Show GENERAL ITS IT-S f j The indications are that before another issue of THE HERALD appears General Grant will have gone over to and had his name the great majority enrolled among those of the illustrious dead His disease is cancer at the root been eating of the tongue and it has it has nearly away at his life until I accomplished its awful work For weeks it has been known that no earthly wasted him and so power could save his and weakened has he become that remarkably powerful constitution can offer butslightresistance aud dissolution is nut a few hours distant at most In life Giant had many enemies sadness and sorrow that butit is with the contemplates the whole nation now old warrior who has death of the grim held so elevated a position intno nation in and who has figured so prominently Republic d ring the the hislory of the past quarter of a century Whatever towards feelings may have been the Grant in the past today people everywhere I I every-where await with saddened faces the announcement that the great warrior u d and laid low has at lastbeen conquered an and could avail and if wishes prayers would unite in against nature a people bringing about the restoration of the stricken soldier and keep him long on earth to enjoy the honors republic have bestowed which a grateful stowed upon him Truly has the nation na-tion stood by his bedside these many days and groaned when he was pained and suffered when he was in agony But he is not to be spared and with his going out there will be the departure of one whose name and fame will live I through the ages and centuries to come |