The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-03
GB6yrM HIS NEW HOME.
4 Dav Oh, Witch His Physician Prono"''ees
Him Decidedly Better.


~. McGregor Telegram; "Gen. Grant
has slept nine hours since he retired ias'
NIGHT. He is now being dressed and Will be
ont soon.n said Dr.. Douglas as he chatted
with a caller at the Grant cottage between
~ and 1 O'Clock to-day The doctor iur-
-tber explained that although the general
went to bed a little after O'Clock last
night he did not sleep until about IL
. -6,clock. From that time through the
5 ssseht the patient slept well, with lew
breaks of wakefuness, and the doctor had
not been called until o'clock this morn
z 5no when he cleaned the generals throat
ond anplied cocoaine to it. At that
z go +bs generals voice had been clearer
tban at any time since his arrival here.
When the doctor was called at o'clock,
the patients pulse was sixty-eight, but
after he had become thoroughly aroused
by the doctor working over him, his pulse
increased four beats per minute. The gem
! ed remained in his bedroom chair all
yEzoagh the forenoon. 1twas after midday
Eyhen be got up and it was about o'clock
wren he made his appearance on the
piaAa.e He wore new suit which he
<lonned the day before, and seated himself
on q willow arm chair on the north veran-
da of the cottage. When caller at this
time asked the physician how the patient
found himself when he arose, he was told
that the general was decidedly better; that
all SYMPTOMS were decidedly improved.
The generals voice was not so clear as
when he awoke in the morning, but 1T was
quite audible. After listening to a CONVEX
sation between members OF the family, the
\ general walked into q room used as an Of
N-ice took up pad OF paper, returned to
] his>ehair, put on his spectacles and began
writing. While so engaged the family was
called to lunch. and the doctor hav-
ing first wrapped blanket around the pa
TENTS leg went up to the hotel for lunch.
The general was thus left alone on the
piazza, and he wrote steadily Tor three
quarters of an hour until O'Clock, then he
handed his pad and manuscript to Harrl-
son, who took them inside. Another block
OF war history had been prepared Tor in
/ sertion at its proper place in the generals
Memoirs. When a little mountain engine
] pulled its two little cars up from Saratoga
N 2:3O D. m. and unloaded a hundred peo-
pie upon the platform OF the littlerustic
depot on top OF the mountain, Gen. Grant
was sitting on the steps. The visitors
strolled up the slope past the cottage IN q
procession OF twos and threes. An impulse
was obeyed to salute the general with
lifted hats, and he was pleased to see the
$ visitors, who do not talk to him to tire
him. He removed his silk hat several
times from his head when he returned their
greetings. Old Guard Willets, in grand
Ermy uniform, stood at the foot OF the
.steps to prevent unduly curious persons
from crowding near and speaking to the
general Black clouds had drifted over the
mountains in the morning and rain fell
briskly for ten minutes, but in the after
noon the sky was notified with specks OF
sunshine and pleasant breeze was blow
ing made fragrant by odors from pine
trees and hemocks. The general though
coughing a trife more than the day before,
wac having a peaceful Sunday, quite diff
ferdht from that which he spent in the
super-heated city week ago.