The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-03-05

Commission. has just been married to New
England lady.
| Miss Jewell, daughter OF the Postmaster
General, teaches a class in colored mission
school in Washington.
Churches which would never admit woman
to the pulpit, nor even allow her to vote on any
matter which concerned the church, are made
rich by the wills of women.
Detroit wife refused to speak to her hus-
band for several weeks because he went away
on business one morning without kissing her
goodbye. The joke of the matter was that
the poor man didn't know IN all that time how
he had offended her.
Baltimore lady of wealth and piety is said
to have remained single until the age Of forty
years, refusing many offers, because she had
resolved to marry no man except clergyman.
A while since she wac welded to penniless
but devout pastor OF little church, and the
honeymoon was hardly over before he resigned
his charge and set up as broker with her
money.
800, and then he sold her silk dress to pay the
fine. This lie the average practical result Of So
called "justice" to wives who appeal to it for
protection against brutal husbands. Fine and
Imprisonment for him mean hunger and starva-
ton to her and her children.
Mrs. NJ. A. Johnson editress OF the Agitator,
temperance paper in Jacksonville, Ind, was
sued for libel by one Fisher, for calling his
whisky-shop murder-mill She proved her
statement true, and the jury were out but
few minutes when they returned with verdict
OF acquittal. Therefore we have jury decid-
ing that saloons are murder-mlls.
Miss Kellogg is making $4,000 week, and
doesn't care for men. She didn't come Of a
very romantic family, and never could see any
poetry in skirmishing with thread and needle
around the ragged edges of husbands shirt
button holes.- Brooklyn Argus.
The Smith sisters lose their case against the
tax collector of Glastonbury in the action for
trespass, because he sold some of their land
for unpaid taxes instead OF first taking portable
property, Judge Sumner, of Hartford and the
Court OF Common Pleas reversing the Judgment
Of the lower court and giving judgment for
the collector, who is also to recover his costs.
At recent meeting in London to consider
the political disabilities Of women. Sir Robert
Anstruther alluded to an argument which had
been brought forward, that women, being
physically feebler than men. were not as fitted
to exercise the franchise. He declared that
this argument was not only logically unsound,
but founded upon false premises, as proof of
which latter statement he offered to bring tout
Of a fishing village in Fife, hundred young
women who would beat hundred young men
from Manchester out of the field in five min
utes." Needless it ls to say that this handsome
offer was greeted with the heartest cheers.
Bishop Ferrette advocates woman suffrage,
and would have women elected to Office Also
He proposes that women should elect the up
per house of the legislature and men the lower,
and says Moot constitutional countries have
found it advisable to divide the exercise OF the
legislative power between two houses. just as
nature has divided the human race into two
sexes. The sexes in nature are not mere
repetition Of each other, nor are they entirely
dissimilar. SO are the functions OF the upper
and lower houses in constitutional countries,
neither dissmllar nor Identcal-they are anal
ogous. The upper house represents the con-
servatlve element, which womeE naturally are,
as the family, which is their kingdom, cannot
prosper when the peace Of the State is compro-
missed by rash politics. The lower house more
adequately represents the manhood OF the land
those to whom 1t belongs, If necessary, to give
their blood to have its dignity respected.