Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1889 — WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.

Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, ex-Secretary of State, and Miss Mary Wailing Clymex were married at 1 o’clock Thursday afternoon, at the bride's residence at Washington,is the presence of a most distinguished company. Among the latter were ex, President and Mrs. Cleveland, ex-Secro-tary and Mrs. Fairchild and Mrs. Dickinson, ex-Assistant Secretary and Mrs. Rives, who came to Washington for the express purpose of attending the wedding. A reception and breakfast followed the marriage, and soon after the newly married couple left the city for a tour to New York and other Northern cities. Ex-President and Mrs. Cleveland, after leaving the Bayard-Clymer wedding Thursday afternoon, drove to the Whitehouse to pay their respects to President and Mrs. Harrison. An usher opened th« carriage-door and in reply to a question from Mrs. Cleveland said that Mrs. HarriBgageas in New York. Mrs. Cleveland thereupon handed the usher her card with the request that it be given to Mrs. Harrison on her return. Mr. Cleveland inquir ed for the President, and on being informed that he was in, alighted and was shown into tho green parlor,where he was immediately joined by the President. Mrs. Cleveland had driven away in the mean-time,-and the carriage returned for Mr. Cleveland without her. The President and Mr. Cleveland had a pleasant chat together, during which it is understood that the former made a good-natured reference "to the l-ecent elections, which Mr. Cleve land answered in the same spirit. Vice President Morton, through his private secretary, has issued a card denying the charge that liquor is being sold in one of his properties in-Washington. Tho card says: “The building is conducted as a family apartment house, apartments being leased by the year, and Mr. Morton has never entertained, the idea of permitting any part of it to bo used as a bar.” The President Thursday appointed William W. Bates, of New York, to bo Commissioner of Navigation.