Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-31
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. LOOKING ON THE DEAD. Mrs. Grant Views The
 Remains. LIGHTNING IN THE COTTAGE. The List Of Pallbearers Made Out. MAUD s. BREAKS HER RECORD. A Scene Nm The French
 Chamber.
MAUD S. BREAKS HER RECORD.
LIGHTNING ON THE MOUNT.


 Two Military Omcers and a Lady Struck Down-A Bolt Strikes the Grant Cottage-The Guard Over the Casket Receives a Shock-Mrs. Grant Views the Rema1ns-The Wife,s Reply to Her Husbands Last Letter.
 MT. McGREeoR, July 30.-At 6:5O this evening terrific stroke of lightning ran along the telegraph wires which are strung under the archway running from the Hotel Balmoral to the railroad station. The arch way passes in front of the Grant cottage, which is one hundred and thirty feet dis tant. General R. H. Jackson of Fort Niagara and Colonel w. Butler Beck, Company A, Fifth artillery, Governors Island, were walking to the depot and were directly in front of the cottage when they were knocked senseless to the plank flooring. A Mrs. Fox, of Philadelphia, stopping at the Congress Park place at Saratoga, was walking near them. She was also knocked unconscious. General Jackson remained senseless for ten minutes. Dr. Douglass was summoned from the hotel dining room where he had been for dinner. Several soldiers and other people in this portion of the mountain were thrown down, but were only shaken up a little. The greatest excitement prevailed among the hotel guests. The lightning also passed along the wires surrounding the hotel dining room and blackened the walls General Jackson in falling struck his head He had only arrived at the mountain this morning to take command of the artillery battalion, part of which has already arrived and the rest of which are expected tomorrow Col onel Beck and General Jackson are now conscious. The exact extent of their in- o4-- 1o, ,@o oko1 M,5 Foxz f,711 recovered after a prostration of fifteen min utes and immed ately proceeded to Saratoga. An inquiry at the Grant cottage elicited the information that though the family felt the shock nothing serious had been suffered.
 At 10 o'clock this morning Mrs. Grant viewed the remains of the general for the first time since his death. The United Press correspondent discovered that one of the principals employed in the embalming pro- cess of General Grant was approached yester- day by a man who said he was profound admirer of the illustrious dead and was pre- pared to offer handsome sum for memen- to of him and with no more ado deliberately offered his listener large fee as he would ask for a lock of the generals hair. It was indignantly refused, when the man speedily disappeared. A deliberate and careful search and inquiry failed to discover his. identity. The train arriving from Saratoga at 4 o'clock to-day brought about one hundred and fifty visitors who immediately viewed the'remains, making about five huudred persons who view ed the remains to-day. It is stated that the public will not be allowed to look upon them again until the day of the funeral
 At 9 o'clock this evening Dr. Douglass re- ported that General Jackson was rapidly re- covering from his shock though he was still somewhat daZed Colonel Beck was sitting up and there were no dangerous results in either case. The family at the cottage were at dinner when the shock came. They dis tinctly felt the electric disturbance, but were only momentarily alarmed. All the tele- graph wires on the mount are prostrated by the storm and correspondents had to go to Saratoga with their dispatches by special train. Late in the evening the storm sub sided and the night is clear and moonlit The guests are congratulating themselves that the results of the lightning were no worse. Both the injured men are doing we'll
 Mrs. Sartoris and Mrs. Fred Grant were with Mrs. Grant when she viewed the face of the general. The bereaved wife was very calm and did not give vent to the emotion which she must have experienced
 Dr. Newman asserts that the packet which Colonel Grant placed within coat pocket on the dead generals body before the coffin was sealed contained letter from Mrs. Grant in reply to the one which the general left for her to read after his death. It also
 
 described as very pathetic and closes with the word Farewell until we meet again. {" The ring placed on the generals finger by Colonel Grant after death was one which Mrs. Grant gave him twenty years ago. It became small for him and he had of late car ried it in his pocketbook.
 General Jackson in falling suffered slight abrasion of the right cheek which will cause black eye. Dr. Douglass says there may be slight reaction from the shock to- morrow which will annoy the sufferer, but there will be no serious trouble. Colonel Beck seems fully recovered.
 General Jackson is about sixty-four years of age and Colonel Beck fifty-two years. They both belong to the Fifth artillery. The lightning struck the roof of the Grant cot tage and knocked several shingles and some plaster off. It also struck the ArkeQ cottage Veteran Knapp of the G. A. R., who was on duty in the room with the casket, was severe ly shocked. The fluid melted one of the cleo tric light wires and extinguished the light. The Monument Committees Appeal. NEW YORK, July 30.-The monument ex- ecutive committee met in Mayor Grace's office this afternoon. Letters were read in sympathy with the movement. A check for $1, 900 was received from George Ehret and smaller amounts from other sources
 
 To the people of the United States
 The family of General Grant having chosen New York as his final resting place the Mayor and people of that city desire that great national monument shall be erected which will f1tly honor his memory. To promote the object the Mayor of New York has designated local committee to inaugurate a movement to procure the necessary fund. d. In In due ganizaton of the committees which shall represent the entire country. Pending these proceedings we are directed to invite the people of the United States to participate in the erection of suitable memorial in honor of General Grant by the con, tribution of such sums as they may feel able and willing to devote to this great purpose
 All newspapers, railways, telegraph and express companies postmasters, banks, bankers church and municipal authorities, commercial bodies and exchanges, and manufacturing establishments are respectfully requested to cooperate in the mmedi- ate collection of contributions to be forwarded to Drexel, Margan & Co for this committee CT to the Mayor of New York, so that our entire people may have an opportunity of contributing this last trib ute to the memory of the illustrious dead. Certif- cates of acknowledgement will be sent to any con tribator of funds from any source
 CHESTER A. ARTHUR,
 WILLIAM REYNOLDS,
 HAMILTON FISH,
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