Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1872-05-11
FENIINNICAL.

Matilda FLETCHER OF Iowa, intends
to stump that State for Grant.
The Topeka Kansas Medical Col.
lege admits women to its classes.
Abby Sage Richardson teaches ell
ocution at her residence in Chicago.
A Baltimore girl died not long ago
because her lover refused to kiss her
good night.
Jennie Pettis, of Burlington, Ia,
has added herselfto the list Of female
Demostheneses.
Two thousand women or girls are
employed in Birmingham, England,
in the brass-founding trade.
Winnie Ream has bought a house
on Pennsylvania avenue, and the
Capitol accordingly is no longer her
studio.
Soiourner Truth is now sojonrn-
ing at Mendoza, H., having finished
her lecturing tour in Iowa and Kan
sas.
Detroit is going to have ball to
which only blondes are to be invited
and the brunettes are ready to dye
with grief.
The assistan. professor of Ian
guages, in Howard University, at
Washington, D. c., is Kate q.
Haynes, formerly of Southbridge,
Mass.
The Princess Pierre Napoleon
Bonaparte advertiscs in the London
papers that she is able to supply
millinery in the latest styles to the
nobility and gentry Of that city,
The Quincy Patriot, prosperous
weekly paper, reoentlyJ enlarged and
improved, has t5een published in the
homo cfthe Adamses for more than
ter yaars by NJ. Elizabeth Green.
The Sultan Of Turkey is establish
ing schools'for women, notwithsand-
ing that there's nothing in Koran
which gives him reason to believe
that there are blue-stocking among
the houris.
Phabe Schofeld, Of Richmond,
Ind, aged 100, has obtained from
the War Departm $4,000, being
arrears Of pay and pension due to
her late husband for services per-
" formed in the Revolutionary war.
Mrs. Peter Grjnda, of Mackinac
county, Micf4., is the mother of twen-
ty.three sons and daughters, each
Of whom is parent of q dozen or
! more, consequently Mrs. Gronda is
grandmother to at least three hun
dred little ones.
The schoolgirls of Versailles Ky,
have been complained Of by order
loving citizens for cowardly tying
tin kettles TO cows tails, and send
ing the cowed beasts coursing
through the town, to the destruc-
ton of.much valuable property.
Three and thirty women were pub
licly fogged in Mechliuberg-Schwer.
in last year, and the Mecklinberg-
Schwerin branch Of the Victoria
Woodruff Woman's Rights Uniyer-
sal Equality and Free-Love Associa-
ton has disbanded in consequence
Two Mexican ladies at a recent
ball at Santa Cruz getting into dis
pute in regard to the number of
dances due each by neutral lover,
one of them, throwing her No. st
kid glove into the others face, chal
lenged her to mortal combat. They
met the next morning. The challeng-
edhayingthe choice Of weapons, chose
tie short sword, and after a few
passes the weapon passed completely
through the white sword.arm of her
antagonist, entirely disabling it.
Frantic with rage and pain the
wounded fury seized a pistol and
dare the other to "come on, Macdutf. "
Nothing loath the other took her
position, the word was given, and
again the challenger was wounded,
her left arm broken by the ball of
her antagonist. She was carried off
the field in q swoon, and the other
more fortunate fair married the casus
bell two hours afterwards.
4 CHICAGO girl hearing that her
lover had been stricken with small
pox insisted upon flying to his bed
side and becoming his nurse 1t was
a severe case, but she was unceasing
in her devotion, and principally
through her care and skill the patient
recovered. And now she herself tell
victim to the complexion destroy
ing monster and although she sur
viyed the attack, at its close the
beautiful pink and white OF her fair
face had flown forever, and from be-
ing the prettiest girl in ChicSo she
became one of the plainest. Her
lover had attended her through her
illness, but when he saw how fear
fully she was changed his love for
her departed, and when the mar
riage-day drew near he refused TO
fulfil his part of the contract. She
took his refusal very calmly which
had lost its prattiness in saving the
urgrateful one,from death; her cheek,
which the tell-tale blood used SO OF.
ten to tinge with rosy-red, retained
its color and she married an octoge-
miriam worth S500,00O