The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-05
CLEVELAND'S WEDDING.
The Marriage to Take Place on
Saturday, June 19.
All the Arrangements for the Car
emony Made.

New and interesting information about
President Cleveland's approaching marriage
to his late law partners daughter, Miss Fob
som, Of Buffalo, is given in the following
Washington dispatch: ~
1.-THE President is to be married to Mis-
Folsom; on June 49," This Is the information
obtained from trustworthy source, one enr
titled to great consideration, that Is vouch9d
for as true now, and is likely to remain true
unless some great calamity should overtaka
one Of the principals to the proposed cere-
mony. The day was fixed, It was nm
derstood, with some regard to the exactin8
obligations OF closing session Of Congress
upon the President The round Of duIy In
the White House may seem an unimportant
matter to persons who are contemplating
marriage, II they do not happen to know how
easily vast accumulation OF important AZ
fairs can fall behind by the neglect of q day
or two. ALI the reports that havo
hitherto gone out have insisted that tho
wedding was to be on Wednesday. This
was only natural, as it is the admitted popu-
Lar day Of the week with brides The 18th
Of June is the third Saturday o: the month.
Saturday is not at all favored day in the
estimation Of brides, but it will be q very,
convenient day for carrying out the arrange
pents made for the PRESIDENTIAL wedding
Occasionally, when the PRESIDENT has seem
6t to leave town for day or two of recrea-
ton, he has quietly disappeared on Friday,
his going away exciting no curiosity until
Saturday afternoon, when the few visitors
to the White House would learn that he had
gone away, and the fact would be am,
uounced in the papers in three or four
lines. As the wedding is intended to
ue a private affair, at which none but
4 few Of the Presidents most intimate per-
sonal friends, Colonel d. 8. Lamont, his
secretary, and some Of tho relatives Qf the
bride, are to be present, 1t was regarded
as unnecessary, If not unwise to give formal
notice of the event, as information of the
date would naturally be accompanied by . !
statement of the place where the ceremony
was to be celebrated.
From other sources Of information than
that conveying the date Of the wedding, it ID
learned that the President will leave here on !.
Friday, the day preceding the proposed we'd
ding day, or perhaps as early as Thursday,
in the same quiet way that he recently went
off on his trip down Chesapeake Bay With
Mr.. w. l. Scott A nights journey win
carry him to the place a5 which the we'd
ding Is to be celebrated. An idle
day will follow, and then the President, it iss
expected, will return with his bride to WASH
iugton. His recently acquired cottage out
on the Tenallytown road Is not yet ready
for the reception of bride, but the White
House is in good order, with q brand new.
roof, just completed, the furniture is
in good order, and the hothouse and
conservatory filed with flowers that can
be used to decorate and make fragrant
the interior of the mansion. That there
will have to be some sort Of Summer recep-
tion, for the purpose Of presenting the new
mistress of the White House, will occur to
everybody here as the correct and desirable
and perhaps inevitable thing. If there h
such an event now it will be noted as one OF
the most important Of the social events OF
this administration, and will attract q dis
tinguished throng Of diplomaticc, official, and
private persons, Notwithstanding the late
ness of the season.
The arrangements for the wedding, so Tar
as the Presidents movements are concerned,
have been left in the hands Of Colonel Lamont
No more discreet and worthy. confidential
agent was ever intrusted with the Manages
ment of such matter Some of his frienda
who have learned of visits to New York that
have not been made public are disposed ia
the western part of New York if
absurd, as making long journey necessary
They say thatit is to take place in New York
City, and that the Secretary's trip to the
city was made as much for the purpose OF
arranging for the wedding as it was fer the
arrangements of the Decoration Day move
ments of the President. The arrival Of Mrs
and Miss Folsom may cause some change In
plans, but will scarcely effect the date de
cided upon some time ago. az
Washington people, in and out Of office, are
delighted at the prospect Of soon having q
"Lady of the White House," who will be en-
titled to all the honors Of the position a.
the wife of the President Some regret
is expressed that the President will ,bss
obliged to bring his bride to house that il !
more public than most Others,
house that is overrun, even in the
so-called private part, by. from 10 to-
100 privileged visitors every day. The crowds !
are not usually so great in the summer a. .
they are in the winter season, but the fact
that the wife of the President is soon to be
there will undoubtedly attract an unusual
number Of visitors, and inspire many OF them
with the hope that by getting into thu
"home side" Of the mansion they may be abl2
to get glimpse Of the bride in her new.
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