Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-07
FREEHAND NOTES.
Independence Day-social Items-orangs
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Prospective
Son-in-IaW

Independence Day-social Items-orangs
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Prospective
son-in-Iaw.
San Francisco, July 4, 1888.
The usual swapping and cracking, parad
ing and speech-making, show that the
patriotism that vents itself in explosion is
alive and active. There is the usual wall
about the danger to be apprehended from
fireworks, and everyone is warned to have
the trusty garden hose screwed to a faucet
and ready for use at moments notice.
Happily thus far the blazes have been in.
significant. Fourth of July is the peoples
great day, and nothing should be done to
damp their srdor in celebrating it as noisily
and demonstratively as they please-if
indeed anything could restrain their zeal
upon national holiday. 1t is somewhat
fashion to sneer at the day we celebrate
and the way we do it, but the contemptu.
GUS ones must be aged and infrm dyspep.
tics who shot off his fingers and burst toy
cannon too long ago to remember all the
Joy of it. The owners of the country places
commemorate Independence by inviting
their friends from the city to spend the
day with them. Among many fetes will
be Mrs. Willie Towards at San Mateo, the
arrangements being made to take the guests
back to San Francisco on the same day.
The fetes given few years ago by Mrs.
George Howard as she was then, Mrs.
Harry Bowie now-Mrs Willie Towards
mother-in-law-were the prettiesr enter
tainments of the sort that the San Fran
ciscsns were invited to enjoy.
THE SOCIAL OUTLOOK.
Mrs. Robert Hayne-Miss Grace Parrott
that was-has returned from Colorado, and
will occupy her new house at San Mateo,
finished during her absence, and furnished
for her by her sister, Mrs. De Guigne.
Mrs. and Miss Parrott, John Parrot, Jr.,
and his wife. formerly Miss Minnie Dono-
hue, return from their European tour on
Friday, so that there will be complete
family reunion at Miss Isabel's wedding on
the 10Th. Archbishop Alemany is TO per-
form the ceremony-the wedding is to take
place in the country-and Miss May, the
brides youngest sister, is to be the first
bridesmaid. The ushers are to be Mr..
Twiggs, MIR. Sheldon, Captain Payson, and
General McDowells son. Douglas Dick,
the bridegroom, belongs to a rich Roman
Catholic family in Scotland, and has an
estate in the country and house in Lon.
don, like an eligible hero in novel. He
takes his wife at once to his parents in
Scotland, and from there the pair are to
visit the south of France, Italy and Swift
zerlsnd, not forgetting the Rhine by the
way. They return to England for the Lon
don season in the spring, and then proceed
to the family home in Scotland. The
other engagement that the world talks
about is that of Miss Mamie Donohue to
Henry, Baron Won Schroeder.
THE ENGAGEMENT
Exists, perhaps, but is not formally an
nounced, nor even as yet acknowledged by
the people most interested. It was said
that the Baron accompanied Miss Donshue
and her family upon their European tour,
but in fact Miss Donahue and her parents
sailed for Europe and Baron Won Schroeder
returned to his ranch near San Luis
Obispo, where he killed the huge bears ex.
hibited in the markets here in the city last
year. 1t is just possible that Mr.. Donahue
has gone to Europe to examine as to the
family and affiliations of the aspirant to
his daughters hand, and properly enough.
too, since very bitter experience has taught
Americans, and especially San Franciscans,
to distrust titled foreigners, only in this
instance everything happens to be Just as
it seems. The house of Schroeder is one
of the great old families OF Hamburg-but
recently ennobled, because until lately
Hamburg has been a free city, where rank
expressed in titles did not exist, but none
the less was there, as there always will be
everywhere an aristocracy which looked
upon itself as hocb acohl geboren, as the
Germans themselves phrase it, and to this
patriciate the Schroeder family belonged,
and was at once ennobled when the Ger
man Empire was consolidated. The Baron
now In California has the good fortune to
be the eldest son of the eldest son of the
house, and the grandfather has just died
worth over ten millions. An uncle of the
Baron's is at the head of the English bank
ing house of Schroeder, SO that the young
nobleman is happily all that fond father
in-law could wish, while there are many
stories told of his courageous conduct in
battle and on ship board, taking French
battery sword in hand with mere handful
of men at his back, and saving the life of
seaman, who had been washed overheard
during gale at night. They say that Miss
Belle Eyre and George Pinckard, Mrs. DR..
OWNS nephew, are engaged. That is a
very old affair. There may be sudden
revival of the flame. They were certainly
at the California Theater together the other
night with Mr.. and Mrs. Girvin, Miss
Eyre's sister, the latter and surely the
Silver King is calculated to inspire vast
cyclones Of sentiment in the beholder.