Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-24
MEMPHIS ROM ANCE.
A BeQual TO Fanny Writ ght's Utopi.
an scheme at NRshObiI Springs.

a year or two since there appeared in
the LEDGER an interesting s.ccount of a
chancery suit progressing b etween Mile
Sylvia DArrismont and the purchasers
Of the Nashoba Springs, situated some
ten miles from this city. Some forty
years ago the celebrated Fanny Wright,
of England, a socialist and model re-
former Of society and morals, but a wo-
man of masculine form, manner and
mind, and Of unquestionable ability,
came to Memphis and purchased the
Nashoba Springs tract of probably one
thousand acres, and thereupon sought to
build a college and house for the eduea-
ton and elevation Of the negro race.
Fanny Wright is recollected by many
old citizens of the bluff, and her peculiar
characteristics, habits and manners are
to this day a subject Of interesting con.
versation. She had intermarried or as
ISOLATED with Mons. D'Arrismont, an
educated Fredehman of similar social
views. The scheme of colonizing
the black race and elevating them
to the highest social plane of
the philosophers Of that day fell
through with, and Fanny Wright, it is
claimed, sold her interest in Nashoba
Springs to DR.. DeLegutry, a French
man, who cam to Memphis from Gin
cinnati. DR.. DeLogutry subsequently,
it is claimed, sold the estate to Mr.. Pat
ton and others, whose representatives.
now hold the property, and then the doc
tor suddenly disappeared and was never
heard Of. Previous to his disappearance,
however, a lady, Mile Sylvia d'Arres-
mont, daughter of Fanny Wright, made
her appearance in Memphis and put in a
claim for the property, claiming hat DR..
DeLogutry had never paid her mother
for it. The suit for the recovery of this
property was commenced in our Chan
cary Court a few years since, but Mad
Rme DeLogutry, Of France, wife of the
doctor, came in and put up a claim also
for the property in behalf of her child
rem, whom, with herself, the doctor sent
back to France from the United States
and abandoned them, they never having
heard Of him from that day. The young
est child, a girl, was kept in this country
by DR.. DeLogutry, and even she had
not been heard of by the mother who
has resided in France in great
poverty. Yet the doctors estate
here and elsewhere in the United States
was valued at over one hundred Thousand
dollars, aud the Nashoba Springs track
was valued at about nifty thousandd dollars
We understand that it has since turned
out that DR.. DeLogutry went to Europe
with Mile Sylvia D'Arresmont and died
there q few years since, and this account
ed for his disappearance. Sometime
since, it appearing before the County
Court of Shelby county that Mile DAT
resmont was dead, an administrator was
appointed on the estate and the property
was sold, but now Mile D'Arrismont APP
pears in person again and through hCr
counsel, Judge Henry G. Smith, has the
order appointing an administrator set
aside and the administration revoked
and annuled. She now seeks to set aside
all the sales made under the administers
ton, which effort is resisted by the pres
ent holders Of the property, who pur-
chased it at administrator sale, and by
a fiction of law it is claimed that after
the County Court pronounced a person
dead and has administrators appointed,
that person cannot possibly come b1ck
to life to disturb the legal proceeding had
in the matter of the administrator sales
of the estate Of the person who was dead
in law but not dead in fact,