The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-02

but few revolutionary widows on the pen
sion rolls. About five years ago there
were eighty The number is now reduced
to twenty nine and three Of these are
ninety seven years of age. They are
Anna Maria Young, OF Pennsylva-
mia, Nancy Rains, of Vermont, and
Susan Curtis, of Maine. They must
have been married to their husbands long
after the revolutionary war, for they were
only seven years old at the beginning of
this century and the war closed seventeen
years before that. The youngest revolu-
tionary widow is Nancy Green, an Indiana
woman of seventy one. She was born in
1919, and her husband must have been
gray haired when she married him. Mrs.
Grant and Mrs. Garfield are the only Pre-
sidents' wives who now receive pensions.
They get $3.50 u year by ii special act of
Congress Mrs President Lincoln got
s., 00O u year from 1870 TO 1882. The amount
was then increased TO $1,000 and this 1t con
tinued until her death. The daughter of
President Zach Taylor gets $50 a
month, and she receives this for
General Taylor's services in the
Mexican war. Among the noted widows
OF generals of the late war who receive
pensions are those of Z. ID. Baker, Whip
pie, Sumner, Robert Anderson, the hero Of
Fort Sumpter, of George H. Custer, the
Indian fighter; of Daniel McCook and
Frank u. Blair. Mrs. John a. Logan gets
$40 Il week by special act of Congress, and
tho widow of Admiral Farragut receives
s., 600 IL year IN the same way. Phil Kear-
ney's widow did get $50 Il month, but 1 am
told she has married again and the sum now
goes TO the children. Mrs. General Han
cock gets pension, and there are num-
Der of other soldiers widows who have
been pensioned by IL special act of Congress.
| chatted last night with Senator Blair,
of New Hampshire, about the
REVISION OF TIE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
CREED,
by which the more advanced thinkers take
the worst clements OF hell out of their re
ligion, and Blair told me the story of his
wonderful fright with birthstone damna-
ton. He is the offspring of Puritan par
cnts and his boyhood was passed IL an Old
farm house in New Hampshire, in the gar
ret of which there was a library Of thco-
logical works advocating fOre-ordained
hell for the non-elect. This light reading
formed Senator Blair's nrst intellectual
puGulum. Said he:
II read at those books before that open
frs and l remember that when was about
niGe Years old got it INFO my head that
had committed the objectionable sin. This
! unpardonaUle sin WAS you know one of the
1 cardinal points Of the old theology. Tho
/ books did not state what this sin was anC
/ the preachers did not seem to know, but II
/ was rs certain as death that ne vino com
mitted it could have no forgiveness anC
that he WAS forcordaincd To the hottest
| fires Of thS lower regions fDr an etcrlity
of ages, Well [ thought had committee
it. l thought
WAS BOUND TO BE DAMNED
and for weeks | lost sleep ut night and
worried and frettcd all the day over my
condition. / think | should have gone
/ crazy if had not gotten relief and my re
/ lief came from an old volume on the un
pardonaOle sin. These consisted of ser
mons by a learned divine and in them i
was stated that the fact that q persGI
thought lie had committed the unpardcn
a1le sin was an evidence that he had no
committed 1t, for If he had committed it
being damned already, the fires of repen
tence could not touch his heart and ht
would go on blindly to his destruction
This relieved NE greatly and after a time
nv dread Of the sin passed away and re.
gained my usual health. I shall never for
get the terror though that [ felt and | an
! glad to say that religion grows more lib
eral as the world grows older.
/ met eX-P Postmaster General Creswell il
the National Metropolitan bank in Wash
4 ington yesterday. He is one Of the fines
| looking men in the capital city. Tall
broad shouldered and white whiskered. hi
clear blue eyes look out from under
broad, high forehead, and his tread is a
firm and his step as active as ii was when
/ he was a member of the United States Sen
ate in 1850 The last time saw him was a
Mount McGregor, where he had gone to at
tend Grants funeral. He was
AN INTIMATE FRIEND OF GRANT
and he was one of the generals most ar
dent admirers. After a few moments on
conversation turned upon Grant, and hl
said:
'.Grant was the greatest general I have
ever known and of all the great men of IN,
acquaintance consider him the greatest
He was great as a statesman when yol
Judge him by the soldier statesman stan
dard and some of his acts and sayings a
president are quoted to-day. He was
great writer and there are few works tina
will compare in simplicity and beauty witt
his memoirs. His state papers wer
equally well written and he wrote all hi
messages with his own hand excepting
those parts which he got frem his cabine
officers. In preparing the paragraphs re
lating to the post office and the other dc
partments he would give directions to hi
cabinet to condense their reports an,
would insert such condensation in hi
messages
did he advise much with his cabinetn
l asked
YES He had his own opinion and lli
own policy, but he advised with his cab
linet ON all matters relating TO thesVaripa
Z department. over which they were placed
] was at the head Of the postoffice depart
ment and l found him always
READY TO CHANGE HIS VIEWS
whenever sufficient reasons could be give