Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-07-22
GEN. GRANTS RELAPSE
A Sad Night At Mount McGregor-AU
the Patient's Family Summoned In
His Bedside.

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Grant yesterday. and after midnight this morn
ing he was thought to be slowly dying. The
lohg ride which he took in his bath chair about
MI. Mc(iregor on Monday exhausted him much
more than was ut first supposed, and, though
he seemed refreshed yesterday morning after
an eight hours sheep, at midday there was a
marked increase in the patients weakness and
his faculties seemed to become clouded. He
was also attacked with hiccough, which re-
turned during the afternoon.
When DR.. Douglas was summoned to his he'd
side Gen. Grant intimated that he could endure
ms condition OF weakness but IA short time
longer st ana requested the physician to admin
Douglas was not much inclined to grant this
request, because he believed that sleeD and rest
Proaueeo Dy artificial means would too rapidly
oralm the vitality of the patient. Resides this.
q Iethargic tendency was developing i'm the
case. which also Influenced the doctor against
Douaia. D mSSaPn,ne' nSsr ,i and more than this, DIR.
general eiinsg IT, tS do SO The sick man, however de-
morphine. At length, to satisfy the sick man
Ut Dr douglas administered a portion ofmorphine'
sleep. So 'e" W
Attempts were made as the afternoon was
waning war; to give the general food but the quan
a'sS 1re.aned IN was small. When the current OF
ti throat It's own weight distended the throat and
the lOod passed down, but when the last few
iiouthiuls were being drained from the glass
.,iS WeiSnt ana fuilness OF the liquid was not
suIncient to distend the parts and they closed
because the muscular power of the throat WAS
was 10 Keep an open passage. The result
vas d season oil choking and coughing with he
eeGtion of portion of the liquid at the close of
Sieh Sa., attempt to administer the food The con-
uielou ol the patient may be appreciated when
IL Is known that within perhaps fifteen minutes
;titer an attempt to administer nouri shmenf la
MN the general would suddenly look up with a
hhohentary expression of bewiiderment and in
Iulre OF his attendant, -W hen are Won roin.- 10
give me that tood?"
r. The afternoon was very sultry. At SIX O'Clock
Or. Douglas intimated that he could NOT pron
lse that the general would live through the
night During the evening Col. Grant gave or.
ders that all manuscripts and literary effects at
the cottage Office should be at once pack ed up
ana made safc,;.s no more work on the general :
memoirs would probably be done there. As
darkness settled down on the mountain, the
patient was supported flo;a his sick 10 an
easy chair In the cottage parlor, where through
the open door he could see between the sw,yiIig
nianches OF the pine trees the lights ofthe hot
Inc general at this time, now ever, took little
note OF what was passing around him. The end
vas thought to be last approaching, and L. >.
nine o'clock Rev. Dr. WeWan 1 knet @te wi, p9hl thd
prayer
For an hour the patients pulse had been fiut-
tering ana weak, but soon after O'clock il
ste;dlcd and grew shade firmer Thea he low.
c,ed ms fset and crossed his knees: next he
raised MS hand to his face and rested his cheeI,
against it, Finally, as the hour OF 10 o'clock
drew near, Gen. Grant looked up and smoke IN
ms uaughter Nellie: Then he indicated pur-
tIons for his family. Handing one note to Col.
Fred the general looked up into his ,:,ce win,
large eyes that had in them a pitiful express
sion.
IL have already at tended to that, father RI.
turned the colonel, is he bent over the general.
The general addressed other members of tnc
laiTliy. The pulse was growing s:e:,dier and
the night had passed beyond eleven O'clock
The family were sitting on the ni or standing
hecisoned DIR. Douglas TO his side Tell them
;tll ~ go to bed, he whispert l. and then added:
There is no earthly use of them sitting up any
lCngcr."
Later the general received a hypoderInic in
lection Of brandy, which seemed to strengthen
nm. Dr. Douglas has tclegraphed all the alb
IL they wish to see the general alive they must
come Immediately, as he does not think life
can be pi olorged later than "Wednesday even
ing. The doctor has also summoned all the
other physicians To come at once to Mount
McGregor.
