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Show Tho I'YiiuiIc Scihiitiiry l'riinil. San Francisco. 21. Furthov dtnel opments have been imvle, ' Lj-day, iii t.hcca:ouf die young' youie "liu. vi'.tiini.rd several wealthy gon( lemon le-mon of litis city, on the pivionee that they (loin d to e.-t.ihlish u seminary for voung ; tadii-s. In April la-t two ladies arrivi-d in this oilv, the elder female aged about lifly, and ivgis-lerod ivgis-lerod as Madame 1 H-mnraliss, and! said she was tho widow of a Cuban' ollicer:r'hebadoned.iu.o,Lcr with her, 1 aged tlrirty, and another young ladv aboiil the same auo. a Spanish girl' enlled Mnidala, ihe two laller the chief operator.- ol tho party, and soon eomiiicncrd t iptra I ions. They were 'evidently highly oduoal' d and aeoom-I aeoom-I plisbed.'aini ca"letdated inslant sytn-Ipalhy. sytn-Ipalhy. as they said they wore )oor t.'nb;iiis ami' n-fugei.-.' They went around among the merchants and hankers, and po-ciit-'d loiters of re-eonimend:dion re-eonimend:dion purpi ni ing to be from Sherman, Uotitwel and several Congressmen. Con-gressmen. Cenoral Sehofi.-ld, Ilishop- Kip and Alomanv, and others. On lhosli'!'n'.;(liil'lbe,se,andlhepi-eloiulodt ohjeel, Ihey collected about rS,0l)l'. iTIiroiigh an agent hero they negotiated negotia-ted lor llie Tom Ivens House for their academy, but finding out id unit the negotiations, left the hotel and went to Oakland, May 2b, saying Ihey would come back the following Friday and close the transaction. Cm the same afternoon they look the train Ibr Xew York, where the British . consul saw them, and it is believed they are still there. |