Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1853-08-04
Old Times.


died in the reign of James l., pronounced
Richard III as handsome man as she
ever danced with.-Er.
"The Countess must have lived long
er than people do nowadays. Richard
III. was killed in 1885. King James
commenced his reign in 1603-an inter-
val of only 118 years. Therefore, to
have been of sufficient age to have dan
ced with Richard, even on the day of his
death, and to have died on the very day
James 1. mounted the throne, would
make the old Countess to have lived
about 1856 years. But to have danced
with Richard when he was young man,
and in his dancing days, and to have
died about the middle of the reign of
James, would make her about ITO years
old at the time of her death. Verify, an
old Countess, indeedl"
A correspondent of the New York
Evening Post, having read the forego-
ing, cites the following facts in relation
to the Countess of Desmond, as derived
from Walpole:
"The Countess of Desmond lived to
the age of 159 years, danced with Rich
ard III, and affirmed that he was well
made man. She was 81 when she mar
ried O'Conner of Sligo. The Earl of
Desmond's first wife died in 1864; if he
remarked the next day his bride must
have been 68, and yet she had son and
five daughters by him. Lord Bacon,
says Fuller, computed her age to be 40
at least, and added that she three times
had a new set of teeth.
"An extraordinary anecdote, given as
authentic, relating to this lady, by Rob
ert, the second Earl of Leicester, who
received the account from Lady Des-
mond-'That the old Countess came to
England to solicit pension, at the end
of Queen Elizabeth'S reign, and was so
poor that she walked from Bristol to
London. Her daughter, being too de-
crepit to 90 on foot, was carried in a
cart The Countess says Lord Lei
cester, might have lived much longer
had she not met with kind of violent
death, for she would needs climb nut
tree to gather nuts: so, falling down,
she hurt her thigh, which brought on a
fever, and that fever brought on death.
She was born in 1866, died in 1885,
making her 159 years old"
A Rich AFFAIR!-The Pittsburgh
Post is responsible for the following
The girls, it seems, did not strip for the
fight, but they were soon stripped after
they got into it:
Two young ladies residing in Alleghe-
ny City, yesterday settled little diff
Guilty which had sprung up between
them, by resort to hair pulling, scratch
ing, dress tearing, &C. One of the Ia
dies-so the story runs-fancied herself
secure in the affections of nice young
man, when the other stepped in, and Ell
ther by the force of superior charms, or
by the frailty of the male biped, succeed
ed in bringing him to her feet. Miss A.
couldn't stand it; it was too much for
flesh and blood to bear. Yesterday the
two ladies met, and Miss A. commenced
an attack on Miss B., and such was the
bitterness existing between the two, that
not one word was spoken, and that's
strange too, considering they were wo-
men, but at it they went. First, the
bonnets were torn off; then shawls and
handkerchiefs followed; the dresses came
next, and then-but no matter what
but in few minutes, the two young Ia
dies were standing within ring which
had been formed, perfectly denuded oi
their clothing, with the exception oI
shoes and stockings. Such was the bit
terness of feeling existing, that the fight
would have continued, had not relative
of one of the eombatants succeeded in
dragging and pushing the ladies into a
house, where they were paciied. Boil
|, the young ladies are very respectable
} and this sudden ebullition of their pu-
gilistic propensities has surprised every
one. The young man is lucky, the way
we look at it, and the girls foolish.