Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-02-05
Mrs. Williams.

mFs- Williams.
The Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Gazette insists that
tie real reason of Mr.. Williams re-
lection by the Senate for Chief JUS
tice was Mrs. Williams, whom. The
Senators wives refuse to permit to be
placed 10 position socially superior
to their own, He thus describes that
now noted woman:
She is above the medium height,
with small, we'll shaped head, crown.
cd with wavy black hair, straight,
rather thin nose, large. melting dark
eyes, arched over with delicate eye
brows, rather too much color for tho
preverbial Spirituslle of American
women, long. white, full throat, and
neck, bust, and arms bordering on The
superb, with a slight touch of Cleo
patra righteousness. She carries
herself easily, gracefully, proudly.
Thus she appears at the age trembling
somewhere between the late thirties
or early forties. She must have been
very striking as girl, of the pr0aonce
type. with startling boldness of beau
ty given by the contrast between
black hair, and dark fringed eyes,
with clear, fair skin and heightened
color. But age and association have
toned theeontrasts down to mellower
tints, and her wonderfully quick in
buttons have adapted her to the va
riOus conspicuous positions which she
has easily and naturally filled.
Ii Mrs. Williams is somewhat shak-
en- by the necessity which compelled
the Attorney Generals withdrawal,
as is reported, she gives no evidence
of the fact She is the same brilliant,
forceful woman. [ do not believe
that in strength Of willard by that
| do not mean fmanlness she has
her superior in this country to day.
She is a woman who would kneel to
the guileotine without changing color
"a picture of the heroic-one Of the
few women who are not born to suc-
cumb, and only succumb in death
Under any reverses she would be the
same extraordinary woman. do
not wonder at her success in Wash
ington. Her great crime is that she
is handsome. By being handsome
she has made many female enemies.
HER EARLY HISTORY
is fall of romance as one of Dumas
novels. At sixteen she married
against her parents wishes q man
whose subsequent treatment of her
indicated the family's disapproval
and her application for divorce.
These were the days when her head
strong, impetuous nature was strong
within her and her own will her only
law. Following its dictates, sho drift
ed westward. There, girl-woman as
she was, with the waves of self still
suTging unsnbdued, after teaching
music for awhile, she consented TO
bow her neck y second time TO an un-
happy matrimonialyoke. Her second
husband, Mr. George. was driver
on one OF the lines OF stages crossing
the plains, and proved to be good
for nothing follow, who frequently
abused her, and had nothing 10 rec>
Ommend him but u sort of devil
may care, handsome face. A pretty
picture his wife often afforded the
tourist as standing before their log
cabin, she stood with her white arms,
bright face, and simple dress, hang
ing out the family linen. Her hus~
bands treatment became at last SO
uncomfortable that friends procured
for her the services OF Judge Williams,
then q quiet Western lawyer, who
loosed her from her unhappy thral-
dom through the medium OF a divorce.
Mrs. George still westward pushed
her way to California, and taught
school ia San Francisco, where years
afterward Judge Williams met and
married the woman the memory OF
whose peculiar beauty had always
haunted him. When she heard that
her former husband, Mr.. George, was
sick, she travelled miles to watch over
him in his last hours, and was with
him when he died. The woman has
marvellous adaptablIity, and spirit,
and nerve, and ambition enough for
Aggrippina herself, and, withal, the
tact and executive ability to raise
herself along with the advancing for.
tune Of her husband. 1t may be that
her ambition has oyerreached itself
and that il would have been better
for her had she rested content with
her husband as Attorney General, for
in that position the cobra society in
flated not its venomous head, and
such whispers as had been floating
about were allowed to vanish in thin
air Now she lies stranded on the
sands Of her own high ambition,
stung to death by the asp of social
tongues for one am sorry that
from so brave spirit the goblet of
luscious realization has been so rude