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Lola Montez in Grass Valley (PH 17-1)(Undated) (40 pages)

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tho: charming actress, and Roms, is: anid to hayo written, Wher walking in tho:Vatican ; oy. aud: spoiled. the Pope of four oranges.’ 43:0.. ~Andoréon;, 6 wealthy, reatdant’ of Now Guday of anoploxy, at! tho ago of sixty-ond,, Ya mall-ridor! Hat svooa Philadel: dein. this; way, brought: over, {’Minister’Picrropont “denies that there’ over have Sé0n2 any arms “painfed upon’ tho:panold’ of his car: g* his ᠀爀攀猀椀搀漀渀挀漠ᤀ in England, or anything {nitiale, ' ‘ E.y.," which, indood, if ‘oulloga be trustworthy, aro not his initials. Aon g50r 0, W. Morris, Jato, Librarian of Cooper mion, died onThursday’ night at. tho rosidenos of’ bis. son) Drv, Moreau” Morrie, in tho oightioth yéar of “Twenty years,ago’ Professor ‘Morris was:o th Deaf and Dumb Institution of this city C) “tenor, is ab, Berlin, and. has engaged'a jopera.troupo to vist soveral.Amarioan altica ; gedson.! Director: Rosa: says that, Mr. Adams: ibia-engagoment, to singin hia’(Rosa’s),, -. ‘ ‘Soe * te Rae nt-Jan, & woll-known Frenoh littérateur, diod: f weeks since at tho ago of alxty-nine. {Ho “intimate ’ friend of, Honoré do’ Balzao,'Pros-’ riméo_and Leon .Gozlan, ana will bo remomered: asthe author of a charming lttlo book, “On wala Femme qui Sort? ye oes es “ee e South Carolina University, an jnatitution with ahistory, but during the refgn of the carpot-baggera almost/entirely given over: to tho negroos, is in process of reorganization through tho joint offorta of a législativo'committes and tho present Board of Trustees.) The latter, at their last mecting, conferred tho degreo*of, A. M.’ upon’ Dr. J. Marion Sims, of this DriJames McClelland, medical director, U, 8,.N.,, aga at’ Germantown a fow days ago. Ho was aotively ‘engaged during the war and served at both of ‘the!attacks upon Fort Fisner. In 1865-7 he was fledt-surgeon with Goldsborough in the Colorado; in 1871:he, was appointed medical director, and till dis rotirement in March, 1876, was surgeon at EeMBhemet-All, tho, successor of Abdul Kerim, “ac. icording tos French paper (which is probably lying), Ss/{he-aon of a French musician, who abipped him i ‘f cabin boy to got’ rid of him. ‘Tho boy ran away from‘ his jvesaol at-Constantinople,: found a placo:in fthe-kifchen’ of Ali Pasha, tho Vizier, recommended pAtneelf;to his master: by, his. sprightliness» and<royedived an education and a commission jn tho army, . } David C.Levy; one of the trusteos of the Philadeliphiiae Boa {fountains a: taggisettled in Philadelphia, where he bore an oxcopytionally high character. for propity and punctuality pin bis,business affairs, n> man on Third street bong amore quoted or*relied upon when any question of oupio of days’ ago,+ aged sevonty-two. ‘Dusiness etbica was under discussion. =+ * +> “yEmuigois Blanc," the) great. gambling-houso proiprietor, whore lite and. headquarters at Monaco yoro }deacribed in THE Wortp not long-ago, died’ at. the “paths of Leuk, in Switzerland,'at the ago of seventy, “ot ang disoaso.' His body wag taken to Paris to bo “embalmed.: Last year MM. Blono’s eldest daughter ‘a¥a8 married to tho Polish Prince Radziwill, to whom ‘ghos brought a dowry of $800,000. Tho great Eaemiebver’s estate is placed at $16,000,000. {Lhe Spectator records tho death of Mr. J. Langton ford, tho historian. ‘Though incapable of sus‘fainied “labor, weakened by a Intent heart disease, {shith'ultimately carried him off, and for tho later enrs* of his Ifo irremediably blind, Mr. Sanford’s work o highest: order.’ His bool on the vealth has becamo a ‘standard worlk,.while s = oe & {ons fro m j}smado™\ ont,” a to: tho: Hamburg -FremdenBlatt; -Mr‘s. . : Board ‘of--Brokers, died’ suddenly in'tho White: a native.of Charleston, but somo thirty years ; ofthe’ English Kings!" called , ign liko;, Afr +: 126000, We! to those Galtsrceurveys;, +, WNIcD --ONYO:>\ DocD : Ss “smile. beyond; tha. ond + of: the tjottica!~.to+;necertains, the / alterations -in tho: Gu'f,bottom made: by tho jetty :curronts,, and “finds by a,comparison” with” previous ‘satveys: that there” baa*been “avalight. average deoponing: ‘Tho 120-fuot and’ 30-toobs;.ctirves; havo valso:” receded. * ‘Theso'two facts. oléarly “prove” that:thoro has ‘been’; nov reformation: of,:tho. bar< in. advance; of the jetties.» Tho extromo, ends ‘or tho jottiss;'ho Sgnya¢aro permanently, established and: not, likely to. he damaged” by: severe storms. Tho‘ report contains: a Jarge amount: of solentific;) explanatory. ansl statts; ‘tical: mattor,:and ‘such. careful descripti of tho “york/as WiL mako -it ithe; moat vatuablo” otficial docritméent;xelative to this? great improvoment which has yot appeared,y Tho tons of tho teport is highly HOW (AS WESTERN: PLAYER, “GOT! A’ STRAND OF IT FOR: HIS FIDDLE BOW, p . From the Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise.) -John Hull Pennyillo, who passed through this city a day or two einco from Plumas. County, Cal., on his’ “way to Esmeralda County, in this State, has in his possession a curious relic of that strango and adyen “turong sweman, Lola’ Montez.’’ Mr. Pennyillo is an .acoom plished ;violihiat, ‘and’at, tho. timo when Lola wae residing in Grass’ ‘Valley; California, was in tho habit of, playing for hor in order that sho might prao Uco some new dance of her own invention. “Tho violinist had: a’ strong-passion for making col: Jections of human hair,’ particularly tho long tresses ! of. women., He had soyeral times hinted to Lola his’ “preat desire to possess a tress of hor hair, but sho.ro” fased to take theso hints, howover plainly made. “At, this ‘timo; Lola: had in» her possession at, her ‘home in? Graes Valloy a young bear that sho was training jor some PUrPORe, sho being at that timo but about twenty-nino yearg of ago and stall full of life and ambitions “972 f : Qno day/when Penpvillo again hinted about tho, tress, Lolasaid: ** Mr. Pennvillo, if you will go mto that back yata, throw that bear to tho ground and bold him one minute by my watoh, I will givo you a eirand of my hair large enough for tho bow of your violin!" : ; “ Dono!” cried Pepnvillo, and he at.onco proceeded to the yard for his tusslo with tho bear, Lola foliowing to timo him, 0. Tho bear was a grizzly not yot old cnonugh to bo very dangerous, and Pennvillo, proceeding as thouch ay with tho animal, with very little trouble or succeeded ia winning the much-coveted lock of Tho tress was prom py surrendered, and Pennvillo long kept it among tho other specimens in his collection; but when be heard ot Lola's death, somoShere in tho Stato of New York, in 1860 or 1861, he remembered her words at tho time ho won tho memento, ‘'l will give you a strand largo cnough for tbe bow of your violin,” and ho then proceeded to placo the bairin tho bandsomest bow he could procure, where it remains to this day. “Will you play us something with tho bow, Mr. Pennville?"