The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-01-10
PRESlDENI,s SILVER WEDDING.
The First Event Of the Kind Ever
CA@orated in the White House.


House has been the scene Of
GREAT DOMESTIC HAPPINESS
and terrible domestic affection.
Fifty years ago Andrew Jackson stood
sponsor in the east room at the christening
OF the child Of his adopted son. The VEN
cradle Father Mathew, Of temperance fame
asked Andrew Jackson: "Do you renounce
the devil and all his works." "Most en-
phatically / do" was Old Hickory's char
acterIstic reply. And when the christening
was over he smoked his cob pipe before the
fireplace in the Executive Chamber, and
drank applejack with the guests who had
come to the christening. President Lin
coins little Tad lay in his burial robes in
the east room in lo63, and in 1874 Nellie
Grant stood under the crystal chandelier
bride. Birth, baptism, marriage and death
have been events to which executive life
could not be stranger, and now a silver
wedding has been added to the "reminiscences
OF the pleasant and painful events of the
past.
FORTY YEARS AGO LAST JUNE,
Rutherford b. Hayes a lad OF ID, visited
his aunt In ChillIcothe, u, and played with
Lucy Webb, lass OF 10. They spent the
| summer together, but didn't meet again for
twelve years. Rutherford Hayes graduated
at Kenyon College, and went TO Cincinnati
TO study law. DR. Webb, Lucy father died
some years after, and his widow moved TO
Cincinnati to educate her children. Lucy
Webb attended the Wesleyen Female Col
| lege, and viii lie she was there, in 1859, Ru-
therford HAYES called upon her to rerew
the acquaintanceship of her childhood.
MRS HAYES TELLS THE STORY
| Of this call in a pleasant way. She says
she had forgotten she ever knew such a per
son as X. +. Hayes, and was convinced that
there must be mistake on his part In send
ing for her: As she came into the parlor
and saw Mr.. Hayes, she pretended she had
made mistase thai she did not know him,
and it was not necessary to further explain
why he had intruded himself. \ lawyer
was not to be put down with any such
pleading, and recalling events of twelve
years, he convinced the young lady that il
she did not remember the visitor, at least
he had the advantgage OF multitude OF
facts to prove that ne had known her from
her very childhoo;, and SO the spell took
them both back TO the beginning, and, as
fate would have it.
THE ACQUAINTANCE WAS RENEWED,
which ripen.d into malrimony. They we're
engaged some time before Young HAYES
could afford To be married, but the Nancy
Farrar murder trial gave him big fee and
| a reputation. This warranted hiuI in ask
ing Lucy Webb Ia fix the marriage day, and
she named News Years I've. the wedding
/ WAS QUITE UNrRETENTIoUs, AS CAN BEsI
| BE JUDGED
by the few who were invited to be present
Of the relatives of Mr.. Hayes, there was
his only sister, Mrs. Fanny Plat, and hei
daughter Laura, now Mrs. J. q. Mitchell
of Columbus, o 10, who stood with Mis-:
Webb, clasping her left hand. OF the bride.
relatives there were her mother, Mrs, Maria
Webb, who died in 1866; her brother
Joseph I. Webb, still living; and James
ID. Webb, who died in lS7a, and Aunt Lues
Cook, now Mrs. John Boggs, of Chillicothe
These were the only relatives present. a.
friends of tie family, there were NJ
Mrs. Heron, DIR. and Mrs, Johr
Presidents Private Secret
Mrs. Wilbur, the wife -.
the Wesleyan Fe'~ Davis,
DR.. /. MO- ~, Mr.. Roge
ty, NJ vi the President
d Tale college, and the +
lie. These completed the !
:. HAYES wore the fashionable bri,
less of that day-white satin. At the c
clusion of the marriage ceremony the c
MT pie received the congratulations of Il
,od friends, and the Supreme Court being
inv session in Columbus, Mr.. Hayes decided
-, to make his bridal trip TO that city, as he n
w be present the following day to argue
ISL murder case before it. Thither they "
AN making the house of Mrs. Hayes 81
their residence during their stay in that c
The legal case was attended to. Seen a
Mr. Hayes had the satisfaction OF heal
that
HIS ARGUMENT HAD BEEN REWARDED "
4 COMPLIMENT
100, from the Hon. Thomas Ewing. Still |
L., he was rejoiced to learn that the Supr
An Court had reversed the ruling OF the
All cinnati court in the case, and that
are trial had been ordered.
in When it was decided TO celebrate I
MIA silver wedding, President Hayes and
wife began to hunt up ther old frie
&c" After wedding guests, the President
ing | invited those OF his college mates at
and yon who are residing in Washington
members of the Cincinnati Literary {
the Judges Ol inc Ohio Souhes CNAoiS
Or Mr.. Hayes practiced, and members OF
ex- Cincinnati bar resident in Washing
next members Of his regiment; the TIVE
third Ohio, a few old army friends,
lastly his intimate Ohio friends nov
Washington. These invitations did
ork exceed 100, and include the wives OF
the guests, The members of the Cabinet
Vice-President Wheeler are
cred THE ONLY PARTIES INVITED FROM Off
one LIFE.
Chief Justice Waite and Justice Sws
the of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice ID
), .n Carter, of the District Supreme Court
ling Judge K B. Warden, the first Judge b
the whom Mr.. Hayes ever tried = case, Al
the Ohioans Senator Thurman and
|. in Piatt, who sat on the bench together
!. a HAYES tried his great murder case,
nor. also invited, as were also Judge Shell;
,don ger, Of this city, and Stanley NATL
fine who were his legal companions in CT
FISH. natl Benjamin Long, one of his old sc
ana teachers, TO whom he has given . pls
IA a, the Interior Department; General L
liver Commissioner Of Agriculture; Smith
= - pointment clerk of the Treasury De
nee ment; Ex-Governor Denuison, now
rh.t missioner of the District Of Columbia
Mrs Admiral Dahlgren, who was I
friend of the President in his boyhood
great ~ iiAi"Ss
the are very simple, and are written on