The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-09-12
SOUTHERN WOMEN.
Not Afraid 10 VVOrk-Nursed in
the Lap of Ease aud Luxury
When Adversely Comes they
Have IA Heart for any
Fate.
Examples the Wen Would do well
10 Keep Before Ihem-.NO Idle
Tears Or Vain Regrets, but
Work Work, Work, and
"a Battle for Life.

/ From New York Correspondent of til,
Washington Capital
Mrs. M'Neil, of South Carolina,
venerable and lovely lady, has establish
ed herself in a very successful boarding.
! house.
Mrs. Sadler, of South Carolina, s
daughter Of Hon George BUST, of Char
lesion, keeps a popular clearinghouse,
well patronized by her southern friends
who summer in New York.
Miss Florence de Treyille, whose father
was Hon. Richard Treville, once lieuten
ant-governor of South Carolina, also
presides over popular clearinghouse.
Forgetting that she was a petted society
belle in Charleston, her native city, with a
courage and energy most admirable, she
went heart aud soul to work, and success
crowned her efforts. Young, frail in
form, delicate in health, for years she
fought glorious fight-aS glorious as
any hero ever fought on the tented
fields of battle, and she has come off vic
tor.
Mrs. Edward White, the wife of Col
onel White, of Charleston, South Car
DINA, presides over an educational es
Enlistment for young ladies, For this
her accomplishments eminently fit her,
and Murray Hill home is the abode
of refinement and culture.
Madame lie Grand Coulson, the gent
al and accomplished wife, of DIR. Raw
| ley Coulson, of Virginia, is instructing
classes in the French language.
Mrs. Patton, the widow of Mr.. James
Patton, lawyer of Asheville, North
Carolina, and daughter of Rev. DIR.
| Chapman, is teaching in the school
of the Sisterhood, established by the late
Rev DR.. Muhlenberg.
! Miss Alice Simmons, the gifted daugh-
| ter of the late DR.. Hume Simmons, of
| Charleston, South Carolina, and great
niece Of Washington Aston, the cele-
brated painter, teaches in one of the
public schools of New York. This
young lady also writes for the press.
Reared amid the refnements and what
may be termed the exclusion of that
proud city, Charleston, she came to New
York, and, like the rest of her southern
sisters, plunged into the thickest of the
/ fight, making her way with a resolution
and energy which place her in the fore
most ranks of indomitable women.
Among those who have entered the
/ training school for nurses at Bellevue
/ hospital we may mention Miss Luce, of
Arkansas, who has received her diplo-
ma, and Miss Laborde, of South Carroll
1 ma.
| Mrs. Jordan, the widow of physician
| of South Carolina, came to New York to
better her broken fortunes She estab-
| lished herself as a dressmaker, having a
peculiar aptitude for the work. Her
! success has been most complete, and
MADAM Jordan" is now one of the
celebrated 'glasses of fashion" in New
/ York.
Miss Mary Cheesborough is a daugh-
! ter of the late Mr.. John w. Cheesbor-
ough, a prominent shipping merchant
of Charleston, South Carolina, and sister
of Mr,J ohm Chees borough, for many years
cashier of the Bank of Charleston. As
an artist she has met with much success
Among the southern women who have
entered the field of literature in New
York may be mentioned Miss Sallie
Brock, Of Virginia, whose name appears
in Southland Writers. Miss Brock was
connected at one time, perhaps still is,
with one of Frank Leslie's publications.
She has also published two novels, and
contributed to many of the leading peri
odicals
Mesdames Sallie and Emily Battery,
of Georgia, WELD most successful pens
as reporters and fashions writer's
Mrs. Sturgis, formerly Miss Upsur, of
Virginia, known in literary circles as
Fanny Fielding" is a forcible and
pleasant writer. She came to New York
to make her way with her pen, and fell
into the meshes of matrimony. She
writes for various publications; her arti.
Gle on the Florida Murats, contributed to
the Galaxy, was widely noticed.
Miss Carolina Adams is a daughter of
the late Rev. Jaspar Adams, an Episco-
pal clergyman, who was at one time pres
ident of the Charleston, South Carolina,
college. Full of energy and persever-
ance, she never faltered in the task she
had undertaken. With a resolute will
she set to work to conquer fate, and has
succeeded. She is connected with Dem
orests publications, and is the fashion
correspondent of several leading news
papers.
Miss E. B. Cheesborough is younger
sister of the artist of the same name, and
is native of Charleston, South Carroll
ma. Her name appears in Buchanan
Reads Female Poets of America, and
Women of the South Distinguished in
Literature, published by Derby q Jack
son, of New York, and In Southland
Writers. For many years after the war
she edited the Darlington s. c. South
erner. She is now the proof reader in
the Office of the Family Journal and Pull
pit of the Day, New York city, and con-
tributes these and other publications.