Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1882 — Dhuleep Singh. [ARTICLE]

Dhuleep Singh.

Dhuleep Singh, who seeks an election to the British House of Commons, has had a romantic and tragic life. He began his career as the Maharajah of the Punjab, possessor of the Kohinoor and other almost boundless wealth. After ruinous wars, and equally ruinous treaties, he now bids fair to end his caYeer in the position of ’Squire of the Elveden, a quiet English country gentleman, without the Koliiuoor. or anv of bis vast possessions, save an annuity from the government of $125,000, which, by his luxurious habits, he has already reduced to $65,000 per annum. True, he has purchased estates and built magnificent palaces in England, Elveden Hall having cost $300,000, but by act of Parliament all these must be •old at his death, leaving the heir only the name and the memory of the son of “the Ljop of the Punjab.”