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said, for she has not penny and but

few friends, p -. -. ......'. -,::,ss i n:
She refuses to be taken to the alnls-
house. II will not declare myself a
Pauper and be abused by paid poor
house officials. Ny home is humble,
my poverty .great-but I IN a lady,
is her .unfai1ing reply to those who
urge. =. -. , %%:: :. :
It is this same pride which prompted
her to place under the metal sign
"Manor.o + ,... ....
eff I had but: two, boards and one
square foot of land to put them over,
I ID put on them .Nicho las Manor, SO
all the world might see.'' II. :
This. woman Of 81 years has right
to be proud: Born in Liverpool, Eng
James Davidson, who was cousin. to
William Ewart Gladstone, and a de
scendant Of the secretary to Queen
Elizabeth. - go, 80. :"
Married in Grace Church. go.
Coming to New York; with Hrregal
magnificance in Grace church She
aire banker and broker for Vanderbilt,
Gould and other rich men. With him
she lived for a time in luxurious; style
at p Fifth avenue, now the residence
Of Mark Twain .~:-~ =. ...
After her husband IS death she be-
came wel1-known lecturer against .di-
vorce and free love. In. the civil war
she was purse associated with Clara
Barton, later head Of the Red Cross So
ciety, a friendly letter from whom she
preserves to this day. '-*~. s.,:'*
While lecturing in Philadelphia the
night Of. May ID, 1889, at a benefit for
the Edwin Forrest: monument fund, she
received word Of the illness Of her son,
Washington Irving Bishop. At the
close of an exhibition in New York he
had ., :swooned. T., At once, > his mother
claims, he was taken to an undertake
er's rooms and vivisectcd. - =. =.
u OF subsequent events, the countess
states: =. =.
The chief surgeon, and his confed-
crates were arrested and the Jury were
nine for conviction and three for ac-
quittal. The eulprits were tried for
misdemeanor and the district attorney,
Delaney Nicoll, kept. putting off The
case till, at the. end Of six years, it was
Washington Irving: Bishop. eodson of
degree Mason, with Membership in the
royal chapters Of England and other
countries, which his mother has papers
to prove. .:%.,..'"7. :. %%.:-T,. > =
In the eighties he was known the
world over as a mind reader. There is
a story told of how he once found the
murderer of a, Russian nobleman s
daughter. Asked by member of the
royal house to identify the man among
thirty nine suspects who were to-. be
executed, Bishop consented. During his
absence from the room the thirty-nine
changed clothes with thirty-nine noble
men: Then each group ranged itself on
opposite sides of the room
,Blindfolded, Bishop entered, rushed
at once among those in noble garb,
picked out man and said: - y -.
t"This is the man. -. i = -
Then while grasping the wrist Of the
man, the mind reader drew on the wall
the scene Of the crime =: :s..-~
. Calling for. sleigh he drove with the
man to a lonely spot in: the woods and
"Look out!'' exclaimed the: man.
You'll cut herr - : "
And there lay buried the murdered
= Coming to Montpelier the countess
married Count Lucas Langdon Nicholas.
son of Anastasius Nicholas and Cara
R. Langdon, a sister of James r.. Lang
The countess says: I, unfortunately,
married my present husband, Count LII
cas- Langdon Nichols. in Burlington,
Vt. May 25, 1898. With him T lived
until July, 1897. when he, eloped with.
my maid. He is now supposed to BE
living in Rutland, Vt ~ :. ~, :
The countess says her Mexican claims
of $24 ,0O0, 900 were given to her BY
General Butterfeld, a rich man who had
loaned money and ships to Mexico O.; Out
of gratitude to the countess for saving
his life when he tried to commit suicide
in New York city: he assigned to her
80 l-3 per cent of his claims, which in
cluded claims against Denmark for de-
stroying two Of his ships which had en-
tered a port of the st. Thomas islands
for repairs. -. b I. 81, !. 3. PA
Lawyers say that her Mexican claims,
on record in the. war department at
Washington, are. good, but very difficult;
to establish. -s;$ .:. :. :.
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