The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-07-24
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'tIf ever marry wife," caroiea Elia,
"I'il marry q landlords daughter, That ]
may sit in the bar, And drink cold brandy
and water.n Sir Hew Pollok, Of Pollok, q
Scotch barouct. was somewhat Of the same
mind, for he married barmaid at Scarbo.
rough. who thought. poor young woman,
that she had made q great catch; and so she
bad. only she caught great Tartar, from
whom she is now seeking In the Court
OF Sessions 10 be sundered, on the
ground Of cruel treatment. 1t did mot turn
out TO be.so fine 10 be called "my LADY !"
and live in Pollok Castle. We may infer,
without much violence to the laws Of logic,
that baronet who marrieS barmaid Is not
averse to q social glass, or. in fact, to great
number oficonviyial bcakers. Perhaps he
was not exactly sober when he t. led the.
blushiug Miss Green from her bar and heer-
pots to- the byrneneal altar; if he was, it
does not appear that he has been sober since.
Indeed, according to all the testimony, Sir
Kew Is quite a paragon Of potatory eX.
PLOTS, always vibrating between tipsiness
and downright inebriety. He was not ir-
regular in his habits. for he regularly began
to IL ink ut O'Clock in the morning. The
servants, who did not like to swear plumply
10 bis intoxcation, all said more mildly that he
vas usually under the influence Of liquor"
aud that when very bad he was in the habit
OF swearing" asa
One witness, G tenant Of Sir Hew, with an
eye, perhaps, to his lease, qualified his testi-
mony. He had never heard the Baronet
swear except to say "D--n it," He had
seen him happy" but he never saw him
'niraklous drunk '-explaining that itby.
miraculous drunkenness he meant very
advanced stage Of into&icatioD. We are
obliged to add that Der ladyship, as became
one who had been barmaid, was, not Of
the total abstinepce persuasion, but took
brandy "neat," drinking glass for.glass with
the gentlemen at the table. But Pollok
Castle. with all its imbibing, was not a jolly
castle. Occasional sobriety seems to be some
what necessary to domestic happiness. !.
Mr.. Thackeray, in one Of his ballads, has
tod Us bow a British gentleman may treat
his wife. To begin With, Sir Hew main.
tanned collection of pistols and daggers in
his Northumberland nice playthings, 1t must
be admitted, for man in bis cups. He kept
revolver under bis pillow, and this, we
suppose, Lady Pollok did NOT find soporIfc.
When he was wakeful he amused himself in
the night, and startled the household by
d4churging the pistols. The walls of the
~ III WClC tJal hCu Will SuSts. S1S lOl tIduJ
Pollok, II she did take brandy neat, she had
some excuse for the indulgence. Her hus.
pand was always swearing at her, and when
he wished to be specially savage he accused
. her OF adultery. He took her one day for a
drive. and being bit drunken than common
upset the drag and hurt her badly. He or
tered bis gamekeeper to shoot her pet dog,
and the faithful vassal obeyed On the
night Of the OYerturn, lame and bruised as
she was. he pulled her from the bed to the
floor AID seized her by the throat. There
wasa Captain Anderson staying in the house,
who interfered to protect the lady. Sir Hew
rcSenting this, was first reasoned with, and
.hen Knocked down. He was not allowed
by the Captain to get up until he had pro-
n.ised TO behave letter. 1t will add to the
interest OF this sweet domestic scene if we
state that all the performers we're in their
night-clothes. Lady Pollok was carried off
TO the lodge on the shoulders Of her maid,
for the poor woman was too lame TO walk.
She turned her back upon the poor misera-
bic castle the next morning, and ran away
rom the beatines and the brandy never to
return. It was in evidence that there were
asreat many blo0dlloundsand maStiffs about
tne premises, but the master Of the house
seems TO have been the most brutal dog of
all. We naturally pity any woman treated
q, Lady Pollok was, but it must not be in
ferred that she was totally wanting in spirit.
She sometimes shook her fist in his face.
She told Sir Hew that If she were man she
would give him sound tbrashing. We are
not exactly sure of her relation to Captain
Anderson, who did administer corporal pun
ishlpent to the in1amed baronet. At any
Ylte, as the husband was jealous Of him, the
Captain should have gone away.
Since the Mordaunt case, which, we OBJ
serve, may possibly be tried again in the
House Of Lords, we have had no story Of
British high life more scapdalous than this
scotch one. The moral Of il is simple /:
Baroncts should not marry barmaids, and
should not drink too much brandy and
water. We are ashamed to say that Sir Hew
pleads that he contracted his thirsty habits
by drinking ut bars while travelling in our
own happy land. Though we have no
baronets and no barulaids, we still have the
brandy, 70 wise young manageable We
men yTe need say no more.