The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-07-25
THE EN- D.
Gen. Grant Peace
fully Dies.
NATIONS WEEP,
Messages of Con
dO1ence.
THE DEATH BED SCENES.
An Affecting Parting from His
Family.
HIS LIFE SKETCHED.I
Sheridan's kilograms Executive
and Department Orders---
The Funeral.
HIS LIFE STRETCHED
Sheridan's kilograms ---- Executive
and Department Orders---
The Funeral.

Mt. MCGREGOR, July 23.-General Grant
died at sos a. m. surrounded by all his
family. He passed out OF life peacefully
and without evident pain.
The use OF hot appliances to keep warmth
in General Grants extremities and vital
parts was resorted to early last night
They were OF some avail, but artificial
warmth was without power to reach the
cause Or stay the results of dissolution,
which began on Tuesday evening, and had
been progressing steadily, though gradually
Hypodermics OF brandy were frequently
given to stimulate the tagging physical
powers, but later this failed to effect the
patient, whose vitality and whose physical
forces were SO far spent rs to furnish no
footing for u rebound. Indeed, the efforts
of the medical men were being made because
none could stand by inactive and without
the trial of an expedient that might prolong
his life an hour or a minute. The physicians
believed the patient might reach
as4E ExrHEME EBB or sss STRENGTH
s,t 1 O'Clock this morning aesthe approach
" that hour MS Antic;patea with iIltsnse
asxisty ut the cpttagss 1t pressed, howeyel1
and the General, lying upon his back, and
propped up by two pillows, upon the
cot bed in the parlor, was yet living, but!
growing weaker. The inevitable close of
the Generals long sickness seemed more
and more imminent. Thefeeble pulse-beats|
had worn themselves by their rapidity to al
futtering throb that could not be gagged
beneath the fingers of the physicians. His
body was being worn out by it's own life
currents, so rapidly was it's coursing veins.
Repeatedly the brandy was entered beneath
the skin OF the Generals arm, but despiteI
its waking influence, respiration had quick
eled from ~ to the minute during the
evening to point of labored breathing
around and bent near the sick man. TwoE
o'clock had been passed, and the evidences
OF nearing death were multiplying.
THE INCREASING REsPIRATIoNs
were not alone more rapid, but more shall /
dow. The lungs and heart were giving away,
so weak had General Grant grown. At 81
o'clock, although he frequently attempted
to doze, he was unable any longer to clear
the gathering mucus from his throat. 1t
accumulated and remained, and as o'clock
drew on and when the daylight came a
point had been reached when expectoration|
was impossible. There was not left enough /
of strength. From o'clock on there was
in his throat the significant rattle OF mucusI
that was filling the lungs and clogging the
throat. At 3 O'Clock
THE GENERAL ASKED FOR WATER,
and after that it could not be remembered +
that he uttered any words. At 4 O'Clock
the breathing was quickened and reached /
so to the minute. An hour later the res
piratons had reached 60, and between Q
and o'clock the finger nails had become
blue, and the hands further evinced the
progress OF numbness at the extremlties :
and at every breath' the mucus clogged IN
the throat was growing more noticeable.
A few minutes before o'clock Drs. Doug
las, Shrady and Sands stood on the cottage
veranda conversing of the condition OF Gen-
eral Grant, and discussing the probabliltiesI
of his death and the limit fife left the sick
man. Mrs. Sartoris and Stenographer Daw-
son were conversing a little distance away,
when Henry, the nurse, stepped upon
the piazza and spoke quickly to the physl-
clans. He told them he thought
THE GENERAL WAS VERY NEAR TO DEATH.
medical men hastily entered the room where
the sick man was lying and approached his
side. Instantly upon scanning the patlent q
face, DR.. Douglas ordered the family to De
summoned to his bedside, and Mrs. "raht,
Jesse and his wife, U. s. Grant, lr: ana
wife and Mrs. Col. Grant were quickly De
.,l - %hn cIo
Mrs Sartorls and Mrs. Dawson had 1ol-
tS@ed the doctors in from the piazza, ana
the entire family was. present except ooi.
Fred Grant A hasty summons was sent
for him. but he entered the sick room wnile1
the messenger was searching tor him. Ih'
Colonel seated himself near the head OF the
bed with his left arm resting upon the pillow
above the head OF the General, who was
breathing rapidly and with slightly gasp
ing resperations. Mrs. Grant, calm, buI
WITH INTENSE AGITATION,
bravely suppressed, took seat close Ds
the bedside She leaned slightly upon the
cot, resting upon her right elbow, ana ea1vu
with tear-blinded eyes into the Uenerai
lace. She found there however. no token
OF recognition. for the sick man was peace
iiully and painlessly passing INTO ano'he,
lfe. Mrs. Sartoris came behlnd nei
mother, and leaning over her shoulder shef
witnessed the close OF the life in which sne|
had constituted a strong element OF pr1de.
Directly behind Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Sar
toris. and at little distance removed,
stood DR.. Douglas, Shrady and SANDS,
spectators OF the closing life their ehorts|
and counsel had SO prolonged. On the oP1|
posite side OF the bed from his mother, ana
directly before her stood Jesse Grant ano
U. s. Grant, jr., and near the corner OF tne
cot on the same side as Jesse, and near =, tel
each was N. E. Dawson, the General
stenographer and confidential secretary.
At the foot of the he'd, and gazing directly
down into the Generals face, was Mrs. Coi;
Fred Grant, Mrs. U. s. Grant, jr, ano
Mrs. Jesse Grant, while somewhat removed
from the family circle, Henry, the nurse.
and Harrison Tyrrell, the Generals oodyl
servant, were respectively watching.
THE CLOSING LIFE OF THE PATENT,