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inquiries, Drs. Douglas and Shrady sent out the
following bulletin:


following bulletin:
''At this moment Il p NJ General Grant is
very quiet. His temperature and pulse are
about normal. He has taken his liquid food
regularly, and in the usual quantity He is
more silent than usual and has made no exer-
ton of any kind to-day He gives the impress
preston of being weaker, which is not indicated
by the pulse"
At8P NJ. Rev. Howard Henderson, delegate
house with the resolutions of sympathy and
hope passed by the conference, and was told
that the General was very weak.
9:20 P. M-There is no change in the condition
of General Grant. He is somewhat weaker, il
anything. His temperature and pulse are nor
NAL. He has taken liquid food in the usual
quantities to-day.
Between and o'clock the following message
was sent from the house of General Grant to
Schuyler Crosby, 1870 H street, Washington:
my father is suffering less than he was yes
terday, but is still very weak.
MRS. SARToRIs."
Mr.. Crosby is ex Governor of Montana.
AT 9 Mr.. burlington, counsel to u S. Grant,
jr., was admitted to the house. He carried a
volume and black satchel On leaving he told
inquirers that he could speak of nothing he
knew of within doors.
At 915 Rev. John p Newman and Senator
LELAND Stanford, of California gained entrance.
When ascending the steps DIR. Newman said
that when he left the General at o'clock, last
evening" the patient was sitting up, but was
weak. The clergyman did not anticipate speedy
death.
General Adam Badean, General Grants for
mer military secretary. is an inmate of the
Grant residence. On reliable authority it is
stated that General Grant had recently ex-
pressed desire that General Badeau should
become his literary executor.
The family had policeman stationed before
thd house to prevent the further ringing of the
bell, and to keep away all inquirers
At $50 this dispatch was sent to Colonel F. S.
Dent, Washington: "Father is easy but very
weak. F. D. GRANT"
AT 1910 Ulysses Grant, jr, as he was leaving
his fathers house. said: Father feels very
badly; there is nothing more for me to say"
At 1895 DR.. Douglas stated that General
Grant was feeling a little better.
At 1l:45 Senator J. b. Chaffee left the Grant
residence. He said the General just had been
put to bed, and that, as compared with his con-
dition twenty-four hours ago, the General was
better When asked if the physicians considered
the patient out of danger Mr. Chaffee replied
that he could not say that such was the case,
but that his present condition was more favora-
ble
At 11:55 DR.. Douglas and Colonel Grant
left the house for the night, it be-
ing considered necessary for only DR.. Shrady
to remain DR.. Douglas said the General had
just retired, and was very comfortable. A little
morphine had been given to induce sleep.
The General had been improving all
day up to the present, and the better
ment had continued all evening. He had
been chatty and bright, conversing with his fam
lily and physicians. His pulse and temperature
were very nearly normal. He had slept five
hours within twenty-four.
At midnight the vestibule doors were locked,
and within the next hour all the lights were ex
tinguished, except one in the library and one on
the top floor
DR.. Shrady, the consulting physician, thinks
General Grant might rally from the present at
tack and live some time, as the recent disturb
ance was the result of trouble in the head and
from the aggravated form of the disease.