The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-07-26

tinues to describe herself as Countess
Russell. although she has married and
divorced a SECOND husband since her
union with the earl was dissolved by
h courts.
In Italy there il no divorce, merely
judicial separation.
This law against the use by women
Of the names and titles of husbands
from whom they hav been divorced
has existed for some time past in Ger
many, Austria and elsewhere on the
continent, but has only been adopted
during the last yea or two in rance
1t will prevent Levi P. Morton's daugh-
ter, Helen, from styling herself either
Countess de Tallyrand or Duchess de
Valencay. 1t has forced the second of
the American wives of the Due de
Dino to resume her own family name
Of Mrs. Livingston Sampson, and may
affect other who ave been
compelled to divorce their French
husbands years ago, in the event OF
the statute being retroactive, a ques-
ton which has Yet to be decided by
the courts.
Lord Aylmer, who has been appoint
ed to take command of the Canadian
militia in the place of the Earl of Dun
donald, removed from office by the
Dominion government, has been adju-
tant general of that force for many
ColS oIu - JI1dCCdp pcllSNSs lS
senior officer. Like his father. the
late Lord Aylmer. who died about
three years ago at the age of nearly
ninety, he was born in Canada, and
has spent his entire life in the Do
minion, where he owns landed proper
ty to the extent of some $4,000 acres.
1t was the present lords grandfather,
a captain of the royal navy, who first
took UP his residence in Canada not
long after the American war Oh indie
pendence, and married there, leaving a
very large number of descendants
The first lord was raised to the
peerage by Queen Anne for his SER
vice as an admiral and died as COVER
nor Of Greenwich hospital. The third
lord married a Miss Ann Pierce, a
daughter of William Pierce, OF Rich
-mond, Va, and while there are no
descendants of this peer in the male
line, yet there are still living in Vir-
ginia some descendants of his only
daughter, who died as a Mrs. Tencke.
Lord Aylmer's family was founded
by Sir Gerald Aylmer, who was lord
chief justice of Ireland in the reign
of Queen Elizabeth, and who was like
wise the founder of the family of Sir
Arthur Aylmer. Of Donadea Castle, in
County Kildare. The latter married a
daughter of J. Douglas Reid, of New
York, the union being, however, dis
solved some ten or fifteen years ago.
In Ireland. which the Aylmers re-
gard as the and of their origin, they
are considered as pursued by ill-luck.
and in County Kildare, the cradle OF
the race, grim whispers are still to be
heard about fate not yet having done
it's worst. One of the most shocking
tragedies in the annals Of this house
was the death Of John Harrison Ayl-
mer, with his wife. his eldest son, Ar
thur; his niece, and several servants,
while on their way from London to
Ireland some years ago. The express
lralI on which they were travelling TO
Holyhead ran into a number Of trucks
containing barrels of paraffin left on
the main line near Abergele, a small
station in North Wales. No one quite
knows, or will ever know, just what
happened. The force of the explosion
killed all in the frcnt carriages of the
express, and h cCnfagrauon which
followed obliterated every evidence of
the terrible destruction. Not one of
the Aylmer party escaped, and the
only trace ever found of them or Of
theirs was a. small dressing case with
young Arthur Aylmer's monogram dis
covered in the wreckage of the luggage
van. Two sons who had been left at
home escaped the disaster. One Of
them was killed in South Africa; the
other, now owner of Walworth Castle.
i1CoI La ing (ohy y oAoOl AOAU
Dundonald in the relief of L~adysmith.
Count Louis de Gontaut-Biorn, who,
on Tuesday last, married at Paris
Miss Leishman, daughter of the United
States minister at Constantinople, is
a son of Count Anthony de Gontaut-
Biron, and a grandson of the Marquis
of de Gontaut-St. Blancard. One OF
his ancestors was that profiigate Gen.
| de Biron, Duke of LauZun, who served
with Lafayette under the American
flag in the war of independence in
| this country, and who lost his head on
the scaffold, along with so many other
scions of the French aristocracy, at
the time of the great revolution in
1898. The uncle of Count Lewis de
Contradiction achieved much fame
( as the first French ambassador at Ber-
lin after h war Of 1870.
| COUNT Bulow, the chancellor of the
German empire, receives as such the
| same salary a s that accorded to his
| predecessors, Prince Bismarck, Gen.
| Won Caprivi and Prince Hohenlohe,
| namely, $4,000 a year., and is far and
away the most highly paid servant Of
| the German crown, official stipends in
| the Kaiser's dominions being. as a
rule, rather small. Count Bulow's
pay, while far superior to that of the
| secretary of state or n other men,
Der of Roosevelt's cabinet, is almost
Identical with hat of the British pre-
mier and with hat of the principal
ministers of the English crown. Each
of the secretaries of state, as we'll as
the first lord of the admiralty, receive
$4,000 a year. The lord high chan
celler is, however, the member Of the
cabinet who gets the highest pay, his
salary amounting to $50, 600 a year,
besides allowances.
Although inferior to him in rank,
Sir Robert Finlay (who has just re
ceived, On the occasion of King Ed
wards birthday. the Grand Cross of
the Order of St. Michael and st.
George, in recognition Of his services
in connection with he Venezuelan
claims controversy draws as attorney
general emoluments from the treas
ury to the amount of $100. 600 a year.
This is composed in part OF actual
salary and in part Of Official fees, be-
sides which the attorney general, who
is not a member OF the cabinet, has 1t