The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-25
little party was very merry one. III

parson, In particular, it is remembered,
was in the highest spirits, overfiowing
with humor and anecdOte. Except for
Colonel Burr's great age (which was not
apparently the match seemed not an uH-
wise one. The lurking fear he had had
of being poor and homeless old man
was put to rest. She had o companion
who had been ever agreeable, and her
estate a steward than whom no one liy-
ing was supposed to be more compefent.
A few days after the wedding, the
happy pair paid visit to Connecticut,
of which State o nephew Of Col. Burr's
was then Governor. They were re-
| ceived with attention. At Hartford,
Burr advised his wife to sell out her
shares in the bridge over the Connecti-
| in real estate. She ordered them sold.
| The stock was in demand and the shares
brought several thousand dollars. The
purchaser offered to pay her the money,
but she said, mo; pay it to my hus-
band" TO him, accordingly, it was
paid, and he had 1t sewed UP In his
nocket n prodigious hplk. and use Rght
It to New York and deposited u Ia his
own bank 10 his own credit.
Texas was then beginning to attract
the tide ofemigration which, few years
later, set so strongly thither. Burr had
always taken a great interest in that
country Persons with whom he had
been variously connected in life had a
scheme on foot for settling a large colo
ny of Germans on a tract OF land IN
Texas. A brig had been chartered, and
the project was in a state OF forward
ness, when the possession of sum OF
money enabled Burr to buy shares In
the enterprise. The greater part OF the
money which he'had brought from Hart.
a total loss. The time had not yet come
for emigration to Texas. The Germans
became discouraged and separated, and,
to complete the failure of the scheme.
the title of the lands, in the confusion !
thetimes, proved defectivets Meanwhile,
Madame, who was a remarkably thrifty
woman, with talent for the manage
| ment of property, wondered that her
husband made no allusion TO tho subject
| of the investment, for the Texas spees
lation had not been mentioned 10 het
She caused him to be questioned on The
subject. He begged " insaiaie 70 II
lady's messenger that it was no affair o
| hers, and he requested him to remint
the lady that she now had husband Il
manage her affairs, and one who would
manage them.
Goodness between the husband and
wife was the result of this colloquy.--
Then came remonstrances--then es
arrangement. Burr got in the habit o.
| remaining in his office in the city. Then
partial reconciliation. Full of schemes
ana speculations TO the last, without re.
| tanning any of his former ability to act
successfully, he lost more money, and
more and more. The patience of the
lady was exhausted. She filed com,
plant, accusing him of infidelity, and
praying that he might have no more
control or authority over her affairs.
The accusation is now known to have
been groundless; nor, indeed, at the
time was it seriously believed. 1t was
used merely as the most convenient lie.
gal mode Of depriving him of control
over her property, At first he answered
the complaint vigorously, but afterward
he allowed it to go by defanlt, and the
proceedings were carried no further. A
few short weeks of happiness, followed
by a few alternate months of alternate
1 estrangement and reconciliation, and
| this union, that begun not inauspicious-
ly, was, in effect, though never I'm law,
dissolved.
Since then, Madame Jumel, who has
never resumed her late husbands name,
has resided in her home Ut Washington
Heights, comparatively alone. She
knew but few, and cared not to extend
her list of friends. She died ON Sunday,
possessed ofconsiderable property, which
her grandchildren will doubtless inherit.