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Show taken it to pieces, have earned it off to Chicago and shown it there at the exposition, expo-sition, in the same way that Libby prisou is to be shown. Cor. Cincinnati Times-Star. Where' Gen. Grant Died. While at Mount McGregor I visited the Grant cottage. It is in the same condition now as it was when Grant died. The same furniture stands in the same places, and the tallow candle half burned down to the socket stands on the table, besides the two great armchairs in which he breathed away his last hours. Pieces of his last writing, consisting con-sisting of slips from his pad, are shown, and there is a tall, fine looking soldier in uniform who sleeps in the cottage and takes care of the relics. There are, on ' the average, about 24,000 visitors a year now, and many pathetic incidents occur. Nearly every one that comes wants to ' take away some memento of the place, ; and many pick up the gravel of the walk - around the house, supposing that they are carrying off stones trodden by the " foot of Grant The truth is that this gravel has to be renewed every month on account of these relic hunters, and the stones they , carry away have never seen Grant. Mr. Arkell, who owns the mountain, tells me he was offered f 35,000 for the cottage, cot-tage, and that the men who offered this ' were western men, who said they wanted to cot up the cottage and sell it for relics. ..js.Tlie probability ia that they would hay .. ' ;- '. ';. -. lis --i ;- " . - - |