Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1884-03-13
A WONDERFUL WOMAN.
A Retired Belle at Leadville...Does
Anybody Know Her Name:

LEADvILLE, February 12.-Few persons
know that in the city of Leadville, Col,
| there lives one of the most celebrated
women of her day. Men at fashionable
watering places raved over her beauty and
varied accomplishments. President Bu-
chanan is credited with saying: "The
only woman l ever loved well enough to
marry. God bless her" And that little
man of intellect, Alexander H. Stephens
THE most beautiful, accomplished, and
thoroughly good woman 1 ever knew
Worth her weight in diamonds" Colonel
Tom. McCook, the evening before he was
killed in battle, said to a cOmrade: Il
feel sad tonight; why cannot tell Per-
haps it is my last night on earth. l was
thinking of my old college days in Ala
bama and the most attractive woman |
ever met. Well, it is all past we are both
married, but wish she may never know
a SORROW" General Pat Cleburne, having
a premonition of his death, asked this lady
to write his obituary if he should fall in
battle the next day. The battle of Frank
lin and Cleburne's death have passed to
history. The touching little poem that
came out in the Memphis Aralanche by
this lady and was SO extensively copied by
Southern papers is still remembered:
Brave Cleburne is sleeping
Where night dews weeping
And pale leaves are falling
Like gift gems around;
Where sad winds are signing
And sweet flowers dying
To mingle their breath
With the ashes they love, etc.
In 1860 the Prince of Wales and suite
were in st. Louis. A lovely young girl
passed Barnum's hotel See Look, my
Lordn the Prince exclaimed, addressing
Lord Lyons isn't she exquisite?"
For months touching little poems were
published in the Louisville Journal and
highly praised by its editor, George b.
Prentice, who spoke Of her as remark
able woman, full of genius.
Parepa-ROsa heard of her voice and
asked her to sing The great prima donna
threw up her hands in ecstasy, exclaiming
Madam, what shame for pride to keep
that voice from the wOrldw
This wonderful woman, with SO many
gifts, has for fifteen years lived in quiet re-
tirement, forgetting and almost forgotten
by the world that once did her such hon.
age, in perfect bower of beauty her cot
tage), adorned by lovely paintings and
sculpture from her hands and from Euro
pean masters.
One painting by Titan, an heirloom from
her husbands family, hangs on the wall
and is beyond value. Many etching's,
taken from southern Utah, lie around. She
has travelled for year in Utah, and re-
lates many interesting anecdotes of the
MOrmons. Her husband is one of the
most noted lawyers on the Western coast
a man of great erudition, the son of ex-
United States Senator Geo. Goldthwaite,
Alabama's most noted and beloved son.
Judge Goldthwaite is the Criminal Judge
of Lake county, and his wife, the subject
of this sketch, is well-preserved woman
of about forty, looking near thirty, retain
ing much of the original beauty of heart
and person that made her such favorite
with the sterner sex in years gone by. A
happy, model wife, she seldom visits, re-
tains few cultured friends and seems to
have forsaken the fashionable world that
once adOred her.