St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-24

summoned not a moment sooner than was
prudent. The doctors noted, on entering
the room and pressing to the bedside, that
already
THE PURPLISH TINGE,
which was one of natures signals of final
dissolution, had settled beneath the finger
nails. The hand that DR.. Douglas lifted
was fast growing colder than it had been
through the night. The pulse had fiuttered
beyond the point where the physician
could distinguish it from the pulse beats
in his own finger tips. The respiration
was very, rapid and was a succession of
shallow, painting inhalations, but happily
the approaching end was becoming clear of
the rattling i'll the throat and lungs,
and as the respirations grew quicker and
more rapid toward the close they also be-
came less labored and almost nOisleSs. This
fact was in its result a comfort TO the
watchers by the bedside, to whom was spared
the scene of an agonizipg or otherwise than
a peaceful death. The wife almost con-
stantly stroked the face, forehead and
hands of the dying general, and at times as
the passionate longing to prevent the event
so near would rise within her, Mrs. Grant
pressed both his hands, and leaning for
ward tenderly kissed the face of the sinking
man.
THE LAST MOMENTS.
Col Fred Grant sat silently, but with
evident feeling, though his bearing was that
of soldierly son at the deathbed of a hero
father. e. S. Grant, Jr., was deeply
moved, but Jesse bore the scene steadily,
and the ladies, while watching with wet
cheeks, were silent as bettited the dignity
of life such as was closing before them.
DR.. Douglas noted the neameSS of the su-
preme moment, and quietly approached the
bedside and bent above it, and while he did
so the sorrow of the gray-haired physician
seemed closely allied with that of the
family. DIR. Shrady also drew near. 1t
was seven minutes after o'clock and the
eyes of the general were closing. His
breathing grew more huShed as the last
functions OF the heart and lungs were
hastened to the closing of the eX-presi
dents life. A peaceful expression seemed
to be deepening in the firm and strong-lined
face and it was reflected as a closing com
fort in the sad hearts that beat quickly
under the stress of loving suspense. A
minute more passed and was closing as the
general drew deeper breath. There was
an eXhalation like that of
ONE RELIEVED
of long and anxious tension. The men,
bers of the group were impelled each OF
step nearer the bed, and each waited to
note the next respiration, but it did not
come then-it never came. There was alb
solute stiffness in the room and hush of
eXpectant surprise. No sound broke silence,
save the singing of birds in the pines out
side the cottage and the measured break
ing of the engine that all night had awaited
by the little mountain depot down the
slope. sit is all over" quietly spoke DIR.
Douglas, and then came heavily to each
witness the realization that Gen. Grant was
dead. Then the doctors withdrew, the
nurse closed the eyelids and COM
posed the dead generals head,
after which each of the family
group pressed to the bedside one after the
other and touched their lips upon the face
so lately stilled. DIR. Shrady passed out
upon the piazza, and as he did so he met
DIR. Newman Fastening up the steps. ''He
is dead" remarked DR.. Shrady, quietly.
The fact of having been absent from the
side of the dying man and his family at the
last was
CAUSE OF SORROW
and regret to the clergyman, who had
awaited all night at the cottage. He had
been summoned from his breakfast a mo-
ment too late, and reached the cottage only
in time to minister to the family sorrow,
and gaze upon the scarcely hushed lips of
the general, to whom DIR. Newman's love
had bound him in such close relations. Those
who are aware of and know, and all who
learned of the clergyman's absence from the
death-bed, quickly speak the impulse of
hearty sympathy. Within twenty minutes
after the death of Gen. Grant, Karl Ger
hardt, a Hartford sculptor. who has been
making study Of the general, was sum-
moned to the cottage at the suggestion of
DIR. Newman to make plaster mask of the
dead mans face. He was highly success
ful. The details and arrangements touch
ing the remains while they are here and
until they arrive in New York are in charge
of Joseph w. Drexel and w. A. Arkell. A
week ago the general is said to have init
mated that if he should die here during hot
weather he would prefer that his remains
should remain here until cooler weather.
the purpose being to spare his family sad
and fatiguing journey in sultry weather.
IT Is DOUBTFUL,
however, if this suggestion is fully carried
out, though it is not unlikely that the re-
mains may repoSe here some days. This,
however, is entirely at the disposal of Col.
Fred Grant, to whom is left the entire con-
troll of all arrangements relative TO his
fathers remains. 1t is not unlikely that a
from the city of New York to
accord burial plat for the general and his
wife when she, too, shall have passed away,
might be considered by the colonel. The
impression that Washington may be chosen
as the burial spot is believed to be founded
on the present inclination of Col. Grant.
The only condition made by the general,
and that as long agO''as June "a, was that his
Ci,
Mrs. Grant might in time be laid beside his
own.
SYMPATHY BY TELEGRAPH.
The following are among the thousands
of kilograms received from all parts of the
world by the members of the Grant family:
Washington, July 23.-To Col. Fred Grant:
The board of commissioners of the United
States Soldiers home are unanimous in their
desire that the remains OF Gen. Grant may be
buried within the grounds of that institu-
ton. The commissioners have selected, sub
ject to the approval of the family, an appro-
pirate and commanding eminence overlook
ing the city and surrounding country as an
appropriate place of sepulture. Letter by
mail. ,(Signed) r. Macfeely, in the absence
and by authority of Lieut.. Gen. Sheridan,
president of tn board.
FROM SENATOR LOGAN.
Washington, July 23.-To Col. Fred Grant:
The public news TO me of your fathers death
has just been received. The sympathy Of
myself and family goes out from the depth
or our hearts to your mother and all of you
IN your great bereavement. The country is
filled with sympathy and grief at this news,
but its loss must grow upon it as the future
unfolds the coming years.
JOHN A. LOGAN.
FROM EX-PREsIDENT HAYES.
Mt. McGREGoR, n. Y, July 23.-The
following message was received from ex-
President Hayes.
Fremont, o., July 23.-Please assure Mrs
Grant and the sorrowing family that they
have the deepest sympathy of Mrs Hayes
and myself. r. r. HAyrs