A Fascinating Lady Who Will Soon Wed Mr. Hughes Oliphant.
In a dispatch from Pittsburg [sic] it is stated that an engagement that has recently been announced to the friends of the young couple has created quite a pleasurable stir of excitement in army and social circles -- that of Mrs. Harry Hunt, of Washington, D.C., and Mr. Hughes Oliphant, of Trenton, N.J. Mrs. Hunt is the daughter of Adjutant General Drum of the United States Army, and a cousin of Colonet Morgan, of the arsenal, of Pittsburg. As Blossom Drum, a few years since, she was considered one of the prettiest and most charming girls of the gay society of the capital. The short sketch of Mrs. Hunt which was taken in Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker's article of June 3, on noted Washington widows, is as follows:
"Among the victims of the tragic Greely expedition and its rescuers was young Harry Hunt, of the navy, who contracted a cold while with the party who went in search of the ill-fated explorers that carried him finally to an untimely death. This promising young officer had marsried only 18 months before he sailed one of Washington's brightest belles, Miss Blossom Drum, daughter of General Drum. Upon the return of the party, their friends were much alarmed to find Lieutenant Hunt so changed and broken in health. Only the young wife had hope of his recovery. For months she devoted herself to his care, trying every climate that promised any benefit, but withoiut avail and this girlish wife and mother is left another sad commentary of such expeditions. General Drum has rented his home in Washington city and bought a splendid old place of one hundred and fifty acres on the Tenallytown road, about siles from the city and three miles beyond Oak View. The house is quite an ordinary frame structure, but the grounds are rapidly becoming very pretty, and here, any afternoon, may be seen Mrs. Henry Hunt feeding the chickens, with her two boys clinging to her skirts."
The dispatch adds: "Mr. Oliphant, too, comes of a fine old family, the Oliphants, of Fayette county, this State. He is a son of General S. D. Oliphant, of Trenton, and is highly endowed with the graces that win distinction in social life, being handsome, polished, refined and courtly. This will be Mr. Oliphant's second matrimonial venture, as well as that of his bride, and although the prize he has won is great, his friends feel that the lady is also to be congratulated. The wedding will probably take place in the early autumn and the bride and groom will settle down to housekeeping in Trenton."
