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

at other land warrants granteu ABOUT thls
time to Abraham Lincoln, Frank Pierce, U.
s. Grant, William T. Sherman and jeff Da-
Wis Grant was a second lieutenant then;
Abe Lincoln was poor Illinois lawyer; jeff
Davis was, think, secretary OF state at the
time his land warrant was granted, and Te-
cunseh Sherman was subordinate officer OF
the army with not the best of prospects Abe
Lincoln's claim is written i'll his own hand
writing. and he received his land warrant for
his services in the Black Hawk war Robert
F Lee. who was then at West Point. received
1t;O acres of land for his services i'll the Mex
lean war, and l saw also the papers of Gen.
Scott asking for bounty lands for his services
in the war of 1912.
The revolutionary relics of the pension
office would be q valuable addition to any
museum. They consist Of orderly books, diaries
md old Bibles which have been sent here to
s,bstantiate the claims of revolutionary SOL
diers for pensions The Bfbles are numbered
nv hundreds. and there must be from five to
ten bushels of them. They contain the fam
ily records of soldiers and their heirs, and are
used to establish the identity Of the pension
ers In revolutionary days it was the custom
with our grandmothes to prick with needle
their family history on cloth, or to embroider
IL IN canvas in what were called samplers
There are many of these here, and doubt
not the descendants of the people who sent
them would give the weight of the samplers
in gold to have them returned.
The old revolutionary pensioners are fast
passinR away, and there is no revolutionary
soldier who now receives . pension Five
years ago there were eighty-two widows Of
soldiers Of the revolution who got pensions
row there are only about half that number,
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-07-30
A BRIDES YACHTING SUIT.
How it 0aussd Her to Mias . Trip to
Europa.
Especial Correspondence

How IL Gaussd Her t" Miss . Trip to
Europa.
Especial Correspondence.)
New York, July T.-Col. Flutedutter, .
patient man Of this city, who had passed un-
scathed through many campaigns, both
cardiac and military, fell in love some months
ago. The courtship was very happy one,
unbroken by any storms-as calm and bliss
full as a sail on an artificial lake. The inev-
table conclusion was reached the other day,
when the colonel and his fancee we're mar
ried. The wedding was very swell.
The colonel has an ancestral home, out Of
the city few miles, and thither he took his
bride. She looked over the honored castle. and
mentally pronounced it dreadfully gloomy,
and made up her mind TO modernize it as soon
as she could. Being Of the uncertain order of
mind, she longed for more active field So
cially than the ancestral home promised. 1t
was exclusive to dizziness. She suggested
Europe. Anxious to please her the gallant
colonel consented. He got leave Of absence
and purchased tickets He showed them t.
his beloved wife in great glee.
She looked at them indifferently and said
dearest, don't you think it would be nice to
STAY here after ally These fine old trees are
just too sweet for anything. Such nice shade
as we have around the house; l hate to leave
it."
The colonel looked aghast. "But, my dar.
ling" he said, everything is settled. I can't
back down now And Thought you were
most anxious to goa". e
It was settled. The colonel, being man
of system as we'll as of affairs, had all his lug
gage packed the night before, and, as they
were to sail at 10 o'clock in the morning, he
had nothing to do but get up in the morn.
ing, eat his breakfast and start. At least
he thought be had nothing else to do; but
when morning came he found that his be.
loved (sife had arranged that he should do q
large part Of her backing. He strapped
and unstrapped trunks, packed and
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car with nothing better to think alput than
to wonder why .l,at self-asxerl I've, sl11<-
ing woman married that feebie-braiiyh litIle
man. Well, they will never know. Nobody
ever did know. Hundreds and thousands of
brides have been wondered about, and nobody
ever learned the why and wherefore Of their
becoming brides to inferior husbands. It Is
doubtful If they knew themselves Destiny
has a finger in it. Fate manages it.
The elderly widower with the young bride
comes in for generous share of comment.
Happily he is unconscious Of it. His happi-
ness is SO engrossing that he never sees outside
of the rose-colored area that surrounds him.
II he detect any smiles at his expense
he attributes them to envy and goes gayly on.
The grim dignity of his years has fallen away
from him, and something very like the joy
business of youth is on his face. He would be
a boy again, sure enough, If others would let
him; but they will not. They make sport of
his happiness and drive him back to the
prim manners of middle-age, and so he
settles down" and grows old with the rest Of
them, because society will not permit him to
keep young.
Newly married pairs frequent the theatres
here, and are often noticeable. The elderly
ones advertise their bliss far more than the
young. They promenade Broadway in I'M
mistakably new and unfamiliar garments,
and carry their recently acquired happiness
along with them in such overpowering quanti-
ties that every one Is forced to notice and
tempted to comment on it. In the shops they
wander like beings from another planet look
ing, praising, buying, smiling. The city is a
big fair to them, and they have nothing in the
world to do but enjoy its wonders
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-07-30

