Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-25
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. CENTRAL PARK CHOSEN For General Grants Last
 Resting Place. DETAILS OF THE FUNERAL. Ten Days Mourning at Mt. McGregor. AN EASY RACE FOR PHALLAS. Accident at a New York Fire.
AN EASY RACE FOR PHALLAS.
Accident at a New York
 Fire.

Accident at a New York Fire.
 GRANTS LAST RESTING PLACE 4 Piot fn Central Park-The Body to Remain Ten Bays at Mt. Mc- Ategor-T0 Lie in State One Day at Aibany and Three i'm New York .-othef Arrangements For the Fu- neral.
 M.. MeGREeoR, July 24.-It has been de cided to bury General Grant in Central Park ] New York city. The progranu1e et arrange
 ,nents is AS foS,,.1ows: The body will lie qulet' ly at the Cottage in the room ne-e "- '.' | ral died until one week from next Tuesday.
 when it will be placed upon special train l and conveyed quietly and without demon
 stration to Albany, reaching there in the evening. The body will be borne to the Capitol where it will lie in state until Wednesday noon. Then and thence the dead general will be conveyed by the funeral train to New York, arriving there on Wednesday evening. The body will then be conveyed to the City Hall where it will remain in state
 until Saturday; when it will be borne to it's last resting place in Central Park. More than two hundred Grand Army post repre- sentatives are expected tomorrow from all parts of the country. Tents are in readiness on the mountain for their accommodation. The generals face under the infu- ence of the embalming fluids has lost by disease and suffering. The expression is calm and peaceful. The case containing the body is surrounded to-day by beautiful wreath of oak leaves which little Julia Grant, the colonels daughter, and Dr. Douglass little daughter brought in from the woods and begged might be so placed: The body will not be placed in a casket until Monday, when near friends of the family will be permitted to view the face. Mr. Drexel has decided that the cottage Ill which General Grant died shall never be occupied as a dwelling again. He in tends to present it to the State or national government as memento together with the furniture as it stands now. The following message received by MT. Turner, chief clerk of Mayor Grace, shows that it is settled that the place of burial shall be Gen. tral Park:
 Your telegram is at hand and understand the matter to be now definitely settled that General Grants body is be inferred here. We cannot take any definite action in regard to the matter of Mrs of the board of aldermen and my own is pledged that we will see that the wishes of the family are
 W. R. GRACE.
 Upon the receipt of Mayor Grace's assur- ance that Mrs. Grant would be laid beside the general the family authorized MT. Turner to telegraph the Mayor accepting the city offer of plot of ground for the burial of General Grants body. The foregoing sched- ule of arrangements was then agreed upon. Mrs. Grant has received the following from the British minister at Washington:
 ss Ssr sincere e9 sonaey on death of General Grant,
 Many other sympathetic telegrams were re- ceived by the family
 General Sherman has telegraphed from Lake Minnetonka, Minn., that he will start at once for New York. He will there receive a request for his immediate presence here. General Logan will also come here to accom- pany General Grants body to New York. Among the sympathetic messages received to-day were the following: From Mrs. ex- President Barrows, Minister West, Minister Romero, the Governors of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and other States, the Mayors of St. Louis, Philadei- phia and other cities.
 The last time General Grant signed his name was few days before his death, when he put on the back of check for $1 ,000, which he had received from the Century Publishing company four or five days ago. Everything is quiet in and around the Grant cottage.
 Dr. Douglass gave to a reporter to-day some interesting "reminiscences of General Grants illness. Among other things he said that about week ago when he noted some what less obstinate condition of the throat, probably due ts the increased inroads of the disease, the general wrote upon piece ot paper the following message to the doctor:
 I feel sorry at the prospect of living through the not think can, but may. Except that do not gather stre ngth feel quite as well as heretofore biiity to move around than in any other way, or rather in the lack of desire to try to move. The Giseasa fe is mnss preeious @ of Course to my family and would be to me If could recover entirely
 fiTss Wanted SO nany days to work on my book so the authorship would be clearly mine. It was
 aeh loSeE han since and with it cpaety to de more work than ever did in the same time My out, and did it all from the crossing of the James river in 1864 to Appomattox in 1865. Since booR There is nohns mere to do and therefore am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment :"
 Everything remains quiet about the cot. l tage this evening. The ladies have remained almost continuously in their rooms during the day. Among the numerous telegrams l received to-day was the following from the Princess of Wales:
 Aecept our deepest sympathy in the & loss of you you qualification at having had the aovantage of know 1 ing him personally"
 Ex-President Arthur telegraphed his con dolences. Funeral services will be held or l the porch of the cottage at Il o'clock a. m on August 4, Rev. Dr. Newman officiating I The body will then be taken by train to Sar atoga. The train stops at Saratoga only | half an hour, reaching Albany at 4:3O. Gen eral Carr is commander of the third d1ylsor l of the G. A. R. and Governor Hill and tht State officials will escort the body to the Cap 1 itol. The Loyal Legion guard aceompanies l the body from Saratoga in addition to the of 1 fcial guard furnished by General Hancock 1 All persons were kept away from the cottage 1 to-day except those having business with Colonel Grant. The generals face looks as | though he had just fallen asleep. A United | States flag is thrown over the coffin. Saratoga Mourns The IllustrIous Dead SARATOGA, July 24.-The public meeting | at the town hall tonight to take action o1 the death of General Grant was largely at
 tended. The hall was decorated in mourn ing. On each side of the stage was stocl
 of muskets backed by service flags. In th center of the proscenium arch suspended l was an oil painting of the dead hero ant from each side was looped mourning. A | 8 o'clock the orchestra played the "Los | Chord" after which Spencer Trask called the meeting to order and named Judge Hil
 ton as president. Resolutions commemorativ | of and euiogizing General Grant were passed
 Rev. Dr. Paxton, of New York, made tn 1 principal address of the evening A resolu 1 tion was adopted asking that the remains o General Grant be placed one day in Sarato :! l that the people from various parts of tn
 Union may take last look at the dead hero Sixty-ive vice presidents were named, amon them William H. Vanderbilt and Russel
 Sage. Many prominent personages were pres 1 ent.
 I The House Where Grant Was Horn l Po1Nr PLEASANT, O., July M.-Michae
 Hersch, owner of the house where Genera Grant was born, has three propositions fo
 the purchase of the building, one of which from a committee of gentlemen living in thi