The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-12-08

Spc''k u tacnl III tho WlrmeSt praise
as girls whose culture and breeding
as well as personal attractions are
Of II high order.
The residence occupied by the,
| Secretary of State is spacious one,
finished and furnished with great
elegance, and is tho property of tho
President Of tho Alaska Fur Seal
Company, Mr.. Hutchinson, whose
family arc spending tho winter in
Now York.
Carl s'"hurz is widower, and has
four children. Tho two eldest are
daughters, who have received thor
ough educations, and better than all,
perfect training from superior
mother. Both girls are musical, as
is their father also. They arc fine
looking and graceful in bearing.
The Secretary of the Navy has q
wife and two grown daughters to
preside over his pleasant homo on
Lafayette square. which threo pro-
vious chiefs Of tho Navy Department
have occupicd-Southard, Wood
bury and Branch. It was built by
Purser Stockton, who married n
niece Of Commodore Decatur, and
is still ownoh, I believe, by members
of his family. 1t is commonly
known in Washington us the Sickles
house, as it was occupied by General
Sicklcs while in Congress and ut the
time of his cause ceIcbre. Mr.. COL
fax lived there when Vlce-President.
It has boon altered and enlarged
since then, and now has most OK
traordinary front of glazed brick,
which looks like crockery ware, and
in color is the now shade known as
t;Uenl, pale sulphur, and is freely
contrastcd with Cardinal red in
chccker-board pattern. Mrs. Thomp-
son and her daughters are CHEEKY
trio who never suffer conversation
to flag, and show much cultivation
and intelligence in their talk and
tact in choosing topics.
The Secretary of War and his
family occupy the residence of the
late Admiral Goldsborough, pleas
ant but not Il largo ono. He and his
! wife will not, I think, do much en-
tertaining, although they have a
young daughter who has just made
her debut in society. They have
largo family all undcr twenty years
of ngc.
When somo one asked Mrs. Nc
Crary if she had Mrs. Belknap's car.
riage, she promptly and energeti
cally answcrd $40, you won't find
any Of that shulld"ggery about lis !"
don't know whether I spell the
word correctly or not It's q new
word to me, and I haven't nm idea
what it means but it sounds like
something appalling.
The Postmaster General and
Mrs. Key are at tho Ebbitt House,
and have mono of their family, which
consists Of nine children, with them.
Mrs. Key is a plain looking lady Of
middle age, with gentle expression
of face, u pleasant voice and easy
mannors. She is u fluent, but not
hasty talkcr, and witbal, a matron.
who will win friends in quiet way.
Attorney General Dcvens is o.
bachelor, md is considered to TO,
semble Tweod's pictures. Ho has a.
small house, one of u few detached:
villas built by tho widow of Liout.
Derby (John Ph9nix), but at last
accounts had decided not to occupy
it.
If entertaining is to be done
during the coming winter the bur
den Of it will fall on Secretaries
Evarts, Schurz and Thompson, as
none of the others have houses
adapted for it.
Thore is too much whiskey in
politics. Here is Liverpool re-
elocting as mayor tho owner Of
sixty gin palaces, because he spent
his ill-gotton wealth freely and
founded an art gallery. He ought,
to have bought somo of Cruikshank's
powerful paintings illustrating the
evils Of intemperance, and added
thcm to the collection.
It takes woman to got rid of the
lightning-rod peddler. A lively
Iowa widow mashed the counten.
ance of ono Lightning fiend with
q stick of wood and drew a shot
gun on another, when they took the
hint and left.
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