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THE CONNECTICUT BAR.
The Right of a Woman TO ne Admitted
10 Practice 40 be Tested.

Hartford, May 2.-Application was
made several weeks ago by Miss Hall, who
for four years has studied law in the Office OF
the Hon. John Hooker, reporter for the
Supreme Court, for admission to the bar.
She passed an examination before a commit
tee Of the Bar Association and secured re-
port in her favor. When meeting of the
full bar was held TO take action on the re-
port, legal question was raised as to the
admissibility of women, and to dispose OF
that before passing upon her admission, an
assignment of counsel was made TO argue the
matter before the Supreme Court at its
session in this city next month. Ex-Judge
McManus will appear in behalf of Miss Hall,
and Elk Judge Collier will state the legal OBJ
jections to her admission. In these argu-
ments only the legal points can be presented,
all questions of expediency being thrown
aside. So far as the case has been gone into
by the lawyers having it in charge the au-
thorities are decidedly in support of the in
admissibility of women where there is no
statute law expressly providing for their
qualification as attorneys. In all the States
where the question has been tested, the
courts have refused admission, but
this refusal has led, in some States,
to the enactment of laws comforting
the right Of practice upon women, which
has, of course, removed every legal obstacle.
Inc mrs. law IN CONNECTICUT regarding Inc
subject of legal practice was passed by the
Colonial Legislature in 1708, and provided
that the Superior Court might admit attor-
neys. This, in substance, is the law to-day
SO far as the powers of the court go, though
the admission is confined to "such persons as
are qualified therefor agreeably to the rules
established by the judges of the court"
There is no qualification as to sex or age in
the statutes, though at one time in New
Haven county a rule prevailed that attorneys
might be admitted at twenty years of age,
and the Judges may make such rules as they
see fit. No rule, however, has ever been sug-
gested regarding the admission of women,
because it involved a legal Interpretation of
the statutes. The question TO be argued be-
fore the Supreme Court is upon the intent of
the Legislature of 170S, and of its successors
when enacting laws in pursuance of the
original act. This intent, it is strongly main
tanned by leading lawyers, could not have
embraced the admission to the bar OF women.
If the court SO find Miss Hall will have
only one recourse, and that to the Legisla-
ture, for an explicit public act which shall
open the courts to members of her sex.
Hers is the first request in Connecticut for
the extension of bar privileges to women.
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The wishes of the People.

The meetings held on Monday in Maury,
Giles and DeKalb, in reference to the
100000 COG proposition, pending before
the Legislature under the governors proc
lamation, ought to satisfy every member of
the Legislature as 10 the wishes and pur-
poses of the people concerning it. In the
meeting at Pulaski is to be found the
most significant fact-one that will stri ke
every man in the State as the most concl u
sive proof of the dissatisfaction of the people
with the whole proceeding. While the meet
ing was in progress, with the resolution Of
instruction TO the members of the Leg
islature, it being suggested that the repre-
sentative from that county was in town, he
was invited to appear and speak, which he
did, taking his stand in favor of the pending
proposition and insisting that the people
ought to agree to it as the best that could be
done. But when the vote was taken it was
unanimous in favor of the resolution con-
demnipg and deprecating any action of this
LeeisIature,-N Nashville American.
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ACorrespoudent's troubles.

