The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-10-06
ABOUT WOMEN.
George Sands grandmother was a famous
danseuse by the name of Dussin.
The Eighth Woman's Congress is to be
held in RLnsfnn narf moth

+ George Sands grandmother was famou
danseuse by the name of Dussin.
The Eighth Woman's Congress is to b
: held in Boston next moth.
Fourteen women missionaries from tn.
Female Board of Missions have gone TO tn,
: Norman settlement in Utah, Idaho. anC
Western Wyoming
Mrs. Watkinson has built at White Earth
, Mimi, hospital at cost of s., 600, and il
, has an endowment Of $4,000.
A widow of Macon, Ga, sells annually
$500 worth of vegetables of her raising from
half an acre of ground.
The Chicago reunion of the alumni of
the Western Female Seminary, Oxford, O.,
was held Thursday, September 80 at p NJ,
at the Grand Pacific Hotel.
The Woman's National Christian Union
| will hold its seventh annual meeting in
Clarendon Street Church, Boston, Mass,
| commencing Wednesday, Oct. p.
Mrs Myra Clark Gaines, the indefatiga-
/ bic, is living in retirement in Washington.
Although % years old, she is still as brisk
| and clipper as a young widow of 40.
The venerable Lucretia Mott is reported
in rapidly failing health. Although con-
fined to her room, her mind is strong and
bright. She resides with her son-in-law,
Edward Nj. Davis, on Chelton Hills, Phila-
delphia, Pa.
Some good women of Paris have formed
society called the Association des Femmes
de Mode, which takes under its sheltering
wing women who belong to the liberal pro-
fessions and are, by misfortune or the loss
of their natural protectors, left without re-
sources.
Miss Mary Hamilton Laight, beautiful
young lady of rank, whose history would
rIal for aNnA
cousin to the Earl of Lansdowne, died re-
Gently in the Presbyterian Hospital at New
York, among strangers. She had ample
means, but had made no friends in America.
Miss Belle Cook Mrs. Paul., of Mountain
View, Col, who won the two twenty-mile
races at Minneapolis Mimi, is lady of re-
inement and education, who rides in these |
contests because she needs the money thus |
ohtained-and she gathered in $4,000 in |
the two races
Dora Young, the favorite daughter of the
Prophet, and one of the heirs of large por-
ton of his property is not a Mormon, de-
spite the fact that she is attached to the
of her father. She declares the
Mormon wives, under their outward SEM
blance of good will, hate each other with
a deadly hatred.
The Princess Beatrice is so marked in
her attentions to the ex Empress as to
the popular belief that she was
intended for her daughter-in-laN. The
Princess was the first to meet the imperial
ady on her return from Africa, going !
aboard the ship. Lately the ex-Empress !
pent a couple of days at Osborne-the :
3rinoess crossing over to Portsmouth to es-
.ort her
HE ladies have done we'll In the First B.
\, and b. Sc. examinations of London Uni {
'ersity. In French two of them stand
lone in the first class, none of their male
ivals having got beyond the second. In
herman there is lady in the first class,
While one has obtained honors in Latin, TWO |
n English ana two III mathematics A
tudent from Newman has taken honOrs in :,
otany and chemistry.
The Baroness de Hatfield, whose divorce,
)r no other cause than that an ancestress | u
Tas at one time connected with the stage, is
isgraceful alike to her husband and Ger !"
ian court, is not daughter, as was recently i
.aied, or any blood relation WhateYeT, of =
Ladame De Hegermann Lindencrone the y y
fife of the Danish Minister, but the sister ~
her first husband, Mr.. Charles Moulton, u
nd the daughter of Mrs, Charles Moulton, =
ee Meta, of Paris. ~
man at Antwerp, Mich, thought he n,
way to throw his sister-in- law w
At of his house, without committing what n,
lie law would regard as an assault. This al
as 10 take up the chair ia which she sat AZ
I'D dump it through the window, includ- q,
lg its occupant. He had legal right, M
,cordng to his theory, to do what he 81
leased with his own furniture. He execu-
q TINS plan with violence. TE6asa ne h,
as careful not &c toucR the Woman, she Q,
as badly hurt by the fall A Justice dis ii
garded his argument and fined him $25.