The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-13

drift is nuptially to Rome, 'Ethe City of the
Soul, " and to the Italian nobility. It is a
miraculous bridging of the chasm that lies
between the mining gulch of the Nevada
mountains and st. Peters Church, where
stands, in supernal splendor, 'the grandest
dome that mortal hand has painted against
Gods loyeliest sky" But God, in his
providence, who inspired the poor woman
to wander to the Comstock Lode. and there
meet and wed John Mackay, 50 soon to be
the modern Aladdin, has led the mother
and daughter from chapter to chapter of
e%yentful life whose truth is indeed stranger
than fiction. Little did the widow of the
wretched Doctor of Virginia City imagine
that she would fairly roll in wealth, dwell
in palaces, be courted by the Church and
State, be familiarly associated with the
proudest names Of the descendants of the
Crusaders, and finally become the mother
in-law of a Prince Colonna, whose nobility
dates back almost to the time of Saladin.
The family name is as famous as any in
iilSiOi y dild liz Itdtti VI JiIt dl1IldiS Oh the
earth who has not heard of the hero of Lee
panto, the superb Cardinal, and the never
to-be-forgotten Victoria, who inspired the
immortal Michael Angelo to his highest
and best achieyments-such a reader, we
say, who knows not of these memorable
and glorious representatives of the Colonna
must be content TO remain in ignorance.
which is hardly bliss. The heir of the
seven years or age. to wed the daughter of
the poor doctor, who fell by the wayside
in Nevada, and sleeps his last sleep in that
stony desert. The proudest noble Of the
genealogical records, is to wed the daugh-
ter of John Maekay, about a quarter of a
century since a common or rather uncom-
mon miner. once poor as the traditional
church mouse, and now phenomenally rich
like one of the Jules Verne's heroes step
ping from the covers of his most improba-
BILE romance. By Jove! it is the most ex-
traordinary fact of modern society, and
PS~NNH ~ v N'tA AOAo III VI tflt
happening of the improbable since the son
of a Corsican attorney became Emperor of
France and conqueror of Kings.
Let MS hope that Mrs. Mackay may not.
with her honest lord and excellent daugh-
ter, land on a financial St. Helena after
some speculative Waterloo. Snch a CON
tingeney and finale would appear to be i'm
possible; but when one remembers what
Grant was and what he is now. it is rash to
try predictions based on sublunary dispen-
sations. At present, the Maekay star is in
the ascendant. True the Comstock lode is
played out and the mines are filled with
water. True the Digger Indians threaten
to make Nevada the burlesque of a
State. True riches often take unto them
selves wings and fly away But. in all
human probability, the present generation
of Mackays will continue to flourish ON
earth, die in regal paraphernalia, and be
gratefully remembered after death in
cathedral aisles. And some day, very re-
mote, when the Italian chronicler has oc-
casion to record some singular phase in the
history of his native land, not the least
glorious announcement may be that a
p~rincely descendant of Mrs. Mackay's
daughter was worthy of the great Admiral
who beat back the Ottoman power ON the
sea, the noted Pontiff who gave new lustre
to art, the stern patrician who lowered the
pride of Rienzi, and the angel of beauty
and genius whose name shall live with
that of Angelo while there's an echo left
to air.'-Atanta (Ga.) CoRstitut5oaalisf.