Connecticut western news., 1885-07-29
THE END HAS COME,
THE: LAST DA9s OF GEN. ULYSSES
 B. GRANT.
s..3. .tt, He Sinks to Rest ah Mt. McGregOr or
 Thursday Morning.
THE LAST SCENES.

THE LAST SCENES.
 On Wednesday night the family were all gathered at the side of the sick man, and again Dr. Newman, at about thu Bstle hour as last | night, and Vt Frs. Grants request, knelt be- side She General and prayed. Heads were bowed and silent tears were on the cheeks of men as well as of women.
 The meeting of General Grant with Mir. and Mrs. Ulysses s. Grant, IT,, was most affecting. | Though both neryed thett1selVes for the ordeal ! of meeting the General under such sad cir | cumstances, natural affection was compelled | to have it's way to some extent, and the recog- | milton was of a most narrowing ehsraetgr to those who were spectators of 1t. Mir u: B. | Grant, Jr., has a wellsprihg of affection for l his father, that has always manifested itself ! during his sickness, and sometimes his grief ! Is utterly uncomfortable. It was so upon this | occasion, but he very wisely took care that his \ father did not see it and retired to one of the | adjoining rooms, where he sat alone with his \ sorrow.
 \ As the evening wore on the Generals speech | which was almost feeble, never more than | whisper-had become more and moro faint, was very slightly used and could only be heard \ by Colonel Fred, who was accustomed to 1t by \ putting his ear close to the lips of the General. ! What he could not do in speech he tried to | make up by Intelligent and meahing glances. | Those gray eyes of his followed those members | of his family who were now and then around | his chairEwith an intelligence that was very | eloquent of loving regard.
 Especially was this the case with his daugh- ter Nellie OIrs. Sartoris), who with Mrs. | Grant and his daughters-in-law are almost de | voted in their attentions. Especially is this \ the case with Mrs. Grant, who has only left the sick room for very short intervals since the | General prepared for sleep East night. The ' self-composlre of this lady under these soul narrowing circumstances is another evidence \ of her heroic endurance and great self-control. She does not allow the General to see any signs of her grief, and she found relief for her \ pent up sorrow as she did in the early hours | of this morning. by seeking some lonely spot \ on the piazza, and there seated in one of the chairs burying her face in her hands for few | minutes.
 THE bYtNa Houa.
 Dr. Shrady, under the headline "At Last"
 sent to the Medical Record, the following off,
 cial bulletin of General Grants dying hours:
 "Since our last bulletin the final change has
 come to General Grant. He passed peacefully
 away ct eight o'clock Thursday morning. On
 tho morning of the day previous Dr. Douglas
 summoned Drs Sands and Shrady to meet
 him in consultation at Mount McGregor, as
 General Grant was sinking, and death seemed
 imminent. On their arrival the patient was
 found in very prostrated condition, with
 feeble and frequent pulse, rapid respiration,
 and inability to swallow. He was suffering no ! pain, but by his listless manner was appar-
 ently conscious that death was near. It was \
 most, and make his approaching end as com
 fortable as possible. The disposition to cough
 had ceased, and the respiration, although
 much accelerated, was not mechanically im- ! peded by accumulated mucuous secretions. At the time of the consultation he was in his
 easy chair occupied 80 constantly by him day
 and night for the past five months. Toward ! evening, by his own request, he was trans < ferred to his bed, where he rested quietly un-
 til his death. As was anticipated by the medi-
 cal gentlemen in attendance, he continued to z sink, despite the stimulence locally applied
 and hypodermically administered. His fear oi
 painful and agonizing death was happily \ for him aS his family not realized. He simply
 passed away by 8 gradual and easy cessation | Of the hearts action. Thus he was spared
 much of the suffering which would have been \ inevitable and his general strength allowed
 the throat disease to progress in it's usual way.
