The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-03-24
WARRINGTON LEITER.
:Il Experiment With Janu-I
!: ani 70 May Another Social
! See i1n Divorce in High Of
fltlal Lie.

Wasl1n lon is never quite with
out a social sensation with q woman
in tie cage and this winter has been
more polite Of sensations than nsu-
al. Aean Of an Alabama Senator
has figured ID one, Georgia Senator
has Appeared in ANOTHER and now
.ex.Ssiiator christiancy, UnitedStates
Minister 10 Perm, and his young wife
are unensiably conspicuous in q
third. Everybody rems@bers the.
first appearance of the Venerable
looking soxageneriap, whocatpe isto
the SENATE chamber about four Years.
.ago.as the representative of reform
within thoparty, aud as a supposed
pordiantithesis Of his predecessor
The appearance Of the, Judge Of the
Supreme Conrtof Michigan, 10 the
seat formeIlyoccupiedby Mr.Shaas'
.dler, was hailed BY many as a most
hopeful palitical prognostis His,
ptlisicl idd been bfief aG
romantic. Simultaneous with his
ientranceinto the Senate was his reg
istry alta cheap boarding house
The land-lady had a young and pref
tydaughter Almost every land lady
in Washington has one or two, but
this one was remarkably pretty. 1t
was the meeting Of the ruler of the
Queens Ndvee, and josephine, with
a very different sequel. Society was
rifswith gossip about the courtship
and the marriage that. followed fast
upon il The landlady's daughter
becameMrs. Senator, ETC., and her
former associates in the Treasury De-
partmeptatold with envy how she
had been called upon by Mrs. secre-
tary Of State Fish, and all the ladies
Unofficial and diplomatic circles. The
marriage gave the venerable Senator
an additional notoriety boom, and
for few weeks he was the cynosure
of the Senate galleries, as he walked
back and forth in the open space be.
hind the chairs, his hands clasped
behind him, stoop.shouldered, pic
turesque reply to the question: team
the old love?" The outward appear.
tance of marital tolerance were kept
up for a year or two.
The welded pair were seldom seen
together, except ut breakfast at the
Imperial Hotel, where transient
drummers staredat the pretty blonde,
or made holder efforts to get acquaint-
ed with the old mans grand,daugh-
ter. Mrs. Christiancy's almost con-
slant companion was heryoung step
sons handsome youth of sixteen.
A fe@ months afterthe Senator re,
signed and went as Minister to Peru,
Mrs. Christiancy followed him, but
in a very short time was seen again
in Washington, and now the news.
papers are rife with rumors of d.
vorce suits. Mrs. Christiancy espec.
tally has gone into print, having
been most free and bounteous ofaud-
fence with interviews, charging her
husband with drunkenness, personal
violence, and with the sale of his
seat in the Senate to his successor
for a money consideration. The
Minister to Peru is expected TO ar,
rive in few days, when it is said
that he will file bill for DIVORCE.
Mrs. Christiancy says that she ex-
poets to apply for divorce, and
there will: in all probability, soon be
a suit that will rival the Oliyer-Cam.
eron affair in scandulous details
From her statements to reporters, it
appears that Mrs. Christiancy will
rely chiefly on charges ofcruelty and
violence alleged to have taken place
during their six. months residence
in Peru. These, owing to the great
distance, will of course be somewhat
difficult of proof. Mr.. Christiancy's
case has not yet been developed, he
has not yet rushed into print, and is,
perhaps, too old lawyer to be ner-
vous about the prejudgement of pop
ular opinion. C. A. S.
Democratic Union.
The spectre of the third term is