The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-08-04
Men and Women.


William Black, the novelist. is coming Il
America.
Prof. David Swing Of Chicago is staying al
Long Branch, seeking rest and recreation.
The Christian women Of Calcutta, India, are
conducting . remarkably successful crusade
against the liquor shops.
Mr.. Stuart Robinson, the comedian, was cd
ucated for the ministry, and Miss Kate ClAxtor
! 10 the granddaughter OF munster.
Died. in New York, William Duer Robinson
cashier Of the custom house for thirty-foul
years, during which over $1,000, DOC, 900 passed
through his hands without pennys sticking
Mr.. G.. P. Lathrop, whose controversy with
Julian Hawthorne has excited so much interest
in Eastern literary circles is the husband OF
Rose Hawthorne, the youngest member Of the
family, and is himself, it Is said, q gentleman
but little over 20 years Of age.
An English critic says Of the late Miss Har :
RET Martineau, that she was Ga radical in al
things, critic by nature, and nothing evil,
crude or slovenly escaped her. She wrote clev-
erly for reviews, magazines and newspapers,
and farmed with unsurpassed success, all in all,
positive and unique worker for the betterment
Of her race, and whose name and influence will
not die"
Father John Dixon. whose death recently
occurred, was the founder Of Dixon, ILL.,. having
entered the land upon which that city now
stands in 1885. When Fulton took his first
steamboat on trial trip up the Hudson, Father
Dixon was a passenger and paid the great in
ventor Of steamboats, the fest money as fare
ever received as return for his immense ex-
penses and time.
The following, concerning one of the bright
est writers for little folks in this country, we
find in the Marshall Statesman MISS FarmaL,
the editress Of - Wide Awake" who at present
resides in Bedford, in this county, is about to
remove to Boston, TO be within better reach OF
her labors. She has managed the magazine ad-
mirably, in spite o. the difficulties Of being at
this distance from her publisher, and we shall
see new energy in her work when she has all
the material written within reach OF her deft
and busy hands,
T. W. Higginson finds fault with the portion
of Gov. Bullock's address at Mt. Holyoke in
which the young ladies we're not to pursue the
study Of political economy. Mr.. Higgnson
said he had the good fortune to begin the study
OF that science at a very early age under the
guidance Of two women, namely, Harriet Mar
tineau, who wrote the books, and his mother,
who put them into his hands and when q
woman (Mrs. Fawcett) furnished manual Of
Political Economy for Harvard college, it seems
to Mr.. Higginson little out Of place TO warn
the young ladies OF Mt. Holyoks from the path
of science by putting up the sign, Women
not admitted"
1t really looks as if the recent defeat OF the
woman suffrage bill might turn out woman's
success, after all. Mr.. John Bright having
made great point against the bill by indig-
nanty denying that men were unwilling to do
justice to women, or to relieve them Of burdens,
has had his attention called by Lord Coleridge
and others to the present condition OF the law
by which husband may, by his will, deprive
his widow OF the guardianship Of her own chill
dren, without giving any reason, and transfer
them to a stranger, to the exclusion OF women
from medical education, etc. The result is that
the venerable statesman Is resolved to try TO
make his denial good, and has already set his
name to a bill by which all restrictions against
the attainment Of medical degrees by women
shall be removed NJ. d. Conway.