressed their
inability to benefit their patient, and
their willingness TO resign him TO an.
other trio. The new physicians and
new promises were as inefficacious as
the old. The semi-barbarous process OF
neutrality-suspicious. had been RESORT
ed to by Traube, was repeated with only
temporary result; and at the urgent re-
quest of friends, the celebrated home
opathist, DIR, Baehr, Of Hanover, was
called. Again the diagnosis was fa-
vorable, and again the invalid was sub.
iected TO a new treatment. Those who
saw him at intervals of a fortnight
marked the gradual decline oil his
strength and spirits. To every doubt
ing inquiry the doctors declared that
the symptoms were the result of the
medicines, and were to be expected,
forsooth, they sHid-though they did
not tell the truth, and so complete WIS
the deception, that preparations were
made for trip to Carlsbad, In Austria.
Baron Won Hameyer, a longtime
friend ofthe family, was to be one Of
the party, and the day of starting was
only put of from week to week, BY the
cold, rainy weather Of backward
spring, the compensation of a MRy-like
February. H-,
Having Joined, as usual, with his
wife In morning worship on Saturday,
he remarked, as she called his servant
to dress him, that he had not felt SO
well for a week and would spend part
of the day on the balcony. Then sud-
denly exolaiming, alt Is very warm
here; open the window, dear, am
faint" he dropped into the arms darted
forward TO break his fall. The purple
blackness which had suffused his face
gave way to the habitual pallor. There
was mOmentary glance of loving re-
cognition, and he lay in wakeless sleep
encircled in the arms of his terror
stricken widow,
What had been declared possible at
the early consultations had occurred,
the water had broken in upon his
heart. a