The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-09

no moderate terms. When he had finished
his speech the opposing lawyer arose and
turned his shafts of ridicule upon Mr..
Conger. He referred to his unsuc-
cessful suit with Miss Stella Hum
phreys, and made so much fun of him
that the future Senator laid his arm down
on the table and bent his head upon it and
cried. He left the court room without COM
pleting the trial and went off to Michigan
to make his fortune. In time, however,
his heart healed over and he married a
Michigan girl and had family by her. He
was elected to Congress and finally came to
the Senate. His wife died and he was
here as a bachelor Senator. Miss Stella
Humphreys also married and her husband
moved out to the west, made something of
fortune and died. The widow to drown
her grief took trip through the east, and
among other places visited Washington
Going into the Senate gallery out
of idle curiosity, she saw sitting
below her a man whom she thought
she dnew. 1t was Senator Conger She
sent her card to him. He came up to the
gallery. The two chatted over old times
and after an hours conversation the old
flames of love began again to burn. Senator
Conger asked permission to call and after
short time another engagement was made
which was fulfilled. The two now live
very nicely at Washington and they are
one of the most loving couple at the capital.
THE MARRIAGE OF SENATOR LAMAR.
The romance of Justice Lamar is some
what similar. The marriage, you know,
took place a few years ago while Lamar
was secretary of the interior. Lamar fell
in love as boy, with Miss Henrietta Dean,
who was then beautiful and accomplished
girl of sixteen. The two were engaged,
but they had lovers quarrel and parted
in anger. Another sutton for the lady's
hand came to the front and he married her
before Lamar was able to make up the
quarrel. Lamar was married and his wife
died and he then married his first love who
had become widow and who was wealthy
through the fortune left her by her first
husband.
HOW RANSOM GOT THE ATToRNEY-GENERAL
SHIP.
Senator Matt Ransom got his first start
as politician through his courtship with
Miss Hattie EXum, who was noted belle
of the Roanoke valley The Senator was
then Wing and a candidate for the attor-
ney- generalship of the state. He had many
| friends and the story was noised about that
his sweetheart had said she would marry
him if he was elected. His friends then
came gallantly to his support and this
story got him enough votes to make him
attorney general of North Carolina
BEN BUTLER AND HIS ROSE.
saw General Butler here the other day.
He had a rose in his buttonhole, and this
rose was the remains of his romance His
wife was an actress and she was PLAYING
'As You Like It'' when General Butler
saw her and fell in love with her He mar
ried her and she made him an excellent
wife. She was the mother of his two sons
and one daughter, and was highly esteemed
| by all. She was especially fond Of flowers,
and she pinned rose on her husbands coat
every morning as he came down to break
fast. Since her death General Butler has,
l am told, kept up the custom, and this is
| the reason why he is seldom seen without
his buttonnierre.
A curious romance of the last Congress
was that of Ex-Governor Long, of Massa-
chuSettS. He went away from the House
one day, and a short time later a telegram
appeared in the newspapers saying that
he had married school teacher who had
been instructing two OF his children She
was pretty and accomplished, and Wash
ington society highly approved of the
match when its members came to know her.
SENATOR HAwLEY AND HIS ENGLISH WIFE.
1t was the same with the match of Sen
ator Hawley, whose pretty English wife is
now one of the leading ladies of Washing.
ton society. Mrs. Hawley was the daugh-
ter of a prosperous English squire. She
had a theory that every woman should
have career, and at an early age she
turned her attention to nursing She was
chosen directress of the nurses to go with
General Wolseley's army in the Zulu war,
and her success was so great that she was
| awarded the Victoria order of the Red
Cross. She came to America to reform the
management of the Philadelphia hospital
and it was during one of her trips across
the ocean that Senator Hawley met her
He fell in love, proposed and was married
and she now presides over the Senator's
home here.
HOW GROVER CLEVELAND PROPOSED FIVE
TIMES.
L am able to give some inside information
about EX-President Cleveland's romance
At the time Of the wedding the mouths OF
the President and his wife were as tight as
that of a clam concerning their love affair
None of their friends knew much about
their courtship and they went on the prin
ciple of the great German proverb: that
Speech is silver but silence is golden. ,
The wedding is still gossiped about here
and the women pronounce it love match
while the men invariably take the ground
that the White house had good deal to dC
with Mrs. Cleveland's acceptance. L
seems that the men are somewhat in the
right and lady who lately returned from
a wedding trip to the continent gives one
of my friends conversation which she hal
with Mrs. Cleveland not long ago. The
story as it comes to me is quite spicy and
do not vouch that the report of the talk i.
verbatim. give it as hear it. This lady
said:
II met Mrs. Cleveland shortly after
landed in New York and one of the frs
questions she asked me was to pray tel
her how long was engaged before wa!
married. l answered her and told her tn,
story of our courtship. She listened will
| interest and when l was through con
| Guided that | would learn something from
her in return. | asked:
"sMrs Cleveland l have seen grea
many stories about your marriage and tn,
most have seen have been contradicte,
by you or your friends. / have told vol
my story and now | want you to tell M
yours. How long were you engaged to thu
) President before you were married!''
Mrs. Cleveland laughed and blushed an,
, said:
''Oh, there are the most ridiculou
stories told about US, but honestly they ar
) hardly as funny as it really was Uncl
Grover proposed to me five times before
accepted him. First, when was fourteen
anu JuSI lduSHeu dI Gue lued, IOr n
seemed so much older. Then again tw
years later when 1 went to college, an,
the third time when he was elected Cover
nor of New York. / was by no mean
ready to marry any one and he let thing
go Tor year, or until he was nominate
for the presidency. Then he asked m
again and refused. At last he was elected
and l promised to marry him in year
) OF course l liked him better than anyon
else and always meant to marry him som
, day, but I'll own the White House ha
something to do with hurrying it up'
, Miss GRUMPY. JR.