, 1874-05-30
,HYMENEAL.
The Marriage of Nelly Grant.
Hints and Peeps.


NELLY oRANr,--
Grant no more, III nanc.-w youthful, cheer
full, afrootionhto child, ratler inviting matrimony
by tho affablity Of tho Dent blood In her. Sho
waa easy to bo acquainted with, light, morry,
An,ertcan-liko. Sllo may havo married too
soon, but that ia past thinking about, though nil
tho married. women mike tho remark, suying:
"Dly that girlhad everything g,-mouoy, position,
popularity, youth, and health; and she abandona
thotn hl, in tho enjoyment Of oil, FOR Scarcely
known young mani My daughter shall mover
r1arry until sho is 28. A1r. Apploiandy, my
dcar, remember that!"
This Inns boon said einco Lnbau had two
daughters and Jacob got both. Givon everything
but tho young 1nnn, md what iB wealth 2 30
tween President for papa nnd young man
holding out his hands, tlluro In but ono shoico.
The spirit and tho hride buy, "Comol" That is
w)'at touched tint great old Washington cor
respondent, William Shakespeare whom ho
pointed to tho flesh md blood Of CordoIia,-nn-
other Molly undressing Con. Grant Lear:
You haye 1iogot n!e, bred me, lovcd mo;
Rnturn thoao duticB back ns arc right Mt.
That Lord who takoa my plight shall cnrry
lnlf my 0vn with him, n1f my aud duty.
Surg, ehAl never marry lilo lny sisters,
TO loyo my father all.
| wedding. to be right happy In tho duration
| Of lovo and intordopendenco, should be botwcon
young noople, not 1niHulatched In nge or condi-
! ton. For Nelly Grant, raised as retired young
| ofcerts daughter, TO lave mated In condition
equal to her fathera present power would not
| havo boon possible or wise, AIatrmony is not
| tho right door to go to school by. Nor do very
young pcoplo generally love out Of their condi-
| tion. Tho same mud~pio lasts for liEe, md tho
| litto swoethcarts playing house together Is
botter symbol Of happy marriage than Olaudo
hfelnotto In his gardeners apron raying about
the Lady Of Lyons.
II was question with Nellie Grant Of
THE HOUR AND TIE MAN.
Returning homo on 'shipboard, at q susceptible
ago, nhe saw TINT half-un-Augliczod young
fcllow,-for ho hnd beon Il good while
lin A,norica, hard at work.-gracoful, young,
bashfuf, tho brown OIL his cheoks
md so rendy to speak, II hc could get tho en-
couragoment, and slo littenedt to him. Ho was
4 directly nway down in her mind amongst groat
| that mental roticulo for anything, he always
cnmo up first. After awhile it rot to be quest
for him n particularly primitive goodbye fol-
lowed, and an invitation to Washington; aud he
worth a cent at tho Presidents honvy counto--
nance, nor that strong cigar, nor tho four-iu-
hand team. nor Washington hocicty-criticis,n.
1lo was aftor his girl. Flo WIS well-1red, and
difficulties aloAe, until Mrs. Grant catne to the
front, Bmoothed Ulyasas out. romindod him, per-
haps, of tho time when lie came wooing With
nothins but his q commission, mud then,
al ut once, sart'rih brother broke big
tho Old Inv or pTimogenitnre came to tho young
mans relief. He persuaded his parents to writs
compln,tsa,n,tly, ~, nnd wns accepted Thoncsfor-
and cooling. Whore Lincoln lay in the state Of
death, where Harrison aud Taylor drew tho last
afgh, whore Mrs. john Adams hung clothes
line and dried Johns ktlitted socks across the
pliod tho torch and Con. Jackson smoked clay
pipes, two young people wore kissing on tile
stairways and dozn@ on tlle blue sofas at such
late hours that the watchmen wanted it nil to be
over md done with. AB DUNCAN said entering
the castle Of AlAobatl1 it might 1AYo buen said oil
6Nrtorta
This guest Of summer,
Tue to'nnlehaAnting lnnrslet, doea approve,
snejs wooingy here No t jutty, frIsse. '''"''
.,atre4r, ncr coigae ot y,al,tage but thia bird
| Tho air is leliGGte.
Why nor7 Where politicians argued for mn Of
flee aud Cabiuet-cauciis conspired these seventy
years. where tho proclamation WIS written tl,n
freed raee, and tue csbal assomblot! TINT KEEP
them them %down,--in tho 6; old paaee Of tho Hing o
sing twice in tho century!
| Mr. Sartors had worked in tho Northwest
J knew Amcrica we'll liked company, and dis
euaHed nothing. . Lie r., was not roformer no
| asked for Ills picture to eugrayo, ho said
Upon my word. I'd rather notl BecalB,
/ shall marry tho Presidents daughter I dom
SEQ why SHOULD have my picture spread in th'
THIS POLICY OF Qu5ETSEss
animated tie wedding. Friends only wcre In
yitcd; and, as ho lad few or none in this coun
try, the ha!k were the family friends of th'
Grants. With theso poor and rich wers milk.
invited, aud there were as few politicians MS pos
sibe. All tho Grants and DonH waro preHan
tllat could come. There woro a fow t]lnltoys
but perhaps the family saw them at their best
Governor, Cabinet, HouBohold- -secretaricp, 81,
or oight Senators, some army oiicors, obscure
country frio1de, tic Long Brunch aud Philudol
plia cotcIles. old Mr. Corcoran, tho marriet
; widow Of Stephen A. Douglas, lew. Or 10 Rep
Eesontatives, and the conpnnionso of tho ohildron
mado up tho net. Parson Tiffany WAS to say til,
!, ceremony. And here n thought strikoB Ill., o.
the highest Importance to eyory clergynan's vii.
in tue United atatcs. What wns tho fee7
All! thiH Grent item Of newB has cgenret
everybody but mysolf. If ] should tell you villa
it was, tho fraternity Of corrcspondontA-fra
tornity believe 1t Ia called, On tho principle O
tho arsibt who SO named Ills boautifnl picture
i tlaa Death Of Abol-would fall into tloop mel
will koop it to myself; but don't mind telling
you that, whiio I. pretty good thing, it Wi
= little below the par value Of a prcAi
amongst tho clorgymon To know all abou
it. aud some thought parson Tiffany to b,
Tiffany this jevofer, with all tho luck he is hav
ing. Think Of poor DR.. Newman, eating broiiot
native in Coylon, shut out from nil those sccu!a
porquisitcs, WHO would hare roud this seryice ii
J 4 why to put tho Archbishop Of Canterbury
, , yoal the popo-to shnmo.
WEDDlN0-RooM.
: lilo Ea6t loom. always largo, cool ind state
fY IN srtf ffI,Rn 1f1,nr Ia