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Show A TKAOUDY KECALLKI). The death of ex-Senator Christiancy of Michigan, reported today, removes from the arena of publio lifo a man whose usofulnoss in many fieldsho was chief justice of the state, United States senator, minister to Peru was paralyzed by a misalliance in his advanced ad-vanced ago. While still a senator in Washington, ho mado the acquaintance of a lovely young girl named Lillio Lugenbuel,; at that tihio a clerk in tho treasury department. Lillie was as taleutod as sho was beautiful, and it was not in the least surprising that tho widower should sue for her heart and hand. Bo It duo to tho splendor that hedges around a souatorship or to other blandishments, he succeeded in winning win-ning the girl's hand her heart never. Crabbed age and golden youth, says Shakespeare, cannot dwell together, and Shakespeare proved true in this case. Scandal soon attached to the household of Senator Christiancy. lie resigned his seat and wont abroad as miuistor to Peru. There was loud and furious talk at the timo about somo mysterious bargain that ho was to have struck with Zach Chandler, who succeeded suc-ceeded him in the senate, bVt the sequel showed it was wholly a personal motive mo-tive that prompted him to tho act. When Mr, Christiancy returned from Peru, It was as plaintiff in ono of tho most salacious divorce suits that was ever triod in Washington. Was his wife really sinning or rather sinned against? Nobody knows, but all tho country was moved to pity when, soon after tho separation, the distracted wife was found wandering at midnight aud in her night robe through tho streets of Washington in search for her lawyer. People said sho was demented, and probably sho was; and finally, after several attempts at self-destruction, she died In Brooklyn of an overdose of laudanum. Her friends, and sho still had a host of them, claimed sho had taken tho deadly dose, not with suicidal sui-cidal iutont, but to induco sleep to come to her rescue Perhaps her friends were right; they certainly were more charitable than her persecutors and tormentors. Anyway, Lillio Lugenbuol died while still in her twenties, and her husband retired from a bright and promising career to the shades of utter oblivion. Death now removes him from that. . |