Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-01-23
MRS. ATTY. GENERAL WILLIAMS.

tory has been inserted the phalanges aforesaid
and her shortcomings have been inspected b
the light Of social magnitying glasses, causln
her verdict to 20 forth to the world, "Mene
Meme, Texel, UpharsiD II Aud, according tt
fat on her later lite, Mrs Williams car
riage has stopped her husbands way to TIT
Chief Justiceship.
She is womant above the medium height
with small, well-shaped head, crowned will
wavy black hair, straight, rather thin nose
large, melting dark eyes, arched over with deli
cate eyebrows, rather too much color tor the
proverbial spirituelle Of American women; ,
long, white, full throat, and neck, bust ano
arms bordering on the superb, with slight
touch Of Cleopatra voluptuousuess. She car
ries herself easily, gracefully, proudly. Thus
she appears ut the age trembling somewhere
between the late thirties or early forties. Hel
manners are unexceptionally cordial, aud hel
dressing rich. She must have been very strik
ing as girl, of tho pronounce type, with start
ling bolduess OF beauty given by the contras
between black hair and dark fringed eyes. with
clear, fair skin and heightened color. But age
and association have toned the contrasts dowI
to mellower tints, and her wonderfully qui
intuitions have adapted her to the various con-
spcuous positions, which she has easily and
naturally filled.
Her early history is as full Of romance as one
of Dumas novels, and dare Rhoda Brough,
ton to produce story to eclipse It, At sixteen
she married against her parents wishes man
whose subsequent treatment of her vindicated
the familys disapproval aud her application
for divorce. These were the days when her
headstrong, impetuous nature was strong with
10 her, and her own will her only law. Follow
ing its dictates, she drifted Westward, per-
chance for adventure, peradventure in hopes of
fortune. There, girl-woman as she was, with
the waves Of self still surging unsubdued, after
teaching music for awhile, she consented to
bow ber neck second time to an unhappy ma
trimonial yoke. Her second husband, Mr..
George, was driver on one OF the lines OF
stages crossing the plains and proved to be o
good for-nothing fellow, who frequently abused
her, and had nothing TO recommend him but
devil-may care, handsome face. A pretty
picture his wife often afforded tho tourist as,
standing before their log cabin, 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 procured for her the
services of Judge Williams. then quiet West
eru lawyer, who loosed her from her unhappy
thraldom through the medium of 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 pc.
cuiur beauty had never left him.
When she heard hor former husband, MIR.
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
adapsability, and spirit and nerve, and ambition
enough for Agrippina herself, and withal the
tact and executive ability to raise herself along
with tho advancing fortunes of her husband;
1t may be that her ambition has o'erreached
itself and that it would have been better for
her had she rested content with her husband
as Attorney General, for 10 that position the
cobra society inflated 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
reachiugs. stung to death by the asp of social
tongues. | for ono am sorry that from 80
brave spirit the goblet of luscious realization
has been so rudelys snatched.
A WONDERFUL ULooK.-Wo clip the follow
ing paragraph from very interesting & foreign
correspondence to tho Boston Journal, headed
From Germany to Italy,
! ZURICH, SwITz., Sept. l, 1867.
Our next stopping place was Strasbourg, on
the French side of tho Rhine. The cathedral
spire is very elaborate and runs up to the enor-
NOUS height of 474 feet, said to be the highest
in the world The interior of the cathedral is
quite plain, and contains the wonderful clock
that has made Strasbourg celebrated the world
over. It is in ono corner of the cathedral and
is certainly. u curiosity. A crowd collects in
front of it every day at twelve o'clock to see it
10 through its performances. The clock indi-
Gates eclipses Of the sun and moon, days Of the
week and month, rise and setting of the sun
and moon each day, and various other astrono.
mica calculations Il keeps a figure of the
sun and moon in motion, and each day of tho
week is represented by chariot with horses,
which comes out of one side of the gallery,
and during the day, passes around to the
other side and disappears. Two little angles
ait 10 front OF the clock; one strikes bell every
quarter OF an hour, and the other at noon re-
verses tho hour glass which he holds in his
hands. In the gallery above, a skeleton, with
soythc in one hand and bell 10 the other, stands
In the centre From little door at the side,
four figures, boyhood. youth, manhood and old
age, issue; one each quarter of the hour march
across the gallery, strike the bell and walk very
naturally to the door on the other side and dis
appear. At twelve at noon the skeleton strikes
the hour upon his bell, and old age comes out
and strikes the four quarters and retires. BE:
low the angel reverses his hour glass, and
above, in the upper gallery of all, the twelve
apostles march out in succession and bow to
the Saviouras us they pass Him, who raises his
hand to each in the act of blessing them. They
pass on and disappear on the other side. O9
a pillar at the side cock flaps his wings and
crows loudly and very naturally three times.
The clock was four years building and is decid-
edly unique. The figures are about foot IN
height"
PRoeREss OF RECONCILIATION. AT the
late convention of veterans Of the Mexican
war, 10 Washington Gen. Cadwallader said he
sincerely hoped that Congress will at once erase
from the statute books all laws which excluded
from the pension rolls those veterans. of the
Mexican war and the war of 1912 who served
since in the Confederate army. Gen.. Milroy
offered resolution, which was adopted, ear!
neStly requesting Congress- to rcpeal aII laws