Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08

married her. Madame Romero is one of
the fine looking women OF Washington,
and one of the most accomplished. She
speaks several languages and she enter
taius magnificently at the Mexican lega-
ton within a stone's 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 staff when
he was at the head of the Mexican army
during the French invasion. He was
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 $1,000 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 we're dozen counts and barons
among the Pgn-Americans. The most
of them, however, were poor and though
not few of them were evidently ready
to marry rich American girls, the rich
American girls did not seem ready to
marry them. The result Is that the
congress has come and gone and we have
no engagements to chronicle. In fact,
there are fewer marriages of diplomats
than you would suppose. The single
men among the various lega-
tions are not backward in
saying that they would not object
to an American heiress for wife and
there was giddy young secretary here
last year who said that he was bound to
have an heiress who had all the qualities
of an angel and So 900, 900 to boot. At
last accounts he has not found her. The
secretary of the Brazilian legation, MIR.
Gomez, is the only diplomat who has con-
tracted an American alliance for 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 hair and eyes, and her manner 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 ad-
vanced to foreign courts.
see that Prince Iturbide, the grand
son of King Macmillan of Mexico, was
lately arrested in that country. He has
been spending a good deal Of his time
here, and his mother was Miss Green Of
Iturbide, the emperor s
son, went to Georgetown college after his
father was executed and fell in love with
Miss Green and married her. He was
brought up near Washington and Maxi
MILAN adopted him. He is much toadied |
whenever he is here, and the ministers
and attaches pay him great deal of at
tention.
The most noble blood in Washington,
however, Is that of the BonaparteS. |
Colonel jerome Bonaparte owns a house |
here. He is the great-grandson of |
Jerome Bonaparte, the king of West
phalia and the brother of Napoleon Bon
aparte who came to this country and fell |
N love with the beautiful Betsy Patter-
son of Baltimore and married her. Betsy |
Patterson died few years ago and the |
family is understand wealthy. Jerome
Bonaparte was educated at West Point
and he left our army about 1856 to enter
he Household Guards of Louis Napoleon.
He was great favorite of the Empress
Eugene, aud he distinguished himself in
he Franco Prussian war. He had to flee
rom France at the close of that war to
ave his life, and then he
,ame back to this country.
lie married Miss Edgar, a grand
laughter of Ds1iel Webster, and took
Up his residence IN Washington. He has