The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-15

General sympathy Expressed for the Sad
Physical Condition OF General
Grant.
Something About the Revised Old
Testament and When Il
May be Expected.
How IL Bappen. That Beecher Is Ready 10
Eulosize the Dead brooklyn
Bosses.


pathies by the sad physical condition OF
General Grant. ! used 20 call on the General
occasionally At his residence, just OF Central
Park, and he lost vitality so suddenly after
his accident that / doubted II he would ever
again get out on the street. This opinion,
repeated 10 you, was widely commented on.
IL proved to be nearly correct. bat not quite.
had not taken into the account the dis
finguishsd patients endurance and power OF
viii. Yesterday called again. The Bridget
who came 10 the door did not surprise me
when she said she thought the General could
not pee anybody bat went into the recep-
fion room and waited. as usual. for Harri-
son, the urbane mulatto, who for some years
now has stood respectfully between the fam
lily and tho public. The reception room and
the long drawing rooms across the hall.
have changed Ia their aspect somewhat
since / saw than last. S1ndry swords OF
Oriental make arranged In the form OF q
roseste. were missing from the wall, great
dragon. haunted bronze ves,el OF grotesque
fashion, had vanished from s;old-lacauersd
stand, and sundry unique d-aperios were
gone from their place on the wall. won.
tired II General Grants souvenirs bad begun
60 travel 10 Washington under the guldanos
ot Str. Vanderbilt; but when Harrison came
/ forgot To ask him. lie looked weary aud
worn. aud said he felt pretty much bunged
M" from watching and loss OF sleep.
1T Just makes me sick and sore all over
not cay word about II. IL he would only
complain M other folks do when they sullsr,
i could stand it better
The patient was a little more comfortable,
he continued, under the action OF cocaine
applied to the cancer on tho tongue, proiuc.
ing partial inssnsiDllity. told Harrison no
must be- careful about that medicine, M IL
cost about 81 600 an ounce In is pure state
He was oiled with Consideration nc the
news, and said thevd have 10 go slow. Hsr.
rison 10 discreet tervitor. n OF given 10 much
gabbIe about his matter interests; but he
ventured TO remark that 4 Congress had
only passed the retirement bill, ID would
have chirked mp the General very much.
With his autobiography which he call,
tomething else for modesty o sake-the Gea-
eral makes very little progress. He talks
with some pain and difficulty, even when
assisted by the cocaine application, bu, he
can talk easier than he can write, and II he
had accustomed himself 10 the use OF phon
cgfapher, he might dictate his whole work
In week. Shortly before this asked him
Why ne did not try private secretary. aud
] told him how Thurlow Weed dictated, from
book and articles Tor the newspapers on con.
troverted political questions sometimes to
Mr.. Frederick Seward. and sometimes TO
myself.
convenient but have not accustomed my.
self 10 thinking rapidly for the press, aud a
photographer would be onlya stumbling
block. Even q business letter would oil
ways rather write than dictate. tried a
secretary once. but my tongue got tangled
mp % soon - ] began 10 dictate to him."
While was talking to Harrison. Colonel
he said bis father was suffering far less than
two or three days sgo, but the physicians
did not say he was better. A committee OF
two from post of the Grand Army called.
and carriages came along every few minutes
with inquiries after the ilustrious soldier,
who occasionally hobbled to the window mp
stairs and looked out smilingly waved his
hand In response 10 salntations. Dr. Doug
lass says that the General has grown pecepti.
bly, thinner in . month. and that, as his loss
OF teeth and loes OF appetite make II difficult
for him 70 eat much, his body 10 drawing on
iss stores of fatty matter for nutriment. His
vitality Is diminishing ell the while.
NEW OLD TESTAMENT.
On Monday morning paper prematurely
announced the arrival from England OF
copies OF the revised Old Testament-a com
yanion 10 the revised New Testament circu
lated couple OF years ego. called yester
day on DIR. Phillip Schan, chairman OF the
American committee Tor both branches OF
the work, and asked him about ID.
NO" he said, the revised Old Testament
IL not yet here. IL will come, as the other
did In the shape OF the university edition
Cambridge, EngIand(. and will be due about
May IL, All the work of revision has been
concluded, AMI IL Is now In prssln
To inquiries as to how II would Ill or in
appearance from the present version, he said
The most OF IL Will be arranged, not Ia
verses. like our Bible, but Ia longer para
graphs. ike any other prose. The poetry oil
the Bible, that Is The Song of Solomon, the
Psalms, the Proverbs. the Book OF Esther
etc, Will be arr angel In parallelisms-virtu.
ally lines. ike other poetry.
Concerning the substance OF changes DR.
Scbaf answered:
Il am bound to secrecy as to changes ac.u
ally made. But Of course, there are nc
books omitted, and no chapters.
The Revived New Testament didn't seem
70 be reiished?" said.
1T IL the deadest book in the market to
day" said DR.. Chambers. For the first tive
weeks there was excitement over 1t. and q
million or two copies were sold-perhap
more. and then II fell fiat. Thirty editions
Of Ii were printed in this country-enoug1
10 swamp any book"
Except Dickens." / suggested; twice a,
many editions OF Dickens have been printed
and told. But several editions of the revised
New Testament have been sold in cart load
10 paper makers, and the s. University edi
ton OF Cambridge 70 offered in the Nassau
street book stores for ten cents"
Eyes, think likely" he said. mo de
nomination has formally adopted II; and 4
can not be called popular with any bat tn,
Bsptists. But IL may 60 yet. The Kinl
James vernon was repudiaied for fifty year
It'll after the execution of Charles-wher
prejudice died out, and 1t was gradually &C
cepted. Almost al reforms move slowly.
may add that the American committee anC
the English did not always agree, and tina
the corrections which the former wanted Il
make. but failed to have approved, are con
tanned In On appendix ct the end"
sANoTHKR GOOD NAN GONE"
A good many we'll folks have been made
sick during the last week by the praises and
posies that have been heaped on the deas
Kingsley of Brooklyn. Ordinarily 1t Is de
sirable to speak well OF the dead; but II the,
be public men, and die a. Boss Tweed aue
Jim Fisk and Kinsella and Kingsley died
IN there not danger that the mockery of os
senfstious euiogy may teach young men
rather sorry lesson7 The three Brooklyn X &
Who have died within o year-KinselIs
Keeney and Kinesley-were the organizer
Of one Of the wickedest rings that ever curse,