The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-01-13
MARLBUROt1GH'S RISE.


| MARLBUROt)GH'S RISE.
AZ Paymaster- General this Duke
Beoomss q Metiber IT
l. IA. the OoVerhmsht.
London, Jan. Tit may be said that
London has been deserted by the society
people, who are mostly entertaining or be-
ing entertained ut country houses: The
Duke and Duchess Bf Devanshife inteiid
to complete the season of gayeties with
a grand ball ut 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.
Nicholas CHAPEL, Westminster abbey,
Were the Percy family has the right Of
burial Some pressure was put upon the
family to waive this right in view Of the
limited space now remaining in the alb
hey, but without avail The income from
the res estate i is nearly fXSo,ooo d year.
cession to the Earl of Hopetoun, who Was
recently: made lord chamberlain, becomes
a member. of the government. The office,
however, is only stepping-s stone There
Is no work and no pay But the duke
may oceasiohalle have to answer a ques-
ton in the House of Lords. The appoint
for the Conservative cause. He is an indie
fatigible worker in the Primrose league
hardly week passes without his hui fihE
presided Mt meeting Of the leagte some
where,
Takes Himself Seriously.
| William Astor's Pail Mall Gazette says
the duke is a young man who has the
| good sense to take himself and his posi-
ton seriously and not rest satisfied, like
taken the trouble to be born. In the age
We live in it is eminently desirable that
men of rank and wealth should throw the
influence of their position and personality
into the scale of politics.
The HogmenaS, or New Year's eve .fes4
%ssssa S Sf'{ fB a 81 abbEy j S
toxicati8a III tie stfsstSs ever seen in Glas-
gov: One account of the scene says: 1T
| would need the pen of lola to describe the
state of the streets. The most astounding
feature Of the debauchery was the appal-
ling number of young lads rolling about
| the streets"
Lady Henry Somerset, w. T. Stead
and other friends and admirers of the
late Mrs. Haweis, the author of "Chau-
Ger for the Children" "Chaucer for
| Schools" "Chaucer's Bends" "Tnles
from Chaucer," have formed d Gum
mittee to perbetuate her ta.eH3ptf By rails
ing a fpha ID BE Called ''The Mrs. Haweis
Fund for Working Girls the object of
| which is said to be financially aiding the
English and American girls between the
| ages of II and 20 to learn self-support-
ing trade or to engage in remuneratiye
trade.
There is an outcry among the dwellers
| in the famous Peabody buildings, which
were esta blished by the American philun-
thropist, George Peabody, who died In
1853: against the proposal of the trus
ante have written 70 papers complaining
| that the buildings are now let to well=to-
do artisans, iMstead of to the bpofest
| class, for which they were originally. i'm
tended, In behalf of the trustees it is
pointed etit tAat The buildings are man
aged at a very small profit, only half the
profit produced by Lord Rowton's lodging
| houses, and that an increase of Sd e
| cents) weekly per room is necessary in
order to enable the scheme to be car
| ried on successfully.
People here seem to have settled in their
own minds that an American SQUADRON
will visit Portsmouth in June, and It IL
unhesita tingly announced that the admi.
fhty authorities haTe arranged to have
of York at. it, head, assemble in the So:
lent to meet the American ships. Ohe
paper pretAmes to know that Tho Ampi.-
lean squadron will consist of all the best
types OF modern ,Wafshits. -,
The Portsmouth Individuality is EVIL
IDENTIFY trying to, boeih the event for all it
is worth and dispatch from Portsmouth
today Says official informa ton on the suh-
oect is eagerly awaited there in order to
prepare the arrangements to give a fitting
"elcome to the officers and men.
"Harry, the Valet"
Harry, the Valet" who on "Wednesday
pleaded guilty to stealing the Duchess Of
o9tneriahd's Jewels, which were stolen
Whne the duchess was on her way from
farls to London in October last. proves
TO be an extraordinary character: The
judge has nestpoAed' sentence iii order to
eIaole nm to INFORM the police as to
What betA4nA Of the bulk of the Jewels of
W w e. only $500 $4,000 worth out of
tsooOO ($126O0O contained in the stolen
satchel were recovered, the idea being that
the prisoner. will get a lighter sentence for
the information.
The prisoner, however, replied to the
judge that he would not "split Oh his nals''
even if he got a life sentence, aaa ' an-
pears to be one Of the most Notorious Grim
mails of the; generation, Is of genteel ap-
l9earance ahu nus grand air and a frank.
engaging look. The prisoner boasts h.
mas made twenty bigger ''hauls" tHan in
the case Of the .Suthctiand jewels and
cams ne ,redncad robbery to science
making Il his business to know eyeryhodv
of wealth aud consequence in Enrone.
ne further says that he rarely tapde i
mistake, owing to his cautious RTeiim;-
naries, and declared that tfe onlv IS serious ei"
mistake of his career was when he
r Ea the Duchess of Devonshire, some
tlMe ago, Of jewel case and found to
us a d;sg9st t fat T ne had taken paste
made great deal Of money, for he lost
several Thousand pounds in one week 'o at
Sohoga gambling club. He had thu
,oruiIest tastes and lived at West End
lS1; where his bills were over ESQ
S$22O): Finally. he was betrayed, III the
mer actress, who informed the t,olicr If
the share he had taken in that robbery "
DtnerWlse, there is every reason to be-
lleve that he would never have hsnn
caught, as the police had no clue to him
he was apparently devoted to this wom
an, as, While awaiting trial, he begged
her TO come to his prison and give him
Interest In Gunnery,
The splendid practice of the American
sun!ese mas galvanized the British into
a critical interest in the gunnery of their
Owl, own navy and the results Of the inquiries
made are not very reassuring. The per.
iormances of the Mediterranean fleet, s,t,.
posed to be the crack British fleet, are far
from satisfactory. The results of The
heavy and light gun prize firing of 1888.
just published, shows that with heayv
guns 2o9 rounds were fired at eight knots
anu that the percentage of hits was 80.
With the six-inch nuick-frers stoom;nr
twelve knots, the average was Is per
cent, the six-inch quick-firer is the most
used gun in the British service aud the ba-
pers point out that it is evident that even
the crack squadron has much to learn re-
garding Its use. In the case of the small
Ter weapons there is still more disadvan-
tage, and this without the disconcerting
effects of hostile fire. The papers now ask
if it is not time that measures be taken
to make gun-prac tice something more than