The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-03-31
FACING THE ENEMY
ANp NOT AFRAIp or TnEs Zoe.
rhs sisirrai.h Line Withdrawn and the Bat,
tle Aeains. Death aud his Grim pla.
lanxes begins In Earnest-A Hero on
tho Eve of an Eternal Surrender

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lin front Of the parlor windows were
lowered all day. The inner blinds Of the
Generals sleeping room were shut with
the Stats open. About o'clock the Cen
erals wife stood some minutes at the
window on the third floor, and after
Looking for som1 minutes at the watchers
below drew from thsshade and closed the
shutters. The curtains in the Generals
library or study were rolled up
all day, and the ladies were several times
seen in the room. Harrison, the Generals
personal attendant, once came out to mail
papers and letters at sixty.sixth street and
Madison Avenue. A watcher inquired as
to the Generals condition. "He is no
better, I fear" was the reply. ''1f you
break your leg and 1t pains you very
much, you know it is broken, but even If
the pain is less for time the break is
there all the same. The General has felt
easier to-day but I fear is really no better"
Liyeried messengers rang the bell at short
intervals throughout the day. Personal
messages Of sympathy and inquiry are
constantly coming from friends and inter-
ested persons in the city and out Of 1t. A
gentleman who called at o'clock with ex-
traordinary anxiety to see Fred Grant or
Col. Badeau, was told the members OF the
family must deny themselves to ALL
"These are our imperative instructions" !"
said q servant at the door. At4:l5 p. N.
DR.. Douglas returned to the house after q
brief absence. After he had been within
half hour he re.entered his carriage to
visit another patient. The Doctor was
asked II be thought the end would come
during the night.
DIR. DOUGLAS OPINION.
In answer he said: "I think not; but
the General is now passing through the
stages incident to the disease and, frankly,
/ cannot tell If the end will come tonight,
The General is growing weaker and
weaker"
These words were spoken without re-
serve and carried conviction to his hear
ers. which none Of the bulletins had done.
DR.. Douglas returned from his calls
after an absence of-about IN hour. He
had come back to remain all night. DIR.
Shrady soon Joined him for the same pur.
pose. AT 8 P. 81. Romero, the Mexican
Minister, called at the house. His stay
was short. When asked on Fifth avenue
about the patient and outlook he said:
"0f course no one can foretell with a
certainty. The disease until recently
was within the power OF the doctors but
now has gone quite beyond them. The
General may live ten days, and he may
| die in two hours. fear he is going 10
choke to death. II the disease reaches
the artery, the danger OF choking Is in
creased and death by that means becomes
almost inevitable. The members OF the
family are now at the Generals bedside.
The doctors are there too, but they keep
back as much as possible. fear the
General will choke TO death; it is too
bad"
In response to inquiries Doctors Doug
las and Shrady sent following bulletin:
| At tals tAoiAeuel - 49, NVpe4@ S'ie4As
Is very quiet. His temperature and pulse
isabout normal. He has taken his liquid
food regularly and well, and in the usual
quantity. He gives one the impression Of
being weaker, which is not indicated by
the pulse"
At or. NJ. there was no change in the
condition OF General Grant. He was some
what weakeri II anything. The tempera-
ture and pulse were normal. He has taken
liquid food in the usual quantity to-day.
Between s and 0 o'clock the following
message was sent from the house OF Gen
eral Grant TO Schuyler Crosby, Washing
ton, DO: "My father Is suffering less
than he was yesteaday, but is still very
weak. (signed) MRs. SARToRls."
Crosby Is the Ex-Governor OF Montana.
Ats. r. N. Rev. Howard Henderson, a
delegate from the Newark, MI, Confer
ence, called at the house with resolutions
Of sympathy and hope passed by the Con
ference. He was told the General was
very weak. At 0 r. N. Mr.. Purringron,
counsel to U. s. Grant, Jr., was admitted
to the house. He carried a volume and q
black satchel. On leaving he told his in.
quirers he could speak Of nothing he knew
Of within doors.
At s:15 Rev. John P. Newman and
Senator Leland Stanford, OF California,
gained an entrance. When ascending
the steps DR.. Newman said that when he
left the General at seven o'clock last
evening the patient was sitting up but was
weak. The clergyman did not anticipate q
speedy death. General Adam Badeau,
General Grants former military secre.
tary, is an inmate OF the Grant residence.
On reliable authority It is stated that Gem
eral Grant has recently expressed de-
sire that General Badeau should become
his literary executor.
The family has had q policeman sta
toned before the house to prevent a
further ringing Of the bell and to keep
away all inquirers.
At $3.50 this dispatch was sent: ~
Col. r. S. Dent, Washington, D. c.:
"Easy, but weak"
tsigned) Ed. GRANT.
i At t1o:15 Ulysses s. Grant, IT., leaving
his fathers house, said: "Eather feels
very badly. There Is nothing more for
me 10 say.n AT l0:SO DR.. Douglas stated
that General Grant was feeling q little
better.
Dr. shrady, consulting physician, thinks
General Grant might rally from his pres
ent attack and live some time, az the re-
cent disturbance was the result Of trouble
in the head, and not from an aggravated
form Of the disease,
RESTING EASY.
NRw YoRK, March 81, 1A.N.-At l:45
Z. N. Senator ]. B. Chafee left the Grant
residence. He said the General had Just
been put tohea, and that as compared
with his condition 2i hours othe General
Twas better. When asked IL his physicians
considered the patient quito danger, Mr..
chaaee replied he could not say
that sach was the ease but that
Ibis present condition was more favorable.
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