The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1875-07-10
Nobility and Snobbery.
From the New Orleans Times.

During the reign OF good Queen
Ann John Churchill. Duke Of
Marlborough, was the richest no.
blemaM in England. After the
celebrated battles of Dlcnheim
and Malplaquet, there was nothing
too great or too good for him.
Marlborough's is not y pleasant
character to contemplate. In ev-
erything that makes up the high
moral part Of the man, he was
wofully lacking. The money sa-
we'd by the first duke Is now all
spent and the present hereditary
proprietor Of Blenheim, one Of
the finest palaces of England, is SO
poor that he cannot live in Eng
land, SO he is obliged to go abroad.
The magnificent estate at Blcn-
helm cannot be sold or used rs col
lateral to raise money, it being en-
tailed, aud the owner Of this i'm
mcnse property might starve, II II
were not for his pension Of fl0OO
from the English government.
There has recently been q we'd
ding in what tho toady newspapers
call high life. The Honorable
John Charles Frederick Spenser
Churchill, eldest son and heir to
the empty title OF Tic poverty
stricken Duke OF Marlborough,
married the daughter Of Leonard
jerome, Of New York. There
were some circumstances connect.
cd with the affair which are not
uncommon now with American
girls who marry u title. Tho
young Spcnser Churchill was poor,
SO poor that he could only live by
marrying some woman who in ex.
change for his title would furnish
him the means Of existence.
Mr.. Jerome was req%isvd to
settle upon his daughter E5O,0O
and also 10 ngrcc to furnish his
noble s0m-im-law $4,000 per all
mum. This amount is made q first
lien upon the income from the
Union League Clubhouse In New
York, which ia owned by Mr.. Je.
rome. Tho noble son refused to
marry the young, lady till he wal
made certain Of his money by the
arrangement we have rcferresl to.
We are sorry to record that, 50
anxious wns the brides mother
that her daughter should marry a
titlo, that she gave her husband no
rest till he made the arrangement
which should make her daughter
q prospective duchess. Yet these
are the sort Of people who talk Of
aristocracy, and affect to make the
cream OF American society.
There is u story illustrative o1
this snobbcry among rich Ameri.
cans, Of which the Times has per.
soual knowledge Of its entire cor.
rectmess.
The daughter Of one Of tho rich
men of the country was in Paris
with her mother, an undcrbred
common woman, who wanted i
prince for a son-in-law. At tha,
time princes were as plenty al
blackberries. The old woman
had her pick from French, Aus.
trian, German, Italian, Hungarian
Russian, etc. The lucky man wal
found in al Austrian, who hat
not a-thaler except his pay as at
tache at the embassy at St. Cloud
and what he could win at cards
lie was about twentwfivc years
older than the girl who was buy
ing him, but that didn't matter
with our American woman who
wanted o noble son-in law. Tht
marriage settlement was made
and the lawyer for the prince sale
that his client would require ter
thousand dollars a year in o.a
money settled upon him person
ally. The father, a shrewd, sen
sible fellow, who had made hi
money by lucky strikes, and con
scented to this marriage solely, a'
he afterwards said, to have peace
wanted to know what this ai1oun
was for, saying that as he had set
tied nearly q million of dollars OF
his daughter, he thought he hat
done about enough. Upon this
the solicitor for the prince inform
ed the prospective fathcr-in-lav
that his clients mistress had TO b,