The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-06-12
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

ednesday was the Presidential
wedding. At the hour for perform
ing the ceremony, the city was
deafened with the ringing of bells
and blowing of Whistles from all
quarters. Both the bride and
groom were prompt to the minute.
The ceremony was quickly but i'm
pressiyely performed in the
the presence of the few invited
guests. All the Cabinet officers
and their wives were present, ex-
cept Attorney General Garland,
who studiously avoids appearing
anywhere when the occasion calls
for wearing swallow-tail coat
During the ceremony all persons
present stood near by to the bridal
couple, except Secretary Manning
for whom an easy chair was provid-
ed After the ceremony, the bridal
party repaired to the State dining
room and partook of the collation.
served. The floral decorations
were equisite, the dressing elegant
and the collation. royal. During
the evening there was a fine pyro-
technie display at Fort Meyer,
which lighted up the Virginia
shore in honor of the event, and
salute was fired just south of the
White House grounds. At few
minutes before nine the President
and his bride left the White House
from the south portieo where the
crowd could not approach, and
were quickly driven through the
most quiet streets to the special
cars switched onto a siding of the
b. & 0. to convey them to Deer
Park. The arrangements for the
departure were so complete and
kept such & close secret that the
President and his bride were so
far on their journey before any
person outside knew that they had
left the House.
The following is the form of the
license and return made by the
officiating clergyman to the clerk
ofour court under act of Congress.
go any minister of the gospel
authorized to celebrate the mar
riages in the District of Columbia,
greeting: You are hereby licensed
to solemnize the rites of marriage
between Grover Cleveland, of Buff
falo, n. Y, and Francis Folsom of
Buffalo, N, Y, if you find no law
full impediment thereto; and hay
ing done so, you are commanded
to appear in the clerks office of
the Supreme Court of said Dis
trict and certify the same. Wit
ness my hand and the seal of said
court, this the ID day of June,
1856. r. j. MEIGs, Clerk"
81, Byron Sunderland, minister
of the First Presbyterian Church,
in Washington, d. G., hereby GER
tify that by authority of license
of the same tenor as the forego-
ing, | solemnized the marriage of
the parties aforesaid, on the I'd
day of June, 1886, at the Execu-
tive Mansion. in the District of
Columbia. B. SUTHERLAND"
Congress has been busy, the
Senate in the discussion of the
Canadian fisheries trouble, the
taxation of railroad land grants,
the Chinese Industry bill, and
other important measures, besides
passing unanimously bill to pre-
vent the acquisition of real prop
property by aliens, and to prohib-
it corporations, excepting rail
roads, canal and turnpike compa-
MES from owning more than five
! thousand acres of land, under a
penalty of forfeiture to the gov
eminent.
Although the general impress
sion prevails that the present
Congress has been idle and that
much of its time has been spent
in talk, the records show that
greater amount of work has been
done for the same length of time
than during any former Congress.
It's true that a large proportion of
the great number of bills that
have passed have been of pri-
vate nature, still the number of
general bills has been greater than
ever before. The records also re-
veal the fact that the number of
reports from the committee in
both Houses are far III excess of