OCR Text |
Show DEATH OF D03I TEDIiO. His Last Words Were Love and Kegret for Brazil Biographical. Pari?, Dec. 5. Doni Pedro, who was the late emperor of Brazil, died at the hotel Bedford at five minutes after midniirht. His fever had been increasing since 7 o'clock last evening, when Dr. Charcott was summoned sum-moned hastily and remained until the end. Princess Isabella and her husband. Count D'Eti, were also present. The disease with which the ex-emperor was afflicted was diabetes. dia-betes. It is 6aid that the lat conscious woi'.ds of Dom Pedro were an expression of Lis dee' affection for Brazil and regret that he could llo't go back there to die. The newspapers of all shades of political opinion concur ia their estimation of the I late Dom Pedro's character, and they all print articles highly eulogistic of him. Accounts of the scenes at the deathbed of Dom Pedro who was conscious to the end show that to the very last his thoughts were of the country over which he so long ruled and whose welfare despite the treatment accorded ac-corded him and cis family, he had so closely at heart. The Countess d'Eu, heiress apparent to the Brazelian throne, has no present intention inten-tion to protest to the Brazilian government against her es ile from the country, but she maintains her right in the country in connection con-nection with the crown. She says she is ready to return to Brazil at the fir&f summons sum-mons sent her. The remains of Dom Pedro will be interred in the family vault at Lisbon. Pedro II. (de Alcantara), ex-emperor of Brazil, was born in 1S25 at Rio Janeiro. On the abdication of Dom Pedro I., his father, in 1S31, he succeeded to the throne, but as he was not of age the affairs of the country were administered by a council of regency i till 1S40. He was a man of a very high order of intelligence and well known in Europe, the principal capitals of which he repeatedly visited. He did a great deal to develop the mater- ial resources of Brazil, which prospered very much under his rule, and in 1871 he issued an imperial decree for the gradual abolition of slavery and the total emancipation emancipa-tion of the slaves in his dominion was efu;c-ted efu;c-ted in 1SS8. In 1S43 he married the Princess Theresa Christina Maria, sister of Francis I., king of maples. Dora t'edro was a lineal decendeirt j of the house of Braganza, Bourbon and 1 Hapslsurg. Ia consequence of a revolution ' he was compelled in November, lb80. to i leave the country, The empire died in l.?90. j . a - . I |