The Red Cloud chief., 1879-11-27
LIES Ups AND OWNS.
The Story Of a Woman who Ha. Expert
eRced Her share of Each.

The alternate sunshine and shade
which are incident 10 some human lives
have never been so strikingly illustrated
as they are in the case of Mrs. Lolly
Louise Hunter, who has been a South
ern belle and heiress; the fnancce IF a
Confederate General the wife of a noted
politician the relative Of a United States
Senator; the sister-in-law Of the Gov
crnor of a State; one IF the society
women Of that wonderful and dazzling
retinue that made Washington City SO
famous; and is now a m~cndicant, asking
the charity Of the people of this city to
give her food and shelter. She is now
past the half century mark; hut her de-
meanor marks her rs having been a
woman of remarkable force Of charac-
ter, and out Of the storm marks which
misfortunes have made upon her face
there are the unmiStakablc traces Of
high breeding and intelligence, and
enough left Ia make one sure that some
time in life her beauty was Of no mean
order.
She came Ia ST. Louis on the 18th day
of last August, and presented herself Ia
Capt. Lee, who was then Acting Chief
VI oittf. sNHt .t~kfh p w NtfftItu
from publicity, and said all she desired
was "A place Ia lay her head, and a few
friends Ia whom she might 90 without
intrusion and obtain the nccessarics of
life. Capt. Lee took her cast in hand,
and procured a Dol for her on Wash
ington Avenue. He presented her case
30 the attention of some of the wealthy
people of ST. Louis, who never permit
ted her 10 suffer. A few days ago she
conceived the fancy that her condition
would become public, and asked Capt.
Lee Ia obtain a pass for her Ia Hot
Springs, where she has some friends
who, il is Sid, would have contributed
10 her wants before this had they known
the dire distress upon which she has
been hanging.
Before the war she was the owner of
1000 acres of land in Virginia. She
was then what the world called a SPLEEN
did woman She had the traditions of
nobility attached to her family name;
she had the finish which true culture
and mobility always ~evincc; she was a
woman who had Travelled and read, and
her mind WAS a storc-housc Of all that
makes true ~womanhood admirable. Ii
WAS at this time that she was woocd by
a daShing young Virginian. She gave
him the promise la wed their love was
OF two-fold nature, partaking of the
nature Of that which makes the sweetest
music in the heart and helps "the world
80 round,'' and that of business. Into
his hands she entrusted the estate, and
WAS solicitors for him to relieve her of
the care. lie did il with a dclicacy that
excited no ~unfavorable comment. The
war darkened the land. There was a
feeling among Southern women in those
DAYS which made heroes of their lovers,
and for a man To hesitate in the matter
of duty TO his land was To annul every
claim upon the heart he had made.
The young Nirginian was not a loitcrcr.
He cSpouScd the cause of the South and
at once commenced the organization of
Il regiment. This regiment was equip
ped and sem 10 Jubal Early 10y the
wealth of this oma She gave it
every thing, and the man who marched
nj the head of the column had her heart.
II passed out from before a throng of
beauty cheered by song and christcncd
10y tears, and went away To battle. In
the course of 4 few months its ranks
We're decimatcd, and the war was not
half over when the organizer was about
the only survivor. He became Il Gen
cral and was transferred tn the Gulf
Department. The war was over, but
the man was changed. His heart had
gone down with the flag he loved, and
10y degrees the soldier and gentleman
tleyeloped into the ~charlatan.
BY some means which are not given
Ia the chroniclcr of this "leaf" he OBJ
tanned the consent of the woman he
loved To dispose of her estate. The
money which was the result passed into
his hands, and wild speculations and
filibuster schemes upon his part, coupled
with dcbauchcry, swept it away before
the rightful owner could realize the ruin
before her. They never met again.
Whether this vas a a of her life
from which she gathered thorns, is not
known. But she lived it through, and
very o after married the Hon. Philip
Hunter, who was a member of Congress
from a Maryland district, it is said, and
who died SOC after from the bursting
of a blood vessel. He was a relative of
the Hon. X. NJ. +. Hunter, Secretary of
State i'm the Richmond Cabinet. Her
husbands estate was not sufficient To
meet the demands made by her social
position, and she very quickly found
herself facing want in the very shadow
of what had SO recently been a life of
fashion and splcndor. Not caring To
become dependent on her husbands
people, she left that section and went To
New Orleans. In the summer of 1873
her daughters were afflicted with the
terrible scourge of the South and
died within nine days of each
other. She had scarcely with
drawn from their graves when
of her grandchildren died
from the same affection. Poverty
pressed closely upon her in her afilic-
tons, and she came To st. Louis. There
had lived in this city a gentleman
named Martin Alexander, whom her
mother had adopted when he was a boy.
She came here expecting TO find him
and place her unfortunate condition be-
fore him. Her first days search for
him brought her the intelligence that
he, too, had passed away from this life,
and she found herself alone and penni-
less in the face of a city of Il half-mil-
lion people. 1t vas the terror of this
truth that caused her to seek the advice
of Capt. Lee, who was then acting Chief
of Police. She is the niece of William
Rufus King, who was a United States
Senator from Maryland, and a sister,
in-law of Gov. Early of North Carolina.
She left on the train Friday evening to
join her friends at Hot Springs. She
says she has had misfortunes enough TO
drive most women TO suicide; but being
possessed of remarkable strength of
mind she has never given up, and is
waiting for the day 10 come when the
last trouble shall come TO her.