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Show The Iturbide behaved very hand ' ninety in foregoing all their claim to the money and litlos.a fur as their recent re-cent bargain was concerned. The F.tn-peror F.tn-peror Maximilian, though, refused to j give him up, and the miserable mother I workud the whole power of the stale do- pirtmcnt at Washington to recover her diild. At lost, however, when things were getting desperate with Maximilian, lie gavo the child to the archbishop of Mexico, wilh orders to convey it to Havana Ha-vana and deliver it to its parents. Along with it Maximilian sunt all of tbn magnificent mag-nificent presents he and the emprtw had given it, for there seems no doubt that much of their reluctance to part with it came from strong affection for tho child. Cor. Boston Transcript. I A ftexlnan Trlnca. The 1'rinco Angustiu It urbide. about whom the papers are making such ado regarding his imprisonment iu Mexico, is a well known young fellow in Washington, Wash-ington, where bo lias iqent much of his life and where bis mother's family all live. He is about 2 or 27. quite well l baved ind good looking, but not remarkable. remark-able. He i a lieutemftt of artillery now in the Mexican anny, but he i the grandson grand-son of an emi;ror and was the adopted son and heir of Maximilian. There wasn't anythinir particularly imperial about the lturbid'-s though, tho Emperor Iturbide having been a scldier of fortune, fort-une, who was overthrown and shot in 119. The rest of the family emigrated here, where Angustin Iturbidsj's father married mar-ried Mis Green, of Washington. They ha1 this one on. During the troubled reign of Maximilian it occurred to him that, as the Iturbides were popular with the manses, it wouid be a good idea to adopt Augustin. Hi parent acreed on I condition that certain large rr.ns of ' money and title of which ihe Itnrbide had been unjustly deprived should be restored re-stored to them. The bargain wa made, the 2-year-old child delivered and Maximilian Max-imilian and Carlotta, after fonuaJly adopting him. appeared in public with the child aeated brtween them in thr state carriage. But the mother, aa he journeyed away from Mexico, felt ber heartstring more and more wrenched by the separation. At Pnebls shetarned back to d'-UAUd hT chiid, s |