CHATTANOOGA, May "a difficulty oc-
Cured on the streets Monday between the
Nashville AmeTicdn's correspondent, "Mani-
tou," otherwise Major G. c. Conner, formerly
superintendent of the Western and Atlantic
railroad, now at the head of the Electric
Light Company here, and Colonel Walker.
Conner wrote to the Nashville american that
a lady and gentleman stopping at the Read
House were the same couple who eloped
from St. Louis and went to Chicago. Colonel
Walker knew the young man in Columbia,
Tenn, his former home, aud refuted the
charge. Conner accused Walker of telling
the parties he was the americans correspond
ent, at which Colonel Walker became enraged
and went across the street in front of the
passenger depot, where Conner was sprink-
ling grass plat, and demanded an explana
ton. Conner struck at Walker with the
hose, when they clinched and fell. When
separated Conner was considerably bruised
on the head and cheek, said to be done by a
brick in the hand of Walker.
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continent outside OF the United States, and
he disregarded the inevitable attitude of
transatlantic nations toward the complica-
tions which his course was calculated TO
bring about He even showed no under
standing of the spirit of MS own country
men. A bull in a china shop is too trivial
a figure to give a faint suggestion OF the
perils threatened BY Mr.. Blaine in the state
department. Had he remained there with
the freedom to dash about in his own way,
the consequence would have been trouble on
all sides, with no outcome but war. OF
course the dangerous minister would have
been caught and put under restraint before
he had succeeded in getting Us into conflict
with the rest of the world for a peaceful
nation, intent upon industry and trade, with
no army and no desire for one, with no navy
and no wish for any except as precaution
against possible aggression, would not have
allowed itself to be dragged into war with
half a dozen armed nations by an ambitious
and hot-hesded politician. But it had
timely escape from a complication of awk-
ward endorsements.
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Musical Common Sense


The musical artists of London have Just
formed an association for their protection
against these professional benevolent classes
who are perpetually soliciting their services
in aid Of this or that institution or society.
The movement is a sensible enc. The late
Charlotte Cushman, some years before her
death, had the boldness to protest against
this system of philanthropic blackmail, for
that is practically what il is. Being asked
to play in aid of some charity she declined.
She was willing to contribute, but not in
time and service, for it would be ont of all
proportion to the contributions OF others
The principle ia sound. There is no reason
why the hard-worked men and women on the
dramatic and lyric stage should be at the
beck and call of this class of people, who in
nine cases out of ten are actuated more by q
desire to obtain notoriety than to do good
1t is not improbable that the artists of New
York will in the not distant future be conn.,
PEELED in self-defense to follow the example
of their brethren in London.
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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
Effects of Co,ton.seed OIL.


To the Editors of the Appeal:
As cotton-seed oil has now become a sub
stitute for lard in culinary purposes, it
would seem to be wise in those who are ca
pable to examine its properties and effects
on the human system, and ascertain, If pos
sible, whether its use is conducive to health
or productive of disease. / propose only to
state some effects of its use which are clear
to my observation. 1t certainly hardens
everything it is mixed or combined with. AS
a fertilizer it will harden the soil, as, per-
haps, all will testify who have used it. 1t
is known to many in this community that
certain party of this vicinity several years
since undertook the process OF making rock,
and did make considerable amount.
saw a portion of a sidewalk in Memphis
paved with this rock, but it went out of use,
because probably it was not quite hard
enough; but it was rock, and one of the
principal Ingredients was cotton seed ashes.
Cotton-seed oil had not been extracted at
that time, and the experiment of
making rock with the oil was not made,
and for aught we know it may
be preferable to the ashes. But it may be
said this was the result of mechanical or
chemical action, brought about by laws
which govern those actions, and that the
same hardening effect would not be pro-
duced in the animal system when introduced
thrOOgh the channels OF digestion and assIm-
ilation. Now this, we think, is one OF the
important questions that experience has not
yetdecided. But facts are not entirely want
ing here. All dairymen know that the but
ter made from milk from cows fed on cotton
seed is harder than when the COWS are fed on
other food. / forgot TO say, as all know who
use it, that biscuit made up with this oil
become hard on cooling. l have been using
this oil for several months, and have become
so well convinced OF its hardening effects on
unorganized substances, that L have con-
cluded it will exert this influence on animal
tissues; and l have either experienced or i'm
asined that my whole muscular system has
become harder and stronger. l know there are
those who never use their eyes, who will
smile at such a conceit as this, but men
of thought and brain hardly will. But adj
hitting this property in this oil, still the
question comes up, will its constant use be
conducive to health? With my present ex-
perience / am inclined to believe that the
use of this oil will prove beneficial TO all
persons of soft, languid and eufeebled
muscles and nerves. 1t may harden the
brain, SO necessary in this day of whisky
softened brains. Whether or not it will
harden the sense and the morals we will not
at present conjecture. Cotton may be king
after all. DoYEL PEARSON.
APRIL Is 1882
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A New Danger to the Democracy.

