News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-04
A SUDDEN DEATH.
The DIXIE of Wellington Drops Dead Mt
Brighton.

| Brighton.
The Duke of Wellington dropped
dead at Brighton, England, as he was
entering a train for London. He died
J OF heart disease. He went to Brighton
for the benefit of his health, but fearing
an attack of illness decided to return
home. When his valet left him to pur-
chase the tickets he appeared to be
well. If his own physician certifes that
he died of heart disease no inquest will
be held.
He was born-seventy-seve years ago
plain Arthur Richard Wellesley. At
the age of two he became Honorable by
courtesy; at five his style was Viscount
Wellesley; at seven he had developed
into Marquis of Douro. When young
Lord Douro went to Elton his father
was considered the greatest man living.
He was quiet, rather shy lad, with an
apparently painful consciousness that he
was the observed of all observers.
He was moderately diligent, generally
knew his lessons fairly well, and was
never in serious scrape. AS at Eaton
so 1t was at Cambridge, where in due
course he matriculated as q nobleman at
Trinity. As an officer he once had the
misfortune TO incur the serious dis
pleasure of his father. His regiment
had been ordered to Dover. AS soon as
1t arrived all thes officers left cards at
Walmer Castle. Douro, as the son of
the house, felt himself dispensed from
the observance of this formula. We'll
lington thought otherwise and invited
all the officers to dinner except his
son. Douro did not venture to go with
out an invitation, but called on his
father and asked what the omission
meant. "Why, sir" replied the Duke,
in a state of calm irritation, "these gen
tlemen did me the honor to call on me,
and l have returned their civility. You
did not call and so / was not bound to
invite you." No wonder that father
and son saw little of each other. The
Duke was punctilious in exacting
homage, which, in fact, had become
meat and drink to lin.
When his father died he hesitated to
assume the title. More than two months
elapsed between the death aud funeral of
tie great Duke so that it became neces-
sary to renounce the name of DourO be- |
fore the usual time. 1t was transmitted |
to no one. He had no children. and his |
is Colonel Wellesley, late M. |
p. for Andover, who is not to be con-
founded with the Colonel Wellesley who |
married Kate Vaughan, the actress. The
late Duke was not great territorial
MAJ nate, as English estates go. "he
StrathfeIdsaye property, the nucleus of
which was purchased by the nation, now
xtends over nearly sixteen thousand
acres. and produces q rental of about FL
per acre. Three or four thousand acres
more in Herts, Somerset and Berks make
the whole of the entailed property,
which is worth some 600, 600 year.
HE Duke has also an estate in Spain,
voted by the Cortes to his father, and
described by Spanish writers in grandil-
oquent language. 1t would be consid-
cred small squire's property in Eng
land. He had the courage BETTING his
fathers son. If it was never his priv
Iiege to front the shot he passed through
lhe more trying ordeal of cruel surgical
operations, and endured them with a
'tolclsm which brave men have not al
ways shown. 1t is not his least title to
J anne that he was the intimate friend of
Charles Lever.