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By special arratiKement with the Mulr-Cowln Company of this city,
THB COURIER Is able to make the following extraordinary premium
offer:
To every New Subscriber who pays 50 Gents In advance for three
month's subscription, wc will give as a premium a beautiful after
dinner china cup and saucer, hand decorated. These cups and saucers
cannot be purchased for less than 75 cents or $1.00. Gall at the office '
and sec them. Oourtor Pit Co.,
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International marrluRos aro now of
uoh frequent occurrence us to ouubo
carcoly inoro than patting mention, anil
yet each succeeding announcement of u
prospective atlianco of an Amorclnn girl
with a noblo family of Ennlund, Fruncu
or Germany docB not fail to crontu a
certain amount of intorcBt. The h.tiBt
candiduto for a pluco in "llurko's
Poorage" ia Mine Adolo Grant of Now
York, who has for tho punt ton ycurB
been rcnownod aa a bounty In hermttlvo
lund and all over Europe, whoro jurlng
that period aho Iuib pussed much of her
time. t
Miss Grant la tho oldest daughter of
the lat'e Berfcli Grant of Now York, ono
o! the aona of the lato Goorgo do Forest
Grant, a man of wealth who lived in
Gramercy Park. Her debut in society
waa made in Now York during tho
eaaon of 188.14 at one of the Deitnon
ico ball. Sho was that season tho
acknowledged belle. Mies Grant haa
particularly beautiful eyca, which have
been variously commented on by Bocloty
writers and hosts of admirers.
The titled Englishman who ia to wed
MIm Grant la the Earl of Essex. Onco
beforo Miss Grant came very near wear
ing a Countess' coronot. While at
Cannes during the winter and spring of
1898 the becamo engaged to Earl Cairns,
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MISS ADELB OKANT OF MEW YORK WHO
WILL BE THE COUNTESS OF ESSEX,
according to the New York Herald,
whom she had met when Viscount Gar
tnoyie in America. During that season
the beautiful American waB the toast of
Cannes, and later in London aho was
invited to all the brilliant parties of tho
season.
Her marriage to Lord Cairns was sent
for the early part of July, 1880, and all
preparations had boon mado for the
event. A Hplendul trouBHoau wuh pro-
pared in Paris, u hourni taken In Gros.
vonor squaro for tho wedding brciiUfuRt,
Invitations were tiont out to all tho
swells of Eiigluud und New York, ami
many costly presents were received from
far and noir, including jewels to tho
vuluo of thousands of pounds from
Lord Cairns. .
Ono day tho world of fashion was as
tounded to learn that ufter all these
ptoparatlonn tho wedding was In
definitely M)stN)iied, for tho reason that
Loul Cairns was
hopelessly In debt
and was in such
deep financial com.
pllcutious that
Miss Grant'B re
latives did not
think it worth
whilo to oxtricato
THE EAKL OF EHHEX. hilll for tllO BUko
of his coronet and title Miss
Grant was then obliged to perform
the disagreeable duty of returning all
hor presents, anil her trousseau was
worn at tho regulation parties of tho
remainder of tho London season. Two
yearn lator Lord Calms married Miss
Olivia Herons, an English beauty, which
marriago ho survived but two yours.
Since tho unfortunate occurronco Miss
Grant hua passed but littlo of hor timo
in Now York. Hor mother bought u
house In Washington, D. 0.,' which aho
subsequently sold, tuking a small ono in
London. For tho list four yonra Miss
Grant Iiub been" prominontly Identified
with tho Amorican sot in London, of
whom tho Duchess of Manchester
(formerly Miss Consuolo Yznagu,) Lady
Randolph Churchill and Mrs. Arthur
Pugot uro tho loudora. Sho has been a
frequent visitor of Mmo. Von Hoffman
at Cannes, and at Homburg has always
hud a court of admirers, among them
tho Princo of Wales.
Camiobury, tho country soat of tho
Earl of Essex, is ono of tho most noted
residences of tho English nobility. It
Ilea not far from big, thriving Wutford,
which is just out of London.
Long beforo tho first houso horo built
of which thoro Is authontio record,
Cassiobury la said to have been tho
home of tho warrior chief from whom
its name may bo derived, Casslbelaunus,
ruier of tho Caasii, a hero, whoso hero
ism seems almost mythical. Neur hero
ho fought his last fight, and Old St.
AlbanB (Vorulamium,) six miles off ono
of tho chief towns of his tribo was
made a military station by tho Romans,
In Saxon tlmca tho manor and tltlo of
Caeslo wero part of the ondowment tho
Abboy of St. Albuns received from its
founder, Offa. tho ruler of Morcia; and
wo find recorded as "festival dues from
Kaiso," thrco centuries later, "at Christ-
inus 2 shillings and twenty-four hens."
At tho dissolution Henry VIII bo
stowed on Sir Richard Morlson, or
MorjHon, tho lordship and manor of
Cassiobury In consideration, ono must
add, of certain property in Yorkshire
and Worcestershire, und of tho sum of
X170 17b. lOd. in money, with, moreover,
"Iho service of tho tenth part of a
knight and payment of a-yearly sum of
5 12s. Otfd.
