Connecticut western news., 1874-12-25

| ArSt WatH StlCWu Etle ne"KfNCD, U CUuple or days before she was married. She wore black silk at the time, and her father, after throwing the brilliants, that con trasted so strongly with the color of the dress, over her head, stepped back few paees to notice the etfltct. Hd}ihg ga2Gd at tile flashing necklace for q minute or so he suddenly broke into loud laugh and cried out meErily, "My dear, on my life you'd do for the headlight of a To- comotive." This necklace cost De Sonza Cabral. stones, cutting, and carving, $l16, ,000, ,9SO.SS. Cabral showed mo the tdtelpts, s6 tliat l am able to state the exact figures. And yet this dotng fatllcr, ill naming the cost to me, added that he would willingly have paid what he did twice over rather than have missed his aim, or been unable to give his darling tic wedding present. lie deslgned for her while yet she was in her cradle There you have the man ill his unbounded ex- penGitrre of money to obtain his ends, and in his absorbing love for his daugh- ter.
 i You must not expect from me any de- scription of the ornate and bewildering toilets worn at the wedding-no, not even of the brides rare raiment. I do not understand such matters, and, ven turing to discourse concerning them, likely enongh I should call lace gimp, and peasant waists polonaises. Let me briefly state that, so far as I could judge, the grent heiress was married in clothes betitting her position. I am indebted to a lady guest for the information that her dress was of point lace, flounced, or rather gerlanded, to the waist with strings of seed pearls, with the volumi- nous train edged with tilagree of gold thickly set with diamonds. Her neck was circled by her fathers wonderful offering, besides which there were dia- monds banded on her hair and ill brace let's on her wrists. She was certainly the most blazing beauty ever gazed upon.
 There was one feature of the wedding 1 arrangement which struck mo might better have been omitted entirely, or at least very materially modified, but which, nevertheless, i'll tho mock it made of ex- pense, was quite in keeping with all the other features. l allude to the phenome- nally hospitable provision made for the hackmen who drove the guests to and from the festivities On the velvet lawn just outside the Cnbral mansion, a dozen or moro exquisite Sevres vases were set-corresponding in size and shape Go an American peach basket- each one of which w,ls heaped to the brim with the gold coin of the country. The drivers as they dropped their loads | had their attention called to the currency ill the vases, and were cordially invited to help themselves 0d Hbitunl. As often as the vases were emptied they were promptly replenished by servants de tailed for that sole purpose. One of the hackmen responded so heartily to the invitation that when the time came for him to drive back to town he was forced to request his two passengers to favor him by taking a seat on the box. He explained, not without blushcs and stammering, that the inside of his coach wns occupied by the gold pieces he had accumulated during the evening; and that he would not have taken so many had it not been for the thought of n sick wife ut home. Having listened to him, his load, before mounting the box, re- turned to the house and narrated the incident to Cabrnl, who was so touched ut the mention of sick wife that, on sudden impulse, he proposed subscrip- tion for her benefit. The response was general, and in a short time the snug sum of $1O,O00 wns raised among the guests, to which Cabral added his own check for $40, ,000 more, saying that he did not wish any heart to be sad on that joyful occasion. When the $50, ,000 were handed to the hackman, "a cordial for your niling wife, my man," as Cabral put it, he burst into tears, declaring that there never was such a man in the world as De Souza Cabrnl And he was right
 But here 1 must stop, for have al ready written you n long letter. A thousand and one things connected with the wedding, each worthy of note, must go undescribed-at least until another occasion. But from what I have told you, you must judge of the proportions and quality of what I have not told you CD 2ocdc Hcrcuicm, you know. An, if my old friend, Senator Webster Wag- her, could have seen the bridal drawing room car in which the bride left home, with it's exterior composed entirely of carved ivory-but find 1 have just time to save the 5 A. M. mail.
 RICHARD SCUDDER.