Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-18
tine SICK SOLDIER.
General Grant Weak and Exhausted
From a Walk.
FEARS THAT ne WILL NOT RALLY.
He Writes Memoranda for His Family,
Being Unable to Utter
a Sound.
GRANT SLOWLY BUT SURELY DYING.

Mt. McGREGoR, N. Y, June l7.-When
Gen. Grant reached his cottage after his
walk to the brow of the mountains he was
much exhausted and sank into chair in
the parlor. Very soon he indicated BY
signs that he wanted some writing msteri-
els, which were procured, and then he wrote
for nearly half an hour. The result was two
letters or papers. One was headed Mem
oranda for my family" In it the General
had written that
He Thought He Was Failing
and for certain instructions that he desired
carried out he referred his family to other
and more definite memoranda prepared by
him before leaving New York. The other
note he folded and addressed to DR.. Doug
las. He handed the papers to Col Fred
Grant, and that addressed to the physician
is understood to have been OF similar i'm
port as that to the family. The
afternoon wore away with the General sitting
outside on the piazza, after having written
as stated. The sunset found him still there
and when dusk deepened he was yet sitting
silently on the porch at one side Of the front
door of the cottage. When lamps were
lighted and the light streamed out into the
growing darkness the sick man was yet out
side, though the air was chilly and stiff
breeze was swayiDg the pine tree tops. Col.
Fred Grant and DR.. Douslas were near at
hand. At length, after s o'clock, the Gen.
ersl went inside the cottage and DR.. Doug
las wrote and sent
AMessage TO DIR. Sands.
He asked him to come here if possible
tonight. At nine o'clock the General re-
tired and DR.. Douglas then thought that
his throat and neck appeared better than
on Tuesday night. 1t is possible that the
Generals walk this afternoon tested
his waning strength too far,
and the reaction has brought
to him the sense Of weakness that he feels
is not to be lightly disregarded. Whether
his weakness tonight is the immediate
result of undue exerron or whether it is the
weakness of reaction after his journey is a
question that the doctors only may presume
TO answer.
At 10 o'clock the General seemed to be
sleeping in his room. The family st that
hour, as during the entire evening, were
gathered in the parior, and DR.. Douglas was
with them for tic night. At IL o'clock
they retired and the cottage was darkened.
DR.. Sands will leave New York at IL to-
Ii, hit and re3ch here in the m orning.
At Midnight.
MI. MCGREGoR, n. Y, June l8.-Mid-
nieht-A dim light is burning in one OF
the sleeping rooms. The Generals room
and that of the Doctor are dark with the
house quiet. No change in the Generals
nCition has been ammo, need since.
In the Small Hours.
Mr.. MCGREGOR, June l8-At lis a.
m, the associated press reporter saw DR..
Douglas at the cottage. He said the gen
erai slept at once after settling down at 9
o'clock. At 10 he awoke and afterward
doled until o. NJ, when the nurse aroused
the doctor. He cleared the Generals
throat, painted it with cocosine, gave him
food and tried his pulse, which was firm
and regular. The General was no weaker
than at p m. The General when
be felt himself weak in the
evening told DE-. Douglas
that he cared to have no other doctor called,
but that DR. Douglas might do as he chose,
wbereupon DR.. Douglas summoned Dr.
Sands. Dr. Douglas feels no apprehension
for tonight
Two A. M-The cottage ID quiet and
dark