Eaton Weekly Democrat

An Irishman's Description of Grant's Reception at Hamilton

The beetling-browed inebriate of the White House passed through our city on last Monday, about eight o'clock. He occupied a splendid Pullman drawing room car, and when the train arrived near the depot, it stopped, as if awaiting a reception committee; but there was only about a dozen individuals present who considered it an honor to do homage to the tan-vat mummy of Galena. An Irish gentleman, whose curiosity had led him to look upon a President of this great country, gave us the following description of his august Majesty:

I niver seed a raal loive Prisident, an I thougbt I would avail meself of the prisiant opporchun ity. So I wint down to the day o, and passhed along the thrain ti ll I cum to the cair where they sa.id his honhor was. and begobs, Wi nat did I see? There shtood the maniest lookin man I iver saw. , wid his nib agin the window glast ',lookin out upon the paple. Pon honor the loikes I niver saw befor ein all me loife! Prishently he sth arted for the door of the cair, ai id when he got there he caught hould av the side av the door to bolsther himself up, and de otbe r he pulled of bis corbeen an sthoe d there lookin as though he want ed a dhrink. I filt raal sorry for the poor gentleman, an ef I'd had any whiskey wid me, wud ha' fiered him a dhrink, for be dad be wanted wun, or I niver seed a ma: n that did. Houlding his hat in. his hand gazin out ov the mapeis t lookin eyes I iver saw be at lastk ,ursht out in swbate an iligant iccints, and in a nate spache, ask edav this was the vil- lage of Ham ilton? Yis, yer hon- or,Inately eplied, this is Butler County an th te city of Hamiltons an the home of Pater Schwope His Ixcillency then went into the cair and I lift. , wondering to me- self, how muc. h whiehkey it took to make aPris ident av tbe U.S. Be dad he is the wusht iookin crayther I iver saw, or iver ex- pect to see agir 1.