The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-27

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Another parlo. ii house OF Lords.
hsys Just Is sh lad tfH t,1eir N numS eqs
reinforced by the accession Of
i me / By B shoho Douglas; rec rec
OF Blythswo bod created about eighteen
years ago In favor Of the late peer.
And nc. he Will, In accordance Will, the
conditions under which tile Blythswood
estates arsssheld be obliged to aban.
don his patronyinlc OF Douglas for that
OF Campbell. There has been so much,
n y ,e..,a!.nnorphosing Of names backwards
H ~! Towards in this particular fans
of the changes and to denne when
they are Canpbells and when they are
- ll Eases. That they were originally
S a. ? cannot be denied, and they
t q Duke OF Argyll, having with tho
latter common ancestor In Str Colin
GSa a p, 81 Of r.ochow, who married
NJ : ga <, Drummond, sister Of Anna
Pc pella H. Queen of.Robert III Of Scotland.
century JOHN campbe,l married. the
daugiiter and helress OF John Douglns,
, OF Mains aims In misunderstanding. and
w IImt, his eldest son. Colin. inherited
ib'iiythswood, VIII CHI Is In Renfrewsliire,
ms second son. James, became the
owner OF Mains; and OF his mothers
fTSh5 e ss and to9k her name Of DougIas
a, 1f Il oSvHo q 4 t,.-
5 ne .Blythswood and took back the
iname Of Campbell: = and from that time
a ae M y has USUALLY happened in every
beea saso Sro wfs has sSs
his second brother. the owner Of Mains.
WI, Win IN. inc name OF Douglas. In fact,
NOW that the Rev: sholto Douglas has
The Blythswood estates he surrenders
the Mains and the characteristic
P pro- ,,rt. to the son Of his younger
brother. Archibald Campbell. who will
assume the name .of Douglas. Tile
Dumbartonshire estates are very large.
and ana were greatly added to by Margaret
uiho 10Y - Of Mains. who married Arch
the victor in the great Douglas cause
celebre, On her death she left a con-
s :, anLa,,! nmount OF property to her
~ mee I'm ,w CAPTAIN Archibald Douglas.
owner of the property should bear 't the
!, IAN OF Douglas. and that the whole
property should be known as Douglas
support, or the Mains Support OF u Dug.
Of Douglas Support situated dated on a"' the
banks OF the North Calder River, was
t ths Wih,olly destroyed by IRE. only
among the paintings rescued was q I fao
nous one of huge size representjnu
fn,,, genealogical tree of the Douglas
the tn, nSw only Only "a fortnight previously
o., Blythswood and peer OF the realm
unaer. rather sad circumstances.
biytnswood Itself has been In tho
o. Marv n OF the family since the reign
ent mansion. erected on the foundation
~ ~ an oid castle. was built on the south
eank Of the Clyde to the west OF Rem
wac f aooue hundred years ago. and
scott Queen Victoria also stayed on
~ ~ least two occasions at Blythswood.
Inc has late peer holding a high place in
ehieftaiEn af and po1h as great Scotch
M lahe - veteran Z Of the Crimean War.
anew aew d &c Blythswood has no children,
years being in The neighborhood Of
ssIAty. Blythswood and the peerage viii
IN course Of time pass to his nenhew.
~ me new ne owner OF Douglas Support and
o. o. i, me n !. Dumbartonshire estates. which
~ Nv, ~ linen goMto General Darlington
lam "a y bell. Governor OF the Channel
Islands, who will then transform his
name into Douglas.
Princes OF the blood And themselves
nampered and INSTRUCTED In every d.
Frection, even in the matter of the &C.
qu!sitlon Of languages. One would
th n,ys imagined that their linguistic
IN these days, when they are SO often
employed to take charge OF missions
to foreign countries. but quite often
fney says the result q getting them
second son. Prince Eltelf Frederick
ventured to undertake TO devote his
leisure moments to the study of Mag
var, report was Immediately started
to the effect that Emperor William had
designs upon Hungary, and was ma J
noeuvring to have the prince elected
ey the Magyars as their king on the
d ia !. Of Francis Joseph. And now
Augustus William Of Prussia has taken
| advantage of his stay4at Strasburg,
Where he Is attending the course OF
lectures at the university, to pick up
started that 1t is In consequence OF the
kalser's project OF converting Alsace-
Lorraine into an independent state OF
the German confederation, under the
| William. '.. : 80
OF course, there il not one word Of
truth in the ,rumor, for Bavaria, Sax.
sony, Wurtemberg and other sovereign
states OF the German empire claim
quite as much right Of proprietorship
70 Alsace- Lorraine as Prussia. and In
slst that the fact that Its official desig.
nation Is "Reichsland'' shows that 1t
belongs to the empire as a whole. and
not to any unit thereof. Moreover.
the addition Of a neutrality-suspicious. state
TO those included In the federation.
especially under the rule Of a PrussIan
prince !, would stu FURTHER augment the
predomlnanceG OF Prussia In the Fedora
Council, and proportionately diminish
the power OF the other states, (which
would not be tolerated BY them for
one moment All this is being dis
cussed with a considerable amount OF
acrimony In Germany and a good denl
| Of bad blood has been engendered all
through tho report that the young
prince had been in his spare moments
picking up the dialect Of the people
among whom he was temporarily So
Just at the present moment when
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