Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-13
y. WHTTMORE.
Publisher and Proprietor,
The story Of Mrs. Yelverton.

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A girl of some genius, who signs
herself "E. H." is writing letters
from California to the Louisville
ourier-Journal. She is travelling
around the country with two other
young ladies, called "Joe" and
"Percy," without male escorts, and
gives an interesting narrative of the
experience of the party. She writes
from the Yosemite
"1t's astonishing how these wo-
men do get their own way about
everything" said Mr.. Snow, who
lives up among the cliffs of the Yo-
semitic. "There was another fine
woman here, who stayed in the val
ley about four months. Her name
was Mrs. Yelyerton."
"Mrs. Yelyerton2" we all say at
once. "The one who was divorced
from Lord Somebody, and whose
case was tried in so many courts?"
"The same one. She was a-stay-
ing here while the thing was being
decided, and say what people will,
there never was better nor a
smarter woman here than Mrs.
Yalverton. She was just heart
broken, but she was that proud that
she wouldn't let on. You see she
was married in Ireland. Lord
well, | forgot his name myself; but
after they had lived together several
years and had a little boy, who died
when he was a baby-this old scape-
grace had gone through all her for
tune and his own for racing and
gambling debts, aud then he tackled
a rich woman and got in love and
couldn't marry her nor get her for
tune unless he got a divorce, and
he hadn't any grounds except that
as an Englishman his marriage
wasn't legal in Ireland. So he goes
to prove be never had married her,
and one time he meets her in a rail
way coach and strangles and beats
her to make her give up hel
marriage certificate to him, and
she wouldn't do it, for she said il
was all she had to prove she was al
honorable wife, and he might Kill
her, but he should never take away
that piece of paper. Then he goe;
into the courts, and the case is de-
cided in her favor every time, and
it is tried times and times, and il
every court in Ireland it was de
cided she was legal wife. Their
the scamp bought the House o.
Lords, and they decided the mar
riage illegal, that she never ha(
been married, and he married th,
other woman and is living in grea
style in Ireland. His wife, Mrs
4 Yelverton, is now in Russia. Sh,
loved that man. never seen sucf
devotion; and when the wore
came that he was married, and he
lawyers told her to bring SOM
tec6nicalities to light and assert he
rights, she just said, in a kind 0
tired way: al have fought for m.
position for three long, long years
Here is my marriage certificate
properly signed and certified; bu
it is worth nothing, they say. M
husband is taken from me; his Low
is gone; my house is gone; m
child is gone. have fought loni
and well for my name and honor
but / am tired and worn out witt
the dirty lawsuits, and | give u
the struggle and sink from shee
) exhaustion" and from that tim
she just wanders around thes
mountains like a ghost, but if an
one comes up she puts on a smil
and seems as lively. The way VIC
men can put on-they have S
much pride. Their hearts may b
breaking, yet they will keep kin
. Of mask over it. One time she &C
lost in the muontains here, and
/ was in the winter time and coli
! She crawled into a hollow pine an
held on to the horses bride a
night and made him stay close fC
, company and shelter, and whe
morning came she tried to find h,
i, way home, and grizzly bear can
along and scared her horse, and !
threw her over a precipice, and 81
, fell down on the snow