Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-22
GRANTS CONDITION.
He Has a Continuous Sleep Of Nine
Hours.
DOES SOME WORK ON HIS MEMOIRS.
The Generals Condition Consider
ably lmprOVed---Many
Visitors.
LAST BULLETIN FROM THE PATIENT.

Mt. MCGREGoR, n. Y, June 2l.-Gen-
eral Grant has slept nine hours since he re.
tired last night. He is now being dressed
and will be out soon," said DR.. Douglas, as
he chatted with a caller at the Grant cottage
between II and l o'clock to-day. The
doctor further explained that although the
General went to bed little after nine
last night, he did not sleep until about
eleven o'clock. From that time through
the night the patient had slept well with
few breaks of waketulness, and the Doctor
had not been called until seven o'clock this
morning, when he cleaned the Generals
throat and applied cocosine. At that time
the Generals voice had been clearer than
at any time since his arrival here. When
the doctor was called at Z o'clock the pa
tents pulse was IS, but after he had be-
come thoroughly aroused by the doctor
working over him, the pulse increased four
beats per minute. The General
Remained in His Bed
of chairs all forenoon. 1t was after midday
when he got up and it was about o clock
when he made his appearance on the piazza.
He wore the new SUIT which he donned yes
terday and seated himself in willow arm
chair on the north versnda. When caller
at this time asked the physician how the
patient was he was told that the General
was decidedly better; that al the symptoms
we're decidedly improved over yesterday.
The Generals voice was not so clear as
when he awoke, but it was quite audible.
After listening ten minutes to conversations
between members OF the family the General
walked into the room used as an Office, took
up pad of paper returned 10 his chair,
put on his specraclcs and began writing.
While so engaged the family was called to
lunch and the doctor having first wrapped a
blanket around the patients legs, went up
10 the hotel for his lunch. General Grant
was thus left a'One on the piazzo and hel ]
Wrote Steadily
for three fourths of an hour. until o'clock.
Then he handed his pad aud manuscript to
Harrison, who took them inside. Another
block of war histoy had been prepared for
insertion at the proper place in the Generals
memoirs.
When the little mountain engine pulled
its two little cars up from Saratoga at 800
D. m. and unloaded hundred people, Gen.
Grant was sitting upon the cottage stoop
The visitors strolled up the slope past the
cottage in procession OF
twos and threes. An impulse
was obeyed to salute the General with lifted
hats, and he is pleased to see visitors who
do not talk to him and tire him. He re-
moved his silk cap several times from his
head with firm aourishes and returned the
greetings.
The Old Guard,
Willetts, in Grand Army uniform, stood at
The foot of the steps TO prevent unduly cur
ious persons from crowding nearer, speak
ing TO the General Black clouds had drift
ed over the mountain in the morning and
rain fell briskly for ten minutes, but in the
afternoon the sky was mottled with spaces
of sunshine and pleasant breeze was blow
ing, made fragrant by the odors from the
pine and henlock trees. The General,
though coughing tride more than yester-
day, was having a peaceful Sunday, quite
different from that which he spent
in the super-heated city a week ago