--The last Spanish mails announce the death in
Havana, on the 11th instant, of the
Senora Donna Josefa Santa Crux de Oviedo.
the elder and only sister of
Don Esteban Santa Cruz de Oviedo, well known in New York as the husband of
Miss Bartlett, of that city.
By the decease of the
lady Senor de Oviedo has his already immense fortune doubted, he being the only heir to his sister.
Senora
Josefa de Oviedo also left by her will magnificent bequests, amounting to $650,000, for various charitable purposes — among them $160,000 for a hospital at San Felipe Santiago, $100,000 for a church at
Matanzas, $30,000 and her jewels and furniture to the
Ursuline Convent, $12,000 for an asylum for orphans, and $6,000 for the
Ecclesiastical College of Guan Bacova.