Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-21
TIE WoMEN

L. Lady franklin is to visit Harriet
Beecher Stowe. ALAA =
Kansas City has a Young Women's
Christian Association.
Miss Eliza Jennings has been lately
made a bank director in Garfield, o.
The Duchess Of st. Adams Is acting
rs a volunteer organist to a country
parish church. ~
Senator Matt Gaines, of Texas, Is
soon to be married to a saddle-colofed
lady of Austin. -
Miss Belle Smith has been engaged
10 paint a portrait Of the late Il. NJ.
Stanton. Price, $1,000. (
The young ladies' boat club in AL
bany is nearly ready to challenge the
world toa trial of speed.
Miss Helen Taylor, step-daughter of
John s. Mil, issaid to be editing the
posthumous works of Buckle.
Evansville, Ind, has a drunken
woman about its streets, who can
converse in five different languages.
1t isa good sign for the cause Of
woman that the salaries of lady
teachers are quite rapidly increas-
ing. : ne aa1 M A ~
Mrs. Adela McKeons, of California.
Is an independent candidate for Con-.
gress from her district in her own
State. O. ed
The San Francisco working-women
want
for next President of the United
States.
Queen Victoria's opposition to
woman suffrage ought to count for
something, considering her long ex-
perience of political life.
The women of Paris are subscrib-
ing literally to the "SOciety for the
Misunderstanding their jewelry, in
some Instances, for this noble purpose.
The women think they have gained
a great point because, when acting as
census clerks, they have the right to
administer oaths.
Mrs. Morton, an English vocalist,
has recovered thirty thousand dollars
of a railroad company in England for
damage done to her voice by a col
lisiOn.
The "girl of the periodn in Arkan-
sas is described as thirteen years old,
shOeless, ~bOnnetless, stockingIess, and
with the sheriff after her for stealing a
horse.
In Dayton, Ohio, a woman has re-
Gently been appointed as the principal
Of a ward school, and is to receive the
same salary as her masculine prede-
cessor.
The Atlanta, (Ga.) Council has re-
Gently passed a law prohibiting any
male or female in the profession from
wearing the garb of the opposite sex
while performing on the stage.
0berlin not only opposes woman
suffrage, but denies to woman a voice
even in church and educational mat
tiers. This is queer for an Institution
claiming to be the representative Of
the system of equal education for both
sexes.
The Boston 'Turn-B ezirkn held
their annual festival last week.
Among the other sports and pastimes
the ladies tested their skill as marks
women, and sixteen valuable prizes
were distributed among the fair con
testants.
Mrs. Darwin, forgetful Of Harriet
Beecher Stowe, says: "What was the
state of our literature until woman
shared it? A field rank with the
weeds or vulgarity and ~obscenity.
Woman enters, and the nOxiOus plants
Immediately wither under her chaste
tread"
a correspondent in Salt Lake writes
that a husband of five wives said to
him, "When so many women are
dying every year who have no oppor-
tunity to marry, it is right to marry
them-as many as n can support
that they may become mothers and
be happy"
The Pittsburg Gazette tells about a
gentleman of that city who, during
the absence of his better-half in Eu-
rope, made pies, broiled steaks, cooked
potatoes, Made beds, swept carpets,
busted books, ETC., and yet has also
pursued his ordinary a~vocations, and
is so delighted with the kind of work
that he would be willing to do it all
the time. The lady was absent six
months a. E- Hn .rI