The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-23

The closed and silent cottage had all day sug
gested mutely the scenes being enacted in Gen
eral Grants earthly existence, and upon guests
and visitors had fallen the sense of the nearness
/ of death, and there seemed hush upon the
mountain, and all those thereon.
AS the sun went down, cool breeze as last
night, sprang up, and again the laymen on the
mountain endeavored to persuade themselves and
others that the cool night would bring renewed
strength to the patient, and help him to rally
through the night. But such was not the opin-
ion of the doctors, who were prepared to attend
the Generals deathbed at a moments notice or
to wait through hours and into the night for the
end. They were prepared to find the patient
alive in the morning. At o'clock, however. as
the three physicians were at dinner, Har-
rison came to the hotel and called
DR.. Douglas, who went at once
and alone to the cottage Soon afterward
other messenger from the cottage summoned
Drs. Shrady and Sands, and they went to the
cottage, closely followed by DR.. Newman. The
exits of the doctors and clergyman from the ho-
tel were, however, so quietly affected that few
knew they had been summoned to the cottSY
Arrived there they found the General again evi
IDENTIFY sinking.
The General seemed restless Would you
like to lie down, father!' asked Col Fred. Grant,
who noticed his fathers restlessness. The
General nodded, and at the same moment es
sayed to rise unasslsted But the effort was too
great, and he sank back into the chair, and the
Colonel and nurse aided him to arise, and then
supported him to the bed, where he
was carefully lowered to q reclining
position and partly on his face. DR.. Douglas
then rolled the chairs back, and one of the ply
sieians has since said the General has left his
chair for the last time The belief is that Gen
eral Grant has at length lain down to die.
The family were all gathered at the side of the
sick man, and again DR.. Newman, at about the
same hour as last night, knelt beside the Gen
eral and prayed Heads were bowed, and silent
tears were on the cheeks of men, as well as of
women.
The doctors stood somewhat apart, and the
family was near its sinking head, and then, af-
ter an hour, death seemed little less rapidly
gaining on the man it has pursued just
nine months to day, for it is Just nine months
ago that General Grant walked into DR.. Doug
lass Office to seek his professional aid for the
cancer which has done what foes and war could
not do
Then the doctors strolled out on the piazza,
and jesse Grant joined them, but the other
members Of the family remained in the sick
room, and watched and waited, while the Gen
eral answered yes" or mo" to several ques-
tions. Time passed slowly, indeed, and at
length, at 615 o'clock Dr. Douglass left the cot
tage.
How is it, Doctor?" was asked him.
"He is dying" said the gray haired physician.
"Will he live an hour?" was asked again.
'Oh, yes, and possibly more but he is passing
away" was the response
After little time at the hotel, DR.. Douglas
returned to the cottage. At o'clock the Gener
ais pulse was up to the point of 165 beats to the
nrffute, and was futtering
After his rally. and about 9 o'clock. General
Grant sank into sleep that was described by
witness as the peaceful and beautiful sleep of a
child. This condition, however, is not one to
command confidence, for the pulse beats are still
rapidly huctuating, and the respiration, which
IS normally fourteen to the minute, is now
fortyfo At 10 O'clock however it was
stated by reliable authority that the
General was in a slightly better condi
ton than two hours ago; but as against
any hopeful inference that might be drawn from
this fact is the other fact that from the present
condition, which borders upon cthargic state,
the patient may quietly drift into final uncon-
sciousness.
During the evening the extreruities of the
sick man have been cold, and in the visible
symptoms the signs that nature puts out
when death is chilling the power The General,
as the night passes, seems suffering no pain,
though the lines of his face are tensey drawn,
and the burrows of the brow are knottcd as he
lies upon the cot
At II o'clock the General was not asleep. The
hands and torearms were colder than two hours
before, but the feet not so much so, The pulse
and respiration had not changed. The patients
mind was yet clear and comprehensive of all
about him. Between 10 and II o'clock Doctor
Shrady had accosted the General, and he an
swered in husky voice, and promptly. Stimu-
lants were being used but sparincly, and there
was expressed by medical authority about IL
o'clock belief that the closing crisis may occur
either at / or o'clock to night.
At midnight bottles of hot water were placed
at the Generals feet to induce warmth, and
mustard drafts were applied on the stomach and
breast. DR.. Sands is resting at the hotel, and
Drs. Douglas and Shrady are at the cottage.
The Grant Trust Fund.
New York Special
1t was reported to-day on good authority that
arrangements were making to reinvest the $3.50
0G0 trust fund raised for General Grant, or that
portion of it which was invested in the first
mortgage bonds of the Wabash railroad. It was
said that this renvestment of the fund would be
made on the lst of August, because the trustees
Of the MORGAN estate desired To be free from the