Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-10
GOVERNORS RECEPTION.


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HARRISBURG Dispatch to tho Times.
TIN ssd s.ss sSs t1s s.serss
ti0n began shout . O'Clock WednesdAy
night and vas nearly oil over at ii. Only
few young peoplA fingered In the ball
room after that-hour.- The latch string
Was 0ut to the publis- and the governor
and Mrs. Pattis0u, tho latter assisted by
Ers. Stsnger and Miss WoolfoFd, Of Alex
andris, Va, . cousin ssof tho governor,
were in the public parlor' ready to shake
hands with callers for half an hour before
they Dsbegan6 to come Ia considerable
numbers. The reception had been an
nounced to begin at eight O'Clock. Nearly
Ill tho senators were present, but scores
Of members Of the House. were not. Sena.
tor and Mrs. Cooper, Senator and Mrs.
Stewart, Senator and Mrs. Emery, Sena-
tors Smith, Adams, Herr, Davies, Mac
Farlane, Loo, Coke, Gordon, Wallace,
Wolverton, Laird, King, Vandegrift, Hart.
and Patton were among the earliest who
paid their respects. Kennedy was absent:
So was President Pro Tenn. Reyburn and
Grady. The representation from the
House, like that from the Senate, was
about equally divided from political
point of view. Auditor General
Lemon was absent, but his Office was
represented by Chief Clerk McCamant.
State Treasurer Baily was also among
tho missing. Lieutenant Governor and
Mrs. Black and all the Democratic de-
partment heads were present except Adju-
| tant General Guthrie. The reason given
by many of the statesmen for their ab-
| sence is that Governor PattisOn did not
follow the custom of sending out cards
for tho first reception. Among the more
prominent citizens not in public Office who
attended we're F. Boyd Martin, Colonel
Henry Mccormick, James cCormick, NJ.
E. Olmstead, J. NJ. Weistling, A. ]. Dull,
Penn Lusk, Henry Gilbert and Superin-
tendent Carter, of the Pennsylvania rail
road. The number of ladies was compar-
atively small.
.aE. ..-. The Costumes.
Mrs. Pattison wore beautiful cream
m0ire, en- train, the front of surah laid in
puffs and pleats, the corsage and over
dress trimmed in Duchess point. with a
fringe of pearls. Her ornaments were
pearls and Marshal Neil roses. Mrs. Stem.
ger, who is in mourning, wore black Of
toman silk, with hydraugeas and onyx
jewelry. Miss Woolford wore blue da
massse, made with a court train, pink silk
and Spanish lace trimming and corsage
bouquet of pink roses. Mrs. Black, the
wif6of the lieutenant governor, wore a
toilet of navy-blue crepe, trimmed with q
lighter shade of blue silk and Irish
point lace. She wore steel ornaments.
Mrs. Everett's dress was purple velvet,
made with court train and petticoa,
front of old gold and pink silk. trimmed
With Duchess lace :; ornaments, pearls
|, Miss Katharine Calder wore white corded
silk. court train, square corsage, trimmed
with Duchess lace, caught down with
diamonds and garnet beads. She wore
diamond iewelry. Miss Regina Calder
wore white damasse, made short. Miss
Mary Sellers toilet was cream surah, 81
train, with low corsage and shor
:. sleeves. Miss Helen Espy wore pink nun,
yelling, en- train, trimmed in pink ant
garnet silk, with roses Mrs. Henry 81
Carter's toilet was cream satin, en- train
with overdress of garnet and cream silk
She wore diamond ornaments. Mrs. Franl
. Wyeth's dress was of embroidered oil
: gold pongee, worn short, with whit
r bonnet and lace shawl and pearl orna
ments.
One of the handsomest toilets was tina
worn by Mrs. Geo. w. Hall, of Philadel
: phia-old gold surah, white cardina
damasse trimming, pettIcoat front of sOli'
T cardinal, trimmed with louncess o
Duchess lace, ornaments Rhine stones
Miss Mary Stewart, the daughter of tn
i distinguished senator, wore white cash
mere. trimmed with swans down. Sh
{ had the arm of Senator Lee great par
T evening" Mrs. r. NJ. Snodgrass, Of Har
risburg, wore cream damasse, made wit
a court train trimmed with deep red an
8 cream roses. Miss Dull wore pale blu
. surah en- train. Mrs. Beatty wore cream
brccade satin en- train, trimmed wit
q pleatings of the same The evening dresse
were worn by ladies chiefly resident here
the wives of the legislators dressing il
palmer attire.
Scenes In the Mansion.
q During the hapdsbaking there were tw
q interesting groups chatting near the gov
erndf-Handy Smith, Cassidy, Gordon an
Cooper formed one of them, and ex-Judg
jeremiah S. Black was the lively centre q
@ another. In the parlors and the dinin
room were tropical plants and flowers fror
/ LILO StSSI0 CUuSOA vhGOAys OAo uiopi0y Uolu
u neither meagre nor SO profuse as to al
g tract attention. In the ball room, oppos
? ite a painting of Washington, hung tn
large guilt frame containing tho portrait
. of the controller and his clerks.
70 When Davis, of Forest, Hayes, of Erie
J. and others of the Virginia excursionist
/. started rumor that there was min
n iulep about there was rush to the dinin
, room, were the colored walters announced
coffee, lemonade and sweet crackers 4
their entire bill Of fare.
"Oh for Republican administration,
:. sighed Stalwart Philadelphia senator, a
-. he slipped his coffee and recollected til
''hole in the wall' that was accessible
upon former occasions of tho kind.
The dancing was almost monoplized b.
}, about a dozen couples of young people
# Only two or three of tho statesmen an,
department officials participated in ii
when Cassidy and Private Secretar
u Everett were seen returning from the to-
a story with their hats, about quarter be
70 fore eleven, those who might have bee
n needless of the passage Of time were re
. minded that it was time to go homo.
l.l TRADE AND Labor. G.,.
Extensive Shipments of Whisky.
Judge French, assistant secretary of th
treasury, who has just returned from
q trip in Virginia, says that he learned tha
70 q vessel was about to embark from New
n | mort News from Bermuda with q cargo q