The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-04

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looking, rambling, antique pile, suggestive
OF romance and memories wierd. The pro.
prietor of the place,
THE SULERAINE,
supports a school for the children of his
employees and dependents, a mill. A smithy
4 carpenters and Shoemakers shop. He
| lives
IN PRINCELY STYLE
and raises everything that graces his table,
except ms sugar and coffee. His Sideboard
is respondent with silver and cut glass and
is supplied with the rarest and purest liz.
uSrs, and wines of the oldest vintage. not
least IN value among which are red and am.
| Der wines OF his own make, from grapes of
ms own growing. The farm produces year
~ some 5000 bushels of corn, 5000 bushels
| OF oats aud wheat and barley in proportion.
There is stock of 800 head of cattle. all
| high bred, 100 head of the best grade of
| hogs and sixty head of horses. Thousands
OF pounds of butter are made every wear,
and at times as much as
10 pounds of cheese are made
ually' Fruits of all kinds are
grown, and the woodlands are stocked with
varions kinds of game.
In the cabinet ofthe old homestead there
are souvenirs Of Captain Kidd. arms and
implements of extinct tribes of Indians
and copy of
ElIoT'S INDIAN BIBLE,
OF the edition of 1868, which was given TO
one of the propretors of the island 1850
years ago by the last full-blooded Indian
missionary on the island.
"A former proprietor of the island, a near
relative of my mothers David Gardiner,
was killed on board the United States frig-
ate Princeton, by the bursting of cannon,
on the 18th of February, lSi4 when Secre.
tary OF State UpShur after whom Upshur
county IN this state was named, Secretary
of the Navy Gilmer, Commodore
kennon, of the United States navy, and a
page from the White House were killed.
Julia Gardiner, daughter of this David
Gardiner thus killed, popular belle of tie
day, was the second
WIPE OF PRESIDENT TYLER.
General Israel Putnam married the widow
OF one of the proprietors of the island, John
Gardiner, who died in 1914 In January
last, Samuel u. Gardiner, proprietor of the
island. died, and his eldest son succeeded to
the estate. Primogeniture is against the
fundamental law of this country whether
wisely so or not, is debateable, but it has
virtually been carried into effect in the
Gardiner family since Lyon Gardiner first
became owner of the island, and by
tacit consent of all the members
These details Of my family history |
learned in part from my mother, and in
part from my relatives owning the island
with whom have spent no little time on
various occasions. | have letters now from
my cousin, the present proprietor, and
from his father who died last month, urg-
ing me to come to them and make my home
with them, and offering 10 send me money
TO deiray my expenses, but prefer to stay
in my native Texas.
81 have but a few weeks more at most to
live, and then | will have passed away from
the troubles and suflerings of this earth.
have not told you my sir-name, because
my life of wild recklessness has not been
such as to reflect honor upon it. | have
never committed crime or stained the
memory OF my father and of my santed
mother by any act of dishonor or dishon-
esty, but as my fathers name lives
in the history of the republic of
Texas, and my own has mention
in the history of the Confederate states
and my mothers family is one of renown
desire, in my poverty, the recipient of
charity as am, to die unknown. Although
Will rest in pauper'S grave in the pot
ter's field, with but rough pine box en-
closing me, shall sleep Just as sweetly as
if sculptured marble rose above to mark
the spot of my last cough, and the psor
pine box Will entold me just as closely and
as tenderly as would rosewood case, and
the flowers will bloom as brightly and the
grass grow as green on my neglected grave
as if ] slept in the capitol cemetery at
Austin
Our reported gazed upon the emaciated
face in sorrow, and as he pressed the slen-
der hand in farewell the tears overlooked
his eyes, for he knew that his new found
friend, ere the flowers of spring were full
blown; would be underneath the clods of
the valley.