Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-07-24
.CEN.CRAN'P DEAD
After Many Weary Months Of Suffering.
the Nations Hero Finds Relief
In Death.
He Passes Away Peacefully and without
Pain, Surrounded by His Family
and Friends.
Final Scenes al the HerGs Death Bed
The Last Act in the Sad
Drama.
Evidences OF Public Sorrow Reported
from All SECTIONS OF the
Country.
How the News Was Received at Wash.
- ingtan-PrOcIamatiOn by
the President.
kilograms and Letters OF Sympathy
Pouring in from All Sections
by Thousands.
New York City Tenders Resting Place
for the Remains OF the
Dead Hero.
A Profound Sensation Created in Lon
don by the News of the
Sad Event.
Biographical Sketch Of the Dead Com
mander-A Life Crowded
With HOnors.
kilograms and Letters OF Sympathy
Pouring in from All Sections
by Thousands.
New York City Tenders Resting Place
for the Remains OF the
Dead Hero.
A Profound Sensation Created in Lon
don by the News of the
Sad Event.
Biographical Sketch OF the Dead Com
mander-A Life Crowded
With HOn0rs.

MOUNT MCGREGOR, July 23.-Gen.
Grant died at sos o'clock this morning,
surrounded by all his family. He passed
out of life peacefully and without evil
dent pain. AT Q o'clock last night one of
Gen. Grants physicians conceded with
some caution that the patient might sur
yive until July 23d. His meaning was
that the sick man might yet be living
when midnight should mark the new
day. The physicians indication-it was
not prognostication-was borne out,
and more. The general passed into the
first hour of the day, he saw its light at
sunrise, and through the early morning
hours he still survived. The advent of
July 23d, however, marked change in
Gen. Grants condition which was signif-
cant. The chill at the extremities was
increasing, and the use of hot applica-
tions to keep warmth in the extremities
and vital parts was reSnrted to. aey
were of some avail, but artifciccl hth
was without the power to reach the cause
or stay the results of dissolution which
began Tuesday evening and had been
PROGRESSING sTnAptLr THOUGH GRAD
UALLY
Hypodermics of brandy were fre-
quently given to stimulate the fl. sging
physical powers, but later this failed to
affect the patient, whose vitality and
physical forces were SO far spent
as to furnish no footing for rebound.
Indeed, the efforts Of the medical men
were being made because none could
stand by inactive and without the trial
of an expedient that might prolopg life
an hour or minute. The physicians
believed that the patient might reach
the extreme ebb of his strength at l
o'clock am, and the approach Of that
hour was antici ed with intense anx-
iety at the >lge. 1t passed, how
ever, and the general, laying upon his
back upon the cot-bed in the parlor,
and propped by the pillows, was liv-
ing, butgrowipg weaker. The inevitable
close of the generals long sickness
seemed more aad more imminent. The
feeble pulse heats had worn themselves
by their rapidity to
FLUTTERING THRoB
that could aot be gagged beneath the
finger of the physician The body was
being worn out by its own life current.
so rapid was its coursing through the
veins. Repeatedly the brandy was en-
tered beneath the skin of the general S
arm but despite its waning influence the
respiration had quickened from forty
four to the minute, during the evening,
to point of labored breathing that was
painful to friends who grouped and bent
near the sick man. Two o'clock had
been passed, aud the evidences of near
ing death were multiplying. The in
more rapid, but more shallow. The
lungs aud the heart we're giving way
So weak had Gen. Grant grown at
o'clock that, though he frequently at.
tempted to do so, he was unable aqs
longer to clear the gathering mucus from
his throat. 1t accumulated and re-
mained, and as 4 o'clock drew on and the
daylight came, point had been reached
when expectoratiou was impossible
There was not left enough of strength
and from 4 o'clock on there was in th'
throat
THE SIGNIFICANT RATTLE
of mucus that was filling the lungs an,
cloggiug the throat. At 3 o'clock tn
general asked for water and after that i
is not remembered that he uttered an
word At o'clock the breathing wa
quickened, and reached fifty to tn
minute. An hour later the respiration
had reached sixty, and between and
o'clock the finger-nails had become blu
and the hands further evidenced tn
progress Of numbness at the extremi
ties, and at every breath the mueu
cloggiug IN the throat grew more an
more noticeable uiltil the end wa
reached, at sos clock am.