Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-07-31
CEN. GRANTS DEATH.

ment spread rapidly rs sOOn M the pa
per was CA the streets early Friday
morning and the office was throngtd by
presons anxious to learn further partic-
ulars. Being far away from the tcle-
graph. the reports were necessarily in
complete. For the benefit OF those who
do not get the daily papers n brief re-
sumo of the last scenes II here given.
Last Scenes.
The General had been gradually
growing weaker for two days before
death, and on Wednesday, the 22d, It
was not thought he would live during
the day. lie remained conscious until
Thursday morning ut 3 o'clock, when
In answer To n question from his son
as 10 what he wanted, he said "waterl"
and that WIS the hast word he ever ut
tered. He continued To sink until 3
o'clock and minutes when he breathed
his last breath. Surrounding him were
his wife, three sous and their wives,
his daughter. Mrs. Sartoris. his stenO-
grapher, two servants and two physic-
ians.
DIR. Newman, his spiritual adviser,
had constantly watched mt the Gener-
ais side for weeks. but ut the very last
moment, he was away getting break
fast.
The news OF the death was nj once
telegraphcd over the entire country,
and In five minutes afterwards, bells
were ringing In every city, flags were
run up TO half-mast, and during the
day the entire land WAS draped in
mourning.
Telegrams from nearly every land
were showered in on the Grant family
Offering sympathy and consolation. No
more attention was paid 10 the death of
President Garfield during the first
twenty-fOur hours after his death than
was paid TO the demise Of General
Grant.
Tho Remains.
An embalmer was taken on from New
York City Immediately after death, and
prepared the body so that it would keep
an indefinite term. The remains will
lie quietly nj the cottage In the room
where the general died until Tuesday
afternoon next, 9Th prox., when the fu-
neral cortege Will be placed ON n special
train and conveyed directly and with
out demonstration TO Albany, reaching
there in the evening. The remains will
be borne To the capitol building, where
they will lie In state until Wednesday
noon. Then the dead general will he
conveyed by funeral train to New York.
arriving there Wednesday evening.
The body will he then conveyed to the
City hall, where II will remain in state
until Saturday, when II will be borne
To its last resting place in Central park.
This programme IS the one now pre-
pared.
Last Resting Place.
II has been finally decided 10y Colonel
Fred Grant, acting on behalf Of the
family of the dead general, that the
body of the distinguished citizen of
this country should be placed in River
side park, New York city, the authori-
ties having, after considerable CORES
pOndence, acCeded TO the condition i'm
posed by General Grant before his
death, wherever his remains should be
placed there should also I've reserved n
place beside his grave for that OF Mrs.
Grant when il should be decreed that
she should pass from this earth.
This selection is not going To- be sat
isfactory To the country. Riverside park
isa pleasure resort, and n place where
curiosities are TO be seen. and devoid of
the solcmnity that BELTS the grave of n
hero. One opponent Of the selection OF
Riverside park, n Baltimore paper says:
There Is an evident purpose on the
part Of the shoddyhood Of New York To
make the grave OF Grant n show like
the obelisk, the Bartholdi statute and
the Brooklyn bridge and IL will be inn
possible for an American citizen OF the
future To feel for IL the sort OF reverence
lac feels for Mount Vernon. The burial
Mt Riverside park will, to some degree.
denationalize the grave. II will become
New York show IKE the elephant at
COney Island. New York is the scene
81 all that Is most painful in Grants
life. IL was there that he fell among
millionaires and sharpers aad was
dragged through humiliatiuns uprpeak-
able. IL is true he received kindness
and assistance there also, hut who is IL
that Is not giieyed To remember Grant
as u receiver ot charity The Grant
that the PEOPLE love and desire To hold
In remembrance IN not The Grant of
Wall street, hut the Grant who led the
Union armies To- victory and WHO for
eight years was president Of the United
states. Vt tho soldier home in Wash
ington he might find fitting resting
place amid Union soldiers who poured
out their blood to earn his fame"
The question Of where to bury the
dead general Is now agitating the Amer
lean people rs much as his death. At
first 1t was decided to lay his remains
Mt rest IN Central Park, New York City,
but the entire country was opposed to
that for the reason that the park is
used rs pleasure resort. Upon con-
ference with his friends in New York
City, Col. Fred. Grant, who has charge
Of the funeral arrangements, has decid-
cd 10 select Riverside Park, New York
City, beautiful site, extending two
and one-half miles along the Hudson
river, and at the highest point in this
park the remains will be laid. This,
though not meeting with general appro-
baton. is more satisfactory for the rea-
son that Riverside Park is not so extern
sivelY used as n pleasure resort. Ac-
cording to the present programme rs
published above, the funeral, then, will