The true northerner., 1885-07-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

The sad tidings of the demise of
Gen. Grant, though not unexpected, were
received throughout the country with uni
versal manifestations of grief and sympathy.
In London flags were placed at half-mast on
the American Exchange and American Con-
sulate. Nr. Gladstone and Mr.. John Bright
we're much affected on receiving the news.
President Cleveland sent the following dis
patch to Mrs. Grant at Mount MacGregor:
Accept this expression of my heartfelt
sympathy in this hour of your great
affection The people OF tho nation
mourn with you, and would reach, if they
could, with kindly comfort, the depths of the
sorrow which is yours alone and which only
the pity of God can heal" Immediately upon
receiving the news Of the death Of the Gen.
eral, the President directed that the flag on
the White House should be placed at half
mast. The lowering of the flag was the first
in ntimation that the citizens of Washington
had of the death of the distinguished man.
few minutes after the White House flag
was placed at half mast the flags on all the
public buildings ani on many private ones
were placed in like position. A Cabinet
nation was issued by President Cleveland;
The President Of the United States has Just
received the sad tidings OF the death OF that
illustrious citizen and ex-President OF the
United States, Gen Ulysses s. Grant, at Mount
MacGregor, in the State or New York, 10 which
place he had lately been removed in the en-
deavor to prolong his lie.
In making this announcement to the people
of the United States the President is impressed
with the magnitude OF the public loss of great
military leader, who was in the hour OF victory
magnanimous: amid disaster serene and self
sustained; who in every station, whether as
soldier or as a Chief Magistrate twice called to
power by his fellow -countrymen, trod un-
sweryingly the pathway OF duty, undeterred by
doubts, single minded and straightforward.
Tue entire country has witnessed with deep
emotion his prolonged and patient struggle
wi h painful disease and has watched by his
couch OF suffering with fearful sympathy.
The destined end has come at last, and his
spirit has returned to the Creator who sent it
forth The great heart of the nation, that fol-
lowed him when living with love and pride,
bows now in sorrow above him dead, tenderly
mindful of his virtues, his great patriotic serv-
ices, and Of the loss occasionei by his death In
testimony OF respect 10 the memory Of Cen.
Grant it ia ordered that the Executive
Mansion and the several de artments at Wash
ington be draped in mourning for perodsof
on the day Of the funeral be suspended; and the
Secretaries of War and OF the Navy will cause
orders to be issued for appropriate military and
naval honors to be rendered on that day.
The death-bed scene at Mount MacGregor
is thus described by an eyewitness:
With one last weary opening aud closing of
the eyes and q little gasp, so faint that 1t was
but gentle sigh, Gen. Grant expired this
morning as peacefully and painlessly as tired
child might drop into quiet sleep. Death could
hardly come TO any man in form freer from ter
ror than IL came to him. All who were dearest
to him were at his side. His hand was fast
casped In that OF his faithful wife, his daughter
looked over her mothers shoulder into his face,
and his brow was gently pressed by the hand OF
his oldest son, Frederick, who through all the
painful months OF the illness has been de-
votedly at the sufferers side. His three physi-
clans, grown to him more like near personal
friends than mere professional attendants, stood
a little back from the family group. The de-
voted Harrison leaned dejectedly by the door.
and Henry, the nurse, sat in distant corner
The little grandchildren had not beer called
and were fast asleep in their beds. 1t was eight
minutes past eight by the clock. 1t DIR.
Shrady who first spoke after the soul had taken
its fight Seeing the iiuttering breath had
ceased t.. to come he bent his head and said:
with anxIety-chokingly murmured: All
is over" There was silence
for several moments, broken occasionally by n
subdued sob. as the family bent their heads
with handkerchieis to their eyes. There were
no excessive demonstrations Of grief. The
event had been so long hanging over the heads
OF all as inevitable that its advent was calmly
received. No one who had witnessed the dead
mans long agony could wish to see it hopeless
ly prolonged, OF all, none was calmer than
Mrs. Grant. though it was feared she would be
most prostrated. She wept but little. and soon
raised her head and walked quietly. escorted by
DIR. Newman. to the sofa. Then the physicians
and the family crept one by ono from the room,
and the end of Grants brave struggle for life
had indeed come at last. The Generals death
was, as IL had been Predicted by his ply
sicans II would be, through sheer exhaustion.
When he died he weighed much less than one
hundred pounds-a mere skeleton. he mo-
ments he was conscious during this last relapse
he knew that death was at hand, hut he
did not fear It in The least lie had not in fact.
from the first shown any dread OF death. HIS
only apprehension being that the end would be
accompanied by extreme pain. His doctor as
sured him that he should not suffer. and there
by took measures that he did not His dissolu-
ton was absolutely painless From mldn chit
until the mome-t Of his death he never made n
motion, except in opening his ewes and i'm now
and then family stirring his lips, when moisture
was applied to them
The family of Gen. Grant promptly
rejected the proposition of tho doctors for an
autopsy. The latter had been misrcpresent-
cd, they said. and their diagnosis of the case
questioned, and they were anxious that
post norton should settle for once and for
all any doubts that might exist on the sub
iect. The family representatives re-
piled that they werc perfectly satisfied
with the physicians conduct of the
case, and could not see any necessity for
step that was go abhorrent to their feelings.
A Mount MacGrsgor disr stch says that .ao