Has our Church street contemporary heard
of new danger to Democracy? We are
informed that a secret circular has been
issued by some low-tax men, who pretend to
be for harmony, urging the capture of the
State convention. 1t is evident that this
movement is on foot. There are abundant
surface indications. The very effect of the
movement for harmony -at-any- price and by
compromise with an insolent faction, was to
embolden them. No man with any political
judgment could fail to see that this would be
the effect upon desperate faction, which
will rule or ruin, which must be slain or
will slay. This secret circular, we learn
exists, although we have not been able to
secure copy. As soon as procured it shall
be laid before our readers. Democracy must
kill this snake. This is the boosted har-
mony, and it is precisely such harmony as
was deliberately sought by its advocates
who knew what they were about and yielded
to by some excellent men who failed to see
beyond their noses.-NdShUiue Banner.
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MAY MUSICAL FESTIVAL
AT New York n Grand Sueeess-Frau
WATERWAYS First Appearance.

New YORK, May i3.-The Seventh Regi-
ment armory, which, il is claimed, will hold
5000 persons, was nearly filed last evening
on the occasion of the opening of the May
Musical Festival. The audience gave Theo-
dore Thomas and his orchestra OF 300
and chorus of 1900 a cordial but
not enthusiastic reception. Anna Louise
Cary failed TO appear, owing to illness.
Messrs. Candidus and Whitney, soIoists, re-
ceiyed fair measure of applause, but the
evening passed rather tamely until the ap-
pearance of Frau Frederick Materna. She
was received with a storm of applause. She
gave recitstive and aria, "Abscheulieher-
Fidelio," from Beethoven, with such
power and effect as TO command a
recall five times. Materna finally sang
again, favor the audience seemed de-
termined not TO be refused. The appearance
of Materna was the only noteworthy part of
the opening of the festival, which, however,
is likely to prove financial success. The
chorus and orchestra showed effective and
careful training
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constitution. If there be any grounds for
these assumptions it must come from the OBJ
legations supposed TO exist between State
and the citizens Of State; the State is inter-
ested in the welfare of her citizens, must
protect them, may sue another State for
wrong done, facilitate the collection OF de-
mands against another State, and may sue
the debtor State in various ways. The States
themselves are placed under conditions that
make controversy difficult; treaties, alliances,
armies, ships of war, and the multitude of
things that involve nations in dispute, they
are relieved from. Il it possible to believe
it could have been contemplated that
any State might come to the supreme tri-
bunal with bill such as we are considering?
the danger OF resorting 10 indirect and equivo-
cal measures to encourage litigation. lCita-
tions are given respecting the indirect action
of the papal power in support OF this propo-
sition). New York and New Hampshire
seem to have full appreciation OF the latent
forces TO be found in indirect action, collect
ing into their fold their unsuspecting and
fearful lambs from their innocent and de-
lightsome pasturage. Their acts on the
Louisiana subject are the outcome OF the
benign temper of their Legislatures. New
York proposes radical change in the func-
lions of this court, the removal Of the land
marks that have designated its limits, and an
interdict to affect the executive department
of the State. This bill is to remain in
court until July, 1914, and twice In
each year until then New York pro-
poses to come in for semi-annual in
terest. For third of century underlined
questions and doubtful attributions are to be
developed. The constitution has established,
without indirection, the necessary rights and
privileges of individuals, and has afforded
guarantees for the public welfare; ii has not
regarded the citizens as unable TO manage
their own affairs so that the public authori-
ties must be involved in controversy about
them. Equality of right and protection
have been secured by the constitution, indie
pendent of State agency or assistance; New
York cannot ask for more for her citizens
nor can New Hampshire.
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ENGINEERING.

