Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1877 — A Famous Legal Struggle. [ARTICLE]

A Famous Legal Struggle.

The romance of reality has seldom appeared so prominently as in the famous suit wbioh reached a final (decision in New Orleans last week. The prosecutor, Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, first brought her case into the courts more than forty years ago, and the time, the talk and the papers pertaining thereunto make Dickens’ Jarndyce case rather a tame affair in comparison. Nearly every American lawyer of the past half century has sharpened or dulled his wits on this dispute, even when not stimulated by a retainer on either side, while hosts of able jurists have taken part in the struggle until a Higher Court summoned them into another sphere with their labors unfinished. The plaintiff hersett has on occasion ap-peared-in court as her own attorney, and, by her wit and wisdom, damaged the saying that he wrfho is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. The prise which Mrs. Gaines contested for was a double one. 'An enormous fortunes and the greater satisfaction of establishing legitimacy, gave the stimulus which has sustained her through a struggle which few men would have dared to attempt. Few people will be ungenerous enough to begrudge her the completeness of her triumph, and thousands of women who are the victims of .similar circnunst&nces, over which they had no control, will bless her for the persistence through which she has established a precedent at which they can avail themselves. May she live lone to enjoy the millions which, though long ago hers by right, she has so splendidly earned by her own efforts!— N. Y:. Herald. “Sup.”— Take rennet; cut Ban-pieces an inch square or so; put in a fruit-jar with salt water on it. Set it away for use after a week or two. When you wish a plain, easy dessert, sweeten a quart of milk somewhat; pour into it a tablespoonful of the rennet water, and set it where it will warm gradually. It will curdle when at the right temperature, and is then ready for use. Eat with cream and sugar. This dish Is very nice for Invalids, and can often he eaten when more solid food distresses the stomaeh. — Cincinnati Timet. Nomotaixy an American car-load is 30,000 lbs. It is also 70 barrels of salt, 70 ot lime, 90 of flour, 80 of whisky, 300 sacks of floor, 6 cords of soft wood, 18 or 20 head of cattle, 50 or 00 head of hogs, 80 to 100 head of sheep, 6,000 feet of solid boards, 340 bushels of wheat, 400 of com, 680 of oats, 400 of barley, 860 of flaxseed, 360 of apples, 490 of Irish potatoes, 800 of sweet potatoes, 1,000 bushels of bran, 180 to 190 barrels «f eggs, and 15,000 to 36,000 pounds ot blllter.—F. 8. B. U.dkß. Meporttr.