Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-08-01
CONCERNING WOMEN.

The University of Mississippi has
opened all its departments to the admiss-
ion of women.
| Miss Anna +. Parker edits the woman
suffrage and temperance department OF
the Indiana Herald, of Huntington, Ind.
Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spoford has
written story, "Rock Creek Church.
which is said to be 'life-like picture of
society at Washington.
Miss Louisa Howard Of Burlington
has given President Buckham Of Ver-
mont $4,000 to establish five scholarships,
which must be assigned to Green Noun
tain boys of good minds, manners and
morals.
Miss Frances Power Cobbe some time
since presented to Girton College, the
leading college for Women in. England.
all the mathematical books used by Mary
Somerville.
Miss Frances G.. Fiske is Southern
authoress who writes under the nom de
plume of "Christian Reid" Her father
fell at the head of his regiment at Bull
Run, and is reported to have been the
first confederate killed in the war.
Miss Helen Magill is to read paper
before the annual meeting Of the Local
Science Association, which convenes at
Saratoga. September 4. Her subject
will be "The School and College Curric-
ulums of America and England"
Among the delegates at meeting Of
the federation Of trades and labor unions
held at Boston last Tuesday, July IS,
was a young woman from Lawrence, on
behalf of the mule spinners Of that city.
Why should not she be allowed to vote
The South Dublin Union has emphat-
ically declared its approval of women as
guardians of the poor, and has petitioned
parliament in favor Of the removal Of the
restriction which at presen, prevents wo-
men, duly qualified as rate payers, from
being elected in Ireland.
The National Archery Tournament be-
gan on Tuesday of last week, at Lincoln
Park. Chicago, forty eight ladies being
among the contestants. Miss Morrison
of Cottage Hill, Cincinnati, carried off
the highest honors at the sixty yards
range. What right had woman to be
the best shot
In his recent grafton at Wabash COL
lege, General Coburn took occas ion to
eulogize the influence and work of Mrs.
Harriet b. Stow in the abolition Of slav-
cry, closing with this pertinent query :
How long, under the theory ofevolution,
will il take Harriet Beecher Stowe to be-
come as capable voter as an emancipa-
ted slave :"
In Arkansas, women petition against
saloons on the same conditions as men,
and the result is that whenever the ques
ton comes up, the saloon has to go.
This law stirred up the ire OF the saloon
lists, and they brought the matter before
the courts to test the constitutionality Of
the law. The law was pronounced con-
stitutional.
Miss Eliza o. Putnam read a paper on
the laws of Massachusetts as they affect
women, before the Danvers Woman S
Club, at late meeting. Miss Putnam
considered the laws as they have been,
and as they are. The paper was listened
to with great interest. 1t was itself an
argument for the political rights of wo-
men, and gave much needed information
on the question of woman suffrage.
Mrs. Jane Studley. treasurer of school
district No. %, Hebron, Neb., submits
figures showing the pawn ent Of district
bonds, interest, etc., saving for the school
district s6l.l by payment Of the bonds
before maturity. Thus we see that wo-
man has an idea Of economy in public
affairs. Some shrewd man might have
let the bonds run to maturity, while he
specialized with the peoples money.
In the n. Y. Times of the 10th inst.
"a Des Moines correspondent" gives a
brief account of the recent prohibition
election in Iowa. II is refreshing to
find that "to the women belongs much
OF the credit of the success Of the prohi-
bition movement, and that in Des Moines
and all over the State they were at the
polls in large numbers distributing tick
cts, and in a womanly way soliciting
votes"
Mrs. Mary +. Haskin, of Evanston,
H., who was president of the trustees of
Evanston College for ladies, Of which
Miss Willard was president, has the dis
tinction Of being the first land so far as