Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-18

9 smothered beside. And yet applaud the
. change. Though have not the Mysteries
of the hero-follower, l congratulate myself
that have seen good man who is at the
, head of all of US. His name is Hayes and
he looks like L. L. Baker, one of our own
neighbors, though little grayer and more
upright as to figure. In the procession
: which trailed along in his honor he rode,
standing uncovered in his carriage that he
might be seen by all, and bowling with a
very gentlemanly bow to right and left &C.
casionally. While Grant was here he
walked stolidly through all applause and
gave no sign, and l remember him one
evening standing in proscenium box and
grimly surveying risen audience alive
with hats and handkerchiefs, while he gave
in return not even so much as bend Of
the head. One felt like giving him poke
and saying, "Make your bow, little boy"
1t was funny sight at the Pavilion on
Friday night. Thousands and thousands
had gathered to see the President, and
an aisle set either side by living wall had
been made through the crowd. One man
had climbed up ladder to see the better,
ladies three or four deep stood on chairs in
the gallery, and as for me hung on by my
eyelids to the stairways. Suddenly
GRAY-BEARDED MAN,
With lady in black on his arm, walked
up the aisle, taking off his hat and looking
majestic as he came. One long drawn
ah-h-h filed the air, the crowd gave a
great surge and cheer, which struggled
away into a laugh as the suspicion of sell
became certainty. After this every ar
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but finally the steam whistles footed
shrilly, the great bell struck a wild alarm,
and the band begun See the Conquering
Hero Comes, and then we knew the folks
had really arrived. | was proud to wave
my handkerchief at Mr.. Hayes, because he
seems to have been SO good and SO honest
and so unpretending plain and simple
throughout his term of Office. He looked
like us and our neighbors exactly. l had
heard of ssweet Lucy Webb" so much
that looked for pretty face when | saw
Mrs. Hayes, and that | didn't see. She
looked very pleasant and at her ease, but |
she has large peculiar mouth, number |
of lines IN her face, and her hair comes
down over her temples, then turns with |
kind of scallop behind her ears. I'm tell
ing you without any glass
To me, because l feel that some of my
readers are obliged to see her through my
eyes, so must stick to facts. But assure
you had a real respect for her when 1
saw her kneel at church, when she came in,
in the good old.fashioned Methodist way,
and l felt that my little prayer was in good
company when it went up beside hers.
Though Sherman does waltz and kiss the
girls, his good looks would never have
made him famous had he trusted to them.
have seen some Washington letters that,
in fondling way, spoke of pretty Rachel
Sherman but she is not pretty, though
she has a bright, good humored way with
her, and looks as though she heartily
ENJOYED THE FUN ,
OF travelling with the President. l had
just finished reading of Nuncomar and I
0michund, the crafty Bengalees of Sur
ajah Dowlah, the Mummy Begun, Warren
Hastings and Give, when 10 real Hin ,
doc is among US. He is a delegate to the
Presbyterian Convention in Philadelphia,
and passes through our city en- route from
Bombay. He is a convert of one of our
mission schools of India, and was educated !
as a preacher in Duff College, Scotland. '
He Is 4 pleasant, dark-faced man, of clean s
cut features, now of sufficient age to be
turning somewhat gray. S
HE WAS BRAHMIN,
a high caste, and as such worshiped as a a
god in his own country. He retains the Ii
native dress and makes an odd figure in e
our pulpits. He wears large white head
lress which he removes during prayers, \
robe and gray vest, and has
small restless hands, the slender fingers of
which continually seek his eyeglasses. His
name is Rev. Narayan Sheshadri, and his s
preaching here has drawn crowds to our s.
churches. For a foreigner, he has a good t
of the English language, but now n
md then his sentences seem incoherent a
md the listener fails to catch his meaning. &
lie preached three times on Sunday, be.
ides appearing at Sabbath schools. He
avs there are 100000 Christians among r.
he natives of India. There is a Persian a
woman here whom. | have met several u
imes-such strange, dark, low browed, IL
ong wasted woman, and | puzzled my "
rain to decide her nationality regarding u
er with added interest when / knew she
Fas Persian. She showed me letter on NJ
7hich her name was written-Koormah of 81
almis, and they call her Koormah. We ca
end missionaries to her country, but she sa
ONES to us from Persia as a missionary. D.
nd labors among the Chinese women at
he Ladies Home. Her manner is an ex- y
eedingly kind one and gives you the idea lie
hat she would do anything in the world "
be could for you. Are not all the coun. az
ries OF the earth represented here? In III
he Courtroom, into which he was brought IN
D ask for delay of his trial, saw
MALAY ~
nee in custody for murder, but he cheated q
ne gallows and afterward committed sui. tn
de in his cell. He was repulsive, crazy. ba
yed man with shining yellow skin and *
.raight coarse black hair He sat on a in
Nv step and kept changing and moving in
ervously, and the chain he wore emitted te,
dull, dead, rubbing clink continuously. m,
lie was dreadful | saw a most horrible in,
'ake up last night at the Baldwin Theater tn
a woman as a participant in the carD1a. an
1ote during the wild scenes of the reign ct
terror, crazed with drink and blood n W,
ember Of that yelling, cruel mob whose
ar cry was, kill, kill" A triangular an
ar made her cheek hidcous, her Teeth oh
ere painted black, her eyes followed. her IN,
.ir in disorder, and as in the red liobt Of In
irning buildings she sprang with the wl
OBJ in
ihh iioiNiD DANCE an
efore the footEghts, with long knife in we
n hand, l thought it the most fIishtful wa
enc | ever witnessed. 1t occurs in the ia.
ay of " Ninon, which carries the spec. mol
tor back to the Capets and g the Aus
ian woman" Marie Antoinette. 1t con.
ms most powerful scene where Ninon. out
young girl, sees pictured in the air the en-,
ath of Marat in the bathing-tub by the dig
life held in the grasp of Charlotte Cor the
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