Death of Horace Greeley.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 167, 21 January 1873, Page 7

Death of Horace Greeley.

The Tribune furnishes the folio-wing account! of the illness and last hours of Mr Greeley: —He was in almost as good health as usual when, on the day after the election, l.e wrote the card announcing his resumption of the editorial charge of the Tribune. His sleeplessness was known to have become greatly worse, but for years he had suffered more or less from the same difficulty. It is now clear that a sufficient allowance had not been made for the intense strain upon him throughout the summer, and especially during the last month of his wife's illness ; but it soon be3am e evident that his strength was unequal to the hard task to which he set himself. He wrote only three or four careful articles, no one of more than half a column in length. rwo or three times he handed his assistant short articles, saying, "There is an idea worth using, but I have not felt able to work it up properly, and yon had better put it m shape." At last he abandoned all effort ;o visit the office, and sent for the family physician of A. J. Johnson, the friend with I

whom he was a guest, and in whose house his wife had died. Every effort was made to induce sleep, but he grew worse until it became evident that his case was critical. At times he was delirious, and at other times as clearheaded as ever. He lost flesh and strength with startling rapidity, and in a few days the possibility of a speedy death forced itself into an unwilling recognition. It was not, however, until Thursday that his associates and family brought themselves to admit it. He lingered 'till Friday ; was conscious the whole time, and was seemingly rational and free from pain. In one account of his last daj s, he is said, during his western tour, to have never slept I over four hours at a lime. Through the day he would often doze hi a car, and ca ! ch short snatches of sleep. I pen his return to Kew York, Ins whe was found to be rapidly wasting, and it was while passing sleepless rdvhts at her bedside that 1 e first began to show signs of great mental depression. ——l..