The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-27

behind tandem team OF russell horses. He
was dressed all in white flannel and wore
russell shoes. By his side sat Bessie in cool
| Worth dress worth a cool $50 note. |
should say, looking as chic as you please,
and attired throughout in the hight Of
fashion. AS they drove down a crony of
his exclaimed: 'Ah, there's his grace !;
wouldn't like to see him this time tonight,
thought
Ten cases of Pommery Jules Mumm,
moselles, clarets and burgundies were put
aboard. The cuisine Of the Manchester
yacht was already famous and the chief bad
| not neglected his lsrders. The engineer,
his two assistants and the pilot were
promptly on hand, and at o'clock we were
off. After the first two bottles his grace
took the wheel, Bessie observing %, he's
all right, and will do for a couple of hours
yet Now, a couple OF bottles with his
grace means more than it sounds, because
of late years ne has been dsinkiDg mag
NUNS and can easily get away with
| three or four of them at GO shilhDgs mag.
He was in great humor that morning, all
| smiles and mods, and making everybody
feel at home, while Bessie played the fine
lady TO perfection. At every one Of the
dozen locks of the way we stopped aud not
content with what we had aboard. made
acquisitions on the river houses After we
had gotten about ten miles up the Thames,
the summer of the vine in all our veins,
we concluded not to go to Windsor, as the
champagne was all gone and we had TO
make landing to buy some more. Indeed,
his grace having declared his intention OF
stopping at every resort on the way back,
ID was unanimously agreed thatit was quite
time to turn our faces hOmeward. Our
progress back was simply grand hurrah
all the way down. Every lock we got to,
his grace would amuse himself by picking
up the dead soldiers and throwing them at
the bystandeTs on the lock walls. We hadu t
got more than couple OF miles
homeward bound before the local constables
attempted to read the riot act to us, for
which one of them was knocked into che
lock by an empty bottle for his pains.
kilograms we're sent ahead Of US ordering
all officers Of her majesty to stop the
launch aud some Of them, as + turned ou5
afterward, actually accused us of having
abducted lady from Raynor's, We had
stopped there a moment and Mr.. and Mrs
Raynor had come aboard. The former
speedily acquiring that condition Of exuber-
ance which actually led him to forget
whether he had wife or not. There we're
a lot Of gsraniums and potted plants in the
cabin, some of them four or five feet high,
and the deck was speedily transformed tuto
a tropical garden by moving them up. In
their midst we sat and cracked magnums.
Raynor started to 90 ashore pretty soon
l
wondered as the yacht steamed furiously
away, %. what viii my poor husband say y
As 1t turned out the poor man went nearly
mad and fired a volley Of kilograms after
us all the way down to London. This,
believe, was Mrs. Raynor's second abducs
ton by this same party
"The Raynor menias and the postboYs in
attendance at neighborinR public houses
organized posse and pursued us in row
boats, but we soon left them behind. When
we got to the next locL we found to our dis
may that the kilograms caused 1t to be shut
against u.s. SO the posse had no difficulty II
catching US there. They were afraid t.
come aboard and attempt to rescue 30 thel
followed US on through the lock. eagerly
ssizing and emptying the bottles of vim
with which they were vigorously peltec
from our decks.
"Now the wine steward aud the chef had
been stealthily assisting to empty the cham
payne bottles that were SO literally strewn
around and our first intimation of 1t was
the discovery of the two engaged in regu-
lar mill down in the cabin, quarreling over
half empty magnum. A well-known
, sporting man in the party said, 'Ab, here's
go;' and his grace, Immediately recover
ing from the somnolent influences of his
fourth bottle, cried Jolly good Make for
shore and we'll have an old fashioned mill =
The deck lines were taken ashore
to as pretty a patch OF turf as
, you ever saw ana regular prize
ring was speedily formed, the ladies mean
while shutting themselves up in the dining
room. The steward got first blood and
matters were proceeding as bloodly as any
of US could desire, when just as time was
called for the second round, somebody
shrieked out that the yacht was aground.
This alarmed us, as we dld't want TO be
caught, and the two contestants, now 80 ex-
i l. 10 70 aynll N4ynF
picked ND bodily and thrown aboard His
grace had been carried down into the cabin,
where a gallon Of salt and ice from a
couple of magnum coolers was gently ap-
piled to the head of each.
"Once more we started down the river,
succeeding in the next ten minutes in run
ming down two row boats. Our noble
, skipper was at this interesting Juncture IN
, the stern of his launch trying TO load his T.
pound brass cannon-which was used fol
firing signals, TO fire a salute over the ship
wrecked crews OF the row boat. by thl;
: time the ladies had come on deck
quite worked up TO the bottle
throwing point themselves, and there
was a regular fusillade OF CHAM
payne at the poor wretches who were swim
ming arouod us, trying to crawl aboard
They had nerve enough, however, to dive
for the champagne every time. This ep
ISOLDE naturally attracted even greater
. crowd and a score or two of boys and girl
J who had been haymaking in the adjoining
| fields thronged to the waters edge, grab
bling eagerly for the pennies and sixpencei
! which the duke and Bellwood fired at then
with both hands IL was perhaps JUS
as well that the police CAM
, aboard Just below there. When they founS
, out whose launch it was they were yer,
polite, took his grace's town address, ant
informed everybody in the crowd who hat
a grievance that all damages would be paid
next day. About II o'clock we landed
and bis grace was carried TO bed. The las
, train for London had left. so the who'll
: party was compelled to spend the night a
, q river house. Just as we we're making
landing q dude on shore,- who had beer
watching US with great interest. drawlet
out by Jove, what jolly party
Two very pretty girls Stood by his side, bu
, he had hardly gotten the words out Oh hi
. mouth, when Bessie caught him by the col
lar and yauked him into the river. With
the jndicious help of couple Of boat hook
we dragged the spluttering stranger into tn
launch and forced quart OF champaign
down his throat. He said, that IL be haC
known what sort of treatment be was t
receive, he would have come aboard with
/ out any compulsion." J. P. BoCoCK.
Henry BALLARD OF Burlington, Vt. who wa
the strongest competitor with the Secretary 0
War for Mr. Edmunds seat In the Senate, Il
expected TO get the next regular election In tn
legislature He is said TO be the young men
candidate, but as be Is about 20 II Is eViden