Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29
9lmstall County Sepuhlta
PLYMOUTH. IApIAF.A
MADAME JEROME BoN4PArTE

M4DIME JEROME BONIPAETE.
In .Scri6ner's for May there is an in
teresting account of "The Baltimore
Bonapartes," by f. L. Didier, accom-
panied by striking portraits of Jerome
and Madame Bonaparte, their son and
grandson. We quote as follows:
" Madame Bonaparte is still living in
Baltimore, at the age of ninety years.
She says she has no intention of diving
until she is hundred. She has been to
Europe sixteen times, and contemplates
another trip this summer. This old lady
has more vivacity and certainly more in
teligence than many of the leading wo-
men of fashion of the present day. She
expresses her opinion upon all subjects
with great freedom, and sometimes with
bitterness. She has little or 10 conf
dence in men and very poor opinion
of women, the young ladies of the pres
ent day, she says, all have the '' homo
Da4aia." All sentiment she thinks a
weakness. She processes that her am
bition has always bean-,aot the throne,
but near the throne Mr.. Patterson, her
father, died in 1886, at an advanced age,
in possession of large fortune. In his
viii, which is one of the most remarka-
BILE documents that has ever been de-
posted in the Orphans Court of Balti-
more, he says The conduct of my
daughter, Betsey, has, thro'.5siiii lie, been
IS disobedient that in no instance has she
ever consulted my opinion or feelings ;
indeed, she has caused me more anxiety
and trouble than all my other children
put together her folly and misconduct
have occasioned me train of experience
that, first to last, has cost me much
money'-in this, he means the marriage
of his daughter to Jerome Bonaparte.
The old gentleman left her, out of his
wealth, only three or four small houses
and the wines in his cellar-worth in all
about ten thousand dollars.
Madame Bonaparte is very rich !; she
has made her money by successful specu-
lations, and by her lifelong habit of saw
ing. For years she has lived at board
ing-house in Baltimore, seeing very little
company. Her costume is ancient, and
there is nothing about her appearance
that suggests the marvellous beauty that
led captive the heart of jerome Bona
parte. Her eyes alone retain some of the
brightness of former days.
For forty years, Madame Bonaparte
kept diary, in which she recorded her
views and observations of European and
American society. Some of her remarks
are severely sarcastic. A well known
Boston publishing house, it is said, re-
Gently offered ten thousand dollars for
the manuscript volumes, but Madame
refused to sell them at any price, and has
committed them to the custody of her
younger grandson, Charles Joseph, re-
Gently law student of Harvard, now ris-
ing member of the..Baltimore bar They
will probably be published after the
writer's DEATH"
4 COLLEGE OF MUSIC IN NEW YORK.
The rumors of roposed College of
Music, endowed largely by unknown gen.
tlemen, are verified. A well-known mer-
chant of New York, bachelor upwards
of 80 years of age, has given $1,000, 900
and signed will bequeathing all the rest
of his estate, valued at 81, 600, 600, except
life interest in abov $3.50, 900 of estate
to several relatives. The character has
already passed one branch of the Legis-
lature. The Trustees have not yet been
selected, but the names of Cornelius
Vanderbilt, W. B. Aston, d. A. Kings
land, DIR. Elmer, Chas. ID. Tiffany and
Mr.. Witthaus are mentioned as probable
members of the board The college is
to be dedicated to the daughters of Amer
lea, but is not to exclude males. The
building viii occupy site of 800 by 200
feet and the ground is said to be that oc-
cupied by the Hippodrome. An effort
viii be made to secure Richard Wagner
at the head of the institution and Theo-
dore Thomas and Doctors Pearce and
Damrosch are mentioned as members of
the faculty. Work ON the permanent
building commences next fall, but the
school viii be started before that time in
temporary quarters. York Trib-
HISTORICAL.
The first Declaration of American In