The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-10-22

! tired little bride. His parents received them
on their arrival at the country place. but with
no demonstrations, it is said, showing Joy at the
match their son had made. Report says that
| Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Sartoris fully appreciated
tho fact that their son had nothing in him to
command affection, and looked upon him rs
an ignorant bOOr," who had misuSod the adj
vantages they had given him of study in Eng
land and Germany, and privately Ielt rather q
contempt for any woman who would marry
him. Mr.. and Mrs. Sartoris, ST., had lost their
elder son-Greville-oalya few months be-
fore Algernon's marriage, he having been killed
by fall from his horse while hunting, and
were still greving for his loss, he having been
far more worthy Of the affection of his very
intellectual parents than Algernon They had
but two sons. In fact, Mr.. and Mrs. Sartors, ST.,
were nothing if not intellectual. She was
Adelaide Kemble, the daughter of the famous
Charles Kembe, and sister Of Mrs. Fannie
Kemble Butler, the noted reader and author,
who has lived for many years in Philadelphia.
Adelaide kembe, as a singer, was most favora-
bly, known all over Europe. Her husband was
we'll off at the time of their sons marriage,
and had been a Member of Parliament. He
had good voice and was AN amateur artist
of considerable merit. Music, art and litera-
ture were the occupations and amuscments
of their home, but the poor little American
bride had no taste for any of these and no
education in them. 1t is scarcely necessary to
add that her country life, therefore, proved
dull one to her, and that her accomplished
mother-in-aw rather looked down upon her.
1t is said that Mrs Sartors, ST., did not conceal
this feeling. Her husbands only sister, who
was married before he was, proved no moro
congenial. There were no entertainments at
Court for young Mrs. Sartoris as there had
been for Nellie Grant for she was no longer
looked upon as the daughter of the soldier
President of the United States, but by her mar
rage had become British subject; and her
husbands family having no claim upon the
fashionable aristocracy of England except upon
those who appreciated their accomplishments,
who invited them to their parties solely be-
cause of their intellectual attainments there
was small chance for their sons wife, who had
no share in such, to en- Joy society at all. Gen.
Schenck, who was still Minister to England,
had told her when he saw her in Washington
before her marriage that he, representing the
United States as Minister could do nothing for
her when she came to London as the wife of
one Of the Queens subjects. SO her life must
have been on all accounts trying one unen-
lvened by any of the amuSements which had
given her delight before her marriage.
The Summer after her marriage she spent
with her own parents at their cottage at Long
Branch, and there, in July or August 1875,
her first child, which was named for her father,
was born. She and the baby went back to
England in the Autumn, and there, on the
second anniversary of his parents marriage, i
little Ulysses Grant Sartoris died.
Mrs. Sartoris spent the last Winter her par
ents were in the White House (1S76-'77) with
them there, and had very gay time. She was
present on March 3, 1877, at the State dinner
they gave President and Mrs. Hayes.
Mrs. Sartoriss second child, boy, who still
survives was born a few weeks later at the
residence Ton Corcoran street, of her aunt, the
widow of Judge Dent. She has had two chill
dren since, both of whom were born in Eng
land. One of these is girl.
The first positive proofs made public that
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris had more serious
causes for domestic unhappiness than the above
mentioned Indifference of her husband and the
uncongenial tastes and habits of his parents
would indicate, were in the newspapers about
two years ago, when a scandal eliminating in
the West was detailed in full. 1t was said that
Mr. Sartoris had furnished house out there
for a young woman, with whom he had been
seen great deal in way that compromised
both, and failing to pay for the furniture, the
occupant of the house, who it was alleged was
being supported by him, got into serious
troubles and he was brought publicly into the
matter. The Grant family, when questioned,
would say nothing on the subject, but it has
been observed that Mr.. Sartoris and his wife
have rarely, If ever, been in the same place at
the same time since then. He has not accom-
panied her when she has made visits to this
country, though he has been here looking after
time in New York at other times when she has
been in England. 1t was said, at the time that
owing to her fathers critical condition last
Spring, she, in response to telegram from her
brother. hurried to New York from England to
spend the last months of her fathers life
with him; that her husband sailed from New
York about the time she left the other side,
though he of course must have known, as all
the world did, of Gen. Grants alarming illness,
and that his wife would, of course, soon come
to her father. 1t looked as if he did not mean
to remain where he might meet the trusting
woman he had wronged. 1t was also generally
observed, that while from every quarter of the
civilized globe messages came during Gen.
Grants Illness of sympathy for him and his
family, and at the time of his death of condo
lence with the mourning wife and children,
none were ever mentioned as coming from the
husband of the Generals only daughter, who
had been given him with almost a royal dowery,
but better than all, with an honest, loving
heart which was wholly his and with fresh,
unspoiled nature, which worthy husband
would have developed into the highest qualities
a woman can possess.
No one, then, can wonder that it is thought
very likely that Gen. Grants only daughter will
at some not distant time begin proceedings for
divorce from her unappreciative and neglectful
husband. The question as to obtaining pos
session of her children is more serious one
and one which may. work many embarrass-
mentS and combinations