Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-12-04
Horace Greeley,

"seeieJ vas 10 ainott a. god health I
usual. shen. % the day sfisr the electiO
9. be ur7's a card announcing bis rcsunI
ton Of the editorial charge Of the Til
une. His sleePlessoess vas kBO-n .
have become greatly worse. but for yrsr
A be had suferi from want Of sleep. and
as Is nos clear. a sufi~ui allowance IN,
not been made for the intense strain upo
. him throughout the summer, and espec;a
n y during the last month Of his wifes III
mess. But IL soon became evident tha
his strength was unequal 10 the hard tasI
10 which he set bimselE. he wrote onl,
three or four careful articles, no one o.
them half u column in length. the mo,l
most notable, perhaps. was that euti:led
''couciusioDs. " wherein he summed up Iii
views Of the canvass. In all he wro,.
less than three and a half columns after
his return. contributing to Onb four issues
OF the papss Two or three times h.
handed his assistant short articles, saying:
There is an idea worth using. but [
haven't felt able to mark il ont properly.
ION had better put il in shape" AT last,
on Tuesday, the 18th inst, abandoned the
effort to visit the Office regularly aud sent
for the family physician of Mr.. Al.
johnson, the friend with whom he was a
guest and whose house his wife. had died
Every effort was made to nluce sleep hui
he grew steadily worse until It became
evident his case was critical DR.. Choste
and others were call Tito consultation. and
hnally 1t was decided to take him to DIR
Choate's residence near Chappabua.
Here he rec .ivcd the underwriting ai.
tention of DR.. Choate. and he:e Lr.
Brown-Sequarb, DR.. Brown and others
were called in consultation. The i.son.
MA had developed into inflammation Of
the brain and under this the venerated
patient failed. A times he was delirious
aud at other times Ms clear headed ms .v.
er. liz lost flesh and streng l. with start.
ling rapijity, and in few days the posi-
blllty Of his speedy death forced itself in.
to unwilling recognition.
IL was not however until Thursday last
that his associates aud family brouyb, {
to admit it, and even then
hey still cung to his faith IN the yiror
II his constitution. On Wednesday night a
lie failed very vpidIy. Thursday after. 4
loon aud evening he seemed so,newba, ?
asler. During the night he Sept very c
neaSlly, muttering occasionally aud fire.. o
uentIy raising his right hand Toward e
'ofhinng he was more quiet aud between "
and ~ o'clock fell into nearly uncon- 81
nous condition, which continued with s
'me intervals through the day. He made P
OCCASIONAL murnur:, hut many of them in u
'n'equence of his extreme weakness and bl
Dparent insblity to finish what he bepan o'
ere un'nteligiblv. About noon he said Ic
mite distinctly and with some force ~ it'
now that my Rcdeemer hveth." Dur;po ad
&c day he recognized various pcrple. his fu
'ughter many tines. the members of his no
'uSeh'Id at Chappaqua, Mr. John r. he
uart and Mr. Ried. On the whole. he tn
'ffered little aud seemed to have no NOR. III
an the ordinary resilessness which No. pc
the last stage of the diseases tn
ar'ng the day hts extremities were cold sy
ID there was no pulse at the wrist The III
ZION oil The heart was very in,ermittapt en
u was constantly diminishing in force ele
had not asked for water or been will. hi'
6 to drink since his stay at DR. Choate's Gel
It during Friday he asked for it freouen,. up
the
UP to within half an hour OF the end be pr.
'hlIest'd' IN various ways, his conscious. mu
- OF what was goind on around him rec
even answered in m ouos, IabIes and
eh'geh'ly the questions addressed 10 Sin
H. About haIfpast he said, very bly,
''nc''y' at is DONE and, beyond the VIII
crest answers to questions, this was b;s bes
I u'teranco. lug
Ills youngest daughter, Miss Gabrielle OF
win him through Thursday evening fail
'oughout Friday the elder daurh,er whi
5 ida'w IN constant attendance as sb, eral
oeeh during the whole of this his III. first
> s'a mat OF Mrs Greeley. Other posi-
"oers of his Chuppaqua household will
present with Mr. and Mrs John Stu. nate
ana a few other friends. Notbin. turf
science or affection could suggest was tom
ing to ease the last hours. The vii, who
night had fairly set III when the ;,sv inve
&c n0ur came. Without sleishs were s'roI
ing to and fro bearing to Chappaqua. that
nearest telegraph station, the Las, bul. S'gn
y winch the thousands of anr;o,s BIT is
is in the greet city near bv ken, a. comp
ling. Within. the daughter .,a upon
others stood near the DIVING man - rigor