 For 30 much, at least, there is reason for thank ! fitness
 "At future time scientific review of the
 case will be presented to our readers, giving | such data as may be necessary to explain the
 diagnosis arrived at and the methods of treat
 ment pursued"
 THE DEATH SCENE,
 of General Grant is thus described: Witt
 one last weary opening and closing of the eyeG
 and little gasp so faint that it was but s \ gentle sigh, General Grant expired as peace \ fully and painlessly as a tired child might fal Il ! freer from terror than 1t came to him. All \ who were dearest to him were at his side, his ! hand was fast clasped in that of 6 faithful
 wife, his daughter looked over her mothers
 shoulder into his face, and his brow was gently { pressed by the hand of his oldest SOD, who | through all the painful months of the illness
 has been 30 deJotedly at the sufferers side
 His three phys clans stood little back from | the family group. The devoted Harrison
 leaned dejectedly by the door, and Henry, tho | sv,a ant lofNc
 The little grandchildren had not been called | and were fast asleep in their beds.
 It was eight minutes past 8 by thu
 clock. Not a leaf stirred on the trees in tn, warm morning air without, and there was no
 a cloud in the sky. A splash of red midsum
 mer sunlight came in through the open win
 dow, and had been falling full upon portrai
 of kindly faced Lincoln which hung on thu
 wall just over the head of the bed and beside
 portrait of the dying man himself, and i
 was just as the last of this light crept off tn frame of the picture to the wall that the Gen
 eral ceased to breathe.
 \ At that moment Dr. Newman arrived. Ht
 had been hastily summoned, and got to tn
 bedside only after all was over. It was Dr
 ShradY who first spoke. Seeing that the hut ' tering breath had ceased to come, he bent hi head and said, "At last" Dr. Douglas. hag
 gard and worn with anxiety, murmured, 'A | is over." There was a silence for several mo
 ments, broken occasionally by a subdued sol
 as the family bent their heads with handker , | chiefs to their eyes. There were no excessiy demonstrations of grief: The event had beer
 80 long hanging over the heads of all as in
 evitable that it's advent was calmly received } | None who had witnessed the dead mans lone agony could wish to see 1t hopelessly pro longed.
 of them all none was calmer than Mrs Grant, though it was feared she would be mos 3 prostrated. She wept but little, and 500 raised her head, and, escorted by Dr. Newman , | walked away from the bedside to the sofa ! The physicians and the family crept from tn | room one by one, each of the family first kiss ng the dead mans face.
 THE GRANT FAMILY.
 Plans are not altogether vague, although ia . | from settled, in regard to the future of tn [ family. They will be left in comparativel 3 good circumstances, so that they could affor
 10 release the mortgage on their house in Sixty sixth-street, and make it their home. But they live in New York city, which is doubtful there is no expectation of their occupying tha 3 house. It could never be as it was to then 8 1 endearing as would be it's associations on tn l Generals account They were glad to ge away from it as he was. The sense of comfol 5 and security departed with the removal of thei treasures, in May, to the custody of the Gov ernment. It was not the loss of their thing e | that pained them, but the means by whic they went. The General always intended t
 
 l lures, bronzes, and other rare and beautifI : gifts that had been presented to him-but b
 was denied that satisfaction, and when b
 wrote to Washington signifying his purpose,
 reply came back that the gift had already bee |, promised by Mir. Vanderbilt, who claimed
 own them. The General was too much di 8 pirited to contest the claim. He thought h 1. had assigned to MT. Vanderbilt enough proI I erty to- make good that unfortunate loan
 $15O,000, but he was in no position to resi- l, Mir. Vanderbilt's opinion to the contrary, an o SO the cherished plan of giving to the GoverI l. ment his treasures was dispelled, and MT. Var |, derbilt became the actual donor. It was II hard struggle for the General and the fami AA to part with them under such circumstance 6 and when they were gone, the bare walls an x vacant places at his house in Sixty sixth-stret n were constant reminders to all the family Q their misfortunes.
 The house was gift to the General At tt u time of it's purchase there was g mortgae l. upon1t of $40,000. As the mortgage coul