The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-07-31

che Matter Of HUT Few uours-fsssing
Away surrounded ~ Family aud sriends-
SARATOGA. N. H., July 22.-[Builetin1
General Grant can not sit down for
i've minutes without rising again. Rev.
DR.. Newman aud his family are gathered
around him. DIR. Douglas says that the
General can not live longer than twenty
four hours. u. 5. Grant, Jr., has been tele-
graphcd for. DIR. Douglas Is In constant
attendance. The General is conscious OF
everything, and speaks In whisper.
Mt. McGREGoR, July 2i.-At midday
General Grant said he felt that he could
endure his condition OF weakness but
short time longer. and then requested
the physician 10 administer hypodermic
injection OF morphine. Dr. Douglas was
not much Inclined 70 grant this request,
because he believed that sleep and rest
produccd by artifici al means would too
| rxpidiy drain the vitality OF the patient
and, more than this, DIR. Douglas pre-
| fcrred that his patient should take food
rather than opistes, and requested the
| General to do So The General
declined and insisted upon the admins
| tratlon OF morphine AT length, 70 salts
~ him. DIR. Douglas administered what
| the General believed TO be three
mInims OF the drug, but II
was really slight portion only,
diluted in the usual three drops
Of LIQUID, and II was injected into the
Generals arm. Then the General grew
more quiet and seemed TO sleep, and
then II was the physician left the cottage
ana reported his patient exceeding weak
The quietude, however. was not protract-
ed The General was attacked during the
forenoon with hlccoughs, and the sleep
which followed the giving OF morphine
was followed by renewed hiccoughing.
Attempts We're made as the AFTERNOON
was waning, 10 give the General food.
He iosncd In the endeavor. but the
quantity retained was small. When
he took goblet full OF the
LIQUID its own weight distended the
throat and food passed down, but when
the last few mouthfuls We're being
drained from the glass the weight aud
fullness OF the liquid was not sufficient
10 distcnd the parts, and they closed,
because the muscular power OF
the throat was insufficient TO keep an
open passage. The result was sea-
son OF choking and coughing, with the
i u
, the close OF each attempt 10 administer
food.
The condition OF the patient may ne
appreciated when IL Is known that within
: perhaps fifteen minutes after an attempt
10 administer nourshment TO him the
. General would suddenly look M with
momcntarv expression OF bewilderment,
and inquire OF his attendant:
, ..wnen are you going TO give me that
food?"
a half hour might clapsc, and again he
would glance M and ask
"when are you going 70 give me the
food you spoke of"
And when told that he had Just re-
cciyed food. but that more would be
given IL desired. the General would again
fail into 4 half unconscious dOze, and
mutter: "Nevcr mind. Never mind"
J. Mt. McGREGon, n. ", July 2i.-At
G dusk General Grant grew very restless
5 He was not content to keep his chair, 49,
was the case early In the day, but wanted
: 10 move 10 his cot aud 10 other chairs
, He was not able TO walk unaIded. nor
: ecarcely to rise, and seemed unable 70
: compose himself In any place i've min
!, utes at a time. II was decided about
eight O'Clock TO change him 70 the parlor,
and all the family assembled there
: with Dr. Newman. The General soon
began TO catch for breath, and inere
A were plain signs that he was sinking
: Fans were used vigorously upon him,
y but for half an hour he showed no I'M
n provcmcnt Then his breathing became
" easier. and he fell asleep. That was the
9 turning point Of the early evening.
IS After IL he slept aud awoke A. short in-
a tervals. the family going 10 his siuc
> whenever he awoks, not knowing wnal
q Il might mean. lie showed no signs 81
" gaining strength, although occasionally
e OF rcpose that promised 70 proiong nj
y hours.
,r II was the opinion Of Colonel uran'
= all the evening that his father could no'
live through the night DIR. Douglas
a saws he NAV last twenty -four hours. Y.
le s. Grant, Jr., was summoned early 10
q the evening. AZ 80. on waking fro
B, a short nap, General Grant sent word to
,e the family who were on the porch, tina
in there was. no use IN their sitting up an,
,e longer. The family asked DR.. Dougla'
ID what he thought lie would give then
sc no assurance. All except Colonel Gram
OF concluded 70 retire.
a. Rev. DR. Newman, who then ieIt w
81 cottage, said that from seven 70 nine A.
le indications were that the General Va
he dying. Prayers were read, the 1enera
Dr. ciasplng his hands while the famli
"a kncit around him. DIR. Newman sai
be that neither Mrs Grant nor ne coul'
believe that the General was dying eve
while he sank before their eyes. Y
thinks the night will pass safely oon
re slant watch will be kept, and all Will
IT. SUNNI oned II there Is sign q iaii'nE
ed MI. McGRrGon, N. T., July r..
all r. M.-Geaeral Grant is very low. Az