See that all Iron Bitters are BY BRowz cHrseAA
Co. and crossed red lines aad trade mark vrApsr
BEWARE OF INVITATIONS.
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Sweet May hath come to love US.
Flowers, trees, their blossoms don:
And through the blue heavens above us
The very clouds move on.
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MAY.

Sweet May hath come to love US.
Flowers, trees their blossoms don;
And through the blue heavens above us
The very clouds move on.
When April steps aside for May,
Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten;
Fresh violets open every day:
To some new bird each hour we listen.
Lucy L1rcom.
Crimson clover discover
By the garden gate;
And the bees about her hover,
But the robbins wait;
Sing, robbins, sing,
Sing roundelay,
Ills the latent flower OF spring
Coming with the May.
Dora Read G00ddf6.
feel a newer life in every gale
The wind that fans the flowers,
And with their welcome breathings fill the sail,
OF hours that glide unfelt away
Beneath the sky OF May.
As when the sun is present all the year,
And never doth retire his golden ray.
Needs must the Spring be everlasting there
And every season lie the month OF May.
When merry May first calls the morn,
-Si,- Philip Sidney.
Another May new buds and flowers shall bring,
All why has happiness no second spring.
Charlotte Smith.
O. May sweet. voiced one, going thus before,
Forever June may pour her warm red wine
OF life and passion-sweeter days are thine
Helen HINT.
The spring is here. the delicate-footed May.
With its slight fingers full OF leaves and flowers,
And with it comes thirst to be away,
Wasting in wood-paths its voluptuous honrs
N. p. Wills
Old April wanes and her last dewy morn,
Iaof n bod LEX n -
New blossoms meath the sun are born,
And all poor April's harms are swept away.
Glare.
Springs last born darling, elear-eyed; sweet,
Pauses a moment with white, twinkling feet,
And golden locks in breezes play,
Half teasing and half tender to repeat
Susan Coteridge.
When the flowers from out the grass gin springing,
As If towards the sparkling sunshine smiling
On ay-day, in morn's early glow;
And the birdlets in their nests are singing
With delight. the fiow'ry world beguilfng;
o, what rapture can compare therefor
Hail, bounteous Mayl that doth inspire
Mirth and youth and warm desirei
Woods and groves of thy dressing,
Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing.
Thus we salute thee with our early song,
Milton.
The robin, the forerunner OF the spring,
The blue bird with its jocund carolling.
The restless swallows building in the caves,
The golden buttercups, the grass, the leaves,
The 1ilacs tossing in the winds OF May.
All welcomed this majestic holiday.
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Mayhem atHeadviIle.

LEADvILLE, May 3-There was terrible
case of cannibalism last night, the place be-
ing saloon on the Stray Horse Gulch road,
and the victim being John McGready. The
proprietor, McGready, had some words with
an intoxicated and belligerent individual by
the name of Farrell, the latter abusing every
body and smashing everything that cine in
his way. McGready put the man out a cou
pie of times, and this so enraged the fellow
that he returned third time, when a scuffie
took place. Farrell got the nose of his enemy
in his mouth and settled down to make a
meal of it. 1t was not tender by any means,
but Farrell had a set Of incisors that could
make away with rubber steak. He ground
away at that nose for couple of minutes in
spite of the yells and contortions of his vic
tim, and then, finding that he could not grind
it off, got up and walked out. McGready's
face, OF course, presented horrible appear
ance. The nose was not gone entirely, but it
was hanging in shreds, and it will require
the attention of very skillful surgeon to
take the pieces and make up a new nose.
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A Road A ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS for the
County Court
To the Editors nj the Appeal.

Knowing the interest you take in Memphis
and surrounding country, ask the privilege,
through your columns, OF calling the atten-
ton of the proper authorities to the impass-
able condition OF the Chulahoma road from
Oakville, or, as it is better known, "Shake
Rag" to Plum Point, Miss, on the State line.
The road has not been worked since last
summer, and is now in such a condition that
buggy cannot be hauled over it in safety
We have been waiting month after month,
expecting the next trip we made to town
would lie made with a little more ease, but
it seems we are doomed to disappointment
each time, and it looks now as if the road
was never going to be worked again. From
being one of the most public roads leading
to Memphis, it has now been abandoned until
there is no travel on it but those living on
the line of it that are obliged to travel over
it. It is really enough to disgust any new
conner with the country, and no man caring
any thing for his teams would come to settle
on the line of road and be obliged to travel
over it We all hope and trust you will do
what you can to give US better roads, and by
SO doing you will gain the appreciation of
the sufferers. ONE OF THEM.
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INDIANS ROUTED.
With n Less of Seventy Eight Killed,
by Mexican Troops.

