Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-08-22
Mrs. swisshelm,s LeoLnrn.

mrs. oWlsshelms Lecture.
This lady delivered tho first Of series
Of lectures Thursday night az Lafayette
Hall, upon "The Financial History orllcr
Married Life" About one hundred and
fifty persons were present, perhap, not so
maryland, financially considered, tho
lecture was a failure. The lady appeared,
attired in plain but neat and tasty dress.
After taking her position behind the desk,
and making bow to her audience she
offered G brief prayer, which, to say tho
least, took every body by surprise, the
moro so because it had the immediate ef,
feet Of checking the applause which was
about to follow her appearance The
prayer being ended, she stated that she
did not offer it through any desire to be
regarded as eccentric, but because she be-
licyed that it was her duty to do so. She
then entered upon the subject matter Of
her lecture, warming the reporters, paren-
thetically, that if they published any part
OF it they might expect prosecution for
libcl-so she mad been given to under
stand. We have no desire to vontilato
anything that tho lady said; and when
we state that the whole story was one of
domestic misery, from the wedding day
until she finally separated from her husI
banda period of about twenty years
we are sure our readers will not desire 10
hear it. She lifted the veil which has so
long covered the secrets of her heart and
her lecture seemed like Pandora's box.
from which rushed out "a multitude OF
evils 1t was q narrative made up of in-
Vulnerable little details, such rs lnanv
wife might recognize, but to the recital Of
which not one in ten thousand could bo
brought. At times she was grave, and
wcpt and sighed over the recollection of
her wrongs, her utterance being fremont
| ly chokGd, and her whole manner beto-
llening the most painful emotion. Then
again she would indulge in the keencst
ridicule, causing her hearers to shake
their sides with laughter over her mimi
table pictures Of domestic economy
Altogether, it was the strangest medley
we ever listened to.
She concluded by giving very vivid
description of her experience in Mime
sofa, where she began the publication OF
her paper, four years ago, at a time when
| she was in constant danger of the scalp
! ing knife, and had a loaded musket COLI
stantly 10y her side, to be used in case of
emergency. But, strange as it may ap-
pear, these have been the happiest days
of her unhappy life! She hopes to do
some good in the way of helping to break
up that system oftyranny which now holds
so many thousands of her welded sisters
in bondage, inasmuch as she has been
made "a strong minded woman" under
that very system of masculine oppression,
! According to her theory, men make all
the Strong minded women" for she is
| fully convinced that God never yet mado
one!
She touched upon the legal disabilities
this branch of the subject. although her
whole experience, rs detailed by her,
went to show that she had been as thor.
oughly a Sltuc rs ever stood upon the
shambles. 10 concluding, she stated that
she had hoped to be able to compress all
she wished to say into one lecture but
she found this impossible--and although
she intlmated that other lectures are to
follow, she did not positively announce
them. PatsJ,u9 Press.
Tue CAMBRIA Iron WoREs.-A writorin
the North Amcrica1, in describing the Cam
| bria Iron Works, the most extensive OF
the kind in the country, says: The entire
establishment at present comprises near
| ly three thousand operatives, twonty-sev-
en- thousand acres Of land, a rolling mill
covering S3,27j square feet, siXty-four
pudding furnaces, twelve heating furna>
ces, fourteen pair Of rollers, twenty-nine
steam engines giving an aggregate Of D.
! 500 horse power, two locomotives, n COM
plote domestic market, including separate
dry-goods. grocery, feed, meat shoe and
tailoring establishments, one hundred and
forty head of horses. draught and pat
tern making shop, wheolwrigt and black
smith establishments, machine shops
forge shops, powder house, three hundred
railway cars etc. Last year $4,000 tons
of railroad iron were turned out. The re-
tail stores alone make sales amounting to
100000 per annum. During the past
year there have been slaughtered for the
meat market $50 boeyos and GOO head Of
| hogs.