News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-17
GENEVIEVE WARDS ROMANCE.


4 strange Story Even if Half of it be True.
GeneYieve Ward went to Europe at
three years of age with her banker
father, b5camA musical protege Of
Nine. Sontag and studied music near
Rossini, in Florence, writes a newspaper
correspondent, She refused to be en-
gagged to rich EeT Yorker who was
abroad and whom her parents favored,
but struck for title, and Russian, the
Count de g., as she calls him, applied !
for her hand. Her mother started to
Parts with the romantic girl, but was
taken sick at Genoa, and at Nice they
were married at the American Consulate.
The Count endeavored to stave of
Greek Church ceremony at Turin, but
Genevieve and her mother found from
the Prussian Minister that the marriage
would not be binding upon Russian
subject SO, without the c0nsummation
Of the nuptials, the bride set OF for
Paris, the Count following. He then
became alarmed at threat to appeal to
the Emperor, and proceeded TO abuse
his wife's reputation, and used the
American Legation to assist him. The
bride intimates that the Secretary OF
Legation himself endeavored to wrong
her also. Suddenly Governor Dix al
rived in Paris 1854). He took to Miss
Wards case, wrote to Governor Sey-
mour, of Connecticut, our Minister at
st. Petersburg, and the lady and her
brother and mother started thither i'll
the dead of witlter, before any railroads
were open.
The young girl meantime sch to wofk
to study Russian; she was, at law,
neither American nor Russian under the
peculiar circumstances of her case. They
travelled from Konigsberg to Riga on
sledges. y six days more they reached
st. Petersburg, having been attacked on
the road by Russian Doors. Minister
Seymour introduced GeneTieTe into the
Court society, his object being to pro-
duee an interest in her behalf that
would offset the official rank Of her hus-
bands family. She thus met her own
brother -in-law, general on the Emper-
or's staff, who became her warm friend
and told her that his brother Constan-
tue was the black sheep of the family.
A Russian Prince wished to marry her,
but she remained true to her purpose of
an honorable vindication, and her
brother-in-law himself took the case to
Alexander II. The Emperor sent his
Chief of Police, Prince de Dolgoroul1i,
to see the maiden bride and ask her to
name General de G.'s punishment
"To marry me forthwith. +"
"Nothing but that?' esEed the aston
ished Tartar.
"Immediate divorce after marriage,
said Genevieve Ward.
The minister said that would be i'm
possible under the Church and the laws
she would be compelled to live with tie
Count few weeks. To this hard con.
: dition she assented, and the recrean
2 bridegroom was ordered back to Russia
2 He meantime had engaged himself a
t Naples to the Russian Minister'S daugh
, ter, and was giving splendid parties
borrowing money, etc. The news o.
his marriage to Genevieve Ward as.
, tonished Naples and brought out the adj
ditional fact that he was at the same
time engaged to two other Neapolian
ladies. He narrowly escaped a pttblie
horsewhipping for showing the letters
! of one of these women, and sailed out
of the harbor in his yacht only to run
upon Colonel Ward, the father of Gene
We've Ward, at Paris. Together father
aud son-in-law proceeded to Warsaw.
The Count had now concluded to marry
l his wife and get rid of her, if he so de-
+ sired by poison or violence. The Vice
roy of Poland, Prince Gortchakoff, i'll.
formed the Count that it WAS to be in
/ instant marriage OF Siberia for life an6
i the confiscation of all his property tC
l his American wife. He then called OF
e the lady in the presence of her family
Nothing, sir" she said, "could in
3 duce me to live with you one hour"
e "What is your motive, Genevieve?'
"Your infamy."
Said he, in few minutes: "Wh.
: do you put me in chains ?"
t ''Thus far, said she, 81 have been {
e wife without husband. Hencefortl
e you shall be q husband without wife.
i The Russian scoundrel now took t.
e oaths and rage, but Gortchakoff COOL.
J pointed to Siberia.
: Warsaw Cathedral at eleven o'cloci
e the next day was crowded with the elit
of Russia and Poland. Genevieve wa
: attended by her father, mother au'
e brothers She was dressed in deel
"a black and carried lighted taper in tn
c ceremony. At the conclusion she walket
) ont of the church, refusing to claim an.
/ of her husbands property. She wen
) to Milan and came out in opera at tn
s Carcano Opera House there in 1857. A
/ Paris the scoundrel of husband il
- truded into her apartments and notitie
,, her that he would live with ner at a
D hozor1c His voriOuS SuiDdleS and I;