Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-07-24

the mucus clogging in the throat is grow
ing more noticeable.
A few minutes before 8 O'Clock Doctors
Douglas, Shrady and Sands stood on the
cottage veranda conversing about the IN
dition of General Grant. Mrs. Sartoris
and Stenogrspher Dawson were a little
distance away. Henry, the nurse, stepped
hastily upon the piazza and spoke quietly
to the physicians. He told them he
thought the General was very near to his
death. The medical men hastily entered
the room where the sick man was lying
and approached his side. Instantly,
upon scanning the patients face,
Douglas ordered the family summoned
to the bedside. Haste was made, and
Mrs. Grant, Jesse Grant and wife, q. s..
Grant, Jr., and wife, and Mrs. Col. Grant
were quickly beside the doctors at the
sick mans cot. Mrs. Sartoris and Mr..
Dawson had followed the doctors in from
the piazza, and the entire family were
present except Col. Fred Grant. A hasty
summons was sent for him, but he en-
tered while the messenger was searching
for him. The Colonel seated himself at
the head Of the bed, with bis left arm
resting upon the pillow above the head of
the General, who was breathing rapidly
and with slightly gasping respiration.
Mrs. Grant was calm, but with intense
agitation bravely suppressed, took a seat
close by the bedside. b leaned slightly
upon the cot, resting upon her right
elbow, and gazed with tear-blinding eyes
into the Generals face. She found there
no token of recognition, for the sick man
was peacefully and painlessly passing into
another life. Mrs. Sartoris 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 behind Mrs. Grant and
Mrs. Sartoris, and at q little distance re-
moved, stood Doctors Douglass, Shrady
and Sands, spectators OF the closing life
their efforts Inc counsel had 80 prolonged.
On the opposite side OF the bed from his
mother. and directly before her, stood
Jesse Grant and U. s. Grant, Jr., and
near the corner OF the cot, on the same
side as Jesse, and near to each, was Mr..
N. E. Dawson, General Stenographer and
Confidential Secretary. At the foot of the
bed, and gazing directly down into the
Generals face, was Mrs. Col. Fred Grant,
Mrs. U. 8. Grant and Mrs. Jesse Grant,
while somewhat removed from the family
circle, Henry, the nurse, and Harrison,
the Generals body servant. we're respec-
lively watching the closing Of the life Of
the patient, their master.
DR.. Newman had repaired to the hotel
for breakfast, and was not present. The
Generals little grandchildren, q. s.
Grant. Jr., and Nellie, were sleeping.
Other wise the entire family and household
were gathered at the bedside. The mem
bers of the group had been summoned not
a moment soone than was prudent. The
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proceeding to the bedside, that already
the purplish tinge which is one of natures
signals OF final dissolution, had settled be-
nosth the finger-nails. Thu hand that DR..
Douglas lifted was fast growing colder
than il had been throughout the night.
The pulse had futtered beyond the point
where o physician could distinguish it
from the pulse beats in his own finger
tips. Mrs. Grant pressed both his hands,
and leaning forward tenderly kissed the
face OF the sinking man.
The morning had passed five minutes
beyond 8 O'Clock, and there was not one OF
the strained and waiting watchers but who
could mark the nearness of the life-tide to
its final ebbing. DR.. Douglas noted the
nearness Of the supreme and
quietly approached the bedside and bent
above it, and while he did 80, the sorrow Of
the grsy-haired physician seemed closely
allied with that OF the family. DR.. Shrady
also drew near. It was seven minutes
after s o'clock when the eyes Of the Gen.
eral were closing. His breathing grew
more hushed as the last functions OF the
heart and lungs were FASTENED. To the
closing of the ex-President's life a peaceful
expression seemed to be deepening in his
firm aud strong-lined face, and it was reflect
cd as the closing comfort in the sad hearts
that beat quicker under the stress OF low
ing suspense. A minute more passed, and
was closing as the General drew q deeper
breath, and there was q exhalation like
that of one relieved of a long and anxious
tension. The members OF the group were
impelled each q step nearer the bed, and
each wanted to note the next respiration,
but it never anne. There was absolute
stiffness in the room, and flush OF expect
ancy, so that no sound broke the stiffness
save the singing Of the birds In the pines
outside OF the cottage. and the measured
%throbbing of the engine that all night had
waited by the mountain depot.
at is all over" quietly spoke DR..
Douglas, and there came then heavily to
zach witness the realization that Gen.
Grant was dead. Then the doctors with
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composed the dead Generals head. After
which each of the family group pressed to
the bedside, one after another, and touched
their lips upon the quiet face so lately
stilled. DR.. Shrady passed out upon the
| piazza, and as he did so he met DR.. New.
man fastening up stairs. :" He is dead"
remarked DR.. Shrady quietly. The fact
Of having been absent from the side of the
dying man and his family at the last was
a cause of sorrow and regret to the clergy
man, who had waited all night at the cot
tage. He had been summoned a momen,
too late, and reached the cottage only in
time to minister to the family Borrowing,
and gaze upon the scarcely hushed lips
and dead General, to whom DR.. Newman's
love had bound him in suoh close ties and
relations.
Soon after Doctors Douglas and Shrady
left the deathbed they conversed feelingly
of the latter hours OF General Grants
life. The pulse first had indicated failure.
The intellect was last to succumb its clear
ness and conscious tenacity. and that after
midnight last night. through a circum'
stance-at s o'cloek-indicsted cognizanoe
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