Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-25
MRS. WILLIAMS.
what n Encouragement Says Of

Her.
Washington Letter to the Cincinnati Gazette.
-. Mrs. Williams has, after all,
been the head and front of the offend
ing. Into her early history has been
inserted the phalanges aforesaid, and
her shortcomings have been inspected
by the light of social magnifying
glasses, causing the verdict to go forth
to the world, Meme, Meme Tekel, Up
barsini' 20 And, according to = fat on
her later life, "Mrs. Williams carriage
has stopped her husbands way to the
Chief Justiceship."
She is a woman above the medium
height, with a small, well-shaped head,
crowned with wavy, black hair,
straight, rather thin nose, large, melt
ing, dark eyes, arched over with deli
cate eyebrows, rather too much color
for the proverbial spirituele of Ameri-
can women, long, white, full throat
and neck, bust, and arms bodering on
the superb, with a slight touch of Cleo
patra righteousness. Thus she APP
pears at the age trembling somewhere
between the late thirties or forties.
Her manners are unexceptionably cor
dial, and her dressing rich. She must
have been very striking as a girl, of
the prononce type, with startling bold
ness of beauty given by the contrast
between black hair and dark fringed
eyes, with clear, fair skin and heighten-
ed color. But age and association
have toned the contrasts down to mel
lower tints, and her wonderfully quick
intuitions have adapted her to the va
riOus conspicuous positions which she
has easily and naturally filed.
Her earl y history is as full of TO-
nance as one of Dumas novels, and
dare Rhoda Broughton to produce a
.,o, - to eclipse it. At sixteen she mar
ried aoairsS her parents wishes man
whose subsequent trea,'nent OF her vln-
dicated the family's disapPl- wal and
her application for divorce. The
Ee+e the days when her he;idstfohg, |
impetuous nature was strong within !
her, and her own T7ill her only law.
Following its dictates, she difftAa west
ward, perchance for adventure, perad- \
venture in hopes Of fortune. There,
as she was, with the waves
0f self still surging unsubdued, after
teaching music for awhile, she con-
sented to bow her neck a second
time 30 an unhappy matrimonial
yoke. Her second husband, Mr..
George, was q driver on one
Of the lines of stages crossing the
plains, and proved to be a good-fOr-
nothing fellow, who frequently abused
Der, and had nothing TO recommend
him but sort of devil-may-care, hand
some face. A pretty picture his wife
often afforded the tourist as, standing
before their iOg-cgbin, she stood with
her white arms, bright face, and simple
dress, hanging out the family linen.
Her husbands treatment became at
last So uncomfortable that friends pro-
cured for her the services of Judge /
Williams, then a quiet Western lawyer,
who loosed her from herunhappy thral-
dom through the medium OF divorce. |
Stre. George still westward pushed her
way to California, and taught school IN
San Francisco. where many years
afterwaru Judge Williams met
IND married.
the memory Of ~bose pecull-2r beauty
had never left him. When che bcs..a
her husband, Mr. George, was sick, size
travelled miles to watch over him in his
last hours, and was with him when he
died. The woman has marvellous adapt
ability, AID spirit; and nerve, and am
bition enough for Agrippina herself,
and, withal, the tact and executive
ability to raise herself along with the
advancing fortunes Of her husband. 1t
may be that her ambition has Ger
reached itself and that it would be bet
ter for her had she rested content with
her husband rs Attorney General, for
n that position the Cobra Society in
lated 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-reachings, stung to death by :
the asp of social tongues. l for one
am sorry that from SO brave a spirit
the goblet of luscious realization has
been so rudely snatched.