Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-18

HER w1DowHooD AND SECOND MA
RIAGE.
The papers are publishing brlef
item of the recent marriage OF the rim
cess Agnes de Salm-Salm to MIR. Charles
Heneage, the younger and untitled son
Of an English Lord and attached to an
English Legation at Bonn. Inc Prin-
cess, now plain Mrs. Heneage, has been
lost to the world for nearly ten years,
and her reappearance will probably be
the signal for the relation of her roman
tic history. She is an American woman,
and there are chapters in her story told
here in Missouri which will bear repeat
ing for wider circulation. The Confed-
crate officers who preferred exile to re-
construction and attached themselves to
the fortune of Macmillan found the
Princess Salm-Salm at the City OF Mex
Ii leo before them, and she was largely
their medium with the Emperor. They
speak of her as j woman OF magnlhcent
physique, OF
BOLD, DAsHING BEAUTY,
and familiar ways with her country
men, Years before she met the Prlnce
Salm-Salm she was u circus-rider. and IN
spangles and tights was the object OF
alteration to those who crowded close to
is the rope of the ring. Then she was
% Agnes LIE Clerq, the daring equestrienne'
- whose flashing beauty and bold abandon
made her conspicuous even among the
demoralized class who followed her pro-
fession. When the war opened, LIE.
8; Clerq disappeared from the ring, and
'e under new name found new profes-
- sion in Washington. With the crowd Of
,s seedy adventures from Europe, bring
ing an empty title for recommendation
and seeking employment as soldiers o
to fortune, came the Prince Salm Salm. III
was an Austrian nobleman, but impecu
m NOUS He had no fortune but his sword
and it was not one of much glory. Ih
Prince met the graduate Of the saw-dus
and dressing-tent. and there sprang "
ith between them friendly relationship
Miss lie Clercq had already establshe
her footing in the war society at Wash
ineton, and she procured for the prime
a commission. He made but an indi1
ferent soldier, and his steady avance
de; ment in rank was due solely to her il
t. fluence at the capital. The war closee
md the nrince- in token Of his recogn
ton of
TIE AMERICAN BEAUTY'S EFFORTS.
're, ,rt, for him bestowed on her, at Mobile, h
hand and title. lie Clerq became tt
=, Princess de Salm-Salm. The honeymoC
'"e and the remnants OF the Princes salal
were spent in New York in a fe
months. Those who knew the Prin'
lite: and his wife during the latter part
riul their stay in Gotham remember them
habiting single room on Houstt
ght, street, wretchcdly furnished, and o
tanning their meals In some mystcrio
manner.
If not 4 soldier, the Prince WAS not
ing, and the Salm-Salms went to Me'
co and enlisted in MaXimlians caus
e. The Prince was sent out to fight que
rillas and the Princess became mu
the same kind of a tavorlte at Court tn
she had been under canvas. She we
salk about in dashing, imperious wa
and bending others to her Will and holding
lade little Court among the adventures trc
r of all countries who had tiocked to Ma
rely milan's standard. Society in the Ci
ed a of Mexico was good deal mixed a
,e Il strongly tinctured with the war-lil
nber Soldiers filled the thoroughfares, and t
ran safest place for one OF the weaker S
was at home and out of sight. I
II to Princess of Salm-Salm was law III
D, in herself She made her own rules
yreat decorum and followed them. Sal
of Salm had been sent away to the moi
and tains near Tampico with a brigade
ton. hunt Suerrlllas. one DAY the frlnc
des- entered a cafe. There was group
an Belgian officers sitting at one table j
.ng and laughing over their wine. A