New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-07-30
FALSE REPORTS ABOUT MRS. GRANT.
SCENES AT THE MoUSTAIS-THE BODY PLACED IN
THE COFFIN.

SCENES AT THE MOUNTAIN-THE BODY PLACED IN
THE COFFIN.
icy TELEGRAPH THB TRIBUNE
Mr.. MctSREGOR, July 29.-A bright sunny
day soldiers with appropriately SLOW
foosteps and sober bearing pacing and down outside
the cottage; Grand Army IL uniform on duty on
the stoop or seated around their tents; swarrns Of
vi.itors from Saratoga, respectfully eager to get
mental photograph that will endure OF the peaceiur
looking cottage with closed blinds ana Grape at the
doors finding their further advance barred
by a nusket in the hands OF sentinel; such has been
the general aspect of Mt. McGreg0r to-day Military
up,founs and brass buttons continue TO grow more
numerous around the hotel aud despite Inc great
National loss which calls them here 1t Is evident that the
charms they possess for the feminine eye are " potent
as ever. But one you'd cavii at
that: where hearts are young and the
loss though deplorable. still remote from the
family CIRCLE people cannot mourn the dead of Others
however great and heroic they do their own Battery
A. OF the 9TH Artillery, from Governors isahd consist
Ing OF thirty-cght men, with Colonel W. b. BccK FIRST
Lleutenants A. W. Vogda and W. B McCuhum' ana
Second Lieutenant W. W. Galbent. arrived this evening
They brought artillery with them ana ior the present
ct least will 90 infantry duty. The collin which has al
ready been seen ia arrived here on the same
train with Undertaken Merritt and his assistants and
without ceremony was expedtously transferred 10
one-horsc truck and removed 10 the cottage
The universal sympathy which is felt for Mrs. Grant
ought the family from the reading UT heai~
ing Of false reports about her condition. To-day much
Indignation Is expressed that a rumor should get
abroad in New.York which telegiaphed here that
Mrs Grant was dead Ii diicult to tell how such re-
ports get started and obtain currency They can hardly
frsm Mt. McGregor. After the constant harass-
ing distress which Mrs. Grant has been sub
jected in the nine months, of course her physical
system has suffered. She needs rest she is taking It,
She confines herself trctly to her room and sees no
visitors. She needs with its train OF assuagng In
uuences TO from the shock occasoned by her
s Those who have to the cottage say that
shere for alarm In her condition Dr. Douglas
end Dr. Newman both concur In this statement. Harr
en says that she ia looking better than she has for
song time people of course will be found who VIII
maintain that their own Impressions, derived no one
ows how, worth than the opinions Of DOCTOR
mend or attendant.
The suggestion Of Mayor Grace that from Albany to
aewYork the funeral party should go BY beat on the
1ooson River and ct night grows In favor here. Dr.
"svman 10 especially enthusiastic about 1t and dilates
VI she advantages offers for mourning displays watch
s'ss On the banks. funeral salutes, . procession Of
spsd vessels etc., ana holds there something
usaned and stately In tho passase Of steamer be-
Ssd with the snblems of grief than in the fight Of
osd train Of which people In towns the route
~ catch neetins glimpse. Against this plan is
~sea ths objection that tho funeral arrange
ere too far advanced TO allow
-. .oea complete change In the programme
Z aat TIE time remaining is too short TO admit Of
peepaearons for It. Echoes 70 the more or less