The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-05-17
BLUE BLOOD BLACKGUARDs.

Half "A century ago the son of "A London
barber, from the position of errand boy in
"A conveyanCer's office, grew up into shin.
ing light in the legal profession and in
time was promoted to the positio. of Lord
High Chancellor of England, the once poor
hairdressers boy being at the same time
raised TO the peerage and plain Edward
Sugden became Lord St LeOnards DYING
he left moderate property to a younger
son, leaving the elder in possession of the
title and an income of 40 pounds year
| The title, however, won the second Baron
st, Leonards a wife, with fortune of
100000, and with this as starter the new
peer began To ego it," He became famous
among the jockeys and pigeon fanciers,
and so conspicuous rs rake that he soon
landed in II divorce court where, few
years ago, his wife obtained n separation
and his lordship was thrown into bankrupt
cy. His last escapade is, that he was char
itably entertained by returned Australia
miner, Samuel Crawford, of Tickenham,
and while in his house the "baron" made
such an outrageous assault on one of the
servant girls that he has been locked up in
prison where he now repines.
Another blue bloo1 BLACKBOARD is devel.
oped in the husband of one of the daugh.
tiers of Queen Victoria, the Grand Duke
Louis w. of Hesse, the wedding of whose
daughter the Queen attended a few weeks
ago at Darmstadt. The Princess Alice,
daughter of Queen Victoria and wife of
the Duke, having died, he made love to
the deceased wife's sister, the Princess
Beatrice, Nictoria's youngest daughter, and
the Queen was willing he should have her,
only before the marriage could be conslm-
mated il was necessary to get bill through
parliament repeating the present English
law forbidding the marriage by man of
deceased wifc's sister The Queen asked
parliament To pass such law and the com.
mons had promptly acceded TO the request,
hut the Lords moving slowly in asserting
To the bill, the noble Duke" became i'm.
patient, and week or two ago astonished
the Queen with the information that, dur.
ing the pending uncertainty as to the con.
summation of his marriage with the Prin.
cess Beatrice, he had concluded to console
himself temporarily with "morganatic"
marriage with noted beauty of whom he
had become enamored, Russian widow
of no rank or fortune, an adventures,
in short. who banked" on her personal
charms and loose morals. Now "mor.
ganatic marriage" is where man of SUI
perior rank marries woman of inferior or
no rank, and neither the woman or her
children can enjoy the rank or inherit the
possessions of the husband; and the hus-
band, while such wife is living, is not
dcbarred from marrying second wife
of his own rank. But the Queen became
enraged at the announcement and the
marriage with her daughter is broken off.
Meantime il leaks out that as the wife of
the Duke the Princess Alice had led sor.
ry life. Her diary has fallen into the hands
of the Queen mother, and extracts from II
are given to the public that show in most
glaring way the pitiful daily pinching
which the Princess was compelled To re-
sort tn 10 make ends meet in her Darmstadt
palace; the pathetic appeals she was forced
70 make to usdesmen for unpaid bills; the