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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER ?. I'll.
Till* GLASGOW LETTISH.
Following ;i custom more honored in
the breach than In the observance.
The TImes-Dlspatch has for many
years refrained fr m giving advice or
taking sides in primaries or contests
within the party.
In the gubernatorial campaigns be?
tween Montague and Swanson In 1001
Slid later in the three-cornered tight
between Swanson. Mann and Wlllard.
this paper studiously avoided all sem?
blance of favoritism, and likewise la
the Senatorial campaign between Mar?
tin and Montague in 1K05 The Times
Dispatch contented itself with print?
ing the news fully and fairly. After
that battle had been fought out, we
Said that one great and lasting bene?
fit of the primary system was the
fact that the Issue between Senator
Martin and Governor Montague car
lied with It the certainty that Mr. Mar
tain was the choice of the majority of
the people of this State.
In the TucVer-Mann struggle the
same policy of non-interference was
followed, nnd but for unforeseen and
tin foreseeable contingencies, The
Times-Dispatch would have expressed
no opinion In this campaign favorable
or unfavorable to the candidates.
When In the course of publishing
the legitimate news of the day we
were brought face to face with the
?-b?rge that Mr. Swanson, whllo a,
member of the Ways and Means Com?
mittee of the House of Representa?
tives, had been gambling In the stock
of the American Tobacco Company,
nnd when Mr. Swanson not only ad?
mitted the charge but boldly Justified
hla course, and declared that such
purchases on margins by a man In a
position of trust as a representative
were without the least taint of im?
propriety. The Times-Dispatch felt!
compelled to say that In its opinion
Mr. Swanson had betrayed a public
trust and was untit to represent Vir
glnla in the Senate or elsewhere. j
From July 7 until August 2S The]
Times-Dispatch withheld all editorial [
comment on the charge thut Senator ',
Martin had been a railroad lobbyist.
On August J.S Senator Martin answer-'
ed these charges nnd following his j
public statements, The Times-Dispatch
fp.itd. in part:
In his speech last night, which is
nrlnted in full elsewhere In this paper.
Senator Thomas Staples Martin un- j
swered all the charges mude by the
Hon. William A. Jones to the satis?
faction of The Times-Dispatch.
The Times-Dispatch has always
placed the honor of Virginia nnd her
public servants above all other <-on-|
Slderntlons, and .Ii believes that Mr. j
Martin's connection with the railroads'
In ism, in the light cf his explana?
tion, now given for the first time, in-i
yolved then no intentional wrong to
the honor, fame or welfare of Vir '?
glnla. * I
On the very day that this editorial!
oppeared^Mr. Jones received and road
further, letter*" written Hi lyij and :
1895 by Senator Martin, before and
after his election, to Mr. W. A. Glas- 1
gow, lobbylat-ln-chiet for the .\-or
folk and W.stern Railway.
Though these letters were read at!
Petersburg on Tuesday, it was not un?
til early Saturday morning that this
paper received Senator Marlins com?
ments in reply. From that time until
now The Times-Dispatch has carefully
considered this matter, and we now
offer our final conclusion to the pub?
lic.
We have no disposition to tear open ;
old wounds. From ls?3 until the Con- ,
stltutional Convention put an end toj
all fear of negro domination, tins pa?
per and Its predecessor?The Rich-]
mond Times?opposed the use of rail- ;
road money In State election?.
Many differed with uv then, In ap-1
proving the use bf railroad money es I
the best means of keeping th< statj
under the control of the Democratic
party.
That day has cone The negroes
?were kept from the polls by money or
otherwise, the Democrats were kepi
in power and the railroad.- were i"-,,.
tected." We used the word "prot. 1"
advieedly, and it 1- to the sham.' of
Virginia that we have to use ttils
word at all
When John 8. Barbour and John W
Daniel first undertook to drive out
Mahorteism by the t:se of railroad
money, did they mskt promises to the
railroads: did they not only say, ' Help
us put Virginia if: the hand.- ol !.? r
white citizens':?for nothing can he
worse than the negro rule you have
at present" To what extent ti is
friendship and association grew in
ter years la showi by th' revclatlo
in this campaign
It IS perfectly intelligible that Sena?
tor Martin, who took an native part In
raising this money and disbursing
after the death of Ji nr. H Barboui
twenty years ago, sho.tld see no Im?
propriety in that course
But The Times-Dispatch canh* ?
the general- tone of Senator Murt|n'(
letter to \V, A. GlaKgciw, tinted OulO/
bet i:;, IVj'. reproduced else where du
this page, pass unnoticed and uncon
denmed.
