The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-18

and Grace Darling. She determ'neu 70
Hnaffy old 1fr. Coui!s. He was ammeosey
rich and csghty.six yearsof age. TIE hank.
Or was IN love with her, % she had the pest
az reasons for knowing, and 70 prevent nim
from frttting too much FIR bis VIE lust
dead she resolved to equip him win an.
other. She took him of 10 church. ana
they we're married privately, ana not long
sf,crwards [" Old Tom" rewarded ber py
departIuc from this vale Of tears, and leaving
her fortune compared With when an
Monte Christo's wealth would have been q
flea-bs.c. ..a
This event happened In the year 1872.
The hereayed actress had played wen her
mart. AMI now tnat she was lett alone sue
was Far too wise TO dream OF returning 10
the stage. She preferred to become pro-
mInent figure 10 the real world. In Lock
Ibafps "I,lse Of Scott" there Is somewhere
dissertation Of visit which she paid 10
A bbo,sford, attended by large retinue, IN
eloding several maids and two physicians.
She valued her life very highly, though per-
hans some people may think that IN taxing
Two musicians about with her she did not
go the right way TO work 10 preserve IT,
Perhaps, however, she employed one 10
keep a watch upon the other. AT any rate
abe lived on, and one day when she, TOO.
was falling iuto the "sere, the yellow leai,"
Il fell TO her lot TO lead
CAPTIVE ANOTHER LOVER
in the person OF the young Duke OF 81.
Adams, who was then in his twenty-seventn
wear. The Duke, II Is Deedless TO say, loveu
her for herself alone; her vast iicbes had
no attractions for him. Perhaps his aitach-
ment arose partly from sort OF neieul'ary
respect for actresses, Tor he was himself de-
scended from an actress. no les a parsonage
than Nell Gwynne. You recollect tnst
wien Nell saw King Charles III. passing
her window one day she held her chiId out
OF the window and declared she would
throw IL down IL the King did not acknow-
ledge bis offspring and bestow peerage
upon him. TO the "merry monarch one
child more or less was mailer not WORM
talkino about. and with o careless laugh he
made Nell's child the Duke or 81. Adams.
Family Instinct may thus have had It's part
in leading later Duke TO become the sutton
OF Mrs. Coutts, the ci.devont actress.
After what one may call decent show OF
resistance she married him, and immediate
ly after the ceremony she caused friend to
hand him the handy little codeau OF 100000
10 show that there was no III feeling on her
side. The Duke considerably left her a
good deal to herself; for business Ike
woman with a great estate TO look after
would neces sarily have very little time at
her disposal for frivolous conversation. Nor
can n be said that love blinded the eyes oil
the Duchess, for when, in process OF time,
she deemed ii discreet to make will, she
took care to leave her noble husband entire
| Nv cut Of il. Perhaps this came TO his
knowledge and caused him TO renew The
fond protes.ations OF bis
COURTING DAYS.
At any rate the Duchess LETT behind her
an important codicil by which her husband
was entitled 10 receive E1O,00O year ana
some other property, provided his brotbei
never were allowed 10 enter either OF her
houses. Long before she died she was
afraid TO stir out OF her house without o
bodyouard lest she should be murdered.
Then she became convinced that her nrst
husband, Dir. Cout,s, was in the habit OF
paying her daily visits in the shape OF a
little bird. He had, she said, always
promised TO come back TO Der In that dis.
ouise. and she distinctly saw him perch
every morning. on her window ledge in
Piccadllly. Let no one laugh at this fancy.
\
there was sparrow chirpiDg away on one
OF the upper windows, as black as my nat
with London smoke, but perfectly well and
hearty. There cannot be the slightest doubt
that il was old Tom Coutts come TO express
his opinion on the mariisge OF his grand
daughter.
When the Duchess OF st. Adams died it
was found that she had left the bulk OF her
10 ha c. A hans
10 the descendants OF Mr. Coutts, and chiefly
to the daughter OF his daughter sophia
who had married Sir Francis Burdett. The
heiress. Miss Angela Burdett-Coutts, re-
ceiyed about E1 ,S00,0 in ready money, and
her interest in the celebrated bank has
brought her in since that time not less than
GO, 100000. In 1871 this lady was created a
baroness, and it must in justice be said OF
her that she has led
PURE AND STAINLESS LIFE,
and passed her DAYS in doing good to the
moor and afflicted. She has been beset by
impositors OF every class and almost every
nation, but her bencyolence has been wisely
directed, and sac enjoyed the respect OF the
whole nation, from the Queen 10 the poor
est beggar in Betbnal Green. But the fatal
ity which hangs over the Coutts family opce
more makes itself yisible. An ill-consd-
cred and even absurd marriage is again
to dill the mouths Of all gossips and to give
occasion 10 the curious TO consider how
often it happens that precedentS in family
history have all the force OF precedents
in law. once knew man who
used to say, My marriage has been
a most unhappy one, but mar
ridges always have been unhappy In my
family" The knowledge OF that fact may
have had no unimpOrtant result on his own
life. A mysterious influence leads the child
or the grandchid on in he steps which II
finds traced by its ancestors. IL was old
Mr.. Coutts's fate to be married for his mo-
ney at an advanced age. The same lot be-
fcl bis wife, and now the grand-daughte
suecumbs TO the same destiny. Let US hope
that she will at least guard the family estate
as we'll as her immediste predecessor, the
Duchess OF ST. Albsns, contrived to do. III
Mr.. Ashmead Bartlett is offended at having
any one suggest that he marres for money he
must learn 10 get used TO II. Few people
will be found ready to believe that the sparl
OF love buros very 6ercel in the heart OF
young man of twenty-nine for an old lady
OF siXty-seven.
Remarkable TrifiiDg with n Pistol.
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Saturday, while MI. Frank Brooke, OF
Warrentor, was in his store, surrounded
-, lie foe hoe harotofora hppr