Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-07

altogether he is likely to do himself and country credit. He is not likely to turn out q new Beaconsfield or Salisbury, but he may do as well as his grandfather, who was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland under Beacons- field, and that will be doing infinitely better than any member of the four hundred whom Miss Vanderbilt might have married would ever have dreamed of doing.
 THE SPENcER-CHURcHILIs
 The young Duke, Charles Richard John Spencer-Church his name is, the ninth Duke of Marlborough and twelfth Earl of Sunderland. is really a Spencer by decent and Churchill only by royal warrant. Heissprung from John Spencer, who was knighted about 1510. and whose descendants became Baron Spencer and Earl of Sunderland in the next century. 1t was the third Earl of Sunderland who took for his wife Anne Churchill, the, daughter of the great Duke, and after the death of the Marquis of Blandford, the son of the Duke of Marlborough, the Churchill title was confirmed to the children of Anne Churchill and her son Charles thus became the second Duke, and after the death of his half brother by the first marriage of the Earl of Sunderland, the fifth Earl. Beside the title of Duke of Marl- borough, the Sunderlands also ac- quired the titles of Marquis of Bland ford, Earl of Marlborough, Baron Churchill, Lord Churchill of Eyn- mouth, in the Scottish peerage, Prince of Nellenb6rg of the Holy Roman Empire. The English peerages give the Duke as Prince Mindelheim, but the Almanarch de Gotha states that Nellneburg was substituted for Mindelheim in 1714
 MISS yADERBILT's PREDEcEssoRs.
 Miss Vanderbilt's predecessors are worth glaneing at. Theirs Duchess of Marlborough was, of course, Sarah Jennings, the confidant and favorite of Queen Anne, whose name will live in history as long as that of her illustrious husband-the woman who, 'having been the wife of John Churchill, would not marry another man mo matter what his rank. Anne Churchill and her hus- band both died before her parents. the Churchill titles were never en- ioyed by them.
 Unfortunately there are nothing but modern authorities at hand as this is being written, and conse- quently the names of one or two ofthe earlier peers cannot be stated. The fourth Duke of Marlborough is the first whose yOnnger branches are still extant. This was George, born in 1739. He married Lady Caroline Russell, of the then Duke of Bedford. His son George, born 1766, married Lady Susan Stewart, daughter of the Earl of Galloway, and his son, the third George, born 1793, married his cousin, Lady Jane Stewart, also a Galloway. John, the seventh Duke, born 1922, married Lady Frances Vane, daughter of the Mar quis of Londonderry. and the late Duke, Geore, born 1S44. married Lady Aberth Hamilton, daughter of the Duke of Abercon.
 1t was the late Duke who, as is well known, married secondly Mrs. Hammersley, born Lily Price. famous in New York for her beauty and riches. The great fortune she brought him was absolutely neces- sary to him, <his extravaganza, not to say profligacy, had reduced Blenheim. the proud estate purchased for his great ancestor by the nation after the battle oftl4 4t name, almost to denudation.