In this later Senator Martin. Lhon a
; member of the United 6tates Senate,
says In his appeal for railroad money:
"Your friends have always been able
to rely on Flood. . . . If he Is deserted
now. what can be expected of him In
the future? 1 mention him only on j
account of your familiarity with hla j
legislative course?thore are many
others of the same sort " In this lot- |
ter there Is no trace of fear of negro
domination. The sole compelling mo- j
the Is fear of demagoguery against
the railroads. The sole argument is
the advantage of preventing adverse
railroad legislation.
It will not do now for Senator Mar- ;
tin to say. as he said at Lcesburg. "My
letter referring to Messrs. Klood and
Parrlsh was another Incident of my I
work for the maintenance of Dcmoc-1
racy and white supremacy."
It does not so appear to us.
In that letter we see a bare and
Undisguised appeal to a railroad lob
bylst to put ii]> railroad money In or?
der that hostile railroad legislation
might be prevented. That letter Is a
bald proposal of barter and sale? .
there Is In It no discussion of princi?
ples?and not the slightest refereuew
to negro domination.
To any ordinary man it is just a
plain, unvarnished discussion of the
way by which a railroad could buy j
protection and support. That is all1
there Is to lt. 1
Kor example, what does Senator Mar- j
tin mean by "WE"? Does he mean !
the Democratic party when he writes!
"I do not see how WE can set along"? ;
It is conceivable that WE might i
mean the white Democrats of Virginia; !
but If that Is true, what does "OUR" !
friend Breugh mean? Breugh was a
man who was nominated on a Dee j
platform, and who voted for Martin,
and In this very election was beaten
by a large Republican majority be?
cause he betrayed his constituents.
And what does Mr. Martin mejin
when, he says that the "Democrats who
desire to he conservative and Just to
corporate Interest will he demoralized"
unless the rallronds will help a few
Individual Senators? Does he mean
that Democratic principles of conserv?
atism had no firmer foundation than |
railroad help? Does he mean that the.
character of the "conservative and j
tust" Democrats was so feeble and i
their principles so unstable that they,
too, would become demagogues if the '.
railroads stopped putting up money?
Or does his letter Imply that the de?
mands of the so-called radicals were,
so Just that only money could prevent
those demands being enacted Into law?
And who were the "obscure lot" of
legislators that Mr. Martin feared'.*
Were they not white Virginians, and
would they not have been chosen by
the votes of their fellow-cttlsens?
These are some of the comments that
Inevitably suggest themselves to the
reader of Senator Martin's appeal to
Mr. Glasgow
This letter was written in the heat !
of a polltica.1 contest sixteen years
ago. At that time Mr. Martin, a newly
made Senator, was doubtless and de- '
servedly grateful to Mr. Glasgow, who
hsd done so much toward securing his
election. For this reason, and for
Others, Mr. Martin may have gone to;
extremes then In helping railroads by
secret means that his sober second
sense or his conscience would not have
tolerated afterwards.
But what do we .-ee? j
These forgotten letters are suddenly j
brought to light. After three days
Senator Mart;:: answers them, and |
what is that answer." In it there Is I
not one word of regret for the lament?
able exposure of bargalhiij** between
the railroads and a Democratic leader.
There Is no apology to Virginia, no
effort to even smooth over the rough
and crude suggestion from a Senator
to a lobbyi t Ha to how and where
support might he bought.
