Punxsutawney Spirit, 1885-07-29

              t*wr  1 -i i 1 JUKI •*> • w t NO. 8. And Children's Suits. :E::M"N:: A: :N: :T: Of suits that have been split to accommodate the trade. And Here and There a Vest. Gents' Neckware SHOES FOR LADIES! SHOES FOR MEN! A Demented Ahitiirtress. Now Room Opposite St. Elmo Hotel, —♦ • Fishermen Fired On Death of Gen. Grant. PUNXSUTAWNBT, PAi, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1885. To-Morrow the Clouds PUBLISHED EVEEY WEDNESDAY. 9unx*ttfcttt»ttfg Spirit. ffe $1 ffwt $foc. MAY BE GATHERING •yyiNSLOW & CALDERWOOD, Attorneys at Law, Punictutawney, Pa. Office one door east of the Western Union Telipiph Office. Practice in the courts ol Indiana and Jefferson comities.  JJREWER & CAMPBELL, Attorneys at Law, Punxtutawney, Pa. Office on Gilpin Btreet, two doors north of Shields' furniture store.  THOUGH THE SUN IS RED HOT TO - DAY J. TRUITT, Attorney at Law, Punxsulawney, Pa. Opposite Spirit Building. Practice in the Courts of ailjacont counties.  A. CARMALT, Attorney-at Law, Brookville, Pa. Office with Judge Jenks. Legal business carefully attended to.  Elmo Store St. THAT'S THE REASON WHY THE QONRAD & MUNDORFF, Attorneys at Law, Brookville, Pa. Office in Rodger's building, opposite the Clemments House. Legal business entrusted to them will receive prompt and careful attention. Believes in di»posing of its stylish and handsome stock of JENKS & CLARK, Attorneys at Law, Brookville, Pa. Office in Mfttson Rleck, opposite the public buildings. MEN'S SUITS BOYS' SUITS JOHN ST. CLAIR, Attorney at Law, And Justice of the Peaco, Punxsutawney, Pa. Office in Mnndorff building, nearly opposite Spirit building. Collections made, depositions taken, and all kindsof legal business attended to. The physicians are desirous ol having a post mortem examination, but the family are said to he averse, and that is a matter yet to he determined. A week ago the General is said to have intimated that should he die here during the hot weather he would prefer that his remains should remain here until cooler weather, the purpose being to spare his family a sad and fatiguing journey in such hot weather. It is doubtful, however, if this suggestion is fully carried out, though it is not unlikely that the remains may repose here some days. This, however, is entirely at the disposal of Colonel Fred Grant, to whom is left entire control of arrangements relative to his father's remains. It is not unlikely that a proposition from the City of New York to accord a burial lot for the General and his widow, when she shall have passed away, might be considered by Colonel Grant. The impression that Wellington may be chosen ;is the burial place is believed to be founded on the present inclination of Colonel Grant. The only condition made by the General, and that as long ago as June 2-4, was that his remains should be interred where those of Mrs. Grant, might in time lie beside his own. I'uri Ileal ion of Drinking tel after midnight. Within twenty minutes after the death of General Grant, Karl Gerheardt, a Hartford sculptor, who has been making a stndv here of the General, was summoned to the cottage, at the suggestion of Dr. Newman, to make a plaster mask of the dead man's face. He was highly successful. Within half an hour after the General's decease the waiting engine at the mountain depot was on the way to Saratoga to bring the undertaker, who placed the remains on ice to-day to await the arrival of a New York undertaker. Before the end of the season, rather than run the risk of keeping it over into another season, when the same stvles may be in vogue no longer. The ST. ELMO believes in sacrificing good naturedly rather than in losing reluctantly and therefore we must dispose of the largest part of U C. CAMPBELL, Attorney at Law, Brookville, Pa. Ofttco in Mateon's office, Matson building, opposite the Court House. J)R. W.F. BEYER, Physician and Surgeon, Punxsutawney, Pa. Office two doors east of the Post Office. Our Spring and Summer Stock Before another season dawns upon us. After the biggest season we have ever had, we have still got a large stock of WOORSTED SLITS left, while our shelves are crowded with J)R. WM. ALTAIAN, Physician and Surgeon, Punxsutawney, Pa. Offers his professional services to the citizens of Punxsutawney and vicinity.  £)R. 8. 8. HAMILTON, Physician and Surgeon, Punxsutawney, Pa. Office in dwelling. Offers his services to the people of Punxsutawney and the surrounding country.  SINGLE PANTS AND SINGLE COATS, £)R. S. C. ALLISON, Physician and Surgeon, Punxsutawney, Pa. Offers his services to the people of Punxsutawney and vicinity. J)R. J. SHEFFER, Phqsician and Surgeon, Punxsutawney, Pa. Having permanently located in Covode, Pa., 1 offer my professional services to tlie people of this Vicinity. Chronic diseases of women a specialty.  