Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-07-19

The Seas0n-PersOnal MentiOn-POIit.
icai POints-SinEle CandidAtcs-Lakc
George Storms, Etc.
Correspondence Of the EVENING STAR

July 18th, 1884
With the middle Of July all watering places
In this state show large accessions to their pop
ulatlon daily. Especially is this true of the re-
sorts on the islands in this lake. scarcely one of
which OF sufficient size to accommodate
camping out party Of q dozen or more will be
uninhabited by the end Of the month, and
through all OF August. They are almost idyllic
In their unique and beautiful features. these
island camps in this picturesque lake. On some
Of the islands cows are kept, who 60 to the
mainland to Craze, and it is curious to see them
come swimming across in the evening to be
MIXED City folks who think milk loses In
quality by being carrying past pump will Der
haps be surprised to learn that the Lake George
cows can carry theirs through water without
affecting its richness.
But Lake George is a wonderful place In all
pleasant particulars and while losing none of
Its fascinating rural features by the presence of
city comforts and conveniences and the inva-
sion OF the railroad, seems to be all the time
ton.
PERSONAL MENTION
Before leaving here. as she did this week. to
go to Seabright, N j., with her family. Nine.
Preston received letter from her husband, the
Hayden minister in Paris, written on July Sd.
and it reached here on the 18th. 80 Lake George
is only ten days by mail from the great capital
of France. Mr. Preston mentioned that he had
seen there Justice Blatchford, Count Hoyos
formerly Austrian minister at Washington and
the wife of the latter. the former Brazilian min
lister at Washington, Senior Bouges and his wife
and many others whom he had known In New
York and Washington. Nine Preston will
probably be at Seabright until lust before she
goes to Europe In September. except while she
lakes her family next month on trip to Sara
toga, Niagara and Newport, of which she
UviC hoe fhnv IN hn h1n
when they hear them discussed in Europe Mr.
Preston Is still suffering from the injuries he re-
celVed Two years ago on the railroad at Little
Silver, n. j., at the same time Mr.. VIM. l.. Gar
rison and others were fatally hurt. Strange to
say, although he was picked up unconscious In
the water and was I'LL for some time afterwards
no mention Of his being one of the victims of
that serious accident has ever before been made
In print. He and his family were then spending
the summer at Spring Lake. n. J. They are
very fond OF the New Jersey sea coast
The night before their departure from the
Fort William Henry hotel. in which they had
passed four weeks, Nine. Preston's sons and
daughters gave moonlight excursion on the
River Queen, the charming little steam Yacht to
Bolton and back. The party was mainly COM
posed OF young people and was very lively; the
echoes OF their merry voices resounded over the
lake. This agreeable family has been greatly
mi sed since their departure. and the young
folks find it hard to be reconclled to losing
them, as they were the leaders in all the pas
times.
A private letter lately received here from Sem
ator Mah0nes wife says that after travelling
through Ireland and Scotland she and her
daughter and Miss Dwight the daughter of ex-
Representative Dwight, are In London. where
they nave taken ahandsOme suite of rooms out
OF hotel, all the hotels In which they care to
live being crowded. They do not expect to re-
turn until after Christmas
NashlngtOnians who have known Count Lew
ohnr ILL,
Will regret to learn that he is really to go to
Paris (and soon, too, probably. as minister.
MI. Preston will be next above him in seniority
In the diplomatic corps there. as he has been in
washington, and the Portuguese minister will
be dean Of the corps in our capital when both
MI. Preston and Count Lewenhaupt have gone
and yet Niscount das NOgueiras has not vet
been here quite six years.
To-day Thursday, the 11th) Mr. Matthew
Wilson, the well-known artist whose experience
In painting the portraits Of public men in the
United States began as early as that OF any one
now living. if not earlier than any of them.
Is celebrating his birthday here having attained
the age OF seventy years. He painted. in 1855
portrait of Ephraim Blaine, the father of ex-
Secretary Blaine, which the latter has always
mad with him in Washington. Mr.. Wilson was
introduced to Mr.. Ephrafm Blaine, who was
then living on the old Cumberland road. not far
from Pittsburg, but nearer Brownsville, Pa by
MT. wilkins, who was afterwards Secretary of
OF Vice President Dallas. Mr.. Wilson also
painted the portrait Of the latter which is in
the Vice President room at the Capitol and
those of Secretaries Welles and Stanton, and of
Postmaster General Dennison, which are In the
departments Of which they later became the
heads. Those OF Stanton and Dennison were
both painted in Ohio, where the former as well
as the latter, was then living. long time before
either was much. if any. known in public life
MIR. wilson introduced the latter to the lady he
married. Some OF Mr. Wilson's friends and rel
atives, including his son, came from a distance
to spend his birthday with him at Peerless Point,
on this lake.
Lake George as will be seen BY the above.
mas been very gay this week. On Tuesday even
ing there was a german at the Sycamore hotel,
on Green island, and yachting parties, such as
those above described, daily start Off from this
end of the lake.
POLITICAL POINTS.
Just before left Washington L heard Repre-
sentative Hiscock discussing the democratic
state convention, which met at Saratoga
that week. and had concluded its deliberations
when the conversation occurred and he offered
to bet his democratic colleague, Representative
Arnot dinner for six that Cleveland would
not get the nomination at Chicago, but that it
would be Bayard or Slocum. Mr. Arnot insisted
that it would be Cleveland. and Mr. Hiscock
was surprised that, in view of the personnel of
the delegation sent from New York to Chicago
he thought SO.
heard Representative Seymour, of Connec-
ticut, say he thought Cleveland would run
splendidly in that state, and Representative
ArnOt thought his strength in New York beyond
question.
Representative Singleton of Mississippi, Also
In talking with me about the prospect of his
nomination, said he thought he would be strong
in the south.
SINGLE CANDIDATES.
Why should some who have commented on
the fact to which attention was called when
Logan was nominated, viz: that he was the first
married man the republicans had nominated In
many years for Vice President, insist on includ-
ing Andrew johnson in the list of widowers He
never married but once, and his wife, the mother
of his full grandchildren, was with him while he
was President, for I saw and talked with her
more than once at her daughters public recep-
lions, in which she took no part except to sit on
one Of the sofas In the Blue parlOr and talk
pleasantly with all who approached her. Her
husband and children were devoted to her and
very proud of her. Many in Washington must
her.
In connection with unmarried nominees on a
Presidential ticket, l am moved to wonder if
the fact that the year for electing a President
and Vice President is always coincident with
Leap Year, has anything to do with the practice
which has prevailed with both Of the great par
ties for some years back, of ALWAYS having at
least one eligible part on its ticket Il did not
mean pun there) This has usually been the |
nominee for Vice President, TiIden and Cleye- |
land being the only unmarried men since Buch- |