The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-07-30

Many Of the soldiers OF tho late war were
very young mon, but II u probable that with
In seventy Ave years from now there will not
Ike ono OF them surviving, and our children
will have to seek some other outlet for the
s,O,OOO, O0O which we now pay out every year
In pensions to them.
| asked Representative Tom Bsyne, who
p. Il, you remember, AZ Blaine's friend dur
linz the last presidential campaign, to give nae
tho elements of BlainGs popularity.
"W'nt Ia it," said !. "thst makes Blaine
such leaderT
Col. Baync replied. I'm the first place
Blaine is a fighter. Tho people admire the
aggressive, and Blaine knows II. He delights
il, fight and he Is ready to jump into one on
the slightest provocation. Another element
IL the fact that be Is such typical American,
and that the people believe him 80. America
Is his country above all other countries, and
he noses q one Of its best products. He
started life a. q poor boy and has by his own
exertions arisen to culture, craftsmanship,
wealth and to point Of honor In civil life a.
tanned by fcw other men in the Unised States.
The third element Of his popularity Is his
sympathy with his fellow man and his cordial
friendship with everybody not sntagonistic
to him. He has . kindly way Of meeting
strangers, and no man ever felt that Blaine
thought himself above him when he was in
company with him. There Ia no Republican
in the country to-day who can cah out such
burst Of enthusiasm as Blaine, and ! think II
our convention was to be held now he would
he nominated beyond the shadow Of . doubt"
l. SEE that Hugh J. Jewett has rented .
house in Washington, and that he will have
residence here next September. He still holds
his estate in Ohio, and it may be that he Is
expecting to drift back into political life.
Hugh J. Jewett is Maryland man by
birth, and his father was q descendant from
the Webster family, and was relative Of
Daniel Webster. His maternal grandfather
was an Irish Catholic who became converted
to Quakerism and who was noted preacher
of the Society Of Friends. Jewett studied law
in Maryland and then went to Ohio to prac-
tice. He settled first at st. Gainesville, and
from thence drifted to GAINESVILLE, where he
began his political career. He was made Q
member of the Ohio legislature, and President
Frank Pierce appointed him the United
States district attorney for southern Ohio
One of the first railroads of the west ran
through GAINESVILLE, and Jewett became in
terested in this. He saw there was money in
| the railway and made it study. In short
time he was made the general manager OF the
| Panhandle road, and he left this in 1871 to
accept position of general counsel for the
Pennsylvania company. He was candidate
for congress from Ohio thirty-six years ago,
and in 1861 he was the Democratic candidate
for governor. The year following he was
nominated for the United States senate, and
in 1872 he was elected to congress. Two years
later he resigned his seat and became presi-
dent of the Erie railroad at salary of SAC, 900
year. He has made a great deal OF money
within the past ten years. and he is supposed
to have the barrel needed by a good presiden-
tial candidate He has been candidate for
the presidency several times before this and
has been spoken of often. He owns one OF
the finest farms in Ohio just outside OF Zanes-
Vile. It lies on the Muskingum river, and,
when visited it year or two ago, it had
s1OO, 600 worth of fine trotting horses in its
stables :. 1t was in charge of Jewetts son
George, who, believe, lives upon it still.
| I heard q queer story about Jewett's fght
with opium not long since, whsrh Was tod ~
by a GAINESVILLE doctor. A few years ago
Jewett was thrown from his carriage, and his
injuries were such as to cause him great pain.
On the advice of his physician he took opium
to relieve this, and this opium was injected
into his veins with a hyperdermic syringe.
| As he began to recover he found that his sys-
TEN was saturated with the opiate, and that
he grew almost wild when he did. not use it,
He tried various means to cure himself Of the
! appetite, but in vain At last he decided up
| on trip to Europe. As soon as the boat was
well out to sea he took his syringe and opium
and cast them overheard. Throughout the
whole voyage he had hard fight with him
self. but by the bracing sea air he was so in
| vigorated that he was able to keep away from
the surgeon, and by the time he reached Liver
pool be had regained his grip.
1t is wonderful how the interest in Mrs
Cleveland and all pertaining to her keeps up
She is the gossip of Washington, and she ap-
pears to be a success as the presidents wife.
| The drive past the presidents home has be-
come the popular one about the Capitol, and
the road is crowded every evening with
fashionable teams. The presidents country
house is now guarded by a policeman, and
people are not admitted without a permit.
The families Of most of the prominent men
have left the city, and Mrs. Endicott and
| Mrs. Villas and Mrs. Hubbard are the only
cabinet ladies who are still here. Secretary
En,licott has a very pleasant home on Six
teenth street on the hill of SCOTS circle,
above the White House, and it is much
cooler here than further down in the city.
saw the secretary sitting on his front steps
last night. He was dressed in light summer
clothes and Panama hat covered his gray
hairs. He is a fine looking, clean cut man of
medium size, with rather rosy complexion
and m,lStache white as silver.
see that the indecent pictures in the cigar
store windows advertising a brand of Rich
mond cigarettes are causing comment, and
this reminds me of a story heard about these
| pictures while was at Richmond the other
day. They are published as an advertising
dodge by the largest factory in that city, and
they do not represent the girls employed in
the factory at all They are photographs of
| New Jersey girls which the manager got
while Oh trip through the east, and which
he has published as his employees. The gen.
uine female cigarette makers raised quite a
row with the owners of the factory about the
| pictures, and they made him change the
| name of some of his brands in order that they
| NAV not be connected with them by the
photographs. Shortly after the publication
| of the pictures the factory was overrun with
| caxcrs, who were anxious to 60 through in
order to see the pretty girls whose photos they
saw in the cigar shops, and this increased TO
such an extent that they are now forced to