Denver, May 3.-The Republican has the
following dispatch from Santa Fe, dated
May ID: "a dispatch was received here at
midnight stating that column of Mexican
troops, to-day, under command of Colonel
Garcia, met the Indians Colonel Forsyth
is in pursuit of and killed seventy-eight OF
them, also taking thirty-three prisoners.
The courier bringing this information to
Demeng arrived on foot, being pushed SO
hard by the Indians that he had to abandon
his horse, barely escaping with his life. He
reports that there are about 100 Indians be-
tween Demeng and Tresiouinos.D
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THE TIPrON COUNTY DEMOCRACY
Instruct for Marks for Governor and
SimontOn for Congress.
ecial Correspondence OF the Appeal

Special Correspondence OF the Appeal
CONVICTION, Tenn, May 2.-The largest
and most earnest convention of the Democ-
racy of Upton ever held in the county met
in the courthouse on Monday, the LIST. DIR.
NJ. Bell was elected chairman. Both wings
of the party were represented, and perfect
harmony prevailed. The deliberations con-
tinued more than three hours, and an entire
reorganization of the party was effected. An
executive committee for the county, in place
of the two heretofore existing, was appointed,
DIR. A. L. Elcan being the chairman, J. H.
Stinault, vice chairman, and J. NJ. Young,
secretary. Delegates were appointed to the
gubernatorial convention, the only instruc-
tions being to vote and work for Marks for
governor. A proposition TO test the sense of
the convention on a settlement of the State
debt ON the basis OF sos was, after discus
sion, withdrawn. Delegates were also APP
pointed to the congressional convention for
the Tenth district, and resolution instruct
ing them to vote for the Hon. G. B. Simon
ton first, last and all the time was adopted
with enthusiasm. The Democracy of Upton,
by the division in the late election, is now
represented in the Legislature by a colored
man, but it is safe to say Upton will send a
white man next time. DEMOCRAT.
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THE PROPOSITION.
Opinions Of the State Press on the Pro.
posed Settlement-An Array
Of Views,
Among Which Both High and Low-Tax
Democrats, as Well as Republicans,
May Find Comfort.

1t may be accepted az almost certain that
the Legislature will pass law funding the
State debt on the bssis of the proposition
submitted by the bondholders. We are not
prepared to say that all the creditors of the
State will compromise on that basis, but
respectable number of them have said they
will, and we are satisfied that majority OF
them, if not all, viii compromise on that
basis. Speaking for ourselves, we would
never have asked or even intimated to them
that we desired such proposition, and we
say now, as we said when the 504 PROPOSE
ton was before the people few years ago,
thatif there are any who are unwilling to fund
on the basis of sixty cents on the dollar, and
shall decline to do so, that we shall favor
their payment on a basis which is satisfac-
tory, even 10 one hundred cents to the dollar
and six Der cent. interest-KnO1riiie Chronicle
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Foreibre, tr Rot Elegant.

The regulating Democrats are trying to
make their weak-minded followers believe
that there is some sort of Talliance" between
the Republicans and the Stafe-credit wing of
the Democratic party. The World and Ameri-
can, of Nashville, and the Tribune, of Knox
vile, all of which have gone over to the re-
pudiators, have raised the cry of alliance"
OF course the little Democratic weeklies, like
SO many brainlees pups, will yelp on any
trail these three dailies may lead out on; and
in week we will hear the whole pack of
political war-dogs, hounds, fstes and pups,
yelling and barking in pandemoniac concert.
-KnorriHs Republican.