HATS, HATS ! The average healthy adult man takes into his system four and a half pounds of water daily, and with it too often a dangerous quantity of foreign matter and disease producing germs. In very many homes during the summer months, water that otherwise would nauseate the drinker, is made cold by ice, and then is hastily swallowed, the coldness masking its offen>- siveness. Unfortunately for the health of the consumer, the addition of ice does not render the impurities in water innocuous, hut often adds to its own contribution ol disease-germs. The only safe guard to the consumer is in giving his personal attention to the filtration of the water used iii his household. Water slowly percolated through crushed vegetable charcoal will escape from it not only cleansed of particles held in suspenaion, but also of organic and other matter. The cheapness of charcoal is such that is obtainable by all classes, and when soiled, a fresh quantity can be substiuted at trifling cost. The most effec,ive filtration is obtained by placing •rushed charcoal in an earthen vessel, 10 arranged as to compel the slow >assage of the water through il, as all 'fforts at rapid filtration have proved mtlicient. Only wooden spigots hould Ik; used in drawing ofl'the water. A reservoir for the filtered watt:- with a separate ice chamber, will permit the water to bo sufficiently chilled and keep all ice impurities out. Such a contrivance requires but very little room, is easily cleaned, the coal renewed, and is efficient in freeing water from impurities.—Dr. Ethcin ./. Howe in A merican Agriculturist. T)R. D. G. IIUBBARD, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Punxsutawney. Pa. Office in residence on North Findlay street Here a size and there a size, but enough of all styles and qualities to suit everybody. Our stock of SHIRTS is just enormous, while our supply of ■£)R. S. J. HUGHES, SURGEON DENTIST, Punxsutawney, Pa. Office over store, Mahoning street. J)R. CHARLES D. ERNST, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Punxsutawney, Pa.. Has permanently located in this place, and offers hie professional services to the citizens of this vicinitv. He niav be found at all times at his office in Dr. Shields' drug store. German language spoken. of tQc T)R. W. J. CHANDLER, SURGEON DENTIST, Punxsutawney, Pa. Office in corner room, Torrenee Block. Is still big enough in spite of the terrible inroad made in that line on the Glorious Fourth. Am& Haw About Mkoes f AND SHOES FOR EVERYBODY ! Lewis, 1)ki.., July 20.—On Friday the Delaware steamer Samuel Alleu was fishing oil the coast of Jersey, near Two-mile Iteacli, about throe miles from (.'ape May, when suddenh a number of men appeared on the .Jersey shore and began tiring with revolvers af the fishermen. The weapons were not strong enough, and shot, guns were brought into play. These did not have the desired effect and rifles were procured. Volley after volley was liivd in pursuit of the fishermen who had laken in their boats and nets and were leaving the coast. Th l'itle balls struck the steamer in many places and the men sought protection behind the masts and smoke-stack. No one was injured though there were several narrow escapes. The owner of the steamer and the fish factories have sent for rifles and amunition which tliey will keep in readiness while fishing on the ci>ast of New Jersey. The people here are very indignant at the a flair. Punxsutatoney, Pa. Office ono (loor cast of Shields' store. All business en trusted to his care wi 11 receive prompt attention, and all monies paid over to the parties Immediately upon receipt thereof. Special attention given to collections, acknowledgement of deeds and taking depositions. JOHN T. BELL, Justice of the Peace. Collections and other business promptly attended to. Young Township, Pa, B. MORRIS, Justice of the Peace. JOHN G. ERNST, Justice of the Peace. McCalmont Twp~, Pa. Collations made. Peeds and other legal p»- •pers elnowledged.  PUNXSUTAWNEY, - PENtfA. Agent, iwney, Pa. P. GRAF, A Fire and Ufa Ibsq /Wight Office in the St. Elmo Holf we i ELMO STORE, ST. "We have a big lino of them, and of the very best; but we will and must have entirely new styles again before the latter part of August. Therefore we say GO to those we have, and go tliey must. We will be pleased to have y<ia call and examine our stock and convince yourself that this is no buncome, but that we mean what we advertise. Ciucaoo, July 21i.—An arrest was made lale last night which, it is hoped will lead to the recovery of Lillie Srhaett'er. the lK-uniith*-old chilli :ihdueted from her home :i fortnight ago. OHicer Morris, who ten*ted out the Italian murder mystery, has been working on the ease. Last night Morris, two policemen, a reporter and Millie's little brother went to 73 MUtou avenue, occupied by Mrs. Jensen. Tiiev surrounded the house, and the orticcr entered and arrested Jennie Hansen, claimed to live in a house acro.4tpie street. Jennie Hausen was at oiice Identified by tlie boy as the woman who had stolen his littte sister. The prisoner is believed to be demented, and to have the chitd in hiding somewhere. Haste was made aud Mrs. Grant Mr. Jesse and wife, U. S. Grant, Jr. and wife, aud Mrs. Colonel Grant wen quickly beside the doctors at the sicl man's cot. Mrs. Sartoris and Mr. Daw