Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-11-02

On he sssssuisa q 0sesue l., Lord
Cbsss.l0s vss es1stsd vi.eoapt Villain
and Esri ~ Csrnarvaa, lila. snsle In
l719 s.S rsi-~d saill hiehsr. I<iuw ere
Or Marquee of Carnasvuo "A Duke
u C:s-nsso~- Otiser kossss So2losed
in rspsi sscccs<ioa; for HIS grsee v,s
g0vernog o( The Charter Hoase. IIord
Liestensns and Cassos RstaI~rum Of
Hesel0ssashire and Rssisos.hire. n men,
ter a Tie Pnivy Coancil. Ranger Of
En6<id- ehass. and Chancelior Of IT,
Univsrsity a s. A,dsevis. in Scot
land.
About this time Q eurioss event 1.
ssid 10 have happesed 10 the dake.
when travelling 20 % from Hereford.
shire his Grace stopped ss the Castle
Inn in Nsriborough. vhes - he drove
into the courtyard. his ezrx ssre deaf
en~d by pi~rcing scrsams- The dnke
hastily slixhsed, and beheli q yery
lovely yo1ng somAn, scarcely beyond
sirlhood. in the grasp u Q pvvrrful
fellow, The hostlef u the inn, Who v.s
striking her in . mot ferocious man
per vifh . heavy horseship. Blood
wss streaming from her face, neck. and
arms. and crosd stool around, fi!Ied
siah compsrsion. vet afraid % inter
fore between the ferocious brute end
his victim. Bat the duke prpsse.i
through the group, and strruly ordered
the rEiIixn To desi-t- ] he sasn. danneeS
by the .cok and manner Of the noble
man. let his ship sd victim both fall
10 the ground. and replied TO his ques
tons that the young woman vss his
wife, and that he had . night 10 do
what he liked to her; Offering, how
ever, at the same time. 10 sell this right.
10 his grace for q sum Of money. Real
IL touched by the suffering of the
girl, the duke INTERESTINGLY
closed with the offer; Q sum Of twenty
pounds sterling ~as gleefully accepted
by the brute Of husband, aud the
stricken young wife became, according
to an old English custom, the pur-
own, to do with her as he
would. Bat the duke was q noble
minded gentleman; the cast-off wife
was treated by him as his ward, and
placed where she would be educated
and moulded into q LADY. The result
of his care gave him complete satisfac-
ton; and when Cassandra, his first
duchess, died childless in 1875, his
grace lost no time about raising the
hostler's cast of spouse to be his third
wife, for he married her in the begin
ming Of 1876. 1t is certain that the
duke never repented of his bargain, for
he says in his will:-''I owe the great
est comfort I have enjoyed in this life
(since I have been blessed with her) to-
my duchess, Lydia Catharine;" and he
orders that she, shall be buried in the
same depository as his own corpse. and
that marble figure of her should be
set up in the monument room, but it
was not to cost more than two hundred
pound sterling. A curious book in the
British Museum, bound in some of the
crimson velvet that remained over and
above the quantity required for cover
iug the coffin Of this duchess. tells us
this story, and much more also, about
Canons and its master. On April %,
l736, Mrs. Psndarves writes to his
friend, Dean Swift:-"The Duke of
Chandos' marriage has made . great
noise, and the poor duchess is often re-
preached with her being bred up in
Burr street, Wrapping" to this note il
attached. to the effect that ''she was
Lady Da. al, widow Of Sir Thomas Da-
val, and had fortune of forty thou
sand pounds sterling," from which it
would appear that the beautiful victim
who had been rescued by the duke,
was married 10 . city knight as her sec-
ond husband. and that she became .
third wife herself when she married his
grace.
While she was Duchess Of Chandos,
Q Mr.. Thicknesse, who was residing
at Southampton, and daily
visiting the market to buy provis ons,
took great fancy to q civil, respecla.
BILE woman. who kept q small green
stall. On mentioning this fact
to a gentleman of Southampton. he was
told, to his surprise, that this good
dame was own sister to the Duchess Of
Chandos. fastening to the market
next morning, he asked if this story
was true. Eyes, sir" she replied, II
am"
"And does your sister take no sort
Of notice Of you ?" asked Mr.. Thick.
nesse.
eyes, sir, she takes proper notice OF
Us all; and we are many sisters"
"What sort of notice does she take ?"
"Why, she sent for all OF us up to
clothed MS suitably to our sta
ton in life, aud sent servant to show
us such things in London as were most
likely to smuse us; put money into
each of our pockets, and then paid our
journeys back again" Replying to
further remarks, the sensible woman
said, "Whst else could she dot We
were not tit to sit down at the dukes
table,"
It is said that when the duchess was
only fourteen she had gone to live ~ .
not girl with an oil woman who kept
An als-house near tho gate OF Winches.
ter Close. In after years this old body
vas told Of the great marriage made by
her Q~asdam sLscy. "Aye, aye. she
replied. II always told her. Nan,
Nan, you'll come 10 good"
The editor of the Marshall (Ia.)
Esasss~ssa says that, after considering
The ouesfiou all Winter, he comes 10