Here was a man In one of the high?
est offices in the gift of the State plot- i
ting with a railroad how to use money j
to make sure and fast the railroad I
grip on the Legislature. And after!
sixteen years, when confronted with
this evidence; that same man tlnds In
li only another proof of patrJDtlc and i
unselfish r-ervlce in the cause of white I
supremacy.
Docs .Senator Martin maintain that
the white Democrats of Virginia at
large justified then or would justify
now the Bort of bargain that his letter ,
offered the Norfolk and Western in
exchange tor rall'oad mom y
This revelation is the worst criti?
cism that has yet been made against
Virginia's leaders
If our senior Senator sees nothing
wrong in such ?cntlments. to whom
ean Virginia look for enlightenment
und for guidance?
if the youth of this Commonwealth
i>ee K?cn activities applauded ami hon?
ored with the high office of Senator,
with wliat Ideals will they enter the
field of politic.-! f
?'an Virginia hope for hlgtiur stand
arils from in r citizens than those she
demands from her senators?
Since Senator Martin approve., his
letter io Glasgow of October 28, 1SS.">;
sltice be sees nothing to regret in his
! open advice to a railroad lobbyist to
; bUj the election of friendly lesi-Ia
1 tofa, I? he tit to represent Virginia
i to-dayV The Timei-DUpatCh thinks
! no;
IIIUVK.N \NO l l ?. i H.
R :.y :. ' o?t?n brought Into rldl
ie bei . :t this Mppttity of some
>i ? < ,!.?" -:.?? .?.v.r.iat?-r? Once lit
i while torn4 livt^i? h'#;d*r evolves u
! j?- ?! tr,<r<>rjr >/, r.* ? ^?rfrafs'ir that can
not .'.< ?.'??;.??'- vt As an In
slant! i< ??:> ?>???.?../ v.?y be men
'!'?-??: In* :t 't lately
Kb ? r. :.> ?< p**a> ? ? it Is. . >-\U* Ken
k ? K in f lit ? ?.? - etectla'l
paiacVi ;r. ??-.?? ,.r ;??.? than a
M?*< ?? ? ? - Ik Revelation
!?" He ?*>?. ihrlatlaiis
have l^ad whert th? dlrhvhalorls of
heaven .it<- only I .;; cubic mile? in>.
date the vast multitude of whtoh the
Bible speaks. However, caloulattona
will show that this space will accom?
modate a building; 792.000 stories high,
and, counting rooms of ten cubic feot,
the first floor of the structure would
have 267,266,000 such rooms. Multiply?
ing this by 792.000, It is oaay to dem?
onstrate that such a building would
accommodate an Innumerable multi?
tude."
Discussion of such a statement Is use?
less. How can there be any material
measure of heaven? Who knows that
space will mean there what It does
hero? An effort to describe measure In
heaven Is like an effort to tlnd a trav?
eler returning from the mysterious
bourne of death?Impossible.
SHOI LU RK AMENDED.
The campaign publicity bill lately
enncted by Congress contains a jokor
j st discovered. The Joker was
slipped in by the Senute Committee on
elections. As Senators Kenyon and
Kern drew the bill It forced publicity
of expenses of both Senators and Rep?
resentatives. The committee joker re?
lieved Senators of the publicity, al- |
though It required their expenditures
to be listed and tiled. Senators Ken- j
yon and Kern will see that Congress j
this winter has a chance to amend the i
uct. One-third of all the Sen- tors are j
candidates for re-election next year,
and It ought not to be hard to cut out
the joker. j
UV IIIS i:\its.
The Cptou Sinclair divorce scandal
has been widely exploited and a see?
d-rate novel writer has received a
lot of perfectly good free advertising.
We should hear a deal more about the
matter before It is over and done.
The Philadelphia Ledger has publish?
ed what surely Is a good pen picture
of "the poet In the case" whom It
would be ridiculous to call "the man
In tho case," as no ono would call
the long-haired artists who constitute
America's immoral Bohemia men. Hero
Is the picture:
"He Is not a poet as fur as looks '
go?he is rather broud than tall, and
a trllle freckiud lor perfect beauty.
He has large, earnest hands and good,"
honest, faithful, hard-working ears.
