The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-07-24
The DEATH-BED.
Graphic and Minute Details
of General Grants Last
Hours on Earth.
His Family All Around his Red
side when the summons
Came to Rest.
Tributes of Respect 10 the Dead
Mans Memory from all Sec
tiOns and Lands.
President Cleveland Issues n
Proclamation Ordering 80
Days Mourning.
GENERAL CHANTS DEATH.
Scenes nj the Death bod--The Action
OF the President--The Popular
Respect

scenes NJ the beath bed--The Action
OF the President-.TheP Popular
Respect
Mt. McGregor, July Pa few
minutes before O'Clock Doctors
Douglas, Shrady and Sands stood on
the cottage veranda conversing about
the condition of General Grant aud
discussing the probabilities ofhis death
and the limit of life left to the sick
man, and Mrs. Sarturis and the steno-
grapher, Dawson, were conversing u
little distance away, when Henry, the
nurse, stepped hastily upon the piazza
and spoke quietly to the Doctors,
was very near to death. The medical
men hastily entered the room where
the sick man was lying and approach
cd his side. Instantly upon scanning
the patients face DIR. Douglas ordered
the family to be
SUMMONED TO THE BEDSIDE.
All haste was made, and Mrs.
Grant, Mr.. Jesse Grant and wife, U.
5. Grant Jr, and wife, and Mrs. Col
oncl Grant were quickly
beside the doctors at the sick mans cot.
Mrs. Sartoris and Mrs. Dawson had
followed the doctors in from the pi-
azza and the entire family was pres
ent except Col. Fred Grant and hasty
summons was set for him, but he
entered the sick room while the mes
senger was still searching for him.
The colonel seated himself at the
head of the bed with his left arm rest.
ing upon the pillow above the head of
. 10. ,.nnnral hn hrnot htnar raVtl
ly and with slightly gasping respira-
tons. Mrs. Grant, calm, but with i'll
tense agitation bravely suppressed,
took a seat close by the bedside. She
leaned slightly upon the cot and
gaLed
WITH TEAR-BLINDED EYES
into the generals face. She found
there, how ever, no token of recogni-
ton for the sick man was peacefully
and painlessly passing into another
life. Mrs. Sartotis came behind her
mother and leaning over her shoulder
so witnessed the close of a life in
which she had constituted a strong
element of pride. Directly behiud
Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Sartoris,
and at little distance re-
moved, stood Drs. Douglas, Shrady
Sands, silent spectators of the closing
OF lite their efforts and council had so
prolonged. On the opposite side OF the
bed from his mother and directly be-
fore her stood Jesse Grant and u.
5, Grant, Jr., and near the corner of
the cot Oh the same side with Jesse
and near him, was MIR. Anderson,
General Grants stenographer and
confidential secretary. AT the foot of
the bed and gazing directly down
into the generals face were Mrs. Col.
Grant, Mrs. u. 5. Grant, Jr., and Mrs,
Grant, while, somewhat removed from
the family circle, Henry, the nurse,
and Harrison Terrell, the generals
body.servant, were watching the clos
ing life of the patient, their master.
DIR. Newman had repaired to the hotel
TO breakfast aud was not present The
generals little grand children, u. s.
Grant, Jr., aud Nellie were sleeping
the sleep OF childhood in the nursery
room above; otherwise the entire
family and household were gathered
a. the bedside of the dying man and
the members OF the group had Deen
summoned not moment sooner thar
was prudent.
The doctors noted on entering tn,
room and pressing 10 the bedside tina
ALREADY THE PURPLIsH TIDE,
which is one of Natures signals o
final dissolution, had settled be
meath the finger nails; tn,
hand that DIR. Douglas lifted wa
fast growing colder than ii had beer
through the night; the pulse had Hut
tered beyond the point where the doc
tor could distinguish 1t from the pulse
beats in his own tinger-tips; the respi
ration was very rapid, and was but
succession of shallow paintings; bu
happily the approaching end was be
coming clear of that rafting fullues
of the throat and lungs, and the resp
ration, which had grown quicker All
more rapid, at the close also becam
less labored and almost noisless. Thi
fact was in its results comfort to tn
watchers by the bedside, who wer
thus spared the scene of All agonizin,
or other than peaceful death.
The wife almost constantly stroke
the face, forehead and hands Of I'll
dying general and ut times, as th
passionate longing to prevent ii
event So near, would rise in her, Mr.
Grant would press both his hand
aud leaning forward
TENDERLS KISSED THE FACE
OF the dying man. Col Fred Graz
sat silently but with evident feelin
though his bearing was that of SO
dierly sou at the deathbed of hero
father. U. 5. Grant, Jr., was deep