National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-09-26
SOCIETY AND FASHION.
INTERESTING g OsSIP FOR OURL4DY
READERS.

PERSONAL NOTES AND GOSSIP - THE
LATEST STYLES IN LADIES' WEAR
MOURNING GOODS AND FASHIONS = THE
LATEST IN HATS, BONNETS AND RIBBONS.
The indications are already clear that the COM
ing fashionable season will be one of great bril-
Hancy. 1t viii Of necessity be short, but in the
time allotted, parties, balls receptions and pri-
vate entertainments will be crowded into the gay
weeks with a rapidity hard to follow. We can
begin to catch glimpses Of the grand parade and
to form an idea OF the leading pictures the social
panorama.
The Fitch-Sherman wedding, to be celebrated
at st. Aloysius, October i, is now the principal
topic Of conversation in aristocratic circles. The
marriage ceremony itself will be surrounded with
a cathedral splendor never before witnessed here.
The Murphy Montgomery wedding will also
take place next Thursday at Trinity church. Mr..
d. F. Murphy is the principal stenographer of the
Senate, and his long list Of eminent friends have
much reason to congratulate him, for all Wash
ington cannot produce loTelier bride than Mary
Montgomery will be. ......
Tits reported that the silver Senator from Ne
vada will, before his return to Washington in
December, take unto himself partner in his
mines in the person Of a Miss Sullivan, who, with
her father, was a guest Of his last winter at the
Stanton mansion.
Among the important soeiaLevents to occur in
q short time are, it is rumOred, the nuptials Of
Miss Gait and Mr.. Perry, jr.
1t is already mentioned that the gay season
will commence with series of fashionable hops
at Wizards and the Ebbitt house.
Washington literGfeHr has dramatizeda FASH
iOnable French novel Tor the display of the pecu-
liar genius of Miss CLARA Morris.
Colonel J. W. FOrneE is the guest of ]. H.
Puleston, NJ. P. for Davenport, at Marden Park,
Surrey, England. Mr.. PulestOn was a war CORE
spondent and military agent OF Governor Curtin
during the war OF the rebellion.
Society congrstulates itself on the information
that Col. T. H. Nelson, late minister to Mexico,
contemplates taking house and making Wash
ingtOn his permanent residence
Several wealthy New York families will pass
the winter at the national capital.
Hon. HOratio King gave lunch on Thursday
to the President and several members Of the
Cabinet.
Postmaster General Jewell has taken q house
on Lafayette square.
Richard 7. Merriek, ESQ.,, and family, who have
been spending the summer at EnglewOOd, will
return TO their residence on street next week.
We learn from the London Cosmopolitan that
Miss L. A. Clews, sister Of the New York banker,
Mr.. Henry CIeWs, has recently married Mr.. Geo.
EIysrd, and is now in the Highlands on a bridal
tour.
The FlanaRan-Strong wedding will take place
in Washington early next month. The principals
are Mr.. John Flanagan, wealthy WidOWer of
Philadelphia, and Miss Emily, eldest daughter Of
Judge William Strong, Of the United States Su-
preme Court. Expectations are that the mar
rage ceremony will be q grand one, to which
will be invited large number Of eminent people,
including President Grant, the Cabinet Judges
of the Supreme Court and members Of the DiplO-
matte Corps.
Dr. John B. Blake and Mr.. Jacob Tome are
among the Wealthiest wfdowers in Washington.
Miss Annie E. Shoemaker, one Of the graceful
young bellies Of Georgetown, has returned to her
home from a summer soiourn at Boston.
Preparations are on foot for hop, at an early
day, at the Marine Barracks-where these enter
tainments are always enjoyable.
Gen. and Mrs Marcy and Miss Marcy have ar
rived for the season, and are at the Arlington.
Mrs Dr. Marry and Mrs. BOuligny have re-
turned from RaWley Springs.
Dr. Horatio Stone, the sculptor, leaves Wash
ington in a few days for San Francisco. His visit,
we surmise, has reference somewhat to Mr.. James
Lick's provisions for new monuments. The monu-
ment in honor Of +. S. Key, author Of "The Star
spangled Banner is to be Of bronze, to cost $780,,
900 in gold, and to be set up in one Of the parks
of San Francisco. But more important work is
q monument of bronze, to be erected at Sscrs-
mento, the State capital, at cost of ESQ, 900 in
gold The design is to be left to competing
artists subject only to the general outline made
by Mr. Lick, who stipulates that the monument
shall be = group Of statuRry representing the
four eras Of California progress.
Franeklyn is the latest style Of spelling that
name. It's no improvement.
Baroness Won Overlook, wife Of the Austrian
Ambassador to China, is, with her family, at
Emmett Island, on the Sound, where they will
spend the winter. The baroness, it will be reeOl-
lected, was Miss Dahlgren, Of this city, and the
reigning belle in society here ten twelve years
ago.
Lady Thornton has been very i'll in England,
and will not return to this country until next
summer She will be greatly missed by society
in Washington, who have been looking for the
opening of the elegant new residence of the Brit
ish minister, and for the usual delightful enter
| tainments.
Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Dent Grant, son
of President Grant, will be married October 20,
in Chicago, ILL.,, to Miss HOnOre, daughter Of Mr..
F. F. Honore, and sister Of Mrs. Potter Palmer.
The wedding will be privately celebrated at Mr..
Palmer's residence. Happening to be present at
the Georgetown convent, where Miss HonOre
graduated two or three years since, she sung the
farewell song on that occasion, and most sweetly
too. We thought her then the handsOmest bru-
nette we ever saw. Besides her great personal
| beauty, she is remarkably stylish.
The marriage of Mr.. Carl Bildt, one Of the
ehamberlains Of the late King Of Sweden, to Miss
Moore, daughter Of Bloomfield Moore, esq, Of
Philadelphia, will take place shortly in London.
1t is rumOred that Mr.. Bildt who is in the dIplO-
matte service of Sweden is to be sent to Washing
ton as secretary of the Swedish legation here and
that the present secretary is to be advanced to a
higher post elsewhere.
Mr., Mrs, and Miss Borie have returned from
their European tour to Philadelphia.
Chief Justice and Mrs. Waite are expected at
their residence in Washington, for the winter,
| next week.
Mr.. Henry Howard and Mrs. Howard, of the
British legation, and Mr.. Sidney Webster, sOn-in.
| law Of Secretary Fish, are among the late arri-
| walls, by the Scotia, from England.