A COAL-HEAVER SUCCEEDS TO A BRITISH EARLDOM.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1189, 26 September 1882, Page 2

A COAL-HEAVER SUCCEEDS TO A BRITISH EARLDOM.

* The modest town of Connellsville, Pensylvania, America, has a genuine sensation. It consists in the discovery that among the laborers in the. railroad shops is numbered a genuine nobleman, His name is Eggerton Davis. Two years ago he came to this town ragged and weary, and applied for aid a I the hands of the Rev. W. F. Stoner, Rector of the Episcopal .Church. 1 Representing himself as a devotee of that faith and in want, the rector aided him,' not only in supplying his needs, but! in procuring employment. As the result of the clergyman's influence, the (ramp woe given work as a coal-heaver. in the' employ of the Baltimore audj Ohio, (Railroad. Subsequently he wa« promoted to greese; wiper in the roundhouse, and thenceto work in the carpenters! shop. In every place.he,worked assiduously and faithfully. By .good behavior he won upon'the esteem of the community,;'He ; kept up a correspondence with his wife in England, who has just informed him by letter that by the death of au uncle he succeeds to the titlf, of Earl of Elleamere, with an income of £50,000 a year. : _ His story is an interesting one. Born in 1837, he was educated at Eton. Then reverses came, and he learned the trade of a cabinetmaker, anß subsequently eßgaged in business with an extensive coal and iron firm, Then health failed him, and he came to America,.landing in NewrYork. After repeated misfortunes tnere he went to Philadelphia,: whore he was robbed of. his effeots. After an unsuccessful effort to recover his Stolen property, in which all his resources were exhausted, he then ■bebame a tramp and visited all the cities of. the _ United States, terminating his nomadic life'with his appearance at Con-' nellsville two years ago,' He is a man of good address and prepossessing : appearance,'and though his accession to weath and station ! is suddenj it causes less surf iiriße than might be expected, l ' He left or England on the 13th July,