ROMANCE OF THE PEERAGE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 948, 18 June 1880, Page 3

ROMANCE OF THE PEERAGE.

George Essex Moutitcx, Lord Drummond, grandson and heir-apparent of the Earl of Perth, has gone hack to Scotland. Seven of eight years ago, when* ho was only sixteen years of age, he ma<ried his grandmother's maid, a.buxom girl several years older than himself, and ran away with her to this country. He landed in New York without means, and hired himself as a shipping clerk to a down town firm. Tie was wayward, and by his own foolishness got out of his position. He left the city and settled at Bronkhavcn, a fishing village on the south shore of Long Island. He lived there in a picturesque old farmhouse, supporting himself ami his wife very comfortably by fishing and shooting. Ho remained in Brookhaven several years, lie lost utterly all his English and aristocratic characteristics, and in appearance, manners, and language, was like the fishermen who surrounded him. He had little education, and no taste for reading, and he seemed both contented and fitted to the life he led. He was tall and athletic, and might he seen any summer evening after summer hours slouching about his doorway wearing

a b!uo flannel shirt, a high pair of rubber boots, anti a battered old sm-wester. }|is neighbours knew him as George, and the young generation found him a boon com

panion. About two years ago a sou and heir was born to him.. Last year ho, quitted his fishing and bringing his wife and child to this city, hired himself out as a porter to a dry goods house. The wife of the young lord is passably good looking. She is substantial in person, and looks as it she enjoyed good Health. She a'so is comparatively uneducated, but she has read to a considerable extent, and is considerably more intelligent than his lordship. She talks cockney English, and talma evident liberties with the letter H. The animal health of the parents semis to have deconded to the child. When the young lord was a shipping clerk in the city lie was visited by Lord W alter Campbell, son of the Duke of Argyle and brother of the Marquis of Lome, who was a member of a New York business house at the time, and who unsuccessfully tn -d to persuade the runaway to give un his wife and to return to his people It is understood a reconciliation has been effected between the old earl ail his grandson.—‘ Quebec Mercury.’