Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-05-02
CLEVELAND-FOLS0M.
No Denial and the Marriage Pre-
sumablv Settled.
All Sorts of Gossip Aboutlt---Mrs. Thomp'
son Still in the City---The Tariff.
Special Pension LegisIa-
tioh---Jute.
Sp.cial CarespOadsacsa Of the Sunday Register.

Spseial CorrespOadszeeo Of the Sunday Register.
WASHINGTON, d. c., May Now that
two of Miss Fohom's uncles have been in
terviewed and have given many OF the de-
tails Of the proposed marriage to President
Cleveland, and there has been no denial
from the White House or any of the Presi.
dents friends that there Is to be marriage
at the Executive Mansion within the next
two or three months, the gossips OF Wash.
ington are talking OF the affair in unmess.
ured sentences. Mr.. Cleveland 10 spoken
of in all the possible phases of husband.
The ladies have for several days been dis
cussing what kind ofs husband he will
make and wondering what kind OF wife
Miss Folsom will be after she becomes
thoroughly installed at the White House
There is not the least doubt in the minds
of the people here that Mr.. Cleveland is
really to be married. 1t is only question
of time. Nobody gives him more than
three months more of bschelorhood.
More is said about the kind of wedding
there will be than anything else in connec-
ton with the Presidents forthcoming mar
rage The ladies are wondering whether
it will be a marriage at which the higher
public officials will attend, or whether it
will be private marriage and public re-
ceptiou to follow, and also whether the
President will take trip These questions
seem to have entered more into the minds
OF the gossips than whether the President
will wait till after Congress adjourns before
he msrries. If the gossips would determine
the latter question, they could more readily
solve the other questions. Your
correspondent was told to-day by o
gentleman who has good judgment
upon such matters, that 1t 10
not probable that the marriage will take
place before Congress adjourns The
President does not believe that there
should be any change in State affairs, or
any occurrence which will interfere with
his Administration, meeting peremptorilJ
all demands made by Congress for in
formation, etc and be knows, OF course,
that bis marriage could in some degree in.
terlere with executive business at the
White House. tits argued, however, that
the President intends to give public re-
ception after his marriage, and that all Of
Congress will be invited, and that,
therefore, his marriage would prob.
ably take place before Con-
gress adjourned. There may be
something in this, and it may be that as
this gentleman suggests, the President in
tends to have his marriage private and to
have a public reception sfterward. 1t is
generally believed that Mr.. Cleveland aud
his bride will remain at the White House
after their marriage, and that no wedding
trip will follow. Indeed, it has been stated
by two or three persons we'll informed upon
such matters that the President does not
intend to leave the White House after his
marriage, as there will be number OF
private and public receptions rendered to
him and his bride.
am told that the Superintendent of the
Soldiers Home, north of the city, expects
Mr.. Cleveland and his bride TO spend their
honeymoon at his house. 1t has been GUS
lomsry for many years for the President 10
pass the hot months at the Soldiers Ma.
tionsl Home, which is located upon
a very high elevation overlooking the city,
and is the coolest place in this vicinity.
A handsome little cottage was several
years ago set aside for the Chief Execu'
tive and bis family, and it has been GUS
tomsry for him to take up his summer
abode there about the frat of June, except
when Congress is in session, in which
event the President has seldom lived out
side of the White House until his duties to
Congress have ceased and the Statesmen
have gone to their homes.
Along with all the talk about the sp-
proachiDg marriage, the ladies are indulg-
ing in a good many aide remarks about
the humor of Miss Cleveland. They say
that she is very much put out because she
is to be suspended as the chef lady OF the
land, and that she is very much displeased
with the idea that she is TO be secondary
consideration at the Executive Mansion
hereafter, and that people will not come TO
Zee her as they have out will come to see
Mrs Cleveland. Miss Cleveland is getting
along pretty we'll in years and 70 not as
handsome and attractive as she is men.
tally bright, and to be shorn Of
any OF these little personal attentions
etc, is pretty severe on her. she has con-
graduated herself ;ast she has fallen into
such unexpected and good fortune as she
has in the way of prominence and atten-
ton, and now that abe is to be suppressed" :,
by one. who will take place in be oro,b.
er'S affections, she ia not h..ppy By any
means, and it ia said IA her absence from
the White B".ILse for several weeks and
her Essence at Atlantic City at this time
is, in some degree at least, due to this
feeling.
~
Mrs. Thompson who was recently reap
pointed postmistress at L,uisviIle, XIV and
about whom 80 much has been said and
written, is still in the city. The press at
large has spoken of her as "a handsome
little blackeyed woman. Mrs. Thompson
Is about fifty years old. she is sbou. Eve
feet seven inches inches in height. She
will weigh probably l65 pounds, and may
he termed in society verpacular as rather
stoct." She has very dark brown eyes,
and hair that is half gray, bat which hs,
once been almost black. She has
very large head, a full,
high forehead; puts her hair up high on
the crown; brushes it back in front; walks
rapidly; dresses in full flock and talks in
thu. fluent, vigorous and entertaining man.
ner that the Kentucky ladies are cele-
brsted for. She has depended upon her
own hands and her own mind long enough
to be independent, and has way of getting
along in the world that few ladies are pos.
sessed of. She never fails to win over the
men she approaches and the ladies she
solicits. She told your correspondent the
other day that in her solicitations 10 refer.
ence to her confirmation che had not failed
yet to satisfactorily explain to the Sens.
tors she had approached the cause Of the
fight being made upon her ut home and
to secure q pledge of support. This she
bad done with Democrats ss we'll az Re-
publicsns. She is very diplomatic, how.
ever, and ssgacious, and does not approach
Democrats that she has not good reason to