New England Puritan stock. Her 1ather,
DR.. Ezra Styles Ely, of Philadelphia, dis
tnguished divine, was the son of divine and
the grandson of other divines. ID. D." was
family decoration The Ely and Styles
boys were born into pulpits and presbyteries
Good old DR.. Ely was the pastor of my father
and mother, and of the historical Trum-
bull family, in the sober, aristocratic old
town Of Lebanon, Conn. A godly, proper
and infinitely respectable couple were the
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-07-30

Independents" In costume are quite the
correct tip for women this summer. By that
a understood that bonnet not matching the
costume or jacket quite single and individ-
ual. and In no way related to the costume,
can be WON, and nobody win consider the
wearer behind the times. Speaking Of this
gracious permission Of Dame Fashion, Q lady
said: swell, women have been IN uniform
long enough"
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-07-30
SIGHTS AT LAKE COLO.
GRACE GREENWOOD TALKS ABOUT
ITS ROMANTIC ASSOCIATIONS.
The Consistency Of the Italians - the Mem.
ory Of Garibaldi and Msssini-Ths Coz
tune Of the Lombsrdy Peasant Of the
BETTER Class.
Especial Correspondence

noVter SAeess
Especial Corr. spondenctl
CERNoBBIA, LAGo pI Coxo, June S0.-We
have been enjoying In this lovely spot, on the
most lovely lake in the world, a blessed little
season Of rest and refreshment The weather
hes been perfect, the air sxquisitely pure,
and, after the heat and heaviness Of that OF
Milan, wonderfully vivifying and exhilar-
ating Though our object In coming here
was rest, the new vigor We soon gained in
cited us to much outdoor life and many ex-
eursiOns We one day braved the sun on .
steep, unshadowed, mountainous road, to visit
some friends 1t San Fermo, a little,
primitive village among the hills
above Como, near the Swiss boundary.
Il was Just here that Garibaldi's first
battle with the Austrians took place In
1850. That was Q wonderful strategic tri-
umph, for there were actually less than I, 600
italians opposed to 49, 600 Of the enemy, who
tho small attacking parties coming from
many directions were led to believe that the
hills swarmed with Garibaldians. The chief
had 30 divided his bands Of music that ut
thundered all round the horizon" with trumi
nets and drums. He seemed to multiply or
ubiquitize himself, his red shirt and his cav
airy sword flaming and flashing all over the
neld. The Austrians, appalled, by so much
Garibaldi, made good time down the noun
tAins-such as were able to get down at all.
Many were Unexpectedly detained
The matchless hero followed up this victory
at once and won another at Como, and soon
thousands hocked to his standard, pricked on,
perhaps, by his declaration that "whoever is
able to bear musket, and does not, is pitt
able wretch" The monument on the little
piazza of San Fermo, to the memory of the
fourteen Garibaldians who fell on that glori-
Gus day, is one of the pilgrim shrnes of Italy
It reminded me of the monument at 1exing-
ton.
In the Office of the sindaco, or mayor, is a
Ane marble bust Of "The Deliverer," the ped
estal of which is always hung round with
votive wreaths. Before this image of the new
Saint Joseph the civil marriages take place,
and he seems to smile on the happy couples
and bless them in the name of Italian unity.
It is strange, the adoring constancy of this
Nght-hearted people to the dear memory of
Garibaldi and Mazzini Monuments, statues
and busts of these heroic divinities seem to
spring up out of the earth everywhere-the
heaviest crop that the soil of Italy bears to-
day,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-25
Status of the Territories.

