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In 1789 General Washington is said to have offered John Jay his choice of offices under the new government, and Jay chose the chief justiceship, because there he thought he could make his influence felt most widely. If so he had his wish, and very shortly met with disappointment. In the August Term of 1792, one Chisholm, a citizen of South Carolina, sued the State of Georgia for a debt.
Early in the summer of '78 we were rocking along with a herd of Laurel Leaf cattle, going up the old Chisholm trail in the Indian Territory. The cattle were in charge of Ike Inks as foreman, and had been sold for delivery somewhere in the Strip. There were thirty-one hundred head, straight "twos," and in the single ranch brand.
A great scheme, auxiliary to ordinary emigration, is therefore at work, and its usefulness is acknowledged, not only by the press and the public at large, but by parties ordinarily less alive to projects of social melioration ministers of the crown. Every one may well concur in paying honour to Caroline Chisholm! London: Webb, Millington, & Co. 1852.
He caught sight of a golden-haired child beaming at him from one of the wagons. "Good-by, Jimmy Lee!" he called. He whirled in his saddle, touched Blizzard with the reins, and rode away at a long lope. From the sweeps of high country bordering close upon Santa Fe, it was no easy journey to the Chisholm Trail, even for a trail-eating horse of Blizzard's caliber. But The Kid had taken his time.
Lyon?" "He has come into his title. He is the Earl of Chisholm." "Dear me, how stupid in us not to have taken a sense of that! And the Eschelles do you know anything of the Eschelles?" "Yes; they are at their house in Newport." "Do you think there was anything between Miss Eschelle and Mr. Lyon? I saw her afterwards several times." "Not that I ever heard.
Within four days Colonel Dick-Cunyngham, of the Gordons, Colonel Chisholm, of the Light Horse, Colonel Gunning, of the Rifles, and now Colonel Wilford, of the Gloucesters, had all fallen at the head of their regiments.
He fancied that a good deal could be deduced from the fragments of information her younger daughter had given him. It was Mabel who suggested that they should picnic upon the summit of a lofty hill, from which there was a striking view; and as this met with the approval of Mrs. Chisholm, who excused herself from accompanying them, they set out an hour later.
"Hang it all, man!" shouted Mr Chisholm, taking up the cry, "let go the sheet at once!" Seeing what a fog Bouncer was in, besides which the sail was just then beginning to bulge back as the wind headed us, the boat rocking for an instant and then canting over as if she was going to capsize, I drew my knife and rushed to where he sat in the bottom of the boat, struggling with the sheet!
In May, the time of the apple blossoms just a year from the swift wooing of Margaret Miss Forsythe received a letter from John Lyon. It was in a mourning envelope. The Earl of Chisholm was dead, and John Lyon was Earl of Chisholm. The information was briefly conveyed, but with an air of profound sorrow.
Chisholm sympathized with the rebel idealist whose beckoning visions led to the clash of arms. "Aren't you getting off the track," Vane asked Carroll. "I don't see the drift of your previous remarks." "Well," drawled Carroll, "there must be, I think, a certain distinctive stamp upon those who belong to the leader type I mean the people who are capable of doing striking and heroic things.
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