The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-07-24

steadily, and the ladies', while. watch
ing with wet cheeks, were silent a:
betitted the dignity of such life ~
was closing before them.
The morning had passed five min
utes beyond s o'clock, and there wa.
not one of the strained and waiting
| watchers but who could mark the
nearncss of the life-tidc TO its final
obbing. DIR. Douglas noted the near.
! ness of the supreme moment, and quiz
city approached the bedside and bent
over IL, and while he did so, the sor-
row of the gray-haircd doctor seemed
| closely blended with that of
| the family. DIR. Shrady also
drew near. 1t was seven minutes af-
ter & o'clock and the eyes of the gener-
al were closing; his breathing grew
more hushed and
A PEACEFUL EXPRESSION
seemed TO be deepening in the firm
and strong lined face. A minute
more passed; the general drew II deep
er breath; there was an oXhalation
like that of one relieved of long aud
anxious tension; the members OF the
group were iinpellcd, each step near
er the bed, and each waited TO note
the next respiration, but il did not
come; there was absolute stiffness in
the room and hush of eXpectant sus-
pense, SO that no sound broke the ST.
lence save the singing OF birds in the
pines outside the cottage aud the
measured throbbing of the engine
that all night had been waiting by the
little mountain depot down the
slope.
GIT Is ALL OVER
quietly spoke DR.. Douglas and there
came then heavily to each witness, the
realization that General Grant was
dead. Then the doctor wlthdrew,the
nurse closed the eyc-lids and COM
posed the dead generals head after
which each of the group pressed TO
the bedside, one after the other, and
touched their lips upon the quiet
face, now SO still. DIR.
Shrady passed out upon the piazza
and as he did SO he met DR.. Newman
up the steps.
ale is dead" remarked DR.. Shrady
quietly. The fact of havi * been alb
sent from the side of the dying man
u
of sorrow and sad regret TO the cler-
gyman who had waited all night at
the cottage. lie had been summoned
from his breakfast moment too late
and reached the cottage only in time
TO minister to the family sorrow and
gaze upon the scarcely hushcd lips OF
the dead general to whom DIR. New
mans life had bound him in such
close ties and relations. Those who
saw and know, and all who learn OF
the clergyman's absence from the
death-bed quickly speak the impulse
of hearty sympathy.
CLOSING INCIDENTS.
Soon after Doctors Douglas and
Shrady left the doath-bed they con-
versed feelingly ofth latteI hours of
General Grants life. The pulse frs, |
had indicated failure, and the intel |
lect was last to yield its clearnoss and |
tenacity, that not till after |
midnight last hight; though u circum-
stance at o'clock indicated cogni- |
ZanCe.
ado you want anything, father?' |
questioned Colonel Fred, at that hour. |
water" whispered the general,
huskily, but when offered water aud
milk they gurgled in his throat and |
were elected. That one word of re-
spouse was the last utterancs OF Cen
eral Grant. DIR. Douglas remarked
that the popularity of General
Grants illness was explained by |
his remarkable vitality that seemed to |
present an obstacle to the approach of |
death. 1t was gradual passing away |
of vital force and reflex consciousness |
rs the doctors thought, and at the last |
the general died OF sheer exhaustion |
and a perfectly painless sinking away. |
ayes" said DIR. Shrady quietly,
"THE GENERAL DREADED.
pain, when he felt he had begun |
and he asked that he should |
not be permitted to suffer. The prom
is was made and kept. |
Since he commenced to sink on Tues |
day night he was free from pain"
Toward the last no food was taken,
but when wet cloth was pressed to
his lips he would suck from il the
water TO moisten his mouth During
the generals last night, DIR. Shrady
was constantly within call; DR.. Doug
las was all night at the cottage, and
DIR. Sands slept AT the hotel after mid
night. Within twenty minutes after
the death of General Grant, Karl Ger
hardt, n Hartford sculptor who has
been making study here OF the gen
eral, was summoned TO the cottage, AT
the suggestion of DIR. Newman, to
make plaster mask of the dead mans
face. and he WAS highly successful.