There are eight Territories out West
which will be knocking at the door
of the Union" as the poets of the
plains put it, n of these days. They
all elected delegates to Congress on
National issues, and five of them were
carried by the Democrats. Arizona,
Montana, New Mexico, Utah and
Washington will be represented by
Democrats, and Dakota, Idaho and
Wyoming by Republicans. The cleo
ton of a Republican in Idaho is a
gain, as, also, is the election OF a Dem
ocrat in Arizona, the Territorial dele
CATION, in the aggregate, standing po-
lit!cally the same as before.
Perhaps the most noticeable thing
about the elections is the fact that
Washington has increased its majority
for Voorhees,, Democrat. a son of SEN
ator Voorhees,, by more than one thou
sand votes. Dakota has not exactly
taken the advice which was freely of
fered it some time ago to give the
Democrats a majority once and
see how quickly it would be admitted
to the Union, but for some reason there
has been a great falling off in the Re-
publican vote there. Montana and
Washington appear to be growing in
Democracy as they increase in popula-
ton. If the politicians of Dakota could
eliminate from their heads the idea
that that Territory is entitled to come
in as two or three States it would be
possible for the representatives of the
two parties in Washington to agree
upon some scheme by which it could
gain statehood along with one of the
other Territories which is Democratic.
Chicago Herald.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-25
PENNSYLVANIA "vIcToRYl"

The Man from Maine and His Followers
Accept the "Honor' of Having Carried
the Keystone State as m pions of tho
Great Coal Combination, Which a Dem.
ocratic Governor Was Fighting.
1.-THE course of the Governor of .Pennsyl-
vania in interfering with the ~monopolistic
schemes of the coal combinations in that State
has quite naturally greatly tncensci Them
Omaha Bee (Rep.)
flames G.. Blaine's triumpbal procession
through Pennsylvania ma not have been
necessary, but the result is a Republican ma.
jority of something like 5Q.0N or $1,000, and q
Democratic Governor ,Uill step dolDn and out. -
Republican Buren, Paragraph.
1t may not have been necessary for
Mr.. Blaine to have made a triumphal
march through Pennsylvania in the in
terest of the coal combinations, which
a Democratic Governor had greatly in
~cencensed, but the combinations re-
ferred to were very much afraid that
it was. The Democratic Governor who
will now step down and out put the
issue against the combinations so
forcibly and so plainly that it was
feared the people of the State could not
fail to see it, and seeing it could not
fail to indorse the issue as Il Democrat
ic movement that promised them re-
lief. So Blaine, with his magnetism,
was called to aid and assist the COM
binations in the choice of a political
Governor who will permit the move
ment inaugurated by a Democratic
Governor to go by the board.go the
way that all reforms go which are
manipulated by the Republicans.
The fight of the coal combinations in
Pennsylvania was not really a local
one. 1t was one of National import
ance and National interest. 1t will be
hard to find a Republican newspaper,
or a member of the Republican party,
outside of the State of Pennsylvania
that will indorse the "coal combina-
ton" that a Democratic Governor is
fighting, and it will be equally hard to
find one that did notindorse the action of
the combination in fighting the Demo-
cratic ticket in that State. Pennsylva-
mia Democrats were defeated while
fighting in a good cause-a cause that
the Republican party al not take issue
with. If the incense of the combine
tions-combinations which have been
decried by men and newspapers of all
faith and political complexion, East
and West-has been SO great that a
Democratic Governor of PENNSYLVANIA
must give way to a Republican, we fail
to see wherein James e.. Blaine and his
followers can take pride in the forty
thousand majority the, combinations
have secured against the Democrats.
And yet the combinations that spent
thousands Of dollars to beat the Demo-
cratic ticket are quite willing to accord
the honor of the victory to Blaine and
his followers. And Blaine and his fol-
lowers are quite willing to accept the
honor thus conferred-now that the
battle has been fought and won.-Des
Moines Leader.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-25
The Country Democratic.

