The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09
ny IA MARauIsE DE FoNTENoY.

/ by la MARQuISE DE FOAIENot.
| - ATTAIN ARTHuR COLI ,is - IN ~, - =
STEWART, naval attache OF the
n British embassy at Rome, whose
marriage takes place in that city
! this month. to Mis- Gwendolyn Marion
story, daughter of the well known
Story, and granddaughter OF William
/ WetInorc story, also a sculptor and
I poet. the contemporary and intimate
friend OF Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert
Browning. lanes Russeli LoWeit S eaI.'
| Is cousin of the present Earl oil Cal
loway. and great grandson OF me
seventh earl ~ that Tx.
Captain Arthur Ceurtenay Stewart,
li.s his kinsman Lord Galloway, rs
descended from the same stock as the
ancient royal house of stuart. though
they spell their patronymlc differently.
They are descended from Sir John stew
Iart, younger brother OF James. htth
Lord High Steward of Scotland, and
ancestor and founder of the royal
dynasty of Stuart. The family OF the
lsarIs of Galloway have always IN
sisted on retaining the old spelling OF
the name
with tragedy. drama and romance, and
figure conspicuously in the history or
Scotland. One of the ancestors of Cap
tain Stewart was Sir Alexander Stewart
~. at the battle of Flodden Field in
1913. Another, Sir William Stewart,
was chosen as ambassador for truce
with the English in 1894. Eight years
later he was taken prisoner at the
battle of Holmeden by Harry Hotspur.
was tried for treason against the King
of England, was condemned and exc
cuted at York
on the Cunloden domain, the an
cestral home of the Garls of Galloway,
the old castle of Carries, from which
the eldest son of the earl takes his
title, and which occupies the Site OF
the Identical house where Robert Bruce
the pertinacious spider encouraged him
TO make the third and successful bid
for the Scottish crown.
Lord Galloway was compelled by ag-
ricultural depression to sell two years
ago the greater portion of his Wig
town estates to Sir Malcolm Mac
Eachard, an Autralian mulu-million
alre, who has been several times Lord
Mayor OF Melbourne, and is the prlii-
cipal partner OF the great shipping
Co, and the originator of the frozen
meat trade of Australia. The prop
erty, purchased by Sir Malcolm from
Lord Galloway, comprises the scenes
RED Gauntlet' and THE Bride of
Lammermoor," whose last resting place,
indeed, Is situated on the estate. Sir
waiter took an old story connected
NIL ~. tii4s place as the SrouHuWoTh OF
this most beautiful of his novels the
original story being 10 the effect that
Janet Dairymple, daughter OF the first
Lord stair who had engaged herscit,jt
without the knowledge OF her parents,
to Lord Rutherford, was compelled pyl
them. to break her troths to him and
marry suitol. whom she did not love-,
david ioungar the younger of Balloon.
She became insane on her wedding
sight dying shortly afterwards, while
"a l,.,1 lt, dad L 4 n n
fray, concerning which he refused to
make. any revelation, survived her for
a couple OF years, The river Bad
noch runs through the property, and
martyrs in tie Covenanters days We're
tied TO stakes at low tide, and drowned
by the rising waters.
While there is no truth whatsoever
In the storm that Queen Christina con-
templates leaving Spain and taking up
her permanent residence in her native
Austria, in order to demonstrate her
disapproval Of the present anti clerical
policy of the government, she has made
up her mind to have a home Of her own
IN MADRID, and to abandon the royal
or Oriente Palace wholly to her son,
his consort and their children She
proposes to build a new palace, and Is
for site not far from the Northern
Railroad station on the Pasee de San
the site being now occu-
pied by building known as the Niagara
baths. which IT is proposed to tear
down. The negotiations will probably |
have been concluded before this letter.
appears in print and this constitutes
a better refutation than anything else
Of the tales to the effect that she in
tended to leave Spain forever.
When the late King Alfonso died
his oldest sister, the Infanta Isabella,
perhaps the most popular parsonage Iii
The Kingdom. took up her residence in
The royal palace In order to assist and
support her brothers foreign- born
widow. She lived With her sist er-in-
aW, Queen Gnristina, and with the
alters .childrenu until the present King
attained his majority. and then set up
palace OF herEoWn, The Young Kings
Oldest sister, the late Infanta Maria