A COAL-HEAVER SUCCEEDS TO A BRITISH EARLDOM.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1128, 11 September 1882, Page 2

A COAL-HEAVER SUCCEEDS TO A BRITISH EARLDOM.

Conxellsvillk (Pa.), July 13.— This modest town lias a genuine 8; i n - ation. It consists in the discovery that among the labourers in the railroad shops is numbered a genuine nobleman. His name is Eggerton Davis. Two years ago he came hero ragged and weary, and applied for aid at the hands of the Rev \V. F. Stoner, rector of the I'piscopal Church. Representing himself as a devotee of that faith and in want, the rector jiided him, not only in supplying his needs l>ut in procuring employment. As the result of the clergyman's influence, the tramp was given work as a coal-heaver in the employ of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Subsequently he was promoted to grease wiper in the roundhouse, and thence to work in the car. penters shop. In every place he worked assiduously and faithfully. 13y good behaviour he won upon the esteem of the community. He kept up a correspondence with his wif j in England, who has just informed him by letter that by the death of an uncle he succeeds to the title of Earl of Ellesmere with an income of £50,000 a year. His story is an interesting one Born atLherpool in 1837, he was educated at Eton. Then reverses came, and he learned the trade of a cabinet maker, and subsequently engaged in business with an extensive coal and iron firm. Then health failed him, an he came to America, landing in New York. After repeated misfortunes there he vent,. to Philadelphia, where he was robbed of his effects. After an unsuccessful effort to recover his stolen in which all his resources were exhausted, lie then became a tramp and visited all the cities of the United States, terminating his nomadio life with his aiiearance here two years ago. He is a man of good address and prepossessingappearance,and though his accession to wealth and station is sudden, it causes less surprise than might be expected. He left to-day for England.