This Richard Morlson was u note
worthy man, learned and nblo and' a
great traveller. Henry sent him on
several embassies to tho Emperor
Charles V and others, accompanied by
Roger Ascham. He wuh knighted, and
later, being a zealous Protestant, up
pointed ono of tho reformers of Oxford.
When Mary came to tho throne he
found it udvisublo to lio abroad, but
ufter u while returned und began in
155,1 tho building of his "fairo and largo
houso" at Cassiobury. Ho had not,
howovor, time to finish it beforo religi
ous persecution drovo hint onco more
from England, und ho died in StniB
burg in 1550.
His son, Sir Churles Morlson, finished
tho houso just ut tho end of tho cen
tury. It romuincd tho family Boat for a
hundred ycurB, until by tho marriugo ol
Elizubeth, only surviving child ol
Richard Morlson'B grandson, with u
Cupel Arthur Cupel, thov hero of the
houso the estuto passed to that family,
from whom tho presont Euil of Essox h
lineally descended.
One's ideal of a stately homo is surel)
a great quudrunglo tho houso risinc.
four squat o around a grassy plot, like
TonnjBon's visionary Paluco of Art,
where
Round tho cool Kroou court thorn ran a row
Of clotstors, branched Udu mlithty wootlt ,
Echoing all ntttht to tho aonorouR How
Of ipoutcd fountuin Hood.
Such a plan Wyutt took for his castle
homo of Cussiobury. It stands on u
level ground, fronting to tho west ovcru
downwurd sweep of tho broad park to
whoro tho lazy river und tho neat canal
run slilo by side
It is a perfect sito for quiet English
bouuty, overlooking its hundred acres of
swooping park broken with countless
trees, which Btand horo in littlo clumps
or circles, hero alono, horo away cross
tho river, sloping up along tho west
ward hill that bounds tho view in u
grcut avenuo, plannod by Lo Notro (who
utso laid out, but in fur moro formal
fashion, tho gardens of Versailles.) And
ono huB just a glimpso of n littlo wator
full, not fur away, and a wooden bridge
over which drive tho farmora in their
littlo carts going to buy and sell ut
Watford murkot.
Over nil these tho groat houso looks; a
slmplo, stately building, modorn Gothic
in style, of good red brick. In its
contor is a littlo squarq tower or gate
house, and nbovo tho ontrunco sur
mounted by tho Essox arms u pinnuc
led porch, beneath which wooden scats
unticiputo tho hospitality of tho open
door. Northwui d stands another tower,
red, witli a bluo clock fuco; and thenco
runs down u wull which connects
BtubloB and browhouso with tho main
building. Tho river winding through
tho park is tho Gudo.
Tho open door of Cassiobury admits
ono to u narrow cloister tho ontrunco
hull whoso Gothic windows, enriched
with blazonry of rich colored glass, look
into tho iunor court. All ulong this
hull, on line old tables of curved wood,
or bunging on tho walls, or uion tho
lloor, there is u grout storo of what our
grundfuthcra culled "curios,"or curiosi
ties, idl duly lubellcd und described, und
this ono llnda throughout tho house. It
givefl Bomothing of an Old World
simplicity to tho pluco. After tho
cloistered hull tho' visitor passes south
wurd to tho Groat Cloister, with its
whito covered coiling and 'tho ilvo
windows of stained glass ulong its
northern wall. Tho midmost window is
In a recess und richer in color than tho
rest. Thoro is a picturo of the present
Earl seated boneutb it, his fuvoiito
colllo by hia sido now upon an easel in
tho grout librury. Into tho further
end of tho cloister thoro strotches from
ho piiBcugo boyend a curiois line cf
skin mats, ouch from a door somo timo
inhubitunt of tho patk.
What furniture" is in tho great clois
lor it is moro of a corridor thun a
room is plain, its color being for tho
most part red. On tho wulls hang flno
ojd portraits, one, tho oldest in tho
houso, u vory interesting head of Honry
IV. Thore is an old picturo, too, of Sir
Thomas Conyngsby a vory formidablo
likoncss uccompunied by a diminutivo
personage laboled by tho artist "Crickit
u Dwarf."
From' tho cloister a step takes us to
tho foot of tho grand staircase, ono of
tho groat beauties of tho houso. Thoro
uro tow things moro picturcsquo und
statoly than an old. massive staircase,
whothor it gleum with marble shufts
und broad whito steps or bo wurm and
rich with English oak, like this ono
tho carved wood of tho balustrades
standing out, deep brown, aguinst tho
dark' green of the cavpot. The wonder
ful woodwork of this staircaso and over
many chimneypieces throughout tho
houso were carved by tho great English
master, Grlnling Gibbons.
And an American brido is to be mis
tress here.
With but little care und no trouLlo,
the board and mustacho can bo kept a
uniform brown or block color by using
Buckingham's Dyo for tho Whiskers.
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