The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-24
NELLIE GRANTS HAPPY LIFE.
What Mrs. Grant Tells a Sam Francisco
Reporter.
San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle.
The newspaper representative inquir
| ing how she felt on reaching her native
land AGAIN, Mrs. Grant replied:
II can hardly express my feelings, !
was so happy, so delightedi And then
TO see such u reception given my hus-
bandi l could hardly control myself.
II seemed to me l must clap my hands.
| know was much more excited than
the General. lie always takes things so
quietly. Ii WAS Il very pleasant expert
ence to me-"
You must lave missed your daugh-
ter very much, Mrs. Grant, during your
trip?"
''Yes, l have always been so much
with Nellie. Ever since her marriage,
up tn the time parted with her, year
and half ago, We had been very little
separated. She had been married three
years then, and she had been with me
eighteen months of the time, and there
had never but little time elapsed without
my seeing her"
when did you hear the false report
of her DEATH"
I'VE were in Toxic A telegram
reached us saying simply that false re-
port of her death had been circulated.
| had just received long letter from her
three days before-such bright, cheer
full letter-telling how she had just come
back from London and was going TO q
ball the next week what pretty new
bonnet she had, and Il lot of bright, hap
py home talk She mentioned also that
they Telt very much troubled about the
health of her husbands mother, Mrs.
Sartoris, but could not remember that
when we received the telegram. The
very suggestion of such q thing seemed
SO terrible. / just turned to my hus-
band and said, oh, Ulyssesp He said,
Don't trouble about it; you know there
are three or four Mrs. Sartorises. Prob
ably one of them has died, and the re-
port sprang from that"
Mrs. Grant was here shown a copy of
an eastern paper in which the circum-
stances and causes of the supposed death
of MIS-. Nellie Grant SartOris were ex-
plicitly stated, and beneath which was
the following telegram from Washing
ton, expressive of the feeling that ran
like an electric thrill over the country as
the thoughts of all turned to the sad
home coming of tho parents:
WASHINGTON. gUst1b.-There is . Eener-
ri sorrow here over the news Of the death of
Nellie Grant SartOris. The impression pre-
walls that her remains will be brought here
believed, Gen. Grant and Mrs. Grant can
reach Washington. It does not seem certain
that Gen. Grant can near OF the death before
lie reaches san Francisco.
HER DAUGHTERS HAPPY LIFE.
The mothers eyes grew misty as she
read the evidence of the love felt by the
people of the country towards the young
girl, who was once the light of the socie-
~ that clustered about the White House.
sit would have been = terrible home
coming for US if she had died, my dear
little GIRL" sue murmured,
The mother went on TO speak Of the
happy life led by her daughter in the
English home of her adoption, which
will be read with much interest by her
many friends in this country:
Nellie usually spends her winters in
Rome, and her summers at their cottage
in England" she said. I'm the spring
they make frequent trips to London,
where she has many friends and every
opportunity for enjoyment. She has
two children living, boy and girl.
Her oldest child died when she was elev-
en- months old, and they sent Nellie off
to Italy with her husband for change
of scene, not even allowing her to stay
for her baby's funeral, wishing to save
her feelings and soften her grief in every
way.
"Her husband is warmly attached to |
her, and his family are very fond of her,
anu oIAC 10 fCI idpHy. hCh saw ACt /
last we were all in Italy together, Alger- |
mons father and mother being with them. |
They were going home, and told him |
he must let Nellie stay with me a little |
time. So they went back TO England by |
way of Germany, taking her baby and
its nurse with them, and | took Nellie |
first to Venice, then to Milan, then to |
Turin, remaining in each place a week |
or ten days, and spending the time very
pleasantly. Then we went on to Paris |
and remained there five or six weeks. |
Then there came telegram from her huS- |
band: 4 am coming to take you home
She answered, asking him to wait one
week longer, she had so many engage |
ments ahead. But he answered that if
he should wait one more week she would |
have just as many more invitations and
engagements, and he should come then.
OF course it was very pleasant to know |
that lie thought so much of her, and she |
went willingly enough"