Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-09

thusiastic statement in the local press of
Sunday last, that "Mrs. s. w. Dorsey was
the admired figure in Ssatuary Hall Satur.
day afternoon at the grand opening, and
presided over the Arkansas table in
costume of
GOLD BRocADE AND BLUE SATIN,
With trimmings of point lace, and orna-
ments of large solitaire diamonds" Mrs.
Dorssy's husband, the co-partner of Brady
in the star route matter, lies i'll CT sore
eyes and nervous prostration at his resi-.
dence here. He is still the acting head of
the Republican organization in Arkansas.
The whole scene seems to me like an insane
masquerade OF the Penates of the republic,
and the Capitol is as dishonored and IN.
shorn OF dignity as was Noah when drunken
with wine. The Senate and Supreme Court
have declined to permit the use OF their
portion of the building. There is No
thoroughfsre order very strictly carried
out In their august preserves. "Wednesday
was TO have been Bicycle. day par excel
lence, but it was snowy, and the assembled
rotary youths stayed over to-day and got
in little fancy work among the legs Of
the Sir Knights. Washington is the para
disc of bicyclists, owing to it's broad and
elastic paved streets, with comparatively
little rush of vehicles upon them. The
city Postoffice has begun the experiment
of having its carriers mounted in that
fashion in cole cling mail from the street
boxes, and is much gratitied with the re-
sultant saving of time.
CONGRESS.
Senator's and members are arriving but
slowly, preferring for the most part to take
their Thanksgiving dinner at home. The
death of Representative Jonathan T. Up
degraff, of Ohio, just announced, is sobsr-
ing event, but not one that materially af-
fects the ability of the House. He was a
rural-looking man of 90, with granger pro-
clivities, who was serving his second term.
He had crucially difficult time in mis- nom-
mating convention this summer, which
worried through over four hundred ballots
and then adjourned without making a
choice. Reconvened later in the season, it
renominated him by a small majority.
Most people expected him to go down IN
the October holocaust, and he was much
gratifed that he pulled through but the
chagrin of the preliminary struggle and
the fatigues of the campaign brought on a
fatal attack OF his old complaint, calculus
of the bladder. l remember we'll his
square, stocky" figure, with brown,
curly, wig-covered head, sitting in his seat
in the House, writing, as it were, inter
minably, while the distressing and pro-
tracted struggle in his convention was
going on. 1t was at time when no Re.
publican member could leave his post, and
Updegraff's expression reminded me of the
line from the school reader,
And Guatimozin smiled burning Goals.
His cousin, Representative Updegratf Of
Iowa, much ADLER man, was defeated in
the November election, and thus the fam.
lily name will disappear from the Forty.
eighth Congress. The deceased Updegraf
had second wife, much younger than
himself, tall, quiet, amiable lady, with
pretty face, but no pretensions to style,
who used to sit in the gallery quite assid.
uously, lost In admiration of her liege lord
down below. Her face in
THE SADNESS OF wIDowHooD
Haunts my imagination to-day. She has
several young children to rear to his mem
DRY.
A local paper says: "Mrs. Stewart, the
handsome wife Of Nevada's ex-senator, il
visiting her sister, Mrs. Woods, in Alex
andria. She pays flying visits to Wash
ington to superintend the repairs being put
upon her house on Dupont Circle. 1t viii
not be ready for occupancy, however, unit
| next spring, as the damage done by fire
and water are of more extensive charac
| ter than at first surmised. The house is tc
be restored to its original elegance, and
| then occupied by Mrs. Stewart. Mrs S.
expects to pass a portion of the winter il
! Washington.
underwent such thorough renovation last
year, and are now in the artistic hands o.
| Tiffany's workmen, of New York, fol
scraping the walls for frescoing, will not be
open for public inspection before the mid
die or 20sh of December. 1t is said that
carved wooden mantelpieces are to be in
| troduced into the various reception rooms
displacipg the
TIME-HoNoRED WHITE MARBLE,
| Against which the fathers" and daughter:
of the republics earlier day have SO Otter
leaned. Washington is little inclined to
resent the Presidents iconoclasm in this
respect. It has no objection to his Prince
Albert morning coats, and his pantaloons
curved outward, CATER fashion, on the
foot, in the latest agony ; and it condones
his practice, which seems to have crystal.
lized into habit, of keeping every
pageant waiting for hirn half-hour. But
it would fain ask him to spare the sacred
lares of the White Heuse. With this
mansion Theoretically sealed against OBJ
servers, and the Capitol closed in prepare.
ton for the Garfield fair, the early Novem-
Der crop of brides and grooms here had
rather dry picking on their wedding tours.
| have felt like offering personal apology to
them when have seen their detected coun.
tenances at the hotel table. 1t falls to the
lot Of so few of US to be married more than
once-in our youth at least-thst all things
ought to be propitious, it would seem, at
that one halcyon epoch.
EMMA JAMES.
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