New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-15
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= E.ss.5 ssrs Gf tGas, aualbert D. Richardson,
81 ss'@r ar GSa Sa@eiob ss, for her own vindica-
able - 9s 1o' Iimm u, ore of the noble men and
ITN,f ltoM.'IsELLs bstood by her through all
lFE .is.rl ithout explanation from
EVEir Gcraesdny u full faith that she had
~ LAND VOCAL ged, and for his sake.
y GEaL4ife in her behalf. Mrs.
~. 'oSTAsiel Mcfarland in 1857, he
! rsssS, Elf at the time to be d
q yF The most renowr:r at Madison, Wisconsin,
Peis felnst VIII appeg practice, brilliant pollI-
aes.- i -ENING, MAY pd personal property to the
S0ip y ted Artists 20 or $50, 900. He also pro-
lcer Z ~ 'sinaly vouist temperate habits, purest
ro vro E ;s'ious to marriage appeared
Know II : Melville tate nor brutal During the
Ebovs do' ": Missc Borrowed money to get back
~ 49, is Tenor, "A soon after arrival III Madi-
8 the pri Y Cad a; led her he was going to re-
!; Piar6i York; that all his property
;tse,ss I, ssnsy isconsin State lands, on which
sJysnd t,oh ssrn amount had been paid. He
SALOspO. S.yfss ~ but sufficient to pay fares to
n us,o s,1fs !nd never had law practice OF
si.siV. '''tf e, having devoted himself solely
--n.i DeculatlODs IN the west. Ihey
y ~ wv York in February, 1855 She
Arm i'll on the way with a viole Mt
F.Fsl. An was detained IN Rochester ten
rEoHah.r rEsAI,t leaving Rochester, he had to
-f7e watch and chain in pawn for the
40 N York he kept her three or four
-. r4nS,y d then taking all The jewelry che
7 OF Az kssoawnbrokers TO pay the board bill,
. Z. q yhome to her fathers in New Hamp-
a !. sIs'or fourteen days she never heard
&HE - 5, an, and was nearly beside herself
b. 5lfxiety. She went to New Hampshire
. es asstegraphed friend for news Of him.
e<ts .aIsq iesred in two or three days, and for
- ',ssst time she suspected he might be in
u. AZ, gate. A week or two after he return.
n ENh.tt her fathers and remained through
- s,1Ap,s,5er of 1858. He came cnte or twice
20. R)It her, and seemed attached TO her,
3 s!i, ring the short time she had lived with
Issi s.s 1e had discovered he was not temper
~ >os lat he was terribly profane il. her pros
r !. a. } that his temper was ttful and pas
4 o.,l. tie, and that for some slight 'or fancied
les he would become suilen aud InorOse,
speaking to her for day or two.
Returning to New York i'll the fall OF 1853,
garland hired cottage IN Brooklyn, and
rnished two or three rooms. some OF the
ne. perhaps halt, he was good 10 her, and
tofessed the most passionate devotion: but
e first began to come to the house drunk.
.e would also come home sober. and bring
Dtties called SChneidam Schnapps, Contain
lgaq quart or so OF vile liquor, put them by
lis bedside, and drink sometimes the whole
sefore morning. When she begged him not
to do this, lie said 'his brain was on fire,
and this made him sleep" AS this was only
two or three months before her first child
was born, his breath and whole body steam
9 ing with vile liquor during the night, when
she lay awake beside him, made him very
odious TO her, so that before she has been
married o year her affection was very
much chilled, if not nearly destroyed.
During the fall Of 1855 he had made
two or three trades of his Wisconsin lands
for real estate, ana made what he called eX-
cellent bargains During all thls time she
vas oppressed with want of money. and with
reat difficulty got scanty wardrobe for
her baby, which was born in December. In
November her sister visited her. McFar-
and took her to matinee at q theatre, left
her, and returned at the close OF the matt
aee grossly ihLoXcated made love to her In
his drunken fooliahness, and frightened her
exceedingly. When reproacned for his con-
duct, he swore he would never drink again,
Ind drew up written pledge to that effect.
which he kept several months. Early in
The spring of 1859 she went home again.
Her baby died, and her father paid the
uncral expenses. In July she returned to
Nc Farland, and with a heart sorely bruised.
Dhe was less able to bear the brutality and
violence of his temper. Her treatment was
10 bad she went back to her fathers 10 Oc-
ober, and remained till August, 1860. Had
she had the courage to have told her father
and mother OF her troubled life, she might
4 probably never have returned to this man.
Ibut her ideas of wife's duty were most con-
kaDservative. She believed she should suffer
unto death rather than resist the laws of
marriage. Part Of this time, for the first and
only time in her married life, she paid a
small sum for her board. Two OF her chill
dren were born there, and the expenses
came principally upon her father although
at the birth Of her youngest Child she paid
! the physicians bill with the result Of public
readings in 1860. After she returned to Nc
Farland suit for the recovery of borrowed
capital with which his Western lands were
purchased, WAS decided against him, and
1he was ordered TO pack her trunks and be
Y ready to leave the city, as he Dilght at any
slime be arrested.
M So iii December she was sent back TO Der
hthers with her baby. Mcfarland soou
ollOwed and stayed until February, when,
With $1,000 in his possession. obtained from
The sale OF piece of property put out OF
his hands when the judgment WAS obtained
against him; they went to Philadelphia and
he went on to Washington to seek office.
In few weeks he returned disappointed,
land they went once more to Wisconsin.
There they resided year aud two months,
the happiest time CT her life with him, but
he never earned any money and they lived
with extreme economy on what was left of
the S1200. At the expiration Of this time
Mcfarland became morose and ill-tempered, |
Ind finally tod her lie was getting out OF
money and had no way of getting any. She |
had attracted some attention in private |
circles by her reading. and had given |
"a public reading for the benefit Of
soldiers hospital. On this McFar-
land proposed to take her to New
4 York and have her fitted for the stage il |
the profession of actress. He also announced |
Nbe should himself adopt the profession of
= actor in case her success became assured.
He had been some time teacher of eloCution
in military school in Maryland, and began
training her in the reading Of stage parts.
In June, 1861, he sold ali our little Hrnture
in Madison, and brought us East, h(et going
to her fathers to leave little Percy, 80 that
she could devote all her time TO the stage.
At New York he began drilling her, and
sent her to Mr.. and Mrs. George Fanden-
hof, to be fitted for the stage. She also
began to give rea 1ings in the fall, and paid
their board during the fa! and winter with
what her earnings were. At Christmas,
1862, she felt so hopeful of doing well with
the readings she had begun, that sne sent
Mcfarland to New Hampshire to get Percy.
He took all the little stock of jewels she
possessed, and sold them all in Boston.
Mcfarland was unsociab and cruel 10 her
all the winter OF 1862 and 1861 They occu-
pied only one sleeping room on the parlor
floor OF 5S Varick street, and he could not
give full scope 10 bis furies witnout being