Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-02
STILL AT WORK.


General Grant Finishing His Memoirs a.
Life Slowly But Surely Ebbs Away-Ths
Work All Done But INSTRUMENTATION
to the Mount--The Patients Condition.
Mt. MCGREGoR, N. Y, June 24.-Yes-
terday's cool weather, in which Monday
was reproduced with variations of an
has proved a blessing to General Grant in
the line of work accomplished. His first
thought after rising turned toward the
notes that had BEEN prepared for him
that he might amplify certain parts of the
unrevised memoir proofs. Going to the
office he began to write. This has al
ways been laborious for him since his
sickness. The limit of his powers of
late has been paragraphs with intermis-
sion for rest between the sentences.
The stenographer sat in his Office when
he began his task. firing of it SHORTLY
and stimulated by his reviving spirits, he
called the stenographer to him. Their
g. chairs were drawn so closely together
that they touched. Then with the
stenographer bending in front of him,
the General began to talk. He spoke
barely above breath. The sentences
Were punctuated by long pauses, but by
two O'Clock, dictation having started be-
e fore noon, the stenographer's book in
dicated that the General had spoken not
far from 500 words.
s When that was over he went to his
room and dozed for an hour. On his re-
turn he picked up a tablet and wrote.
When he wanted to complete what he
had dictated, he preferred putting it on
paper with his own hand. 1t amounted,
after he had worked at it one hour, to
less than 200 words; but he finished what
he had undertaken. This effort fatigued
him quite as much as had the dictation,
and he was compelled to seek further
sleep.
AS he was going to his room a card
reached him from R. NJ. and r. L.
Cranell, two Albany lads whose father
had brought them here to see him. They
asked merely to shake hands with him.
He was quite willing to see them, and
they came out looking proudly at the
hands he had feebly grasped.
Crosby ColfaX, Ex-Governor OF Mon
tana, who came up to see the General,
met him hardly less formally than the
Cranell boys.
While DR.. Douglas was treating him
after the boys had gone, the General said
he did not know of anything yet to be
done in the preparation of his memoirs.
His notes are exhausted.
The Generals chairs were drawn in
lronG Oh the OlaZlnS fireplace at sunset,
after he had reused from his second nap.
There the family Joined him. He seemed
no worse for the days effort. The sky
had clouded in the afternoon, and when
the sun sank the thermometer began to
fall quickly toward the chilling figures of
the morning. :.
The thoughts of the family have run all
day to comparisons between the Gen.
erals condition week ago, when lie
came here, and now. There is nothing
to denote other than steady progress of
the disease. Two weeks ago he weighed
40 pounds. 1t is doubtful if he now
wei9hs more than $50 pounds. This
troubles the family more than anything
else, and such efforts as those of yester-
day bring only fresh apprehension that
he may have to pay speedy penalty fol
overwork.
The family group was not broken until
nine O'Clock, when DR.. Douglas began to
prepare the General for the night. 1t had
been very quiet evening, after the fam
lily nervousness had worn off.
The General said on retiring that he
thought he could sleep. DIR. Douglas no.
ticed no ill effect from this days effort.
The General seemed to him on the con-
trary to be improved in spirits.
The General was asleep by ele ven
O'Clock.