son had followed the doctors in fron the piazza, and the entire party wa: present except Colonel Fred. Grant Hasty summons was sent for him, bu he entered the sick room while th< messenger was searching for him. The Colonel seated himself at tin head of the bed with his left arm rest ing on the pillow above the head o: the General who was breathing rap idly and with slightly gasping respir ations. Airs. Grant, calm but with in tense agitation bravely suppressed took a seat close by the bedside. Sin leaned slightly upon the cot, resting upon her riglit elbow and gazing witl tear blinded eyes upon the General'! face. They found there, however, n< token of recognition, for the sick mar was peacefully and painlessly passing into another life. Mrs. Sartoris cam* behind her mother, and leaning ovei her shoulder, so witnessed the close o; a life in which she had constituted a strong element of pride. Directly behind Mrs. Grant aud Mrs. Sartoris and at a little distance removed, stood Doctors Douglas, Shardv and Sands spectators of a closing life their efforts and counsel had so long prolonged On the opposite side of the bed from his mother and directly before liei stood .lesse Grant and U. S. Grant, Jr., aud near the corner of the cot on the same side as Jesse and near to each was M. E. Dawson,the General's stenographer and confidential secretary. At the foot of the bed and gazing directly down into the General s face was Mrs. Colonel Fred Grant, Mrs. U. S. Grant, Jr. and Mrs. Jesse Grant, while some who removed from the family circle, Henry, the nurse, and Harrison Tyrel', the General's body servant, were respectively watching the closing life of the patient and their master. Dr. Newman had repaired to the hotel for breakfast, and was not present. The General's little grandchildren, U. S. Grant, Jr., and Nelly were sleeping the sleep of childhood in the nursery room above stairs. Otherwise the entire family aud and household were gathered at the bedside of the dying man. The members of the group had been summoned not a moment sooner than was prudent. The doctors noted on entering .the room and passing to the bedside that already the purplish tinge, which Mt. MacGkegor, July 23.—The physicians bcleived that the patient might reach the extreme ebb of his strength at 1 o'clock this morning and the approach of the hour was anticidated with intense anxiety at the cottage. It passed, however, and the General, lying upon his back and propped by two pillows, lay upon the cot bed in the parlor was yet alive, but growing weaker. The inevitable close of the General's long sickness seemed more and more imminent. The feeble pulse-beats had worn themselves by their rapidity to a fluttering throb that could not oe gauged beneath the finger of the physician. The body was being worn out by its own life currents, so rapidily coursing through the veins. Repeatedly the brandy was entered beneath the skin of the General's arm, but despite its waning iufluneuce, the respirations had quickened from 44 to the minute during the evening to a point of labored breathing that was painful to friends who gathered and bent near the sick man. Two o'clock had been passed, and the evidences of death were multiplying. The increasing respirations were not alone more rapid, but more shallow. The lungs and the heart were giving away. So weak had General Grant become that at 3 o'clock although ho frequently attempted to do so, he was unable to clear the gathering mucus from his throat. It accumulated and remained and as 4 o'clock drew on and the daylight came, a point had been reached when expectoration was impossible. There was not left enough of strength and from 4 o'clock on there was in the throat a significent rattle of mucus that was filling the lungs and clogging the throat. At 3 o'clock the General asked for water, and, after that it is not remembered that he uttered any word. At 4 o'clock the breathing was quickened, and reached fifty to the minute. An hour later the respirations had reached sixty, and between 5 and G o'clock the linger nails had become blue and the hands further evidenced the progress of numbness at, the extremities. At every breath the mucous clogging in his throat was growing more noticeable. A few minutes before 8 o'clock Drs. Douglas, Shrady and Sands stood on the cottage veranda conversing on the condition of General Grant, and discussing the probabilities of his death, and the limit of life left the sick man. Mrs. Sartoris and stenographer Dawson were conversing a little distance away, when Henry, the nurse, stepped hastily upon the piazza and spoke quietly to'the physicians. He told them he thought the General was very near to death. The medical men hastily entered the room where the sick man was lying, and approached his side. Instantly upon scanning the patient's face Dr. Douglas ordered the family to be summoned to the bedside. ia one of nature's signals of final desolation had settled beneath the finger nails. The hand that Dr. Douglas lifted was fast growing colder than it had been through the night. The pulse