Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-04-29

Mrs. Whitney returned to the city yesterday
from New York.
Mrs. Judge Loring, of K street, gave large
tea party yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Hearst, and her SON and Miss Calhoun
her guest, have gone to Boston to be absent
for o reception to be given next Wednesday
evening by Senator and Mrs. Hearst.
The retiring Chinese minister and suite leave
the city on Saturday, and will sail from San
Francisco on May 18th.
The meeting of the Ladies' Aid Sewing so
ciety, of the Garfield hospital, will be held on
Friday at the residence of Mrs. Lewis j. Davis
No. 1411 Massachusetts avenue.
The farewell lat home" Of MIR. and Mrs. VIM
Cruger Pell, and the Misses Cress yesterday
afternoon drew out out large number of fash.
ionable people. The ladies were attired In be-
| coming reception toilets. They gave their
making adsux Miss Dn
sided at the table. Among those calling were
Mr.. and Mrs; Kearney Warren, Mr.; Eugene
| Mrs. and Miss Biddle. Mrs. Judge Cox, Miss Pat.
terson, Miss Berry. the Misses Delafield, Miss
Edes, Senior Podestady, Senior Pedroso, Mrs
| Schuyler. of New York, Col and Mrs. John
Hay, Baroness d'Itajuba, Count Alvensleben,
Count Lippe, Count and Countess d'Arschott
Mr.. and Mrs. Pierre Stevens, Gen. and Miss
Card, Mrs. Gen. Paul, NJ. Roustan, Miss Sher.
rill, Mr.. Webb, the Misses Green, Miss Mary
Wilson, Mr.. Lovenorn. MIR. and Miss Dodge
Commander McCalla, Minister and Madame
kuki, Miss Ricketts,, Miss McCulioch, Miss NAL
Tory, Mrs. and Miss Webb, Mrs. Marshal Brown
and Mr.. and Mrs. Augustus Hayes. Mr.. and Mrs
Peil and their daughters leave tomorrow fol-
their country home at Highland Falls, near
West Point, and will probably return to Wash.
1ngton next autumn.
The chaplain of the House, DR.. Milburn. de
livered an impassioned address upon the lite
and loves of JOhan Wolfgang Won Goethe to a
large company of ladies at the residence of Mrs
Hearst yesterday afternoon. The rooms were
decorated with fragrant spring blossoms that
received her guests in pretty dress of wine
velvet, trimmed with bands Of cut Jet Some
of those present were Mrs. c. w. Howard, Mrs.
Miss Dolph, Mrs. Nathaniel Paige, Mrs. Denver,
Mrs. Sicard, Mrs. A. A. Taft, Mrs. II. A. Warning
the Misses Wheeler, Mrs. George Beale, Mrs. D.
Ira Baker, Mrs. Febiger, Miss Johnson, Mrs. w.
Cuthbert, Mrs. Carter, Miss Carter, Mrs. ]. NJ
Davis and Mrs. w. III. briggs.
Mrs. A. A. Hayes has with her to-day at her
five o'clock tea the Lord Bishop of Carlisle
Hon. Maxwell Spooner (Engiand) and Mr..
Wickham Holman.
A pretty English wedding took place at st.
Johns church at IL o'clock to-day, the con.
tracing parties being Dr. Royal Whitman, OF
Boston, son of Col. r. E. Whitman of this city,
and Miss Julia Lambard Armitage, the daugh-
ter Of the late Bishop Armitage, OF Wisconsin.
performed the ceremony, and the uncle of the
bride, Mr.. o. ID. Lambard, OF Augusta, Me-, gave
her away. Miss Baldwin and Miss Katie Bald.
win, daughters of the Hon. II. L. Baldwin, OF
Detroit, attended the bride, and MIR. Harry
Whitman, OF New York, was the groom's best
man. The wedding was a quiet one, only the
After the ceremony tie bridal party drove n to-
the residence Of Mrs. A. 5. Monroe. where a
breakfast was served. Mr.. and Mrs. Whitman
left the city in the afternoon tor New York,
where they will make short stay before going
to Boston.