Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-05-24
10 CHEsNsr's RUMtNcE.
The Woman Who Married George IL hutiet
Hut Could Not Reform Him.

The Woman Who Married George IL huuer'
Hut Could Not Reform HIM
From the New York world.
For a number of years IN Washington 'iS
there has been tall slim, beautiful bIonue'
who every one called Jo Ihesney, ana VINO
WAS to I've met at every house where VII anu
culture were appreciated. There was say
ing among her friends that she SIMPLY
lodged at home and "took her meals out,
berause there were 50 many tables TO
which she was a welcome guest that the
week was not long enough to get around to
each in turn. She has lived alSne, and has
always calmly followed her own devices i'll
finding her amusemeuts and regulating her
life. so that Washington has been in a
chronic condition of being shocked at her
bland ignoring of all social rules, but seeing
she cared not fig, society at last grew
accustomed to her Vagaries, and being hers,
rather liked them. She received men, AS
many of them As amused her, diued with
them, drove with them, treated them rs good
and Jolly comrades, and not one OF all those
she chose TO call friend would not have
fought in a minute any idiot who dared to
say anything disrespeCuul of handsome,
frank, honest 10 Chesney.
She had a secret in her Life that not even
the female newspaper correspondents could
quite unveil. 1t might be noon or II might
Oe midnight when 10 Chesnsy would send to
the club for one of her friends, or if he could
not be found, go alone into the slums or into
the bar rooms to look for man who had
escaped from the inebriate asylum. When
she found him she carried him back, and
then let the whole incident drop into silence,
and no one was quite brave enough to insist
upon an explanation. This man who would
be taken home helplessly ineOriated to the
asylum from which he tad He'd, was George
II. Butler, nephew OF General II. +. Butler,
and one of the most brilliant and talented
young men of his generation, who threw
away the great career pruphesIed for him 10y
reason OF his fatal passion He married the
| actress Rose Eytinge and went a. consul 10
| Egypt, but Immediately after their return
| she secured divorce from him on the plea
| of his intemperance. He grew only worse as
| tune went on and eventually consented 10 he
| sent to the asylum as a last nope, but con
| stantly broke away and hid himself in the
| slums, from which he was always patiently
| rescued by Miss CheSuey She visited him
| in the asylum and watched tenderly over
| him, and if it had been any one but her
society would not have hesltated to say that
this was too eccentric to be tolerated but she
| was so altogether an unusual person herself,
and so many breaches of social usage were 10
be charged up to her account, that one more
| or less really did not signify.
In the Washington papers of the past week
appeared the notice OF the death OF George Ii.
| Butler and Immediately beneath il notice
| of marriage, which set forth that George
| Butler had, in the state OF Maryland, IN the
| year lSsO. been, by the Rev. Byron Sunder'
| land, D. D., married to Josephine Chesney
| When Washington read that latter no1ice i
opened its eyes very wide, drew in its breatl
| and said
$50 that was the explanation Of it, after all
| How strange! ~
| The woman who had borne and suttera
in secret so long in the vain hope OF rescuin.
| the man she loved from the besettiug siI
was born in Georgia, the daug ghter of Pres
byterian minister. When the civil war be
gan she went to the hospitals, spending thOs
tour years in caring for the sick and wound
ed. Her first appearance in Washington wa
as the secretary of Senator Patterson, {
| South Carolina. 1t was here that she me
| George Butler, and as soon as his wife CAV
| him W sue secretly married him and unde
took the hopeless task of curing him of tn
disease that had stood in the path of h
| honor and advancement. How the struggi
| OF her love and patience, her courage an
brave solitary ConhieuCe. ended, those tw
notices sum up mOre sadly than pages {
| elOQuenCe.