The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-02-10
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The news received here yesterday
that Algernon Charles sartoris, the
husband OF Nellie Grant, had died in
Capri, Italy, on February 8, will not
bring grief 10 an American heart, and
very few in his own land will mourn
his loss. This may seem harsh, now
that the human being has passed to
the great unknown, but his life was
such as 10 bar him from all human
sympathy, and the gloom he cast, not
only over his own home, but over. that
Of the greatest American captain OF any
age, and to greater or less extent over
tho whole American people, bars his
memory from the regrets which psa-
ally follow man or woman when they
cross the dark river. When he started
life he had everything to live for.
When he welded Nellie Grant the
whole people Of tho United States felt
that he had taken q prize in the lottery
OF life OF which hewas not worthy.
They were right He enbittered her
whole life. He was never father, except
in name to the offspring she bore him,
and their youthful eyes have rarely
looked upon him. His conduct was
such that his own paternal roof tree did
not give him shelter after the first few
years OF his married life. The story Of
the wife's suiIering with the man she
chose, against every ones wishes except
her own, is too sad q tale to be woven
with words. Yet, with that iron nerve
which she inherits from her father,
Nellie Grant never murmured at her
fate, even to her own family, one Of
whom once said to me;
"Nellie never speaks OF her family af-
fairs. She is too resolute to acknowl-
edge her mistake, II she has made one,
and we know her too wellto ever lntrude
the subject. II all the stories about her
husband that are floating through the
papers are true, we do notkuow It from
her, and the public are as wise as We"
UNHAPPY nut UNcoMPLAISISo.
This is undoubtedly true, but never
theless the fact remains that she had
no married life after the first few years
OF domicile in England. She found her
only consolation in the devotion OF her
reereant husbands father, and in the
three bright children who had been the
fruit OF her early union with man she
met on an ocean steamer, the Russia, in
1872, and married in the white house,
May 81, 1874, when she was nineteen
years old. She accepted the situation
without murmur, and evidently from
many conversations with her, which 1t
cd foniUan In anfnU IN triad
to make the best OF bad bargain, and
to find in retirement comforts which
other women catch in the social whirl.
One beautiful Sunday afternoon in
September, 1887, the Elbe, of the North
German-Lloyd line, steamed slowly out
from Southampton, and came to stop
farther down the River ItChen. A ROW.
boat, containing lady and little girl,
pushed out from the shore and moved
rapidly toward the great ocean liner.
The pair in the small boat were hoisted
aboard, and the moment Nellie Grant
sattoris andlher little daughter, Vivian
May, stepped on board, the vessel
pushed out to make fast time to the
United States.
HER SUMMER HOME.
The greeted me as she stepped
aboard, for was the only one from her
native land on the boat who knew or
expected her. The place from which
she came was her summer home, upon
which had looked with delight ere Its
mistress started on this her first voyage
to the home Of her nativity since her
fathers death. 1t was place full Of
restfulness and crowned with beauty.
The house stands hard by the splendid
country road, which follows the banks
OF the river, and the acres which sur
round II arc washed by the waters OF
the river over which she has been
brought to the steamers side and which
gives Southampton its splendid harbor.
10 the right and the left OF the old home
all is beauty and grandeur. Both sea
and land are dotted withdrawing OBJ
jects, recalling the dingy past and typi.
flying the alert present. Great castles,
with their lovely grounds and wondrous
histories, are on every hand. Across
the waters OF the Solent Is Osborne
House, the queens summer palace,
with Its broad park, comfortable shade
and aristocratic surroundings.
The elder sartoris was a man Of much
refinement and during his lifetime sur.
rounded his home, Of which l am writ
ing, with all that was beautiful in art,
good in literature, music and higher
phases Of existence To his credit be
Il said that In every possible way he
undertook TO atone for tho misdeeds OF
his son by devotion to his wife. What
Is true in this connection at tho summer
homo near Southampton 10 true as it TO.
lates to the London house, where every
thing is as delightfully."- American as lie
mistress can possibly mako It. It's by
no means aristocratic, but II is full Of
those quiet and sublime phases which
are found at the summer place washed
by the waters OF tho Itchen. This Is
the place OF which Nellie Grant IL
especially fond, and now that she be-
comes IT'D mistress tho entire sartoris
family boing dead, there is O sort Of 70.
mantle interest to every American to
catch q distant glimpse Of the piace
where she may or may mot live here.
after
HRR FUTURE MOVEMENTS.
There will DO great speculation every.
whore as to her future movements. In
the elder sartorls' lifetime, he would
mt hhfaRanA 10 hAf bringing NIL the chill.