The times., 1897-06-06

golden-haired beauty, whose jewels ana
wardrobe were the wonder OF the city,
and whose charity was unhonnded. These
singular persons were accompanied py
one servant, who, as reticent as themselves,
transacted all their bust ness and as
sisted them to ward off the advances OF
the friendly and the curious. Five months
after their arrival in Alexandria. the young
wife died of fever. The ladies OF the city,
with true Virginia hospitality, wished TO
make her last hours as comfortable as
possible but their kindly offices were
not accerted, and her death was witnessed
by only her physician, her husband, ana
the valet She was buried in st. Paul's
Cemetery, one OF several, which, separated
by iron fences, form the southwestern
boundary of the city,.
Her husband erected over her grave
monument, which was of unusual costii-
ness for that period. 1t was snow-white
marble slab, supported by six pillars. 1t
was surrounded by an iIon railing, which
later gave place to the present granite
coming When the monument was finished
and erected, tie g,ief-stncken husband pro-
vided a sum of money to care for it for
term of years, and sailed away, still I'm
many wears latef, to visit the grave, which
is yet known as the graveof TIE stranger"
a portion of the mon ument's inscription is
as follows:
TO THE MEMORY OF a FEMALE
STRANG Err,
Whose mortal sufferihgs terni-
mated en- the 4th day of October, 1916,
aged 23 years and 6 months.
The romantic story that a fund for the
care of this tomb is to this day furnished
by unknown parties in Europe is untrue,
but the succeeding sections of st. Paul's
have always made it there sacred duty to
keep it in order.
In 1867 two young citizens of Alexandria
came upon a hermit who had dug FOR him
self a cave in a hillside near what is now
known as -Four Mile Run This her
NIT was later identified as John Trust,
who, as a youth, had lived In Alexandria
fifty years earlier. He died in 1865,
after permitting theeditor of an Alexandria
newspaper to write a confession in
which ''the Stranger and her husband
play prominent parts, and the hermit him
self figures as second Eugene Aram.
II is interesting. but plainly the emanation
In $50 the city of Alexandria erected
statue in honor of the members of the Sev-
enteenth Virginia Regiment who lost their
lives in the civil war. 1t stands at the in
tersectiol Of Washington and Prince streets.
the very spotol which, thiTty-siX years ago.
the men Of the city assembled prior 80 their
departure for Manassas tits a bronze fig
ure in heroic size, wearing the heavy cav
airy boots. haversack, canteen, flannel
shirt and baggy trousers of the Confeder-
ate soldier About the waist is clasped a
belt marked &C. S. andin the right hand
is the familiar gray slouch hat. The droop
of the barred head and the hopeless sadness
of the features combine to make both pose
and expression particularly fine It was de-
signed from John A. Elders famous paint
ing, "Appomattox,' now in the State IL
brary at Richmond. The statue occupies a
rectangular pedestal of granite twelve feet
in height.
Alexandra has no small share of such
measure OF the secession spirit as still lin
gers in the South, and It will never quite
pass away as long as this mute but eloquent
bronze apostle. from his pulpit of granite,
continues TO preach the unspeakable pathos
Of ''the lost Cause c. NJ j.