Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-02-10

GENERAL NEWS.
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DEATH OF TII0M MASCARLYLE
Items of interest CulIed from
the Three Counties.
A HERMlT'S HARD LIFE
Rats Drummed 10 Death in PeunsyI-
vania---Mlrdered bs Mistake---
Almost 500 0ut---A
Tragedy In
Alabama,
PENINSULAR PRESS 0PINIGSS
A HERMlT'S HARD LIFE
PENISSULAR PRESS 0PINI0SS
GEORGE ELIOT,s LIFE.
Insanity of Her Husband, MIR. Cross
"A Letter from Herbert spencer.

"A Letter from Herbert spencer.
The notices Of the London Press upor
the death of George Eliot add little tc
what has been published here. The
Er miner tells of the insanity of her hus
band, OF which no previous public mea.
tiou has been made j. says 1T seems but
little more than y year since We LOST
George Henry LewcH, her first and most
trusted c0uuSciur ond companion, and
hardly twelve month siuca the world
learned with, perhaps, some degree oil
surprise, thGt she hud married gentle.
man OF Stock Exchange named Gross.
While they were on their wedding trip-it
is no use now to conceal the sad faots-he
lost control over himself at Venice, md
threw himself from the balcony of their
residence. Happily, the sea and not the
ground received him, and he survived, but
0nly to be placed in a maison de sante.
Rrayeiy Mrs. Gross set herself to face her
now doubly lonely life, but the struggle,
not surpassed in intensity by that OF any
of her heroines, did not last long, and she
has now gone, ut the age OF Co. 10 lhe rest
that must have come to her as "a relief.
The following letter from Herbert
Spencer waa published in the London
Neics; "rhough as one among those
intimate frierd9 most shocked by her
epd'en death, wouid willingly keep
silence | feel that | can not allow to
pass serious error ooutBiped in your
biographical notice of George Eliot. A
positive form IL there gwen To the belief
which has been long current, that | had
much 10 do with her education. There is
not the slightest foundation for this belief
Our friendship aid not commence until
1851, date several years later THAI the
publication of her translation of Strauss,
and when she was already distinguished
by that breadth OF culture and universally
Of power which have since made her
known to ali the world,
The Standlgd gives some "reminiscences
Of her early literary lite For 20 years" /"
il says, "the name Of George Ellot has
been before the public. Adam Beda' was
published III 1853 and he only clue to its
guthOr4hip WAS the announcement on the
title page that il came from the same pen
as the Scenes of Clerical Life, which had
previously appeared in Blackwood's
Magazine. Several claimants to the
honor Of its production presented them
selves Such impOsters are the common
piaces OF literary history. Sir Waiter Scott
was asked by en- acquaintance 10 oongratu-
late him on his indentiiy with the Great
Unknown who had written 'WGverley.'
Tie masterpieces Of AkensIde, Sheridan,
and Thompson were appropra ted by
Grub street highway men, HJoud had
some difficulty In ts'Abli7hlng the fact
that he sIoto tho Song Of the Shirt and
lnOre recently .lere were three candidates
IN tn" titld for the lHurels which belonged
to Mrs Lynn Linton m tine author of
Jo,nna Davidson Ths preteuddr III the
clse OF "A tam Bsde,' whom it ultimately
became necessary for Mssets. Blackwoud
TO expose, was u Mr Jas0ph Lipg III, OF
Nulratol. aurans,ly enough ne lad his
'uppoTter5, sud u Wurwickshlte clergy man
declared that ia his part OF the world
every Que not oniy kaew that Mr. higgins
was lha creator at Adam Is do, but cOutd
Identity perfectly we'll The CHEF Chat
aeltfs. /; was not for some lltlle time
athr%ard that the uame OF George d llott
btohme generally known, aid II Was still
later thnt it trsuspired that tue owner OF
The MN d plume was lady b"