The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-07

Paper. They were married In 1858 at
Providence, r. l., and then, as he was well
! OFF, because besides being a great diplomat
and author, he was also president of a rail-
road, with large income. Squier. how
ever, struck bad times and it turned his
head. He not only took TO drink, but had
other bad habits, which forced dear Miriam
to obtain a divorce from him.
She was then free to marry Frank Les
lie, whose real name was Henry Carter. and
who was an Englishmau. All the world
knows about her since those days, what a
society leader she was and how on one occa-
sion she appeared at a reception to Gov.
Tilden, made more beautiful than she
always has been, with some seventy thou.
sand dollars worth of diamonds on her.
Now she is a widow again, and she Is going
TO marry the dear marquis. What a love
Of man he isl He is poet and land
scape painter. Why. it almost reminds me
Of Tennyson's Lord of Burleigh:
HE was but landscape painter
And an American widow she."
The writer's informant then went on: 81
first met the marquis at reception at his
rooms at Is East Goth street. He is a very
beau ideal of a high-toned English noble.
but his title is French one, dating from
the reign of Louis the Fourteenth. He was
chaperoned that evening by Lady Duffus
Hardy, the widow of the Deputy Keeper of
the Records of Great Britain. He recited
some poetry from his volume Entire Nous,
which he had illustrated with his own pen
and ink sketches That night, however, he
exhibited number of water color lands
capes painted by himself. At that reception
and others at which he entertained
us | used to meet William A,
Croffut, the journalist; Munkittrick,
the poet, O'Donovan, the sculptor, and
other nice people. There were Col. Fuller.
the lawyer who used to burlesaue Lord
Dundreary; Zelie de Lussan, the splendid
soprano; Mrs. Imogen Brown, the grand
oratorio singer; Paulding, the tragedian,
and other professionals who used 10 enter
tain us. Heswas always favorite of the
ladies, and Jennie June of Sorosis. Mrs.
Ermlnie Smith of the Esthetic Society.
Mrs. John Bigelow, Mrs Seligman, Mrs.
Robert P. Roosevelt, then Marion Chiches-
tor Fortesque. and Mrs. Bettner, as we'll as
other Knickerbocker creme de la creme
people, fairly worshiped him, not simply
because he was a nobleman, but on account
of his poetical and artistic gifts.
Eyes, it will all be cabled over directly.
It's great secret, but they will be married
twice over. First. at the Brompton Ora
tory, where Cardinal Manning will unite the
loving couple, and again at Westminster
Abbey, where the marquis hopes he can pre-
vail upon the Archbishop of Canterbury to
tie the nuptial knot. 1t is all fixed and the
wedding bells will soon be ringing ioyfuIly
for my beautiful friend, Miriam Leslie. who
will be bride for the fourth time. Bless
herp
There are envious people, however. who
do not think Mrs. Frank Leslie has made as
great catch as her admirers would have
the world believe. Some even go so far as
to say that De Leuville is not a marquis at
ALL Among these was one of the leading
members of the New York Genealogical and
Biographical Society, who stated that an
inquiry had been set on foot about the
time that Mrs. Leslie's future husband had
an alteration in the Academy of Music
with Gen. Daniel Sickles, the hero of Get
tysburg, and who, as asserted by some.
thrashed him with his crutch and charged
him with not being blue-blooded noble at
ALL
The genealogical enthusiast also said: az
am sorry for Mrs. Frank Leslie, and think
it would be better for her to make some in
quiries relative to the marquis, for / have
reason to believe he has a wife still living.
Here is the twelfth volume of De Magny's
Universal Nobility of France and il saws
OF the gentleman who poses as the Marquis
de Leuville that He married, in 1869, Miss
Taunton Now there is no record OF his
being widower, and l would like to know
what became of the marchioness. We also
learn chat some years ago he introduced to
his friends Miss Tussaud, the 'waxwork
heiress,' who was formerly the wife of
Charles Kenney, q clerk in the British war