Sharp County record., 1879-08-14
The Death of the Prince Imperial.

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A mournful interest is attached to the
pending Zulu war by the news OF the
death Of the young Prince Napoleon at
the hands of the savages. 1t appears
that he went out with a scouting party,
and that. while resting, they were sur
prised by the .ZIius-a fatality which
seems to continually follow the English.
The party sprang to their horses, and
succeeded in escaping, with the eXcep-
ton of the Prince, whose horse got away
from him. He then started on the run,
but was speedily overtaken and slain
with the murderous ssegals-plerced
with no less than seventeen wounds
The events of his life are very brief. he
was born in the Tuileries, March 10,
1856. His education was q very thor
ough one, and at the outbreak OF the
Franco German war he accompanied his
father to Metz, and thence to SaarbrucK,
where, as Napoleon telegraphed to Eu-
genie, he received a baptism OF ire.
Shortly afterwards he joined his mother
in England, and has remained with her
until recently, when he obtained per-
mission from the English Government
to 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 his youth.
The death of the young Prince re-
moves one of the most formidable OF
the BOnapartist claimants to the throne.
Bv the decree of 1904, Napoleon [. left
the throne to the descendants of Louis,
the third brother, and father of Napo-
leon III. The son of Napoleon l., Ma
poleon Joseph, died Childless, and IN
deed his claim was never recognized.
Joseph, the eldest brother, renOunced
his claim, and the decree to which we
have alluded barred out Lucien and his
family. Louis died in I846, and the
throne descended to the only surviving
son, Louis Napoleon (NapOleOn llI.),
who married the beautiful and i'll fated
Spanish Princess Eugene Marie de
MOntiio in 1854. His two brothers, Ma
pOleon Charles and Napoleon Louis,
died respectively in 1907 and
1881. By this marriage he had
one son, Louis Napoleon, who
has now fallen victim to the Zulu
savages. By his death the lineal claim
now 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
are in the succession. The claimant
now is Napoleon Jerome, better known
as PlOn-Plon, who married daughter
of Victor Emmanuel, and after him his
two sons, Napoleon Victor, born in
1862, and Napoleon Louis, born in 1864.
Whatever sympathies the Republicans
of France NAV have on personal
grounds for his mother, there will un-
dQubtedly be a feeling of relief on pO-
IiicaI 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 to lean in her declining years,
there will be widespread feeling of
sympathy. Her eventful life has closed
with catastrophe which it is no Won
der has made her reason tOtter. She
has been a woman of wonderful beauty
and grace and possessed of rare accom-
plishments. At the French Court she
was the center of cOteric of some of the
most brilliant women who have ever ap-
peared in the French salons. She has
been noted, however, not alone for her
beauty and for her brilliancy with which
she invested her Court, but also for her
works of charity and for the encOur-
agement she has bestowed upon various
societies of science and art. Her mis-
fortune began with the downfall Of her
husband at SedaH, 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 news
of the death Of her only child has been
brought to her in her retirement at
Chiselhurst. 1t is a sad end of life of
splendor, and in her great bereavement
she will receive universal sympathy
CbicagO Tribune.
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