Two other scandals affecting persons in the social world have been prominently be-forthe public. One is the Goff divorce case, in which @ fashionable doctor has all against his wife misconduct with Mr. Cecil Gordon, grandson of the late Marquess of Huntly. A piquant incident in the case is that when Dr. Goff first charged his wife and Mr.. Gordon with misconduct, the corespondent thrashed him and extorted from him a written, apology: The only direct evidence of improper conduct between the lady and her admirer came from servants, whose evidence is always open to suspicion and it is not impossible that Mrs. Goff would have obtained 'a verdict but for certain revelations as to Mr. Gordon's past career. His present wife is a lady whom he admittedly stole from her first husband, and with whom he lived for some years before her husband's death enabled them to marry, some previous divorce proceedings having been rendered nugatory by the interposition of the Queen's Proctor. When, therefore, the jury learned that Mrs. Got had been repeatedly guilty on her: own admission against the express prohibition of the hus-of staying in the same hotel as Mr. Gordon
band they drew their own conclusions and gave a verdict for Dr. Goff. The other little scandal is of a much milder character, but seems likely to give rise to an interesting law case. The daughter of Mr. H. Stephens, M.P., "Inky Stephens," as he is, sometimes called in reference to his mat facture of the well-known blue-black ink—is married to Mr. Lewis Edmunds, Q.., but husband and wife have been living apart, owing to-some di ent. On Puesday Mr. Stephens and his daughter considered it necessary to go down to Hythe and take forcible possession of Mr. and 'Mrs. Edmunds' two children—boys of five and seven, who -had been "placed t by their father in charge of a nurse there. The, "Hythe Abduction Case" created..a big sensation on the South. coast; and an interesting lawsuit is expected when' father and mother fight out the question as to who is to have the custody of the children.
THE RIFLE, THE TURF, AND THE STAGE, The close of the Tuesday meeting on Satur-of the 3rd Lanark, carried off. the Queen's dag mapo prostiday for icotand. Lieut Yates, Prize, Lance-Corporal Fleming, of the Ist Lanark, secured the St. George's Vase, and the Starley and Lloyd-Lindsay both went to Scottish teams. The Goodwood meeting: as ever, though it has had to conten las attracted as big a fashionable oar against.-several rather serious drawbacks. The: racing has. been very poor, the Cup being won by quite a.mediocre animal in Lard Penchyn's Quen's Messenger. Cop Day was spoilt by rain, and the Prince of Wales was of course kept away by his accident, which still confines him to; his.bed. But the Prince has had one compensation, He won the Stakes which are called after him with his filly Zventait. All the principal theatres have now closed for the dull season, but there hax been: oae very: interesting dramatic performance—the revival of Ben Jonson's Sad Shepherd by..tho -Elizabethan Stage Society, which took place in the historic grounds of the Bishop of London's Palace at Fulham. Bishop Creighton is a very. broad-minded prelate.
29th July.
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