The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-27
SPAIN.
THE QUEEN DEAD-AFFECTHNG SCENES
AT THE DEATH-BED.
The POpulace GrEef-strIcken-E Expressions
of sympathy From All Rue
rope-AIFOnsO'a Grief

The POpuiace GarIef-strIcken- Expressions
of sympathy From All Eu-
rope-AIfOnsO's Grief.
MADRID June 26,---Queen Mercedes is bet
ter this morning, and her condition Is consid-
cred more favorable for recovery.
LATER.
MADRID June 26,-Queen Mercedes has had
o relapse, and is dying; the Cabinet Ministers
have been summoned. Immense crowds sur
round the palace. The scene Is very i'm
pressive.
STILL LATER.
MADRID, June 26.-Queen Mercedes died
this afternoon.
Particulars of the BeatI-CaInIy, but
Resigned, She Passed into Eternity.
MADRID June 2G.--Early this morning the
condition Of the young Queen was so much
improved that new hope sprang UP, and the
King, who was quite worn out with grief and
fatigue, was persuaded to lie down and sleep
for a few hours, The Duke and Duchess Of
Montpensier, the father and mother Of the
Queen. also retired, and the patient was left
in charge Of physicians and nurses. On Mon
day morning she had been believed to be In
imminent danger Of death, and had received
the sacrament OF extreme unction of the
Holy Communion, and masses were said for
her recovery In all the churches.
During the morning she rallied somewhat,
and during Monday afternoon COnversed with
COtlpOSufb ana TBSlE0hLlOH. Dl0 expressed n
conviction that she would die and besought
her husband to be brave and patient and sub
NIT meeltly to the will OF God She passed
the night quietly, and during Tuesday her
condition gave good hopes for, her - re-
morning Z she appeared SO mt much better
that the danger was considered almost past,
but about noon she suddenly suffered re-
lapse, the hemorrhages returned with great
violence, and 1t was seen that she would soon
Igkr fot
speedily summoned, and the cabinet minis
ters and chief officers of state were sent for In
haste, The scene in the death chamber was
painful In the extreme. The Duchess of Mont
pensier, overcome by sudden reaction from
hope to despair, tainted away the Duke was
In tears, and the grief of the King was uncon-
trolable. Among the pOpulace who were as
senbled In dense crowds around the palace
universal sympathy and sorrow were OK
pressed, and hundreds of women among the
crowds were on their knees, praying for the
soul of the dying Queen, and when her death
was announced, loud expressions of sorrow
and grief were indulged In.
TEse Death Bed scene - Expressions of
sympathy.
LONDON, June ga dispatch received at
the Spanish Embassy tonight gives the de-
tails of the closing scene at the death-bed OF
Queen Mercedes. Her Majesty remained
quiet and conscious up to within short time
of her death. She addressed few words from
btEle U0 blIue 10 HeE lHLleT, DG IlOSb frequently
to her husband, whose frantic grief she alone
was able to restrain.
In one hand she grasped crueifix contain
Ing portion of the wood of the true cross.
She died with this pressed to her lips.
Her right hand was casped In that Of her
husband She appeared to suffer but little
pain, and expired while In the act of uttering
q prayer.
Madrid is plunged into grief by the event.
The young Queen, by her beauty gayety,
amiability and charity, had endeared herself
to all classes. Messages of coincidence and
sympathy have been sent to Madrid ad~
dressed to the King, from his Holiness the
Pope, from her Majesty Queen Victoria, from
the Empress Eugenle, from the Prince of
Wales and the Prince Imperial, both of whom
are personal friends OF King Alfonso; from
the Emperors William and Francis Joseph,
from Marshal MacMahon and from King
Humbert. But the last dispatch received at
the embassy from Madrid represents that the
King is wholly prostrated by his bereave-
ment.
The English court will go into full mourn
ing.