The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-22
LADIES WHO SLUG"
MANNERS WHICH SAVIOR OF THE
PRIZE RING.
Lady CIinOrd's Feat-FIOOred Mine
Host and His Wife without
TroubIe-Bad Women of Rank.

enjoy the reputation of using their fists
in lieu of pistols or swords. There are
many cases on record of peercsses of the
realm who have blackened the eyes of
persons who have been unfortunate
enough to incur their wrath.
Thus, at Liphook, Lady Clifford has
lust been arrested and fined for knock
ing down first the landlady and then
the landlcrd of the Royal Anchor hotel,
where she had been spending the night
with her daughter. Something went
vrcng at breakfast, and the door of the
dining room in which the two ladies
were eating were left open contrary 10
her orders. Having summoned the port
IL labdlady, her ladyship was dissatis-
fed with the manner in which her COM
plant vas received, and, without warn
ing hoped up from her chair exclaimed
You beast!' and planted her fist with
such force on the side of the landlady's
head that the good woman fell in a heap
on the floor.
Wher the landlord appeared upon the
scene and inquired what Lady Clifford
meant by striking his wife, she replied:
Il have done so; will do Sc again"
As he was about to say something she
called him a bully" informed him that
she was quite a match for such clown
a. he, and struck him on the mouth with
such force that he landed on the break
fast table to the detriment of her viands
and his croekery.
further aroused by the destruction of her
breakfast she declared that she would
not touch another morsel and walked out
of the hotel to the mansions of Sir Arch
ibald Macdonald whittier she was fol-
lowed by a constable, who arrested her
and brought her before the magistrate.
After several hours detention she was let
go with fine.
Lady Clifford is a somewhat hard-fea-
tured, angular woman, and is not only so
clever sailor that she has passed the ex-
hn frelO IF
master marine, but has also written
number of books, mostly about travels in
each of which she lays stress upon the
Disadvantages she is subjected to both
at home and abroad as an unprotected
female"
Another lady of title equally handy with
her fists is the Marchioness of Water
ford, whose husband committed suicide
the other day. and who is a sister-in-law
OF the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough.
Lady waterford is dying from a cancer
in the breast, the result of blow receiv-
ed few years ago in a fistcuff match
with brutal London cabman She was
writing letters one morning near the first
story window of her house in Belgrave
square, when she caught sight of a cab
man in front of the next house striking
his horse over the head with the handle of
his whip. She hurried down stairs, and
gathered up her skirts in her left hand
tripped across the pavement and upbraid-
ed the coachman. The later lost his tenn
per, and, as she put her hand forward to
push him away from his horse, jabbed his
elbow into her breast.
Instead of screaming or fainting as MANY
women would have DONE Lady Water
ford clenched her fist and let II fly at the
mans jawbone, knocking him clean off his
heels into the gutter, whence he arose,
greatly astonished and dazed, to find him
self in the arms of a policeman, by whom
he was taken into custody at the request
OF the Marchioness. He was charged be-
fore the magistrate with gross cruelty TO
animals and was deprived of his license.
The late Duchess OF Montrose who used
n q he mo- Of NTf
and who was one of the most conspicuous
figures on the English turf was wont to
smack her Jockeys faces soundly when
they did not ride her horses to suit her
fancy and lost races: while on one occa-
sion she administered a swinging blow
on the ear of her trainer in full view of
the entire paddock at Newmarket Indeed
she was a woman of action in every sense
of the word, and, having erected beau
tiful chapel in the large grounds of her
famous Newmarket residence, Seton
Lodge. for the special use of her stable
employees, she might sometimes have been
seen on Sunday entering the sacred edifice
after divine service had commenced md
striding up the central aisle clutching
each hand the ears of stable boys or young
Jockeys who had attempted to shirk at
tending church.
The Marchioness of Donegal is another
peerless of the realm who is renowned for
her violence. She is peaceable enough when
sober, but when in her cups is exceedingly
bellicose. She has repeatedly been ar
rested by the London police for fighting
her opponent in several instances being
the marquis, who, on one memorable oc-
casiOn, she was in the act of endeaYoring
to brain with a Ratchet when the police
man appeared and took her into custody
Lord Donegal has often endeavored to Sc
cure a divorce from her. not only on ac-
count of her violence, but also in conse-
Quence of her misconduct. The marquis
himself, however, is so disreputable an in
dlvidual that on each occasion the divorce
court has declined to part so well-matched
a couple and has dismissed the petition
WI n pa lad 1rtgh
this country few years ago, has under
gone arrest and fine for knocking down
with blow of her fist hotel chamber
maid who had been impairment. Lady
Plowden is woman of imposing pres
ence and exuberant spirits, the latter be-
ing due perhaps to the fact that she is
member of the great Bass family, of
brewing fame.
Another titled lady. likewise connected
with the brewing industry, Lady Meux.
has been up before the courts on similar
charges. She was formerly variety ac-
tress, and since her marriage has disting-
uished herself by many eccentricities, no.
tably by her efforts to purchase the soli-
tary remaining obelisk at Heliopolis, near
Cairo, to act as pendant at her country
place, Theobald's Park, to the old Temple
gar, once the principal gate or entry to
the city of London, but which was torn
down when the new law courts were built
and bought by Lady Meux who transferr-
ed it pecemeal to her country seat
At Vienna Countess Strachwitz, wife Of
the Colonel of Hussars bearing that name
underwent week 3 Imprisonment last
year for backing the eye of one of her
grooms. During the course of the trial it
was brought to light that she was in the
habit of punching the faces of her stable
men and ill-using them in the most cruel
manner.
Another titled Austrian lady, the Prin-
cess Monlear, was murdered in 1885 by one
Of her stablemen to whom she had been
administering a castigation, partly with
ner fists and partly with her riding-whip.
she was a most extraordinary woman,
very masculine in her dress, wearing top
boots, short, black skirt reaching to her
Knees and a mans overcoat and hat She
would smoke cigars and ride not side
saddle, but astride of her horses, to Which
she was devoted Indeed her whole inter-
csts and happiness centered i'm her stud
farm She thought and spoke of nothing
Else but horse breeding, her language on
such occasions being of the most unvar-
nshed plainness. in fragrant violation of
me modesty for which one is accustomed
10 look in maiden ladies'
Connected by ties of relationship with
NE reigning houses of Austria and Italy,
the courts of both these countries were
lnroWn into mourning by her murder. Her
slayer was never caught. and is believed
TO nave escaped to America.
The South African newspapers are full