Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-30
His Last Hours Peaceful and
His Death Painless.
Marks of Respect Paid to the
Dead Messages of Sym
pathy to the Family.
How the Sad News Was Re-
ceiyed at Various Places.
The Dead General.


MI. McGREGoR, N. Y, July 90,
/ s 80 a. m.-Gen. Grant died at s :0S
a. M, surrounded by all his family.
He passed out of life peacefully and
without pain.
/ THE SAD CLOSING SCENES.
Mt. MCGREGoR, July % The use
Of hot applications to keep the warmth
in Gen. Grants extremities aud vital
parts were resorted to early last night.
They were of some avail but artifi-
cial warmth was without the power to
reach the course or stay the result of
dissolution which began Tuesday eve
ming and had been progressing stead
lily though gradually. Hypodermic
injections Of brandy were frequently
given to stimulate the tagging physi
cal power, but later this failed to
effect the patient, whose vitality and
whose physical forces were SO far
spent as TO furnish no footing for re-
bound. Indeed, the effort of the med
ical men were made because none
could stand by inactive and without
the trial II an experiment that might
prolong his life an hour or min
ute.
The physicians believed the patient
might reach the extreme limit of his
strength at / o'clock this morning
and the approach of that hour was an
ticipated with
INTENSE ANXIETY
at the cottage. 1t passed, however,
and the general, lying upon his back
and propped up by two pillows, on
the cot bed In the parlor, was yet liv~
ing but growing weaker. The close
of the generals long illness seemed
more and more imminent. The
feeble pulse beats had worn them
selves by their rapidIty to hutterlng
throb that could not be gagged beneath
the finger Of the physician. His
body was being worn out by Its own
life current, so rapid was its coursIng
through the veins.
Repeatedly the brandy was entered
beneath the skin Of the generals arm,
bnt despite the waning influence the
respiration had quickened from A to
the minimum through the evening to
point of labored breathing that was
painful to the friends who grouped
and bent near the sick man. Two
o'clock had been passed and the evi
dences of a near end to death were
multiplying. The increasing respir-
atoms were not alone more rapidly,
but more shallow, as the lungs and
heart were giving away.
So weak had Gen. Grant grown at
3 o'clock that though he frequently
attempted to do so he was unable any
longer to clear the gathering mucous
from his throat. 1t accumulated and
remained, and as 4 o'clock drew on
and the daylight came point had
been reached when expeetoration was
impossible. There was not left enough
of strength, and from 4 o'clock on
there was in the throat the significant
rattle of the mucous that WAS filling
the lungs and clogging the throat.
HIS LAST WORDS.
At three O'Clock the general asked
for water and after that it is not re.
membered that Ae uttered any word.
At four o'clock the breathing was
uuickened and reached fifty TO the
minute. An hour later the respiration
had reached sixty and at six o'clock
the finger nails had become blue and
the hands further evidenced the pro-
gress of numbness at the extremltles
and at every breath the mucous clog
cling in the throat was growing more
noticeable.
A DEATH. MASK
Within twenty minutes after the
( death of The general, Karl Gerhardt,
the Hartford sculptor, who had been
making a study of the general, was
summoned TO the cottage, at the sug-
gestion of DR.. Newman, to make a
plastor mask of the dead mans face,
He was highly successful.