Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-04
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Dixie, who thai night slept in Lord Ayles-
| ford's bed" When she went home her hus-
lands brother Expressed himself so strong
| ly" that she left Maxstroke castle and went
| to- Scotland and then to London, where she
and the earl lived together. Both she and
Lord Aylesford went into the witness-box
and swore that they had never been guilty OF
the slightest improperly, and the jury, with
1 out leaving the box,
| BRANDED THEM As PERFUMES,
| finding that the marquis of Blandford and
| the countess OF Aylesford had committed
| adultery, but that it was by the earl's col.
fusion, and that the earl had committed
adultery with Mrs. Dixie, hence the decree
was refused. The most characteristic episode
then ensued, when Lord Aylesford tried to
get the marqis TO pay the costs. l VOW L dc
not know which Ia the nobler character In
| this contemporary drama of aristoeratic life.
Mrs. Dixie, after hearing that she had driven
her husband to a suicide, sleeping in Lord
Aylesford's bed, with another drunken man
at her feet-probably her brother; Sir Beau
mont Dixie assisting ioyfully at his sisters
debauchery, or Lord Aylesford lending his
wife to a friend, and then trying TO get his
costs, because the divorce suit they lad "put
up" failed. Mrs. Dixie had her brother-in-
law indicted for libel in writing to her
husband about her conduct. You see
the msjor was next heir, and Mrs.
Dixie was childless, and the husband was
impotent, hence the major kept close eye
on her, but when the case came up for
trial the prosecution declined to proceed.
The next time we heard of Lord Aylesford
was in January, 1879, when he went to
Covent Garden, and as the ushers declined to
show him to box without ticket, though
he identified himself by screaming, I'D
you, you scoundrels, Pm Lord Aylesford,"
Era ro1 d. a. RI
the other with a stick. The toady magis-
trate let him off with a $50 fine and mild
warning that if the officials hat hadn't been
thick one the ofense would probably have
been murder. The press INDUCED in plain
speaking on this occasion. "Rowdyism dies
hard everywhere" said the Pail Mall Gosette,
land 1t is naturally slowest to disappear
from among that order who are the least apt
TO appreciate any sort of social change;
nevertheless we hope and believe Lord
Aylesford is one of the very last specimens of
this kind to be found, even among the less
civilized portion of the English aristocracy."
"a peer I'll the realm" says the London
World, she has not yet tired of posing
as the hero of harlots and rakes.
He was the cynosure of Cremorne,
where he entertained loose women
at supper with the hospitality which a
newly-fedged subaltern or rowdy undergrad
uate extends to the nymphs of the pave
ment. His coronet makes him a parsonage
among the unhallowed crew of courtesans
and toadies. The dull, soulless orgies were
prolonged to the small hours, and in the
early morning he returned home drunk as a
lord.'" In December, 1880, Lord Ayles-
ford's name figured again in the papers,
through riot at Packington Hall, raised by
the agents of two sets of creditors. The
timber had been sold off the estate, and they
had bills of sale on the furniture. guess
my noble friend had come to the end of his
tether.
1t is interesting to reflect that this spend
thrift debauehe is not only favored friend
of the future king of England, but power
in the established Church. Seven or eight
livings are in his gift. The people of as
many large parishes have to look to his
nominees for their spiritual care. He and
power in the House of Lords as the duke of
Argyll and Lord Selberne, and in due course
the marquis of Blandford will reinforce
them, as a counterpoise to Lord Granville,
or Lord Derby, or the earl of Shaftesbury
Curiously enough, the motto of the earl of
Aylesford's family is Aperto riuere uoto-"To
live without a wish concealed" 1t must be
admitted that he has lived up to it. do not
see that the woman to whom he is married is
greatly to be pitied; she came of fast FAM
lily, and has consoled herself for the faith
lessness of her lord. Yet it is hard not TO
feel some sorrow for the probable fate of
their children, both daughters, one seven
years old and one ten. The poor little things
are growing up to a fatal heritage-the
that they. would have no mother
were it not that their father was even more
sh ameless than shell