The Red Cloud chief., 1879-07-17
The Death OF the Prince Imperial.

A mournful interest il attached 20 ihs
pending Zulu var BY the news Of ih'
death 81 The young Prince Napoleon n
the hands Of the savsges IL appear
tha; be went out with \ scouting party,
and that, while resting, they we're sur
prised by the Zulus-a fatality which
seems 10 continually folloS the English
The party sprsng To their horses, and
succeeded in escaping, with the ercep'
ton Of the Prince, whose horse go, ava,
from him. He then started on the run,
but was speedily overtAken and slain
with the murderous assegsIs-pierced
with 10 les ;lsn seventeen wounds
The events # his life are very brief. He
was born in the Tui!eriss, March 10,
1850. His education was = very thor
ough one. and ST the outbreak Of thC
Franco German war be accompanied hi.
fz,her 10 Metz. and thence TO S~aarbruck,
where, IS Napoleon te~legraphed to Ia
genie, be received u baptism Of fire
Shortly sf,erwards be joined his mother
in Eugland, and has remained with hei
until recently, when be obtained per
mission from the English Government
Ia accompany the army in its South
African campaign, where the baptism
of fire has overwhelmed him, and ended
his ambitious career in the very flower
OF bis youth.
The death Of the young Prince re
moves one If the most formidable al
the BOnapartist claimants 10 the throne
By the decree of 1894, Napoleon |. left
tho shrann 90 sha t1.nnnlSrs ~ .ffI.
the third brother, and father Of Nspo'
leon III. The son of Napoleon l., Ma
poleon Joseph, died childless, and in
deed his claim was never recognized
Joseph, the eldest brother, renowned
his claim, and the decree 10 which We
have alluded barr ed out Lucien and nj.
family. Louis died in 1876, and tie
throne descended To the only surviving
son, Louis Napoleon (N.apoleon I'D,
who married the beautiful and Ill ia,ed
Spanish Princess Eugene Marie %
Montijo in 1854. His two brothers. Ma
pOleon Charles and Napoleon Louis,
died respectively in 1907 and
1881. BY this marriage he had
n son, Louis Napoleon, who
has now fallen a victim To the Zulu
savages. BY his death the lineal claim
nov reverts To the family Of Jerome,
the youngest brother Of Napoleon l.,
who married Elizabeth Patterson Of
Baltimore, Md, recently deceased. II
this marriage had been recognized in
France his American children would
now be on the direct line, but as it is,
the descendants Of the second marriage
- - Tx On
now il Napoleon Jerome, better known
as Plon- Plon, who married q daughter
Of Victor Emmanuel, and after him hi
two sons, Napoleon Victor, born in
1862, and Napoleon Louis, born in 1864
Whatever sympathies the Republicans
of France NAV nave on personal
grounds for his mother, there will I'M
d%oubtedly be a feeling of relief on 20
litical grounds that the most powerful
Bonapartist claimant is no more.
For the unfortunate Princess, now en-
tering into the shadows of life, bereft OF
her only child upon whom she fondly
hoped Ia lean in her declining years,
there will be a widespread feeling o,
sympathy. Her eventful life has closed
with a catastrophe which il is no won
der has made her reason totter. She
has been "A pms of wonderful beauty
and grace and possessed of rare accom-
plishmentS. At the French Court sh,
was the center of coteric of some of tn,
most brilliant women who have ever ap
peared in the French salons. She Ia,
been noted, however, not alone for hel
beauty and for her brilliancy with which
she invested her Court, but also for hel
works of charity and for the encour'
agement she has bestowed upon variou:
societies of science and art. Her mis-
fortune began with the downfall of hel
husband at Sedan, when she escaped in
disguise from the mob which had invaded
the Tuileries. The next blow was the
death of her husband, and now the new:
of the death of her only child has beer
brought to her in her retirement a
Chiselhurst. 1t is a sad end Of a life %
splendor, and in her great bereavement
she will receive universal sympathy
Chicago Tribune.