Connecticut western news., 1892-12-22
BLAINE'S END IS NEAR
Ii IS REPORTED THAT HE MAY
 DIE ANY DAY.

His Family and Physicians Now Admit
 That the Very Worst Is to Be Feared
 and the Famous Statesman May Never
 Leave His Bed Alive.
 WARRINGTON, Dec. 19.-A1l day long Sun day the life of James G. Blaine hung trem- bling in the balance. For more than an hour in the forenoon hope was abandoned, and the end was momentarily expected by physicians, family and friends. All sim T. lation was thrown aside in the apparent imminent presence of death, and the sup pressed facts of his illness-the long denied hut now admitted Bright's disease the oc- casional intervals of delirium, the long hours when he lay incapable of speech or motion-these and other distressing features of his illness, all incidental to the one ovsrpOwering organic trouble, were admitted. His family were hastily called round the bedside. The distinguished pa tient lay unconscious and to all appear ances dying until p. m., when slight rally set in. His pulse, which had almost ceased to beat, became again perceptible and partial consciousness was restored. At 3 p. m. his physicians, Drs W. w. John ston and Hyatt, considered him 50 much improved as to render their constant pres ence at the bedside unnecessary, although there had been no marked Improvement and no change in his condition upon which hopes of ultimate recovery could be based, but the immediate crisis had ceassd. N
 An HI Fated Mansion.
 All day representatives of the press pc trolled Madison place and carefully watched the old red mansion, which has become cele- brated for its historical associations and the fatality with which misfortune has fol- lowed its occupants. From the Sickles- Keys tragedy, which occurred more than . third of . century ago, followed by the at tempted assassination of Secretary Seward during the last year of the civil war, down to the present time, the pail of i'll fate has hung over the mansion.
 During the less than four years o6eu- pancy of this house by the Blaine family the ex-secretary's daughter, the wife of Colonel Coppinger and Walker and Elm mons Blaine, the ex-secretary's promising sons, have died.
 President Harrison, accompanied by his private secretary, MT. Halford, walked over from the White House to the ex-secretary'a residence In the evening to personally inquire as to his condition, and ex- pressed relief and qualification at being in- formed that there had been some abate- ment of the more alarming symptomA The excitement throughout the city was in tense as the news of Mr. Blaine's condition spread, and, Sunday though it was, the newspapers issued extras, which found . rapid sale.
 Mr. Blaine's Heroism.
 Of late MT. Blaine's physical condition has been such that he has at times given way to despondency. While msnifestins no fear of death, MT. Blaine has often said that he did not want to die. '.In fact, !" says an intimate friend of the family, "Mr. Blaine has fought death with sublime her oism. The world knows how ambitious he was and also knows how much he accom- plished in the pursuit of his am bition. And yet he dies a disappointed and, was about to say. a heartbroken man, but that would perhaps be putting it too strong. once heard him say that, after all, ambition was an ignis fatuus and that all the world was hollow outside of one's family. Then he would quote these lines from N. P. Willis:
 What is smbition7
 Tis . glorious cheat The angels of light
 Walk not 90 dazzlingly the sapphire walls ot
 heaven.
 MT. Blaine has lived about sixty-two years, but when you appreciate what hs has passsd through he has lived far beyond three score and ten. He has been compared in his public life with Mir. Clay There is close resemblance between MT Blaine and that great tribune of the people. Clay was magnetic; so is Blaine. Each was power full before the people and possessed genial fellowship that bound men to them with hooks of steel. Both had an ambition to be president and failed. am inclined to believe, however, that MT. Blaine's public career will stand higher in the esteem of future generations than that of MT. Clay"
 At 8 late hour Drs. Johnston and Hyatt saw MT. Blaine and gave out for publica- tion the following statement:
 MT. Blaine seems to have rallied en- tirely from his weakness of the morning, and appears to be as well as at any time within the past week. While 1t is not possible to say what changes may take place in his condition, he can be said to b. in no immediate danger"