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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1055, 21 January 1884, Page 4

THE WIDOW VANDERBILT. ■ ...i —**__—_ ...., . I heard a piece of entertaining society - -gossip the other day about the Vanderbilts, and its truthfulness is vouched for by ; a gentleman who ft acquainted with „ parties. As will be remembered, - Commodore Vanderbilt was married His second wife was a Mrs Elliot, jk- divorced woman, whose husband is living. Her maiden name was . *£jfemces Crawford, and she was at one 'time the belle of Mobile, Ala., where she was born, and for years lived with her mother. She was wooed and won by James F. Elßot,whois now, I think, a resident at Dallas, Texas. _ After marriage Mrs hlliot was unwilling to leave .her mother, and at first the married pair . fired at the wife’s home. It was not long before Mr Elliot began to find out that he had a very bad attack of mother- ; - in-law. He was bullied, and every effort was made to make him feel that ; an inferior in the household. Being a gentleman of spirit and wealth, it was more than he could endure, so finally, he made the issue fairly, but firmly. * He prepared a home for his wife, and told her to come and live with him. It was a sharp, bitter - Struggle,. but contrary to the usual course of such events, the wife precferred the mother to the husband. : VA divoijce followed. Old Commodore met Mrs Elliot conquered. Now comes the . strange and-interesting part of the nar- . : rative. After Vanderbilt’s death the - Cj Widow’d heart warmed towards her first love. She had millions; he was comparatively a poor man. Negotiations -were entered into and Mr Elliot ■. visited, New York. He saw Mrs Vanderbilt and had a very pleasant interview jihut he observed that the mother in-law, who had. separated the young '' couple years before was still alive and in vigorous health. He came to Wash- ' ington and consulted with an old and trusted friend, laying the facts of the ■ - £mm»~ before him, and that . enough had transpired in his > visit to the'metropolis to satisfy him that he f-’cduld marry Mrs Vanderbilt if he ‘ This was the result of his £ feasant interview. His friend told im that, from a worldly stand point it would be a great advantage for him to many the Old Commodore’s widow, but that it was one of those cases where • every man ought to be his own judge ■v without outside interference. Mr Elliot - thought the matter ever carefully for some' time, and finally made up his mind that he would not again risk an -attack of “too much mother-in-law,” so that now the former husband is in - Texas, while the widow is in New York % with her millions; This explains why - Mrs Vanderbilt, young, handsome, accomplished, and wealthy as she is, has 1 not married again.-— Boston. Travellet. A DISGRACEFUL STORY. Ijiiift - I', .’ - "♦ / Pierre Lote, an officer of the French . expedition force in Tonquin, sends to , - the Paris Figaro the following, descrip- * tion of the fall of Hue;— The beaten Annamites were cooped up in. the burning village. The only ' road 1 of escape from the flames lay 'I under the guns, the ford, which was filled with sailors armed with Krapotchak repeating rifles with sights caref foUy-adjusted to the distance. Maga- * '.tines of rifles were duly loaded. The men looked on waiting until a flank movement of. the other troops and the -firing, of.the,bamboo huts should drive ife , 'the human quarry out before them. V *We saw them halting at the end of the , -village with singed hair and garments. Then, after a few moments hesitation, tucking up their flowing robes as T -aS they could and trying to , -protect their heads with planks • 'against the impending shower of bul'C f lets, they rushed on. A great butchery ) '.then commenced. Two volleys were $ -fired. • ‘lt was • quite a treat to see fog dpwn upon the fugutives. They ,w«i;e ppored in twice In, one minute at the word of command, and in a sure, £ methodical manner. It was like a jet finm ahuge watering pot, which mowed 1 ~~ them down by dozens. In a cloud of dfist and gravel we could sea some who .-- 1 sfeemed to be driven mad, picking - 1 themselves up, limping now one way, up.w. another, like wounded animals. t . /Gathering up their robes in a comical manner, their long hair unfastened and ! etrteaming down their backs, made them look ‘ like women. Others tried to r escape by swimming, a lagoon to try to ■ reach foe junks. These were killed in the water. Some good divers remained a long time under water. Our men continued to kill them all - the same whed they come up to breathe 0 like seals. The men then amused: ‘ themselves counting the dead—fifty on the left, eighty to the right. In the village were small heaps. With .those killed in southern forts, about 800 or r,oodmiist have been disposed of. The sailors made bets as to the numbers destroyed . About nine in the morning all was over and the rout of the Adamites was complete. The beat was intense and the sailors, maddened by the sun and the noise, and quivering with excitement, rushed out, of the fort after the . woupded ' Some were, crouched in poles, l others were feighning death, others at the last gasp were ! ' strtAching but their hands pleading for j-V iderefand shouting, “ Han, Han ?” in heartrending accents. Our men them with bayonets or V fc9flhed ; them with the butt ends of mm baskets. The Annamite serdirafhutive, efleminite lads, who foul followed the infantry from Saigon, wereliunted out When one of the fugitives was unearthed the sailors would call out*, “ Here’s another. Come, give him ‘ le’ang, le’ang.’ ” These sailors were quite unrecognisable. They were absolutely madmen. ? Thrbfficers attempted to restrain them , add-said to them, “You ought to be ,■ ashamed of such cowardly, dirty work.” , t they replied “The Annamites are ' savages, carried , the head of > Captain Rtviere on the top of a pole, Ibejvcarried the day they, would ‘•S*tub-Frn&h io pieces' or saw them «lyeN9*: twb planks.” There was no * possible toithis —it was true, and go they were Ipft.to their grim work, ;-H<m r Jßttteis gives good digestion, active j s pjjedlation .sand buoyant spirits. —[Advt.] Rjdugix oh Corns.”—Ask for ifooghonrComs.” Jr#d. Quick re- * ' f permanent core.. Coras, warts opW,:, ( Moss, and Co., Sydney,