The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-04-16
Gen. GRAFT.
j. W. FAERIER,
Proprietor.


NEW York, April l2,-Gcn. Grant
passed quiet night, with the exception
of III OF coughing, with which he was
attacked about midnight. lie fell
into q natural slumber az I o'clock, from
which he awoke two hours later. DR..
Douglass remained all night with him
and did not deem IL necessary TO sum
mon either OF his medical colleagues
during or after tho cough
ing paroxysm of his patient.
Shortly after noon the patients
throat was treated. Ho walked into the
library, where the doctor passed the
morning.
Az p. m. Drs. Barker, Sands and
Shrady arrived, and they were in con-
sulteliOn 80 minutes, DIR. Barker said
tho condition OF the generals throat
admitted of freer examination than for
many days. The laryngOscOpe WAS
used, and by tho aid Of strong light
reflected into the throat the develop
ment of ulcers was noted. Tho ulcera-
ton has not made much progress dur
ing the last two days, though there has
been gradual increase during the
week. The inflammation IN the throat is
not 80 pronounced rs ~ one time. The
patients general condition, DR.. Barker
says, was better, though it Is still preca-
ri0us. He Is suffering rom weakness
and eXhRustinn.
Thd question was asked: ais there any
reason 10 tear speedy fatal forming
ton of the disease"
There is no special cause TO fear more
than in tho last two or three days,
though we must be prepared for emer-
genCits.'
Tho following bulletin was issued at
8 p. IN:
Gen. Grant has been very quiet since
the fit ofcough:ng last night. HS has
taken nourishtnent regularly. His
pulse is now ~, temperature 80. At the
consultation Just held, Drs. Barker,
Sands, Shrady and Dougl as present
the treatment pursued was approved
by all. j. I'll. DOUGLASS, NJ. ID.
q. +. SHRADY, NJ. ID.
Senator Chaflee and eX Senator Roscoe
C0nkling called between and 4 o'clock.
The latter said the general was quiet,
with, to him, no apparent change since
last Friday, when he called. Senator
Leland Stanford visited the house in the
afternoon, bringing flowers.
When DR.. Newman called at
80 o'clock yesterday morning, he
entered the library, next to the generals
room, and spoke to and shook hands
with Mrs. Grant and Mrs. SartOris.
"Father," called the latter, CDR. New
man ls mere. w Heteupon Inc general
left his char, walked into the
library and greeted DR.. Newman.
II remained u few minutes, then re-
turned to his room with the remark
that the air III tho library was too cold
for him.
The conversation of the household be-
fore the general is always cheerful and
pleasant and family affairs and every
day matters arc discoursed. The gen.
eral is not delrious. He receives only
eight minims of morphine in II hours.
THE GENERALS DREAM
has by letters from many sOoth.sayers
been Interpreted by some to mean that
he viii live II days, by others as many
weeks, and by others as many years, II
being the nu mber of dollars the general
had with which to pay the duty on
the satchel he lett on the wrong side of
the fence. The astrologer who proposed
good days and bad ones for the general
has thus far been right. 1t was proph-
esied that If the general survived March
81 he would live until September. That
remains tn be seen. If the patient lives
till summer Leland Stanford will en-
deavor 10 take him TO California in a
special car. The probable good result of
the western climate on the generals
health has been discussed, Senator
Stanford urging that the general would
be benefited thereby.
COL. FREDDY EXPATIATEs AGAIN.
At 8 o'clock tonight Col. Fred Grant,
speaking of his father during the day,
says that he had coughed good deal,
and had altogoth or, bad day, although,
the paroxysm of Saturday night had not
required. The general was very low,
but Col. Grant did not apprehend that
the enc would come tonight. Four days
ago, he said the general walk I'd without
seeming difficulty from the front to tho
rear Of the house, but each day since he
had moved about less, and to-day, when
through the hall, he stopped to rest be-
fore returning. Twice during this at
ternoon the general walked into his Of
flee and remained there an
hour at one time and three
quarters of an hour at another,
conversing with those who were near.
Col. Grant stated that his father had
not at any time been delirious, in the
sense ofmental faultiness, but he had
been much under the influence of NOR
phia for week, and that for twenty
minutes or half hour, as the influence
was passing of, the general would ex-
perience dreamy-semi-uncon
ness, during which he might and often
did recur in broB on sentences to dreams
that had been extremely vivid during
the influence OF the anodyne. casual
caller in the room might catch sucn dis
jointed utterances and regard them as
an evidence of delirium, but those who
were with him from the time of his
awakening to the time the influence
passed off, would be able to follow and
fully understand the context and rela-
ton OF the generals utterances.
SLEEPING AND DOING.
New YORK, April 13-12:30 a. m.-Gen.
Grant has been troubled during the lat
ter part of the afternoon and the entire
evening with an increase of mucous Sc
cretions in his throat, and has coughed
considerably in consequence. He also
suffered from two attacks choking,
which were attended with difficult
breathing. These wereshappily relieved
by local applications and the removal of
the phlegm. He is now dosing in his
chair, after having slept on his bed for
three hours. His pulse is ~ and tenn
perature normal.
GEO. +. SHRADY, NJ. D,
Secretary Bayard on Protection of Amer
lean Citizens,
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