ONE OF CUPID’S FREAKS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1079, 27 May 1882, Page 4

ONE OF CUPID’S FREAKS.

When the French sought to establish a monarchy in Mexico a Mazatlan youth raised a regiment of boys, and waged war against such of the invaders as appeared in Sinaloa —a warfare that told. The young man’s father was of Castilian blood, and his mother was a Mexican. His name, Corona, soon became famous, and at the age of 25 he was regarded as the Mosby of Mexico. At the end of the war he was a Major-General, the hero of the soldiers, and the idol of Mazatlan societv. He was six feet tall, broadshouldered, handsome, and daring. While attending a ball at the American Hotel, in Mazatlan, he stumbled over a domestic, knocking a tray from her hand. Stooping to pick up the crockery, General Corona noticed that the girl was very pretty and very saucy. She told him that her mother was a San Francisco washerwoman, and that he ought to know better than to rush headlongdownadark stairway. Corona made love to the American miss, and before leaving there for the capital he had learned of her irreproachable though humble life. Once away, Betty’s face and pert ways haunted him so much, that he wrote to her, arranging for marriage by proxy. He remained at Mazatlan ; the bride went to a convent school. They were a thousand miles apart, and wrote to each other daily, the husband constantly instructing his wife in polite ways. President Jurnex, fearing that Corona's popularity would lead the people to give their vote to the young soldier at an election then approaching, concluded to send him to Madrid, the most enviable diplomatic position m the eyes of all Mexicans. General Corona took the washerwoman’s daughter to his palace in Madrid, and she is now regarded as the most brilliant and accomplished lady in the Court of Spain. — Philadelphia Times.