Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-09-18

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granting women the right to practice law in
this stale was passed near the close of the last
session OF the legislature and so near did it
capaclouS pockets, that his official signature
was not attached thereto until within two
minutes OF midnight of the last day of the ses-
in and out of the legislature, labOred earnest.
~ Tor the bill, its passage, and especially its
final approval by the governor, were no doubt
Cara lady law Student Of this III cfy
at that time well advanced in her readings
and who had determined upon the profession
OF the law as means of honorable livelihood.
With the passage of the bill the lazy entered
upon her readings with renewed zeal Few
male students have been able to accomplish
like proficiency in SO short a PERIOD when the
TACT Is taken into consideration that Mrs
FOltZ has family of five small children to
care for, and for the most of the time had done
her hOuseWork unassisied, and occasionally
has been obliged to take to the lecture fields as
meansI OF piecing out h. meaere income.
The committee appointed tn examine her con-
sisted OF SEINE OF our first lawyers, who sub.
knowledge, and who unanimously certified to
her entire fitness for advancement. Mrs.
FOltz is the first woman admitted to the bar
OF this state.-[Sdn Jose Mercury.
INTERNAL MACHINES have been employed of
late with fatal effect in several cities and
towns OF Mexico. At San Angel little town
five or six miles from the capital of the cOun-
try, party of six ladies and three gentlemen
assembled TO open box assuming to have
come from Southern France and to contain
LOurdes water and number of rosa les that
had been blessed by the Pope. One box
opened, another was disclosed, and as they
were trying to get into the second tremen-
dous explosion took place. and every person
but ore was instantly kilI"" /"
tair"@ Aue Dnx con-
-----~. uuro glycerine, and was evidently pre-.
PARED tor assassination, though why any of the
party mentioned should have incurred any
such deadly enmity 1t is impossible to tell The
terrible box, 1t Is said, was sent to one of the
ladies. remarkable for her amiabIlity and be.
neVOlence. She was unmarried, and great
favOrlte. anfit is Surmised that semi adven-
turer who had proposed to her and been re-
Iected had adopted this method of revenge
such a thing scarcely seems credible to us:
but In Mexico anything criminal may happen,
WIN or without prOvOcatiOn. There are men
there VINO appear to practice assassination
lest tney may grow rusty in their murderOus
art. The CalifOrnians have a prOverb that a
mongrel Mexican is half brother to the devil
A WOMAN'S SUICIDE WHILE OUT SAILING
AT Fort Stanley, Canada, Mrs. Ball, widow
went to picnic with her two sisters. Her
prospective brOtherin- law was present, and,
considering her actions too free and frlsky
declared he would never speak to her again.
Afterwards he took boat and invited her
ana some others to 60 with him for a sail.
Mhen they were about mile from shore Mrs
ing up to see me any more?' I'm going up
tonight for the last time he said. Standing
up IN the boat, she threw her hat behind her.
said "GoOd-b by, Bert; good by, WILL" sprang
overheard and was drowned.