A ROMANCE OF THE PEERAGE.
THE YOUTHFUL SON OP AN EARL MARRIES A SERVANT GIRL AND EMIGRATES.
George Essex Montifex, Lord Drummond, grandson and heir-apparent of the Earl of Perth, has gone back to Scotland. Seven or eight years ago, when he was only 16 years of age, ho married his grandmother’s maid, -a buxom girl several vears older than himself, and ran away with her to this country. He landed in New York without means, and hired himself as shipping clerk to a down town firm. He was wayward, and by his own foolishness got out of his position. He left the city and settled at Brookhaven a fishing village on the south shore of Long Island. He lived there in a picturesque old farmhouse, supporting himself and his wife very comfortably by fishing and shooting. He remained in Brookhaven several years.
He lost utterly all his English and aristocratic charaoterics, and in appearance, manners, and language, was like the fishermen who surrounded him.
He had little education, and no taste for reading, and hq seemed both contented and fitted to 1 the life he led. He •was tall and athletic, and might be seen any summer evening after fishing hours slouching about his doorway, wearing a blue flannel shirt, a high pair of rubber boots, and a battered old sou-wester. His neighbors knew him as George, and the young generation found him a boon companion. About two years ago a son and heir was born to him. Last year he quit 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 if she enjoyed good health. She also is comparatively uneducated, but she has read to a considerable extent, and is considerably more intelligent than his lordship. She talks cockney English, and takes evident liberties with the letter H. The animal health of the parents seems to have descended to the child. When the young lord was a shipping clerk in the city, he was visited by Lord Walter Campbell, son i 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 unsuccessully tried to persuade the runaway to give up his wife and to return to his people. It is understood a reconciliation has been effected between the old earl and his grandson. —Quebec Mercury.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2255, 9 June 1880, Page 3
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424A ROMANCE OF THE PEERAGE. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2255, 9 June 1880, Page 3
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