Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-12-18
a Queer Old Peer.

The Earl of Dysart, who died last
week, led a curious life. Like the Duke
of Portland he was averse to being seen.
lie had Lodgings in Norfolk street; no
one was ever admitted into his room,
and all correspondence with the outer
world was carried on by means of a
small slit, cut in the door, through
which. messages and their answers
were passed. As he was rich and pen
urious he managed to accumulate an
enormous sum of money, large portion
of which he had invested in the deben-
lures of the London d Southwestern
Railway Company. The title of Earl
OF Dysart was originally granted to one
William Murray, who was the whipping
boy of Charles L. The lad rose to be a
Gentleman of the Bed Chamber, when a
committee of the House OF Commons
memOrialized the King ''to remove that
vile person from his councils" William
Murray left one daughter who received
patent as Countess of Dysart. from
Charles H., and married Sir Lionel
Tollemache, and on his death, the Duke
OF Lauderdale. The lady used to boast
TO her second husband that she had
saved his life, when taken prisoner by
the Parliamentary forces, by submit
ting the to familiarities of Oliver Crom-
WELL" Before had heard of this, 1
confess that had never thought of the
great Protector in the light of a tiirt.
The father of the Earl just deceased was
engaged, before he inherited his peerage,
in some curious electioneering practices.
He bought number of small houses at
Leicester, which then returned two
members. In 1902, most of these ten
ants were bribed to vote against him, so
he pulled down 24O houses and erected
a workhOuse, in which their late Occu-
pants were lodged. In ISIS, a majority
of the remaining electors voted against
his candidates, on which he turned l60
of the inhabitants out of his wOrkhouse
in mid winter into the streets, "pour
encourager les autres." At the next
election there was still majority
against his candidates, when he gave up
the struggle. His will is to be contested
on the ground that the late Lord Hunt
ingtower made a will during Lord
Dysart's lifetime, bequeathiDg ali he
could 10 his illesitimate family. The
law OF wills is somewhat complicated,
and 1t would require a dozen columns
of this journal to explain why Lord
Dysart. S will should be attacked because
of the testamentary dispositions of Lord
Huntingtower. Every day Lord Dysart
had sent TO him, in Norfolk street, the
number of cabbages cut, of peaches on
on his estates. lie made his investiga-
tion through an ageG domestic servant.
One day an old lady walked into the
Southwestern Railway COmpany's office
and asked whether there was not an
issue OF some sort of guaranteed stock.
The clerk said there was not an issue OF
some sort of guaranteed stock. The
clerk said there was. "Quite safe."
said she. "Oh, yes, old lady; you need
not be afraid of your money. Do you
want to put your quaI ter's wages in
it?" ''Well," she answered, ''if you
please, be good enough to give me &c.,
900 worth of it, and here's the money!;
and with that she united big pocket
from under Ler dress containing notes
to that amount, and presented the
pocket to the clerk. A year or two ago,
his LOrdship thought that he would go
out, thing that he had not done for
many long day. ''Bring me my
boots" he said to the aged domestic.
She brought him the only pair that he
had. They were Hessians. Snow call
a hackney coach, he continued. When
he went down and found a cab before
his door, driven by a man with large
cape, he was in state of utter amaze
ment. He directed himself TO be taken
to Hampstead. When he reached
Regents Park he insisted that the driver
was going the wrong direction "rhis
is not the way to Hampstead" he said.
"Where are the covers in which | used
to shoot pheasants? Sad and astounded
he returned to Norfolk street, from
which he never emerged alive.