Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-11-20
The ORIGINAL. SoUEERs. "A correspondent
of Notes and Queries has these interesting
"reminiscences of Dotheboys Hall, 10 Yorkshire

The ORIGINAL SoUEERs. "A correspondent
Of Notes and Queries has these interesting
"reminiscences ofDotheboys Hall, 10 Yorkshire
Dotheboys Hall is still here, no longer
school. Mr.. Shaw, the original of ~queers,.
married q Miss, Laidman, who was q sort Of
cousin Of my father. The schcol buildings were
pulled down. but the house (Dotheboys) is till
q very nice, handsome one, with large offices
and COW houses We learn from our landlady
that in the room where We are now sitting u nj
corn Inn, Bowes) Dickens had lunch the day he
and friend rode.ov from Barnard Castle 10
see and make sketches Of MIR. Shaw's school,
and this same old lady, Mrs. Highmoor, waited
on them.
Dickens WAS only here that day, buthe stayed
longer in Barnard Castle, and got 3 great deal
of gossip, not too true, about the school, from
one -, quondam usher of Shaw's, and 8
bad lot," who had indeed been turned off for
bad conduct Mrs. Highmoor tells me- as IN
decd my father always says, that Dotheboys
Hall is most exaggerated carlcature. But
somehow the description was ii some respects so
correct that every body recognized it. Poor
good, got childish and psralytic, and soon died
The school went down fast. Mrs. Shaw also
died broken hearted But good deal of money
Was lett behind. Mrs. Highmoor says there was
an immense number of boys, that Mr.. Shaw
chartered special coach to bring them from
London (ths place is on one of the great coach
ing roads betw cen York and Ola: gow,) and that
there was great Joy in the village on the arrival
| of the coach and its precious freight--qute the
event, in fact, it was. Size says the boys were
used very well, and fed as we'll as could be ex-
pected for $50 year that there might be things
| wrong, but no complaints were ever made; that
Shaw made money because on his own farm he
grazed the COWS and fed the sheep and pigs
which supplied the boys food.
terday number of the vice regents of the Mt.
Vernon Association paid visit to Mount Yer
non 10 company with Gov Walker aud lady,
of Virginia There were present of the vice
regents Mrs. Halstead, of New Jersey Mrs.
Washington, Of West Virginia.; Mrs. Ball, of
Virginia; Madame Bergmans, Of Phladelph
and Surgeon General Barnes, Of the District of
Columbia.
The party left at 10 o clock a. M, and re-
turned at 0 clock p. NJ, after delightful
visit. The vice regents say that although the
visit was an unofficial one, they inspected the
premises thoroughly and found everything in
complete order. They are unanimous in their
praise of the condition of the estate since it has
passed into the management Of Col. McH. Ho-
lingsworth, and say that no perceptlble lm-
provement could be made in affairs there.
1t was resolved by those present that an eff
fort should be made to increase the endowment
fund, with view Of keeping up the necessary
repairs and improving the grounds
Mrs. A. " Brown, of Tennessee, has been
appointed vice regent, aud not regent, as
has been enormously reported Wash. Ctron.
Mr. THOMAS BARlNG.-The cable brings a
report of the death Of Mr. Thomas Barring, the
head Of the great English banking house which
bears his name. Mr.. Barring had reached a
good old age, having been born in 1900. The
establishment over which he presided was an
institution of his own creation, aided by wealthy
and titled relatives and friends His oldest
brother was the late Sir Francis Barring, who
was raised to the peerage as Lord Northbrooke
LII 1885 Mr.. Barring was elected to Parliament
and 10 1913 he was candidate to represent
London, but was defeated by majority of l56
only. 10 the pext year he was retuI ned from
Huntingdon, and held the seat up to the time
of his death He was Conservative in poll
tics, and Lord Derby is understood to have
twice offered him the CHARACTERISTIC of the Ex
ch,quer From 1880 to 1868 he was Chairman
of LIoyd's 5. In all his long and busy life he
held many important positions, and was promi-
nent no less in the social than in the financial
aDd political circles of England.