Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-07
FROM OVER
THE OCEAN
London Society FlOckS to the
Country.
DUKE OF MARIE BOROUGH
Accepts Position Under the Govern
ment--English Gunners Need
Target Practice.
DUKE OF MARL BOROUGH

London, Jan. 7.-(Copyright, 1899, by
the Associated Press.) 1t may be said
that London has been deserted by the So
ciety people who are mostly entertaining
or being entertained at country houses.
The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire in
tend to cap the season of gaities with a
grand ball at Chatsworth house, Derby
shire, which is to eclipse the famous
Devonshire house fancy ball.
! The Duke of Northumberland who died
on Monday, will be inferred in st. Mich
olas chapel, Westminster abbey, where
the Percy family have the right of burial,
Some pressure was put upon the family
to waive the right of burial, in view Of
the limited space now remaining in the
abbey, but without avail. The income
from the estate is nearly 250, 900 pounds a
year.
The Duke of Marlborough, by his ap-
pointment as paymaster general in sue
cession to the Earl of Hopetown, who was
recently made lord chamberlain becomes
a member of the government. The office,
however, is only stepping stone. There
is no work and no pay but the duke may
OCCdSlOHdlly IdNc " stlS"tI d duColloIl
in the house of lords. The appointment
is reward for the dukes labors for the
conservative cause He is an indefatiga-
BILE worker in the Primrose league. Hard
ly week passes without his having pre-
sided at a meeting of the league some-
where.
William Astor's Pail Mall Gazette
says: THE duke is young man who has
the good sense to take himself and his
position seriously and not rest satisfied
like a beaumarchais nobleman with hav-
ing taken the trouble to be born. In the
age we live in it is distinctly desirable
that men of rank and wealth should
throw the influence of their position and
personality into the scale of politics."
The Hogmenac of new years eve fes-
tivities celebrated at Glasgow were at
tended by the greatest exhibition of in
toxication in the streets ever seen in Glas-
gow One account of the scene says:
1T would need the pen of Scott to de-
scribe the state of the streets. The most
astounding features of the debauchery
was the appalling number of young lads
rolling about the streets.
Lady Henry Somerset, w. T. Stead and
OlHeF IIleuuS anu duilllIelS VI tIc ldte
| Mrs. Haweise, the author of "Chaucer
for the Children" "Chaucer for Schools, -
'"Chaucer's Beads "Tales from Chau-
GER" have formed a committee to perpet-
uate her memory by raising a fund to be
called the Mrs. HaWeise fund for work.
ing girls" the object of which is said to
be to financially aid English and Ameri-
can girls between the ages of II to 20 to
learn a self supporting trade or to engage
in remuncratiNe trade
There is an outcry among the dwellers
in the famous Peabody buildings, which
were established by the American philan-
thropist George Peabody, who died in
1869, against the proposal of the trustees
to raise rents. Some of the tenants have
written to papers complaining that the
buildings are to be let to Well-tO-do ar
tisans instead of to the poorer classes for
which they We're originally intended. In
behalf of the trustees it is pointed out
that the buildings are managed at a very
small profit, only having the profit pro-
duced by Lord Rowton's lodging houses
and that an increase of six cents weekly
per room is necessary in order to enable
the scheme to be carried on successfully
People here seem to have settled in
their own minds that an American
squadron will visit Portsmouth in June
and it is unhesitatingly announced that
the admiralty authorities have arranged
to have the British channel fleet with
the Duke of York at it's head, assemble
in the Solent to meet the American ships
One paper presumeS to know that the
American squadron will consist Of all
the best types of modern WarShips. The
Portsmouth municipality is evidently
trying to boom the event for all it is
worth and a dispatch from Portsmouth
today says official information on the
subject is eagerly awaited there in order
to prepare the arrangements to give a
fitting welcome to the officers and men.
Harry the valet" who pleaded guilty
to stealing the Duchess of Sutherlands s
jewels, which We're stolen while the
duchess was on her way from Paris to
London in October last, proves to be an
extraordinary character. The judge has
postponed sentence in order to enable
him to inform the police as to what be-
came of the bulk of the jewels of which
only $500 worth out of G25,000 pounds
contained in the stolen satchel were re-
covered, the idea being that the prisoner
will get lighter sentence for the infor-
nation. The prisoner, however, replied
to the judge that he would not split on
his pals" even if he got a life sentence
The splendid practice of the American
lgunners has galvanized the British into
a critical interest in the gun firing of
their own navy and the results of the in
lquiry made are not very reassuring. The
performances of the Mediterranean fleet
supposed to be>the crack British fleet are
far from satisfactory. The results of the
heavy and light gun prize firing of 1S9S