New-York tribune., 1873-01-07

which goes ABOUT tne state nOlulng meetings. III
ways invites women to be present in the evening
and 30 arranges the subjects to present at that
session the most attractive topics for a mixed audi
ence Sometimes women contribute to the interest
of the meetings by reading papers specially prepared
by them. All this, considering how much they have
to do with farm-work seems natural enough; and it
is strange that the custom is not more general.
All here is another of the astonishing young fe-
male farmers-a curly y-haired blonde in Pittsfeld,
Mass. She manages farm, plants and digs pota-
toes hoes corn, swing scythe, and is great at
driving horses she feeds the stock, does the dairy
work, and draws the wood in the Winter. Last
week, when the quicksilver was down to zero, this
noble virgin was seen starting for the woods with
her horse and Sled "the rosest heariest healthiest
and happiest young woman in Berkshire" 1t Is
stated that she is not engaged which demon
srates TO our mind that the Berkshire young gentle
men are sadly deficient in common sagacity.
There seems at last prospect that the claim OF
the widow and children of Admiral Dahlgren will
have a hearing in Congress. The Senate has already
passed bill authorizing the Court of Claims to
decide what is honestly due to the family for the
of the Admirals inventions. 1t will soon come be-
fore the House. and it is hard to see what objection
can be made to it, The nation has used the product
of Dahlgren's labor and genius for twenty years
without penny of compensation. If he had been
private citizen bis children would now possess
colossal fortune. 1t is not fair to rob them simply
because their father was devoted and loyal officer
They take financial events very easily in Mem
phis. When bank cannot go on it puts bill in
the window stating the fact. The Memphis Bank
having done this, The Appeal prints a frst-rate
notice Of the President of the institution, Major
Murphy. He is" says The appeal. g popular and
highly-esteemed gentleman, and we reason
why he should be curtailed that ample liberty of
bursting which has been allowed to his predeces
sors." All Tie Appeal ventures to say is: We re-
quire return to legitimate banking" We should
think 50.
January 16 is not far away, and those who would
secure boxes for the Infant Asylum Ball should do
speedily, not forgetting that application must be
made to Mrs. B. H. Van Auken. No. 421 Fifth-ave.
Tickets may be obtained from Mrs. l.. NJ. Bates, No.
10 West Thirty -nnth-st. or from any of the mana
gers, who represent the elite of Sew-York. A char
ity that repays so bountifully in pleasure cannot
fail to be crowned with success. considerable
number of the more expensive boxes have already
been sold.
singular and painful event occurred in Christ
Church, Savannah, on Christmas morning. A girl
about sixteen, Miss Lizzie Spencer, had just been
confirmed, with several others, by Bishop Beckwith
The ceremony was hardly over when she fell for
ward senseless. 1t was supposed that she had
tainted but upon being carried from the church she
gasped few times and died. The fact was COM
municated to the congregation before its separation
blythe Bishop, who improved the opportunity to i'm
his hearerq the uncartaintv nf life
In November, 1869, young japanese medical stu
dent. called Sasumi SatoO, entered the Berlin Uni
versity not even knowing the characters of the
German language He gave FIVE months to the
study of German, and in the remaining six months
he gained the knowledge of all the subjects incud
ing Latin, which were required for the first exam
inatiOn. AT the last examination in Anatomy, he
was one of the two candidates who alone, of the
thirteen who presented themselves, obtained the
notice good
Photographic a. an art has just reached a new
dignlty--it has got Professors chair, and Pro-
fessor TO fill it, The fortunate man is DR.. Vogel
Photographic instructor in the Berlin Royal Indus
trial College. This academic action is very proper
and only just to the profession which is fast growing
in thoroughness and in conscientious zeal for u-
provement and new discovery. To compare photo
graphs taken in 1868 and in 1873 is the best way
which to realize what the art is doing for itself.
No doubt all the ladies in Washington on New
Years Day presented @ as {, snSa4aaatng appearance
but Mrs. X, whose Appointments are described IN
The Erening Stdri must have been rayishing She
wore "a rich black Antwerp silk colTt tran Eltih
hsdrenly blue silk pettcost." No wonder she 10 fur.
ther inventoried as Cooking regal.' Almost any
woman would in heavenly blue silk petticoat; and
a newspaper named The Star certainly should be
judge of things celestial.
They have Mayor in Tallahassee, Florida. who,
to say the least is unlike some Mayors When he
was elected, he astonshed everybody by announcing
that he should not charge the city anything for his
services. Now, some extra fees having accrued to
him. amounting to $50, he has given these also to
the city. Some of the inhabitants, encouraged by
this, propose to compel the Mayor to make up the
sum to 800, which doesn't strike us as very CRATE
full proceeding
In Manchester England, the other day, an un-
happy dramatic author. upon whom the critics had
violently descended. rose to his defense in long
and fierce speech. He called them bloodthirsty."
and young and inexperienced. and so charmed his
audience that. when he concluded they yelled with
delight and demanded another speech-a specimen
of the sympathy that authors always get from cold
and unfeeling world
A lad in London (age i2l must have hated his STEP
mother bitterly than is usual for twice he ad-
to that relative arsenic in her tea Sam
uel Hoy. for such is the boys name has been SEN
fenced to ten years penal servitude for this oense
To render his wickodness complete. ho admins
tered the pQia2l 9n SUNDAY !p2yRlRg.