Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-02-02
From the New York Evening Post.
DEATH OF LOLA MONTES.

We have to-day received information OF the
death of Lola Monies, one of the most remarkable
and versatile women Of. the present age-one
whose life is a romance-whose career presents
the various phases Of a countess and public leo,ur-
err, of a kings favoriie and a dancer in a second
class theatre.
The real name Of Lola Monies was Maria Dolo-
res Lorris y Monies. Was she born. in Seville,
in 1878 in Montrose, 10 1920 or in Limerick. in
lS24S Was her father a Spaniard or a creole :
No one knows, 1t has been ascertained that her
mother was a creole, and that she was brought up
in England.
She visited Paris for the first time in 1910. civ
ing herself out for the wife of an officer in the
British Army, whom she married and Quilted in
India. She obtained an engagement, as danseuse,
at the theatre of the Porte St. Martin, and lost
this situation through an eccentricity CT deport-
ment that was voted intOlerable even in that re-
gion.
Lola Monies soon obtained admittance 10 the
stage of the French Opera, but was Kissed on her
appearance. In a fit of contemptuous fury at this
disgrace, che kicked one of her buskins into The
pafterre, creating an uproar in that aristocratic
house more easily imagined than described"
She was, Of course, prohibited from appearing
again upon that stage.
Having become the mistress Of Desiarrier. ono
of the editors of La Presse, Lola Monies next
scandaliEed Paris by appearing in deep mourning
at the trial which followed the duel in which Des-
jarrier had been killed.
In lS47 che went to Munich, where she speedily
captured the affections Of the old King, who had
seen her, by chance, in the hCuse of an officer of
his Guard. She was officially introduced a. the
Court, and created, by royal letters patent, first,
Baroness of Rosenthal, next, Countess of Lands
felt. In her arms were a crowned lion, a silver
dolphin and a rose. With her new rank she OBJ
tanned a pension Of 10000 forms. The Ministers
having opposed the exsltation of the favorite, the
Cabinet was dissolved by the King. The Countess
nominated q new Cabinet, and soon afterwards
dissolved it,.
The University was divided into two camps; one
OF these being for the favorite, the other against
her. A riot broke out among the students Lola
Montez fastened withou! escort to the scene of the
tumult, the king hastend after her, offered her his
arm. and led her away. The monarch, i%rritated
by this outbreak against the ~favorite, ordered the
University to be closed for o year on which the
municipal authorities waited on the King in a
body, and deplored him to dismiss the Countess
from Court. The King refused to grant the prayer
OF the civic fathers, but yielded to the energetic
remonstrances Of the House of Peers. Lola Mon
tes received the royal order to qui, Munich her
palace was p~inaged, and the King, who, u~nnoticed
in the crowd, was s%OrrOwfully watching this out
burst of popular indignation, was wounded in the
forehead with a stone. The ex-favcrite went to
England, where she married a second and a third
husband, though her first was still living. She
then went to America, where she is said to have
married several times.
Her first literary attempt was the publication
of her own Memoirs, in 1849, in the Presse news
paper; suppressed, as scandalous, by the authority
of Nj. de Girardin, after the publication of the first
hall OF the first chapter. On arriving in the
Q United States she appeared in a play of her own
writing entitled 1.-THE Adventures of Lola Monies
in Bavaria In 1853 she married the editor of
the San Francisco Wing, In 1856 she appeared on
the stage Of the Melbourne Theatre in Australia.
She came to this country in the year 1851, and
g after continuing the cratic course which made her
so prominent in q larger field during her previous
lie, she was some months since attacked by a
partial paralysis, since which her health has been
gradually d~ecaying. A correspondent, who saw
e her a few days since, as she was expecting soon to
die, says:
Far from the members Of her family, and re-
a ~pudiated by those who had been the friends of her
youth, she was far happier than she could have
been had she died in the midst Of the palatial
a ~splendor which was so long her glory and her
shame.
= That merciiul Providence who so constantly
sends His blessings alike upon the good end the
Q evil, threw this poor on toast during her last DAYS
Q upon the kind charities of q Christian lady, who
had CHANGED to be her schooImate in Scotland. but
who was for many years ignorant that the Lola
Monies of the newspapers was the innocent school
girl of thirty years ago.
Though disabled by sickness, and deprived. Of
e all claims according to worldly principles upon
any such association, she here found q selEdenv-
ing friend, who soothed her dying moments and
led her to take refuge in the consultations of the
Christian faith. Tho Rev. 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 one Of bis own
. flock. lie o6iciated at her funeral on the 18th
r instant, and Mr.. Brown, who has attended SO
many funerals and weddings in his day (may be
live many years. was seen to wipe the tears from
his eyes as he heard the clergyman say that be
had never known a case of more sincere p~enitepce
than was evinced in the present instance. ,Let
him that is without Elm cast the first stone a,
her." F
4 MORE THAN THEY COULD KEEP, Some years age
an old sign painter, who was very cross, very gruff.
and little deaf, was engaged to paint the Ten
. Commandment on some tablets ia a church n fau