Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-11-03

The Sequel of The Marriage of an Earps
Daughter and an Organist. 90 4

Daughter and an Organist.
From The New York Sun.
The arrival III this country of Lady
Blanche, the daughter of the English
Earl of Gainsborough, under escort of
her husband, Mr.. Thonas T. Murphy,
some time ago, created, it may be re-
membered, quite talk. The lady, in
marrying beneath her station, as her
titled relations considered the union,
incurred the displeasure of her naughty
father. Cleaving to her husband, how
ever, the young couple determined to
come to America, and seek their for
tunes in New York. Lady Blanche was
not q silly girl, nor ignorant of the
world at this TIME. She was FL
years of age: she had seen great deal
of high life; she had been two seasons
in London society; she was devotee of
art and literature; she was woman of
high cultivated intellect and brilliant
talents. After their arrival here they
again felt the pressure of straitened cir
cumstances, and she especially found
out the transformation that takes place
when an earl's daughter becomes poor
mans wife. But if Glove laughs at
locksmiths, it also smiles at poverty,
and the young couple cheerily began the
struggle of life. After time, he, who
had no resource but his musical skill,
got a place i'll q suburban
church, as it's organist, at small
salary, and she made an attempt to turn
her talents to use as contributor to
periodical literature. Lady Blanche
was persevering, and some of her spark
l. n ,4c 4
and brought her little income. Among
other things, she contributed to %
monthly magazine series of brilliant
essays on English high life and the
English aristocracy, which attracted
much notice, and which she might have
continued until an indefinite length of
time; but she brought them to a close
when she found that some personages
in the aristocratic circles which she de-
scribed took offense at their publica-
ton. The essays, as they appeared,
were announced to be "By Lady
Blanche Murphy" but few peo-
pie were aware of the identity of the
essayist who wrote under that
name. In the four years of her resi-
dence here she has kept up the hard
literary work which she undertook after
her arrival, writing for monthies and
other periodicals; and, though the in-
come is small, it is enough to help her
husband in sustaining the modest place
of their residence. The Earl of Gains
borough has relented in some measure,
towards his daughter. He recently set
tied upon her On income of ESQ year
for her own use, and invited her back
to her old place in the family and to her
home III Exton Hall, on condition that
she would leave her husband. But il
was for this husbands sake that Lady
Blanche had joyfully surrendered allthe
world could give, and she clings
to him, notwithstanding her fathers
offers, with all the tenacity and affection
of her womanly soul. Her marriage
was not the result of whim, but of
her hearts devotion, and that devotion
cannot be surrendered for title or rank,
for place or fortune, for palace or
coronet. Lady Blanche Murphy is a
small, slight blonde, with elegant fea-
lures and lambent eyes, timid in her
ways though easy in her address. Her
husband also is blonde, pleasant and
genteel.