Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-06-10

hny of Music with Gen. Daniel Siclzles,
 the hero of Gettysburg, and who, as as- serted by some, thrashed him with his crutch, and charged him with not being
 a blue-blooded noble at all.
 The genealogical enthusiast also said:
 ''I am sorry for Mrs. Frank Leslie, and I think it would be better for her to make some inquiries relative to the marquis, for have reason to believe he has wife still living. Here is the twelfth volume of De Magny's 'Univers- al Nobility of France and 1t says 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 a widower and I would like to know what became of the marchioness. We also learn that some years ago he introduced to his friends Miss Tussaud, the 'waxworlz heiress, who was formerly the wife of Mr. Charles Kenny, a clerk in the British war offices, as Mime. la Marquise de Leuville. Where is she? For with all that we have been told about de Leuville, I cannot believe that he would commit higamy, let alone trigamy. Then again we heard that he was shortly to lead to the altar a Mrs. Peters, of London, the extremely rich widow of the famous London coach builder who was celebrated for his tally-ho four-in-hands, or, as they call them on the other side, drags But it is funny how his name has come up again, as I understood that he had buried his alleged nobility since he opened an old bric-a-brac shop in Plea dilly, London"
 ''Tell me-" the writer asked, ''is he or is he not real French noble dating from the old regimen"
 "You make me smile," was the an swer. ''F'rench Marquisites like those in other countries were either granted by the king or inherited from the direct ancestor to whom the monarch gave the title, for himself and his lineal descend ants only. Now this Is a French title pure and simple, and an extinct one to boot, for no descendant of the first Mar quis de Leuville, Louis Oliver, who died in 1863, can be found on this earth They have died out without leaving is- sue. There was such title and it ap- pears in the old French peerages, but there is not living soul to-day who has any right to claim it, much less an Englishman like the present pretended owner to the title, whose real name is William Redivious Oliver, and who has not drop of French blood in his veins."
 "But did not the soi-distant Marquis de Leuville correctly assert when he visit ed America that the French books of nobility acknowledged him to be a marquis?" was asked.
 That is so. There are some book publishers in Paris which put him down as marquis. You can have the same thing done on anybody else if you pay the people who compile them and who will rig you up a pedigree dating from the time of Noah's ark, if you give them enough money for it. We had that. thing in New York some time ago when the late lamented pedigree fakir Welles ran on University place, his alleged college of Heraldry, which was . swindle of about as big proportions as he was, for we found out of the pro- fessor's record that he once upon a time served a term in Sing Sing. The gentleman calling himself Marquis de Leuville is probably victim of one of these humbugs, for they most cer- tainly have forged for him bogus pedigree. With some other antiquaries have been through it step by step, and discovered that all the links are not only uncorroborated, but that the per sons named in it in many instances never existed, or that they married other people, or died without issue. For example there is a supposed alliance with an Oliver, and one of the famous family of De Lacy in the fourteenth century. Burke, Betham, Banks and other authorities absolute y repudiate the affair. Why they have made him de- scendant of an earl of Suffolk, and, if it were correct, he ought now to be the monarch of England instead of Queen Victoria. and so it goes all the way through, based on the fiction that he is descended from a family of which a