The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-22
BARONESS ROTHSCHILD.
Her Beautiful Home and Jewels
Estranged from Her Daughter.

q Ol& CdcttO WAAOo0 WoAiON
at least four times the size of Madison
Square. There is a porter's lodge.
pa t which you drive to the castle be-
tw zen stretches of turf and trees and
tle rarest flowers. Widowed for
years, madame lives alone, save for
her thirty-two servants. Yet she is
never solitary. Her cook is Gordon
bleu, her dinner parties the despair OF
all Paris, to say nothing of greater
entertainments. Madame knows
everybody worth knowing on three
continents. All circles open to her.
Royalty is not more exclusive or half
so discriminating. Genius and good
breeding combined make the surest
open sesame to. her favor. Though
firm in the faith of her race, you may
meet in her salon all shades of be-
lief or disbelief. Yet, though so lib
eral in her associations, Madame can
not overlook everything. Her only
child, q daughter, welded a Christian
and remains an exile from her
mothers favor. Madame's jewels are
simply fabulous in value, so much so,
in fact, as to put mere royal collec-
tlons quite out Of countenance. She
has ropes of pearls, seas and rivers OF
diamonds; s%apphires a queen might
sigh for in vain; pigeon blood rubies
whose worth might equip ali army.
One trusted man servant has charge
of them all. Whenever Madame
wears them, wherever she goes in
fact, he is always at hand.
1t was suggested to her that per-
haps she run q risk-the temptation
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She answered in great surprise
He could only turn them into money,
and already he has all that money
can buy-his own house, horse, car
rage. servants-besides, he loves me,
as / love and trust him." Well he
may love her-and many more as well.
For this great lady, stately, snowy
haired grande dame to her very finger
tips, is a manifest providence to the
poor and needy. Very much of her
time and money is given to them,
especially the sick poor, whom
almost daily she visits in
the hospitals. Once she found
there a poor being from the
provinces dying of fever and deliri-
ously craving the pear cider of her ma
tive village. The doctor said it made
no ultimate differences; death was a
matter of hours at best, but that pear
cider was something not to be found
in the city. They had sent all about,
for it, but in vain. Madame looked
al her for q minute, then went back
to her carriage and drove away. Six
hours later she came back with just
one quart of pear cider found in an
auberge just outside the barriers.
She had searched for it since she went
away. and felt more than rewarded
when the poor parched invalid drank
and died content.
A Negro SHAREHOLDERS.
The Louisville Cou2iey-J Journal re-
ports that at a recent meeting of the
Filson Club Miss Ida Symmes read a
paper on one Aunt Eliza, a colored
woman who had been a large slave
holder up to the time of emancipation.
The subject of Miss Symmes' historic
sketch lived the greater portion Of
her life on the Newburgh road in the
vicinity of the wet Woods" where
she died in 1887. She herself was a
slave until the year 1888, when she
received her freedom from her master,
John Hunley. Upon Mr.. Hunley's
death a few years later she ann into
a considerable portion of his property
a part of which was an old two-story
log cabin near the wet Woods"
which at that time was the
borhood. Her chief ambition from
it seemed, was to become a slave
owner and a lady. She set about
getting slaves any way she could, but
her usual method was to buy chill
dren. At the beginning of the war
she owned forty-five OF her own race.
According to a special statue no negro
was allowed to hold slaves, and, to
avoid any violation of the letter of
the law, all the property of Aunt
Eliza, including the slaves, was held
by James Guthrie, the eminent finan-
cier, in trust. In this deed of trust to
James Guthrie appears the name of a
female slave who cost 5000, a man for
whom she paid $500, a half grown
girl for whom the paid 1915, and a
| number of small boys who cost her
800 each. While never cruel, it
seems Aunt Eliza never allowed her
slaves to stop work except to sleep or
eat. Her farm, consisting of forty
acres, was kept up by slave labor.
The old woman herself never did any
thing, and it was her custom,
when rebuked for idleness, to a
that there was no need OF her to labor,
as she owned enough men and women
to work for her. She owned several
carriages, and always went attended
by a fcotman. The old woman was
married three times, and once to a
| slave. AS she did not buy him from
his owner, he took the first opportun-
ity to run off to Canada She never
owned any of her husbands, and
would never use any of their money.
At the death of her second husband
she refused to accent the property he
had left, and distributed it among his
kin. From the account given of hei
by Miss Symmes, who knew her init
mately, Aunt Eliza must have been a
strange creature. At her death she
willed her house and farm to the
woman she had bought for 5000, who
was, according to the deed of trust,
the most valuable piece Of property
she had ever owned.
Hand Painted and Tight Fittings.
Alexander Nasnyth took his first
art lessons at an evening school in
Edinburgh. The teacher had little to
work with, and for that reason was
obliged to give his pupils the same
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