Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-13
LAST NIGHTS NEWS.
BUCKLEY AND HIS COMRADES IN
WASHINGTON.
General Grant-No Cholera in Cievc-
land-Russia and England
Central American War.
Especial DISPATCHES TO THE RrooRD-vMoS.l
DOMESTIC.
General Grants Condition.

General Grants Condition.
New YORK, April i2th.-General Grant
passed quiet night, with the exception of
a fit of coughing, with which he was at
tackled about midnight He fell into a
natural slumber at 4 o'clock this morning,
from which he awoke two hours later.
Senator Chaffee and ex-senator Roscoe
Conkling called between and o'clock this
afternoon The latter said the General was
quiet; with, to him, no apparent change
since last Sunday, when hecalled. Senator
Leland Stanford visited the house this
afternoon, bringing flowers.
THE GENERALS DREAM AND THE soOTHsAl-
Frs.
New YORK, April 12th-The General
dream has by letters from many soothsay-
ers, been interpreted to mean that he Will
live seventeen days, as many weeks, and
by many others as many years, the seven
teen being the number OF dollars the Gen
eral had with which TO pay the duty ON the
satchel he left on the wrong side OF the
fence The astrologer who prophesled
good DAYS and bad ones for the General has
thus far been right. 1t was prophesied that
if the General passed the 3lst OF March he
would live until September, but that re-
mains to be seen.
SENATOR STANFORD : INTENTIONS.
If the patient lives until summer, Leland
Stanford will endeavor to take him TO Cab
fornia in special car. The good results OF
the western climate on the General health
has been discussed, Senator Stanford urging
that the General would be benefited thereby.
WEAKNESS STILL INCREASING.
NEW YORK, April 12th-At o clock to-
night Colonel Fred Grant, speaking of his
fathers condition during the day, said that
he had coughed good deal, end had had
altogether a bad day, although the paroX-
ysm Of Saturday night had not required.
The General was very low, but Colonel
Grant did not apprehend that the end
would come tonight. -Four days ago, he
said, the General walked without seeming
difficulty from the front to the rear of the
house, but each day since he had moved
about less, and to-day, when he walked
to the rear of the house through the hall,
he stopped to rest before returning. Colonel
Grant stated that his father had not at
any time been delirious, in the sense of
impaired mental faculties, but he had been
much under the influence of morphia for a
week, and for twenty minutes or half an
hour, as the influence was passing off, the
General would experience a dreamy semi
consciousness, during which he might, and
often did recur in broken sentences to the
dreams that had been extremely vivid dur
ing the influence of the anodyne. A casual
caller in the room might catch such dis
iointed utterances, and regard them as evil
dence of delirium, but those who were
with the General from the beginning Of his
awakening to the time the influence passed
off entirely, would be able to follow and
fully understand the context and relation
Of 10 Generals PINT al
Grant stated that before morphia was used
his father often talked in his sleep, or
mi-unconsciousness For instance, at
one time he spoke in this way, and said
General Wheat, which is your regiment
Where are your men - And Colonel
Grant explains that at that time his father
thought lie was at the battle of Shiloh for
General Wheat was there, and General
Grant thought he was getting his forces
into line again. This was before morphia
was administered to a great extent. Since
the anodyne has been used freely, the
General has had similar illusions, but
while recalling them during the dreamy
doze of waking from sleep by morphia, the
recollection was not so prompt or
vivid. A case in point was men,
ence of the opiate was passiIfg off,
calculated, Its the strangest thing in
the world, and there stopped. But at
intervals continued to speak until he
had thoroughly awakened, and was, as the
Colonel said, clear "a bell" Then the
General explained to Colonel Grant that he
thought he was out in Indiana, and was
calling at the house of Thos. a. Hendricks.
Then he began awakening. and slowly
recognized the furniture and fiXings of his
own house, where in his dream had been
that of Hendricks residence, and then it
was that, between his sleeping and waking.
the General calculated, Its the strangest
thing in the world" Colonel Grant, when
asked, last evening, if it was possible
to secure the Generals autograph, re-
piled that it was an impossibility at pres
ent. and feared that it was too late. The
General never wrote, except sitting at Il
desk in his Office, and it was growing more
and more wearing TO walk to and from the
adjoining rooms. Colonel Grant remarked
that he had at least 500 pictures and albums
waiting for his fathers autograph. There
were addressed and stamped letters bearing
requests enough to fill dry goods box, but
Colonel Grant doubted if his father would
sign anything more, though he might if
asked and permitted by the doctors.
BAD NIGHT EXPECTED.
At 1915 Dr. Newman left the house and
proceeded towards Madison avenue to take
a car. In response 10 question: he said :
- | expect a very anxious night. General
Grant has had bad day, and | think
there has been a recurrence of coughing.
Dr. Shrady is in the house, and the Gen
eral at this moment is quietly sleeping"
CHOKING AND DIFFICULT BREATHING.
New York. April 13th-12:30 A. M.-Gen-
eral Grant has been troubled during the
later part of the afternoon and entire even
ing with an increase of mucus secretion in
his throat, and has coughed considerable in
consequence. He has also suffered from
two attacks of choking, which were at
tended with difficult breathing. Those
were happily removed by local applica-
ton and removal of the phlegm. He is
now doing in his chair after having slept
on the bed for three hours. Pulse y,
temperature normal
Ex-Secretary Frelnghuysen Dying.
NEWARK N. J) April 12th-Ex-Secrc-
tary Frelinghuysen has been IN a stupor all
day. At 3 O'Clock this afternoon he was
raised in bed and took little nourish-
ment Since then he has been in a contin-
nous state Of stupor. and it has been i'm
possible to arouse him. At 1890 tonight
one OF his attending physicians said that
Mr.. Frelinshuysen was gradually sinking,
and would likely die tonight. He might,
however, live forty eight hours.
The California 0fiice-Seeleers in Wash
ington.
WASHINGTON, April 12th.-- The head
quarters of the California office seekers has
been transferred from the Ebbitt House to
Wizards Hotel, the stopping-pace of
Buckley and his party. Your correspond
ent called on Buckley to-day, and in the
course of a conversation Buckley said
F." We have been very successful in accom-
plishing what we were sent here TO do. We
saw Manning in Albany. and had salts
factory interview with him. We will by
appointment call on the President to-
morrow, and talk matters over with him.
We are thoroughly satisfied with the sue
cess we have had. The people in Califor-
MIA were led to believe. from the reports
from Washington, that the two factions
were engavpN in n bi,r row IVa bova Sae,,