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Show Is Cora Pearl -an American Ctrl? Baltimoee, February 25. The memoirs of Cora Pearl, chief of the dem i nionde of Paris, spoken of in a dispatch from Paris yesterday, has ' attracted some attention here. She claim?; to be the daughter of Prof. T. Nicholls Crouch, author of "Kathleen "Kath-leen Mavourneen." Crouch was 'seen this morning, nnd he says he does not know whether the woman Cora Pearl is his daughter or not. He had nine children by his first wifeMiss Lydia Pearson, an English Eng-lish actress, to whom he was married in 1830, at St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden, England. There were four girls, Mrs. Mawdsley, now living in Baltimore, Madame Tulbfeque, of Leeds, England, and another one, said to be at present in Russia, and Emma Crouch, the second oldest of the quartette, who left her home when a young girl. All the young ladies were educated in Paris. On returning to England from Franoe, the mother of Prof. Crouch took Emma in charge. Suddenly the young lady left her people under circumstunces that were never spoken of afterwards in the Crouch family. |