Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1871-11-10
CentraIizing Divorce.
A MOVEMENT FOR A NATIONAL DIVORCE
LAW,

A MOVEMENT FOR NATIONAL DIVORCE
LAW.
A rather remarkable movement has been
put on foot here by Mrs Admiral Dahl
gren, Mrs. General Sherman, and other
ladies who are taking an active part in op-
posing woman's suffrage, the scheme being
nothing less than to completely outfank
the suhragists of the Tilton- W oodhull
school. These ladies do not believe that
the Constitution as it now stands gives to
woman the right to vote, and they are de-
termined to deprive the others Of their So
called sixteenth amendment by occupying the
ground themselves, with an amendment pro-
viding for a uniform system of divorce.
Their principal argument in favor of this
new measure is, that if the courts in other
States are obliged to recognize Indiana d.
vorces as valid, though they are generally
obtained by fraud, the tribunals Of that
State virtually absorb the whole divorce
business of the country, and imperil the
property and marital rights Of every woman
from Maine to California. This, they think,
makes the question one of such national
importance as to require the interference of
Congress, under constitutional safeguards !;
and they desire the constitutional provision
they are seeking to be called the Sixteenth
amendment" They are going to work like
real high-born ladies to encompass their
ends, and design having their measure first
introduced into the Senate rather than the
House, since the former is body Of much
more deeorum and dignity than the latter.
What is more, Mr. Trumbull is to be asked
to take charge of the amendment, both rs
chairman Of the judiciary Committee and as
the purest and best of the Senators of the
United States Il $ believed that this mea.
sure will secure fer American women all
the rights they care 10 exercise in public
affairs, and save til IN frog, the wrong of
such pernicious Legislation is the disgrace
Of Indiana, The flank movement on the
suffragists by appropniatng their favorite
amendment is regarded as good stroke
and one that will put at rest the agitation Of
question which few ambitious women,
by driving its best friends into obseusity,
have made disreputable. 1t is not intended
to make the amendment too radical, and it
is only feared that it may be defeated by the
promoters of so-called reform overlooking it
and killing it. A lively scrimmage among
the female politicians is expected, and the
movement cannot fail to add new features
to that remarkable lobby in which women
play such varied and important parts.-N
Y. Herald
Among the effects Of Major j L. Hodge
turned over to the United States, were 257
pieces of American silver g !. I.>r, bronze,
and nickel coins, whose intrinsic value
amounted only to $64,13 Al auction the
whole collection brought $685. 70, or more
than six times the mint value 4. dollar,
llalf-dollar, quarter dollar. dime, al a half
dime Of 1864 brought $25, and Ito same
coins Of 1854, $3.50 Of 1855, $18 for
1856, SIS, and for 1857, $14. "A dime
for the year 1896 brought $3.50; dollar
for 1916, S7,75; a dollar and quarter of
ls47, $1,000, and dollar of 1919, So
Copper was king, for II half-cent pieces
brought under the hammer 800, rs, and a
similar lot Of half. pieces, issued be-
tween 1910 and 1852, brought SO each.
From the last issue of of the Spirit of
Jefferson We gather that all hope of having
The Shenandoah Valley railway throug |
hat county is not yet given up. That
ournal states that if the land damages be
'educed from four thousand a mile to fifteen
hundred, the company will at once proceed
With construction. The 18th instant is
named as the time within which this propo.
'ition must be accepted. :, Committees are
Ictively at work among the landowners,
With promise Of success - Winchester Neaos.
AND YET ANOTHER "A company has
ust been organized at Clarksburg, West
Virginia, to construct a railroad from Char
eston, Kanawha, to the Pennsylvania line,
With Albert t. CatIin, of Boston, as presi-
lent. It is called the Northern and South
I'm West Virginia railroad. The road will
'un by Fairmont, in Marion county, and
in Monongalia county.
The JAMES RIVER AND KANAwHA CANAL.
The annual meeting of the James River
md Kanawha Canal Company took place
n Richmond, Va, on the I'd inst A re-
port was adopted endorsing generally the
,ast action Of the directors. The old Of
icers were re-elected-Major G. S. Caring
on, president.
SALE OF A VIRGINIA FARM-About the
LIST of October, Colonel R. Fl. Burks sold
lis farm Of 525 acres, lying in the lower
md of Botetourt county, Va, to Mr. Charles
Rogers, of Goldington, Bedfordshire, Eng
and, for the sum of ST 900 cash.
The Chicago Tribune reports that Score
airy Boutwell, has agreed to recommend that
he government erect the public buildings
It Chicago upon single square selected for
he purpose. #
The Pittsburg Commercial gathers from
It's exchanges the record Of seven new and
Productive wells put in operation in the
pennsylvania oil region with a few days
receding.
Two hundred colored emigrants arrived
Fortress Ngenroe Saturday from the in
srior, and took passags en- the bark Edith
I'D Rose for Liberia