Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-10-07
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Heightened Weddings.

of Gen, Sherman's daughter) is making
here. And weddings always do still
up the popular mind here exactly 10
the same way, even when Congress is
In session and investigation" are the
rage, as if they occurred in village
return to fud everybody rushing
back two or three weeks earlier than
usual, and instead of aejoicing as usual
at this time of the year in wearing out
old clothes, actually shopping, buying
new dresses, hats, boots, shoes, gloves,
sashes, three months in advance of any
such proceeding in the annals of the
past Everything hinges on the we'd
ding. The commonest acts oflife have
a direct or remote bearing on it. Will
lian is to have an opening of new hats,
Paris novelties, and the like for the
wedding. A New YORK modiste's
agent receives new patterns and is
making up the very latest New York
styles for fall. the Priucesse costumes
in elegant designs for the wedding.
The shoe stores have wedding boots,
and the livery men are doing up their
CIarences and advertise especially tor
the wedding Washington, a mouth
ago the dullest and the deadest town
IN the United States, has suddenly
sprung up into unwonted activity.
The desire to be present at the church
service, to which no one without a
card OF Invitation will be admitted has
caused some strange proceedings Num-
sers OF invitations have actually been
stolen before reaching their destina-
ION, and IN consequence numbers of
Mrs. Sherman's friends are in danger
of being crowded out by people who
have purchased their cards of admis-
sion, 1t will not be the first time
invitations have been bought and sold
here when any specially grand enter
stainment is on the tapis
The Sherman family is not simply
popular, it is beloved, and there is uni
qersal regret that its members are to 60
to distant city, and Washington shall
know them as residents no more.
There is such an air Of refined SIM
plicity in their manners and converse
ton, such an utter lack of ostentation
and affectation, and such a wholesome.
ness in the tone of their surroundings
that one always feels the better for an
hour spent in their society, and there
are not a few in all classes who will
lose seriously in other ways than losing
a pleasant friend when Mrs. Sherman
goes. Her unceasing charities, ex-
tended to all within her reach who
need comfort or help, have made many
look upon her as ministering spirit
specially sent BY a kind Providence.
The invitations to the church wedding
are quite general; those to the house
are limited. The house adjoining
Gen Shemans, as well as his own, will
be used the day of the wedding, and
will blossom with flowers. The floral
decorations will be unusually handsome.
The church ceremony will be very
beautiful, for [ am told Archbishop
Purcell; of Cincinnati, has fine voice
and intones the mass most impressively.
The music also will be very fine. But
only think OF it. the bride, groom aud
Archbishop, as he is the celebrant,
fasting until the ceremony is concluded,
tina; is from midnight the night before
until at least | P. NJ. the day of the
marriage.
| hear that Col. F. Grant and Miss
Honore are certainly to be married at
the house of Mrs. Potter Palmer. the
brides sister in Chicago, in October.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sarioris are not expected
back until January, when the Presi-
dent and Mrs Grant hope to see them
and keep them for six months. It is
sald that the rooms set apart at the
White House are very elegant. The
White House is undergoing its annual
repairs.
V AsHINGToN, October 1.-The
marriage OF Thomas W. Fitch, of the
Engineer Corps. United States navy,
to Miss Maria Ewing Sherman, the
daughter of General W. T. Sherman
took place in St. Aloysius (Roman
Catholic) Church this morning, at II
o'clock. The marriage was solemnized
by the Most Rev. J. B. Purcell, Arch.
bishop of CINCINNATI, personal friend
Of Mrs. Sherman. The church, which
seats nearly 1000 persons. was densely
crowded, that number of invitations
having been issued.
Among the guests were President
Grant and members of his Cabinet
members of the Diplmatic Corps, dis
tlnguished army and navy officers, and
prominent civ ilians. Nearly all were
accompanied by ladies. The number
of notables present exceeded that on
any like occasion ever assembled is this
city The nuptial mass was celebrated
by the most Reverend Archbishop Pur-
cell, attended by the Rev. Father Hea-
ly, President of Georgetown College