The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-10
OBITUARY.
9 AmeIle, ex-Queen of Naples.

Marie Sophie AmelIe, ex-Queem OF Naples.
Dispatches have been received at London,
death of this lady, the wife OF Marie Leopold
Irancis, surnamed Little Bomba," ex-King of
Naples. The deceased was the third daughter
and fifth child of Macmillan Joseph, Duke of
bavaria, and was born at Possenhoten on the
aIrs O1 ~ io er ear cary yeSIs wes9
those of her sisters being obtained from the
private tutors of her father In 1854, her sister
Elizabeth Ameie EuRenie was married
to Francis Joseph, the present EN-
peror Of Austria, and four years suose-
quently another sister, the Princess Caroline
fherese Helene, was united to Macmillan,
Prince of Thurn and Taxis. On the STU of Janu-
airy, 1853, the deceased ex queen was 81 married
in person, to the then Prince Royal OF Naples.
On the I'D of May Of the same year she assembled
brief and shameful reign of Francis proved her.
self devoted and affectionate wife. She accom-
panied the King in his flight from Naples to
Gaets and during the short but memorable
siege of the lasJnRmed city, endeared herself to
the Neapolitan soldiers who composed the
garrison by her course of conduct. Upon the
fall OF Gaeta, February IA, 1861, and the retire.
ment of the ex-King to The Palace of the Qui-
rim al, at Rome, she accompanied him, and re-
sided there ever afterwards, sharing the many
vicissitudes of fortune which have since at
tenued her royalspouse.
Mrs. Abby Folsom.
by a telegram from Concord, New Hamp-
shire, we are informed of the death of Mrs
Abby Folsom, at her residence in Rochester
in the same State on the Sth instant The de-
ceased was, we believe, a native of England
her maiden name being Kelley. Between the
years 1880 and 1888 she emigrated to this
country, and took up her residence at Boston.
There she soon became famous for her denun-
cation of slavery. With coterie of kindred
spirits she mounted the rostrum, and de-
nounced the late peculiar institution of the
South" declaring that the negro was, in
every respect, the equal of tue white man,
and even going SO far as to declare In
favor OF amalgamation between the races. AT
the time when these doctrines were expounded
the moral ideas" of the country had not yet
reached their full height, and even in piOus
Boston the preacher of antlSlaVery dOgmaS was
subject to such Interruptions as could be caused
and other and more forcible expressions of ais
sent. Notwithstanding these unfavorable
aspects, the deceased lady persevered in her
Efforts, and was ever foremost in attending all
of the anti slavery meetings held in New Eng
land and New York. Her associates In this
work were all the great abolition lights. AS q
speaker, Mis-. Folsom was bold, vigorous, and
fearless. She never hesitated to express her
opinion in the midst of the most overwhe helming
antagonism, and more than one occasion
determination In fact, she was perfect Wen
dell Phillips in pett1cOatS. The natural ability
displayed by the deceased gained for her nu-
merous admirers and frienus, while her cour-
tfons respect her. She was to the public at one
time what Anna Dickinson and Mrs. Lucy
Stone are at the present hour. The deceased
was married quite a number of years to Mr.
Hampshire. Soon after this event she retired
to private life, from which she seldom ever
afterwards emerged. Her life before her marrt
age, taken altogether, was most extraordinary
and successful one. She lived TO see her dearly
cherished anti slavery doctrines engrafted upon
the Constitution of the country, and in the GER
tainty of this knowledge died, no doubt, per-
fectIy contented and happy.