Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-07-27
hand and caused the seal of the Unit
ed States to be affixed.
GROVER CLEVELAND.

ed States to be affixed.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
The following proclamation has
been issued by the Governor of New
York:
.Ulysses S. Grant, twice Presi-
dent of the United States; the de-
fender of the Union; the victorious
leader of our soldiers and General on
the retired list of the army, is dead.
To the last he was the true soldier;
strong in spirit, patient in suffering,
brave in death. His warfare is end
ed. After the close of his official
life and following that notable jour
ney around the world, when tributes
of esteem from all nations were paid
him, he chose his home among the
citizens of our state. He died upon
our soil, in the county of Saratoga,
overlooking scenes made glorious by
Revolutionary memories. 1t is fit
ting that the state which he chose
for his home should especially honor
his memory. The words of grief and
tokens of sorrow by which we mark
his death shall honor, too, the offices
which he held and proclaim that
praise which shall ever be accorded
to those who serve the Republic.
Therefore, it is hereby directed that
flags on the public buildings of the
state be placed at half mast until his
burial, and on that day, yet to be ap-
pointed, all ordinary business in the
Executive Chamber and the depart
ments of the State Government will
be suspended. The people of the State
are called upon to display, until his
funeral, emblems of mourning, and
it is requested that at that hour they
cease from their business and pay
respect to the distinguished dead.
DAVID b. Hull
By the Governor, VIM. G.. RICE, Pri-
vate Secretary.
The Boston Journal briefly says:
The end has come. which has for
weeks been recognized as near at
hand, and which the utmost medical
skill and the tenderest care could
avail no more than to delay for lit
tie while. General Grant is dead.
1t is short and simple message !;
yet to millions of hearts it brings a
sense of personal bereavement. Not
since the wearing days of the sum-
mer of 1881, when the nation watch
ed with intensest interest for tidings
from the bedside of Garfield, has
there been such concentration of
sympathy and regard as that occa-
stoned by the knowledge that the
brave soldier, who led the nations
armies to victory in the epoch of
gravest crisis, was nearing the in
evitable end. When once the char
acter of the disease under which he
labored was understood, no one could
wish a prolongation of life which
only meant prolongation of hope
less and pitiful suffering. Yet the
heroic soul, whose departure all men
to-day deplore, gained new and
stronger hold upon the regard of his
countrymen by the accomplishing
patience and endurance which he
showed in hours of keenest distress,
and the resolute persistence with
which he bent his energies to the
completion of the work to which he
had devoted the closing months of
his life. 1t would not be singular if
those pages to which he has given
such stress of pain and the languor
of wasted energies allowed should
come to have sort of sacredness.
A private funeral will be held at
Mt. McGregor, at which the family
alone, possibly with few intimate
friends, will be present; but the
public funeral, it is now expected,
will take place in New York city.
Tuesday, Aug. IL. The remains
have been embalmed and will lie in
state in New York, where they will
be buried in Central Park. The flu.
neral will probably be one of the
largest ever held in this country
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