He always tramps when things get on
his nerves. As he tramps ho writes '
poems and pins them to trees and '
sings them to the bees. Between puums
lie sleeps in haystacks and eats fresh
apples from the orchards and new
beets from tho fields. When the
cosmos looks right to him again he
goes back to Lawrence und plows and
chops wood. He says he never was
in love with any one and he acts the
part."
This clears the matter very much.
Anybody with ears like that ought to
be easily classified. By his ears ye
shall know him
A St. Louis millionaire named Mc?
Millan Is going to present that city I
with a dik-dlk. Cannot some one in '
Richmond in similar circumstances
present the city with a klrkak-dlk?
Congressman Beiger, the sole Social?
ist In the National Leglsla-ture. thus
defines a progressive In politics:
"An Insurgent Is 60 per cent, of old.
disgruntled politician. 30 per cent, clear
hypocrisy, '.> per cent, nothing and I
per cent. Socialism Put In a bottle and
shake well before using, and you will
have a so-ealled 'progressive.' "
That's pretty hard from a man in I.a
Follette's own State.
Vardaman, of Mississippi, exceeds the
limit of vituperation. In a late Issue
of his paper he ref' r.s to I.is enemies as
"wolves," "hyenas," "ghouls," "vul?
tures," "h?l-bom," "refuse of h?1 "
Mrs. TUley, of Lawrenceburg, Penn?
sylvania, waited breakfast on her hus?
band thlrty-sc en minutes by the
clock, ami then Dr. TUley, the husband,
came down and said that the coffee was
Sloppy. That was more than the lady
could stand, and so she has applied
for a divorce on the ground of extreme
cruel t>.
Voice of the People
Mr. Montaarue Itepllea.
To the Editor of Tho Tlmes-Dlspatch:
Sir.?In your Usuo of September 4
you print a eard slgnod "Mllltla Vo?
ter." In which It la stated thut I fail?
ed to support certain amendments of?
fered to the military oproprlntlon bill
In the Legislature of 190S.
The facts are as follows: A bill
approved by tho Military Board of
Virginia, and actively supported by
General C. C. Vaughan. Jr.. command?
er of the Virginia military, and Gen?
eral Charles J. Anderson, tnen Ad?
jutant-General, was offered and re?
ferred to the appropriate committee
I was not a. member of that commit?
tee, nnd while tho bill was pending
before tho committee one or two
amendments were offered to same, pro?
viding for a separate fund to maintain
two or more large guns which It was
proposed to secure from tho United
States government for the artillery
service. On behalf of tho Military
Board It was argued that it would
not be proper to create a separate
fund, and it was stated that tho mll'
tnry fund would bo distributed equi?
tably and Justly among all branches
of the military of Virginia by the
Military Board. These amendments
being defeated in the committee, the
bill as aproved by the Military Board
was reported to the House of Dele?
gates, and 1 voted for It. These
amendments had nothing to do with
the Richmond Light Infantry Blues
mentioned In the card of "Militia Vo?
ter." As a matter of fact, a good
many years ago I was an active mem?
ber of tho Richmond Light Infantry
Blues, und for at least fifteen years
have been a contributing member of
Its association. While General
Vaughan was not a Richmond voter.
General Anderson was. and still Is, al?
though ho is not now Adjutant-Gen?
eral.
Tho fact that "Mllltla Voter" states
that tho Military Board has since pro?
vided the desired fund out of the. ap?
propriation made by the Legislature
demonstrates that I was correct in
voting for the bill as supported by tho
Military Board, and that their promlso
to treat all branches of the military
equitably and Justly has been carried
out. HILL MONTAGUE.
Richmond.
? The Engine Driver.
He bendeth to his levers like a belted
Knight.
With coueh'd lance In rest and har?
ness bright:
He trustcth in his God. and his good
steady hand.
There is no titter man In all the land?
With a trumpeting roar and a thun?
derous rhythm,
Rhythm, rhythm, rhythm?
The song of the steam, with a runlcal
rhyme.
In time, time. time.
