Saint Mary's beacon., 1880-02-19
SENSATIONAL MARRIAGES.


[Psris Letter Chicago Inter Ocean,
From the English and Americanjou
mails see that considerable social ex-
citemenf exists on the subject OF two
Anglo American marriages. one already
entered upon, the other still in perspec-
tive. Ali over our country, probably,
agbitious girls are half dead with envy
Of their country woman who haze jus:
won titled husbands, and doubtless these
same envions and ambitious girls have
firmly resolved that they too, willsome-
how manipulate their fates, or "some4
how" Ia girls usual ioophole through
which. to view magnificent future be-
yond her commonplace present. achieve
an equally splendid destiny. II sounds
very grand and imposing 10 hear that
two republican girls have taken unto
themselves what countless maneuver-
ing English mstrons are exhausting
themselves 10 gain for their own daugh-
ters, and countless British daughters
would give their front teeth fwhen false
ones are so perfect) to secure. IT has
a very swelling and pompous sound that
simple Kate McVickars - now Lady
Grantley. and that simple Julia Fletcher
viii some day be e
~ coUETEss OF LovRLAcE.5
Nevertheless there is good dea' oi
sounding brass aud tinkling cymbal ia
this world where true happiness is
mute, or in its winding sheet. We all
know we'll enough tha. the funeral ol
peace is often preceded BY epithala-
MUM rather than threnodies- We all
know. also, that the winner Of many q
glntering destiny. would give every
worldly possession to be relieved from
that destiny, as poisonous and heart
piercing az il is brilliant. :; 5.-.8
II is not wholly unreasonable IL one
should look upon these marriages with
some spprehensions. There is no ques-
ton that the family OF Lord Wentworth,
who Is to marry Miss Fletcher, has
been always decidedly queer" The
maternal great-grandmother. then moth
er OF Lord Byron. was one Of the
straDgest Of women, as her sons me-
moirs Of her Prove. Sometimes she
would curse him foT "lame brat, and
drive hIm from her presence With mai
edictions and flying furniture; at other
times she would devour him with ca
resses-only too soon. however. turned
10 renewed swapping and shriekings oi
rage. Byron's character was. ess
A MOSAIC OF QUEEREEss. esf
snd his daughier-'Ada, sole daughter
OF my. hearth and home"-=inherited
from both father and mother an abnor-
mally melancholy and eccentric tenn
permanent. Ada was the mother of the
present Lord Wentworth and Of his el-
der brother, Lord Ockham. Lord Ock-
ham was the queerest ofthe queer--de-
serted bis title, eststes and society and
worked as a mechanic for years in .
remote town, where he married car
penter's daughter. She died, and be
was on the point Of marrying another
OF the same class, when suddenly he
was not, because death teok hlm. Lord
Wentworth then became the heir to
the coronet. One day pretty girl, .
clergyman's daughter. poor as q. church
mouse, came to London on visit. She
went, that same evening, to the thea
tire. A gentleman in another boz. ia
sweeping has opera-glssses around upon
the audience. was suddenly attracted
by her blonde loveliness. All the rest
OF the evening be kept bis eyes riveted
upon her. Once he spoke to bis iriends.
and said: Whoever that young lady
is now, she shall some day be nine, =
and when the audience, dispersed, he
rushed out In advance and headed
of.
THE ;BEAuTIFUL UNKkowN
and her party ss they descended the
stairs. His open admiration was 20 ex-
cessive and ID marked that the young
lady herself became conscious OF ID II Is
said---wilh truth or rwiihouf--thstshe a.
ready had ~ atlaehmentshat prevented
her from yielding her heart. no matter
hos vehemenlly her amhii,on urged
Nevertheless. il - true that very soon
after she became Lady Wentworth.-
Whether Lord UenteorslI manifested
any of the qaeerness Of his blood in thu
rslsison I do not knoNa Il 81 0niy
known that not long afterwards = suit
for divorce was brought by nv lord
against my lady--a SUIT. howeref, af-
teFwaFd abandoned. Isaw Lady Went
worth in Brighton several years sgo. IT.