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lNechansown Frederick County, Maryland Thursday June rs, 1884,

South street There be remained work.
ing steadily for about two years. until
his employers collapsed in the panic of
1873. The youthful couple would
have Jared hard during the following
months but for timely remittances from
the wife's family, which kept them
above actual want. Giving up the city
in disgust they FINALLY took up their
quarters in hut on Yaphank meadows,
near Brookhaven, Long Island. Here
for about five years they lived a misera-
BILE, secluded life, George" as a tall,
awkward youth was generally called by
his neigbors, supporting his wife and
himself by his scanty earnings in fishing
and shooting. The birth Of son and
heir in March, 1878, caused ripple in
this ,ethargic life, and in the following
summer the young father meeting Mr.
Carharts and some friends; who were
spending vacation in the vacinity,
made himself known and enlisted Mr..
Carhart's interest in his desire to obtain
employment in the city. Mr.. Carharts
verified the young boatmans story on
his return to town and soon af,erward
gave him place in the brushing depart
ment, promising to advance him as the
barnacles which had overgrown his early
character and cultivation were rubbed
off. Except while on voyage to the
West Indies in schooner year ago,
Lord Drommond has been in the employ
of Carhart, Whitford & Go. ever since,
advancing little, but half shipping
clerk and half porter, and evincing
much more inclination for physical than
for mental exercion.
A garbled account Of his discovery on
Long Island six years ago, which ap-
peared in several ofthe papers at the
time, his family to take renewed inter.
est in the lost heir. At the solicita.
ton of his father, the Duke of Argle,
and ofhis brother, the Marquis Of Lorne,
Lord Walter Campbell, then engaged in
business here, repeatedly visited Lord
Drummond and endeavored to induce
him to give up his wife and return
home. His grandfather's arms, he was
told, were open to receive him whenever
he concluded to leave those of his wife
But he preferred his wife. The last
communication he had with his family
was when his cousin Frank, an Edin-
burgh barrister, who had assumed the
surname Drummond in lieu of his pa
tronymic Davies, visited New York
two yeaas ago.
This gentleman offered to start young
Lord Drummond on II cattle rancho in
Texas, but his lordship did not care to
take HIS wife and baby away from the
haunts OF civilization and he declined.
At another interview Lord Drummond
took umbrage at a remark of his barris-
ter cousin about his marriage, and los
ing temper, consigned his respective re-
latives to perdition. His violence was
duly reported by barrister Frank on
his return to Drummond castle, and the
breach between the earl and his heir
was widened.
AS matters are it is probable that on
Lord Drummond's restoration to his
place in society, now near at hand, it
will be found that in his contact with
the world and his experience of poverty
and hard knocks he has acquired
freedom of manner and perfect savoir
faire under most diverse circumstances,
which will do more for his popularity
than any other amount Of learning and
conventional refinement would be like
ly to.