Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-08-15
CONCERNING WOMEN.

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Kings College, London, has publish
ed a scheme for extending its operations
to the education Of women.
Drake University, of Des Moines, Ia,
has woman professorship in the medi-
cal department.
The Central Committee of the stuff
rage party Of the State of New York
have issued tract offering fifty reasons
why women should vote.
Miss Matilda Hindman regards the
outlook in Nebraska as hopeful. She
lectures FIVE times q week, and finds
people everywhere ready to near.
Mrs. Catharine Starbuck, Of Nantuck
ct. has been elected delegate to the Ma
tional Unitarian Convention to be holden
at Saratoga in September next.
Mrs. Mary f. Haggart addressed a
convention Of twenty Sabbath schools,
the 5th of August, at Walesboro, on the
suffrage amendment. 1t is great step
to get into the Sabbath schools and
churches. Indiana women are working
with will.
Parsons College, located at Fairfield,
Iowa, has had donation Of $4,000. 90
towards establishing new chair of nat
ural sciences to be called the " Sally Ring
land Professorship." Mrs. Ringland, the
donor. was woman of wealth recently
deceased.
The secretary Of the Harvard Annex
learns that at least two persons now pre-
pairing their wills have included in them
generous requests to help the cause OF
the education of women at Cambridge,
and that offers of money for immediate
use have also been made.
At the close of the convention Of the
American Woman Suffrage Association,
at Louisville, the first society in Ken
lucky was formed. Although but few
months old, it has already become pow
er for good, as the property rights bill
adopted by the state legislature shows,
the Connecticut Supreme Court of En-
rors has decided that sex is no bar to adj
mission TO practice as attorneys. Miss
Mary Hall Of Hartford has passed 4 sat
isfactory examination in the knowledge
of law, and the court below reserved the
question of her eligibility for the opinion
Of the higher court.
Pennsylvania is now the only State
which has persistently refused women
admittance to the bar. A lady in thai
state has been trying for seven or eight
years 10 gain admittance, but the court
refuses to allow her to enter under the
existing statutes, and the legislature re-
fuses TO pass a new law.-Haritoro
Times.
The career of Miss Fanny Parnell
brief as was her course, shows how much
woman may do in and for great cause.
1t is questionable if Ireland would have
fallen into the servitude in which she has
lain for centuries. or that our race would
TO-. day be on the ascent to Liberty, bu,
for the influence that has been exerted
for good or for i'll by the fairer sex
IRISH World.
The Ereniag Ner,, the only daily
opponent to suffrage in Ind. has lately
admitted that the paradoxical thing
called the suffrage amendment " would
be submitted to the people by our next
legislature. Now, judging from the
wonderful progress lately made in the
way Of converting partial.suffrage sin
ners, the amendment may not only be
submitted but also be ratified at the
election soon TO follow.
DR.. J. II. Vincent, in his lecture at
Lake Bluff, last week, on That Boy s
Sister" referring to the suffrage question,
said that the woman who did not control
two to FIVE votes would never gain by
depositing one, but would be likely to
lose influence over the others. II "that
boys sister" does not suggest to the
brilliant lecturer that if he does not con-
troll from two to five votes he will never
gain by depositing one, it will only be
because she is not so bright as her broth
Chicago Advance.
The American Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation will hold its Thirteenth Annual
Meeting, in Omaha, Nebraska, at the
Baptist Church, September II and 10,
beginning its sessions on Tuesday, Sept.
~, at 1880 P. NJ. All friends Of Wo-
man Suffrage who are in sympathy with
the principles and methods of the Asso-
citation, are respectfully invite to attend.
Every auxiliary State and local society is
invited to send report of its work, and
to propose plans of action. The Woman
Suffrage Constitutional Amendment now
pending in Nebraska gives the present
occasion special interest and importance.
Some of the speakers in attendance will
remain and take part in the campaign.
Rev. Mary Thomas Clark, of Rich
mond, Ind, has been for several years a
regularly ordained minister in the Uni
versalist Church recognized in full fellow
ship as far as duties of the church are
concerned. When travelling in church
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