The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-22

there, and tue Joyous acceptance of Gen
eral Grants offer of the usual terms OF
surrender this story has been repeatedly
told. Mrs. Pickett is no longer the ''hot
little rebcl' that she was Association
With northern people, among whom she has
many friends, has broadened her views and
dissolved her prejudices. For number of
years Mrs Pick 1T has filled responsible
position IN the pension bureau, where she
IS held III high esteem by her assoc;a tes
She Is a writer of cultivatable talent. a en-
Der of the Woman's National Press associa-
ton, 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
lhdlan bureau, and Is tho captain of the
Stanford rites.
Mrs. Eugenia Phillips, the widow of the
well-remembered Alabama Congressman,
Fhllllp Philips, has had a remarkable
career. When Mr.. Phillips relinuuished
MS seat In Congress, many years ago, they
remained here, where he gained wide fame
oy dis practice in the supreme court. At
t'le opening OF the war, Mrs. Phillips, who
was dashlng, fiery member of one of the
old arlstocratic 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 prisoner in her own house in this
city, guard of soldiers being kept con-
stantly about it, After awhile she and her
FAMILY were permitted to return to the
south, where she at once entered Eealously
INTO the service of the confederacy. Soon
alter the taking of New Orleans she be
came so unruly that General Butler
ordered her removal to Fish Island, where
she was held prisoner for five months
a RlAGn n h.at MO, oh.a, a g
sons came back to Washington. and, with
an abundant fortune, set up a delightful
establishment at 1907 H street, where the
striking originality, strong individuality
and bounteous hospitality of Mrs Phillips
have ever since attracted the brainiest and
cieverest men of the country Her Sun
day evenings at home and the little suppers
she serves are regarded as rare treats, for
here the choicest wits, the deepest states
men, the brightest journalists and the
cleVerest artists in general are to be found
Mrs. Phillips is now in the neighborhood
OF seventy, silvery- haired, but as keen and
yiYaclous as IN the days when she made the
" ankS' so much trouble. She has never
ceased to assert her abiding belief in the
rectltuds OF the southern cause, but, for all
that, she has maintained close social rela-
tons with every administration since that
OF Lincoln. She spent a large part of last
summer with President Harrison and his
family az Deer Park, and is now a fire.
quent guest at the White House. BY the
way, she says that those persons who think
the President is a cold, severe man simply
do not know him.
An interesting case is that of Mrs. Jack
man, of Yorktown, Va, who is now EN-
ployed as Il folder in the document room of
the government printing Office. Through
the Kindness of MIR. w. a Croffut, am
permitted TO tell it in the words in which it
WAS given to him by Mr.. Thomas Z. Bene-
dict, public printer under President Cleye-
lanG; Il was in my office" said Mr. Bene-
dict, 'when Mrs. Jackman was announced.
dlu not recognize her name. She awaited
her turn, ana when she came in she said
MIR. Benedict, you do not remember me.
y GU and the members of the cabinet stop
ped at our house al the Yorktown centen-
uial celebration Then | remembered.
We stopped there because, a hundred years
before, 1T was CORVALLIS Headquarters.
she took US upstairs and outside and
showed us the scars which the Continental
cannon shot had made. Her grandfather
who then owned the house, was General
Winder, 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 thou
sand slaves, which he begueathed to his
children. Mrs. Jackman's people had al
ways been wealthy, until The civil war
swept everything away. And now, here
she was, penniless, wearing cheap dress,
and asking me for something to 90 as she
presented to me letter from Mrs Cleve
land. took her to the folding room with
misgivings, but she went earnestly to work,
and does her work we'll Within three
chairs OF her is woman perfectly black,
whose mother was slave, aud who was
appointed at the request of Senator Wal
tlall." Mrs. Jackman is a woman of re-
iinement culture and many accomplish
ments-a relict and relic of the war
Mrs L. l.. White is in the patent office.
Ten years ago her husband was one of the
most able and best known of American
journalists. AS a Washington correspond
ent, probably none was better known For
years he brilliantly served the New York
Tribune ANA Philadelphia Press A year
ago he died or the consumption which he
had long fought against, and left his widow
without a cent. excepting the small insur-
ance, which he had permitted TO lapse but
which she had insistently kept alive. He
beQueathed TO her some debts, and three
children by former wife. She proved lar
more thrifty than he. In six months she
had obtained an office, through the civil
service examination, and two promotions
through her own merits: had recovered
the IS, 000-house on which the mortgage had
been forclosed; had secured an official
promise of two places for her small bows.
which are regarded as prizes in official cir
cles; had found several hundred dollars in
the banks, where her husband had care
lessly deposited: had paid off his most
urgent debts, and today faces tho world
with the sagaclty and confidence of bust
ness woman.
"Who is the most popular widow in
Washington society!" l put this question
to Miss Louise Covert keen and brilliant
young society editor, who knows the social
conditions OF Washington like book.
stella Bachelor Leighton" she an
swered without hesitation
Mrs. Leighton, lately of Pasadena Cal.
was an Ohio girl, her ancestors having set
tied in that state in an early day. They
were the Defours-a family famous for
brave men and beautiful women. He was
a member OF this family who introduced
grape culture into Ohio. Stella was the
daughter of Mr.. L. Y. Bachelor. She was
born in Cincinnati, and, in that city of no.
tally beautiful women, became one of the
most noted. When little more than a
school girl she became the wife of Mr..
Joseph Leighton, who soon afterwacd re-
moved to Minneapolis, Mimi, and made his
name synonym of financial success
throughout the northwest. Seven wears
ago, Mr.. Leighton's health being impaired
they removed to Pasadena, where they
built magnificent house Here two BOYS
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