On the morning after the late cleo
ton there appeared in the Cincinnati
Commercial, editorially, and also re-
peated in glaring headlines over the
election news, the following legend:
The Next President Will Be the Nom
inee of the Republican National Con-
vention." Well, let us see. In 1884
the Republicans had 189 Electoral
votes, and the Democrats had PIP.
This year the Republicans have carried
the following States to which the fig
ures of their respective Electoral votes
are attached: Connecticut, 6; Illinois,
%; Indiana, 10; Iowa, IS; Kansas, g;
Maine. 6; Massachusetts,, IA; Michi-
gan, IS; Minnesota, Z; Nebraska, s.;
Nevada, 8; New Hampshire, a; Ohio,
%; Pennsylvania, 80; Rhode Island,
4; Vermont, 4, and Wisconsin, IL
total, 1879.
The Democrats have carried Ala
bama, 10; Arkansas, Z; California, 8;
Colorado; 3; Delaware, 3; Florida, 4;
Georgia, II; Kentucky, IS; Louisiana,
8; Maryland, 8; Mississippi, 8; Mis-
souri,, 16; New Jersey, 9; New York,
So; North Carolina, IL; Oregon, 8;
South Carolina, 9; Tennessee, -;
Texas, 10; Virginia, II; West Virginia,
6-total, 212.
This seems to show a Democratic
majority of %. To this ought really
to be added Indiana, which slipped
away from us by a mere scratch. That
would make our electoral majority 80,
or n more than we had in 1884. Min
nesota and Connecticut ought really
to be added also, but 1t would be I'M
kind to make the subject too painful to
our Republican friends. = Cincinnati
En0uirer.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-25
An Editors Brilliant Fancy.

Field Marshal Murat Halstead, editor
of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
has a very fertile Imagination. Some
of the most startling works of fiction
of the wild Yves. before the war were
from his pen. Latterly he has turned
the fruits of his imagination into the
line of politics, and the last flight of
his fancy appears in his declaration
that the result of the late election pres
ages the defeat of the Democratic
party in 1888.
This is the latest and one of the Wild
est of his imaginingS. The rule hav-
ing been, with one or two exceptions,
under remarkable circumstances, that
the mid-term elections have resulted in
a House of Representatives politically
opposed to the President. we have in
these recent elections an exception to
the rule, under circumstances not at
all remarkable, showing that. contrary
to the usual course, the Administra-
ton has strengthened its party in the
first half of its exercise of power. We
have simply a reduced majority in
place of the complete overturn which
occurred in the middle of the term for
which President Garfield was elected,
and which has generally occurred in
mid-term elections in this country.
Unless Mr.. Halstead sees more than
we do in the late elections. his fancy
has run away with i .-Boston Her
nkd.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-25

must be made as uncomfortable as possible.
He could only telegraph with his eyes, but
he did that to such GOOD effect that Mollie
put sugar on her turkey and salt into her
coffee, and would never lave known it but
for that scamp Bob. And then, as bad
luck would nave it, Granther Hartner, who
is quite deaf, began to ask questions.
'Seen We outen the garding a-huntin' for
somethin' t'other day, Bob; seen all hands,
in fact. Lost any thin'l"
This was Bob's opportunity. He bawled
eyes, granp', Moll lost her ring! Stop
maxim faces at me, SAM Stiles! I amt
scarf of you"
"a ring-what ring? hey-was it gold."
inquired the old man.
Talking of gold" began Uncle Dan'l,
"in 40, when l was in Californy"-
But a terrific Shrek from Bob at that
moment stopped alike the discourse and the
dinner. That youth was shut up like a
jack-knife, and his face distorted in some
kind of agony.
"He's swallowed the ~wish-bone," sug-
gested Sam.
1.-THE dear child's choking to death ~
cried his mother.
Mollie alone was equal to the occasion.
Without a moments hesitation she threw a
pitcher OF water over him. He gasped and
sputtered.
"Oh, won't I pay you for that!o he eS-
claimed, as soon as he got his breath.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-25

