Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-08-03
THE EARL 0E A DAY.
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How q Young Englishman was Taken
up and Made Much Of and as Suddenly
DROPPED. ell. .,L. H.1 d. f.I

A long Branch correspondent OF the
New Yofk Herald writes: Our fasfiofia-
BILE soeiey has been in feverish hutt,r
for The mst few days at the advent of an
English Lord, reported 10 be immensely
wealthy diid very handsome. This enter
tanning Individual resides at the West End
and seatIers his money like s'wedthy uIen
who dare not how they give" If an dli-
sequious darkey ever lifts a cloth brush,
my lord rewards his polite attention with
a bill, aud In fact fractional currency
seemsto have no place in his expenditures.
Heis Inevitably 10 well dressed that nick
el eoih would spoil the perfect set uf bis
pants jand consequently never condescends
eitherto give or take change, and In the
annals Of Long Branch no representative
OF English aristocracy has ever so aston
ished The iatives by extravaganza and ex-
penslva dissitatiUn as this nobleman. A
mau Of the world, gefitemanlyj cynical
and abstemious In alcoohollc matters, he
takes y hsphistophelean delight in squan-
dering money in every kind Of pleasure,
and throws down the ducats with as care
less, Yrodgal hand at the 'club" as if the
greetbaoks were as worthless as the pa
per on which Uncle Sam engraves his in-
teresthg autograph. Of course the young
"Earl of Londonderry" travels bleognitO,
but p the handsome face of Mr..
Alfred r every body can sec
the arlstocratic porcelain of human
lty, and mamnas were wonderfully
polite 10 the mysterious individual. He re-
ceiyed marked attention everywhere he
went, aud one English gentleman was
overheard TO remark, 'How much he re-
sembles the Countess his mother, whom
l.ar -, At ha Of
Dublin the same eyes and the same
straight grecian nose." A quiet impromptu
hop vas gotten up for his special benefit,
and ecststle school girls ran among their
friends and in tho fullness of their dear
little Innocent hearts oft declared that
they bad 'just danced with real live
English Lord" No one ever suggested
that bis title was known, aud that the
respectful manner in which he was treated
astOnthed and disconnected him. Pro-
posed picnlcs were gotten up on his ac-
COUNT and If he ever limited at taking a
drive dozen voices proposed a moonlight
excursion. When he spoke in a group
silence reigned, and his most common.
place remarks were listened to with pro-
found respect. This state of affairs went
on tlll labout midnight, the writer remark
ed To grim mercantile gentleman. Show
very unsssuming and agreeable that young
Earl bf Londonderry Is f' The man OF
money and markets turned a thrce-quarter
face ffom the sherry cobbler be was just
about t'swallowing and growled, Earl be
d-d be is Kidderminister carpet man
ufactprer, visiting the country on spree.
This discovery got wind, and the Earl
Of Il day" found himself avoided in the
same patio as he WAS formerly hattered.
Mr.. Il, a well known stock broker,
started the rumor by way of Il joke, and,
finding is a good card, kept it up for the
evening. The carpet manufacturer is yet
at a loss to understand the sudden change
Of feeling, and asks, despairingly, "What
have done 20