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Show Itiinks she was rich, Rut Says ItIihI Governor I'attlson of Penn-'sylvaiii Penn-'sylvaiii .swindled Her. Sioi X-ftiiTV. Jan. 'J:!. A remarkable story-is story-is toldli,'l an old lady w ho lives in a woodshed wood-shed m (.'Mile rear of a prominent lawyer's ollicaf If this city. She says she is the dauJof ticncral I'atiison of Mexican warmlie and is the- wife of Colonel Graham. She 'owed a regiment to Mexico, where she aliA the (laughter id' General Taylor carried car-ried the. flag over the walls of Cbspultapec when ft had fallen from the hands of Major Vandnpn. She. says that her father was -.very rich when he died, and charges (lo-rnor (lo-rnor Pattisou of Pennsylvania with keep-ing keep-ing lur from lo r inheritance. She came hff!''iomc ye ns ng from New Orleans, bringiijjg with her about 115,000, which she! ilivesljod ill properly. It is all gone. Sl.e declarfi that she. was swindled out of it I partiefl here. She has lived in alilthy hovel a Ion; Mobile, depending on the county for a scaijitkvipi'l.V of coal. The fact of her being be-ing ki !pt in such poverty causes indignation indigna-tion a i nong the people, and she w ill doubtless doubt-less b,JCrcd for hereafter. A large amount of jcv 'Olty and siher plate which she had when jshe came lien- is gone, but she still ket-- number of beautiful dresses. Her sti lis gem rally believed, though her run. neiV .In with the Pennsylvania governor is not iMear. |