! said wo, anxious to be ablo to say wo pod heard even the smallest thing played with so gtrange o relic of a now almost forgotten woman, and trembling leat we should bo refased such gratification. * wes he ‘ “J seldom uso this bow in pra atl said Mr. Pennville,; but on this occasion Iwill givo you a ehort piece that was a favorito with Lola. In other words, you shall hear a bit of music that was loved” by Lola Montez played with her own hair,’ ‘Yo our surpriso he then proceeded to ‘play a most srournfal, tearful’ bit of Pome and, 93 bo concluded, ho said:,‘* That was not only a favorite picco with Lola, but was also of hor own composition.” Pennvillo is now quite‘ an old man} and does not appear to bo overburdened with this world’s goods, butit would take a largo sum.of money to purchase that fiddle-bow. . i mak hair. ‘A, WARD TO A LITTLE, FRIEND. NOT BY ANY. MEANS .THE LEAST DELIGHTFUL OF MANY DELIGHTFUL LETTERS, [From the Elmira Gazelte,] Wo bave been pormitted to publish a letter writton by Mr. Charles F. Browno, (Artemus Ward) too young friend of his—a hittle girl, then of the ago of eight and now tho wife of a prominent merchant in a neighboring city. [bo lotter never before has appeared in print, and tho original is in possession of o ' pentioman of this city. We vouch for its genuineneas. It will at onco strike tho reader as being eminently charactorigtio—“ true to lifo:” ALEM, Mnes., June 18, 1864." My Dean AMELIA; . I cannot tell you how much I miss you. It seems ne though I had lostall my relatives, including wy grandmother and tho cooking-stovo. Why didn’tT put you in o bottle and bnng you down hero with me? ButIam always forgetting something. Tho other day I went off and forgot my Aunt Suxab, and ehe’s a good deal bigger than you are. Mr. Ramsocy is also avery forgotfulman. He frequently goes off and foryets his washerwoman. Mr, Romaey ja a very finc-looking man. He reminds moot. Mr-Green, tho, Malden murdorer. When Mr, Ramawy foes to tho penitentiary, which will bo very’ ati aesia La doughnuts, magazines: and \{other? literary . documents.” ; Fe) print vary wollen eth rede Ramaoy., can: read 4 ast {cago of good conduct, furthor good conduct ‘entitling: ‘intermarringes after ;sorying two "years, but onlyin ‘prigoners so nnited to a grant of lands: But itis only ‘yromen condemned {o lito sentences, or {mprisonniént; “for moro, than twonty, years, who havo tho!privilogo of. tained and a big'atint of-work {s\éxadted daily, undor “penalty of the dungeon. / Pho prisonerss make ‘paper’ baga and’ goles ‘of. shoes, /or ‘aro employed’ on finor’ : and yory satisfactory to.Mr. Eads, who : a rh fie of : ras eee he wilt corealnly obtain his’next payment: _Work—sowing: embroldering,’, &o,,;and. coloHinig onyof.4500,000,1rom the Government wathin the noxt . “ pgravings.About! half “tho “fnshion-platesy sent; out/. ; ninety, doy 8 spesbaps moh carllor than that. .<:.-. fom’ Paris arc colored at tho prisonsiby, female: con; PSEA NERS : if viotse es ie aes ; softs tty LOLA MONTEZ’S. HAIR. This will bo a bard lot for ove Who, 80 Jovod Inxury and dreaded possiblo,jabor, and poyorty.; Nor aro. things likely, to mond when at fifty-four she: is sotaf hberty. She and Gaudry havo to pay.tho costs of tho: case, which—bear it, yo Amerioan’ offidials!—for do-: tectives! expenses, analyses by ohomical experts, fees of nicdical expert, plans of; building and promis cost of sealing .up and ‘transporting ;effoots,:\leg: witnesses’ foes and photographs, amount to be.’
