Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-01
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. VISITORS ON THE MOUNT. Many People Viewing
 The Remains. THE WIDOW WITH THE DEAD. Ex-Confed ederates In The
 Funeral March. REEL MAKES A PITIFUL PLEA And Moves The Jurymen
 To Tears.
IN THE CHAMBER OF DEATH.

IN THE CHAMBER OF DEATH. | Mrs. Grant Again Looks at the Re- 1 maias-A Number of Visitors Admit ted to the Cottage-The Face Assum- ing a Life Like Appearance--A Rela- tive of Mrs. Grant Dies on the | Mountain.
 MT. MeGREGoR, July 31.-But few people | visited the cottage to-day until the arrival | of the o'clock train from Saratoga which l brought about one hundred and fifty who | were admitted to view the remains. A great many people came up in vehicles of all sorts. About o'clock Mrs. Grant accom- | panied by several members of the family en- l tered the parlor and remained half an hour | gazing upon the face of the dead. A great | improvement in the appearance of the face | has taken place. The dark discoloration so | painfully apparent yesterday has nearly if not quite disappeared and in it's place the waxen hue of death exists. The lips are l slightly parted exposing portions of the up per teeth. This rather gives the countenance
 more of the life like look that some hoped 1 would be obtained. The number of days
 since the death is simply and sadly indicat- ed by the condition of the various bouquets I contributed by the Ulysses s. Grant post. 1 All of them are near the head of the coffin. | The gradations from nearly complete decay l to the fresh beauty of the allotment of this | morning are easily seen. The programme ! of the funeral exercises to be held here on ! Tuesday morning has been announced. The | services will begin at 10 o'clock with the l reading of the ninetieth psalm, to be fol I lowed by short prayer by Bishop | M. L. Harris of the Methodist Episcopal
 church of New York city Hymn, "My | r- l. Al | Newman. s'Nearer my God to thee," sung | by all present. The benediction will then be pronounced.
 The observation car in which the body of | General Grant is to be taken from here to Saratoga has been made into funeral car riage without any especial effort of genius. | Considerable adverse comment exists here because of the cheap nature of the drapery | employed. Flimsy black muslin is the ma terial used Half of the longitudinal seats have been removed. The remainder are for | the convenience of the guard of honor. General Jackson has not been so well this afternoon. He is confined to his bed and | the right side of the face, which struck the ground when he fell, has swollen very much. Dr. Douglass was relieved of his charge this 1 morning by Surgeon Appel of the artillery, l who thinks that General Jackson may be confined to his bed for several days. Charles B. Chapman who is said to be a
 
 ! night. Mr. Merritt, the undertaken, was telegraphed to ship casket for the remains to-day.
 A magnificent floral piece repre- | senting the gates ajar, six by four feet, \ with white immortelles and purple columns, ''U. s. Grant" in blue at the top, arrived on this afternoons train from Leland Stanford and his wife. The better appearance of the generals face to-day was caused by an application of bleaching pow der at o'clock this morning. This was the first opening of the glass lid of the coffin since the inclosure of the remains. Under taker Merritt says the removal of the lid may be necessary daily, but he does not think any radical change in the remains at all possible.
 The statement that Mrs Grant requested President Cleveland to name Confederate generals among the pallbearers is said to be somewhat inaccurate. The report may have been founded upon the following despatch sent to the President Wednesday:
 Supposing that Sherman and Sheridan will be among those selected as pallbearers we have no be named F. D. GRANT SARATOGA STRINGS, July 31.-Colonel Jones, in charge of the funeral arrangements, has requested Wheeler post, G. A. R., of Saratoga to act guard when the body of General Grant is transferred from one train to the other at Saratoga to prevent any un- due crowding by onlookers. He also at Col. Grants request has invited that post to des- ignate two of it's officers to accompany the ! .rain to New York representatives of the post. This in the nature of recognition of the posts services already voluntarily per formed.
 The Owner Knows a Good Thing. NEW YORK, July 31.-It is extremely doubtful whether Michael E. Hirsch of Point fbo ,f% %ha General Grant was born in, and Mr. James J. Coogan, who conceived the idea of purchas- | ing the old house and presenting it to the | city to be placed in one of the parks, will ! reach an agreement. MT. Hirsch's latest price was $10,000. MT. Coogan in reply offered $5,0O0 cash. No answer has yet been | received It is evident that MT. Hirsch fully appreciates the fact that there is only one house in which General Grant was born. The Monument and Receiving Vault. NEW YORK, July 31.-The executive com | mittee of the monument association held a | meeting to-day and decided to accept the | use of the offices rendered by the Mutual
 Life Insurance company in it's old building l 146 Broadway. MT. Greener, the secretary, ! who is at present using Mayor Grace's pri- vate room as his office, will move into the new quarters on Monday. The subscriptions received for the fund to-day were: Charles | R. Shaw and William H. Shaw, of. left, Weller & Co.,, $10 each; Charles Forester, l postofhce, $10; Rutherford Stuyvesant, 15 Exchange Place, $2.50; Frank S. Williams, | $25; John F. Grafton, $10. The poor sol- ! dier's orphan sent another five cents. The | work upon the vault still continues to pro 1 gress. The stone abutments in the corners | of the excavation have been set and the brick ! work on the four sides of the vault has al | most reached the surface of the ground. The | site selected has already become an object of l interest to tourists and passengers on the | Hudson river boats can be seen from the I bluff at Riverside Park gazing intently in the | direction of the vault.
 l A Grant Avenger Was Around. NEW YORK, July 31.-A white man spoke
 disparagingly of General Grant in front of the City Hall to-day. A colored man knocked | him down, The white man was arrested and the colored man was allowed to go. | A Soldiers Orphan's Mite. NEW YORK, July 31.-The following let l ter, including a silver dime, was received at
 the Mayors office to-day:
 l Mr. Mayor-I see orphan sojer boy sens Eve sents and calls it his mte send ten. My dad was | sojer and dey do say he was good one. He was with Grant an guess heSe now l sell papers and big fellers give as much as dey could afford same ! as me an de oder boy General Grants monment l wuld be bigern the statu of liberty Mother says don't sign yore name cause they might put it in l he oil A widdor and to