Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-18

Infatuation d his wife for Riviere
frustrated aHt his attempts to get pos
session of Ais daughter, he resOrted
10 the courts, where, after a long fight
ne hnaly succeeded, and returned to
Mobile with his family.
NRiFlere returned to France shortly
aftSrward and the Blounts lived down
the scandal. Years passed by, and
finally the war came. One day in '62
or SO, a letter came from France adj
dressed to Colonel Blount. 1t contain
ed a statement from De Riyiere that he
was willing and anxious to repair all
the injury he had done; that he still
loved Miss Blount, and that, his father
having died his mother and sisters
would gladly receive her into the fam
lily as his wife and winding UP with the
proposition that Mr.. Blount, his wife
and daughter should run the blockade
and come to France, where the past
should all be rectified. 1t is said that
the letter contained exchange for
large sum 10000 francs, to defray the
expenses of the trip. Colonel Blount
at once settled up his affairs and with
his family, went abroad a blockade
runner and in due time landed in Hav-
ana, where they embarked on a Span
ish steamer for Gibralter. There they
We're met by the mother and sister
of De Riviere, and subsequently the
nuptials of the Count de Riviere flor
such he Isl and Miss Blount were cele-
brated in Paris with great eclat.
From time to time during several
years there came to Mobile rumors
Of unhappiness in the Riviere house
hold. Children had been born to the
couple thus rOmantically married. and
Mr. and Mrs Blount had gone the
way of all flesh. One day, ten years
ago, the quiet neighborhood in which
the Blounts had formerly lived was
surprised to see the old mansion once
more inhabited and the few surviving
old friends were delighted to receive
visits from Nine. de la Riviere, return
ed alone to her old home to live out
the balance of her days. What her
source of grievance against her huS-
band, what indignity that caused her
to abandon her life of luxury in Paris
told here, but she deemed it sufficient.
SO she took up her home in her child
hoods home, and has lived there quiet
ly and unostentatiously, a most eXem-
pla1y life, for several years, beloved
and esteemed by all who came in
contact with her. From time to time
She was visited by her son, a stalwart
young man, much like his father at his
age and her daughters, ebautiful and
talented young ladies, but all of whom
chung to the father. A few months ago
Baron de la Riviere himself arrived,
and now again it looks as though the
sunset of Emily Blount's life might be
gilded by wealth and happiness.
The career of Baron de la Riviere
has in the meantime of itself been a
romance that other pens can write.
He has made and lost vast fortunes
in South American ventures, and is
again, if we may believe the direct
reports of those who know, on the
point of realizing millions. He recently
sold a piece of mining property in
South America for a very large sum in
cash.
To finish this sketch without refe-
renee to the subsequent careers of
the other men engaged in the De Riv-
iere Maury affair would be to leave out
the most romantic portion of it. On
the day Of the duel words passed be-
tween Maury and his second, Melon
aid. 1t is believed, and probably on
sufficient grounds, that the difference
arose concerning a point of etiquette
on the ground, but whether this be so
or not the men left Mobile the next
day, and the day afterWard fought
duel on the old New Orleans dueling
ground in which both were wounded
one in the arm and the other in the leg
While Mcdonald was laid up with his
wound, his mistress, the beautiful but
frail Jennie Stuart, left him and went
to New York with another man. He
followed a soon as possible, and, after
searching for the woman everywhere
around the city, found her at Taylors
restaurant, on Broadway, and shot
her dead. He was apprehended and
committd suicide in the Tombs.
Captain Maury never married. He
served as colonel of cavalry during
the war on the confederate side. After
the surrender he went into business
in Mobile, but his health soon failed
and he died many years ago.