Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-10-01
The German Princess I'm New Orle ans-She
Still Sells Lager-Letters fsOm Suitors
and Sympathizers-Imm Elevation
Of Her Royal Hfghness In Pabltc EstI.

Still Sells Lager-Letters fsOm Suitors
and Sympathizers-Imm Elevation
Of Her Royal Highness In Pabltc EstI.
nation.
Some time since, says the New Orleans
Picayune of August 25, a brief allusior
was made to a pretty waiter girl in the
Pavilion, of this CITY, who claimed to be
the daughter of German prince. It was
not supposed, at the time, that tho sym
path excited in her behalf would be so
viii. bread and profound. Yet, so it is,
al little Zera Brown, the name she is
known by now, has suddenly grown into a
heroine The press have cspoused her
cause, the annals of her home have been
searched, and more than ono Northern
journal has rnthlessly Topped off this ten
der shoot of the genealogical tree. Never
theless, the pretty Zera still smiles and
courtesies and dispenses flowing lager,
and her sympathiZers still write to the
epic" abont her, seeking information and
expressing sympathy. Some OF these let
ters breathe the true spirit knight errant-
ry, and that the readers of the Pic. may
know that Sir Lanncelots still survive
that the spirit of ancient Leanders still
warm modern breasts, some extracts from
these Quixotie epiatles are anbioinei.
The first received was from New York,
dated July 90. Says
'I'm an Englishman and have recently
emigrated to this country. l am on my
way to Georgia, whero l design making
my home, and am married and chillless.
Ii the young princess will permit me | will
adopt her into my family, She shall be
my daughter and mover shall her cruel ia
her re gain possession of her person or in
terfere with her peace and happiness. If
she accepts my offer will send the means
to defray her expenses to Georgia"
This evidently is the outpOuring Of a
venerable heart alive to human woes and
sympathizing in the distress of mankind.
1t, however fails to touch the tender chord
that vibrates to the sentiment ex-
ter from which it is taken is dated July 25,
and halls from Portland, Maine:
q saw that piece about the Princess
and almost cried when read it. If can
help it she shant sell beer any longer. [
am a wagonmAker by trade, AMI am wort h
5000 As the Princess husband is dead
she can't have any objection to marrying,
and as she did marry soldier, what's the
reason she can't marry wagOnmaker p
Mr.. Reporter, please talk to her about it.
and if she's favorably inclined I'll come
on"
This gushing episode was succeeded by
another from kankakee, ILL.,, dated the
3Oth of the same month. 1t says:
II propose TO raise a subscription for
Her Highnes5 and buy her a big palace,
and let her have plenty of horses and SER
wants, and live like she used to II the old
country. Five dollars apiece will do it. -
We can raise $500 here IN Kankakee, and
| know Chicago will give almost million.
Now, what do you say, Mr.. Reporter ?"
The next in the series is dated in that
sequestered village of the Mississippi, St.
Louis, August 2. It is of an amatory
character, and says:
eff the blooded girl will come up here, she
can take the kinks out of anything in these
parts. Blame me if she couldn't marry
old Lucas himself, and Taylor, up here
on Fifth Street, would jump at her. Any
how, I'd like to open a correspondence
with her, and would be glad if you'd write
to me and let me know what she says"
But in the last, dated Waupun, Wis,
August %, the Princess finds relative -
The writer asks for her address, and says
''She shall be placed beyond the reach
of want and the iron grasp of her tyrant
father. For rather than she should fall
into his hands [ would furnish her means
to travel to the utmost ends of the earth. "
There's enthusiasm for you; but the
writer proceeds
'She has relative here-a student in O
Northern university. But you will please
not mention the fact to her, for fear she
may think it an emissary of her father, and
run away
The writer then proceeds to arrange a
correspondence, assuring the reporter that
he has the most honorable intentions.