Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-16
Scandal I'm HIgh-Toned Washington So.

BALTIMORE, MD, November I5.-A spe-
cisl FIRE m Washington says: For some days
past the denizens of fashionable uptown
hotel have been discussing, with bated
breath, the details of scandal way, way up
in society. At first the matter was jealousy
guarded, but of late it's unssvory odor has
begun 10 percolate through the veil of se-
crecy that surrounds it, and your correspond
ent feels no further hesitancy in making it
public. The dromGtis persone are q high
treasury official, noted for his gallantries,
dashing young widow and clerk in the
State Department Mrs. B., the lady in
question, made her debut in Washington last
spring. Without quoting the extravsg ant
Language of her admirers, it is safe to say
she is very handsome, trife under thirty
years OF age, with form exquisitely moldec.
She was a woman to be enVied by her sex
and sdored by men. Her lace is not strictly
beautiful, judged by high standard of
beauty, but all the more dangerous be-
cause of lis wonderful fascination, to-
geIher with that intangible quantity known
as personal magnetism. A Bosfonisn
BY birth and education, a thorough
woman Of the world in all that constitutes
tact, adroitness and q knowledge of human
nature, she speedily became favorite in
that select circle 10 which her talents and
letters of introduction admitted her. Among
the gentlemen who Auttered about her was
the official spoken Of above, and who, for
convenience szke, will be designated as Mr..
G. Many and frequent were the curtain
lectures which G.. received from his vile, in
spirtd BY his attentions TO the fair widow,
bnt the effect seemed lost upon him. DAy
by day he grew more fascinated, until at last
he old dowagers voted it scandalous and
noured forth their sympathy, we'll mixed
with iunue ndo, into the willing ears of hie
angry spouse. What e1asperated them The
more was the widows discreet behavior.
Like Csesar's wife, she was outwardly above
reproach, and the breath of scandal could
find no Judgment on the polished front she
showed 10 the world. Still there was an
inde6nabIe something about her that made
he Uiseacres suspect thai all was not right.
Her means we're not ample, she would say,
with charming naivete, but nevertheless suf-
| 6cient to support her genteeliy. l have said
all the gentlemen paid court to her charms.
There was one exception, the State
| Department Young man. Instead OF follow
ing her about, happy to be rewarded with a
smile. his manners were cold and distant.
People marveled at this the more when il
was discovered that the widow entertained =
real psnehant for the handsome clerk, but
his deportment was always the same
studiediy polite One night last week, when
III. house wss wrapped in slumber and each
virtuous matron sleeping the sleep OF the
inst. a succession OF screams broke the still
ness. The sound proceeded from the direc-
ton of the widows apartments; soon a num-
Der of white-sheeted figures, Issuing from the
different room ;, hoddied together in the halls
and corridors. Al last one more bold than
the rest turned the lock of the widows door.
Ii was curious spectacle thar presented
itself. Prone upon the door lay the orrcial
and the clerk. The latter was on top,
pounding his superior with all the weight
Of his vigorous fists. The widow, attired