The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-07-30

nose u' UIN HupfOuN IHU"rI
quietly approached t.. HU df
Don't over %, HHN "N|H In 'il
F1 tl3 SORROW al I.n Whf hhlfud
doctor seemed closely H.I|n0 H'.h ihh
OF the lamily. ur ahrhIy M'1. If0w
near. " was Z minute nii.' . p.,.ooA
Und tho Owes ui Tho EuuIru Nuln cos
ing, hls breathing grow moro hushod
a. ih1 last Functions ui tho hnbrt Ahd
luuFf wgrO hastanld .U Ono closing OF
tho President lie, ionr'ul *
prCssiOn seemed 10 DO ieepenla in
tho arm ana strong ,hntI
face, and 80 Was r0iloc.ra
a. "A closing comfort Tea tho sad hewIn
that boat quickly under the stress OF
loving suspense, a minute moro W0s
passed and was closing as tho general
DREW 4 DEEPER uEEATH'
There was an oNhRlatlon Ike that Of
one relieved OF loug and anxious toh'
sion. Tho mOmheri OF the group
vtr0 impellcd each q step nearer
tho bed ana each waited 20
note tho next respiration; bat
IL did not como; tEen II never c,Sme.
There was absolute gtillnCss IN tho
room, and \ hush OF eXpOctgnt rus
pousa that no Sound broke tho silence,
Save tho singing OF tho birds lu the
pines uut3ido the cottage and mo
measured thrObbinE of tho glEluo mat
all night nad wsit6d by tholfIo noun
tain depot down the slope.
at is ~ over" qulstly spoke Dr.
DAugl lg, and there came heavily lhtu
| % each witness the realization that
GENERAL GRANT WAS DEAD.
Then Tue doctors Withdrew, tho
nurse closed tho Oyclll3 anu composed
| tho dead generals mead, after when
each OF tng family group pressed ~
| the bedside, one alter tho other AMI
touched their lips to tAe qaiet i"cs 80
| lately still
Or. SGrady passed lut upon thc
| piazza, ana As he did so no met Or.
| Newman Fastening mp tho stops.
Gle Is dead" remarked Dr., Shrady,
| quietly.
The fact of having boon abs9nt from
the side of the dying man and his
| family at tho last Was = cause OF Scr-
row and sad regret u the Clergyman
| who had waited NIL night at tho cot
tage. lie had been summoned from
his breakfast moment TOO late ana
reached tho cottage only in nme 70
minister 70 tho family sorrow and gaze
upon tho scarcely hushed lips
I OF the desd general. 10 whom DR..
Newman's life had bound him in sucn
close tics and relations. Those who
saw, and now ell who learn OF the
clergyman's absence from the death.
bed quickly speak Tho Impulse OF
hearty sympsthy.
WATER" THE LAST WORD.
Soon after Doctors Douglas and
Shrady left the deeth.bed they
conversed feelingly OF the latter
hours OF General Grants life. The
pulse had first indicated failure, and
the intellect was the last to succumb
| al, annEnfanQ tnnnpifU-
aud that after midnight LIST night,
though circumstance at 3 o'clock in
dicated cognizsrce. -,
ado YOU want anything, fether"'
questioned Colonel Fred at that hour.
"Water,". whispered the general, hus-
kily, but when offered water and milk
they gargled in his throat and were
elected, and that one word OF response
was the last utterance o: General
Grant.
DIR. Douglas remarked that tho pes
culiarity of General Grants case was
explained by the remarkable vitality
that seemed to present an obstacle TO
the approach OF death. 1t was grad
ual passing away of vital forces and a
reflex consciousness, to the doctors
thought, to the last. Tho general
DIED OF SHEER EXHAUSTION
and "A perfectly painless sinking away.
eyes" interjected DR., Shrady, quiz
city, "the general dreaded pain when
he ielt he had begun sinking, and he
asked that he should not be permitted
to suffer. The promise was made and
| kept. Since he commenced to sink on
| Tuesday night ne was free from pain"
| Toward the last no food was taken,
bat when awet cloth wss pressed 10
his lips he would suck from
| il the water TO molsten
his mouth. During tho generals last
night DIR. ShradY was constantly
within call. DR.. Douglas was all night
at the cottage and DR.. Sands slept at
the hotel after midnight.
THE sCULPToR'S WORK.
Within 20 minutes after the death OF
| General Grant, Karl Gerhardt, Hart
ford sculptor, VINO has been making a
study here of the general, was sum
! moned to the cottage, at the suggestion
of DR.. Newman, to make s. plaster
mask of the dead mans face. he was
highly successful,
| AN UNDERGRADUATES SERVICES.
Within half an hour after the genor'
ais decease, the waiting engine at the
mountain depot was on the way to
Saratoga to bring the undertaker VINO
will place the remains on ice to-day to
await the arrival OF New 4ork under.
taker who has been summoned, and
who is now on the way
The details and arrange
ments touching the remains
while they are here and until they ar
rive in New York are in charge Of
Joseph w. B. Drexel and W. j. Arkel
At this writing the physicians are de
sirous of having post mortem, buI
the family are said TO be averse ano
that is q matter yet y DC decloeo'
| ABOUT THE FUNERAL.
A week ago the genera! is sac
he die here during the hol
weather he would prefer thai
his remains should remain here until
cool weather; the purpose being Il
spare his family a sad and tatigulne
! Journey in hot weather. 1t is doubtful
| however, if this suggestion is fully
carried out, though it is not unlikely
that the remains may repose here some
days. This, however, is entirely at tine
disposal OF Colonel Fred GRANT
tojwhom is LETT the entire control OF al
arrangements relative to his fathers
remains. 1t is not unlikely that {
proposition from the city of New YorE
to award burial plot Tor tho genera
and his wife when she, too, shall have
passed away, might be considered by
the colonel, The impression tina
Washington may be chosen az the bur
ial spot is believed to be founded OF
the present intimation of Colonel
Grant. The only condition made by
the general, and that as long ago as
June "a, was that his remains should
be inferred whore those OF Mrs. Gran
mightin time lie beside his own.
|
General Sheridan Notified.
Fort RENO, 1. T., July 28.-News o
the death of General Grant reached
General Sheridan this morning b.