The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-01-23
VOLUME 25-NUMBER ID.
NIPeLEOS AND Mss RONARB.
Aa Interesting RemiBlSc&ce.

Ihe death OF Napoleon has brought
10 the surface NUN Der nf stories con-
necjed with has Lie. 4 melaUcnOIv
interest attaches To the fate uf Miss
howard, whose name IS better known
lhGh The circumstances Us her lif-
The story, as given in detail by Girls
celii, assistant chief Of tue Paris DO
Ice, - as follows
On night Of such fog "a they have
III London, a man was walking up
and down the Haymarket. HIS
height was five feet and several
inches; iie was tbiek-waisted, short
legged, with a paliid face, small eyes,
mustauhr, bJttOned to the neck, and
carrying ia his hand a loaded cane,
without any hat. The passers-by
might nave taken him for police
maH. Suddenly door gave entrance
to lady elegantly dressed The man
exclaimed, Halo, madame, alone 50
late, aud in such bad weather.
Without any Invitation he followed
the lady, who, arriving in her parlor
and thinking him civil policeman,
offered him two shillings.
Madame, mOney-to ME -
And who are you ~
81 am the Prince Louis NapOieOh." i"
Next day the cOnspiratOT of Stras-
burg and BOu!Uugne, the escaped pr.S-
Ouer from the fortress of Ham, rr-
called himself TO the memory OF his
follow ers 10y sending them some Eng
lisa gold with which To eonSpire
against the government that mad
twice lett him his life. FrUm this day
the misery which had overwhelmed
him WAS driven away by the bank
notes rf Miss Howard. While he wss
President lee called Miss Howard 10
Paris and had taken for her a house.
M. IA Rae de cry. Miss Howard.
who had given 5000, 900 Of francs 10
Napoleon at ihc moment of his eleva-
ton, was considered and considered
herself as the future Empress. But
the daughter OF Albion was doomed
10 disappointment.
One dsy Napoleon sent Miss How
ard 20 Havre IN company with his ac-
rOmp!iCe, MOcquaTdt, promising To
cunIr aHd see her upon the Sunday
following. saturday he married Mile
de MUHtiiO. Taxing her tea the mOrn-
ing of lie day when she should re-
ceive the visit Of him who owed ev-
erything to her, Miss Howard read OF
Tire marriage IN the HOajtety. O6icicl.
Precipitately leaving the Hotel Fras-
cati, she engaged a special train and
reached her home in Paris, where she
SAW tile strangest spectacle. FUrni-
tuTe, cushions, papers, notes, letters,
cOHITac;s-some were broken, others
emptied, aud others stolen. Pietri,
warned by dispatch from MOcquart,
had gOue 10 No. "a Rue de CRY. He
was able To hear, and others heard
Ike him, the insuitpd EngliShwOmSn
call Napoleon an assassin, sWindleF,
and ruUber. Next day upon her
awakening Miss Howard was saiuted
10y Mines. FUuld and Fieury with the
title OF Countess Of Beauregard. At
the same time they gave her the deeds
of ownership TO "a property bearing
tins name, situated upon the route OF
Versailles. Several months later the I
Countess left France and established .
in Florence, where she built n splen-
did palace upon the banks Oi the Ar T.
no. But ten years after ennui seized .
her, and she wished IO again see Par
is. Every day at the moment when
Napoleon and the Empress came from
the Tulleries, Miss Howard showed
herself in II superb equipsge and dsz-
Zling toilet. RumOF said that the
Empress was furious. some days al
ter a performance at the Italiens, dur
ing which the EngiishwOman, covered 1
and occupying a box directly in front,
had amused herself by eyeing through .
an OpeTa-glass the woman who had .
stolen her 'POleOn, Miss Howard was
found suficcated in her bed