Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-06-09

are W. l.. Trenholm, OF South Carolina,
son % the Confederate Secretary Of War.
now president Of a big trust company:
Fred" b. and Sidell Tilghman, sons or
Confcdcrate-G General Lloyd Tilghman. who
surrendered a Fort Henry the key to
all Made Tennessee. and Evan Thomas,
~ Baltimore, president OF the Produce
Exchange. There are southerners IN
plenty among its members.
But the most picturesque OF all
those whom the South has sent to Wall
street Is Marion j. Nerdery, once OF Au-
gusta, Ga. He Is equally at home in
Wall street and IN Newspaper Row. He
says for himself. with more regard for
epigram than for truth. that he came 10
New York with nothing i'm both pockets
and has held his own brilliantly. lie
began life as a stock broker in his ma
tive town. and dabbled in newspaper
work purely for the love OF IT, by and
by the stock brokerage took wings. and
carried In its flight most OF his available
capital Then he came to New York
and began 10 write professionally keep
ing up all the while a warm and intimate
connection with the Street That was
some eight years ago. At present Mr..
Verdery Is next door to a millionaire. IL
ne writes now for newspaper T. IS In
the old way-for love, not money.
He married a daughter Of Or. Deems,
Mrs. Nerdery Is slight. graceful, low
voced-as becomes a southern dame.
The couple live In elegant comfort, and
are given to hospitality.
SOUTHERN LAWYERS.
At the law southerners make no such
showing as In medicine, albeit they have
furnished a couple Of judges. They are
Joseph +. DAILY, Of North Carolina, and
Roger A. Pryor. Of Virginia. Among
those in active practice are BENJAMIN II.
Bristow. formerly Secretary Of War, born
in Southern Kentucky; John n. Wise,
Of Virginia: Magrane Cox, who held Of
fee throughout the first Cleveland Ad-
minstration Colonel Barton y. Harri-
son, who is something more than his
wife's husband Clarence Cary, John A.
Bell. Of Alabama, learned in ecclesiasti-
cal law: Robert r. Harrison, OF Virginia;
James Coleman Drayton, OF South Caro-
lima: Robert Grier Monroe. James w.
Osborne, now in the District Attorneys
office. and a hundred others.
one who cannot be summed in phrase
is Hugh r. Garden. Born about 1910.
in Sumter. S. c., his name is one of the
most famous I'm that aristocratic state.
War came just as he had been graduated.
1t goes without saying that he fought for
his State. As private he served al
the taking OF Sumter, was cOlor-bearer
Of the Second South Carolina Regiment
al the battle Of Manassas; later he com
manded the Palmetto battery, whose guns
were cast from church bells under
his own supervision. He helped 10 bring
off the only guns captured at Gettysburg
and at the last commanded the artillery
which protected Lees rear guard on the
way to Appomattox.
lie surrendered as loyalty as he had
fought BY way Of Virginia, which gave
him a wife. he came TO New York. He
has been twice elected president Of the
Southern Society He holds the same dlg-
nifty in the Church Hospital And he
deserves especially well Of southern
writer's since he has taken II upon him.
self 10 give a library Of their books to
the Southern Society.
OF younger legal lights Is Charles a.
Deshon, a graduate Of Washington and
Lee University. He was one of the five
from whose enthusiasm came the South
ern Society, and has held about every
office i'm it save that of president. One
who deserves to be set beside him Is
Walter L. McCorhe. Wilton Randolph,
now returned to Richmond. is a member
OF the Virginia family Of that name. Il.
p. Harper, vice-president Of the Delaware
Society, Is president Of an insurance con-
Germ. and Walter II. Daniel, one Of the
Virginia Daniels, has an insurance COM
pany's affairs on his hands.
PROMINENT IN SOCIETY.
Intermarriage has given New York's
best society a distinctly southern blend.
That is not wonderful II you stop to think
that it was the old planter aristocracy OF
the Sea Islands and the LOwlands which
made Newport I'm the beginning the eNclu-
sive social centre II remains 10 this day.
The late John Jacob Aston married Miss
Gibbs. Of South Carolina The Lown-
deses. Randolphs Rutherfords, and so
on. married right and left into the Knicki
erbocker blood. sam" Ward. the famous
wit. married Miss Grymes. OF New Or
leans.
Then there Is Mrs. J. Hooker Hamers-
ley. born Chisholm. Of South Carolina.