The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-07-27
TIE %TICISSITUDES
THROUGH WHICH SOUTHERN LAoY
au P...,d-rAs Nice, Of a ylo.-pr,ad.at, III.
Daughter of au uaItsd state. Senator and the
wife OfAn AttAehs Otau Important Legation.
CONTEST to Want ia Der Lonely Old Age.

Yesterday Afternoon an aged lady entered
the office of Clerk Bowers, in the City Build
ing, and sank iuto a chair almost exhausted.
She was y very small specimen Of humanity,
not weighing over one hundred pounds, ana
In height ABOUT i've feet. She walked with
difficulty and useda cane, one side being
partially paralyzed. She wore a faded black
dress and around her neck aud crossed over
her breas. wAsA white handkerchief. Her
face was brown aud p~rinkled, yet through
The lines OF sorrow heavily traced there could
be seen evidences o TeHnemebt. She was In
search OF some one In authority" to pass her
on 10 Baltimore. Her story was pltlful
She was on her way from Memphis tn Bal.
timore, whore she hoped to find friends or
be admitted Into some benevolent institu-
ton where she could end her days. She was
very much afraid that the reporters would
finu her and publish her story, aud for that
reason was not very communicative. She
told Mr.. Bowers that she was the widow of
gentleman named Hunter, a Marylander,
who under JacksOn'S administration was al.
tached to the Russian legation aud that she
had resided In st. Petersburg for six years;
that abe was a niece OF William Rufus King,
Il NlCt@l E6SluEut VI Ia hllktu StHpcd uAEluk
the Psarce administration; that her
fathers name was John P. King, and that he
WIS United States Senator rom Georgia In
1885, 80. Her husband had died before the
war, leaving her In atllueAt circumstances at
Memphis with q family Of five girls and two
boys.
The war commenced and this poor woman's
troubles began to follow each other rapidly.
she had s0me valuable property that had
been LETT her by her father and husband, and
this she decided to dispose Of lest 1t night be
c%ontiscated. A gentleman offered $4,000
for IL, and the bill of sale was made and the
| money paid over. Believing that the money
would be ,aier at that time In the purchasers
hands. an arrangement was made by which
he was 10 keep 1t until II was wanted To
this bargain there were two witnesses. Time
passed on aud q demand was made for the
money, but 1t was not received. The man
was a villain and swOrs that he had no money
Of hers. She sued him and lost the case.
Doe witness was dead, the other gone no one
knew where.
soon after the close OF the war, while she
was yet In Memphis, the old colored "Mam'
my'' who bad Tfa'el her children sicsentd
and died. In those days the sanitary meat-
ures OF Memphis were not what tney are
now. The nurse died OF the yellow fever.
The house was not thoroughly disipfected
aud the result was that the children sicksned
and all died inside OF nine days. That was
the commencement OF ons OF those awful cpl
denies that have played such havoc in the
South.
The above is the story as related by Mr..
Bowers to the reporter. Receiver Dunawsy
got the old lady u lunch, which she ate,
and afterwards appeared much refreshed
She was then sent TO County Commissioner
ComerfOr1 for a paE,. He sent her to Mf.
speidel, OF Clay district, out be not being at
home, she returned to the City Building
Uncle John Boring, the Commissioner from
Union, ives then sent for. Hehurried around,
procured a pass to Cumberland and put the
old lady on the $40 r N, train.