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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 213, 7 September 1881, Page 4

A man 120 years of age has been discovered m Southern Ohio who swears, drinks the strongest kind of rum, baß smoked for aeventv-two years, chews plug tobacco, uses enuif, ftni in other ways enjoys life. Mrs Uordon, the first lawyeress who ever ftddreiaed a jury in San Francisco, recently defended a man accused of murder. She was dr«saed iv black, and for her only ornament wore a rose in her corsape. When she entered the court room, a general thrill of emotion ran through the audience, but this the lady feigned not to perceive. In the course of her harangue the applause broke forth many times, although it was severely repressed. At the end the jury pronounced a verdict of acquittal, which produced an explosion of enthusiasm. It is said that Mrs Gordon is ycunpr and beautiful, and at the same time elegant, and that she was literally able to carry the jurors off their feet. If the acquitted individual was guilty, how lncky it was for him that he ohose this young and beaut if o' |ady w the sd?Qoate for hi«d«f«ne«,