St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-19
GRANT FEELING CHEERFUL
Although Despondent Wednesday, H'
Felt More Cheerful Last Night.
DIR. Sands Returns to New York His
Presence Unnecessary.

MT. MCGREGOR, June lO.-OeVcu HOuIS
ofrefreshing sleep, the usual taking of liquid
food, absence of unusual pain, quiet OF body
and no unusual strain constitutes the record
of Gen. Grant from 9 o'clock Wednesday
night until o'clock this afternoon. The
fatigue that followed his nwise eXertion in
walking yesterday was warning which so
good patient as Gen. Grant will not let
20 unheeded. Mindful of this he
has passed quiet day physically. To what
degree his mind has been active is knowl-
edge held only by the general, though the
doctors would be glad to share such knowl-
edge, as his mental and physical condition
last evening were running nearly level. So
feeble and trembling was the generals
body that even his sturdy pluck seemed to
weaken. He was diStraught in mind, dis
couraged at heart and weak in body, and
because of this wrote the letter to his
physician and family which he would
GLADLY RECALL TO-DAY,
but while unusual temporary weakness
must have occaSioned the generals despOnd-
ency ON Wednesday evening, he knows and
has within week expressed to a near
friend his own assurance that he has con-
stantly grown weaker and more exhausted,
and he was not deceived in this and no
effort was made to lead the general to be-
lieve otherwise, but he was frankly told that
he was failing and that he would probably
pass away peacefully when the
main spring of vitality had uncoiled and
when the physical machinery had run down
it would stop. Such is the generals antici-
patton of the end, which he calmly realizes
is not a long way distant and impossible to
avert. His courage sank to low ebb,
and realizing the powerful influences of the
mind upon the physical condition, such as
are obtained in Gen. Grants case, Dr.. Doug
las summoned DR.. Sands. The latter
came found no alarming symptoms, saw
the general in better spirits, and at $50 this
evening started
BACK TO NEW YORK.
Temporary influences may render the
general again at any time apprehen-
siYe. and a following day may see his
spirits restored. But all the while. the
vicious sore upon his tongue is deepening,
and as it progresses so does the generals
vitality wane. He has full knowledge of
this, and that knowledge will at all times
be background against which may
appear temporary changes for better
or worse to arouse public interest,
but such changes cannot at
any time deceive the sick man, or obscure
the certainty that dissolution is each day
nearer While on the piazza this afternoon
Gen. Grant shook hands with DR.. M. Bah
cock, brother OF the late Gen. o. E. Bah
cock, and with wave of the hand pre-
sented him to Drs Douglas and Sands, to
whom the visitor further introduced him
self. DR.. Newman and Jesse Grant ar
rived this afternoon.
Gen. Grant spent the evening indoors
IL, f,x. L., H.
DR.. Newman. During the afternoon he
had been coughing occasionally, but not
violently, and this evening he coughed at
times, in clearing his throat of accumulated
mucus, when he was speedily relieved
wrote the following words upon card
which he handed to DR.. Newman:
SIT is just week to-day since
I have spoken. My suffering is con-
tinuous. The doctors, Sands and Doug
las, say my ailment is improving" A
little before o'clock Gen. Grant wrote a
few words upon card, which he passed
to Mrs. Grant, and which read as follows:
ASK DR.. Newman to have prayers. / want
to retire early" The request was complied
with and at 9 o'clock DR.. Douglas and the
nurse composed the general for the night in
his room. Half an hour afterward the
doctor, in conversation, said he thought
the general was relieved, though quiet.
The expectoration that so weak
ems the patient was, the doctor
thought, somewhat abated, and the
general seemed inclined to sleep tonight.
When asked if he intended to remain here
constantly with the general, DR.. Douglas
said he was not. certain he would do so. He
might, after time, return to the city for
awhile and ask Shrady to come here. The
physician apprehends
NO TROUBLE TONIGHT.
He expresses the belief that Gen. Grant
willspass a quiet night.
Midnight-At this hour the cottage is
dark, except light in the generals room
burning low. His condition has not changed.
When Gen. Grant retired at o'clock to-
night he received small quantity of NOR
phine. He did not sleep, but sitting in his
chair he dozed until 1905 this morning.
when Dr.. Douglas was called. He
cleaned the patients throat, treated
it with cocoaine and administered
a small portion Of morphine and left the
general composed for sleep. After leaving
the general Dr.. Douglas said ''the general
said that he had not felt as well in month
as now. / have no doubt he will now pass
good night" DR.. Douglas has now re-
tired and the cottage is dark, except the
light that burns dimlyin the generals room.
200 a. m.-Everything remains quiet at
the cottage.
After the Sunken Treasure.