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Wed., The Nevada County Nugget 5 * +
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ne Eccentric
la has made many friends in California. Grass Valley
een her residence the past few years loses one of its.
tinctions in the public eye. A kind nature and many
nd charities have made her a favorite with those who.
ell enough to reconcile not a few eccentricities and
-ations. It will be remembered that the first and only
; played by the Countess in this city was extremely
nd there certainly was in this country an ample fortune
reach by a continuance of her professional effects.
different course and adapting herself to the cirof a-mining life, she has still been fortunate and is
among the few who have made money in quartz.
She retains her residence in Nevada County and:
interest in the mining business, proposing to return to.
t the close of her projected campaign which we hope
yoth pleasant and prosperous.”’ ;
falter Leman wrote in his memoirs, “‘...Just, after“the’
nent of our season at the ‘American Theatre,’ she
d in a brigantine for Australia. On the night before her
iss Laura Keene, with some of the company, including
t from the theatre to her lodgings at the International
ink a glass of wine and say ‘good bye.’ Lola was in high:
full of pleasant and gracious farewell words for all. I
.ven as early as that time, she had begun to abate
f the imperious and reckless manner for which she had
orious.”
iden Era, June 10, 1855: ‘The Countess of Landsfeldt
y and festive scenes on Wednesday afternoon bound for
here we doubt not she will create considerable ex-'
id thrash somebody before she leaves the country. A:
of her intimate friends and admirers assembled on the’
ce leave of her. Our senior was there in his real estate;
nblematical of life (we object to ours being quite so:
d,) to take notes as he said, but we have seen none yet...
has learned in these distrustful days to have no con-,
1 in his own. He came back looking serious and with his:
url. The leave taking is said to have been very affecting :
eaving she made a will. We never knew that women had
hand ready made one that all lawyers in Toph-San.
ouldn’t break at that. What Lola wanted of another, we
1e. There was one portion of her retinue, however, that
ind her that bleary-eyed little poodle that was lost and
from it was stolen or spirited away from her when she
i. She shed many bitter tears over poor Flora’s fate.
their suspicions where the dog went, but alas, such is
ife) ‘Epuribus sassageibus requires cat in piece-ibus,
a (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK)
LOLA MONTEZ with her pet dog. (Photo courtesy of
the California State Library, Sacramento, Ca.)
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