Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-17


D Anna Dickinson is reported engared.
: Susan B. says she is not in the marry
J ing line.
Queen Vic. dresses in black silk, dia-
| nonds and opals ss
: The lean women had ball in New
York Thursday night.
Camilla Urso made 81, 900 out of the
I San Francisco musical festival.
The Queen of Madagascar Is anxious 10
|, | get an American husband.
Miss Anthony says that women will
never accomplish anything until they
stop crying.
A movement is on foot in Congress 20
settle a liberal pension upon Miss Ida
Lewis, the famed heroine of Lime Rock
Light.
OF the thirty female murderers confiDed
In the Michigan sPenitentiary, many are
very pretty and a few positively beauti-
full.
Mrs. DR.. Mary Walker says she never
knew what real trouble was until she put
herself into pantaloons. She is willing,
however, to die a martyr to principle.
London is to have a Barmaid Show.
each young lady to appear in character
and with all the accessories of hercalIfne.
The prizes, however, are to go in the old
classic manner-to the most beautiful.
1 The French Countess of Begorien. less
than thirty years of age, has perfectly
white hair, made so by watching a sinpie
night by the bedside of her dying child.
The Ellsworth (Me. american has
had visit from woman in that vicinity
who served in the army two years.
dressed in male attire. She has resumed
female habilimenis, though she uses to-
/ baccO.
Nilsson, when little girl, sang in a
ventriloquist's booth, in Sweden, for
twenty francs for an eight DAYS engage
| ment. Now she can demand her own
terms from the leading operatic
managers of the world.
Miss Madclon Stockwell, of the fresh
mans class of the University of BIichi- |
gan, finds herlines cast in pleasant places,
and writes that she is created with uni |
form courtesy by her youthful classmates
of the sterner sex.
The eldest daughter of ex-King George,
of Hanover, will soon be married to the |
Archduke Victor, of Austria This will
be the first time in the history of the
Hapsburg dynasty when one of its
princes marries Protestant lady.
A celebrated writer says: ''NO woman
can be lady who can wound or mortify
another. No matter how beautiful, how
refined, or how cultivated she may be,
she is, in reality, coarse, and the innate
vulgarity of her nature mauifests itself
here. Uniformly kind, courteous and pO-
lite treatment of all persons is one mark
of true woman
Mrs. Churchill, one of the many advo-
Gates of woman suffrage IN Vermont, re-
fused to walk, the other night, from a ho-
tel to the hall in which she was to lecture
with member of the Woman Suffrage
Association, because he was drunk, and
declared that either he must leave the can
vass or she would leave the State.
Womens anti-suffrage meetings arc be-
coming very frequent in the Western
States. At one of these gatherings in Pc
Orla, ILL.,, last week, resOlutit ms were
adopted condemning the movement for
suffrage to women, and "a petition drawn
up calling on the Constitutional Conven-
ton not TO heed those who are trying to
incorporate clause granting the fran
Chise TO women in the new instrument.
MIR. Digby SeymOur's two daughters
made an election canvass of the borough |
of Nottingham, England, previous to the
late contest, and distributed in the streets
photographs of their father in his robes
as recorder for Newcastle; also cards
bearing the following inscription ''NOt-
tingham election, 1870. Miss Seymour
sOlicits your vote and interest on behalf | S
of her father"
a young lady met in company young (
gentleman who evidently had an excellent i
opinion of himself. During conversation l
be introduced the subject of matrimOny, I
and expatiated at length upon the kind of !
wife he expected to marry; that is, if J
ever he should take the decisive step !,
The honore1 lady must be wealthy, beau !
Liful, accomplished, amiable, etc, etc. :
His listener quietly waited until he ended, .
and then completely COMPOUNDED him by v
asking in the coolest possible manner, s
'tAnd pray, sir, what have you to offer in a
return for all this?n The young man C
Redeemed a little, and walked 81
away. \
Mrs. Williams said in a speech in San n
francisco recently that ''she knew a wo-
nan in the East who was a dOctress. She o
was the mother of four children, and
when the youngest was Q babe, her hus- a
)and left her. At that time she had no "
profession, but she had previously learned
he harness-maker's trade in Iowa. She n
worked at that till she had saved money | n
,nOugh to begin the study of medicine Il
Now she owns two houses and lots, and is il
till practicing, and supporting another Il
husband" Couldn't got along without the CT
husband, it seemsl o,
An unusually large audience assembled
n Monmouth, ILL.,, last week, as specta-
ors and auditors of the annual literary
'attle between the representatives of tho d'
ival ladies societies of Monmouth Col
ege. The post of judges was filed by CO
Hiss Amber, Mount Pleasant, Iowa; Miss OF
Ward, Galesburg, H.; Judge Newman, p
burlington, Iowa. To each Judge was as "
igned distinct seat, so that each should Il
ender his or her unbiased Judgment III
here are in attendance at this college W
bout one hundred and fifty ladies, repre- r.
emitting ten States of the Union. IL
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