The Portland daily press., 1885-07-09
Want Mater Works.
if the town will vote to have water works.
Death of an Aged Lady.
CEN. GRANT.
The Patients Mind Bright and
Cheerful Yesterday. @n
GEN. GRANT.
He Receives a Visit from Mexican
Journalists.

Mt. McGREGoR, n. Y, July s.-General
Grant was asleep soon after ii o'clock last
night and slept until 3 this morning, when
Dr. Douglass cleared the patients throat,
after food had been taken. The patient and
physician then sat for half an hour in con-
versation, during which the generals mind
seemed bright and cheerful. There were
evidences of it in what he wrote DR.. Doug
lass. After this the general slept until 8
o'clock this morning, when food and treat
ment were again given.
Among the visitors this afternoon was the
Rev Father Edmund Didier of Baltimore,
Md, Catholic clergyman. After few
moments conversation with General Grant,
the clergyman said: "We are all praying for
yau, General Grant, and the general wrote
in reply, Il feel very grateful to the Chris
tian people of the land for their prayers on
my behalf. There is no sect or religion as
shown in the Old or New Testament to
which this does not pply-Catholics, Pro-
testants and Jews and all good people of the
nation of all politics as well as religion and
all nationalities seem to have united in
wishing or praying for my improvement.
am a great sufferer all the time but the facts
| have related are a compensation for much
of it. All that | can do is to pray that the
answered so far as to have us all meet in
another and better world. | cannot speak
even in a Whisper
The event of the afternoon was the visit to
the mountain of twenty editors of the
Mexican Associated Press. At 6.30 the entire
party We're conducted to the cottage by Col.
Fred Grant and as the editors gathered on
the piazza General Grant arose to meet Them
Mr.. E. III. Talbot was presented by Colonel
Grant to his father, and Mr. Talbot in turn
presented each OF the party by name and
each bowed his acknowledgements The
general was then seated and Senor Augustin
Arreggo de Anda, secretary of theAssociated
Presssofss Mexico, thus addressed the general
in behalf of his colleagues:
my great interest in Mexico dates back to the
war between the United States and that country,
and my interest was increased when four Euro
pean monarchses attempted to set up their insti-
tutions on this continent, selecting Mexico terri
tory adjoining. 1t was an outrage on human
rights for foreign nation to attempt to transfer
her institutions and her rulers to that territory of
civilized people without their consent and they
were feafully punished for their crime. l hope
Mexico may soon begin an upward and prosper
Gus departure.
''In the name of the visiting committee of Mex
lean journalists, who are visiting this country,
desire to say that they could not pass so uear to
great friend of Mexico without coming to pay
their respects to the hero of Richmond: He who
broke the chains of slavery in order that the iron
of the chains around the slaves might be made in
to rails for the progress of the country and thus
unite two republics by bonds of steel.''
In response, Gen. Grant wrote as follows,
While the entire party stood around in 81
lence:
She has all the conditions; she has the people
she has the soil; she has the climate and she has
the minerals. The conquest of Mexico will not
be any easy task in the future"
The visitors returned to Saratoga early in
the evening.
After the reception of the Mexican editors
the General was very much fatigued. DR..
Douglass observed this fact, and on his sug-
gestion the General retired at o'clock and
at l1.30 p. m. he was fast asleep.