Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-08-03
SECOND EDITION
A REAL ROMANCE.
The Daughter of IA Vice President of III G
United states and wife ola Russian
ambassador begging Her Way
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Yesterday afternoon n lady sat in
the ocity clerks Office. Age had
slightly bent the once erect form and
had touched To silver the raven traces
which had lost none of their oldep
eoftness and abundance. About her
clothing was an indefinable something
which. in spite of their frayed appear
ance, stamped their wearer as d person
of quality aud refinement. One
Of her hands hung listlessly to
her side, and the tremuOus grasp OF
the other was fixed on u curious, an
iiuue walking stick. The face that
looked cut from the genteei though
faded bonnet, was wilhered by age,
but was speaking and intelligent.
There sits the daughter of ~ vice
president 81 the United States said Il
gentlemen as he emerged from the
room
''What Is she doing hereof asked the
reporter.
'Actually begging her transporta-
ti1n 30 Baltimore was the reply.
This WAS enough aud the next mo-
meut the reporter was sitting by the
old lady, listening to her sad, strange
history as IL fell from her own lips.
Her father, she said, was William
Rufus King, vice-president of the
United States udder President Frank
lin Pierce; and her husband was Gen.
Hunter, United States minister TO Rus
ria during President JaclSson's first
term King was wealthy man and
so was Hunter. How then could the
daughter OF one and the widow Of the
other be in such indulgence, seeking aid
from the country? Truth is stranger
than fiction, and this .seemeG strange
piece OF truth.
Mrs. Hunter said she was over sew
enty years old, and had, unfortunately
married ut the early ago of fourteen
years, hei husband, Gen. Hunter, being
then thiriy-two. 4 short time after
their marriage Gen. Hunter received
from President Jackson the appoint.
nlent of minister to the court OF the
ear, and the next six years ot theil
life We're spent at st. Petersburg
Upon returning to this oountry they
spent several years In the south, prin.
cipallyain Kentucky aud Tennessee
In 1893 her father went to preside ovel
the deliberations of the United States
senate and she removed to Washing
ton. where her husband died.
When the war broke cut she wa,
living in Louisville, where she had
large property. Fearing eontiseatior
10y the Federals she WAS induced la ar
range Il supposed sale with prom
igcnt Uniol,ist. She gave him bill
Of sale and he turned over TO her $500,
ESQ in cash In the presence of wit
nesses. She did not desire 10 bt
Troubled with the money and returned
1t 60 him, in trust, but Mhen she
wanted it he denied all knowledge o.
1t, The one witness present could
never be found. and she could not
prove her case In the suit she brought
Her wealth gone she went TO her chil
e'ren Ia Memphis to make her home
hut the yellow fever scourge of 20 ear.
rled them all oil aud left her uRon the
world
"whM was the name OF the man
who got 3sour money 2" asked the re-
porter.
Mrs. Hurter then learned she had
been converslng with reporter and
became as mate as o clam. She said
she had relatives among the Kings
and did not wish 10 anger them bg
any newspaper Aotorlety. She came
10 the city on Wednesday evening and
spent her last penny for lodging and
breakfast at The NJ. Charles Hotel.
Yesterday she saw several commission
trs and finally obtaif.e ed from Mr.,
tromeford the means 10 carry her 10
Cumberland. She desire 10 10 to
baltimore, and II she faile d 10 find
friends, would 90 TO Was. hington,
where she knew Mr.. Corcorai., who
was an old schcolmate and play nate,
and who would put her In the ren eat
he had founded.
This u the story she told, and II was