The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1885-03-21
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Nsw Y0hK, MaHh 81 4 islsgfaphed
summons 10 come ~ once % hef dying
father was not obsyed by Mn Nellie
Grant sariofla with lhc expected alaedty,
aud now draft fof money enough 70
cover the expenses Of The Journey has
been sent By cable Ia England The sur.
inlse was that she lacked the feadI meaHs
10 tart hastily, ~ she would not have
failed ~ take The steamer from Liverpool
last Saturdays but lhe expectation Is that
abe embarked yesterday. Her English
husband has never bran financially pros
porous, though socially deemed an ofna.
incnt, and he II ~ present suffering
from last seasons bad guessing 90
the turf All Of General Grants
family, except Nellie, are with him, Fred
Grants wife, formerly Ida llon0re, q
beauty greatly admired In Kentucky aud
Washington, has been deyotcdly attentive
to her father.n.law, by whom she was
long ago nIcknamed "Sunshlne,h Ha
dlslkes the attendance OF hired nurse,
and thus far none has been employed.
Upon MIS-. Giant aud Ida has deyolyed
such service as he viii permit o be done
for him, lie has kept calling for Nellie,
however, and Insisting that she must
come TO him, ever since the gravity Of ths
situation became manifest 10 him.
MEDICAL OPINION.
Being pressed TO give his opinion as 10
the further duration OF Grants life, DR.,
fordyce Barker could only say that II
must be very brief; but DR.. Douglas
fixed the extreme limit at thirty days, aud
added that he might not live another
week. II he could and would take suf.
ficlent nourlshment, as he does on ex-
ceptlonal days, he might hold on for sew
eral months yeti but he Is now wasting
away so rapidly, In consequence OF per.
slstence ln light eating, and through In.
ability TO sleep, that his power OF endur-
ance has become an unknown factor, aud
II may leave him In state Of collapse at
any moment. Like Garfield, he wastes
from day TO day lie Ia weak and llstles
much OF the time, aud during this week
his work on his book has been slight and
spasmodic, making very little progress.
AT times he lapses into condition
bordering on stupor. But In his wakciul
and brighter periods he Is the same
stolid, grim, silent man who faced death
on battle fields twenty years ago. This
view OF him Is given your correspondent
by frequent and familiar visitor.
at has been Misrepresentation" he
added, "to say that the General does moi
appreciate the fact that he soon must die.
The hero OF Shiloh aud the Wilderness
fully understands that he has few
weeks only, and 10 his Intimate friends
he speaks OF this with the same freedom,
aud In the same matter-of.iact manner
that he discusses his intentions with res.
pect 10 dinner or the condition OF bis d.
gestlon. IL Is indeed eminently eharac,
terlstic OF the man that he faces death IN
such an unmoyed way. II left 10 himself,
he would not live four days. lie Is very
weak and lndlsposed 10 take amy nourlsh'
ment whatever, because OF the pain pro
duced by swallowing. lie I,
| hNfNt uHHEils bNopi't the ehiutH'
solicitation OF those who care fol
him, he has refused 10 eat morsel fol
two days at time. Then the memberl
Of his family gather around him, and bel
/ OF him for their snkes 10 take some nour
ishment. lie then consents TO the ordeal
and Is Invariably exhausted by the effort
but In an hour or two he begins 10 mend
and thereafter improves very rapidly unit
his system calls out again for food. TheI
he grows worse alarmingly until persua
slon once more prevails upon him TO eat
with his moods than anybody else, aud 4
il usually from her hands that he hnali,
accepts food.n
GENERAL GRANTS RELIGION.
The Rev. Dr. John r. Newman was
sent for with view 10 his acting a. q
spiritual advisor TO Granti but this wa.
not done at his own instance. II he were
/ religious man he would be Methods,
or Presbyterian, but he frankly says that
be had no special theological training Ia
his youth, aud has not studied the sub,
jeci In later years sufficiently 10 form
any opinion a. 10 what he does or doe.
not believe. lie holds that there Is &
God and hereafter, but be IL not pre-.
| pared 10 accept the extreme position
taken by most Protestants that the un.
converted and the Indifferent will be
eternaliy tormente1.
| II Grants attitude with reference 10 re
llgioD could 90 exactly defined II might
be expressed as having all along been
1 DI aud Nh.Wa q.
TO suppose that the nearness 10 death has
made any change, though bis wife IL vefy
solicltous thathe should arouse 10 mental
activity on the subject. "lIe does not
apparently bother himself 10 the least
about the life hereafter" says one trust.
worthy Informant, "seemlngly being will.
| Ing to take his chance with the millions
VINO have gone before him 10 the same
| frame Of mind" The only clergyman with
whom he was ever Intimate was DIR. New.
man, and their relations were confined
mainly TO sociabllity.
when Newman undertook the ultimate.
ly disastrous Job Of gathering popular
congregation In the big church In which
| Wepworth had failed, Grant took q pew
made liberal subscription and attended
the services With considerable regularity
but when offered a deaeonate In the
church, which was Congregational,
though the pastor was q Methodist, he
abruptly declined. When the slightly
less spiritual Office Of trustee was sug
gssied he refused that too, and syoided
bis moderate degree Of InadelIiy. II re.
malns 10 be seen whether Newman vii
uow be able TO shake him In that position
/ OF Indifference.