The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-04-04

not be misplaced.
Daniel Clark, who was one Of the
early settlers of the colony Of Louisi-
ana, was a very remarkable person
His sagaoity, prudence and business
tact soon placed him at the head Of its
monetary world, while his beauty of
person, popular character and agreea-
bic manners, afforded him a similar po-
sition in the social circle. In 1902 he
became acquainted in Philadelphia with
a lady Of extraordinary beauty, hulime
Carefre. She was born in the old
French colony Of Biloxi, and her pa
rents were emigrants from the land Of
poetry and -Provence-the ia
vorito home of the Troubadours. When
Clark first met her, she had been living
in wedlock with aswindler named jerome
Degrange, who, having dazzled her with
a glittering oorOnet, married her, and
then disclosed the astounding fact that
he was a confectioner and a bigamist.-
Hulime appealed for protection to Clark,
who, being arm-hearted and chival-
rous, at once espoused her cause, and
after becoming convinced that De-
Grange had another wife living, espous-
ed her himself. The marriage was kept
secret, and in 1906 Myra, now Mrs,
Gaines, was born Being naturally de-
sirous of having her connection with
Clark q publicly acknowledged one,
Hulime went to New Orleans to obtain
legal proofs Of her first husbands rascal
Iity. While she was gone, Clark, who
had grown into an influential politician,
became eHamorcd Of Miss Cation, a
grand daughter of Charles Carroll, with
whom he contracted an engagement,
though when reports were brought to
Miss Cation, alleging her lovers mar
riage to Hulime, she at once insisted up
on a release from the engagement, and
subsequently became the Marchioness
of Wellesley.
In the meantime Zulime had return
ed to Philadelphia, and sought to OBJ
tain proofs Of her marriage with Clark,
who had, with singular treachery, de-
stroyed all that he could discover
Finding herself helpless, in a strange
country, and with child dependant up
on her, she was wholly at a loss what tc
do, and, in her destitution, driven al
most to despair, she accepted the hand
of DR.. Gardette, who, with Kindness and
generosity, united his fortune with hers
Clark, in the meantime, had become
penitentr but, on fastening to find his
former love, ascertained that she was
| the wife of another. He took the child
Myra placed her under the care of a
friend, and had her most literally edu.
Gated. Zulime lived for long time af.
ter that, attained tho age of seventy.
eight years, and died at New Orleans
but a few years since.
Clark, whose business talent was
proverbial, amassed an immense for.
tune in Louisiana, Missouri, Kentucky
and Maryland, which he bequoathed by
will, in 1913, to his mother Mary Clark
naming Beverly Chew and Richard
Relf, bankers of New Orleans, as oxocu.
tors. Charges have been preferred
against the executors of bad faith and
mismanagement, but however that may
be, Myra-then Mrs. Whituey-having
discovered at maturity that her mother
had been the wife of the deceased mil
lionaire, with an impulse of honorable
affection, for which she cannot be toe
highly praised, determined to assert hol
right, as the legitimate child and conse
quent heiress to the entire property.
That she met with opposition and
with obstacles Of all sorts may we'll be
imagined, but she battlod bravely fol
her mothers honor, and evinced the
most commcndable spirit and porsever.
ance, in spite of most fearful Odds
Her husband died, but she remarked
and in so doing enlisted powerful aux
iliary in the person of General Gaines
who believed in her legitimacy, and aid
ed her with all his might. It would bt
wearisomo merely to index the various
legal struggles the attempted social os
tracisms, the treacherics, the sorrows
the hopes and fears experienced by Mrs
Gaines in this work Of her lifetime
She sued in numerous courts, and will
varied success until her fortune wal
gone, her friends convinced of the use
lessness ofanother trial, and all but he
own indomitable spirit fed. She still
struggled on, and, as a last resort
brought the case, in it's amplitude anC
its labyrinth of legal technicalities, t.
the Supreme Court of the land. There
after a long and a patient hearing, sht
has obtained her victory. The Cour
has unanimously decided that Myr,
Clark Gaines is the only Legitimate chilt
Of Daniel Clark, and that, as such, shr
is entitled to all the property left b,
him. Nor are the years and enorgie
Of the courageous woman too far spon
to prevent her enjoyment Of her vas
wealth, Mrs. Gaines, though not il
her ffty-6fth year, is represented as be
ing an agreeable specimen of what oil,
people delight in calling "ladies Of tn
old school." She is in good health, ant
possesses an abundant flow of ANNA
spirits, which have buoyed her up 70
over thirty years, under circumstance
of an unusually trying nature.
Mr., Justice Wayne, in closing the do
cision of the Court, seems to have place.
particular emphasis on the words tina
the Supreme Court would see that th
provisions of tho decision were carrie
into effect--a statement of more thar
ordinary Importance when we reflec
that possibly the State of Louisiana ma
decline 70 take oognizanoe Of, or b
bound by decree emanating from n
less a tribunal than the Supreme UouI
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