Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-30
New England Dispatches.
Ellery q. Daniel Hndicted-The Ameri-
can Education Society - Suicide in
CharIesIOwn, etc,
MASSACHUSETTS.


Boston, May 29-Elery G. Daniel, late
cashier of the Webster national bank, has been
indicted in the United States district court for
embezzling its funds to the amount of $4,000.
The New England woman suffrage association
held its initial meeting of the season in fremont
Temple this evening. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe
presided. The attendance was small, owing to
the admission fee charged at the door. Mrs.
Isabella Beecher Hooker, the first speaker,
asked if the child Liberty was in more danger OF
being spilled out of the cradle of state when
rocked by woman than by their husbands, sons,
and brothers, and claimed that there were nu-
merous political questions that needed the
minds of women to aid in their settlement es-
pecially the question of temperance, the vital
one under consideration.
She closed by quoting at considerable length,
from Mrs. Josephine Buffers essay on the
reclamation of fallen women, in support of her
argument against licensing prostitution as a
public necessity, with thinking women as the
victims.
Rev. Gilbert Haven said the woman suffrage
movement was gaining strength, on the princi:
pie that it was first endured" by the public,
then pitied," and il now had good prospect
of being embraced" He could find no argu-
ment against it, for every one that had been
used had died natural death by lapse of time.
If politics was degrading, the more was woman
needed at the polls, to protect her male relations
from corruption. Gov. Clahin's appointment of
as the rising of the sun of woman's day. A
dab at the legislature for hanging on three days,
at $500 per diem, to settle little matter of
$500, and a few words about treating male and
female nightwalkers alike, concluded his long
speech
Julia Ward Howe said the association hoped
to rock the world to peace ere long, as each con-
vention thus far held had excelled its predeces-
sor; happy result, she predicted, for the pres
ent Boston session. Men, though they might
love to hear themselves scolded u little should
not wait too long before mending their ways,
lest the scoldng, by long continuance, might
become uncomfortable
Grace Greenwood excused herself from speak
ing, i'll happy manner, promising to favor the
company tomorrow morning, when few would
be likely to be present and the reporters absent
She announced her platform, however, by say
ing that she was willing that but three classes
only Of women should be allowed to vote;
Single women who had property; married wo,
men who had minds and such Others as might
desire the ballot. A good watch, well wound
and timed, clothes wringer and sewing ma
chine should be the property qualification, aud
the ability to support their husbands we'll, and
the faculty of keeping good boarding house
should not be overlooked in the requirements of
the government examiners,
Lucy Blackwell made the last speech, and
Celia Rureigh, NJ, Adele Hazlitt, and other
notables in the movement, occupied seats upon
the platform.
The treasurer of the American education So
ciety exhibits the following report: Receipts for
the year ending April 80, $4,000; available
funds $50 600; disbursements for the year, $50,
400 Rev. Seth Sweetzer was elected president.
George D. Butterfeld, aged 6fty-two, shot him
self in Charestown yesterday.
A cable telegram announces the death of Mrs,
Field, mother of Kate Field, on board steamer
Russia, at Queenstown, Goth inst.
The United States flagship Congress, Comma.
dore Green, arrived here this evening, having
left SANTANA bay, May 16; officers and crew in
good health.
SPRINGFIELD, May 29.-The freight depot at
Willimansett, on the Connecticut River railroad,
was reported burned tonight.