Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-08

Romero, has one of the brightest American
women for his wife. She is the daughter of
an old Virginia family and was Philadel-
phlan when the Minister married her. Nine.
romero is one of the fine looking women of
w Washlngton and one of the most accom-
plished. She speaks several languages and
she entertains magnifcently at the Mexican
Legation, within a stones throw of the
White House. Her husband is one OF the
closest friends of the President of Mexico. and
he was his Colonel and Chief of Slaff when
he was at the head of the Mexican army
during the French invasion. He is one Of
the most efficient diplomats in Washington
as well as one of the most popular. One OF
the most remarkable things about him was
his friendship for Grant, whom he offered
81, 900 at the time of the failure of Grant &
Ward, and to whom he stood ready at any
time to do anything in his power.
There are a number of blue blooded
diplomats here from South America, and
there were a dozen counts and barons among
the Pan-Americans. The most of them,
however, were poor. and though not few Of
them were evidently ready 10 marry rich
American girls, the rich American girls did
not seem to be ready to marry them. The
result is that the Congress has come and
gone and We have no engagements to chron-
icle.
THE MATRIMONIAL MARKET.
In fact, there are fewer marriages of dip
lomats than you would suppose. The single
men among the various legations are not
backward in saying that they would not
object to an American heress for a wife,
and there was giddy young secretary here
last year who said that he was bound to
have an heress who had all the qualities of
an angel and So, 0O0 900 to boot. At last ac-
counts he has not found her. The secretary
of the Brazilian Legation. Mr.. Gomez, is the
only diplomat who has contracted an Ameri-
can alliance Tor many years. He married
an Indianapolis heiress, who had spent the
most of her life abroad, and who spoke
French more easily than English. She had,
however, dark eyes and hair, and her man
ner is so foreign that she is seldom taken
for an American by strangers. At one
time about half the diplomatic corps had
American wives, but the most of these have
been promoted and have been advanced to
foreign courts.
1 see that Prince Iturbi6e, the grandson
of King Macmillan, of Mexico, was lately
arrested in that country. He has been
spending good deal of his time here, and
his mother was Miss Green, of George
town. Iturbide, the Emperor's son went to
Georgetown College after his father was ex-
ecuted and fell in love with Miss Green and
married her. He was brought up near
Washington, and Maximilian adopted him.
He is much toadied whenever he is here.
THE MOST NOBLE BLOOD.
The most noble blood in Washington,
however, is that OF the Bonapartes. Colonel
Jerome Bonaparte owns house here. He
is the great grandson OF Jerome Bonaparte,
the King of Westphalia, and the brother of
Napoleon Bonaparte, who came to this
country and fell in love with the beautiful
Betsy Patterson, of Baltimore, and married
her. Betsy Patterson died only a few years
ago, and the family is, 1 understand,
wealthy. jerome Bonaparte was educated
at West Point, and he left our army about
1856 to enter the Household Guards of
Louis Napoleon. He was a great favorite
guished himself in the Franco-Prussian
War. He had to flee from France at the
close of that war to save his life, and then
he came back to this country.
He married Miss Edgar, granddaughter
of Daniel Webster. and took up his resi-
denee in Washington. He has been here
until year or SO ago, and he is, think,
now travelling in Europe. He must be about
80 years of age, and he looks remarkably
like Napoleon Bonaparte. He is we'll
educated man, though his education is
altogether military. His younger brother,
Charles, is a lawyer in Baltimore, but
Jerome is more of man about town than
anything else. He is very quiet in his
tastes. takes long walks and is very fond of
horseback riding. There is nothing ostenta-
tlous about him, and if the wheels of life
and death and those of the ups and downs
,f French governments should ever elevate
him to the throne he will maintain his part
With credit. MISS GRUNDY, JR.