twen 600 and.700 trancs—say, $130. Theso will be paid out of a°1,000-frano note seized -in her posscasion. Besides this sho has‘ a $100 lot of cround ‘about $400 worth ‘of household offeots, and $3,006 in notes extorted from her, old> lover, M:.do-la Basaevudre, which, by tho way, now. that his namo has becn made public, he refuses to pay She may hee money elsewhere, but 1t-18 ‘doubtfal; though a © follows the course of the Bourso even in hor qoll with’ ayidity, and os if she thousands’~ at stake. > When her: term ‘expires’: sho! will--bogin’ life anew with a capital of some $500; nota vory Jarge wage for thirty-seven years of -falthfal service to tho devil, 15 it? t yenclas and plate sho had were seized. by her landlord and other creditors. Her, lodgings havo been rented to another tenant, but*as tho. authorities forbade any Tepairs . or cleaning-up till after tho. case was finally disposed, remain precisely 28 thoy wero when she occupied: them, down to 3 sous on a corner of tho mantlo-piece, thick with dust. , ‘ Lf thero is another trial there may bo another and avery dramatio witness introduced, it is rumored, Caroline C., one of ‘* thoso Jadies,” now living in the Rue do Morée, an old iriend ot Mmo. Gras, who acted with her in 1865 at tho Folies-Marigny, and gave tho police somo clues that enabled them to traco out Gaudry. Milo. C. recalls having ono day, whon they met o blind gentleman led by o dy to whom he seemed devotedly. attached, eard Mme. Gras:.comment on the. woman’s good luck. ‘Sho is his absolute mistress,” she ssid; ‘ho can do nothing without hor; ho thinks bor at every moment his devoted good angol, and for bim sho is always beautifal. Ho does not seo her grow old. She hasn’t to Pankse I have,” she concluded, jestingly. Romanticists will havo it that this fact may have suggested. to her her cre und that it was ber desiro to blind her lover jus after the vision of the ball at the Opéra, at which ho eow ber animated, gay, richly dressed and invested with additional charms by his powerful passion, so that be might through all the dark to como rotain that favorable imago of ber. The Kappel, by tho way, reproduces a singalar pees cf inaiory dating back to tho middloof the reign of Louis Philippe, somewhat early in tho “' fortios.” res of vitnol-throwing 1t recalls tho ‘ate of Mile. Charton a protty sociétaire of the ComédicFrangaise. Her lover was ono Dr. Gaillardot, elder brother of Theodora Frédério Gaillardet, who in 1832 dramatized tho “our. do Neslo,” with ‘Alexander Dumas, with whom. he had a farlous ‘squabble and ~ lawsuit’ ‘concerning ©. the authorship of tho piece, and then went to New York where he founded the Courrier des Etas-Unis.’ Ono fine day the pretty comedienne told her lover that abe was on with a new lovo or desired to bo off with the old. Gaillardet swore vengeance, obtained a bottle of -sulphurio acid, and aot night when Mile. Charton camo, ont of tho theatre ‘and was passing along tho dark passage whero now stand the urcades of Chovet’s great store, broke tho flask ovor her face, destroying her beauty for life. Sho was never again able to appear on tho stago, but lived in extreme poverty, partly supported on a small pension from tho theatre, till a couploof yearsago, when sho passed away in s wrotched tenementroom. Gaillardet, after maimmg her, flod tho country and went to Havana, whero he ‘practiced medicine successfully. Ho was sentenced tor hig cowardly assault in contumaciam.but in the winter of 1843-4, when Frederic Gaillardet got the cross for journal. istic services to Franco rendered in the Uourrier, ho induced M. Guizot to restore the Doctor to citizensbip. Not long after the Doctor himself was raised to the Legion for dovotedly attending to French patients oe the ravages of thocholeraat Havana. Gaillardet (the doctor that is) was’a ‘‘ bad ogg,” as an aesault, jatill fresh in the momory of old Now Yorkers, but which Le Rappel does not