Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-16
The COnnubial Sorrows Of an
American MarchiOness.

The COnnubial Sorrows of an
American Warehouses.
Mrs. Hooper's Par Letter to the Philadel.
phia Telegraph.
The following advertisement an.
peared in the columns of the Figaro
and L'Evenement for Wednesday
April II:
"The Marquis of Anglesey, re.
siding at Beaudesert Rugeley, Stat
ford county, England, and at Paris
No. 3 Rue Fortin, gives notice tC
tra%despeople and to the public in gen.
eral that he will pay none Of the debt.
that may be contracted without hi.
written authorization by the Mar.
chioness Of Anglesey, his wife. Paris
April IL, 1882. Signed: Anglesey."
For more than a week past, whis-
pers of a crisis in the matrimonial
affairs ofthe Marquis and Marehiones.
have been rife 10 Paris, and it was
generally understood that the gentle.
man had left his wife and his Partisan
home, and had beaten a retreat to his
native land. Lady Anglesey was for.
merly Mrs. ,Wodehouse, born Miss
Minnie King, ofGeorgia. Owing to her
strong Southern sympathies, the lady
has never been willing to live in the
United States, and her pareAts having
taken refuge 10 Europe during the
wal of the rebellion, she grew Ia
womanhood here and has beer thor.
oughly identified with the European
society. Her beauty, her accomplish.
ments and her brilliant intellectually
made her a great social star in London
and in Paris. She was at one time re
ported to be engaged to Baron Alfred
de Rothschild, the son of old Baron
Lionel, OF London, but the match wa,
broken off, the parents of the gentle
men refusing to sanction the marriage
on the ground Of the difference Of
religion. Two years ago Mrs. Wode.
house, whose first husband, an Eng
lish gentlemen, survived his marriage
barely a twelvemonth, was married. II
Paris, to the Marquis of Anglesey. ;
union destined TO be rendered mem.
orable by the supposed suicide of Mira
Wetmore, an American lady
to whom it was said tina
Lord Anglesey had promised
marriage before his engagement {,
Mrs. Wodelhouse. 1t was afterwsrdI
ascertained that Mrs. Wetmore die
not kill herself, her death havinI
been the result of accident or impru
dence; but this affair, with its pre.
sumably romantic details, created ar
immense sensation at the time. anC
was very thoroughly ventilated in th,
newspapers. 1t was thought at frs
by the friends of both Lord and Lad,
Anglesey that the social charms anc
mental qualifications of the lad,
would exercise a peculiar happy in.
iuence over her erratic spouse. Such
has not apparently been the case
Great incompatibility Of tastes and Of
temper existed between the pair
Lord Anglesey, as a peer Of Great
Britain, was DESTROYS of residing on
his ancestral estates, while Lady Anp
lesey adored Paris and would cohsenl
to fix her abode in no other place.
Other causes of dissension arose, and
as the union was childless, the closest
and sweetesttie of domestic life wa,
wanting to draw the husband aud wife
closer together.
The other day a quarrel of peculiar
ylrulence terminated in the husbands
sudden disappearance from the ele.
CANT Partisan hotel that formed his
home in this city, and ii was after.
wards ascertained that he had taken
his departure for London. heal