Sweethearts during the stirring days of 1861-’65, when McCabe was a dashing young officer in Lee’s army, the two are said to have been parted by a trivial lovers’ quarrel. The colonel, after the war, married Miss Virginia Osborne, of Petersburg, where he established his school and made it one of the best in the South, educating many young men who have since risen high. In 1895 he moved the school to Richmond, and seven years later retired from active work. In 1912 he lost his wife.
Not many months ago Miss Cary, who had remained true to her first love, was rummaging among old papers, when she came upon a batch of poems that the young officer of war days had written to her. Soon afterward she met him and the old flame was fanned to new life. The colonel once more became a suitor.
Now they are planning to spend their honeymoon in Charleston, S. C., where one of the colonel’s sons is head of a large cotton firm.
Empress’ Friend Dies in Poverty.
Countess Jeanne Demadre, once belle of European courts, convent mate, and friend of Princess Eugenie, who later became wife of Napoleon III., died recently in a humble cottage in a secluded spot in South Bend, Ind. Few knew her, and none of her acquaintances realized that half a century ago she was considered a world beauty and the associate of the crowned heads of Europe.
A brief twelve-line obituary chronicled the death of the woman, giving her name as Mrs. Peter Veuve and her age as eighty-three. Her only surviving relative is her heartbroken husband.
The countess was born the daughter of Count Hippolyte Henri Demadre Desoursins, June 24, 1831, in the mansion opposite the Royal Palace in Brussels, according to the register of the Royal Church, in Brussels.
She was sent to a French convent, and there she became a friend of Princess Eugenie, who was destined later to become the wife of Napoleon III.
She left the convent when she was eighteen years old, and when she was nineteen she became the wife of a Frenchman named Baudin.
Her presentation at the court of Belgium took place shortly after she left the convent, and after her school friend Eugenie became the queen of Napoleon III., she was presented at the French court and later at the court of Queen Victoria.