An Elopement that did not take place.

Bruce Herald, Volume IX, Issue 805, 23 May 1876, Page 7

An Elopement that did not take place.

A New York journal lately achieved a sensation by the publication of a remarkable romance in which the Earl of Dunraven was represented to be concerned. According to the story it was made to appear that the Earl "sought concealment" in New York, having "fled" from Quebec with "the daughter of one of the most celebrated physicians '' of that city — Dr Kowand. The reader,-! was informed that tho young lady possessed " the most attractive qualities," and that the Earl had only a very short time to make his advances, having only arrived from England a few weeks ago. The Earl of Dunraven, having heard of the story, wrote as follows to the ' World :— " According to the pages of certain of your contemporaries I have since roy arrival in New York eloped j with a young lady, danced at a charity ball, dined out, been present &t an evening reception and lain concealed somewhere mysteriously, for no good purpose, in this city, while at the same time I was, to the best of my own belief, lying ill in bed at the Brevoort Bouse. An Irish member of the British House of Commons is said to have once remarked that a man could not be in two places at once, barring he was a bird. This occurred some time ago, and the world moves fast. At present it appears to be only necessary to reside under the shadow of the wings of the American Eagle to acquire from that magnanimous bird the faculty of being not in two but in many places at one and the same time. This gift of übiquity may be desirable, but it is inconvenient till one gets accustomed to it. Matters are getting ralher mixed with mo, and if things go on in this way I shall be compelled to hire a man to tell me who I am, . where I am, and what peculiar commandment I am at any g'ven moment breaking. It would not be a easy to find Jie right person to fill such a responsible place, for he would have to be intelligent, well-informed, religious, and " reliable ;" but no doubt T might eventually procure such an one from the ranks of the news purveyors to the public press of this city. In the meantime I should be glad to avail myself of your columns to assure my friends and acquaintances, who may have been startled by these reports, that I have laft undone all those things T have done, and have done all those things I have not done ; and also to inform them that I am never to be found where 1 am not."