Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-04-19

Prem the NsS ferk Mail and Exerssa ]
Ths past year has bsea noted for 10
sroisI scandals and Senator Sharon q
divorce adds another item TO this part
OF is history. Ihe LATE Presidential
campaign comprised eontinuOus wash
lag Of dirty linen, and the mode After
which the great mzn makes isYs has Be-
some - important as MS vote 90 TIE
tariff OF civil service rsfern- Moss OF
our statesmen. however. have pure do
nestle records and the marriages OF
many Of them have been marriages OF
love. Old Senator Benton WAS devoted
to his wife and he goald never attend
any place Of festivity OF amusement
after her death. The wife Of Senator
Alien, betteI known IS Fog horn
Allen. died al Washington during the
winter Of 1877, before the dAys Of rail
roads, and the old Senator carried her
corpse home TO Ohio over the mountains,
riding beside it on horseback during the
dag and Watching it az night through
out the cold. weary journey until he laid
is at last beside her father, Governor
Arthur, IN the beautiful cenletery al
Chiliicoihe.
Daniel Webster's two marriages were
both marriages Of love. His first wife
vas Grace Fletcher, the daughter Of 9
New Hampshire clergyman Webster
married her when he was twenty -siz
years Of age and while be was yet a
poor lawyer. His popping the question
vas most delicately done. Miss Grace
had been winding skein Of yarn while
he had held is for her IN his long arms.
The skein had become tangled and dur
inn ka ~
lovers had become very Close together
As the knot became united Mr.. Webster
said: I'VE have succeeded, Miss Grace,
IN uRtying this knot; can We not now tie
another which viii remain tied 81
ed and kiss, il Ia said, sealed the bar
gain The two lived happily for eigh
teen years. when Mrs. Webster died IL
Nev York, on her way 10 Washington
where her husband was q member OF
Congress. She was i'll three weeks, dur
ing which time Webster watched at hel
bedside, but two years after she died be
married again. Websfer's second wife
was Caroline LeRoy, New York lady
tall, brown haired and beautiful. She
presided over his establishment here and
accompanied him to Europe, where she
dined with the Qaeen. She always ad
dressed her husband as 'sMr. Webster,
and his favorite term for her was Lady
Caroline.
Henry A. Wise proposed on the dome
OF the Capitol here, and one of the re-
suits of the marriage was John Sergeant
Wise, the present member OF Congress
from Virginia, who was born at RE
Janeiro, where Henry A. Wise was Off
eating az Minister at the time.
Senator Sam Houston, the President
Of the Republic of Texas, was the
youngest man who had ever governed
the State of tennessee, when he fell il
love with pretty girl at the State Cap
itaL He was the Governor Of the State
good looking and o splendid catch,
After his marriages De found his wife
loved another, and that she had teeE
forced by her parents to marry him
de left the Governors chair, and, tell
ing his wife to get q divorce on thu
| ground OF desertion, went to the from
| TIER and joined tribe of Cherokee In
dams. Here he married squaw in In
/ di n fashion and soon became q chief
He was drinking hard and going to tns
dogs, when one day be was told OF thu
troubles in Texas, and the battle Of To.
Alamo was described to him. HI
Strengthened himself up, determined 4
be man again, and vent forth to hi
brave and distinguished career il
fexas. His wife, ana told. got bel
divorce, but whether she married be-
lover know not.
Davy Crockett, another frontisl
statesman, fell in love with q relativ,
Of his schoolmaster bat while he wa
counting her richer suitor carried hei
away under his eyes. He next met |
beauty at ball, fell in love at frs
SIGHT and became engaged at the clos
Of the fifth dance. The day was fxes
for him to announce the engagement 3,
her parents. He started TO 90 to them
foil in with some boon companions OF
the way and made, a. they say, q nigh
of It. He arrived a day too late ans
found his lady love was 10 be marries
that night to another. Crecke't mad
the best Of bad bargain. He lauRhes
Cd has disappointment ard danced al
night at the close of the wedding at thl
psrty given in its honor. He soon Eel
in love sgain, and this time he becam
married.