The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1871-11-22
Women as Workers.

ln!hSS eHtefPrISlhS women Ha'e
doue-showiny that when q sen>i
bic woman can do work she /.
more likely TO DO it than to travel
about the country crying out over
the "wrongs" she has to endure,
or cl;.moring for her rights"
Hear Miss Phelps
"In the capital OF a tout-hcarted,
if not very broad-shouldcrcd little
New England State, one Of the
best blacksmlths in the city is
said to 10 u young woman, she
works side BY side with her father,
Of whom she acquired her trade.
In one Of the Territories We
find two young women sisters,
running i blacksmith's shop on
their own account. In the crude
condition OF the region the under
taking was as necessary as it
seemed natural and>as they have
made it respectable. The girls
dress in q bloomcr costume, and
shoe Il horse with ease and skill.
| think it is EcLroit which boasts
Of the woman who took out . con-
tract for macadamizinga road, en-
ga4cd her workmen, kept them to
time, and conducted them and her
road safely and successfully through
her agreement.
The same woman, if | am right
ly informed, has more than once
moved barns and other buildings
on contract, with composufc and
despatch.
In Wisconsin, two girls, whose
works rise mp and call them bless
cd, have for six years managed o
arm Of one hundred acres, and
supported their father ;slld mother
from IT'S proceeds
The Same State estimates that
there arc in all two thousand
women at work this year in its
generous fields.
Iowa aud Indiana contain two
hundred women working farms on
their own account successfully.
In one Of the largest cities irr the
country 4 young, pretty and acii
complished" lady has opened an
extensive boot and shoe store.
Her clerks are all young women;
and her trade is repetcd to be Of
The brlskcst.
Of woman ii Washington
Territory we learn that she has
just returned from Il trip to China,
where she carried n cargo Of ]un,-
bcr. She is said to I've sharper"
observes the source OF information,
''lhan any other mil!-owner on
Puget Sound, and got at least $40
more per thousand feet for lunabeT
than was ever paid at Hong Kong
before"
Ofan extensive dry s. d sab
lishmcnt in New Jersey we are
told that 1t is managed entirely by
Two ladies, aad that their credit
in the large business centres is of
the $oundcst and highest. We are
given TO understand that they set
up business eight years ago, on Il
capital of from 81, 900 to $4,000; and
that they control 4 stock pow
worth from $4,000 to $4,000 in
ladies' fulnishinyand fancy goods.
\ Young woman in Lewiston,
Maine,' has been fitting herself,
under excellent promise: for the
profession OF q dentist. In the
heavier work. which requires active
muscles and steady eye, her em-
ploycr has long since been :sccrStt,-
med to call upon tor ;lcr very etfcc-
tive assistance.
y ladies life insurance company,
all the employees of which arc to
be women. is forming in Lond" {.
And here we run against another
Wisconsin woman (surely that
energetic State is the woman's
"EarthIy Paradi<e"). who supports
q sick husband and his cid grand
father off from II forty-acfc farm.
And again from New Jersey.
What says one Of her leading
papers? Oar entire ncwspaper
is the work Of young ladies, aud
every type Is set by lhcm-advcr-
'isoments and all-ana the maker
rp' is . young girl And We havc
20 foreman in the newspaper
rooms, young lady acting s if taSa
capacity"
\ LAKE OF WATER BELOW THE
SURFACE OF THE EARTH.-For co1no
months past workmon have beon
engaged in digging . well near
the handsome new residence Of Mir.
paxson, i short distance from
Lcc>burs. bat without finding
water Of say consequence, not
wi,hstanding that in Tic course Ok
their excavations they :iad cut
through several layers Of heavy
congIomcratc limestone rock. \
few weeks ago, however, 1T tic
depth OF about sixty.ciGht feet,
they struck another layer 0: rock.
This they blasted, and on Thurs
G:;y i:::>; Succeeded in cnttim:c
through! ( distance Of s"Ae four or
tive !cci. when there was revealed
70 their ;lstoni>hc:; gazc. ! lake "t'
running water flowing northward.
The water was found 70 be about