Connecticut western news., 1872-12-06
SALISBURY. CONN. Friday Morning, Dec. 6, 1872.
HORACE GREELEY DEAD.
HIS LAST HOURS.

Horace Greeley died at 6:5O p. m, las, Friday, Dcc. 27lh.) conscious to the last
 The Tribune furnishes the following ac count ot the illness and death of Mir. Gree ley :-So far as any of his associates knew, Mir. Greeley was in almost as good health as usual, when, on the day after the cleo iion, he wrote the card announcing his re. sumption of the editorial charge of ,h Tribune. His sleeplessness was known l." have become greatly worse, but for years he had suffered more or less from tho sam difficulty, and it is now clear that suficiel | allowance has not been made of the inttn strain throughout the summer, especial, during the last month of his wifes illness. But it soon became evident that his strength was unequal to the hard task to which h' careful articles, not one of them half Q col umn In length. The most notable, perhaps. was that en,itlsd "Conclusiona," wherein be summed up his views of the canvass. h all he wrote less than three and a hali col umns after his return, contributing to only four issues of the paper. Two or thre times he handed his assistant articles, say ing, There is an idea worth using, but haven't felt able to work 1t out properly. You had better put it in shape.
 At last, on Tuesday, the 18th inst, h, abandoned the effort to visit the office reg ularly and sent for the family physician Ot Mir. A. J. Johnson, the friend with whom be was guest and in whose house his wife had died, Every effort was made to induc, sleep, but he grew steadily worse until il became evident his case was critical. Dr. George C. s. Choate and other physicians were called in consultation and finally it was decided to take him to Dr. Choale's residence, two Or three miles distant from Mr. Greeley's own home at ChaUpauqua. Here he received unlntermitting attention of Dr. Choate, and herr Dr. Brown, Sc guard. Dr. Brown and others were called in consultation. The iaeOmnia had devel- oped into inflammation of the brain, and under this the venerated patient sank rapid ly. At times he was delirious-at other times as clear headed as ever. He lost flesh and strength with startling rapidlty, and in a few days the possibility of his speedy death forced itself into unwilling recognition. It WAS net, however, until Thursday last that his associates and fam fly brought themselves to admit it, anu even then they sull clung 10 his faith in the vigor of his constitution. On Wednes- day night he failed very rapidly. Thurs day afternoon and evening he seemed some better. During the night he slept very un- easily, muttering occasionally and frequent ly raising his right hand. Toward morning he was more quiet, and between and g o'clock fell into nearly unconscious con dition, which continu.d with some interval: through the day. He made occasional ex- clammstions but in consequence of his ex- treme weakness and apparent inability to finish what he began, were uninteligible. About noon, however, he Said quite dis tinctly. and with some force, II know that my Redeener lIyeth." During the day he recognized various people, his daughter many times, the members of his house hold at Chappauqua, MT. John R. Stuart and Mir. Reid. On the whole he suffered little, and seemed to have no more than the ordinary restlessness which accompanies the last stage of disease. During the day his extremities were cold and there was no pulse at the wrist. The action of the heart was very intermittent, and was constantly diminishing in force. He had not asked for water or been willing to drink it since his stay at Dr. Choate's, but during Friday he asked for it frequently. Up 10 within half an hour of the end he manifested in various ways his consciousness of what was going on around him and even answered in monosyllables and intelligently questions addressed to him. About half past three he said very distinctly, Tt is done," an, beyond the briefest answers to question. this was his last utterance. Ills younges daughter, Miss Gabrielle, was with hin through Thursday evening; throughou Friday the elder daughter, Miss Ida, was il constant attendance, as sue had been du- ring the whole of his illness and Mrs. Gree ley's before him. Other members of hi Chappauqua household were present witl 4r. and Mrs. Johnson, Mir. Stuart and oth CT friends Nothing that science or affec ton could suggest was wanting to ease tn last hours.
 The wintry night had fairly set in whel the inevitable hour came. Sleighs wer running to and fro from Chappaqua, tn nearest telegraph station, with the lates bulletins, which the thousands of anxlou hearts in the great city near by, kept de mandlng. Within the daughter and fe, others stood in close proximity to the dy ing man, who remained conscious an seemingly rational and free from pair though too weak to speak. In the room s, one or two more friends aud the physician At ten minutes before o'clock the watch CTS drew back. There was stiffness frol the bedside. The editor was gone an there was peace after so many struggle and honor after so much obloquy.
 Horace Greeley, the son of ZAcheus an Mary [Woocburnl Greeley, was born
 Amherst, New Hampshire, Febrtmry 1911. His ancestors on his fathers sG were English, and on his mothers st Scotch Irish. His father was 8 DOT far
 mer, and Horace was indebted chiefly
 his own perseyering application for h
 education. In his sixteenth year he b
 came an apprentice to the printers trad in the office of the Northern Speetator, East Poultney, Vermont, where he remain ed five years. He afterwsrd worked at b
 trade for . short time in Jamestown an Lodi, N. r., and subsequently, al Erie, Pa
 his knowledge of political statistics an