The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-12-13
HORACE GREELEY.

IDPnln OIL the IbuDuuu10t00r0 ~ NJ
last Hears or his lilsess- Brief Bic.
graphical sketch.
Horace Greeley, editor of the New
York Tribune, died at TarrytoSn, h. Y,
Nov. 20, at $50 D. m. Mrs. Greeley be-
came hopelessly i'll during the first days
of October, and Mr.. Greeley was "A con.
slant attendant at her bedside from that
time until her death, a month later. A
few days after, he formally resumed
editoria. control Of the Tribune, but soon
after, from physical prostration, was
compelled to seek rest. The long ex.
element Of the Presidential campaign,
closing with the solemn death of his
wife, bad been 70 intense that the re-
action overwhelmed him. Loss OF sleep
and di.orean cation OF the digestive
organs followed, and, under the com
bination, the strong mar failed. and he
gradually sank, until death closed the
mortal life Of Horace Greeley.
The Tribune, o. Saturday, furnishes
the following account Of the illness and
last hours Of Mr.. Greeley, SO far as
known to any Of his associates:
"Mr. Greeley was IN Almost as good
health ~ usual when, on the day after
election, he wrote n card announcing
his resumption OF the editorial charge
of the Tribune. His sleeplessness was
known to have become greatly worse,
but for years he had suffered more or
less from some difficulty, but, as is now
clear, y sufficient allowance had not
been made for the intense strain upon
him throughout the summer, especially
during the last month Of his wife's i'll
ness, but il soon became evident that
his strength was unequal to the hard
task 10 which he had set himself. He
wrote culy three or four careful articles,
no one of them half u column in length.
The most notable, perhaps, was that
entitled 'Conclusions,' wherein he
summed up his views of the canvass
In all he wrote les than three and n
half columns after his return, con.
tributing to only -four issues of the
paper. Two or three times he handed
his assistant short articles, saying,
There is an idea worth using, but |
haven't felt able to work it out prop
erly. You had better put it in shape
AT last, on Tuesday, the l2th inst, he
abandoned the effort to visit the Office,
and sent for the family physician OF Mr..
A. }. Johnson, the friend with whom
he was a guest, in whose house his wife
had died.
Every effort was made to induce
sleep, but be grew steadily worse until
it became evident that his case was
critical. DR.. George e. Choate and
Others were called in consultation, and
finally it was decided te take him to DR..
Chos,e's residence, two or three miles
distant from MIR. Greeley's W country
house at Chappsps. Here he received
unremitting attention from DR.. Choate,
and here Drs. Brown and Sequard and
Others were called in consultation.
The insomnia had developed into in.
tlammation of the brain, and under this
the venerated patient rapidly sank. At
times he was delirious at other times as
cl~ear.headed as ever. He lost flesh and
strength with startling rapidity, and in
a few days the possibility of his speedy
death forced itself into unwilling recog-
milton. 1t was not, however, until
Thursday that his associates and family
brought themselves to admit it, and
eve they still chung to his faith in the
vigor Of his constitution. On Wednes.
day night he failed very rapidly. On
Thursday afternoon and evening he
seemed somewhat easier. During the
night he slept very uneasy, mutterlHg
occasionally, and frequently raising his
right hand. Toward morning he was
more unquiet, and between S and . fell
into a nearly unconscious condition.
which continued, with solne intervals,
through the day. He made occasional
EXPLANATIONS, but many Of them, in
consequence of his extreme weakness
and apparent inability to finish Whist
he began, were unintelligible.
about noon, however, ne said, quite
distinctly. and with some force, : know
that my R.deemer liveth,' During the
day he r.cogn zed various people. his
daughter many times, the members of
his household at Chappaqua, Mr.. Jno.
X. Stuart, and Mr.. Reid. On the whole,
he suffered little; seemed to have no
more than the ordinary r~estlessness
which accompanies the last stage of the
disease. During the day his extremi.
ties wore cold, and there was no pulse
at the wrist. The action OF the heart
was very intermittent and constantly
diminishing in force. He had not asked
for water or been willing to drink since
bis stay at DR.. Cnoate's, but, during
Friday, he asked for it frequently, and
up to within half an hour of the end he
manifested in various ways his conscious
ness of what was going on around him,
and even answered In monosylIables,
and ln~telligently, questions addressed
to him.
"About half past 3 he said, very dis.
timely. 1T is done and, beyond the
briefcst answers to questions, this was
his last u%tterance. His youngest daugh.
ter, Mss Gabrielle, was with him through