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The Daily Dispatch: November 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Grand shoddy wedding in Washington — Jenkins
A Grand shoddy wedding in Washington — Jenkins's description of the affair.
Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, a millionaire since the war by shoddy contracts, was married in Washington on Thursday night last, to Miss Kate Chase, "the eldest and accomplished" daughter of Secretary Chase, of the Treasury.
The Jenkins of the Washington Chronicle gives the following account of the wedding.
Shoddy was in all its glory:
The invitations to the wedding were as strictly private as it was possible to be in consideration of the high social position occupied by both the parties.
Yet, notwithstanding this fact, some five hundred invited guests were assembled at the mansion of Secretary Chase, between the hours of half-past 8 and twelve o'clock. The representatives of the newspaper press, with one or two exceptions, and these personal friends of the Senator and Secretary Chase, were, on this occasion, non recipients of cards of invitation.
The reputation of ex-Governor Sprague, n