mention, abundantly testifies. Some two or threo years before the breaking out of the war of tho robellion, Dry Gnillardet was staying with his wifo at the New York Hotel. The lady fell seriougly il), ond Mr. Hiram Cranston, the proprietor of tho hotel, was horrified to leatn after soveral days-that her disoaso was small-pox. He. wrote o note to Gaullardet,. indignantly remonstrating with him for alluwing a patient 4l] with such a disease to bo kept in’a hotel crowded with. guests, and “ hospital. Tho doctor’s, nuswer Waa, an. aggravated ‘pasault on Mr. Cranston, whom ‘ho attacked at the: Jsmashing o/ dhampagnedinner-tablefrom’ behind, A fe head and inflating moat aariona inLasstn nenae being sent to penal colonios, auidthen it is pnly aftor * showing good conduct and on thtlx own potitions-Tho« widow,: theroforo, will .bo. sent .,toBeaullou or Cler, ‘mont; whero the dress 4s conrso, the/food. plain; and: tho discipline severo. © Tho atriotest ailonco/is.main-; insisting on her remoyal.to the, ae 7 TUTOR a Any, ue, ‘bim,/éTheso: imaginary » & ‘those that are really heard ‘imagination. can enggeat. ‘that they. continually hear-ainging, tho noise of oscapt and in somo instances thes ‘go persistent o8 to almost _At the Now-York: Ear, Di ‘charge, Dr. Samuel Sexton sing season’ has set in it patients. to present them: jfammation brought on by into tho éars whilo bathing ¢myoided if the bathers wou «wads of cotton wool before )2* SPROUL pRAPATC HANOVER, Ny H., Augu: ‘Dr. Crosby Jectares and st til’ Monday next. 1 Tho fo resolutions were drawn * behalf of the Medical Dep: lego: —' iv Whereas, Tho sudden on Providence haa removed Crosby, of our faculty ot r . Resolved, That. we desi sorrow and our senso of pe os gifted, learned and apt pnd counsellor, genial, wis “Resolved, That wo offer his bereaved family. and 3 wish that in their memorie confidenco’in his blessed i in the God jin whom: het fort in this bitter hour, ys Wits L. sion oo DHoMAs AL. EMERY . Groroe T. ADAMS >< The order of ‘the juner lows: Medical Depart Thomas A. EZ, Debloiso,§ shal. ‘Tho medical class medical~building at 2.2 they will proceed to the They will escort. the Church,’ in which eee be held, Rev. W. D. Dew. sisted: by Rev. Dr. Dani sor H, E. Parker, of tho delegations of gentlemen cieties have already arriv: lected tho pall and under b6, deposited in the co] fomily lot in which lire br most eminent New aay Crosby, grandfather,Yan the deceased. » The autopsy held on revealed extensive doge confirming the diagnosi tus. The examination Frost and Péaslee. A Globe gives the follow nees and. sudden deatl symptoms of. illness: we ing last, when he was clags.’; At this ‘time: ho eyincing great difficalts making the usual demons patients up to Sunday 1 condition. of: the illness medical treatment, by keen appreciation of h ho-1ddo ont Tuesday anc in the Connecticut. R early that evening, passi following. morning Wwhilc to patients, with ono t tenant-Governor of Vern tion to attend. the Benn tion.) Wednesday ovenin tho night in a semi-stup was conseious till about ! jied ond calling his child good-byo; falling back ur HAYES ANI THE ACTION IN: M THE UNKINDE (s@PECIAL DESPAT WasHINGTON, August deal of curiosity hero to~ dent regarded tho perfor: cans yesterday. Several him found him mainte equanimity. “Ho was nm upon tho subject. He t course have been great) Convention in Maine had ing him and his admini yet he was not in the uro.to do so. T o resolution and favor of it indicated, wl fore, that he had a consi: » Tree State.. Referring t ‘ea{d:he twas not *surpri ;. : Blame had taken exactly nem anba.