Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. THE STRICKEN SOLDIER Gen. Grant’s Obstinate Battle with Death Gen. Grant slept uninterruptedly through the aight of April 21, anil was reported as apparently gaining in strength. The swelling at the base of his tongue still existed. He was driven through Central Park during the day. A New York telegram says: There are still rumors i n oertain circles that Gen. Grant'.i disease has been misrepresented. These rumors ar; increasing, and this morning the Sun said editorially that the hemorrhage was caused by a sore which has now disappeared; that lie has not had cancer; that his doctors now admit it, and that Drs. Douglas and Stirady have got a good deal of free advertising and arc sharp fellows. A continued improvement in Gen. Grant’s condition was noted in th ! New York dispatches of April 23. His throe physicians held a consultation and examined his throat, which they found to be much better than when last seen. The General drove out in his carriage, and later walked a block or two, returning not in the least fatigued. A gentleman, ju-t arrived from England, presented the General with a card, upon which Premier Gladstone had written his sympathies and good wishes for him. A Chattanooga dlspatC’.i reports that a movement is on foot in that city to tender Gen. Grant the free use during his convalescence of a private hotel on Lookout Mountain,.in sight of the battle-fields of Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Lookout Mountain, and Chattanooga. “Gen. Grant expresses himself as feeling better and stronger than at any time since the favorable symptoms began to appear,” says a New York dispatch of April 21. "The General, his wife, Mrs. F. D. Grant, and Mrs. Sartoris went for a drive yesterday. Afterward the distinguished patient took a short walk. He gave an artist a sitting for a bust. On being weighed, the General found he had lost twenty-one pounds in the past three months. His weight was 141 pounds. There were a number of callers during the day, including Senator Lcland Stanford and ex-Speaker lveifer." New York dispatcher of the morning of April 24 reported Gen. Grant as having passed a comfortable day, but a somewhat restless night. The usual airing in the park was taken. It is likely that the General and his family will spend the month of July at or near Saratoga, and August in the Catskills. Mr. Drexel lias ottered them his cottage at McGregor, and they may occupy it in July. Gen. Grant’s health continue* to Improve tapidly,” is the language of the bulletin sent out on the morning of April 27. “The four doctors In the case held a consultation, and found less Irritation in the throat and a better condition of the system generally. In regard to the cancer the doctors had not expected much change, and ■were consequently prepared to find it about as It had been. They parted with the understanding that they would moot again in a week unless sooner summoned. The electric light agent who gave outcome startling statements about the cancer was not allowed to see the General, and his macliino was not used. Arrangements have been made to transfer the General and his family to Saratoga during the latter part of June. Joseph \V. Drexel having tendered the ose of his cottage.”