Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-10-22
The Party Leave Here Before Seven North
ward Bound.
THE DAYS INCIDENTS
Notes and Gossip About the Party's Pre-
ceedings Yesterday,
&C., &c.

Since the beginning Of the world, proba.
bly,. the people have been looking TO the
skies at sunrise for the promise Of the day.
| The eyes thus upturned from Richmond
yesterday found the signs rather dis
couraging, and there was a struggle be-
tween the sunshine and clouds until about
| 10 O'Clock, when the heavens were wholly
obsCured, and by IL rain was falling. But
| the Richmond and the Manchester people
and the country cousins here and the
strangers within our gates ignored the
fact altogether. They all bad made
their arrangements to 90 to the Fair,
and nothing less than a sDow-storm, and
heavy one at that, would have altered their
resolve. Happily, the rain was at ne time
very heavy and was Of short duration. IL was
Just about enough 10 lay the dust and spoil
some Of the new fall-bonncts, and was fol.
lowed ny "partly cloudy" weather and
that by an unclOuded sky, which filled
every requirement OF the poetic or practl.
cal mind.
LEAVING WASHINGTON.
President Cleveland and Secretaries
Bayard, Endlcott, and Villas, and Commits
siOnerOf. Agriculture COlm1n and Colonel
Lamont left Washington yeSter, day
morning at O'Clock on special
train. They were under escort OF
Generals Williams c. Wickham. Colonel
A. s. Buford, and Dr.. NJ. Q. Holt, Of the
State Agricultural Society, and Colonel
Brinton, PIE osident, and Mnior Myers, gen.
eral supe,. ,.mtendCnt Of the Fredericksburg
ralr5.id. They took breakfast OH the cars.
At Fredericksburg the train stopped ten
minutes for the people TO shake hands with
Sir. Cleveland.
At Milford the joint committee OF the
Society and the City Council boarded the
| train and gave the presidential party their
| greeting. and were cordially received.
All the Richmond gentlemen found the
| President very afiable and kind, but he
was not very laxative, and, in lct,
| rarely is.
WHY MRS. CLEVELAND DIDN'T CONE.
On the way 10 Richmond there was a
good deal Of talk as to why Mrs. Cleveland
and the Cabinet ladies did not come. The
! President said that his wife regretted that
circumstances prevented her leaving
| Washington, but that she hoped to
| visit Richmond before very long. One OF
| he Richmond gentlemen mentioned 10 Mr..
| Bayard the rumOr that the change OF pro-
| grsmmC-t the enon-attendance OF Mrs. Clcye-
| land and the breaking upOf the Presidents
| reception at the Governors after the Gov
| ,rnor bad gone to all the trouble and eX-
| pensc Of preparaton-was due to the fact
| that Mr.. Cleveland did not think 1t polite
| TO have a reception IN conjunction with
| Fitz Lee, Mrs. Lee, and Miss Winnie Da-
4 - Isi
| who is the Governors guest.
Mr.. Bayord pronounced that nonsense
| He said that he didn't believe any such idea
had ever entered the Presidents head.
Nea1ly all the members OF the party eX
| pressed the opinion that that rumOr was
| baseless and foolish. One Of them, whose
| wife Intended 10 come with Mrs. Cleveland,
| said that Mrs. cleveland only gave UP her
| visit 10 Richmond at 8 i. NJ. Wednesday,
| md that the reason was she was apprehen-
| i've that the amount OF travelling neces-
| .ary and the fatigue and excitement una
| yoidahle would be too much for her.
| So II was that the distinguished gentle
| men came withou, the ladies; so it is that
| Mrs. Cleveland owes us q visit which she
| will certainly be called upon to pay.
| the Fair-Grounds Governor Lee ir-
| troduced Miss Winnie Davis TO the Presi-
| dent. and he shook hands with her and
said, "I am very glad to meet you"
| AT MILFORD.
At Milford large number OF school
| girls from the Bowling-Green Academy,
| and Others. had assembled. As the presI-
| dential-train reached the station II was
| greeted with loud cheers, in response to
| which the President went out on the rear
| platform and bowed his acknowledgements.
THE PRESIDENTS DEP0RTMENT.
| At Ashland the President also went out
| on the platform and bowed TO the people
| who were stt nding on the side OF the track
| waiting to see him. A loud shot was fired
| as the train passed.
During the trip down to Richmond Presl-
| dent Cleveland sat mostly alone, but he
| chalted in q quiet way with any one who
| approached hIm. He seldom smiled, and
| his ewes would only light up when some
| subject was broached in which he felt spe-
| cial interest. One OF these subjects was
| hunting, and when Mr.. Beverly L. Crump,
| Of the City Council Reception Committee,
| opened fire on him in this direction he be-
came quite takatlye, and gave accounts OF
| his experiences IN the Adirondack noun
i tains.