,A Knight In panoply, doth ride hla
right good steed
For King and beauteous Lady-love?
at speed:
For Duty and his Home our Knight
doth much rosemhle,
Driving the mighty ICnslne through
the hills a-lremble?
With gluwerlng smoke, and a guttural
scream.
Steam, steam steam?
F.niblcm of Energy, prophet of Power?
Power, power, power.
His armor la his Faith. Manhood Is
his sword.
The spurs of Knighthood In his golden
word;
Hope Is In his heart and Love Is in
his heart?
A proper man of Destiny a part?
With a trumpeting roar, and a thun?
derous rush.
Hush, hush hush?
A paean of Progress?a lyric of Life.
Life, life. life.
EDMOND FONTAINE.
Charlottesvllle.
State Polities.
To the Editor of The Times-D.sp?ten: !
Sir.? It has been exceedingly gratl-'
fying to many of your subscribers and 1
others that you have come over partly;
on the side of right and declared your I
opinion aa against sending Mr. Swan- I
son back to the United States Senute. j
making a most serious charge against ;
him briefly and to the point, the '.urge1
lirst being brought by Carter Gla-s anil I
later admitted by Senator Swanson ',<>
be true, but In his confession to the |
wrong l!e attempted to minimize the I
enormity of it by pretense of the Inno- ;
ceney of such transactions for repre- ]
sentatlves of the people. i
We desire to thank you for going
as far as you have In aiding to relegate
to political oblivion him who has put I
himself In position to profit pecu?
niarily through the positions of trust
that he holds from tho people, and
who- apparently has benefited thereby.
But there Is much more of gratltudo
to be expressed, as soon as you come
out against Senator Martin for a vio?
lation of a trust tho people have con?
ferred on htm In his tariff votes, but
more particularly In his violation of
principle In aiding the railroads to
get control of the Legislative when
the Kc,nt bill was defeated, and
thrtftigh the Legislature very many of
the Judiciary, and later denying he
had ever acted for the railroads as a
lobbyist, with, or without pay. perhaps
forgetting that If ho received no Im?
mediate financial benodt, he very soon
after w;is sent to tho United States
Senate through railroad Influence.
If Senator Martin does not explain
his delinquencies, as shown by the
several Barbour Thompson letters In
Monday night's speech, you would
really confer a great favor on those
who are seeking the truth to explalq
these letters away or to come out on
the side of the Jones-Glass forces.
If Martin does not satisfactorily ex?
plain, and you do not, may our conclu?
sion be that your attack on Swanson.
which Is entirely Justified so far as the
charge Itself Is concerned, may be
attributable to some reason that , we
do not understand, or some reason
other than patriotism?
In recent week", as far. as editorial
expressions of your uaper are con?
cerned, as far n? I have noted them,
there has been no strong reason to
believe that you are very warm for
Mr. Martin; hut when 1 see the name
of your managing editor on tho list
of vice-presidents who are to appear
on the stage In the Martin meeting
Monday' night. It appears Justifiable
in asking why you arc against Sena?
tor Swanson on moral grounds and not
against Senator Martin on the same
grounds?
Vow, ac, to the prophet Balaam from
Roanoke, wh.o Is filling the space of
one column dalli' i& ?n,e of the Rich?
mond papers, the wonder Is why was
he employed so much earlier than he
was needed; or. If he Is volunteering,
as he claims, why Is he wasting so
much space of .tho paper he Is writing
for. and why is that paper permuting
him to wasto tho time of its (readers In
perusing his useless vaporlngs, ef?
forts to till the space which has been
allotted him? Much was promised and
Is promised from day to day, and as
not much of anything has come out
yet, we will expect very rrrych for the
closing days of the campaign, but the
danger Is that before we get to real
matter the plensuros of anticipation
will pall and we will all stop reading
them.
Why couldn't he have Just as well
remained In Roanoue. where It Is hard
to believe he could be Spared .?o long,
and described ?h? gentlemen .he has
abused so roundly, first plastering
them over with nice compliments?
