The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-07-20

parted. The three young ladies who were guests
of the Presidents wife, Misses Scott, Platt ana
Mcfarland, have gone to their several homes 10
rrepare. or superintend, their trOusseaus; so that
the epidemic at the White House is matrimonial
rather than malarial. Mrs. Hayes has been some
time in the Adirondacks, and is, it seems, not a
poor disciple of Izaak Walton, for the papers an
nounce occasionally that the head Of the nation
breakfasted upon trout caught by her fair hands
WEDDINGS.
Nav has been devoted to weddings, despite the
- old saws and modern instances, which might,
If needed, deter those 8" on cOnnubial Life deter
mined" to wait for this - leafy month Of June. -
Among marriages most notable is that OF MISS
Winnie Ream, the sculptures, to Lieutenant Hoxie,
L. s. A, at present District Engineer. lmme-
diately after the war Miss Ream secured the COM
mission to make a statue in marble OF Abraham
Lincoln, and chiefly through that work IS she
known to the art world. Critics wish she mao
listened to the wooings of one OF her many admir-
ers, and gone to the frontier, ere 1t entered her
pretty head to mould in clay; and even now they
indulge the fond hope that the Joys OF domestic
life Will cause the cold marble TO lose Its charm
though it is but Just 10 say that the Lincoln
statue is her worst effort, and moreover, IN all
candor to add, that the subject, great tnough ne
be, is not one to beguile the graces. The mar
riage of Miss Ream was celebrated ut Ascension
Church, in this city, on the evening OF May 18TH.
This large church was crowded 10 Its utmost
capacity with many of the most distinguished
from official. art, and literary circles. The walls
of the church were handsomely and appropriately
with flowers wreathed into symbols be-
fitting nuptials of one whose life is devoted to art
labor, and in the chancel hung an immense mar
rage bell made Of field daisies. At the appointed
hour Lieutenant Hoxic, accompanied by Oeneral
Albert Pike, the poet, entered through the chan
and took his stand near the door. The music
OF the organ, " soft and low, " announced the APP
Dna 81 NIA I'D .-I.Za raNff EWrrWn IN "a !
cherry satin robe, looked smaller than ever by
the side of General Sherman. AS the happy pair
knelt a few minutes at the altar Il poem was given
IN recitatIvc by a quartettc of male voices. The
poem was from the pen Of General Pike, who
looked the embodiment Of the spirit Of beneyo-
lence, his long white hair falling on his shoulders.
The General of the Army gave the bride away.
He and his suite and many other officials were in
full uniform. The bride looked exceedingly beau
tiiul, and seemed overcome with the emotion OF
the supreme hour. She is beloved almost to
ldOlatry by those Of her immediate circle and her
to whom she has been an angel Of comfort
and ialthfulness. She bears with her in her new
the best wishes Of all.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
On May 29th the bust of Joseph Mazzini, the
of the Italian citizens to the city of New
York, was unveiled at Central Park. William
Bryant, one of the best beloved Of our
poets, was among the chosen speakers to do honor
10 the memory Of the great Italian patriot. Mr..
Bryant spoke with uncovered head for a few min
ltes; in an hour after he accompanied n friend
nome to dine, and fell senseless at the door, mar
-owly escaping cutting bis head upon the marble
Great fears are entertained Of his re-
,Overy, as for some hours he was totally uncon-
Since the loss of Washington Irving
have not been called upon to accept
such a bereavement in the literary world. Bry-
mt is n man whom we love as we loved the grand
author of the 4" Sketch Book lie has been as
ISOLATED with our literature from its early youth
70 what may possibly without presumption be
termed its manhood. His last work, the transla-
ion of Homer, achieved at n period Of life when
men of nearly every profession retire from labor,
gives us some right to assume n maturity in let
1t is a comfort to know that the people
his claim. Honors have poured upon
him. The Bryant Vase, - exhibited at the Cen
.ennial celebration, said to all the world, " See
we love our singer" As long as the Eng
ish tongue shall be read will his words, which
we're painted by his life, be cherished:
so live, that when thy summons comes 10 Join
The innumerable caravan, that moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shan take
His chamber in the silent halls Of death,
Thou 30 not like the quarry-slave at night
scourgeI to his dungeon, but sustained and sOytheI
by an unfaliering trust, approach thy grave
Like one who wraps the drapery Of his couch
About him., and lies down 10 pleasant Dreams
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