The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-28

quirer of the 14th inst;
yesterday the little chapel at
Spring Grove was the scene of a Gu
rious funeral 1t was the burial of
Madame Isabella de San Roman, a
Spanish Marchioness, and it was
the first time that the Holy Roman
Catholic burial rites were ever cele-
brated there Father Anderson Off
ciated. The story of>the life of the
Marchioness was remarkable one
She was the daughter of the late
James Robb, who died in the winter
of 1SS1-S2 at Cheviot. He had amas-
sed fortune in the banking business
at New Orleans, and was for many
years partner in the banking house
of Winslow, Lanier IL Co., of New
York. His brother William will be
remembered as an efficient County
Treasurer of Hamilton county. He
was a great bon vivant, and gave ex-
cellent dinners, that were attended
by Peter White and w. II. Davis and
others of that ilk.
THE DAUGHTER
Long before the war, in the fifties,
when Miss Isabella was charming
brunette of seventeen, her father,
then a banker at New Orleans enter
ed into partnership with Queen Is
abella ii, of Spain, and purchased
and RIM tho Havana Cao vnrIyo "a
Cuba. The venture proved lucra
tive one, and Mr.. Robb had occasion
to visit Europe in relation to bust
ness matters connected Herewith
The year before the celebrated Gen
eral O'Donnell had attempted his
coup detat, and shortly after under
took q war With Morocco, which
ended successfully. Attached to the
Court at Madrid, whittier Mr.. Robb
and his daughter repaired, and in
the train of the gay Queen Isabella,
was It young cousin, the Marquis de
San Roman. He met the young bru-
nette beauty of New Orleans, and
soon fell desperately in love with
her. He was wealthy. So was
she. He had title. Every way it
was considered desirable alliance,
and, though there was no noble blood
coursing though the veins of the
lady, still the Queen could afford to
strain point or two, for was not her
father the Queens banker and part
ner in business? AT any rate they
were married in 1857 at the fuller
ries in Paris, the Empress Eugene,
who is now the most lonely woman
in the world at Chiselhurst, being
present at the wedding. All went
well for while, Miss Robb becom-
ing the Marchioness of San Roman.
The affairs of Queen Isabella, how
ever, her husbands patron and rela-
tive, did not run so smoothly.
Wasteful enterprises in San Domin-
go and against Chill and Peru
weakened the Queens exchequer, and
in 1865 Isabella's Ministers resign
ed, and in the same year she ordered
the sale of all the crown property ex-
cept the royal residences and entail
ed estates. Things went from bad
to worse. The RIGHTEOUSNESS of the
Queen was the subject of common
talk in Madrid, and finally in 1868
she fled with her lover, Marfori, and
Chaplain Claret to France. Here
Napoleon III gave her the castle at
Pau, and she issued her proclama-
ton protesting against the revolu-
ton. The Marquis and his wife
stood by the Queen, who in 1868 was
deposed, and resided for several
years in Paris, being near the Queen
until her abdication, in 1870, in ia
vor of her son, Alfonso XII.
/. In 1879 news reached her of her
fathers illness, he having had a
stroke of paralysis. He was at that
time living at Cheviot, and as the
Marchioness and her husband had
one of those marital disagreements
so common to American girls who
wed foreign Lords, it was both con-
venient and dutiful that she come to
America. She nursed her father
during his last illness, and then her
health began to fail her. She lived
in retirement until the day of her
death in the vicinage of Cincinnati,
and on Tuesday last she quiet
ly passed away. She was buried by
the side of her father, and before
Bishop Elder left permission was OBJ
tanned from him that Father An
derson hold services over her remains
in case she died before his return.
For the past month she rapidly sank
and yesterday was buried. She
leaves brother who was formerly
State Senator from New York, and
Chairman of the Committee that
had charge of the Niagara Reserya-
ton affair. Two sisters survive her,
Mrs. DIR. Pancoast, wife of DR.. Pan
coast, of Philadelphia, who was one
of the attending surgeons of the late
President Garfield, and Mrs. Milten
berger of New York City.