The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1882-08-17
NUMBER 333.
w onan's w Work.

WHAT THE WOMEN ARE DOING IN THE FIELDS
| OF INDUSTRY. LITERATURE. SCIENCE, AND
| ART.
Kings College, London, has published a
scheme for extending its operations to the
| education of women,
Drake University, Of Des Moines, Ia. has a
woman professorship i'll the medical depart
| ment.
The Central Committee of the suffrage party
Of the State Of New York have issued Il tract
offering fifty reasons why women should vote.
Miss Matilda IIindman regards the outlook
i'll Nebraska as hopeful. She lectures five times
| week, and finds people everywhere ready to
| hear.
Mrs. Catharne Starbuck. of Nantucket. has
| been elected a delegate to the National Unitar-
| ian Convention to be holden at Saratoga in Sep
| tember next.
Mrs. Mary f. lIaggart addressed a conven-
| ton of twenty sabbath schools, the 9th of Aun-
| ust. at NacsbOro, on the suffrage amendment.
II is great step to get into the sabbath schools
and churches. Indiana women are working
| with a will.
Parsons College, at Fairfield. Iowa, has had
donation Of e6oo0.o0 towards establishing Il
! new char of natural sciences to be called the
sally Ringland ProfcsSor>hip." Mrs, Ring
| iand, the donor, was woman of wealth re-
! Gently deceased.
The secretary of the Harvard "AnneX"
| learns that at least two persons now prcpa-
| ols bequests to help the cause of the education
| of women ut Cambridge, and that offers of
money for immediate uSe have also been
| made.
At tie close of the convention Of the Ameri-
| can " oman suffrage Association. lit Louisville.
| the first society in Kentucky vas formed. Al
| though but few months OIL it has already
| become power for good, 4 The property
rights bill adopted by the stare legislature
shows
1hn Conno,t;,,,+ S,,,.,,, ,,+ - I,
has decided that sex is no bar to admission to
| practice rs attorneys. Miss Ma v Hall of Hart
| ford has passed satisfactory Examination i'll
the knowledge of law, and the court below re
served the question Of her eligibility for the
| opinion of the higher court.
| Pennsylvania is now the only State which ha,
| per>iStenty refused women adm ittancp to the
bar. \ lady iii that state has been trying for
seven or elght years 70 gain admitu but the
court refuses to allow her to enter under the
existing statutes. and the legislature refuses TO
pass a new law. Hartford Tines
The career Of Miss Fanny Plrnell, brief as
was her course, shows how much woman may
90 in and for a great cause. 1t is questionable
II Ireland would have fallen into the Scrytudc
in which She has lain for centuries or that our
race would to-day be on the ascent TO Liberty.
but for the influence that has been eXrrted for
good Or for i'll by the farer sex. Irish
World.
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