Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-22

and Will close between 8 and III, or there
abouts. The dinner proper closes sooner,
but there is conversation and promenading
afterwards. The vestibule had seats ar.
ranged at one end for the Marine Band,
and the promenade hall was draped with
flags, the main staircase also. The state
dinner-room was adorned with flowers on
the mantels and in the windows, both
potted plants and many bouquets. Palms
were growing IN their tubs, and tulips,
white and red, poisoning in pots; beside
tall bouquets of choice roses and other
flowers in very handsome vases on each
end of the mantel. The side-boards had
more flowers upon them, and also sup
ported the new set of china designed by
Theodore Davis, and manufactured at
Limoges, so artistic and SO hideous, with
all manner of birds, beasts and creeping
things careering over the plates, cups and
saucers. The table was very handsome
with flowers. Two immense bouquets of
red poinsettas and white roses, with hya-
cinths, were the chief ornaments upon the
long, oval crystal center piece. Each
guest had two bouquets, one in front of
his or her plate and one on the napkin,
the gentleman's in the latter case being
boutonniere, the lady's a small hsnd-bou-
quet. The name of the guest assigned to
each plate was neatly written on card
about % by 81 inches, stamped in gilt
with the coat of arms of the United States.
EACH GENTLEMAN
Had, beneath this card, another card con-
tanning plan of the table, with the name
and place of each guest, so that none need
by accident be unknown to him. On re-
entering the vestibule from the dining room
at the right, each newly. arrived party is
escorted by an usher to the blue parlor.
When the first group arrive, the President
and Mrs. Hayes come down the stairs to
the blue parlor to receive them. Success
sive guests come rapidly in, till the num-
gentleman is furnished with an envelope
addressed to him and containing the name
of the lady whom he is to escort. After
greeting the President and Mrs. Hayes,
in company with his wife (if he has one
with him) he goes to find the lady who is
to be his fate for the evening, and thus
pairs are formed for going out to the table.
They pass from the blue parlor through
the red parlor, which has two doors lead
ing into the state dining-room. Through
one of these the President and the lady
he escorts leads the procession !; through
the other Mrs. Hayes, accompanied by her
escort. Each is followed by the guests who
will sit on that side of the table. The
President sits on the middle of one side,
and his wife on the middle of the other.
The leading guest and wife are of course
the companions respectively of the Presi-
dent and Mrs Hayes. Tonight it was
mainly dinner in honor of the Supreme
Court, and Chief Justice Waite escorted
Mrs. Hayes, while the President took out
Mrs. Waite.
THE GUESTS.
Beginning with the right of the Presi-
dent, the guests tonight are seated thus :
Mrs. Waite; Justice Swayne, Mrs. Brad.
ley Justice Field, Mrs. Pendleton Sen
ator David Davis formerly Supreme
Justice), Mrs. Reed Representative
Tucker, Miss Dora Scott of New Orleans
"a guest of Mrs. Hayes Representative
Morgan Of New York Ia guest Of Mrs.
Hayes; Senator Pendleton, Mrs. Harlan !;
GA-O bblOnS3 4ulos ehS
Secretary of War; then Mrs. Hayes.
At his right as follows The Chief Justice !;
Justice Miller, Mrs. Field Mrs. Williams,
Justice Bradley Mrs. Tucker, Senator
Carpenter Wntelaw Reid, Miss Mills !;
Representative Robinson Justice Woods
1.-THE new Associate Justice ; Senator
Edmunds, Mrs. Carpenter, Justice Harlan,
Mrs. Strong, the Attorney General, Mrs.
Miller, the last-named lady being seated at
the Presidents left. There were four more
gentlemen than ladies', and they had to
"bach it, as it is called that is, go out
two by two. These were seated at the
four corner seats of the table-each end
seating four guests. Justice Woods has
not yet brought on his wife; Whitelaw
Reid is bachelor; Senator David Davis
is a widower; the Acknowledgement
bachelor Representative Robinson has no
wife with him. and Mrs. Swayne is quite
inirm this winter and does not go in
society. Two of these uncertainties
balanced the two blooming young lady
guests. The party by Mrs. Dahlgren,
above referred to, is doubtless the
initial one of several that will be given by
prominent people to the newly fedged
Senators, though these generally take the
form of dinners. They are pleasant and
stately welcome to their new spheres of
action. When General Garfield was elected
to the Senate last winter such
RUSH OF FESTIVITIES
In his honor occurred, as made many pre-
dict even then that he would be the Re
publican nominee for President. Mr.. and
Mrs. Conger, whom Mrs. Dahlgren feted,
have quite romance. They were
engaged lovers in their youth, but
"whom first we love, you know,
we seldom we'd" But a few years
since, perhaps about eight, when he was
shriveled and "a, and she was fat and at
least so, and both were widowed, he
looked up from the floor of the House one
day, and saw his old love seated in the
promptly. They knew, it seems of each
him, courteously, to call at her boarding
place. He said, THAT depends on how
may come" and they arrived at an I'M
derstanding on the spot. They are devoted
lovers she sits in one particular seat in
the gallery and looks at him great share
of her time. She is an estimable old lady,
and would be good character for Dickens.
When she learned of his nomination to
the Senate, the other day, it is said that
she went into state of hysterical Joy. A
gainsaying world would perhaps envy
neither of them the pos session of the other
but what dead loads of comfort they must
take together. EMMA JAMES.
HOW ARouT &c HONOR AMONG TuIEYES9,'