The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1883-03-13
DAVID DAVIS, MARRIAGE.
In Trying 10 Keep nc secret He
Has Set Every body Talking.

For more than year the gossipB OF the Capt.
tai have been insisting that David Davis was
Intent upon marriage, and for every intlma-
tlon OF that kind made to him in tho Same
time, including new report circulated within
the present week, MIR. Davis has been prompt
and somewhat too emphatic In donial-if tho
gossips are In their latest reports correct. 1t
IL, OF course, the business of no one but Mr..
Davis, except the young lady-eho is said TO
be young who is to be Mrs. Davis No. 2, If no
chooses In his ripper years to take n wife. l
have heard no one question his right, even
many Of tho rights of all prominent
persone, from the President down to
senator Tabor. Perhaps II he had brought
his "intended" 10 the Capital, introduced her
to all the nice people he knew, allowed the
society correspondents 10 describe her Co.'S
tunes at half-dozen receptions, and other.
wise exhibited her for public inspection and
criticism, permitting II to be understood that
the lady was TO be Mrs. Davis when Congress
should have adjourned, he could have gone
away to wed his second choice without caus
ing more than n ripple OF excitement. AS It
Ii, his secretiyeness, which is a marked char
acteristic OF the man, has made him game for
several correspondents who are now watching
his movements with an cagerness that Is slim.
ulated by the remembrance OF his repeated
attempts during recent months to throw every
body off the track and give tho I'm.
preston that tho stories about
his intended marriage with n blooming young
woman Of the old North state wore all ''stufr
and nonsense" While he has succeeded In
some instances, he has been unable TO con-
vince all TO whom he has told his funny white
lies that there was not some fire under the
smoke In the direction OF Fayetteville. 1t was
only day or two ago, In his own private room
at the Capitol, that he fiatly denied the story
that he was to be married as soon as his term
as Senator should expire. He was Sitting In
his favorlte attitude, his well-rOunded body
supported In one spacious arm chair, his
gathered feet resting In another chair sot op.
poslte, his head lolling comfortably down on
one side, and his deep-set, qulZzlcal eyes
looking through the smoke OF a large cigar to
the friend who had dared to ask him II the
M tvaQ trina N linn ant
shifting Of the CATERED feet and
one hand 10 the other Mr.. Davis, after mo.
ment OF reflection, answered, with sort of
Jesse Rural innocence OF manner. Snow, what
nonsense that is. What does an old fellow
like me want to get married for?" This was
his reply TO privileged acquaintance. To one
or two Senators who ventured to make furtlvo
Inquiries he was not so amicable In his re-
sponses, but stamped about with that delight
fully humorous semblance OF indignation that
one enjoys SO much upon the stage and that
no one who knows Mr.. Davis would regard MS
at all dangerous In him. That Mr.. Davis has
been aware that he was an object OF tender
concern and that he has enjoyed the curiosity
OF the 'society" ladies of the Capital there eau
be no doubt. On a recent saturday he made
his appearance at one of the White House re-
ceptions In company with pleasing young
lady. Everybody knew him. Few
dies S assisting great Mrs. 'nfC MsrroS ana nd
the greater crowd of ladies' who were forced
in dense mass through the Red and Blue
rOOms, knew Inc lazy WnOm ne escorted 30
carefully. When he came to the receiving
party he ana the lady were turned out OF tho
line and Into the space behind Mrs. McElroy
and those who stood with her to greet the
callers. "My dear"--thls to the young lady
-'My dear, this is Mrs. Pendleton, or Mrs
Miller, or whoever else 1t happens to be. The
tone of address was affectiOnate as we'll as the
words, and all the ladies' were straightway
buzzing 1t about that this must be Judge
Davis flancee. The Judge saw that he had
aroused q great deal OF curiosity, and 1t was
rpnrnt N pI
in response to a matter-of-fact reminder that
he had not introduced the lady by name, to
apologize for having forgotten to say that the
lady was his sons wife.
Some doubt is expressed as to the success OF
the writer's who have gone TO Fayetteville to
obtain description, from actual observation,
OF the marriage ceremony. Before he went
away Mr.. Davis knew that several CORE.
spondents had gone before him, and he was
described as being in "cast-iron sweat" and
determined to disappoint those who only de-
sired TO crafty that curiosity supposed to be
National to know how the great turist and eX-
Senator VIII comport himself at the wedding.