Why couldjVt he have Just as well
there given the history of the Wil?
liams family and established his con?
nection with them. Instead of coming
to Richmond and making out that we
were to get something worth reading?
Why couldn't he have Just as well es?
tablished the fact that he Is part sin?
ner and part .?alnt there as In Rich?
mond, and why couldn't he as well
there as in Richmond parade before
the public the clean history of the
Williamses. when no one, so far a< I
have seen, has been discussing th#.ii
pro or con? And while he Is writing
up their history and his own. Inform?
ing us thjit none of them has ever
been mixed In a crooked or dubious
transaction, may I a^k If he claims
kin with a certain man of that name
who some years ago was arrested and
possibly tried and possibly white?
washed for some Irregular electlor.
transaction? ' C E TONES.
Cary/brook. [
Mr. Jone?'? View.
To the Kditor of The Times-Dispatch:
Sir,?During the Slate campaign
prior to Gen. Kltv. Lee's defeat by Mr.
Martin for the Senate, an agent of
some money power came to Gloucester
from Richmond and approached our
Democratic candidate for the Legisla?
ture with the offer of as much as t-'.O'.i
for his campaign if he would vole for
.Martin for the senate. Our candidate
(a rtno Confederate vet.) declined with
Indignation, and told htm "If Fit/. Leo
is candidate all the money In Rich?
mond could not keep me from voting
for him." Our candidate was elected
without this yellow dog fund, and did
vote for Lcc. If the money power
agent came to this county It Is more
than iikeiv they sent agents on a like
mlssli 1 to other counties. Thoy found
a true, noble man here, they did not
find them everywhere. The Lorimer
case |s history repeating Itself. Your
reasoning thlat Martin should he re
turned '? 'he. Senate and Swanson
should not I? like one finding a dog
killing his Hhccp and cutting the dogb
tail off instead of his hejd.
FRED. B. JONES.
No relation to w. a Jonen.
Gloucester, Vs.
THE GLASGOW LETTER
Richmond, Va., October 23, 1895.
l\r V7m. A. Glasgov/, Jr..,
Attorney at Lav/, Roanoke,-Va.
Dear Glasgow:
I have Just read your telegram of the"22nd to Henry Wick
ham. Henry is out in his counties canvassing. It is, as you know,
of the utmost importanfct that something should be done for the
close districts - particularly the s enatorial districts. If your
ccrapany holds back I do not see how we can get along: Flood, for
instance, writes me that he is in a close fight. Your friends have
a /ays been able to rely on Flood, and he has had to bear sone un?
popularity on account of?his supposed friendship for railroads. If
he is deserted now what can be expected of him in the future? I
mention him only because of your especial familiarity with his
legislative course - there are many others of the same sort. What
ir. to become of our friend Breugh? Do your people desire no loader <r~*>
v&? friends in the House at all? Flood's opponent, Mr r. T. Hu'n
ard, is one of the most extreme Populists in the State, with tal?
ent, energy and enterprise enough to give a great deal of trouble.
Mr W. U, Flannagan who is opposing F. M. Parrish in the Goochland
Chesterfield-Powhatan District i-s the same sort of man. His busi?
ness for the past ten years has been demagoging against railroads.
Should such men as this get .into the Legislature^ they will start
measures and demagogue them to such an extent as to demoralize the
Democrats who desire- to be conservative and just to corporate in?
terests. Adding the fact that those heretofore conservative will
feel that they have been abandoned, I will expect one of the most
revolutionary legislatures that has ever been convened in this
State. If ycu will look over the list of House nominees you will
find a very obscure lot. With what animus they will come here I
'.io not know. I feel that it is really unnecessary to have said * ?
this much to you; but have not been able to refrain from doeig so,
whether necessary or not^ my in'erest is so deep in this matter.
Should the extreme!sts dominate the next legislature the result
wilJ have been accomplished at least after all warning I could give .
