The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-11-19
SOCIAL ~OsTRaCIsM.
Tho Price John 5. Wise Pays for Adhertne
to Republicanism.

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The Price John 5. Wise Pays for Adhering
to Republicanism.
New York World.
Ex-Conersssman John S. Wise has returned
to New York from his former home IN Virginia,
which he visited probably for the last ume In
order to cast his vote for the Harrison electors.
In a few days he will be joined here by ms VIE
and seven children, and thenceforth he Will oea
citizen of New York. The bitterness when No
now feels towards his native State was empna-
sized by the fact that during his last visit nome
Page McCarty, the editor of the Richmond State
publicly advocated his hanging. Wises enangs
OF position, social aud otherwise, IN virginia u
one of the romances Of politics. It was his fatnef,
Henry A. Wise, who, as Governor or the Oto
Dominion Commonwealth. ordered the execu-
ton of John Brown. He himself was a young
lieutenant in the confederate army. leaving tne
Virginia Military Institute, where he was q stu
dent, to join the rebel host. He was wounded
in the war and he il was who acted ss courier to
carry to Jefferson Davis the news OF Lees sur
render. Yet he was one of the frst'to recognize
that Nuginia's reconstruction would never De
brought about by mossback Democrats. aud
when he cut adrift from them Richmond society
shut its doors upon him aud his. The first New
Years day following, the only person who at
tending his reception was old DR.. Beale, famous
throughout the South, and when the eminent
physician returned TO his own crowded home
and admitted that he had called upon
Johnny Wise his guests ssrcastically said:
Then. Doctor, you should fumigate
yourself" People crossed the street fatner
than step on the pavement of the Wise mansion
aad children were forbidden Z, play with the
little Wises. This social ostracism still contiu-
ues. but in recent years the Wises have shone
in a circle of their own. made up largely of peo-
pie from the North who have settled IN Virgins
Wises father married q daughter Of the distin-
guished John Sergeant, of Phiiadelphia. In
whose veins ran the biuest blood of the Quaker
City. and when the exconfederate lieutenant
abandoned the Democratic party his former
friends said by way OF explanation: The Wise
blood has run il course in Johnnys veins and
now that YANKEE Sergeant blood has got him
under control and ruined him forever" Small
wonder that the eloquent ex.Congressman has
little love for the State of his birth.
Mrs. Wise will be O rare addition to New York
society. She comes Of q distinguished Southern
family and is highly accomplished and endowed
with exceptional physical charms. She Is prob
ably the most daring and graceful horsewoman
in the South. Those who have seen her 1.-the
figure atop a hunter find it difficult 10 believe
that she is the mother of seven children. I'll
only a few weeks since Buffalo Bill. who accom-
panied Wise on his journey home, organized q
chase in a wild part OF Virginia, and Mrs. Wise
was the only member of the party who could
keep alongside him. In jumping a deep ditch
her horse stumbled and turned a somersault in
the air: he and his mistress tumbled together
into the waterway. Mrs. Wise extricated herself
quickly, but il required Buffalo Bills lasso and
the strength of his own horse TO get the fallen
hunter to cry land and his feet again. Then, In
an instant. the fair Diana was mounted again,
and, despite her alarmed husbands protest, was
away like the wind.