The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-06-02


said nothing at all about it to any corre-
spondent, anI all interviews which have
been published with him on the subject are
fictitious 1t is generally believed here that
the marriage viii take place in June. But
I don't think this at all probable. President
Cleveland will have no time TO bother With
matrimony before congress adjourns, and he
will not be foolish enough to begin his honey
moon during the last days of the session.
The most sensible time for it would be just
before he goes off for his summer vacation
in July, and it is likely shat the ceremony
will be held in the White House, and not in
Mrs Whitneys big ball room, nor at
Holland Patent, as has been suggested. So
far no president has heen marie | in the
/ White House, anil C vel md will naturally
Lave some ambition to make him
self and his wife noted in this re-
gard As for spending the honeymoon in
Washington in the summer the idea would
seem ridiculous, without indeed the presi-
dent moved out to the Soldiers Home, where
there is a very pleasant cottage ready for
him in among the trees. The White House
is by no means pleasant to live in. Ii is a
great hotel with none of hotels privacy.
The president has only half dozen rooms
that he can call his own. Both himself and
his wife are bothered with visitors all day
long, and a more gossiping set than these
people of Washington never existed From
early in the morning till late at night there
is no quiet Gen Sherman called the place
the other name for ha1es, and he had about
as close an association with it as men can
get without being its occupant. In the
meantime the president is looking remark
ably we'll, and is apparently free from the
ordinary ups and downs Of a matrimonial
engagement.
Stanley Matthews is to be married to
Mrs. Theaker, and this will add another
accomplished woman to the oeial circle of
the supreme court l saw Judge Matthews
in church yesterday He came in, with
his two grown daughters following him,
and I noted that both of the girls were
dressed in deep mourning. The first Mrs.
Matthews died on Jan. %, 1885. She was a
very accomplished woman, and was Henry
Watterson's aunt When Watterson came
north, after the war was over, he was do wn
at the heel, and out of position and money.
He went to his aunt, Mrs. Matthews, and
think it was Stanley Matthews who got him
position On one of the Cincinnati papers,
from whence he drifted to Tennessee, and
then to Louisville and The Courier Journal
Stanley Matthews is over CO. He has fine
soft hair, of a rather reddish gray, and his
head is slightly bald just over the forehead
He has sandy beard, with silver threads
among the gold, and his complexion is fair
He dresses very well, stands and walks very
straight, and weighs about 175 pounds,
which is very light weight indeed for
supreme judge. He owns magnificent
house here, and is considered very welLto-do
indeed. His dancSe, Mrs, Theaker, is also
said to be wealthy. She is beautiful and
accomplished, and the match appears to be a
good one.
Another lover among the statesmen is ex-
Governor Long of Massachusetts,, and Long
is also a widower with grown daugh-
tiers. He is to marry school teacher, and
he met his sweetheart, it is said, while put
ting his daughters to school Governor
Long is now 4s years old, but he looks
younger. He is short, rotund and we'll
made with fine, large head, regularly
shaped, and pair of bright, blue eyes His
forehead is high, his nose straight his under
jaw very strong. His hair is blonde and
fine. He wears it carefully combed and
parts it in the middle He has a fine blonde
mustache. His tailor is good one and he
is always well dressed. He is man Of
brains and culture and something OF a poet.
His amusement Is literature; his business
politics He published in 1879 metrical
translation of the Eneid, and he has written
many fine essays for periodicals He
is a diplomat as well as politician, and is
one of the most popular men in con
gress He gained considerable distinction by
his nomination of Senator Edmunds at the
Chicago convention, and he never talks here
without having listeners He is a Maine
man originally, but all his success has been
in Massachusetts,, where he was educated, ard
where he began the practice Of the law
Governor Longs first wife died five or six
years ago, and | understand that she left a
large fortune to her two girls, giving Long
the income. This income, gossip says. ranges
somewhere between the salaries of the chief
Justice and that of the president The money
is well invested in bonds and mortgages, and
the governor has nothing to do but to draw
his check for it. Governor Long is III excel
lent health He is a candidate for the
United States senate from Massachusetts,,
and he is of that class of men who may be
called available for any position. He has no
bad points, and lots of good ones, and it is
not among the impossibiities bus that, at
some time in the future, another school
teacher may be lady Of the White House,
and that her name may be Mrs. john d.
Long, the Second
Gen John Tyler, Jr., the son of President
Tyler, has good deal Of the ind apendence
of his father. Not long ago the editor OF
The Century Magazine wrote him asking
him if he would not prepare for them an
article descriptive of certain Of the battles
in which he had been engaged in the Con-
federate service At the close Of one of these
battles Gen Tyler, fired with the feeling of
the hour, had psnned a description of it
He he'd never allowed it to be published.
and when be received this letter he bun
died it up and sent it on to The Century
A few days after this be received d letter
from the editor Of the magazine saying that
they found the article in every way ac-
ceptable save that its sentiments were here
and there little too radically expressed to
suit some of the northern readers They in
tended to send him handsome douaeur for
the article and they Thought he ought to
allow them to change one or two of the sen
tences, as for instance where he said at
this point a thousand brave and patFioti7
hearts fell, the editors would like make II,
''at this moment a thousand brave men fell
Gen Tyler read the letter, and the same
day replied as follows:
Editor Of The Century,
SIR-Hang your douceur! Oliver Cromwell whea
sitting for his portrait asked by the artist
whether he would put in the mole which existed at
the side OF his nose leave it out He replied
Paint me as ami" And so say /. IN regs srl to my
article! Print it exactly it Il written send It
tack to mel Respectfully yours. JOIN T4LEE, Jr.
visited at Richmond the other day tbs
new home fer Confederate soldiers It has
been establsed only little over d year and
it has now seventy inmates. The drive to it
leads through the most fashionable part Of
the city. and you go past mcst elegant resi-
dences and by the site of some of the old for
tifieati0ns in going to it. It comprises thirty
six acres, beautifully laid out With
trees and shrubbery. and when / drove
inso it the ether day the grass was
being cut anl tho smell of the new
moWn hay raked up by two soldiers
IN gray had ii it nothing Of the powder OF
the battlefield, nor had the bows with which
they greeted me anything OF the hatred to
the north which prevailed when the uniforms
thy are re airing were thess Of a mighty
army sasne IS like no other soldiers
honse il tie U.Ited States, and / doubt il
there s csse lie 1t in the world It Is con-
structea tina cottage plan, and the five
60 tages 4sel comprise the hones Of these
disaia.f elerates are as pretty es those
you M at tha seashore They are