The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-07

adrnonished concerning the habit, and that
last action rendered it insufFerahle To my
mind there could be only one object in view
| ID degrading her to that state, and that is an
uncomfortable one.
s.The idea has gained eredenee that You had
made a threat of separating man and wife, in
consequence Of q slight you had received on
some occasion.
II have heard that also repeatedly, and can
| only say that more absurd theory never
was presented believe that am accounted
| woman Of good sense at least, and if were
| malicious enough toldesire such separation
4 Of Mr.. Davis and his wife, which could have
been of no earthly benefit to me, would il net
be more reasonable to suppose that would
have fii+t ATTEMPTED to influence her as tie
easiest and most certain way to accomplish
| it, And as for being snubbed by theIn--it
| that ever occurred | never knew it, 1t is
about on a par with the statement that Mrs.
! Thompson was afraid to speak for fear that
| old Phil Thompson would cut off her support,
| which Is another assertion that deserves con
| tempt. MIR. Thompson perhaps may have
advised her not to talk too much; but he Is
not the kind of a man to threaten a woman
| IN that ingenious manner, no matter what her
| fault may be- She has never received any
thing but kindness from the family
Ms. Walter Davis was a relative of Mrs
Thompson, helieves A great many PEG
pie believe SO, suppose, as she always gave out
the superstition that he was her cousin; but it
was no blood relation Her name was Miss
| Mary Garnet, and she was nothing of kin to
I he Davis family
What are the true domestic relations be
tween Mr. and Mrs. Thompsonf That has
$50 received much comment
Il never saw in my life a more devoted
husband than he. He left her all the house
| hold furniture and furnished means for her
support, and, not satisfied with this, did
| everything that man could do for her tive
brothers, whom he sent to California at hi:
own expense, and at the same time supported
her mother, with whom she is now living
and, furthermore, he expects to support them
| as long as he lives And then to think that
after that family gathering the other day the
mean reporter should have said that Phi
Thompson should have influenced Mrs
Thompson for fear of withdrawing his sup
port from her Such falsehoods in print make
me furious. Another point deserves notice
and you may put it down. After Mr. and
] Mrs Thompson returned from Washington
she gave out everywhere that they were liv
ing together on the most amiable terms, AMI
we believed it for a while. How people
change their minds in this world"
A casual aliusion was here made to Miss
Buckner's own marriage, of which she spoke
tenderly and with much emotion.
1T was an III assorted match, y she said, "a
was only 16 and he about q. Neither of u:
were old enough to know our own minds
The union was unhappy, for he was dissi
pated from the beginning, and spent my in
heritance as well as his own. Parting from
my child caused me an anguish that almost
i ruined my health for life; and know now
was on the verge Of insanity, and that sacred
subject has been raked up, and with cruel
venomous pertinacity flung from one end Of
the country to the other
Miss Buckner declined to make a statement
as to this subject; said she had been abused
by the press, showing hideous wood-cut
Of herself which had been cut out of some
paper: said that she had staunch friends: that
the men had stood by her in this last case
while the women had held aloof from her
that she hardly ever made a confident of a
woman, and had few friends among them
that she was educated as Roman Catholic
but upon her marriage became an Episco
lpalian; and that she loved the old church yet
and hoped to return to it; that she thought
the Thompson verdict a just one, and that
her testimony had no necessary place in the
verdict
| Miss Buckner possesses a sweet-toned voice
and speaks luently and with cultured south
srn accent. In manner she is graceful and
charming, and at the same time is occasion
ally an earnest and energetic speaker Sht
is a remarkably handsome lady, not looking
as old as She says she is-25 She very grace
fully and quietly babe the reporter good-day
saying she hoped now that all interviewing
for her had ended