The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-01-23

Stanton" One cannot look at her with
out thinking of the word. She Ia quite
portly, moving with majesty rather than
clumsiness. Her hair is white as wool
and she wears IL In q high coil at the back,
pulled In front and ornamented only with a
black lace barbe. She 10 evidently the
leading spirit among the 5ufraglsts, though
Susan B, Anthony might seem to rival her
In this. The last named lady Is as nearly
the reverse of "Mother Stapton" as can
well be imagined. Tall, gaunt bony, angu-
lar and awkward, STOPPING a little and
wearing enormous shining spectacles, her
appearance is enough to intimidate any
one man who dare oppose her When she is
in earnest She is q strong thinking. in
telligent woman, however, evidently well.
read and acquainted with the world. Miss
Anthony insisted upon voting last fall in
New York, for which offence she was ar
rested and fined hundred dollars. The
payment of this fine has never been ex-
acted but is filed against her. Mrs. Swiss
holm, from Pennsylvania, for many years
editress and proprietress OF q Pittsburgh
newspaper and by whose means the bill,
giving married women the right to hold
property In their own names, was passed
some years ago in that State, spoke very
ably on the first day of the convention,
rather reproving the harangues that b ad
previously been made about and against the
men, saying "God bless the men They've
always placed their strong breasts between
us and life's rudest, toughest burdens |
And they'll always have IL to do They're
willing to II can't scold them much p
Mrs. Matilda JOsslyn Gage Is another of
the veterans in the city this week. She
and Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony are
the only ones Of the original movers in the
cause who are now left. Mrs. Stanton re-
marked this yesterday, and said she hoped
they should not have to enter the kingdom
of Heaven disfranchised, but If it must be
so-and she feared it would be her own case
ateast--they could but hope for good fruit
from the seed they had sown and are SOW
ing. Mrs. Lockwood, Atty at Law, and
DIR. Mary Walker, both of Washington,
spoke on the second day. Mrs. Lockwood
has her own individual grievance-as do
most of these good ladies, in fact--in that
she was lately refused admittance to the
bar of the United States Supreme Court.
She introduced a petition in Congress this
week for the removal Of legal disabilities
of women, which was read in the House.
referred to the judiciary Committee, and
ordered printed. DR.. Mary Walker was
the only one of the suffragists who appear
ed in anything like ''Reform Costume" :"
She wore her usual dress, boots and panta-
looms q td masculine gender and outer gar
ment a sort of half-fittng frock reaching
hardly to the knee. This lady is quite a
determined character in her way. Last
evening, the last session held by the associ-
alton, she attempted to submit resolution
at time when it was out of order and so
insisted upon it that President Stanton
sent for policeman to remove her.
Congressiona al matters are daily increas-
ing in interest. Southern, and other COM
mittees are beginning to report and there
is general hustle at the Capital Indicative
of important business. Barnes, the tele-
graph operator from New Orleans who has
been imprisoned for week past on account
of his refusal to produce kilograms de-
manded of him by the investigating COM
mittee, has now consented TO do SO, and
starts for Louisiana to-day under the sur
vellance Of Sergeant alarms, to procure
the papers, ordered to be back and report
here within ten days. Mr.. Orton has also
been allowed to leave the city to consult his
physician in New York. M. M. w.