News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-23
THE STORY OF JIMMIE.
CAPT. Ia RUE'S PRETTY CRACKER
GIRL AND HER REMARK ABLE
CAREER.
She Might have bern Woman bnt she Be-
came nm Adventures with a History.
[From the Atlanta CONSTITUTIONAL

| and ms second was 10 iaugh. Being q
versatile young fellow of infinite re-
sources, he did 10th. The tired troop
ers saw at glance that there was moth
| ing in this little north Georgia mountain
village. OF the forty or fifty houses
Struggling around the public square, not
more than dozen wcre occupied The
majority OF the Inhabitants had fled to
| the nlCunHins.
''You, jimmie! You, ,Jinniew shouted
an old woman who had her head poked
out of her cabin window.
Capt. La Rue languidly turned his
| head, and then look of keen interest
flashed from his bold black eyes. ''Jin-
ME is worth looking at, said the young
officer, after critical surveyor the slight
figure swinging on the gate.
| jimmie had never seen any Federal
cavalry before, aud in her anxiety to
secure good view, she unconsciously
| perched herself upon the gate in Il posi-
| ton which showed her off to the best
| advantage.
Look at that pretty cracker girl, y
said big fellow, as he ratified his sabre
to attract Jinnie's attention.
,Khe girl was evidently not more than
16rs Divinely tall and divinely fair, her
lissome figure revealed every line and
curve of its graceful contour through the
soft, clingiug drapery in which she was
attired, and which seemed to be part
of her Under her rustic hat was per-
feet face. Her complexion was dazzling,
and contrasted well with the scarlet
thread running through her lips, and
with her shy eyes of blush gray. Her
hair was a glory in itself. 1t rol ed
down her shoulders like flood of molten
gold.
'such a girl, " muttered Capt. La Rue,
"has no business here, If | am not very
much mistaken there is trouble in store
for her."
The raiders searched the house and
stole everything worth carrying off.
They burned the unoccupled dwellings,
d spent the day in making the vii
layers miserable. the Captain did not
find the time hanging very heavily II
his hands. He made his headquarters
at the house occupied by jimmie and her
mother, and his appearance was so war
like that the old woman basled hersc f
in the kitchen, leaving her daughter to
keep the self invited guest under sur
veilance. 1t was long after midnight
before the troopers rode out of town on
their way back to the main body of the
army. Il ow it came about was never
fully explained, but the Captains spirit
ed harger carried double burden, and
one of the riders looked wondrously like
jimmie!
Among the Americans who did valiant
service in Maximillian's army, after our
war was over, was Capt. La Rue. The
Captain had a wife who was the toast Of
eli. Nexieo.. fro. tlhs. espital CITY / The
Rio Grande In the American colony
there were strange rumOrs about this
beautiful woman. 1t was said that she
looked like an angel and acted like a
she devil. There were queer stories, too,
about her early life. 1t was whispered
that La Rue picked her up with lot OF
other plunder in mountain town IN
Georgia, Just for a lark, but it turned
out serious business. 1t seems that
the girl took it into her head to fall IN
love with him, and she made life bur
den to him until he married her, and
took her to Mexico.
La Rue was killed along with Prince
Salm Salm, and when the Princes widow
sailed for Europe, Mrs. La Rue went
with her. Almost anything can be done
with girl, provided she is caught young.
4 year or two more in that bleak ana
poverty stricken mountain hamlet would
have turned jimmie into commonplace
young woman AS it was, she was
thrown into a strange circle just at the
time when she was feverishly eager to
initiate those who were above her in the
social scale She stripped off the pro,
vincial husk that enveloped her. She
studied men, women, costumes, manners,
newspapers, theatres, everything that
could throw Ii hit upon the great mystery
called society. For such woman to
lea n to talk we'll in French and Spanish,
as well as in her own tongue, was
small matter. With her beauty and the
subtle witchery of her magnetism, what
wonder is that Eugenie La Rue was
soon mathematical by all the prudes IN
Paris2
1t was some time in 1870 that GER
tain claim became the talk of hotel
circles in Washington. The claimant,
charming woman, swore that she was
Unionist, and that Sherman's raiders
had destroyed something over hundred
thousand dollars worth of her property
in north Georgia. She was backed up
by few decayed Federal veterans, who
advocated her cause. She had quite an
array of receipts and affidavits, but the
case looked doubtful from the first.
Finally there was startling expose. IL
was shown that she was almost pauper,
had never lost any property, and had
eloped from her native town during the
war with cavalry officer named La Rue.
The adventures left Washington after
this exposure, but in few years she was
back there again i'll the role of lobby
ist. Her costumes were gorgeous, her
equipage resplendent and her little wine
suppers were voted delightfully."- danger
Gus. In the long run. however, the
lobbying business failed. Men We're
afraid to have dealings with the La Rue
woman, and she disappeared.
Such career always tends downward.
A few years ago Mrs. La Rue married a
rich old man He died in short time
and she lost his fortune in Wall street.
Then the greedy, grasping adventures
struck out blndlv in every direction.
She was wanted in one city for swlndlln2,
and in another for matchmaking. Society
everywhere leagued itself against her.
\ few days ago Philadelphia court
threw out suit brought by this woman
against weak old man who had placed
himself in her power. There was found
forgery and perjury in the case, and it
collapsed before it got fairly under way.
AS the plaintiff rushed from the court
room in a lit of impoteut rage, by
stander caught Georgian's arm and
said:
That woman was Eugene La Rue.
She married old , you know"
The Georgian was thunderstruck.
Could that frowsy, wrlnkled old hag,
with gray hair and red eyes, be the
charmer who had once been the talk of
tW cOntinents2
That was her last public appearance.
She will next be heard of when she
registers at an asylum or a prison. or is
fished out OF the river and carried to the
Morgue.
''Mr. Smith gone abroad?" ayes, my
husband is on the continent for his
health 81 thought he was well
enough" a"No: there was a weakness