The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-01-08
THE CHRIsTIANCY SCANDAL.

! Isaac L. Chrlstancy Huly scSeSenarlan
while senator from Michigan few years ago
fell In love with pretty treasury glrl of % IL
! Washington and married her She was gay
and sprightly--hc was heavy, morose anc
Jealous. Zach Chandler who had given III,
seat in the senate to Chrlsuancy to take u seat
in Grants cabinet, when Fraud Hayes came
in preferred to go back to the senate, and or
dcring Chrstiaacy to git pacltied him with
the mission to Lima. Thither accordingly
Christiancy besat himself with his young
wife Lima is a gay capital, and the Chris
tiancys were invited to lnnumerable balls and
routes; hut to see his young wife smirked up
on and Rugged in the mazes of the waltz by
the gay Spanish cavallieros was more than the
old carmudgeon could bear, and in his jeal'
ousy he made the life OF his wife SO miserable
that she begged to be sent home to the states.
To this he assented, and she took passage by a
steamer to New York. On tie steamer there
happened to be rather comely young gallant,
representing New York commercial house,
named Edil Gro. Mrs. Chrlstancy was una
voldably thrown a great deal into his com
pany on the long voyage around the Horn,'
and he appears to have fallen desperately IN
love with her On leaving the boat at New
York he escorted her to a hotel and registered
her under an assumed name. She left the
same day, however, for Washington, and he
begged earnestly to be permitted to correspond
with her and to call on her there both which
she firmly refused. Some time afterwards,
however, Gro, who was IN business in New
York, went to Washington and called on Mrs.
Christiancy without invitation or leave, and
was so codly received that he became indig-
nant, carrying his Indignation so far that he
took a woman Of the town" to the St James
Hotel and passing her off as his wife occupied
the same room with her, giving out afterwards
that the woman was Mrs. Christiancy. Mean.
time old Chrstiancy had got on new love
and pinned to be rid OF the old. Giro encour-
aged him TO sue for a divorce, offering to iur-
nish evidence that would procure it. AT the
same time he went to Mrs Chrlstlancy and
urged her also to sue for divorce and to
marry him, pretending that he could furnish
evidence Of adultery against Christiancy. She
rejected his overtures with sCorn; upon which
he turned upon her, and threatened if she re-
fused him he would sell his evidence to Chris.
tiancy and swear that the woman he passed
the night with at the st. James Hotel was
Mrs. G.. Now thoroughly alarmed, she wrote
a series of letters to Gro, offering to marry
him-do anything in short-if he would re-
train from carrying out his threat and would
save her good name. After long deafness
10 her appeals, he offered to comply with
her request for $4,000; and as she refused
to pay the money and reproached HIM with
his meanness, he turned against her, and large
y doctoring her letters TO him, gave them to
Christiancy, through whom the letters have
been given to the press Without the attend
ant explanation Of course the letters are highly
damaging to Mrs. Christiancy, but with IT. we
are nightly mistaken if they don't prove a
destructive boomerang to old Christiancy and
his pimp CARO-. In any view they settle the
case of the latter as being an inexpresslbly
lespIcable dirty dog.