Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-07-18
Girls Schools in New England.
From the Nashua Telegraph.

It is fact not generally known to
this generation, that girls were wholly
excluded from all our schools during
the first $50 years of their existence,
and it was not until 1908 that the stat
be public instructor of the. young.
At first all the teaching was done by
males, and it took more than 300 years
to eradicate the prejudice against the
employment Of female teachers. In
the enlightened towns and cities of
Massachusetts, girls were not allowed
equal privileges with the. boys in the
public schools until about 1880. In
Boston the first attempt to open,
the public schools to girls
was made in 1870 by Caleb
Bingham, schoo]master in that city,
one of the earliest graduates of Dart
mouth College, and the author of the
Columbian Orator. He succeeded in
getting the schools open to them dur
ing the summer months, when boys
: were scarce! This was continued un-
til 1880, when the schools of Boston
were thrown vide open to girls and
boys. The record in New Hampshire
is not much better. For 16O years the
good people of Portsmouth made no
provision for the education of females,
and no regular instruction was pro-
vided for them until 1915.
The academy at Exeter, like the COL
lege at Dartmouth, was opened to In
dams and closed to women. It was not
until 1928 that, any institution existed
in this state for the special benefit of
women. In that year, Adams Female
Academy was established in Derry,
with L. P. Grant and Miss Mary Lyon
as teachers. The latter subsequently
found wider field and imperishable
fame at Mount Holyoke.
The Greatest Gas Well in the Oil
Regions.
I The Newton we'll, on the Nelson
farm, six miles north of Titusville, Pa,
has. been down about twenty days, and
has continn ous]y poured forth such a
volume Of gas that it was found i'm
possible to pump it, as the valves would
not work. The tubing was pulled on
Wednesday, and the we'll was cased in
order to let the gas blow of, so that
it might be pumped. After. the casing
was put in the sand pump was lowered
for the purpose of agitating the we'll,
and the gas raised column of water,
throwing solid stream into the air a
hundred feet. The noise was terrific,
and could be heard for distance of
more than two miles. The noise was
something like the loud roar of thun-
der, and when the column burst at the
top it threw the water each way
for fifteen rods from the we'll. The
water was exhausted in about twenty
five minutes, and then column of gas
followed, rising with tremendous force
fifty feet above the derrick. The out
pouring of the gas makes a roaring
noise that can he distinctly heard fol
two miles from the we'll. The noise
around sounds like the rushing of a
whirlwind. The column can lie seen Il
mile from the we'll. No tools can be
put into the we'll. As soon as the at
tempt is made, with such force does
the gas come out that the tools are car
ried into the air. From descriptions OF
eye witnesses this is probably the great
estgns we'll ever struck in the oil region.
Up to last evening the gus showed nc
signs Of being exhausted. The people
in that region arc very much alarmed,
and the cattle run about the fields per
fectly wild with fright.
Remarkable Restoration tO Reason.
From the Oakland tcal.> News. June %.
At Temescal, short distance south
of the bridge, stands small white
house, in which lives an honest, indus.
trious man, named Hanly, with his
fan,ily-a wife aud six children, one OF
whom is a girl eighteen years Of age,
named Kate. This girl had been OF
unsound mind all her life until last
Wednesday morning, sometimes be.
coming excessively violent: at others
quiet but irresponsible. On Sunday
morning she fell into deep sleep, from
which she did not arouse until seventy
two hours had passed and ushered in
the morning sun OF Wednesday. From
this long sleep she awakened free from
the thraldom Of idiocy, and blessed
with the heavenly boon of intelligence.
She recognizes none Of the persons
whom she knew before, with the cxcep-
tion of the members of her own family,
and naturally feels and nets IN many
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