Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-24
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. GENERAL GRANTS END. Scenes In the Chamber
 of Death NO SUFFERING AT THE LAST. He Dies Like One Dropping
 Asleep. THE NATION BOWED IN GRIEF. Tributes From a Borrowing
 People. PLANS FOR THE FUNERAL. The President and Cabinet
 to Attend.
The President and Cabinet
 to Attend.
A HERO PASSES. FROM EARTH

A HERO PASSES FROM EARTH While CountIess Thousands Mourn
 A Day Of Sorrow For The Republic
 Sad Scenes Which Are Reflected I'm The Hearts Of Grfef-Strfcken Peos ple-Sympathy And Condolenee From All Quarters-The Arrangements For The Funeral Not Yet Complete-The Body To Remain At Mt. McGre- ger For Ths Present-Detafls Of The Last Hours or General Grants Life. MOUNT MCGREGoR, N. Y., July 23.-The closing scenes in General Grants life were affecting in the extreme, and though the end was devoid of that pain he so much dreaded the watchers at the bedside were not spared as was the dying man. A little after 8 o'clock Drs. Douglass, Shrady and Sands stood on the cottage veranda conversing of the condi- tion of the general, and discussing the proba- bilities of his death and the limit of life left the sick man. Mrs. Sartoris and the steno- grapher, MT. Dawson, were conversing lit tie distance away, when Henry, the nurse, stepped hastily upon the piazza and spoke quietly to the physicians. He told them he thought the general was very near to death. The medical men hastily entered the room where the sick man was lying and approach ed his side. Instantly upon scanning the patients face Dr. Douglass ordered the fami- ly to be summoned to the bedside. Mrs. Grant, MT. Jesse Grant and wife, U. S.. Grant, jr., and wife and Colonel Grants wife were quickly beside the doctors at the sick mans cot. Mrs. Sartoris and MT. Dawson had followed the doctors in from the piazza, and the entire family was present, except Colonel Fred Grant. A nasty summons was sent for him, but he en- tered the sick room while the messenger was searching for him. The colonel seated him self at the head of the bed, with his left arm resting upon the pillow above the head of the general, who was breathing rapidly and with slightly gasping respirations. Mrs
 Grant, calm but with intense agitation bravely suppressed, took a seat close by the bedside. She leaned slightly upon the cot
 resting upon her right elbow, and gazing with ear-blinded eyes into the generals face. She found there, however, no token of recog- milton. Mrs. Sartoris came behind her mother, and leaning over her shoulders so witnessed the close9of her fathers life. Di- rectly behind Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Sartoris, and at little distance removed, stood Drs. Douglass, Shrady and Sands. On the oppo- site side of the bed from his mother and di- rectly before her stood Jesse Grant and U. $. Grant, jr., and near the corner of the cot on the same side as Jesse and near to each was MT. N. E. Dawson, the generals stenog rapher and confidential secretary. At the foot of the bed and gazing directly down into the generals face were Mrs. Fred Grant, Mrs. U. s. Grant, jr., and Mrs. Jesse Grant, while somew hat removed from the family circle Henry, the nurse, and Harrison Tyrrel, the generals body servant, were watching the closing life of patient and master. Dr. Newman had repaired to the hotel to breakfast and was not present. The jr., and Nellie, were sleeping in the nursery room. Otherwise the entire family house. hold was gathered around the bedside of the dying man. The members of the group had been summoned not moment too soon. The doctors noted on entering the room and pressing to the bedside that already the pur- plish tinge which is of the signals of final dissolution had settled beneath the finger nails The hand that Dr. Douglass lifted was | fast growing cold. The pulse had huttered be- yond the point where the physician could dis l tinguish it from the pulse beats in his own | finger tips. Respiration was rapid, and was ! 8 succession of shallow panting inhalations l but happily as the end approached the pa | tient was becoming relieved of the rattling fullness of throat and lungs; as the respiration l grew more rapid at the close it also became | 1oID 1o1,, foai | was in it's results comfort to the watchers | to whom was spared the scene of other thar | peaceful death. Mrs. Grant almost con stantly stroked the face, forehead and hands 1 of the dying general; and at times pressed both his hands and leaning forward tenderly Colonel Fred Grant sat silently, but
 with evident feeling though his bearing was | that of a soldierly son at the death-bed of { hero father. U s. Grant, jr., was deeply moved. Jesse bore the scene steadily anc the ladies while watching with wet cheeks l were silent.
 The morning had passed five minutes be- l yond eight o'clock. Dr. Douglass noted th' ! nearness of the supreme moment and quiet ! ly approached the bedside and bent above it
 The grayhaired physicians grief seemed
 closely allied with that of the family. Dr.
 Shrady also drew near. It was seven min ! utes past eight o'clock and the eyes ot
 the general were closing. His breathing grey
 more hushed. A peaceful expression seemed
 to be deepening in the firm and strong-linet
 face A minute more passed the genera
 drew a deeper breath. There was an exhala
 ton like that of one relieved of long ant
 anxious tension. The members of the grouI l were impelled step nearer the bed, ant
 each waited to note the next respiration; bu
 it never came. No sound broke the silenc
 save the singing of birds in the pines outside
 the cottage, and the measured throbbing 0
 the engine that all night had waited by tn
 little mountain depot down the slope. 'It i
 all over," quietly spoke Dr. Douglass, an,
 there came then heavily to each the realiza
 tion that General Grant was dead. The
 the doctors withdrew, the nurse close
 down the eyelids and composed the dead gen
 erals head, after which each of the famil | group pressed to the bedside one after tn
 other and touched their lips upon the quie
 face. Dr. Shrady passed out upon the plazz
 and as he did SO met Dr. Newman hastenin
 up the steps. s'He is dead,'' remarked Dl
 Shrady quietly. The fact of having been al
 sent from the side of the dying man and hi
 family at the last was a cause of severe Tt
 gret to the clergyman, who had waited a l night at the cottage. He had been sum
 moned 8 moment too late. It is not know
 that General Grant uttered 8 word after ask ing for a glass of water at o'clock.
 Soon after Drs. Douglass and Shrady lei tho death-bed they conversed feelingly of tn
 last hours of General Grants life. The pulls
 first had indicated failure, and the intellet
 was last to succumb. Its clearness and COT
 scioas tenacity were shown after midnigt
 last night through an incident at o'clocl
 tDo you want anything, fathera' questione
 Colonel Fred at that hour. Water" whi'
 pered the general huskily, but when offere
 water and milk they were elected. That on
 word of response was the last utterance (
 General Grant. Dr. Douglass remarke
 that the peculiarity of General Grant
 death was explained in the II
 markable vitality that seemed to present a
 obstacle to the approach of death. It was
 gradual passing away of the vital forces, an
 a reflex consciousness, the doctor though
 was retained to the last. The general die ] of sheer exhaustion and a perfectly painIei sinking away "Yes," interjected D 1 ShradY e.tha general dreaded pain when