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IS EXPECTED TO-DAY
BY LA >LARQ,l'II>E DE FONTENOY,
ARRIVING at New York to-day. dti
board the Olympic, la the widow?
ed Marchioness of Donegall, who
although of Canadian birth, being a
daughter of the late Henry SL Georg*
Twining, of Hullfax, Is an American
by education, having received her
schooling at the Qulncy Mansion .School,
Just outside Boston, Mass., and then
at Welletpley College. The marchion?
ess's career is a strange one. When
quite a girl, she, as Violet Twining,
became engaged to an English officer
stationed, I believe, at Halifax. When
the war in South Africa broke out.
and he was ordered into the Held, she
and her mother followed him to Cape?
town, and when In the curly stages of
the conflict he was killed In action.
It was found that he had made a will
at Capetown Just before proceeding to
the front. In which he bequeathed to
her the whole of his very large for?
tune.
Two years afterwards. Mies Twining,
then twenty-two, created amazement,
by marrying, first before the registrar
in London, and afterwards In St.
Georgia Church. Hanover Square, the
aged Marquis of Donegall, repeatedly
bankrupt, as battered In reputation
as In physique, and eighty-two years
of age. that Is to say, fully three-score
years the senior of his bride, who wus
obliged to assist him to his feet after
he had been kneeling at the ultar to re?
ceive the blessing of the church to this
extraordinary union.
It Is clulmed that the marriage was
originally brought about through an
advertisement Inserted by the martinis
In the London newspapers in the Kum?
mer of 1402, In which he offered the
title of marquis, and a seat In West?
minster Abbey for the coronation of
Edward VII., In return for a marriage
settlement of $100.000. The union,
however, did not take place prior to
the coronation, from which Miss Twin?
ing was conspicuous by her absence.
In ?act, the matter could not be ne?
gotiated in lime, and It was only af
t'-r the coronation that the aged mur
quls, with his long white side whisk?
ers, of the Dundreary type, and hl?>
mass of white hair, was Introduced to
Miss Twining at the Isthmian Club, In
London, by a mutual friend, Colonel
A .1. Gordon Kane, of Brooklyn. Miss
Twining Is reported to have settled,
not $100.000, but $40.000, upon the mar?
quis, who did not, however, live very
long to enjoy It. For he died some
eighteen months later, after being pre?
sented with a son and heir, a very fine
boy, to whom his Canadian marchioness
gave birth barely ten months after
her wedding. ?t
Lady Donegall ami the marquis were
not. however, a very united couple.
For she left England with her mother
eight or nine weeks after her wed?
ding, for a prolonged tour in the hlust.
Lord Donogall remaining behind, on
the ground that his age rendered him
unable to put up with the fatigues
of travel.
Lady Donegall was presented aL
court prior to her marriage, by Lord
Stratncona, and he, by reason of his
friendship for the Twining family, al?
so gave her away on the occasion of
her marriage. Mo has been very good
to her since, and It Is his support, and
that of I^idy Strathcona, which have
enabled her to live down, In a measure,
the very pronounced prejudice created
against her marriage with a peer, not
only sixty years her senior, but of so
deploiiible a reputation as the late
marquis.
Her boy, the present Mnrqnts of
Donegall, Is now seven years of age,
and In spite of his being still in pina?
fores and knickerbockers. Is a British
lord high admiral. This dignity comes
to him hv Inheritance, along with the
Kurldom of Belfast, the Vlscounty of
Chlchester, and the Barony of Fisher
wlck, etc. His naval office Is that of
Hereditary Lord High Admiral of Lough
Neagh, which is the largest lake, not
morcly of Ireland, but also of tho
United Kingdom, covering en area of
153 square miles, and with a coast!
line of sixty-five mil or. The title I
dates hack to the sixteenth and sev- ?
enteonth centuries, when the lake was j
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tho scene of many Important naval
nattles. tho last one fought on Its wa?
ters having occurred in 1012. Recently
a scheme has been under way for tho
draining of the lake, with the object
of rendering the land which It covers
available for agricultural purpose-.
