Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-05

His testimony so materially helped the
bill that 10 was Immediately reported laF-
orAbIv and passed, and the check Tor TIE
full amount claimed, 10000. was ior-
warded 10 Mrs. UTQuhart. The motner
was not slow TO realize what she oWeu 10
her handsome daughter, ana insisted upon
gratifying her pet wish OF the moment as
reward for her interest and success
Mrs. Potter thought Of several Things 9He
would like TO have, but finally DECIDED Oh
a trip to Europe to brighten her aiOeI
long winter season and TO give heT
glimpse Of the London world and her hu-
merous English friends. 80 tue hreC
money drawn OF the $4,000 was a c4eck
to cover European trip.
THE GHOST OF A BELLE.
Among the visitors 20 be seen about the
capitol during the past lew days was
woman who once moved in Washington
society with the imperiOusness OF
Queen Mrs. Kate Chase opr0gue, or
Mrs. Kate Chase. as she now calls hef-
self, twenty years ago, maybe niue
less. reigned right royalty mere, the most
brilliant and beautiful woman IN society
the daughter Of Salmon p. Chase, Secre-
tary OF the Treasury, and afterwards
Chief Justice.
Mrs. Lincoln had to take a back seat
when this audacious young LADY made
her appearance with train OF admirers
"a mile long wherever she went. OF course
she had enemies, but they were nightly
afraid Of Kate Cbase's nlmble tongue ana
oulck wit; so when at the grand dinners
and receptions, Kitty came sailing IN on
her fathers arm, looking neither TO the
right nor TO the left, superb III the con
seriousness Of her beauty, youth,
wit and proud position, her
of IA their
mouths. Now a changed, broken woman,
divorced and poor, size returns for few
DAYS TO look after some property here lett
by her father. EdgeWOod, his country
place near here, has sunk TO the tgnomlny
of 4 summer boarding house, ana the oid
Sprague mansion on the corner OF Skin
and f streets. which the tide OF fashion
has flowed past and left hopelessly
stranded among shops and lodgiGg houses,
il now no better than its nelghbOr7 Like
them, IL belongs to the great army OF
lodging houses. or the society
here at present not halt Of it knows Mrs.
sprague by sight. She never maze friends
among women, but among men she had
plenty. Mrs. Spraugue's ideas were all
on a lofty scale. " hen she wanted
lutte amusement IN the line OF Irritation
she did not take up with some little
diplomat with no money aud nothing TO
do but scribble little foolish notes about
nothing, but looked higher and caught
Roscoe Conkling. When she married she
married not Mr.. Sprague but the Cover
nor of Rhode Island. When she schemed
it was for the Presidency OF the United
States. 1t is not likely that such woman
would be willing to take secondary
place in that society where
she once reigned supreme. Washington
must be like graveyard to her now,
with her father dead and forgotten, the
man who was her husband sunk to moth
lngness, Roscoe COukling retired TO
private life, Edgewood and the Spraeue
mansion gwen over TO boarding house
keepers. As for herself she no longer
possesses the beauty and Vtvacity OF her
youth, but as long as she lives she VIII
have that queenly air before which beauty
pales. She keeps quiet and avoids no.
tice, but she is the same Kate Chase
through it all. Many Of the oldest
residents of Washington have long had
il IN" for Mrs. Sprague, and they never
fail to speak OF her downfall as = piece of
retributive Justice for her neglect to prop
Crlv look alter her distinguished tathers
remains after his death. When ner father
died, IA poor man, although he had illled
such high places, he did not own burial
lot, and Washington banker and eX-
Governor OF the district, Henry ID. Cooke,
offered a resting place for the great jurist
in the Cooke burial plot in Oak Hin
cemetery. There was no stone to mark
the place and no care taken
of The mound except when the
owners of the lot chose to give
il. After some years had elapsed friends
OF the dead Chief Justice, hearing of this,
united and bought a plain granite monu-
ment with his name and the date cut
upon it. 1t was shipped to Washington,
but got lost on the way. A long time ar
terward it was found boxed up in a ware
house, where it had lain unuoticed aud
Then other friends, unwlll-
ing to appeal to Mrs. Sprague, paid out
OF their own pockets the small cost OF
putting the stone in place. This is the
way her father got tombstone.