The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1877-10-18
Washington Gossip.
ident Chicago Inter-Ocean.

Inc coming winter VIII DC eXceeulhS
Iy lively in Washington. More peopl'
are renting houses and engaging room
at the hotels than have been known il
Washington since the flush times aftel
the war. A prominent house-ownel
told me.the other day that rents wore
never more active since he had lived IL
Washington, and the demand was tol
line furnished houses, which was an In
dication that money was TO be spent and
entertaining carried on in style, unusual
even in Washington.
Senator Don Cameron has taken an
elegant house on [ street, owned and fol-
twelve years occupied by Senator Ere
hnghuysen. Cameron has q lovely
daughter, about 19, who made her de-
but in society here last winter, and
who will preside over his home. There
was some talk last winter of tho young
chief of the Cameron clan marrying a
widowed daughter Of Jere Black, but
thore was nothing serlous-nothing half
so serious as tho foundation for another
report that he was to marry q niece of
Secretary and General Sherman, who
makes her homo with her uncle, the Sec
rotary, here nearly every winter. She
is the daughter of Judge Charles Sher-
man, Of Cleveland, Ohio. Just budding
into womanhood, graceful, and pretty.
Don Cameron, who was then Secretary
Of War, was quito exclusive IN his atten-
tons 10 her last winter, and divided his
time between the War Department and
Secretary Sherman's residence on X
-. hos ryir 81
Of l9 can draw Cabinet officer from bis
desk, a matter worth talking about, and
society was scandaliEed by the fact that
the Secretary OF War used to take this
chit of q girl riding in business hours.
She is pretty. bright and modest, and ]
guess young Miss Cameron would like
her for stepmother, rs they are the
most devoted sort OF friends.
The coming winter will be good one
for eligible young men in Washington.
Clarkson Potter, member-elect from
New York City, has rented the elegant
residence Of Mrs. Scott Laughton, and
will exhibit his three charming daught-
ers in 1t. They are pretty, and he is
rich enough 10 portion each with cor
ner lot and solid silver. There WAS q
wedding in the house last winter. The
owner, Mrs. Scott Laughton, was Madam
Bergaman then, widow of big-bearded
soldier who used TO chew his whiskers
around the German legation. She was
painted, frllIed, and risky, wore q
No. boot, and although fifty winters
had caused her to wear false frontlet
Of hair, she fiirted around like a maiden
Of IS. With an income of S30, 900 she
could afford 20 do it. So young SCOTT
Laughton, OF the State Department,
thought, and he married her. Twenty
years younger than bis bride, he rents
her residence and takes her to Europe,
where such things are more common
than here.
Stanley Mathews has taken a house on
X street, in which Admiral Bailey, of
tho navy, died last spring. Stanley is a
reformer, and not afraid OF ghosts.
Chief Justice Waite and his family
have been living tor three years in a
house owned by Bancroft Davis, cur
Minister to Germany. Thor lease ex-
pires Oct. |. and Mir. Davis agent do.
clined to renew it, which looks as il o
change in the German legation was an
ticipated. It's pity the Chief Justice
of the United States isn't rich enough to
buy such house "a he ought to live in
but this is an ungreatful nation, and he
should be thankful for what he gets.
He has rented the house lately occupied
by Edwin L. Stanton,the son of the great
War Secretary, who recently died.
1t ia situated on tho outskirts of town,in
comparative questionable quarter,
butthe Waites are not fashionable people.
They live simply, and silly persons have
sometimes laughed at their plain ways,
but no one ever goes into the family
without being impressed with the digni-
~ of good breeding.
Charles Francis Adams has rented the
house owned by the late Representative
Hooper, of Massachusetts, bat what he
intends to do in Washington nobody
knows. 1t is old-fashioned, but CON-
modIous, and stands on the corner op.
posite Wornley's Hotel.
It's wonderful how many houses there
arc in Washington that ere for rent be-
cause somebody has died. Chief Jus.
tice Waite moved into a dead mans
house; so does Stanley Mathews; so
does Charles Francis Adams, and
could mention dozen more.
Let death be called the great vacstor.
But the snell of tube.roses has long
been gone out of the Hooper house. 1t
has stood unoccupied since the death OF
its owner, in 1875. This reminds me of
a story Blame tells of General Butler.
On the day set apart for eulogies on
Samuel Hooper, Rice of Chicago, Buff.
liz gton of Massachusetts, and other mem.
bers Of tho Forty-third Congress that
died during the session, Butler
went to Blaine, who Was Speaker, and
asked what the order OF business WAS.
Blaine told him "eu!ogies,' and named
the dead men whose virtues were 20 be
extolled. 1t was tho time when the
whole House Of Representatives, we're
lighting Butler, and Butler kept the
whole house at bay. Said he to Blaine:
"I'm not mnch on eulogies, but I'll be
BANKED il don't get in a speech on old
Hooper, il they don't call the previous
question on me-
Several years ago Sentaor Stewart, of