Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-05-18


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agent at the CbeTokees ct Washington.
The friends Of Gen. Houston in Texas
and elsewhere hare ever maintained a
profound sieuce on tie causes that lei t.
the separation of Houston and his first
wife. farmers story about the matter is
AZ follows: After Houston rose TO be gov
crnoI of Tennessee, he was induced to
marry Miss Lucy Dickerson, q great
beauty, aud at that time the belle of Nash.
vile. Miss Dickerson had, however, pre-
viously been engaged to handsome
young man, Mr.. Robert Nickerson, dur
ing whose absence Ia Virginia her father
and mother prevailed ON her to marry
Gov. Houston. Miss Dickerson's father
was one of the wealthiest men of Tennes-
see, and all things went we'll till the re-
turn of Mrs. H0uston's former lover, when
she evidently became unhappy. She
managed that frequent interviews with
the young man should occur. Finally
Houston's body servant, faithful to his
master, Informed the governor that scme-
| thing wrong was going on between his
wife and Mr.. Nickersor. The husband,
| fearing to act without the fact, pretended
to be going to Murray county, to be alb
sent some time, and informed Mrs. Hous-
ton that he would be absent several days.
The governor made detective out of his
servant boy, who watched Mrs. Houston
and her para,nour, and informed his mas
ter at the exact moment when he might,
by ocular demonstration, assure himself
of his wife's guilt. The governor boarded
the stage for Columbia, but sco1 got out
and returned to his home. Stepping
softly in. the governor passed to bed
room, and there behcld Mrs. Houston in
the arms of her former sweetheart, aud
on the same couch. The governor, with
that greatness of soul that subsequently
distinguished him, when sparing the life
of Santa Anna, the Mexican tyrant, at the
battle of San Jacin.o, turned away with
out saying a word, feeling that the lovely
and iuComparably beautiful woman he
had so lately led to the altar was lost to
him fOrever 1t was terrible moment!
He'll and despair seemed to clash together.
Houston went out in silence aud sent for
his fsiend, Gov. Carroll, to whom he re-
lated what had happened. Carroll said:
"You must take your own course in this
affair."" Gov. Houston then sent for his
wife and said "What do you mean by
acting in this wayl' Without the least
embarrassment she replied: "Gov. Hous-
ton, now tell sou in plain words that l
love Mr.. Nickerson's little finger better
than your whole body" swell, them"
said the governor, "you can take the little
finger, body and all, as am now done
with you, Lucy, forever" After this
terrible experience the demon of unrest
seemed to enter Houston, who went back
to his old friends, the CherOkecs, and
thence he found his way to Texas, dressed,
when Jarman first saw him at Nacogdo-.
chcs, like an Indian, out and out.
The distinguished part played by him
in the Texan war Of independence against
Mexico, in 1886, is a conspicuous matter
Of history. His election by little revo-
!utioaary iunta to the poet Of commander
| In chief, in the face If the invading
army under Santa Anna, seemed Ca turn
tie scaie # success in favor of the hard
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