A NOTORIOUS WOMAN.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 31, 5 January 1884, Page 7

A NOTORIOUS WOMAN .

Thehe has just de I in a Phil delphi.i al'nshouse an old w> m m w •h>ib •< • i i her day a note I be iv y, an t w s na v, has been scandul -usly c nuei'e wi - t'-ai of President lii I ciau..n Sic wis kno n in her days of Wa&liingt m li c a Etn na Jacob-. Her puw rs o fasc >i. ti >n were maivollous, an' l s-nno o th most prominent men in th", co ntvy vhd w lli ea;h other to win her smut; a.ii f >your. Her home was in Ph ; 'adeiplra. buL while C ingress was in sessi >n ifc was he custom to go to Washington, and it was there that some of her most rtmarkible conquests were made. Nearly all the leading men in Washington from 1830 to 1860 made her rooms |a rendezvous. So great was her influence over members of Congress that her services were sought by coporations and individuals, aiH many im[ ortmt bills were passed through her instrumentality. She rapidly acquired wealth, and built several houses in Philadelphia. The houses she rented, and by ra investing the income her means increased, until at one time her properoy was valued at6J,o3odoh., a large sum in those d tys. The c rner house she occupied heiself. Here she held court fjr men of leisure, law) ers, and men of letters, and her house there, a^ at Washington, was the ie3or' for some of the brightest intellect in the country. She afterwards m irried a Vrg nian pieacher named Thompson, who went crazy one day, and wusj incarcerated in the mad-luuse connected with the Philadelphia aim-house. From that day fortune turned her face against her, and giaduilly her property dwindled away. During her husband's incarceration in the aim-house she visited him every day with delicacies, and her face became well known to the officials. In November (1881) she presented herself at the gateway of the institution with the remark that she hud come to stay. The gate-keeper was surprised, and refused to believe her statement. "It is true," she said ; and pulling out a card of admission, handed it to the man and burst into toard. She left only enough money to pay for her funeral expenses.