Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-11-19

FORTUNES VAGARIEs.-The recent ar
rest of a number of poor coal l-pickers, in
West Kansas City, resulted in the dlscov-
cry of the identity and present home Of
once very popular actress, who made her
debut in and for season drove the play
going public of London wild over her
beauty and power of delineation.
Mrs. Caroline Whittesey, or as she was
better known, the " Brighton Pearl ap-
peared on the stage in Drury Lane about
twenty-five years ago, and after brilliant
season of favor and popularity, suddenly
faded from the London stage, and for sew
eral years was lost to the public gaze.
When next she appeared before the loot
lights it was as Mrs. Whittlesey, in the
Theatre Royal, Hull, Yorkshire.
These brief outlines of this woman's re-
markabe history were given by herself to
a neighbor, who has by kindness and at
tention to the child of this gifted and &C.
centric woman-a little girl of thirteen
years, who was caught by railroad watch
man, few days ago, in the act of filling
her little basket with coal from the cars
of the Missouri Pacific Railroad-won her
confidence. Mrs. Whittlesey appeared in
behalf Of her child, and her calm and lady
like manner, and pale, care-worn face,
were all the eloquence required to release
the little girl from the watchman's grasp.
This man, to test the woman's~- words as to
her poverty and destituton, visited her
shanty, rude, upholstered hovel in the
bottoms near the railroad track. The con-
tents of the home of this once brilliant
woman are vivid contrast to her palatial
residence, furnished her while the mistress
of Lord Denbigh. A clean but humble
bed, a few chairs, table, a number of re-
lies of the stage, such as play-bills, por-
| traits, etc., aud sewing-machlne, COM
prise all her earth y possessions.
Although poor and pinched 10y poverty,
this woman preserves all the dignity OF
Queen Elizabeth, a character she has no
doubt filled to perfection some day, long,
long ago. She came to Kansas City ahnnt
five years ago, and has lived here, since
the death OF her husband, in 1870 by her
own eXertions as a seamstress. She wears
on her finger handsome ring with the
Denbigh coat of arms engraved thereon.
She says when she left the stage, in 1858,
she did SO to become the wife of Lord
Denbigh, with whom she went, as his wife,
to Geneva and thence to Florence, where
| they lived in retirement several months.
On his death her claims as his wife were
set aside, and, having neither money nor
friends, she abandoned her claims and
again returned to the stage. and for
several years was a popular provincial ia
vorite in England, Australia and Canada.
While in England, in 1860, she mar
ried a young Englishman named Whittle-
sey, with whom she lived many happy
years in domestic quiet. She says she
has been compelled to send her child to
gather coal to assist her in eking out the
scanty support won by her needle. Among
the curious mementos of her early life
Mrs. Whittlesey preserves nothing with
such jealous care as folio of play bills
giving her " cast in plays for seveea
years in England, Australia and Canada
This lady still retains some trace of thai
remarkable dash and beauty which made
her the favorite star of the London stage
twenty years.-Kansas City Times.