The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-14

trade has disappeared from your cru
snde
Miss C.--I do. am perfectly salts
fled that now men IRE reaching out to
them positions IN all avenues Of trade,
prophecy that IN five years woman
will take an equal stand with man III
the legislative halls. feel this be-
cause my sister and myself are two
self.made women. No mans hand
has put ~ where we now ARE, and
knowing this, know our exam
pies will be followed, The long
aud wenIis0me hours we have de-
voted TO this labor no one knows, but
we resolved 10 be sell-made women
and We are. During Our reign on Wal
street, our office was tho center fol
those who wrote the financial articles
of New York. They came TO rs for IN
tellectual aid. No man ever gave Ia
us IL single idea from which we profit.
oil In our business, nor In our paper
either. want this distinctly under
stood, that my sister aud myself In
our paper or in her literary works owes
no one the least.
What is your intention for the
future?
Miss Give will soon so into the
brokerage aud banking business In
New York again. We are on the eve
of one Of the most grand clinacterit
commissions in finance the world has
ever known, and in 1t millions will bt
won and lost. We intend to avail our.
selves of our intellects and foresight
when this does come.
win YOU continue to keep up YOU
weekly paper.
Miss C.-Oh, yes, indeed. We have
expended too many hundreds OF thou
sands Of dollars in II for us to give Il
up now. For three years we sent oul
paper to every clearinghouse in Eu'
rope and America, aud it is an instltu
ton that can not be given up.
1t has been intimated, Miss Tennie
that you have exhibited wonderful
prophetic power in several instances
do you recall some where you have
given public evidence of II?
Mis- Con, yes, SIR, in the case OF
Foster, the murderer, who was hung.
foretold of his end some time before
his execution; but then this IL nothing
uncommon with me. When WIS "A
little thing | saw President Lincoln
riding By, when gentleman in the
crowd raised his hat, and, like IN n
dream, coffin seemed to hover over
the President. Falling back into my
fathers arms, could hardly enun-
ciate ooh that man will be shot in
the head" Then, too, when | was in
prison I had conversation with
Stokes, and through the bars detailed
the whole course of his trial and that
he would never be hung. But speak
ing of this reminds me that on another
occasion my sister and myself were sit
ting in n box at the Grand Opera
House in New York, when / was in
formed that Mr.. Fisk wished to speak
to me. AS soon as he entered, floating
over him was Il coffin, and in haze
behind followed the form of Mansfield.
could not help calculating "Mr. Fisk,
you will not live II year, and woman
will be the cause of your DEATH" Sub
sequently facts verified my statements.
1t has frequently been remarked that
| resemble, in face, the First Napo-
leon. Why this should be | do not
know, but now am satisfied, from
my Napoleonic strategy in the stocks
business, and the daring our firm dis
played therein in crisis, that his spirit
is my guardian, but of this | have no
desire to speak now.
Turning to Mrs. Woodruff, the re-
porter intimated that the public, al
though doubtless interested in her
financial schemes, would prefer to hear
her views upon the social and political
topics of the day.
In answer to inquiries, she briefly
stated that she was born in Ohio in
1898, and had educated herself, never
having spent year in schoolhouse.
She married DR.. Woodruff, In Cleve-
land, Ohio, in 1888, and by him had
two children-a boy and girl, both
living, though the boys mind is affect
ed in such way as to prevent u con.
centration of ideas, She was divorced
from DIR. Woodruff in Chicago, in
1864, by mutual agreement, growing
out of the fact that he was confirmed
In the use of liquor and morphine.
After the divorce, he lived In her
house until his death, which occurred
in 1871. On account of helplessness,
and because he was the father of her
children, she cared for him until his
death as she would for child, for he
was more helpless than child.
She first came prominently before
the American people in 1865,
through business and financial ar.
rangements with Commodore Van
derbilt, by which she and her
sister made seventy thousand dollars
the first money of any amount that
had ever been made on the street, by
women, In Central and Hudson.
Reporter-What was your purpose
in establishing the paper known as
Woodruff and Clahin's Weekly?
Mrs. W.-Simply to disseminate the
views ] had imbibed during the at