The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-11

was the marriage Of Miss Nellie Grant. and
since, during President Hayes administra-
| ton. Miss Emily Platt to Gen. Russell
Hastings, and last President Cleveland TO
| Miss Frances Folsom.
The wedding Of Miss Nellie Grant. then
19 and Mr.. SaTtorIs, %, took place in the
east room at IL o'clock a. m, May p, 1874.
| The floral marriage bell and other decora-
I tons were superb.
The bridesmaids were the daughters OF the
most distinguished persOneges in the land.
! They were Miss Edith Fish. daughter of the
Secretary Of State Miss Bessie ConklIng.
/ daughter of the senator from New York;
Miss Sallie FrelinGhuysen, daughter Of the
senator from New Jersey; Miss Lille Porter,
daughter Of the admiral of the navy; Miss
Minnie Sherman. daughter OF the general
Of the army: Miss Anna Barnes, daughter
OF the surgeon general Of the army; Miss
| Fannie Drexel, daughter Of A. j. Drexel
OF Philadelphia, and Miss Madgie Dent,
cousin to the bride
The trousseau had never been excelled at
the capital.
The wedding breakfast was in keeping.
Flags of two nations and flowers adorned
the table. The service was Of gold, and the
menu was printed in gilt on white silk. The
guests were only the higher officials and
their ladies and O very few intimate
friends
After the breakfast the President and
Mrs. Grant and few friends accompanied
the bridal couple by special train to New
| York
The President gave his daughter away at
the altar, and he bade her godspeed on her
departure the next day for her residence
on foreign shores.
The President was not insensible to the
fact that such q marriage might lead to
many complications. Certain papers were
drawn up looking to the interests OF any
children that might be born. These were
executed between the Secretary of State,
Mr. Fish, and the English minister, Sir Ed
ward Thornton.
The bridegroom was not possessed OF a
| competence in his own right. The daughter
OF a President carried no social rank in
England, and none was accorded the couple
above the middle class to which the bride
grOoms family belonged.
Some time after she went to England to
live this cheerful account Of her situation
and surroundings came back:
III anybody lmag1nes that Nellie Grant
Sartoris is dying of home sickness for the
friends, scenes and associates OF her happy
girlhood he is vastly mistaken. Mrs. Sar-
toris is more than contented with her En-
glish home. She could not be induced 20
live in the United States again. In America
she would be plain Mrs. Sartoris, the
daughter OF an ex~President while abroad
she is honored, courted and worshiped as a
sort OF daughter of an American king and
the descendant of the greatest warrior the
new world has ever known. Her position
in society Is envisble, her country home is
beautiful, she moves in an exclusive set, Sc
lects her friends and has the air, manner,
appearance and accent Of an English
thoroughbred.
Then came reports of domestic discord,
vague and vigorously denied at first, but
afterward confirmed. A woman Of high
social standing in Washington wrote back:
We have been visiting near the Sartoris
estate and have had many opportunities for
observing the state Of affairs in the family.
Nellie being an American girl l naturally
took an interest In her welfare and tried to
discover If the cruel stories circulated In re-
gard to her domestic life we're true. The
poor girl tries to hide it the best she can,
but her husband so openly and svowedly
dlsregards her wishes that it is common talk
in the neighborhood.
at has been said that old Mr.. Sartoris
was very wealthy. A lawyer here tells me
that his son somehow managed to get hold
of the greater part Of the wealth and has, in
tie language of the world blown it in
1T was not more than a month ago that
Nellie was i'll with slight fever. believe.
and her husband was off somewhere. OF
course they telegraphed him to return
home, and the answer came back that he
was of with party Of friends and that it
| would be impossible for him to return home
immediately. He would endeaVor to get
| back in the course of a few days.
| Nellie receives a remittance from home
| every month, with which she pays her ex-
! penses and most of those of Sartoris. He
never earns cent. and the money he gets
| is a beggarly allowance"
During the last illness Of Gen. Grant be
| longed to see his Nellie. The misfortune of
| her lot had embittered his life even more
\ than his business troubles. 1t was only
much persuasion that she was permitted TO
! return, even on such a sad errand of duty
| to a parent. But her children-Algernon
| Edward, Vivian May and Rosemary-to
| whom she had been so devoted as to endure
everything, were not allowed to come with
! her; in fact. we're held, it might be said, as
| hostages for her return. 1t is doubtful, had
| they been with her. if she would ever again
| have left her native land and the shelter OF
her mothers roof.
Y 81.