The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-08-29
A PAIR OF SPANISH.
A Nephew of the Pope Captlvates
a Cuban Heiress.

! A Nephew OF the Pope CaptlVates
q Cuban Heiress.
American girls have high matri-
monial aspirations. Sometimes, in
their fight they catch German
baron, all Italian count, French
marquis. Rarely, in the uppermost
! air Of all, they encounter an English
peer, or even the son Of peer, or
even the nephew of peer. But
rarely, very rarely, is il given to
them to capture the nephew of q
Pope. Yet that is the fate of Mile.
Sylvine Bueno, wealthy heiress
! from Cuba.
The father of Mile. BuenO was q
Spaniard, who migrated when young
to the Pearl of the Antilles, made his
fortune IN a bank, and returned to
Europe. There he gave himself up
to pleasure, whether at Paris, Rome
or Seville, whether summing himself
at the seaside or following up the
| hunt at Fontainebleau. His wife
did the matchmaking for his daugh-
Agrela, a Spaniara. Another, Syl-
vine, was staying with her relatives
at Seville, the Paris Of Andalusia,
when tall and handsome young
Italian arrived from Rome on a mis-
sion, which decided her fate. The
handsome Italian was Count Camil-
10 Pecci, nephew of Pope Leo NIII.
No family ever lived more quietly
than that OF Gloacchino Peccl, now
head of the Catholic Church. Before
the time of Rome itself, they had
been settled in the heart of Italy. at
Carpineto, perched on the Volscian
Mountains. Here. in An atmosphere
of nobility and refinement the child
hood of the future Pope was spent,
and here, at the Acadrmv Of Mobiles
he went with his brothers to school.
His brothers were fcur-Guiseppe,
Carlo, Giovanni Battista and Ferdi-
nand-of whom Giuseppe alone sur
wives, devout man ana a Cardinal.
His sisters were two Anna Maria
and Catarina-both of whom are
dead. Clio sanni Battista left five
children; Anna Maria left four.
Camille, born March l, 1855, is the
second son of Giovanni Battista.
He has been a favorite with the
Pope, who gave him apartments in
the Vatican, made him member Of
the Guard!a Mobile, and intrusted
him with delicate missions. HIS old
est brother had been engaged to Sig
norma Zaccheo, a maiden of Carpi-
neto, and when his uncle was raised
to power he was counseled to break
his engagement, for all the heiresses
in Rome would now be at bis feet;
but Leo NH would have none of it,
and SaccheO became the wife of
Count Luigi Pecci. His eldest sister
Anna, married the Merchesse Canoli
and received from the Pope the
dowry which Luigi received, to-wit,
twelve thousand Roman crowns.
But Camille was in higher favor than
either Luigi or Anna. He was the
ideal of fine young soldier, and the
ladies' were all in love with him.
In the spring of 1882 he was dis
patched by his uncle to carry a Car
dinal's hat to the late Archbishop of
Seville, Monsignor Lluchy Garriga.
He wvs received with reclamation by
the Andalusian aristocracy. He
went everywhere, and whether it
was from balcony where the guitar
was being thrummed or from the
shadow of a Moorish gaze, or from
the row of the amphitheatre at the
bull fight, two eyes flashed out upon
him and pierced him to the heart.
Six months went by; he had return
ed to Rome; he was on duty one
morning in the Vatican, when again
he beheld the eyes. They had come
to see the ordinary sights of the
tourist-Raphael's "Transfiguration,"
Michael Angeles "Last Judgment'
and the fell on the figure of a
Guardia Mobile, aad sealed the des-
tiny of Sylvine Bueno and Camille
Pecci.
The romance which began under
the orange trees of Seville, and was
in the corridors of the Vat
lean, will end at Paris, where Mon
signor di Rende, the Papal Nuncio,
will pronounce the benediction over
the married pair. But it is remarked
that uone of the recent POpes have |
been willing to advance their rela-
tives. No charge of nepOtism was
made against Plus VII, Leo MI,
Plus VIII, Gregory NVI,or Plus AI.
Their elevrtion brought no material
to their families-the
Chairamonti, the Della Genga, the
Castigliani, the Capellari, and the
And though the |
cypress, the star and the lilies of the
Peccis are carefully designed in
young lockwood by the gardeners of
the Vatican, the Pope shows very
little ancestral pride, and quickly |
passes the heraldic device to look at |
the golden pheasants and the fan
tailed siyeOns in the aviary.
At the same time he is rich and
thrifty. While his ordinary TODD is
goats milk and wine from Velletri,
while his table is more poorly equip
ped than that Of a needy curate, his |
is growing large. And
when the time comes for him to dis
tribute it to the family, the gossips |
of Roome believe that the lions
share will be given to the handsome !
young officer who is about to lead
Mile. Bueno to the aitar.-H0au.