f Mr. Jere Light
of Hayneville, when only five or six years old began to make
figures in clay, and now (1885) has a large collection of mud
cats, hogs, dogs, cows, horses, and men. The figures are declared
to be not childish imitations, but remarkably acute likenesses.
Her best piece represents a negro praying, and is said to be very
clever.

Miss C. F. Boardman of Elmore's Point, two miles from Biloxi, on
the Bock Bay, has received the chief premiums awarded for oranges
grown on the Gulf coast outside of Florida. This lady has 1,000
bearing orange trees of the choicest varieties, and has devoted
her attention to the production of these and other tropical
fruits, with great success. She came to the South for health a
few years ago, and has not only found that, but has established
for herself a pleasing and profitable industry in fruit culture.
Her oranges were exhibited among numerous fine competing
specimens, and were chosen for high excellence.

Miss Eliza A. Dupuy for many years contributed copiously to Mr.
Bonner's _Ledger_. Miss Dupuy, who was descended from prominent
Virginia families, was in her youth a teacher. The first story
written by her was produced when she was only fourteen years old.
More fortunate than the majority of authors, she leaves behind
her a considerable sum earned by her ever-busy pen.

Mrs. Sarah A. Dorsey was perhaps the most remarkable woman that
Mississippi can boast. She was the niece of Mrs. Warfield, the
author of the "Household of Bouverie," who had great influence in
forming her literary tastes. The New Orleans Monthly _Review_
contains many able articles on abstruse questions from her pen.
One, in the February number for 1876, on the "Origin of the
Species," is exceptionally able and interesting. It was read in
October, 1875, before the New Orleans Academy of Sciences by Mrs.
Dorsey herself. This article shows extensive reading in scientific
questions. She was made corresponding member of the Academy, an
honor she appreciated more highly for her sex than for herself. She
was a large-souled, noble woman, devoted to what she considered
Southern interests. She bequeathed to Jefferson Davis the estate,
called Beauvoir, on which he now resides.

FOOTNOTES:

[516] Emily P. Collins of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, wrote Miss
Anthony: "Our State is to form a new constitution this