The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-03-27

Osnernl Ornne. Whese Days Ar - sass-
a. Nsmhercd W1ehin Marrow nlnfta.
Awaiting the Orsa Messeagss with 10
sane ssalldssy with watch lss Paced IL
zoe IN Bastss- Ne Ds~s Noe Troahle Him.
elf About the Hereafter.
NEW YoRk, March Ia autographed
summons TO come II once 70 her dying
father was not obcyed by Mrs. Nellie
Grant SartorIs with the expected alacrity,
and now . draft for money enough 70
cover the expenses Of the journey has
been sent by cable TO England. The sur
mise was mat she lacked the ready means
70 tart hastily, or she would not have
failed 20 take the steamer from Liverpool
last Saturday: but the expectation Is that
she embarked yesterday. Her English
husband has never been INA ncially pros
porous, though socially deemed m orns-
ment, and BE- II az present suffering
from last seasons bad guessing on
the turf. All of General Grznt's
family, except Nellie. are with him. Fred
Grants wife. formerly Ida Iionore, .
beauty greatly admired Ia Kentucky and
Washington, has been dcvotedly attentive
70 her father-in-iaw, by whom she was
long ago nicknamed Sunshine" He
dIslikes the attendance OF hired nurse.
and thus lar none has been employed
Upon Mrs. Grant and Ida has devoived
such service as he will permit 10 be done
for him. He hiss kept calling for Nellie,
come 70 him, ever since the gravity Of the
situation became manifest 70 him.
MEDICAL OPINION.
Being pressed to give his opinion q 70
the further duration Of Grants life, DIR.
Fordyce Barker could only say that II
must be very brief; but DIR. Douglas
fixed the extrcmc limit Il thirty days, and
added that he might not live another
week. II he could and would take suf-
ncient nourishment, - he does on ex-
ceptional days, he might hold on for sew
eral months yet; but he II now wasting
away ~ rapidly, In consequences OF per-
sistencc In light eating. and through In
ability to sleep, that his power Of endur-
ance has become an unknown factor, and
Il may leave him In . state OF collapse at
any moment. Like Garfield. he wastes
from day 10 day. He II weak and llsties
much OF the time, and during this week
his work on his book has been slight and
spssmodic, making very little proeress.
At times be lapses into condition
bordering on stupor. but In his wakeiul
and brighter periods he Is the same
stolid, grim, silent man who faced death
on battle fields twenty years ago. This
| view Of him u given your correspondent
| by frequent and familiar visitor
sit has been 4 Misrepresentation" he
| added. "to say that the General does not
appreciate the fact that he soon must die.
| The hero Of shiloh and the Wilderness
| fully understands that he has . few
weeks only. aud TO his intimate friends
he speaks 81 this with the same freedom,
| and in the same mattcr-of-fact manner
| that he discusses his Intentions with res
| pect TO dinner or the condition Of his d.
| cestlou. IL Is indeed cmineutly charac-
4 teri~fic OF the man that be faces death In
such an unmoved was. II left 70 himself,
he would not live four days. He II very
weak and indisposed 10 take any nourish-
ment whatever, because Of the pain pro-
tuced by swallowing. He 10
never hungry. Despite the earnest
solicitation Of those who care for
him. he has refused to eat morsel for
two days at time Then the members
Of his family gather around him, and beg
OF him for their sakes % take some nour-
ishrncnt. He then consents 70 the ordeal,
ana Is invariably exhausted by the EFFORT;
but In an hour or two he begins % mend,
and thereafter improves very rapidly until
Dis @r<lfll l4AA- V1t 4-&t& 80 $780, @--~-
he grows worse alarmingly until persua-
sion once more prevails upon him 70 eat
la Is rather more successful Ia dealing
with his moods than any body else, and Il
Is usually from her bands that he finally
accepts food"
GENERAL GEAxr's RELIGION.
The Rev. Dr. John r. Newman was
sent for with view to his acting as .
spiritual advisor % Grant: but this was
net done NJ his own instance IL he were
4 religious man he would be Methodist
or PRESBYTERIAN, but he frankly says that
Ne had no special theological training In
his youth. and has not studied the sub
iect in later years sufficiently 70 form
any opinion Is TO what he does or does
not believe He holds that there Is :
God and . hereafter. but he Il not pre-
pared TO accept the extreme position
taken by most Protestanfs that the I'M
converted and the Indifferent will Be
etcrnslly tormentei.
III Grants attitude with reference TO re-
lIgion could oe exactly defined Il might
be expressed as having al along been
one OF unconcern. and there Is no reason
70 suppose that the nearness 70 death hat
made any change. though his wife II ven
solicitous that he should arouse TO menta
activity on the subject. 'He does mol
! apparently bother himself In the Ieas
about the life hereafter" says one trust
worthy informant, ssseemingly being viii
ing 10 take his chance with the millions
who have gone before him In the sam.
frame Of mind.n The only clergyman Wit
! whom he was ever intimate was DIR. New
: man, and their relations were confines
mainly TO sociability.
when Newman undertook the ultimate
" disastrous job Of gathering popula
congregation in the big church In whic
wepworth had failed, Grant took pew
' made liberal subscription and attends