As Its depth averages from thirty to
forty feet, and as it Is about seventy
feet above sea level, the mere deepen?
ing of the River Hann would suffice
to drain the luke, the disappearance of
which would also tend to dispose of
tho popular legend as to the existence
of an ancient city burled beneath Its
waters of which tho poet Thomas
Moore wrote as follows:
On Lough Neagh's banks us the fteh
crman strays
When the clear, cold eve's declin?
ing.
He tees the round towers of other
days
In the wave beneath him shin?
ing.
Formerly the estates of the Mar?
quesses of Donegall, w..u are entitled
to wear at court, and on state occa?
sions, the uniform uf a lord high ad?
miral, were of Immense value, compris?
ing nearly all the land around Lough
Neagh, as well us the greater part of
the city of Belfust. Most of the prop?
erty was, however, alienated by the
third Marquis of Donegal, whose soni
predeceased him. and who thereupon
left everything that he could 10 his
duughter. married to the eighth Karl
of Shafierfiiury; and thtr'e has been
some talk In recent years of an at?
tempt to recover possession of these
estates.
.The present marquis's landed pos?
sessions ure limited to the Inland of
Magee, In County Antrim, which he
owns, and It may be assumed that he.
will Inherit his mother's large for?
tune.
I note, by the way. that the "Peer?
ages" of B'urke and Debrett refer to
the late marquis us having been only
twice married. This Is a mistake. He
whs married three times. The dissolu?
tion' of his first marriage, ol which no
mention is made, furnished one of the
"causes celebres" Of the early sixties,
the evidence going to show that the
respondent had hern previously mar?
ried to a William Mure, her union to
ai]l Aq poounouojd uaoq puq lUOlf.W
courts null and void, on ground?
identical with those upon which the
marquis bused his extraordinary peti?
tion. The second wife of the marquis
was a Miss Mary Cobb, and an equal?
ly impossible personage. She was fre?
quently lulled for disorderly con
duet and disturbance, endeavored
to bruin her husband with a
hatchet, and died In a. workhouse. The
Canadian-born, American educated
Marchioness of Donegall, who has Just
arrived In this country, was the latt
peer's third wife.
Lord Belmore. who has Just 'cele
braled his golden wedding, at Castle
Coole, near Fnniskillen. In County
Fermanagh, the home of his family
sine- the reign of Queen .Elizabeth,
Is tho senior of all the representative
peers of Ireland, having been elected
to represent the Irish peerage In the
House of Lords us far back ns In 1S57.
Forty years ago he was In Australia,
us governor and commander-ln-chlet
of Xew South Wales: and It was while
staying with him at Sydney, that King
Kdward's sailor brother, the late Duke
of Fdlnburgh and of Saxe-Coburg
Gotha, had the attempt made upon his
life by Farrel). Lord Belmore. who In
spite of his being an anti-home ruler,
Is married to a member of the Glad?
stone family, has threo sons and no
less than ten daughters, only one of
whom Is married. As ho Is obliged
to make provision for them all, It i.-t
no wonder that he has been taking
advantage of the land act lo sell off
most of his Irish estates.
Theso. according to the historian
Froudc, were obtained through fraud,
by his ancestor, .lames Corry. nftor the
defeat of the cause of James II,, on
the pica that he had been of groat
assistance to King William, and had
suffered for his loyalty; whereas the
actual facts were that he hud
had his house In Fnniskillcn burned
by King William's adherents for
his hostility to the latter. His
great-grandson, Armar Corry, was
created Baron Belmore In 17S1,
partly for his services In obstructing
the policy of-Gruttan In the Irish
House of Commons, nnd partly becauno
he had married the daughter of the
Karl of Buckinghamshire Lord Lieu?
tenant of Ireland, and al.xtecn years
later ho watt advanced to tho Fnrldoir.
of Belmore for his support in the Irish
House of Lords of the administration
of Lord Cr.indcn. the viceroy, who goad?
ed the Irish people Into rebellion, In
order to curry the Union. The preaehA
earl Is the fourth of his line, nnd a
well Known member of his family wan
Lord- Boaconsflold'a .private secretary,
Montngue Corry. Lord Ttowton
fCcrn-rig'^t inn, by tbe iiKcj^eod,
Cnmoaay.)