Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-18
FROM SAN FRANCISCO.
TIE CRUSH TO SEE THE PRESIDENT
AND MRS. HAYES.
CORRESPONDENTS Impressions Concern,
ing Them-The Hindoo Mission-
ary-various Matters.

remember sitting down to dinner oncewlth
Senator McDougall, Senator McCorkell, 5.
B. Axtell, Jim Coffroth and 10 Hamilton
l was stunned, oppressed, and my childish
brain was so battered and beaten by the
thought of their greatness that kept bang
ing about in it that eating was out OF the
question, and for months after whenever
had hungry spell that dinner rose before
me and I rcproached myself for not having
eaten it. Behold, now the mighty come
nigh us every day, we gaze at them Tor
moment curiously, and then go on about
our various businesses without tremor.
You see we're so used to it now. Then IN
the presence of lesser lights my knife and
fork ratified in my grasp; to-day L can
meet
THE PRESIDENT,
His wife, his son, General Sherman, his
daughter and the rest of the suite, and then
besiege the cafe. We are certainly demon
allied by personages. When we fail to be
impressed we have lost that delicious hero
worship which used to fire me with rapture
and make me feel as though l was being
smothered beside. And yet applaud the
change. Though have not the Mysteries
of the hero-follower, 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
very gentlemanly bow to right and left &C.
casionally. While Grant was here he
walked stolidly through all applause and
gave no sign, and | remember him one
evening standing in proscenium box and
grimly surveying a risen audience alive
with hats and handkerchiefs, while he gave
in return not even so much as a bend OF
the head. One felt like giving him poke
and saying, "Make your bow, little boy
1t was a 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
great surge and cheer, which struggled
away into a laugh as the suspicion of sell
became certainty. After this every ar
rival was guyed to his own bewilderment,
but finally the steam whistles footed
shrilly, the great bell struck 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. | had
heard of tsweet 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
JUST HOW SHE LOOKED
To me, because l feel that some of my
readers are obliged to see her through my
eyes, SO 1 must stick to facts. But assure
you had real respect for her when l
saw her kneel at church, when she came in,
in the good old-fashioned Methodist way,
and 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.
l have seen some Washington letters that,
in fondling way, spoke of pretty Rachel
Sherman but she is not pretty, though
she has bright, good-humored way with
her, and looks as thong h she heartily
ENJOYED THE FUN
OF travelling with the President. l had
Just finished reading of Nuncomar and
Omichund, 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 preacher in Duff College, Scotland.
He is a pleasant, dark faced man, of clean
cut features, now of sufficient age to be
turning somewhat gray.
HE WAS a BRAHMIN,
a high caste, and as such worshiped as
god in his own country. He retains the
native dress and makes an odd figure in
our pulpits. He wears large white head
dress which he removes during prayers,
coffee. colored 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
preaching here has drawn crowds to our
churches. For foreigner, he has good
command of the English language, but now
and then his sentences seem incoherent
and the listener fails to catch his meaning.
He preached three times on Sunday, be-
sides appearing at Sabbath schools. He
says there are 500.000 Christians among
the natives of India. There is a Persian
woman here whom l have met several
times-such a strange, dark, low browed,
long WASTED woman, and | puzzled my
brain to decide her nationality, regarding
her with added interest when l knew she
was Persian. She showed me letter on
which her name was written-Koormah of
Salmis, and they call her Koormah. We
send missionaries to her country, but she
comes to US from Persia as a missionary,
and labors among the Chinese women at
the Ladies Home. Her manner is an ex-
ceedingly kind one and gives you the idea
that she would do anything in the world
she could for you. Are not all the coun.
tries of the earth represented here In
the Courtroom, into which he was brought
to ask for a delay of his trial, / saw
MALAY
Once in custody for murder, but he cheated
the gallows and afterward committed sui
eide in his cell. He was repulsive, crazy.
eyed man with shining yellow skin and
straight coarse black hair. He sat on
low step and kept changing and moving
nervously, and the chain he wore emitted
dull, dead, rubbing clink continuously.
| He was dreadful. | saw a most horrible
make up last night at the Baldwin Theater
"a woman as a participant in the cdrmd.
gaoie during the wild scenes of the reign
OF terror, crazed with drink and blood, a
member of that yelling cruel mob whose