The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-08-24

There are G62 female teachers in Bos-
ton. One hundred and thirty of them
have signed a petition asking for the SUI
lrage of women. These petitioners are
women of talent and fine culture; they
have to undergo a rigorous examination
before receiving their appointments they
are deemed worthy by select committees
of our best citizcns--bcst in character as
much as in social po-ition-to be the
trainers Of the rising generation. They
could ill almost any civil office under the
State or Federal Government, even if Mr.
Jcnckes bill were Il law. Yet every half:
ffi"dillii,'"od, ncn,np from Tipperary or Stat:
beyond the pale Of political life. Doe,
any thinking man imagine that this ipsap,
anomal y can be perpctratcd forever.
Eight thousand educated women asked
for the right of suffrage last wintcrin Cor.
mai petition to the Massachusetts Icris.
lature. Is this Indifference?
There are women who don't want to
vote. There are women who don't want
to marry. 80 much the worse for both
classes Men and women are countor.
parts; they ought to want to do ovor,.
duty that needs united action. and bo,rt
Is as much needed in the management Of
national affairs as in the household. and
the same qualities Of brain are necessary
Tor the government Of affairs of n State
as OF household But how oLsurJ :,
the plea that We should recognize no wo.
mans right to vote, until all American
women shall desire the ballot Zion's
Herald well asks, "If there was a law
against ladies marrying would Won sov
1t should not be repealed until ali had cy.
pressed desire for marriage?" Take
down the bars Enroll all names of =
legal age. 1t compels no one to vote. IF.
none wish to go to the polls, none will. |
Let those aggrieved and miusty con- /
strained be set at liberty, Let the rest
act also their plcasure.-B1~rI.
The HARVEST IN THE NORTHWEST 4
The line weather Of first half Of August
has enabled the grain crops of northwest
TO be gathered in capital condition. In
Michigan, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin
The wheat does not turn out AS we'll rs
was expected. The heads of grain did
not hi ont well and the berry was small.
An unexpected blight, also, nearly ruined
many fields, and had not the breadth off
ground Sowed been largely in oxccss of.
previous years the yield OF these states
must have fallen off largely. Asitis
hey will just about hold their own. and !
hat is ALL But in Minnesota, where tbc
arvcst commenced last week, the wheat c
rop is "just splendid" The s. paul
'ress Of the l0th said that Mr. Dalryionle
I the Grant farm would commence cntt-
~ his wheat that day, putting in twelve =
)ur-horse reapcr and one hundred and :,
twenty-five men. Just think OLA wheat g
"m demanding such harvest force rs >,
iat ! and there are other farms in fine Il
ate OF nearly equal dimensions. Good =,
ldges estimate the wheat crop of the state u
MS year at twenty millions of bushels. Il
NJ 1t Is likely to exceed rather than fall ~,
Glow that figure, Inall the states above II
enlloned the yield Of oats, gathered NJ e.
'out the same time as the wheat, is very +
rye and the crop very fine every way. =,
orty bushels per acre, and more, are re. co
'r!edas the yield in many places. The ~
IN crop has picked up little in the last w.
onth, but is still ookins very poorly 81
'tatoes are looking well, where they ~
We not been'attacked by tho Colorado IN IN
g, and are going to yield immensely.
ready new potatoes are selling in many
rts Of the northwest from twenty-five 10 th
rty cents a bushel an
AT the recent tcrm of WASHINGTON or
l. supreme Court the report of the lit
appointed year since, was evi
,epied, laying highway from a point arr
Fayston, through point in the Green ab.
across Avery aud Buol's Cores, eel
the town OF Starksboro, The distance Oh
about four miles. The road, when att
IL, will open communication between att
litsheld and the other towns in Mad I'm
yer Valley, on the one side, and Starks- his
o, Bristol, Middlcbury, ete., on the wa
er side of the mountains, The inhabi- ire
Is OF these sections, though living al. ant