Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-07-26
EXODUS FROM LONDON.
This Week Marked the End Of the
Swell Social Season.
The Ultra Questionable People Have
Gone to the Countrywide Queen
Has Taken a Strong Liking for
the Duchess of Marlborough.
Stage Gossip.


Stage Gossip.
Copyrighted, 1896, Associated Press.
Icndcn. July 25.-With the present
week the London season comes TO an
end. Indeed, there has been already a
large exodus Of fashionable people to
the country, where for some time they
come. vanity fair will have full course
The royal wedding at Buckingham pal
ace was. of course, the chief social event
Of the week. On that day all the Dig
houses and clubs in Picadilly had large
luncheon parties to see the procession.
The bachelors club. the Duke and Ouch
ess of Marlborough, and Mrs. Bradley
Martin were among those who hau
smart assemblies.
A society paper says that Queen Vic
+oria has taken quite fancy TO me
Duchess of Marlborough, formerly MISS
Consuelo Vanderbilt. According TO TINS
nigh authority, Her Majesty is not gen.
erallv partial to Americans who capt
ure people. and her cordially in the case
Of the Duchess of Marlborough has been
remarked upon in court circles as quite
unusual"
Dorothea Baird's marriage to Henry
B. Irving, which took place On Monday
quite rvalled thu wedding two days later
Of the Princess Maud and Prince Charles
,2s Denmark in the public attention at
le1
thousands which blocked the streets in
front OF the church where The ceremony
was performed and in the vicinity Of
the house where, subsequently, a reccep-
l.ion was given. The crowd called "Tril-
by" until the BRIDE appeared upon the
balcony and drank a glass OF champaign
TO their health.
The South African Association had a
dinner on Wednesday at which the Mar
quis of Lorne presided. His Lordship,
who is a sOn-in-law of the Queen, made
a remarkable speech, in the course of
which he said that he believed that the
British would be just as much masters
of the Zambesi before long as they
would be also masters on the Nile. He
remon bered 4 short time ago saying TO
Cecil Rhodes, I'VE mean to take the
Nile if you will take Zambesi." to which
Mr.. Rhodes had answered: That is ex-
actiy what We mean 20 do"
On Monday evening, Sir Edward Law
son, proprietor OF the Daily Telegraph,
gave a fete in the Telegraph building
similar to the Paris FigarO's celebrated
parties. The three Danish Princes,
Crown Prince Frederick and his two
sons, Prince Christian and Prince Char
les and the Duke Of Cambridge were
among Sir Edwards guests, who took
great interest in the printing room and
saw the paper 90 to press. All tho
rooms were deliberately decorated with
flowers and The band of the Scots guard
supplied the music The invitations
read Music Machinery"
The passage of the Irish land bill in
the House 0 fCommon0 seems now to be
assured. While this measure does not
completely satisfy anyone, there is
general disposition to rejoice that anoth-
er step has been accomplished towards
diminishing the strain in the Agrarian
situation in Ireland. There is still con-
siderable anxiety as to the fate of the
bill in the House Of Lords where efforts
viii be made by the landlords TO secure
amendments IN their own interests.
Thsse efforts may be expected TO COM
mand much sympathy among the peers,
but the chances are the bill will pass
in its present form.
The vents of the last week have DEM
onstrated that Mr. A. J. Balfour is a
more capable pilot than he has recent
~ been credited with being. His Lord
snip in the House of Commons during
the later days has shown that he pos
sssses a tenacious grip which has en-
abled him TO recover much of the ground
lost by the failure of the education bill.
The situation in Rhodesia is looked
upon here witt the gravest anxiety. The
force at the disposition of SIR Frederick
Darlington is regarded by military men
as quite inadequate TO cope with the re-
bellion of the Matabeles. The latest
news from BuluWayO, to the effect that
Sir Frederick does not propose to again
enter the Maitappo hills, but that It is
his intention TO surround those hills with
a series of forts and so hem in the Mata-
beles, is regarded here as an indirect
admission that in the fight Of last Mon
day the English forces did not achieve
a decided success, 1t is pointed out that
i-he Matoppo hills extend for seventy
miles, which fact shows that the fort
fer the idea is one of a very large ordsr.
The recent attack upon a woman
travelling in a railway carriage has re-
newed the agitation for the substitu-
tica Of corridor carriages for the com
p2rlment cars now N use upon the nail
waystOf Great Britain. Questions have
been asked in the House of Commons
Looking toward compelling the railways
TO adopt corridor carriages, and the
Board of Trade is now communicating
with railway companies on the sub
ject.
The Derby entries for 1898 closed on
Tuesday. The list Of cots is much
longer than usual. The Prince of
Wales enters two, Mr. August Belmont
three. Mr. Oliver H. p. Belmont one,
Mr.. Richard Croker two, Mr.. Pierre
LCr.llard six. and a like number are
entered by Mr.. II. McCalmCnt, Lord
Rozsbury, the Duke of Westminster
and Sir TattOn Sykcz.
An agreement was signed On Thurs
day by Wich Mr.. Maurice Grau becomes
the manager Of the Royal Opera at
Covent Garden, on a salary. Back Of
Mr. Grau IS a committee of subscribers,
headed by Earl &c Grey and Mr.. Harry
II'o0ius Roth &c tbo.o gen lpn11 ara