The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1861-02-15
From the New York Evening Post
Death Of Lol q Monies.

We have to-day received information of
the death OF Lola Monies. one of tho most
remarkable and versatile women OF the
present sge-one whose life Is n romance
whose career presents tho various phases of
a countess and public lecturer, of n kings
fRvOrite and dancer in q second class
theatre.
The real name of Lola Montos was Maria
Dolores Lorrssy Montes. Was she horn in
Seville, in 1878; in Montrose. in 1920; or
in Limerick. in 1924? Was bor father a
Spaniard or creolo No ono knows. 1t
has boon ascortainod that her mother was q
creole, and that she was brought up in En.
gland.
She visited Paris for the first time in 1910.
giving herself out for tho wife of an officer
in tho British Army. whom sho married aud
quilted in India. Sho obtained nm engage.
ment, rs Ddnseuse, at tho theatre Of the
Porte st. Martin, and lost this situation
through an eccentricity of doportmcnt that
was voted intolerable even in that region
Lola Montos soon obtained admittance
to tho stage Of Tho French Opera. but was
Missed on her appearance. In fit of con-
temptuous fury at this disgrace, she kicked
ono Of her buskins into the partorre. creating
an uproar in that aristocratio house moro
easily imagined than described" She was.
OF course, prohibited from appearing again
upon that stage.
Having become the mistress of Desiarrier,
one of the editors of La Presse Lola Mon
tes next scandalized Paris by appearing 10
deep mourning at the trial which followed
the duel in which Desj bad been killed
In lS47 she went to Munich, where sho
speedily captured tho affections of tho old
King, who bad seen her, by chance in tho
mouse of an officer of his Guard She was
officially introduced at the Court, and crca.
ted, by royal letters patent, first, Baroness
OF Rosonthal, next, Countess of Landsfet.
10 her arms were crowned lion, n silver
dolphin ami a rose. With her new rank
she obtained q pension of 10000 forms
Tho Ministers having opposed tho exalta.
ton of tho favorito, the Cabinet was dis
Solved by tho King. Tho Countess nomi.
mated new Cabinet, aud soon afterwards
dissolved ii.
| The University was divided into two
camps; ono of these being for tho favorite.
the other against her. A riot broke out
among the students; Lola Montez hastenod
without escort to the sceno of tho tumult.
the king hastened after her, offered her his
! arm, and led her away. The monarch,
irritated by this outbreak against tho favor.
ite. ordered the University to bo closed for
year; on which the municipal authorities
waited on tho King in body, and implorod
him to dismiss the Countess from Court.
Tho King refused to grant the prayer of
the civic fathers, but yielded to the energetic
remonstranccs of tho House OF Peers. Lola
Monies received the royal order to quit
Munich; her palace was p,laged, and the
King, who, unnoticed in tho crowd. was
sorrowfully watching this outt,.lsfs of pop
ular indignation, was wounded in tho fore.
head with stone. Tho ex- -favorite went TO
England, where she married second and q
third husband. though her first was still
living. She then went to America, where
sho is said to have married several rimos.
Her first literary attempt was tho publi-
cation OF her own Memoirs, in 1919, ia the
Presse newspaper; suppressed, as scaEda-
lous, by the authority of NJ. do Girardin
after the publication of the first half of the
first chapter. On arriving in the United
States she appeared in O play of her own
writing, entitled "The Adventures of Lola
Monies in Bavaria" In 1853 she married
the editor of tho San Francisco Hhig In
1856 she appeared on the stage of tho Mel
bourne Theatre in Australia.
She came to this country in tho year 1851.
and after continuing tho crra,ic courses
which mado her SO prominent in a larger
field during her previous life, she was some
months since attacked by partial paral yss,
since which her health has been gradually
decaying, A correspondent, who cav her a
few days since, as she was expecting soon to
die, says:
"Far from tho mombers of hor family,
and repudiatcd by those who had boon the
friends OF her youth, she was far happier
than abe could have been had she diod in
the mids, of tho palatial splendor which was
SO long hor glory and her shame.
THAT merciful Providence who so con-
stantly sends His blessings alike upon the
good and tho evil. threw this poor outcast
during her last days upon tho kind charities
of a Chr stian lady, who had chanced to be
her schoolmate in Scotland, but who was
| for many years ignorant that the Lola Mon
tos OF the newspapers was tho innocent
| schoolgirl of thirty years ago.
Though disabled by sickness, and de-
prived of all claims according to worldly
principles upon any such association, sho
hero found q sel.-denying friend. who
soothed her dying moments and led hor to
take refuge in the consultations of tho Chris
tian faith. Tho Rav. DR.. Hawks, on being
requested to attend her, was frequently at
her bedside, and gave her the benefit of his
pastoral instructions, as if she had been ono
of his own flock. He olliciated at her funo-
raj on the 18th instant, and Mr.. Brown. who
has attended so many funerals and weddings
in his day, (may he live many years) was
seen TO wipe tho tears from his cyes us he
hoard the clergyman say that he had mover
known a case of moro sincere penitence
than was evinced in the present instance.
"Let him that is without sin cast tho first
stone at her, f.
A CURIOUS ring has been found in the
neighborhood of Champs Elysees, of great
value, ornamerted with a royal crown and
the cyphers, ~. A" 10 rubies and diamonds.
1t cODtains n steroosccDe of most extraordi.