The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-07-31

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ten or fifteen minutes. lie said the
General was dying by inches just as
DR.. Douglass had said few minutes
before. DR.. Newman then returned
and paced slowly up and down before
the cottage for half an hour, while
Drs. Douglass and Shrady sat on the
veranda. Henry was in the sick room,
never taking his eyes off the dying
man. Occasionly he applied to the
Generals lips a cambria wet with cool
water, as he had done at intervals dur
ing the night. The lips moved in re-
sponse to the touch, but it was only
mechanical.
All during the night also the doctors
had given the General hypodermc in
ectons of brandy as often as requir
ed TO stimulate the hearts action.
Sometimes the intervals between the
injections were not longer than five
minutes, and sometimes they were an
hour. This was kept up from o'clock
Wednesday evening until shortly be-
fore the death.
About Ct in the morning DR.. New
man asked DR.. Shrady if they should
not go up to the hotel to breakfast to-
gether. DR. Shrady said he thought it
was unsafe to leave the General and
DIR. Newman went up alone. The
doctors were seated on the porch at
7:45 whom Henry the nurse came out
and summoned them to the bedside of
the dying man. All the family were
in the room at the time, excepting the
grandchildren, U. S. Grant and
Nellie Grant, who were asleep in the
nursery. Mrs. Grant was by the Gen.
erals side, looking into his face. Mrs.
Sartoris was Immediately behind her
mother, looking over her shoulder.
Col. Fred Grant was at the head of
the bed.
On the opposite side of the bed from
his mother and directly before her
stood Jesse Grant and U. S. Grant Jr.,
and near the corner of the cot on the
same side as Jesse and near to each
was Mr.. N. Z. Dawson, the Generals
confidential secretary. AT the foot of
the bed and gazing directly down into
the Generals face were Mrs. Fred
Grant, Mrs. U. S. Grant Jr., and Mrs.
Jesse Grant, while somewhat removed
from the family circle were Henry the
nurse, Harrison Tyrrel the Generals
body servant. DR.. Newman had
gone to the hotel, and was not present.
Mrs. Grant controlled herself remark
ably.
The doctors noted that already the
purplish tinge which is a signal of fin
al dissolution had settled beneath the
patients finger nails. The hand that
DIR. Douglass lifted was growing cold.
The pulse had fluttered beyond the
point where the physician could dis
tinguish it from the pulse beats in his
own finger tips. The respiration was
very rapid, but so weak that its pain
full sound was gone. and it was scarce
ly audible at all.
Mrs. Grant almost constantly strok-
ed the face, forehead and hands of the
dying General, and at times pressed
both his hands, and, leaning over,
kissed his face.
Thus twenty minutes or so passed,
the General lying with his eyes closed.
Mrs. Sartoris eagerly sought to be
recognized by her dying father At
last he opened his eyes and they met
those of his daughter. Hers was the
last face he saw. In a moment more
the tense and weary lcok went out of
his face, his eyes closed, and with one
faint breath his life left him. The
watchers waited for another breath in
silence so complete that the singing
of the birds outside the cottage sound
ed loud and clear. The doctors ir a
low voice annouDced that the end had
come, and they withdrew. The nurse
closed down the dead mans eyelids,
and the family group pressed to the
bedside, and one after the other,
touched their lips upon the quiet face.
PAINLESS DEATH.
The Generals death, as his physi-
clans predicted it would be, was due to
sheer exhaustion. DR.. Shrady said
some weeks ago that there would come
time, how soon he could not tell,
when the General would be unable
longer to take rourisbment, and that
then the end would be near He reach
cd that point on Tuesday, and from
that time went steadily down hill with
no hope of saving him. The little
strength on which he fingered so many
hours was due to the consumption OF
his own tissues, with no possibility of
replenishing them. When he died he
weighed much less than 100 pounds
a mere skeleton. In his conscious
moments in this last relapse he knew
that death was near at hand, but he
did not fear it in the least. He had
not, in fact, from the first shown any
dread of death, his only apprehension
having been that the end would be &C.
companied by extreme pain. His doc
tors assured him that he should not
suffer, and they took such measures
that he did not. His dissolution was
absolutely painless. From midnigh,
until the moment of his death he never
made a motion, except in opening hi
eyes and now and then family stirring
his lips when wet cloth was applied
to them.
The body was embalmed, and will
remain at Mt, McGregor until August
4th when they will be taken to Albany
where they will lie in state until Mon
day August 9Th. They will be taker
to New York where they will lie il
state in the City Hall until the Sth anC
will then be buried in Riverside Park
with National honors General Han
cock will have command of the mill
tary display.