Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-29

from b0asting Of his Intimacy with the
House Of Mezrab, and recounting the
untruths which he invented, pour Sc faire
valoir, or TO sell his book or newspaper
at better profit. She understood friend.
ship in its best and fullest sense, and
for those who, enjoyed her confidence il
was q treat 10 pass the hours with her
She spoke French, Italian, German,
Slav, Spanish, Arabic, Turkish and
Greek As she spoke her native tongue.
She had all the tastes of country lite,
and occupied herself alternately with
painting. sculpture, music or with her
garden flowers, or poultry, or with her
thoroughbred Arab mares or carrying
out some improvement. She was thor
oughly a connoisseur in each Of her
amusements or occupations. To the
last she was fresh and young, beautiful,
brave, refined and delicate. " Bon sang
ne peut mentir." Her heart au fond
was noble; she was charitable TO the
poor. She regularly attended the Pro
testant church, and often twice on Sun
days. She fulfilled all the duties Of a
good Christian lady and An English
woman. She is dead. All those who
knew her in her latter days will weep
for her. She had but one fault land
who knows if il was hers2) washed out
by fifteen years Of goodness and re-
psntance. Let us hide it and shame
those who seek TO drag up the adventures
Of her wild youth to tarnish so good a
memory. Requiescat in pace.
wu.- o4,- pp4Nctcco NfAN rNowc Anorrq,
m HER STRANGE LIFE. Pr,
From the San Francisco Bulletin.l 4,
The writer of this met Lady Ellenbor-
ough in Damascus in 1858. She was
then living IN princely style, was dressed
in Oriental costume and surrounded by
a retinue Of Oriental servants. Her
Arab husband-a Sheik of some dis
tinction--was then absent with his tribe
and living, so Lady Z. confessed, with a
former Arab wife. She made journey
of sixteen days ever the desert, sleeping
sometimes on tho earth, sometimes in
ruined Khans, but was compelled to re-
turn on account of meeting hostile tribes
short distance west of Palmyra. She
spoke Of her dusly husband with much
affection, though evidently she did not
relish the idea of being temporarily sup
planted by Bedouin woman,
She conversed quite freely about her
past life, and made no concealment OF
having had a somewhat irregular ca
reer. AS girl she was beautiful, ac-
complished and virtuous. While quite
yeung she was married to Lord Ellen
borough, one of the most notorious roues
in England; soon became disgusted with
and left him. She lived mostly abroad,
where her conduct was, to say the least,
not beyond reproach Lord Il. sued for
and obtained divorce. The case at
tracted much attention-was, indeed, a
famous scandal, and among the Witnesses
summoned by the husband to testify to
the wife's Irregularities was William Il.
Gladstone, then travelling abroad. Lady
Els subsequent life was not entirely
blameless, but she was not the shameless
woman represented by the German
Gazette. She went East, lived in various
cities, and finally settled in Damascus,
where she met Sheik Mijeval, remark
ably handsome young Bedouin, Of dis
tinguished ancestry, fellin love with and
proposed marriage to him. He reluc-
tantly consented, but learned to love
and esteem his Western wife, and made
very fair husband considering that he
had one wife already, and sooald visit
her occasionally in her desert home in
spite of the tears and remonstrances of
Mrs. Miieyal No.