Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-06
GLEANINGS In GOTHAM.
THE TROUBLES OF THE HOUSE
OF ANGLESEY.
The Social Exodus Already Begun
-ROckaway's Big HOtsI-The EIe-
giant Oscar ON the RebOund-Mrs
SeOvIlIe's Platform Efforts.

SeOville's Platform Efforts.
NEW YoRK, May 3.-Society, which has beer
dropping for a week because the supplement
tary season is also ended has seized on tn,
latest scandal from the other side with tn,
avidity incident to idleness. This bit Of gossiI
IS particularly interesting because the woman
in the case is an American-no less. in fact
than Minnie King, formerly known as the bell,
OF Georgia. She is now the wife of the MARQUIS
of Anglesey. The scandal is that the nobI,
Marquis has run away from his wife Accord
ing to the first story he had another woman
for companion. The Marchioness. who is We
beautiful, was a widow, having been the wifi,
OF henry Wodehouse who was a brother o.
LORD Kimberly. The family with which sh.
thus became connected is one of the bes
known in Europe. Notwithstanding the fac
That she was an American woman, she enioveC
social distinctions in England. She was popular
in Paris, too, when after the death of her hus
band she became the Marchioness of Angiesey
The marriage took place last year. Thi.
second husband belongs to a highly respeeta-
Die Iamnly, but one given to much marrying
Inc present Marquis grandfather, who was q
ceieoraCed dandy, was twice married and
away has been married three times-iust as
many umes as his father was AS he is forty.
seven wears old, he is considered a tride rheu-
iiuul natlc 70 De cutting such a caper, to take a
hghe view or II. One explanation of the liza.
son is that the Marchioness was fond of her
own way, and was given to debating to her
husband, the Marquis. Another story is that the
IauIt was all with the Marquis, and that it was
only tne result OF the family tendency on the
part of the Marquis, to be fickle and whimsical
one or the features OF the affair was the an
pearance or an advertisement giving notice
Inat the Marquls would be responsible for no
oeDt contracted by any one without his written
authority. No one could read this notice With
out thinking of the Georgia belle Such events
anyhow excite more interest than they used to
rom ine reason that the union of titles and
american fortunes has become quite common
An Englishman of rank falls in love easily with
an American belle when his estates are encum-
oered and his banker refuses to lend him
money any longer. The Marchioness of Angle
sey, who has been so cruelty deserted iS The
daughter or Mr. j. p King, Of Georgia There
is nothlng left for her to do but fall back upon
her Title and settlements. According to the
goSslps every body is sympathizing with her
The social season ended unusually early this
year. lt has been the most memorable Of any
recent season In New York society. and has
oten so fast that the bellies really need rest and
quiet. The exodus to Europe is very great
and many of the best people are already at
their summer homes in Newport Ten years
ago nobody thought of leaving the city before
INC ulluulo Oh June, ana now none who claims
10 De IN society stays after the 10th of Nav
The season opens later every autumn. too It
grows shorter and shorter, but is much more
brilliant while it lasts. so that the So
clety glrlS struggle, though not so pro
tracCed, grows yearly more intense. The
end or the season was marked by an extra
ordinary number of marriages. In one church,
The Heavenly Rest, there were eleven we'd
dingS within two weeks after Easter and every
one OF them were of f1rst-c ass people. The
rage this year has been for English weddings
me groom waits at the chancel while the
pride follows her four ushers and four brides
maids down the aise and is given to her future
husband by her guardian. IL has been the
proper thing all season to have cut flowers in
the church. They were lavishly used, and in
the winter formed an item of expense
TO the grooms account which was by
no means inconsiderable Now they are
cheaper, but it is no longer fashiona-
pie TO marry. The next wedding cpl
demic viii probably begin in Octob-r Mean
Whlle the summer campaign begins in dead
earnest, and in a month will be in full blast
The big Rockaway Hotel has been solo again.
