The semi-weekly miner., 1883-07-18
THE AUTHOR OF A SCANDAL

THE AUTHOR OF A SCANDAL.
Oath Gives the History of Mrs.
Bush, the Woman Recently
Brought Into Public
| Noteriety.
"Gath" forwarded the following
dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer
from New York: About forty years
ago a beautiful woman named
Erexine Melbourne, said to have
been the most beautiful woman ON
the eastern shore of Maryland, paid
visit to her brother John, who had
previously emigrated to Louisville,
and while there she married Mr..
Collins, who died seversl years ago.
Her younger brother, Wilbur F. Mel
bourne, paid her visit after she
married, and, drifting off to the
Southwest to visit also another sister,
Mrs. Sewall Taylor. of New Orleans,
he enlisted in the United States reg
ular army while on a spree with a
comrade. Proving to be good
soldier, he was, in the course of
years, without other influence, COM
missionsd Captain OF regulars, and
at the beginning of the Rebellion was
stationed at Springfield, ILL.,, and
made Paymaster and Brevet- Major.
His niece from Louisville, daughter
of the belle aforesaid, was married to
Mr.. Shut. Her uncle married
sister of Mr.. Shut, whose elder
brother is a prominent Democratic
lawyer of Springfield.
Having by this time wearied of
arms and wanting change, Major
Melbourne resigned from the service
to go into mercantile business with
his savings in st. Louis, where he
took partner. One morning this
partner drew all of Major Mel
bourne's funds out of the bank and
has not since been seen. The old
regular found himself without COM
mission or means and with grow
ing family on his hands. The eldest
of his two daughters was Blarche
Melbourne, now Mrs. Bush, whose
intimacy with Mr.. Sartoris has form
ed the subject of recent dispatches.
His wife took her burden pretty
bravely, being, with her husband, of
religious leanings. He tending to
melancholy as his troubles began,
she took in boarders to help support
the family. They lived for some
years at Jefferson City, he as Deputy
Adjutant-General of the State At
forwards he obtained some political
office in the city government of st. |
Louis. Constantly seeking to regain |
the place he had resigned in the reg !!
ular army, he finally drifted to
CITY, and in Baltimore
his niece, Maggie Collins, became
the wife of DR.. Louis Mormon nier,
who has peen referred to by Mrs. !
Bush as her cousin.
Perhaps the gift of beauty and the
of dependence severed
the bonds between father and daugh-
ter and sent Blanche upon a personal
career. The effete blood of the Kem-
bies, Sartorises, etc., seem to have re-
cognized its queen in this adven-
turess. Sewall T. Melbourne of the
Bar is the first cousin of
Mrs. Bush. The daughters OF the
late Solon Borlan, once United
States Senator from Arkansas and
Minister to Central America, were
second or third cousins to Mrs. Bush
about the same degree of kinship is
mine to the lady, provided she be
Major Melborne's daughter.
About seven years ago President
Grant was solicited by United
States Senator to reappolnt Major
Melbourne Paymaster. Could he
lave done so, his own daughter
night now be spared the details of
What is probably very slender
A special to the New York World
rom Washington saws: II am very
much afraid that Mrs. Bush is my
laughter Blanche" said Major Mel
bourne to your correspondent. 1--WE
lave been reading various articles
published about her, and, taking
into consideration, we
ire impressed by them, Yet it is
lard to understand how she could
lave written to us from Paris on
April 18th and arrived at Milwaukee
It same time she is saidato have ar
lived there" He did not believe
he had married Bush. II believe
he Is married to Ernest Bell of St.
LOUIS" he said. "He went abroad
ust after she did. He wanted to
marry her, and it was understood /:
hat he went abroad in that hope. I s
,elieve that young man who is re-
ported to be with her is Bell, and
hat they are married. She refers to
lim as her brother. She has no /.
,rother. I hope she is not my j;
but fear she is. She had
lad fall from window in st. Louis
ONE years ago and lay for a long &;
ime at the point of death. The in {
uries to her head were nearly fatal. I
t was thought her skull was frac- {
ured, and the doctor said, after she
ecovered, it might trouble her and
possibly affect her mind. If this is
ny Blanche, L believe that is the
ause of her strange conduct. I .
wish you would say that we are t
nxious to know where she is and
arnestly desire to have her home, {
wherever she may he. AS to the ,,
tories about her improper relations ,
With Sartoris, I can't believe them.
'he was always good daughter, and
Ter mother was a noble Christian
He added that it wasn't
rue that he had disewned Blanche.
MI reflections on her character be- ,
ore she went abroad were untrue. :
;he was handsome and had enemies.
The never was a guest of Judge
David Davis here. Major Melbourne {
enies the story that he is gambler, I
nd he says his debts were the result t
f his partners misconduct.
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