Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-09-08


account successfully
I, ono of the largest cities in tho country
a "vounp. pretty and Accomplished lady
has opened an extensive boot anu shoe
store. Her clerks are all young women
and her trade is reputed to DO OF the DISK
est.
ora woman i'm Washington Territory we
learn that she has just returned from trip
,o china. where she carried a cargo OF lum-
her "She is said to be sharper" OBJ
.orves the source of the information, than
any other mill-owner on Puget Sound, ana
cot at least $40 more per thousand ieet Tor
lumber than was ever paid at Hong Kong
before
or an extensive dry goods establishment
i'm New Jersey we are told that II Is man
AGED entirely by two ladies, and that their
credit in the large business centres is OF the
soundest and highest. We are given to
understand that they set up III business
eight year go, on capital oil from one TO
two thousand dollars; and that they control
a stock now worth from twenty to thirty
thousand in ladies' furnishing and fancy
goods.
A Young woman in Lewiston, Maine, has
been fitting herself under excellent prom
Use, for the profession of dentist. In the
heavier work, which requires active mus
cles and steady eye, her employer has long
| since been accustomed to call upon her for
very effective assistance.
A ladies' life insurance company, all the
employees of which are to be women, is
is forming in London.
And here we run against another Wis
consin woman surely that energetic State
is the woman's Earthly Paradise') who
supports n sick husband and his old grand
father of forty acre farm.
And again from New Jersey. What says
one Of her leading papers? "Our entire
newspaper is the work of young ladies, and
every type is set by acknowledgements
and all-and the maker up is young
girl. And we have no foreman in the
newspaper rooms, Il young lady acting in
that capacity
Shall we omit to notice the testimony of
of the President of the Michigan Agricul-
tural College as to the experiment of adj
hitting women to the institution, when he
calls it in "the highest degree successful, -
and "ther rogress in study exceptionally
rapid? Or that of Judge Howe, Of Wy
oming touching the service of women in
the jury-box?
81 am prepared to endorse fully and I'M
qualifiedly the excellent results that spring
from the influence and presence of women
in the jury-box ; nor have | been able
with the closest observation, to detect the
least objection or unfiteess in woman tc
serve in that capacity. On the contrary
the court has reason to believe that the in
PRODUCTION of her refining and humanizine
| influence into our courts will mark new
and improved epoch in the administration
of Justice
Or shall we impannel jenkins into oui
service, to call our attention TO the munifi
cent salaries received by some of the lady
editors of New York To the princely
profits of some of last seasons lady lectur
res Of he spoke of $4,000, or whispered
of $50, 900, who would "tell"?) To the pc
cuniary value of the skill of a few sucf
women as DR.. Elizabeth Blackwell and DR.
| NJ. Il. Zachryewska? Or to the reflection.
| incident upon the existence ofthat respect
ed lady physician of the homeopathic schoo
whose practice reached the agreeable figure
of 81, 900 last year?
And what more shall | say? For tn,
time would fail me to tell of the lady elect
ed year ago to be superintendent o
schools in large town in Vermont, whit
has fulfilled the duties of her position 81
acceptaby that she has been unanimousl,
reelected, with a substantial consideration
of 800 extra voted in her favor; of the sur
gical services of DR.. Mary Putnam in tn
recent French war; Of the average au
dience Of one thousand persons" collected
Sunday by Sunday to hear the Gospe
preached by a woman in Connection
city; of the "ladies' well" in the oil coun
try, contracted for and managed entrel.
by women, pumping, it is reported, on
hundred and fifty barrels of oil in a day
and said TO yield now the pleasant profit G
five hundred dollars every twenty fou
hours of the woman who rows a fcrr
daily across the Mississippi of the fort,
women having editorial connections wit
the New York press Of the woman who i
custom house officer at n port in Victoria
| -
too in Georgia, whose inheritance from he
husbands estate was Kit Of shoemaker
tools, and who accepted both them and Tia
situation by taking to the leather benc
herself; of the woman overseeing the bind
ing in one Of the largest printing houses il
ST. Louis, Of whom the proprietor says, -
could not supply her place with six men ;
Of the young lady student in the State Uni
versty Of Missouri of whom we are toll
that she has taken the first prize for Gree
scholarship; Of the lady who bore ava
the chemical prize from two hundred an
thirty-nine candidates in the University c
Edinburgh-or would have done so, if
had not been discovered that her sex woul
forbid her receiving il of the "noble an
motherly woman Of seventy years who
the chaplain Of the Kansas State Prison {
the woman elected lecturer on diseases {
the eye in the medical department of How
ard University; of the one hundred VIC
men graduated from our colleges the las
year; of the first class clerkships to whic
the Postmaster General has appointed fou
women, accomplished linguists and trans
latSrs," at the same salaries which me
clerks of the same rank receive; of tn
young woman who has purchased one hun
; dred and sixty acres of public land in Mon
tana under the Presumption Bill of tn
"business success" which We are apt {
connect with a few such names as Nilsson
, Hosmer, Ream, ckinson, Stowe, BOr
heur, Eliot, Sand. Are women untitled fu
p success in active lie2 Time will tel