L went down on Sunday and had look at the
mammoth structure, but returned painfully
depressed. No wonder the house failed; it
would take the population OF good-sized city
TO MI 1t, and an army of employees to run it.
IL mas slngle piazza nearly one hundred feet
wide and quarter of mile long, and can seat
5.OUO guests at dinner. It's kitchen is a gro
teSque dream, and its rooms without apparent
limit Five hundred people on one end of the
from the other end and the
towers are amazingly high 1t was gigantic
failure from the first. and its vicissitudes have
been unremitting. Yesterday il was reSold to
a syndicate of capitalists who propose to make
if go or sink their fortunes The building origi-
nally cost about 81 300. 900; the company mort
gaged 1T the first season for 100000, and it
proved too heavy load to carry. Yesterdays
sale brought about $1,000 over the first mort
gage. 1t proves pretty conclusiveIy that there
rs such thing as sliding in too deep in big en-
terprlses. People snapped up the stock with
avld1ty when it was first offered. because they
believed that Americans would fioc< to the
biggest house, but they were wocfulIY mis-
taken. One experience in dining in room
large enough for the PruSsian army and hold
ing only few dozen guests in its thousands
of seats, was enough for most people, and the
hotel, despite several abortive efforts, has fail
ed to go from the start The syndicate will
make one more effort to draw the public to the
gaping doors of the big hotel, and If that fails,
the hotel will have to go its way to desolation
and ruin.
Oscar Wilde has ceased to be a sensation.
Like Jumbo, he has been over advertised. He
intends to deliver his lecture on art Decora-
tom next week at Wallack's Theatre, but
doubt If he will draw much of an audience
People get tired even of being amused-or at
least want a new variety of entertainment
There is much speculation as to whether he
will receive the same social distinctions that
were extended him on his arrival in this coun-
try. The general impression is that he will
not unpack his knee -breeches this time, His
manager, whom l met yesterday, said that
Leadville had shown its high appreciation Of
art by making a lion OF the Apostle of Beauty
All sorts OF social hODOrS were heaped upon him.
There is no doubt that the good people of
Leadville would make him President of a mine
if he woldd remain in their city-and this with
out asking him to give up his knee-breeches or
cut his hair
The appearance Of Mrs Scoville here has not
excited much interest. | suppose the fact is
that people in this fast age, and particularly
In this fast city, have grown tired of the sub
Ject When she lectured Sunday night there
were less han hundred persons in the au-
dence. Six months ago she would have drawn
as well as Ingersoil. There are some things in
her personal appearance, manner and speech
that remind you of the assassin. She has
prominent cheek bones and light blue eyes set
closely together under arched eve brows On
Sunday night she was dressed in black. Her
subject was, THE Guiteau Case from Sisters
Standpoint" She spoke in a conversational
tone and manner From her opening sentence
she showed the family tendency to re igious
fanaticism. At times she talked like woman at
a Methodist class meeting, and think her lee
ture throughout furnished an additional argu-
ment in support of DR.. Boards theory of in
sanity. One of Mrs. ScOvilles points was that
the real murdererS of the President were Grant
ConkIing and other politicians who antagonized
the administration This recalls remarks that
one heard during the excitement Of July The
trial, she said, was conspiracy to satify pub
lie clamor and to shield the real culprits
One of her most sweeping charges was that
the newspaper correspondents kept the truth
from the public and distorted facts An ana
thema was hurled at the head of Judge Cox,
whom she charged with being in collusion to
entrap stark mad man. Her denunciation of
District Attorney Corkhill was also bitter, whom
she paid the gracious compliment of having
run the court. At the conclusion of her lecture
she requested signatures to a petition to the
President asking for Communication of sen
tence. Her petitions will undoubtedly fail of
doing any good, but her odd manner and
strange sayings will accomplish great deal in
an indirect way. HALL-HAYNE
Cotton In Liverpool.
LIVERPOOL, May 5.-This weeks circu-
lar of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers' Asso-