Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-02
Items About women.

MRS. DyOia ObAlOu 10 Cuhpldlu vi TUG
Leavenworth penitentiary.
Miss Dix is visiting the jails and State
prisons in the Southern States.
One OF Brigham Youug's daughters
claims to be the belle of Salt Lake.
The perfection of cleanliness was at
tained by the Ohio woman who scrubbed
her kitchen floor until she fell through
into the cellar.
A woman in Sing Sing for bigamy
writes asking Mr.. Beecher's prayers,
saying that she got her divorce just the
way Mrs Mcfarland did
Mrs. Sarah Peters, of Cincinnati,
claims to be the first woman ever per-
mitted to hear mass in the crypt of st.
Peters Cathedral at home.
The wives of over hundred convicts
AZ Cayenne, have petitioned the French
Minister of Justice to be allowed to rejoiE
their husbands 10 that penal colony.
Mrs. Yelverton protests against any
more novels being written upon the basil s
of her matrimonial difficulties.
Miss Thsckeray, eldest daughter of the
lection OF her stories, with the title of
ITO Esther, aud Other Sketches.
Mrs. John Woods backer in her Lon
don theatrical enterprise is said to have
been Mr.. Pea body. A London paper
also sets that lady down for 10000 in
his will.
A Pittsburg MIN looked at Chicago
woman with his opera glass, aud be has
been sued for breach of promise. Those
must be the dang srous glances talked
about by the poets.
Miss Susan B. Anthony says that she
never heard of so many men in one place
being simultaneously affected with sore
throat as she fouad in Washington in Sc
lecting Cengressmen TO speak at her
Suffrage Convention.
The college movement is spreading,
and the indications are that no long time
will elapse before every institution of
learning in the land will open it's doors to
young women on terms of perfect equal
ity with the young men.
Miss Lucy Bliss has taught school
eight years in the old academy school at
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, without the
4 'oss of single day. As she lives two
m lies from the school house, she must
ha We walked more thaH $4,000 miles in
the time.
A gentleman who took occasion to
docto.- some cider on the Sabbath was
taken % task by his good wife for labor
ing on bat day. His reply was that no
good CHI istia1 ought to fnd fault With
his work. he had been doing his level
best to pr, svent his cider from working.
L wife of q mod, ,rn Cresus having re-
.urned from abroad with numberless OBJ
ects of e,rt, rather promscuously cho-
ZEN, stood one day de- spairingly contem-
plating her partisan groups. va,
lack |" exclaimed she, at last, what
hall we do, there is no inches for our
tstionery."
A compnny of ladies. called the
Friendly Evening Association, have
opened parl ors in Boston for the ben
fit of any y oung women who wish to use
hem for Pheasant social intercourse. as
onversati on, reading aloud, or similar
ome-like pleasures. Books, games
nd music ar provided.
A colo red girl was detected in the act
{ stesli ng an orange from 8 grocery. |
he not only gave up the fruit, but offered |
D divest hers elf of CATERS, hat, shawl,
nd other dry goods, and leave them with |
he deale pro, Iided he would say nothing |
{ the oceurrt ,nce. She said, If ny |
be 6 ues dis ut he neber will come to
se uIe no NOR, y" A few tears softened |
le dealers hes. It, and he told the girl to
a'yel.
A lady has be en- investigating the his
iry of Southe RI literature. Twelve
uthoresses are credited to Kentucky,
ixteea to Louisilu 9, twenty to Georgia,
birteeD TO Alabsu1i four to Mississippi,
bur to Florida, Eve to Tennessee, sixteen
, Virginia, six to North Carolina, thir-
zen TO South Carroll us, three to Nary
md aud three TO Tea as; making total
one hundred an fifteen Southern
Idies, nearly all of wi lom have published
lore than one volumt
A German family in Enterprise, Michi
sn, was startled the o ther night by the
ppearsnee at their d osr OF woman
ressed in her night clio thing only. On
pening the door the woman walked
lreciy into the front room, Wnen she
as recognized as re ighbor, living a
Dor or two distant N Notwithstanding
ar scanty apparel and the cold weather,
ie set down in a chsi some distance
ON the stove. shiverine' all the while.
was some moments bef orr q word was
I'D on either side, when the gentleman
The honse asked her WI rat induced her
90 out in the streets ct that time OF
ghi, and in such q onditisn. The
oman replied that there were burglars
the house, and she We s not going to
, 10 the house to be kill ed. The man
lked several other questi Dns, which she
lswered rstionally. He supposed that
e woman had become 81 ddeuly insane.
inally, he said that he would 20 home
Ith her. While httemp' ing to wrap .
oak around her, the woman started up,
oked wildly round, gave q shrek, and
Il on the floor. II proved hsat she was
somuanbulist. that she had wandered
pm home 10 = state Of unsons eiousness,
ID that in attempting TO wrap ihe cloak