were invited in. Old "Gran'ther Hart
ner," who aft" in the war of Mexico, was
present "to shoulder his crutch and show
how fields were won" "Uncle Dan'l,''
who had the California fever, and began
every speech with: Gin 40, sir,n was al
ways an invited guest, and the long extern
sion-table in the eating-room was eked out
| with side auxiliaries until it resembled the
banquet-board of a grove convention. And
when the company sat down to their
Thanksgiving dinner, there wasn't a hands
space OF the white table-cloth visible. 1t
was completely covered with what, in mod.
ern p~arlance, we would call ''edibles," but
which the farmer designated s'as good,
hullsome vittles."
And every body was happy, not except
ing the three lovers. For Sanford Stiles
had decided that even if he had stupidity
lost the ring, he still had the girl, and Sam
Hartner had made up his mind that he
didn't want to marry a cousin, and he
was going that very evening to pro-
pose to Ella Dunlap, the Wayne County
heart-smasher, who had signifed that
"Barkis was willin'." And Mollie-but
| what had come to Mollie?
Her cheeks were redder than any dog
rose that eve bloomed. The dimples
twinkled like sister stars, and her eyes
were filled with suppressed laughter, and
such a wicked, knowing look, that Bob
asked several times:
"What be you a-gigglin' at, Mollp
the older ones were too much absorbed
In admiration of the viands to do much
talking. There was that great, brown,
odoriferous turkey bursting with its own
richness, and sending out whiffs Of sage
and onions every time the iron entered its
soul. And there was a great steaming
chicken-pie, with a rose on the top made OF
the crust. And several brace of roasted
duck; and bowls of cranberry sauce; and
mince and pumpkin pies; and toothsome
doughnuts. And trays of bread cut in gen.
erous slices; bread that was made with
care and 'isalt-risin," and, oh dearl 1 could
not give an inventory of all the good things
if I tried to, or describe the varied qualities
that made the occasion one to. be
remembered. But there was one incident
that was of moment to at least two per-
sons present. Sanford Stiles was seated
opposite Mollie. He did not get there until
dinner was on the table, or he would nave
been down at the far end among the boys,
and remote from Mollie, on the principle
existing nearly every where-that lovers
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-25
HE WAS T o ONlsr."
Why a Thief Returned Two Express Pack
ages Which He Had Stolen.
TChlcago Herald.1

Why a Thief Returned Two Express Pack
ages Which He Had Stolen.
ICh1cago Herald.l
stalking about express robberies," said
City Superintendent Stump, of the Aneri-
can Express Company, i've had a good
joke on a thief about six weeks ago. On
Van Buren, street we have a branch office,
az which our traffic from the wholesale dis.
trict is handled. The men ara at work
there till late at night, and the doors are
sometimes left open so that anybody could
walk in, though of course our employees
ask every man his business, and if he have
non invite him to walk out. One evening
a Misunderstanding chap was seen peering
in one Of the windows, watching the mer
getting goods ready for shipment. His at.
fention was particularly directed toward
the desk at which one of orr boys was
scaling some large envelopes. The fellow
gazed awhile and then sneaked into the
outer Office unseen, got down on all
tours and crawled up to the desk.
When the clerks back was turned
for a moment he grabbed two OF the big,
thick envelopes, all sealed and addressed
and SUNK out without attracting any at
tention. The loss was not discovered fol-
about ten minutes, but even then there
was no excitement, n the police were
not notified. The thief meanwhile had
probably ran a mile Oh two and secfsted
himselfin a lumber-yard for the purpose
Of counting the currency which he sup
posed was in the envelopes. Just before
the men got through work that night they
saw q package lying on the floor in
the outer office. 1t contained the
missing envelopes. They had been opened
but their contents were intact. On the
paper in which they had been wrapped
was this inscription: