Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1874-03-28
ShepherastOwn, West Va:
CO. Mrs. ATTORNEY GENERAL WE.

CO Mrs. ATTORNEY GENERAL WE.
IIAMs-A NATIVE OF SHEpHERDsTowN.
The following description of Mrs.
Williams is from the Washington Cor
respondence of the Cincinnati Gazette,
aud it will interest our readers to know
that the distinguished lady alluded to
was born in Shepherdstown. Her maid
en- name was Hughes -
She is a woman above the medium
height, with small, well-shaped head,
crowned with wavy black hair straight
rather thin nose, large, melting dark
ewes, arehed over with delicate eye
brows, rather too much color tor the
proverbiil spirituelle of American wo-
men; long. white, full throat and neck,
bust and arms bordering on the superb,
with a slight touch of Cleopatra volup-
tuousness. She carries herself easily,
gracefully, proudly. Thus she appears
at the age trembling somewhere be-
tween the late thirties Or early tortles'
Her manners are upexceptionably cor
dial, and her dressing rich. She must
have been very striking as girl, OF the
pronounce type, with startling boldness
of beauty given by the contrast be-
tween black hair, and dark fringed eyes,
with clear, fair skin and heightened col
or. But age and association have toned
the contrasts down to mellower tints,
and her wonderfully quick intuitions
have adapted her to the various conspic.
uous positions, which she has easily aud
naturally filled.
Her early history is as full of romance
MS Dumas novels, and l dare Rhoda
Broughton to produce story to eclipse
it. At sixteen she married against her
parents wishes man whose subse-
ouent treatment of her indicated the
tamily's disapproval and her application
for divorce. These were the days when
her headstrong, impetuous nature was
strong within her, and her own will
her only law. Following its dictates,
she driited Westward, perchance for
adventure, peradventures in hopes OF a
fortune. There, girl-woman as she was,
with the waves of self still surging un-
subdued. after teaching music fol awhile
she consented to bow her neck a second
time to an unhappy matrimonial yoke.
Her second husband, Mr.. George, was
dr;ver on one of the lines OF stages
crossing the plains, and proved to be
Good for-nothing fellow, who frequently
sbused her, and had nothing to recon-
mend him but a devil-may-care, hand
some face. A pretty picture his wife
often afforded the tourists as, standing
before their log cabin, she stood with
her white arms, bright face and simple
dress. handing out the family linen.
Hsr husbands treatment became at
last so uncomfortable that friends pro
cured her the services of Judge Will
liams, then a quiet Western lawyer, who
loosed her from her unhappy thraldom
through the medium of a divorce. Mrs.
George still Westward pushed her way
TO California, and taught school In San
francisco, where years afterward Judge
Williams met and married the woman,
the memory of whose peculiar beauty
had never left him.
When she heard her former husband,
Mfr. George, was sick, she Travelled miles
20 watch over him in his last hours, and
was with him when he died. The wo
man has marvellous adaptability, and
shirt and nerve, and ambition enough
for Agrippina herself, and withal the
tact and executive ability to raise her
self along with the advancing fortunes
of her husband. 1t may be that her
ambition has oerreached itself, and that
It would have been better for her had
she rested content with her husband as
Attorney General, for in that position
the cobra society inflated not its veno,
nous head, and such whispers as had
been floating about were allowed 10
vanish in thin air. Now she lies strand
cd on the sands of her own high reach
ings, stung to death by the aspof social
tongues. l for one am sorry that from
so Brave spirit the goblet Of luscious
realization has been so rudely snatched.