Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-12-21

OF THIS tnen lnL6r1Or tOWn.
But not always was Sir Henry Frank.
land to pursue this aimle-s, PREDICATE
career or to withhold from his fair asso-
ciate in sin the dover Of wifehood,
which was her due. An event is at
hand which is effectually to sober him
and, by impressing permanently upon
his mind a sense of the instability Of
human affairs, to direct his mind to
higher things, and having been appoint
ed Consul General to Portugal, it so
happened that he was residing at Lis
bon at the time fthe great earthquake,
November 1, 1855. Saved, as it were,
by miracle from that most appalling
and almost unprecedented ruin, this
hitherto gay Lothario suddenly "came
to himself''-was so profoundly affected
by his narrow escape from instant death
that, Immediately upon his deliverance,
he made haste to do justice TO his long
suffering companion by espousing her
in due form and SO making her at last
his lawful wife.
The two subsequently returned to
America; and every year thereafter, as
long as he lived, on the anniversary of
his memorable deliverance, Sir Henry
was accustomed to retire to certain
room in his house in Hopkinton, and
there, having secluded himself from
every visitor, keep solemn fast. In the
apartment about him, 1t is said, were
hung up, torn, soiled and covered with
lime and dust that had gathered on them
at the time of the disaster, the identi-
cal garments worn by him amid the
ruins and debris of that doomed city.
Having, many years after the events
just recorded, revisited England on
business, Sir Henry died suddenly at
Bath, January IL, 1868. Lady Frank
land continued to reside at Hopkinton
until the breaking out Of hostilities in
connection with the American Revolu-
ton. Though a Marblehead girl her.
self, yet as the wife of an English no
bleman, she not unnaturally so incur
red the suspicious Of the sturdy patri-
OTIS that her situation early became an
extremely embarrassing, net tn say .
dangerous one. Removal to Boston
being DISTRACTED, she sought the pro-
lection of the Provincial Congress
of Massachusetts, and receiv-
ed permission of one of the
committees to proceed with her effects
to the town. Notwithstanding this
sanction of high authority, excitementy yet
among the inhabitants Of the neighbour
hood ran so high armed parties even
assuming 10 arrest her journey, and to
detain her person and effects-that it
was not until the power of the provincial
Congress actually interposed to liberate
the same from captivity, that she sue
ceeded in effecting her escape. After
many delays, and after having been
subjected to multitude of needless an
noyances, Lady FARMLAND finally sailed
for England-bidding last adieu to
her native land, and her forest home at
Hopkinton. Tradition says that she
was afterward married to Major Drew
of the royal army; and that she finally
died suddenly in the very act of dressing
for ball. While adjusting her hair
before a mirror, she was seized with
mortal sickness, and fell; and in few
moments, and with the gay attire of the
ballroom, as it were, for her winding
sheet, expired.
Thus ended the romantic career Of
fair Agnes-the chamber maid Of Mar
blehead.
Some brief letters, is is said, of Lady
FARMLAND. are still preserved in the
archives of the provincial Congress, re-
markable for the beauty and grace Of
their chirography, though betraying
in occasional errors of spelling the de-
fects of her early education.
For many a generation the old Frank
land mansion at Hopkinton was still
standing. Reduced from its primitive
aristocratic proportions to those OF re-
publican simplicity, it yet long retained,
in its fine old hall, as also in its rich
tapestry hangings, significant memen-
toes of its original and superlative nag
nificence.--Springfeld Republicans.