Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-12-07
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-ON. VT. FRIDAY MOI
youth every penny had been of impoitnee
TO the struggling actress. She mated the
Beauclerks, the Dukes family, ami lett
sperial proviso against their ever occupying
Il house she left the DUKE.
In the earlier part of her career, the Bar
oness Burdett- Coutts was, like Queen Veto
ria-to whom men in the pit OF the theatre
| used to write notes TO say that they had
| caught the glance of her eye, anu were ready
to consent to become prince consorts dread
fully pestered by would-be suitors, and II
| certain Mr. Dunn became such an in-utfera-
BILE nuisance that she had to seek legal
remedy. When she appeared IL court, and
| during the proceedings could not conceal
her tears consequent upon the disgracetul
behavior of Dunn, an intense feeling of sym
pathv was excited and if the crowd had
caught the offender it would have gone hard
| with him There IL little doubt that her
| money has made her an old maid, but she
| probably finds compensation IN the hct that
| 1t has also made her the most popular wo
| man in London with which city she has
always closely identified herself for Lady
| II. Coutts, with all her millions, has no coun-
| try seat, eVcydt Il villa inherited from the
|
| of the metropolis. Her town house is an
immense bav-windowed mansion in Stratton
street, cul-de-sac which runs alongside the
walls of Devonshirs House in Piccadillv. Its
| windows command fine view of what Is
| called the Green Park and Buckingham Pal
| ace. The mansion contains quantities of very
costly objects dart, including cabinet said
| to have been appraised at $1,000 guineas.
She entertainr a great desl, and gives per-
haps larger dinner parties H. her vast dining
room than any other person IN London. hut
| neither her dinners nor her balls ar" eXcep-
tionnlly recherche Still she all the most
interesting people. She is an intimate friend
of Mr. Gladstone, who in 1871 advised the
Queen to raise her to tho peerage, and he and
his family passed several weeks with her IN
town some years ago, when his own house
was not available. Mr.. Harness, Julian
Young, and. until he separated from MS wife,
Charles Dickens were also among her ire
quent guests \ most important person in
her establishment is Mrs. Brown, her insep-
arabic companion, into whose good books 1t
is highly important for any one desiring the
favor OF the Baroness to get.
Lady Burdett- Coutts Is now about 60 she
is tall and thin, with very amlnblc express
sion of countenance and pleasing voice and
manner. the latter being utterly devoid of
the slightest arrogance or pretenslon. Her
political sympathirs lean decidedly toward
liberalism and she cherishes the toniest rec
objection of her father, the radical SIR Fran
els Burdett, gallant, honest, imprtuouS
gentleman, who probably keenly enjoyed |
finding himself State prisoner III the Tow |
er Of London. To whom Lady Burdett- |
Coutt's enormous wealth will go is not known. |
Her brother. Sir Robert, is queer old bach
elor. with S2OO. 900 year, but she has neph-
a (. tl,-
and who consider themselves eminently elig- |
ible for humping legacies. Some of them, |
however, have not been altogether satistac |
tory. 1t is hoped by her countiymen and |
women that it may be many day before her |
will comes to be read, for her death would he |
little short of public calamity.
NAsBY.
MR...SAsBY THIS TO MEND HIS FORTUNES BY |
MATRnoNY- TERRIBLE RESULT OF HIS |
VENTURE.
CONFIDENT Y ROADS,
tRICH Is IN THE STATE UV kENTUCKYD
Nov Is, 1877.
The polisy NV the yooseper hez bin my |
room. Probably ther amt more mi2able |
man in the entire State, and that is sayin a
great deel for don't know nv any State that |
Eez more mizable men. or one in wich the |
That mizable wretch Joe Bigler come to me |
day before yisterdy, and sejested that ez the |
President-sich is his term for the yOoserper |
had put out an olive branch Nv amity and |
concord between the two races, 1t wood he
graceful thing ef kentuckisn--a white Ken
tuckian should accept it, and demonstrate
his sincerity by marryi in one of the inferior
race, which is now our ekals atore the
law
.'Sir r. sed Iassoomin a stern and injoored |
look, edo yoo dare to sejest sch II thing to
me To me- a Kentuckian, that is, Ken
tuckian by brevet : Dare you make a pro-
posishen at wich every drop NV Anglo-Saxson
blood i'll my vanes boIls with horror
Avant ~
He didn't avant, however, but went on to
say that in the outskirts NV the village there I
wuz II culerd woman wich he'd Il cabin, and
a very comfortable one, and, he bleeyed,
some money. At all evence, rhe was c1-
celent washer and ironer, and Good support
a husband in fairly good stile. by her
labor.
And yoo know Nasty. it's more than
three veers before yoo kin inoggerate II Dim
ocratic President, eft yoo elect him and ei
yOO do. You hev to take the chances NV gittin
yoor place agin a score Of hungry Dimecrats.
who want it cz badly ez yoo do. Think Nv
three yeers nv comparative comfort"
Bascom struck in to-wunst. for he saw his
chance Nv maxim me IL cash customer. KNOWN
that he'd git nine-tenths NV wat the woman
wood earn, and Deekin Pocram who hez bin
wantin suthin ON wat hey bln borrerin NV
him all these weary yeers, urged 1t strong
ly.
''In the good old times" he sighed, 1--WE
he'd no scruples about nggers except in the
matter NV gon thro the iornality nv marryin
nv en-
And when | thought NV II comfortable
home with Il muscular female furnishin the
supplies n great deel NV the disgust that |
felt at marryin Niger evaporatcd, and
determined to do it. Fatal conclusion =
| proposed the next mornin at . she ac-
cepted and before ten we wuz ez firmly mar
rid ez Il Justis NV the Peecc Good do 1t.
wuz wunst more the he'd nv a family
The Justis and the witnesses left the house,
and we WIS alone with our Inv.
Mclindy sot there with her hands folded,
and II broad grin distendin her cnpashus
month, and sot there rcgariin her with
ttclIns NV Cratitood Tor yooserper whose
pollsy he'd led to u resu, so pleasant for me
to contemplate The woman could earn II
dollar a day | Good feed her and myself on
ten cents eat very little and bacon is
cheap here, ef 1t Is poor-and the Other
ninety | saw before me unhmitId drinks /
SAW before me long life in Iascpms bar
with occasional trips to Louisville. And
that human mtsheen II srrubhin away
iurnishin the mcrns It wu2 a gorgeous
drrem wood that he'd never bin awakened
from 1t. That wuL good time to die, while
felt we'll. and | wish he'd.
''Alelindy. darlin, spoke gently, ''in the
new relashuns We hey assoomed We must not
torplt that life hry its lOOtipS Very plpt,
ant loves young dream. and well would it he
Tor rs ci We Good linger in it, and pass our
entire lives under its hewitchin spell. Eut,
Mclmdy We cant. Love is representa- ez
with II pertikerlerly plump stumic, which
shows that it 'hez hIn filled. We cant exist .
on love We need bacon and sich. Therefore
Melindy, awake from your dream. ard get to |
that wusl-tuu. Them clothes must be out |
and ON the line 10y noon. And Melindy, give |
me, yoor legal lord and master, wat loose |
change yoo hcv in yoor possession, for hev
hlznis up town"
Wat did this woman do
she rem'rEcd
''Duz ye sposo rzc a gwln to sport 700.
by washin ~
Certainly | do, my deer wat other per
feshn hey ye:'
"Ie duA, duz ye :"
"Uv course, aud 700 don't want to lose no |
time. What does Solomon say NV the mode |
woman "She gettith up while 1t is yit mite, |
and she weaveth fine goods, which She sell