Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-27
THE SCENE All THE DEArHBEp,

siessmen Henderson and Thomas of
LIMOS and Mrs. Thomas, Senator Miller
ana wife, Congressman Symes of Col
orado, DIR. Baxter, Henry Strong
and Daniel Snippend and wife
ol Chlcago, and the Generals private
secretaries, Nv. Il. Taylor and Albert
Hall. AT the head of the BED knelt Mrs.
Losah WIN one arm on her dying
nusoands neck and the hand OF the other
strokIng his forehead. At her side we're
John A. Logan, Jr., and Rev. DR.. New
man Opposite these were the daughter,
mrs. tucker and her husband and George
A. Logan, the Generals nephew.
Ihe scene," said DR.. Baxter, ''was one
OF the saddest that l have ever witnessed.
All present were deeply affected. The
grlei OF Mrs. Logan and her children was
pltllul in the extreme"
TO BE BURIED IN ILLINOIS.
1t is stated that the Generals body will,
no doubt, be taken to Illinois for burial.
put no definite arrangements for the fu-
neral Will be made until Mrs. Logan, who
Is wholly prostrated, can be consulted.
senator Cullom, who was at the dying
mans side continuously from last eve
nlng, was requested TO temporarily take
cnarge OF matters. He sent at once for
the Deputy lSergeant-at-arms of the SEN
ate, who, upon his arrival, half an hour
later, entered upon his usual preliminary
ARRANGEMENTS for the funeral by sum-
moning an undertaken and telegraphing
to the Sergeant-at-arms and to others at
a distance.
SENSITIVE TO SNOW.
Gen. Logan's system was very sensitive
TO weather changes of a particular kind,
and he has often been heard to remark in
half jocular way that he believed he
could accurately foretell the coming of a
snow storm. The seeds of his dieorder
were sown during the war, his first at
tack OF rheumatism having followed i'm
mediately the end of twenty-four hours
march through binding snow storm.
His last attack, too, resulted from brief
exposure to the snow storm of a fortnight
ago, aud his death preceded by but a few
minutes the beginning of heavy furry,
which, though brief, covered the earth
with thick carpet of white.
MRS. LoGAN's HARD WORK.
Mrs. Logan, worn out with weeks of
nursing, went to bed at an early hour this
morning, leaving her husband in the care
of Surseo General Hamilton. of the
Marine Hospital Service, and Representa-
tive Symes, of Colorado. When she re-
turned to her husbands bedside early
this forenoon she saw that the dreaded
change had come ana that her husbands
life was slowly ebbng away. She
sent at once to the Metropolitan Metho-
dist Church, OF which she and
her husband were members, to ask the
prayers of the congregation for her hus-
band and her family. When the Rev. DR..
John z. Newman, the pastor OF the Met
ropolitan Methodist Church. received the
sad news he announced to his congrega-
tiOn that Gen. Logan was dying, and SUBJ
sequently, just before the benedictlon, led
the cOngree alton first In silent and then
in audible prayer.
THE NEWS SPREADING.
From this church the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
over town nd one after another frien nd
of Gen. Logan, prominent men and men
OF no prominence alike, walked or drove
out the Fourteenth street bill to the old
stone mansion, which Mrs. Logan had re-
named Calumet Place, where the
old soldier lay dying. Shortly
after O'Clock the news OF Gen.
Logan's death became known generally
throughout the city. 1t was everywhere
received with more than ordinary sorrow.
Gen. Logan and his wife have spent most
of their time for more than quarter of a
century in Washington. They have been
hospitable and charitable to the full ex-
tent of their limited means.
THEIR MODEST LIFE.
Although they lived in two rooms at a
quiet boarding house on Twelfth street
for manv years before they bought Calu-
met Place two years ago, they always en-
tertained TO a greater or less extent, and
Mrs. Logan WAS an active promoter Of
every charitable and benevolent cause
which her devotion to her hus-
band gave her time for. Their
home life was very beautiful
Mrs. Logan was her husbands helpmate
in the full sense OF the word. Everybody
liked her and she did all that she could
to have everybody like her husband.
They kept up tremendous cOrrespon-
dence with politicians and ex-soldiers all
over the country. 1t was his work in
writing his history which broke Gen.
Logan down.
NOT RICH IN WORLDLY GOODS.
Gen. Logan was poor. He began to feel
his poverty when he had passed his Goth
wear. He had spent his salary year after
year, and often more quickly as he lived.
During the last Presidential campaign he
began to make some provision for the fu-
ture. He had a small house ON Calumet
avenue, in Chicago, and some farm lands
in southern Illinois, but they were prac-
tically unproductive. 1t was to provide
q home for his wife that he bought the old
stone mansion where ne died from Sena-
tor Don Cameron Two years ago, prom
lsIng to pay him $4,000 for it. He has
paid 81, 600 or So, 900, and the house is en-
numbered with deed of trust for the bal
ance.
THE OBJECT OF HIS BOOK.
1t was chiefly TO raise money TO pay for
this house, and in the hope that after
wards there might be a balance from his
which would enable his wife to
live comfortably in it, that induced him
to undertake. the preparation OF his book,
..rhe Great Conspiracy" This work,
added TO the great correspondence which
he constantly kept up, put 100 great
strain on his vital powers. He was no
LONGER Young, although his thick black
nair and moustache deceived even himself
on this point, and his splendid constitu-
ton had begun TO decay. His trip across
the continent last summer did him very
little good.
WORKING FOR A NOMINATION.
Like his previous trip to Kansas last
sprInQ, IL was part OF his plans for captur-
ing the Republican Convention in 1888,
and be worked hard all the time instead
of resting. Since his return here this
winter he has had to rest. he felt bis
weakness. He was in the Senate for
few days at the opening of the session, but
he took no part in the proceedings and
soon retired to his home under an attack
OF his old enemy. rheumatism, whicn
found his exhausted system an easy VIC
tim. Gen. Logan had suffered tortures