Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1885 — AS A CITIZEN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AS A CITIZEN.

The Last Eight Years of the Old Soldier’, Life.

Gen. Grant retired from the Presidency, upon the accession of Rutherford B. Hayes, on tiie 4th of March, 1877. His career since that date, which has been in the main a quiet and uneventful one, is too familiar to the reading world to require any extended notice. Every one knows of his trip around the world, and the enthusiastic receptions that met him in every city, town, and village through which he passed upon his return journey across the continent; of his candidacy for a third term of the

Presidency, and the heroic devotion with which his adherents in the Chicago Republican Convention of 1880 stood by him as long as there was hope; of his unfortunate connection with the banker Ward, and how the honest old hero was used as a sool-pigeon by that wily rascal: and, finally, of his fall upon an icy pavement, resulting in a iracture of one of his hips, which was followed soon after by the development of a cancerous growth near the roots of the tongue. For a time the public was kept in ignorance—possibly the docto*s were in the same blissful state—regarding the nature of the distinguished patient’s malady, and in some features, such as the unreliable or purposely colored reports of his condition, the case bears a strong resemblance to that of the lamented Garfield.