FICH SILVER ORE FROM TENNNESSEE-A
dispatch from Chattanooga, Tenn, says: The
most extraordinary assays have been made bv
the Smithsonian Institution At Washington OF a
score or more Oh specimens of silver ore, re-
Gently discovered al Polk county, Tenn about
thirty miles frDln Chattanooga. The ass:lvs
tends thrSaghous thosslnds Of acre. e The es re-
La0rt has creased s.es>t excitement.
to the New York Times from Pittsburg, Pa,
July u, says: John Teemer, who was yester-
day beaten by Gaudaur in the regatta. was
openly charged to-day with having sold out in
order TO aid pool selling in race with G;iudaur
which Is to be rowrd soon. 1t is atso said that
TIE course was not three miles lonr tiaudaur
stated this morning that he himself Thought
The course a little short. "Howcver,'' said hc,
l have rowed three full miles On Creve Occur
Lake IN almost as good time as yesterday, bu,
ntver III my life felt in As good condition as 1
was. felt as If I could row all day In sup
port Of the charge or trickery it is also stated
hat after the Incn had started two men from
the regatta managers stand went among the
crowd and offered 10 bet odds that Gaudaur
would win the race. The referee said that he
evidence of any crookedness was offered he
,ould do nothing else than give the race TO the
man who came il first. He asks for an inyesti-
CATION.
No PARDON FOR HIM.-Gov. Hill has denied
he application for pardon of James O'B,.icn.
alias Robert Lindsay, of New York, convicted
,f perjury in connection with the Garfield
MOrey letter, and sentenced April. 1881, Ia
light years Imprisonment i'm Sing Sing prison.
MORE TROUBLE ARoUT THE EMMA NINE
The noted Emma mine scandal has been re-
lived i'll Chicago bya suit brought in the United
states circuit court by James L. Lyon, one of
he original stock holders, against Robert CHS
lolm, also am original stockhoder, to recover
lamagcS for default of contract. Before the
control of the Emma Mine company passed into
hc hands of Minister Schenck Senator stewart
llu L. W Lyon owned SSUO,OcO oil the
took, and Chisholm 81 100000, Schenck
stewart and Park are charged with having
Fought up this stock Tor 40 cents Oh the dollar,
when it was selling in London for 81 80. CHS
.olm and Lyon pooled their issues and brought
nit against the company for the difference be-
ween the price they received for their stock
nd its market value, and contracted together
egarding division of what should be recovered |
-yon charges that Chisholm sold him out not |
their agreement, and settled with
he company, and by reason of this, Lyon
llegcS he was unable to secure a settlement OF
lis claim. He had been paid 81 so for his stock
nd claims to have been dcfraudcd out of
65O, 900.
CoLORED FEMALE kIDNAPPERs.-Josephin |
we're arrested in Philadelphia Monday for at |
empting to kidnap while child. Later the |
roman Grayson was Identified being the |
,idnapper of the child OF Mr.. ClaXton, coIored |
REFUSING TO RANSOM GORDoN.-Mr. Robert |
sOurke under foreign secretary, in the house |
i commons, Tuesday, said that during May |
SSi, N. Billing had offered Lord l. IONS, British |
AMBASSADOR at Paris, to obtain the ransom oi |
len. Gordon from FL Mahdi for the sum of |
25O,OOO. Lord Lyons forwarded the offer |
Without comment to Earl Granville, then Brit 1
sh minister for foreign affairs, who declined it,
THE MERCURY log IN THE SHADE.-There |
1ere thirteen deaths and over q score of pros /
ratiOns from the heat in Philadelphia yester.
ay. The thermometer varied between 80 and |
90 degrees. AT Bethlehem, Pa, the mercury |
ttained JOG in the shade the hottest ever
nown there. AT Allentown 1O1 degrees was
ecorded, and at EaSton 100 degrees.