had fluttered beyond the point where the physician could distinguish it from the pulse-beats in his own finger tips. The respiration was very rapid and was a succession of shallow panting inhalations. The respirations grew quicker and more rapid at the close; they also became less labored and almost noiseless. This fact was in its results a comfort to the watchers by the bedside, to whom was spared the scene of an agonizing or other thau a peaceful death. The wife almost constantly stroked the face, forehead and hands of the dying Genera!, and at times, as the passionate longing to prevent the event so near would rise within her. Mrs. Grant pressed both his hands, and leaning forward tenderly kissed the face of the sinking man. Colonel Fred sat silently but with evident feeling, though his bearing was that of a soldierly son at the deathbed of a hero father. U. 8. Grant, Jr., was deeply moved, and Jesse bore the scene steadily, and the ladies, while watching with wet cheeks, were silent as befitted the dignity of a life, such as was closing before them. The morning had passed five minutes beyond 8 o'clock, and there was not one of the strained and waiting watchers but who could mark the nearness of the lifctidc to its final ebbing. Dr. Douglas noted the nearness of the supreme moment, and quietly approached the bedside and bent over it, and while he did so the sorrow of the grav-liaircd physician seemed closely allied with that of the family. Dr. Shrady also drew near. It was seven minutes after 8 o'clock and the eyes of the General were closing. His breathing grew more hushed as the last functions of the heart and lungs were hastened to the closing of the ex-President's life. A peaceful expression seemed to be deepening in the firm and strong-lined face, and it was reflected as a closing comfort in the sad hearts that beat quickly under the stress of loving suspense. A minute more passed and was closing as the General drew a deeper breath. There was an exhalation like that of ono relieved of long and anxious tension. The members of the group were impelled to step nearer the bed, and each awaited another respiration, but it never came. There was absolute stillness in the room, and a hush of expectant surprise. and no sound broke the silence save the singing of birds in the pines outside the cottage, and the measured throbbing of the engine that all nigh t had waited by the little mountain depot down the slope. "It is all over," quietly spoke Doctor Douglas, and there canic then heavily to each witness the realization that General Grant was dead. Then the doctors withdrew, the nurse closed down the eyelids and composed the dead General's head, after which each of the family group pressed to the bedside one after the other and touched their lips upon the quiet face so i lately stilled. Dr. Shrady passed out upon the p.'- azza, and as he did so met Dr. Newman hastening up the steps. "He is dead," remarked Dr. Shrady, quietly. The fact of having been absent from the side of the dying man and his family at the last was a cause of sovere and sad regret to the clergyman, who had waited all night at the cottage. He had been summoned from his breakfast a moment too late and reached the cottage only in time to minister to the family sorrow and gaze upon the scarcely hushed lips of the dead General, to whom Dr. Newman's love had bound him in such close ties and relations. Those who saw and knew, and all who learned of the clergymen's absence from the death-bed, quickly speak the impulse of hearty sympathy. Soon after Drs. Douglas and Shrady left the death bed they conversed feelingly of the latter hours of Gcner al Grant's life. The pulse had indica ted failure and the intellect was Into succumb its clearness and conscious tenacity, and that after midnight las night, though a circumstance at three o'clock indicated cognizance. "Ik you want anything, father," questioned Colonel Fred at that hour. "Water," whispered the General huskily But when offered water and milk the) gargled in his throat and were ejected, and that one word of response wa> the last utterance of General Grant, Dr. Douglas remarked that the peculiarity of General Grant's death was explained by the remarkable vitality that seemed to present an obstacle to the approach of death. It was a grad ■ ual passing away of the vital forces, and a reflex consciousness, the doctor thought was retained to the last. The General died of sheer exhaustion, and a perfectly painless sinking away. "Yes," interjected Dr. Shrady, quietly, "the General dreaded pain when he felt he had begun sinking, and he nsked that he should not be permitted to suffer. The promise was made, ind it has been kept.. Since he commenced to sink Tuesday night he has >eeu free from pain." Towards the last no lood was taken >ut when a wet cloth was pressed to lis lips he would suck from it the wa,er to moisten his mouth. During he General's last night Dr. Shrady vas constantly within call. Dr. Douglas was all nigfit at the :i«ttage, and Dr. Sands slept at t he ho- »•« vol. xni. * / b >• r„ < IF