The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-28
Dr. Days Office, this afternoon. The dentist
states that she requested that chloroform be ad-
ministered to her. The police are investigating
GENERAL GRANTS HEALTH.
No Marked Change in His Condition-COn-
gratulations Received from All Points.

New YORK, April 27.-Beginning at IL O'Clock
last night, General Grant slept at intervals until
2 o'clock this morning, after which his slumber
was almost continuous until o'clock this morn
ing. When he had been dressed he remarked
that he felt good and was refreshed
When DR.. Douglas left the house. at $50, he
said the patient was fully as well as yesterday
He could not say that he was better than on
Sunday, for on that day he was exceedingly
well, comparatively, but the General to-day was
as well as yesterday and had so expressed him.
self. Flags are flying and bunting is displayed
on the street on which General Grant lives. The
General to-day is sixty three years old.
At noon the General took a drive in Central
Park.
Between and o'clock in the afternoon,
General Grant, accompanied by Colonel Grant.
walked, as usual to Madison avenue and back.
General Sickles called between and o'clock.
Sidney B. Dillon sat and conversed with the
General in the drawing room for nearly an hour.
The house was brilliantly lighted up in the even
ing, and thousands of spectators passed through
the street and stopped to gaze for few moments
at the house. Large and magnificent presents
of floral offerings received, and contln-
uous stream of telegraph boys were necessarily
delivering messages from all parts of the
country.
Birthday cards were sent by the basketful, of
the most expensive and costly finish, from all
over the United States. Among the congratu-
latory messages received were the following
From Secretary of State Carr of Albany;
Methodist preachers meeting in session at San
Francisco, signed by Messrs c. H. Fowler and
II. B. Peacock; the House of Representatives of
the General Assembly of illinois, signed
by Speaker Haines NJ. e. Hand
sent the congratulations of the public
school children of Gallipolis, o. The old
soldiers and citizens of Dakota Territory, with
held in Yankton, series of congratuiatory reso-
lutions, signed by A. j. Edgerton. The public
school children of Richmond, Ind, sent their
congratulations, and that they were celebrating
the Generals birthday by decorations and a2pro-
pirate exercises; from Chicago came a
by F. E. Morse and Charles E. Bunker.
Twenty thousand people of Topeka, Kas., are
assembled in mass meeting to honor your birth
day and pray for your speedy recovery to
health, said Mayor r. l.. Cofran; from the
children of Avoca, Ia, came congratulations
with over five hundred signatures attached NJ.
F. Sanders sent the greeting of Helena, NJ. T.;
the people of Cincinnati, through John Simpkin-
son, chairman of their committee presented their
fervent desires for the Generals recovery, and
congratulated him on his sixty third birthday.
Besides these were dispatches from G. A. r.
posts, and prominent individuals without num-
Der. The General remained in the drawing
room until after 10 o'clock, in company with
members of the family. Senator Chafee, Dr. and
Mrs. Newman, and Dr. Douglas. He seemed
tired looking, but held up amazingly. He seemed
to feel suprenelv happy, and joined in the con-
versation with much spirit.