Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-25
Concerning Women.

The foreman" of the GAINESVILLE (Wis.) Ga
Zette is q woman.
There is not a single female prisoner in the
prisons of Kansas.
A New York cat was so rash as to lick the
cheek of lady of improved complexion, and in
a few minutes was no more.
Mrs. DR.. Cook, of Buffalo, had an income last
year of nearly $4,000 from her medical prac-
tice. "Well DONE" Cook
The Wyoming national bank, of Wilkes barre,
has elected lady to succeed Judge Woodward
in the board of directors.
Miss Anthony thinks the woman's suffrage
cause is now safe, because it has passed the first
stage of every reform, namelY-ridicule.
In Galveston, Texas, an indignant father,
whose daughter had married against his will,
sent her for wedding present patent burial
case.
Johanna Frieberg got divorced from Joseph,
out in Illinois, without his knowledge, but lived
with him several months until she could get a
good start for herself.
A Mrs. Hunter, in Crawford county, Iowa, has
sued maiden of twenty-five years, named Sarah
Mason, for leading her husband astray, laying
her damages at $4,000. Miss Sarah is large
landholder and can pay.
Rev. Mrs. Van Colt is a model of female en-
durance, for in the last four years she has
preached 341 sermons, held 296 prayer meetings
and twenty love feasts lectured thirteen times,
written 543 letters, and Travelled 1913 miles
The only daughter of a rich old miser in Clay
ton county, Iowa, who had been living in a
hovel with her father, has received over one
hundred offers of marriage since her father be-
came very ill. She broke earthen vessels over
the heads of a couple of her proposers.
A London letter states that Helen, daughter of
DIR. Chalmers, lives in a low house in one of the
lowest quarters of Edinburgh, spending her life
in endeavoring to help her miserable neighbors
to improve their condition, giving special at
tention to drunkards and their families.
Abindon, H., has woman kiciist who could
discount mule. The merchants of that town
have fashion Of filling the sidewalks with their
goods. The lady in question, finding barrel
of salt in her way in front of q grocery store,
promptly lifted her No. 3 boot and kicked the
barrel into the street. 1t took two men to put
it back.
Among the latest divorce applicants in Indiana
was a man who charged his wife with giving
him a stew for dinner made out Of the family
Thomas cat. His wife in reply stated that her
husband was uproarous, took liberties with the
chambermaid, and evinced a general tendency
to claw things. The husband, however, won
the case by proving that these symptoms all
developed themselves subsequently to the objec-
tionable meal.
From the black depths of grief DIR. Antonio
Prietto, of st. Louis, sends FORTH through the
columns of the Times of that city, a wall of
despair that will find echo in the hearts of
thousands of men who suffer like torments, but
lack courage to call upon the public for help.
Read, and fly to the rescue, somebody: $3.50
reward will be given to any one who will come
and take my tormenting wife away, or must
go to Cuba and leave this country forever, for |
can't stand her. viii no one come and take
her? She interferes with my business and hap
piness and torments the life out of me. She
spoils my little girl SO that have no control
over her."