Arizona republican., 1898-12-15
wAsH1NGToNs LITTLE SCANDAL
Chief Justice Fuller Does No. Approve
 of His Divorced Daughters Fiance.

The latest engagement in the fash
 ionable set is that of Miss Jane Fuller, youngest daughter of the chief justice,
 to Mir Francis of Boston. The mar
 riage will be one of the events of the early spring. When the marriage takes
 place the chief justice of the United States supreme court will enjoy the unique distinction of knowing what it feels like to be the father-in-laW of seven sons-in-1aw, as out of his eight daughters will then be but one remain ing unmarried.
 Washington society generally is doing more than the legitimate amount of worrying over something. In this particular instance, the couple engag- .1g attention is Mrs. Aubrey, another daughter of Chief Justice Fuller, and Jessup Blair, whose marriage was pub licly announced to take place on Au- guSs at Weston, Me, the place hay ing been selected by the bride-elect be- cause of certain romantic memories at- tached thereto. The reasons why the marriage did not take place at the time named or any ether time read like the intricacies, plots and counterplots of the modern fashionable novel. Mrs. Aubrey was widowed by the law some two or three years since, and the pub lished career of her eX-husband shows him to have been altogether a sad lot
 About a year since Jessup Blair be- gan to hove upon lthe Aubrey Fuller horizon. His devotion to the chief justices daughter became from the start apparent to all their friends, who were prepared for the announcement of the engagement that followed in the ,o,.11- .i-,c wis smiled and shook their heads and de- clared that it was a marriage destined never to be celebrated. When MT. Blair, who must certainly be far more than double the age of his ex-fance, presented himself to the searching gaze of .he chief justice in the light of an aspirant for the position of son-in-law he represented himself as abundantly able to provide for the worldly and creature comforts Of Mrs. Aubrey, hence the announcement that the mar riage would take place on i.he 7ith of August. With prudent forethought the chief justice had put in some odd hours Investigating the financial condition Of his would-be son-in-law. What he found was thar certain properties of his prospective relative had been made over to his mother It Is rumored that the mothers bounty was curtailed to actual living expenses because of the power behind the throne in the person of a sister of the groom elect. This sis ter being a stanch high church Episco- palian, neither looks upon divorce with favor nor acknowledges the right of one so separated to contract a second marriage.
 Yet, strange to say, this woman has a husband who once a year goes the form of running up from New Orleans to pay his wife visit. So this sister who does not believe in di vorce has all along declared that her brother was not engaged to the chief justices daughter, because of the al- legged legal disability of the latter to contract a marriage. Mamma Blair's generosity is held in check by the pow CT behind the throne. That is why the Fuller-Blair marriage has been called off for the present. Yet the ex- fances, according to cruel gossip, are still meeting, and it is impossible to predict what will happel.-From a Washin gton Dispatch.