Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1873-08-12

the most amible cottage people.
He was fuddled, but he played
euchre like q Western Congress
man. He got very drunk that
Wednesday night, and went to
sleep bearing disquisition on the
necessity of English ships beating
the Pennsylvania. Next day
Thursday My Lords carriage and
pair, hired at one hundred dollars
a week, was at the hotel door at 6
o'clock.
"Where is My Lord )" said Has
l>ins, "throwing up his breakfast,
dinners, teas, nights lodgings and
everything on the sidewalk" 1t
was true. My Lord stood against
one of the posts of that gorgeous
fashionable recherche hotel, the
temple of the land, puking like a
man unaccustomed to wine. Con-
gress Hall threw off the illusion.
They telegraphed to the Break
water, "Do you know anything of
an English yacht called the Henri
eta, sailed by Lord MasseyT
Answer came back "No such
yacht ever entered the Delaware" ;"
The news would have spread,
but that the guests at Congress
Hall, feeling that Wednesdays joke
had been upon themselves, insisted
that no more be done than to make
the man settle. To Ludham's per-
emptory invitation My Lord came
forward and paid his bill. Here
upon society again rallied upon My
Lord, and called all skeptics merely
scandalizers. My Lords purchas-
es increased. He ordered two
sets of horses instead of one ; he
ordered cottage for the season,
saying, GAS ! have now been an
nounced here under my title, l
must stay it out"
The excitement was eXtraordin-
ary. Thursday was the great day
for the Stockton House end. The
urbane was graceful, Duffy, caring
nothing for rank, kept hands off
but his guests beheld with delight
that My Lord moved among them.
He was introduced by the Thomp-
sons, and the Cochrans to all the
East Enders, the Bories, Mellow
ellis, Browns, Defreeses, Oakfords,
Lanes, Shoemakers, &c. Although
tight from morning till night, and
wearing the same paper collar,
false bosom, cotton shirt, &c, he
kept up his splendid ingenuity of
lies; he kept his bashful assurance,
kept up the wonderful stories of
his revenues, and claimed kinship
with dukes and interest in estates,
until society was carried offits feet.
Simple chaps said "He a Lord {!
He's no Lord any more than men ;"
but intellect and society yielded,
until My Lords intoxication was
such that not even the ladies he
had dined and ridden with cared
to linger in his perfumes. He was
still believed in to great degree,
but it was thought he had better
go to bed.
About this time some of the
cozy gamblers around the East
End struck My Lord, and found
HIM devoid Of stamps the livery
stable men mistrusted. He had
been deliberately cut by another
Lily ilShiudu, WIZ SAUL
"The family name of the Duke
of Leeds is Osborn, not Massey,
You are an impostor." Still socie-
ty kept up allegiance to the man
with the paper collar and the false
shirt bosom, and the demands were
enormous to go on his yacht next
day. Late that day, My Lord, all
alone, was seen traversing the
Stockton House porch, carefully
watched by Detectives Shannon
and Hoxie. Society wondered
what next. Under his arm were
what appeared to be four billiard
cues. Without a fiunkey or
friend, this aspirant to great title
and commander of q {, 9,000-ton iron
clad walked to the beach and there
proceeded to set off some children's
rockets.
"What in the hell are you doing |"
said Jersey policeman.
Letting off signals for my yacht
at the Breakwater,' cried my Lord
with alacrity.
His first rocket went up and
fizzled the second struck on the
hotel porch and drove in the pick