Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-10-03
WOMAN ITEMS.

\ girl in Elyria, O., is learning the car
penter's trade.
\ Madison avenue girl recently broke of
her engagement Just because her lover want
ed to borrow five dollars of her.
\ Georgia bride is describing in one of tho
local papers as " looking a very lily Graded
in the golden glimmer of some evening lake
"a foam-feck, snowy, yet sun-Aushed
erowning the ripplings Of some soft south
ern sea-.
Brooklyn has the novelty of a breach Of
! promise suit against dead man. 4 yeaI
ago Mary Frances Wade sued ex-Mayor
/ kalbaeisch for Slj0,000 for not fulfilling
his alleged promises to marry her since
then he has died, but Mary, undismayed,
has now made application to have the case
reopened, and the $50, 900 required to
/ heal the wound to her affections paid over
| by the executors Of the estate. She is not,
however, likely to be successful.
Tne Court of Session in Scotland has de-
cided that women have no right to receive
instruction in the Universities Of that ror-
tion Of the British dominions.
Kate Kibey of Madison county. H.. went
blind just after graduating from an eastern
seminary, since which time she has prepared
her two brothers for college and fitted her
younger sister for entrance to the Monticello
seminary.
\ Carlinyille (Ill.) woman broke her leg
while kicking her husband for kissing the
mik-woman
Two couples in Kansas entered into a
counting match for the championship of the
State, and thesictoriouS couple sat up forty
nine hours.
The Georgia ladies mentioned by telegraph
as having fallen heir to the magnificent sum
of SO 2,0O0,0 600 are Mrs. Virginia NJ Camp
hell and her niece, Mrs. Elmira Cham bers,
10th Of Madison. Mrs Campbell Is a wild
ow about seventy years of age; her niece
Mrs. Chambers, is also a widow, aged ab0ut
thirty-six. The vast property which they
have inherited, we learn from the Atlanta
Herald, descends to them through n Mrs
Rennauleau, mother of Mrs. Campbell and
grandmother of Mrs. Chambers. Mrs.
Campbell's maiden name was Mcguire, her
mother having been Mdlle. Rennauleau.
They are connected with one Of the best
families in France By the terms Of an
agreement between Judah p Benjamin and
the two ladies the former will take one-half
the whole amount Of the estate, and the
other half, 10000 900, will then fall to Mr..
Campbell and Mrs Chambers, the share Of
each being the neat little sum of S3 ,000 600
in the hands of the RothSehilds. Mr. Ben
iamin's fee is the largest ever received, and
really the largest ever dreamed OF. much less
claimed, by any lawyer.
The Special Committee on Woman Suf-
irage appointed by the Ohio Constitutional
Convention viii, the chairman states. report
in favor Of giving woman the ballot
An old lady in Lancaster was very indig-
uant on being assured by her nephew that
the bellies at Long Branch exhibit n strong
partiality for rufs''
The Danbury Macs man says the women
he saw on the plains looked ike an Eastern
woman who has a large family, small wages.
some debt, and cold on her lungs
Mrs Mary Cowdcn Clarke's new book,
3" The Trust and the Remittance Two Love
Stories in Metcred Prose. has the following
peculiar dedication: '' To the lovcr-hus-
band Of eighty-fye these love stories are ded-
icated by the lovcr-wife Of sixty-seyen.
\ Grand Rapids, Mich, woman keeps
seyenty-six cats about her premises. When
one dies she has a funeral procession half a
mile long composed entirely Of cats. As
soon as the grave is covered she gives q sig
nal and the whole company howl in concert.
Deacon Swift, Of Grand Rapids, was present
on one of these occasions, and he was heard
to remark afterwards, while his wife was
t-yinu 10 curc his headache with cold wafer