Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-10
A SAMPLE OK TaR Work OF sENsA.
GIoNaL JOURNALISM.

There has been a very dainty bit o.
scandal in Chicago recently, and there doe,
net seem to have been any foundation fol
it except IN the suspicious Of the Chicago
reporters, who have not hositated, to satisfy
their own greed for gossip, to cause in.
nocent hearts to bleed. In brief. the story
is this, that the husband of Nellie Grant,
Algernon Sartoris, has had improper relations
with Mrs. Bush. Even if it were true,
it is not clear what business the newspapers
Of Chicago have with 1t. Mrs. Sartoris'
name should have inspired sufficient re-
spect, as she is a pure woman, to have
stayed the pencils OF the soandal-mongers.
SartOris had business in Green Bay, Wis.
On the steamer coming out from England,
he fell in, runs the story, with Mr. and
Mrs. Bush, to whom he showed little kind.
nesses, such as q travelled man may extend
to strangers. They located at Mil
waukee, where Ssrtoris once openly visited
them and also once in Chicago. And as
Mrs. Bush is q very young and handsome
woman and Bush is said to be65, the gossips
rush to the basest of conclusions. Sar-
toris went on to Green Bay, and from that
point be has sent back the most indignant
denials, and protests that travelling
acquaintance is ell ne had with the parties.
Mr.. Bush was seen very little about Mil
wsukee, snd lis existence aa a husband
began TO DO doubted, Finally the woman
left with her bills unpaid and went to Chi.
cago. There reporter forced his presence
upon her, snd actually had the effrontery
to ask her to avow or deny her shame. It
would amount 10 much the same thing &C.
cording to The style such reporters adopt
in their narratives, no matter whaa
the answer. The woman's steps were
logged, her habits noted, her privacy in
vaded, her letters intercepted to ascertain
their post-mark and address, and lie was
made for her hours of mortal terror. Vita
all this were coupled the widest and most
absurd speculations and suspicious. until
all the West is in fever heat as to whether
Nellie Grants husband has been unfaithful
to her or not. It is useless for the man to
enter denials; the Western reporter will
treat them as ''of course, of eourse." This
is ell very shameful side Of newspaper
life, and is wholly indefensible. It has
gone great deal further however. The
great dailies are now busy delving into
private affairs to find ont who Mrs. Bush
Is. According to all accounts she is re-
nlsrkably handsome woman, and save for
running in debt she has behaved with
entire propriety. One st5gy is very
romantic, and tells ST her being the
daughter of Major Melbourne, once of
st. Louis, but now broken down and pen.
niless in New York. Her mother was
wemsn Of the purest reputation,
upright and universally respected. At II
the daughter was the Handsomely woman
IN the West. By fall from a window,
which gossip says was purposeful bees1se
u uhASi uiSSO ohSStiVAJ sHS sustained an
injury to the brain that has affected he-
ever since. She secured @ clerkship IL
Washington. and from there lady took
her to Europe, and for the last three years
her family have lost sight of her. The
other story is that she is the daughter of
Wilton G. Greene, of New York that she
went to Europe when 10, and thea married
Mr. Bash. The woman insists that her
husband and his brother have gone TO the
forest region Of the North on a speculation;
while the gossips sver that she has no has
band. This 8 the whole of the story, ab.
breviated, whiah has set the Cbic,eo
dailies by the esFs. Jed to editorial debates,