The Portland daily press., 1876-01-13
About Women.

A New York critic says that Miss Fanny
Davenport has displayed new powers as the
heroine in "Pi1ue."
A Vermont girl wears VOLTS tail in place
of an sstrch feather. She killed the wolf
that used to whisk chat appendage too.
Lucy Larcom, the well known magazine
writer, has accepted the position of teacher in
private school in Boston. Literature is not a
paying profession.
Marion Harland, a successful writer of inter-
convertible 1865 cook-books and novels has an
inco ne of $4,000 per annum from her trashy
writings.
Miss Bettina de Rothschild, the eldest daugh-
ter of Baron AlphonEe de Rothschld of Paris
is engaged to be married to Baron Albert de
Rothschild of Vienna. The marriage will
take place early in the spring.
Mrs. Asa Sherman of Marshfeld, Mass, was
one hundred years old on the 28th ult. Her
husband died at the age of ninety-seven, and
she has five children living, whose ages are
seventy-six, seventy-fve, sixty-eight, sixty-six
and sxty-two.
Mrs. Gaines has arrived in Washington, after
an absence of two years, to attend to suit
pending in the Supreme Court affecting the
probate of will in New Orleans. She says
sha has been engaged in litigation concerning
her interests for forty.four years, and has spent
three fortunes.
Miss Rose Eytisge, when ''Rose Micae
withdrawn, proposes to make starring
for the Centennial summer. Among her
will be a Revolutionary drama, written Iu.
her by Celia Logan. One of Miss Eytnge's
costume will be dress once worn by her great
grandmother.
A. L. o. E. miss Charlotte Maria Tacher,)
who is well known in England and the United
States as writer of entertaining Sunday
school books, has gone from England to India
to engage in the Zenana mission work. Miss
Tacher is grand-niece of James Boswell, Dr.
Johnson's famous biographer.
The wife of Ex-mayor T. M. Allyn of Hart
ford, Conn.,, after suffering from blindness for
seven years, has just obtained partial restora-
tion of her sight. The first thing that aston
ished her was to observe how old her friends
had grown during her interval of blindness.
She was also greatly surprised at what she con-
sidered the queer headdresses of the day.
HauBah Furguson, wife of the brakeman
that was fatally hurt on the Paducah and
1AO"Phio ldob WCchs Cdu UOdSt Vi q
bit of romance that doesn't usually fall to the
lot of good wives-tO wit: having two husbands
buried in one week. Such was the case with
her, however. Peter Sanford, her divorced
husband, lay down and died day or two after
Furguson was buried, thus clearing the afore-
said Hannah from every coujugal tie, moral
and legal.-Cootngton Tenn. Record.
Miss Hardy, the eldest daughter of Admiral
Hardy, in whose arms Nelson expired, is dead.
Gha 4ha af Ia ae =.
Hampton Court Palace, allotted to her by the
Queen. The musket-ball by which Nelson was
killed was for many years kept as a memento
by Capt. Hardy, who had it mounted in crys-
tai and silver as a locket. 1t is believed now
to be in the possession of the Queen.
Miriam Cole Harris, the author of "Rut-
ledge" has regular income of $4,000 year
from the sale of her books. When she wrote
"Rutedge" she took the MS. to a number of
publishers, who looked it over and declined it
with thanks, as lacking the elements of popu-
larity. AT last she had it published by Mr.
Carleton at her own expense, ard 10000 copies
were sold just as fast as the printer could turn
them out. As royalties we're in those days, she
only made 5000 out of the enormous sale.
Augusta j. Evans, the author of "Beulah,"
"Macatia," "St. Elmo" 'Vashti," and "In-
felicia is about 40 years of age and the wife
of rich man who lives at Mobile, Ala She
is said by those who know her to be one of the
best educated women in America. An admiring
correspondent says: 'Tt is Just as natural for
her to write Of classic shades and quote foreign
languages as it is for her to write at all. With
in eight years her publisher has paid her $780,
900 as her share of the profits arising from the
sale of her books"
The certificate of ba pt;srr nf Mrra= Adelina
fattithas lately hesn discovered, and has been
published by the Spanish papers. 1t is dated
April 8, 1843, and certifes that on that day
Don Jose Losada, vicar of the parish Of st.
Louis, Madrid, solemnly baptized a child born
in Fuencarral street, in the same city, at four
o'clock in the afternoon of February 10, 1S43,
daughter of Salvatore Patti, professor of music,
native of Catania in Sicily. and of Caterina
Patti, nee Chiesa, native of Rome. The
child's god-parents Giuseppe Sinico and Nine.
Rose Sinico, gave Der the name of Adele jean
ne Marie.
Mrs. John Adams was an early advocate for
woman's rights. She wrote TO her husband at
a critical time, as follows: 81 long to hear that
you have declared an independency. And, by
the way, in the new code of laws which 1 sup
pose it will be necessary for you 10 make, de.
sire you would remember the ladies and be
more generous and favorable to them than your
ancestors Do not put such unlimited powe
into the hands of the husbands Rememb
all men would be tyrants if they could.
particular cafe aud attention is not paid to
ladies, we are determined 90 feeseat . rebellion
and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws
in whic we have 10 voice or representation"