The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-22

wonted place in society. Mrs. Pickett is
stately woman, graceful in figure and with
q face that responds charmingly to her
varying moods. She is the typical south
ern beauty and the typical southern spirit
all tenderness, fire and devotion. The ro-
crate general when she was but Is years old,
their flight to Canada to escape the conse-
quences of Gen. Pickett's part in the war,
their trial with poverty during the year
they were there and joyous acceptance of
Gen. Grants offer of the usual terms of sur
render-this story has been repeatedly told.
Mrs.: ,;1 Pickett ,,,j is .h no longer the
ISOLATION with northern people, among
whom she has many friends, has
broadened her view and dissolved her preju-
dices. For number of years Mrs. Pickett
sion bureau, where she is held in high es-
TEEN by her associates. She is writer of
cultivable talent, a member of the Woman's
National Press association, and one of the
moving spirits of the well-known Travel
club. Her son, George, sometimes called
the handsomest young man in Washington,
is connected with the Indian bureau and is
the captain of the recently-organized Stan
ford rifles.
Mrs. Eugenia Phillips, the widow of the
Phillip Phillips, has had remarkable
career. When Mr.. Phillips relinquished
his seat in congress many years ago, they
remained here, where he gained wide fame
by his practice in the supreme court. At
the opening of the war Mrs. Phillips, who
old aristocratic South Carolina families,
not only sympathized with the south, but
devoted herself enthusiastically to its cause
This in time brought her under the eye of
the government and she was made pris-
oner in her own house in this city, guard
rf ho1y .Lov, n1%o s,k1 oh
After awhile she and her family were per-
mltted to return to the south, where she at
once entered Zealously into the service of
the Confederacy. Soon after the taking of
New Orleans she became SO unrnly that
Gen. Butler ordered her removal to Fish
Island. where she was held prisoner
for five months. At the close of the
war she and two of her sons came back to
Washington, and, with an abundant for
tune, set up delightful establishment at
1907 H street, where the striking original
ity, strong individuality and bounteous hos
tracted the brainiest and cleverest men of
the country. Her Sunday evenings at home
and the little suppers she serves are regarded
as rare treats, for here the choicest wits, the
deepest statesmen. the brightest journalists
and the cleverest artists i'll general are to be
found. Mrs. Phillips is now in the neigh
borhood of seventy, silver haired, but as
keen and vivacious as in the days when she
made the "Yanks'' SO much trouble She
has never ceased to assert her abiding belief
in the rectitude Of the southern cause, but,
for all that, she has maintained close social
relations with every administration since
that of Lincoln. She spent large part of
last summer with President Harrison and
his family at Deer Park and is now fire.
ouent guest at the white house. by the
way, she says TINT those persons who think
the president is cold. severe man simply
90 not know him.
An interesting case is that of Mrs. Jack
man, of Yorktown, Va, who is now en-
ployed as folder in the document room of
the government printing Office. Through
the kindness of MIR. w. A. Croffut am per-
mitted to tell it in the words in which it
was given to him by Mr.. Thomas &. Bene-
dict, public printer under President Cieve-
land: II was in my Office" said Mr. Bene-
dict, when Mrs. Jackman was announced.
l did not recognize her name. She awaited
har turn and when she came in she said:
Mr.. Benedict, you do not remember me-
You and the members of the cabinet
stopped at our house at the Yorktown GEN.
tennial celebration Then / remembered.
We stopped there because. a hundred years
before, it was Corvallis headquarters
showed us the scars which the continental
cannon-shot had made. Her grandfather
who then owned the house. was Gen. Win
der, of the American army, and he trained
the artillery upon his own house when he
heard CORVALLIS was there. He owned an
immense estate then, and thous-
and slaves, which he bequeathed
to his children. Mrs. Jack
mans people had always been wealthy I'M
til the civil war swept everything away. And
now, here she was, penniless, wearing a
cheap dress. and asking me for something
TO do as she presented to me letter from
Mrs. Cleveland. took her to the folding
room with misgivings, but she went earnest
II to work, and does her work we'll. Within
three chairs of her is a woman perfectly
black, whose mother Was slave, and Who
was appointed at the request of Senator
Walthali." Mrs. Jackman is q woman of
refinement. culture and many accomplish
ments-a relict and relic of the war.
Mrs. z. L. White is in the patent Office.
Ten years ago her husband was one of the
ablest and best known Of American journal
lists. As Warrington correspondent prob
ably none vas better known. For years he
brilliantly served the New York Tribune
and Philadelphia Press. A year ago be
died OF the consumption which be had long