The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1882-05-25

WHAT THE WOMEN ARE DOING IN THE FIELD
OF INDUSTRY, LITERATURE, FAME, AM
ART
Specially prepared for the Rep. Journal
Mrs. Mariella NJ. Kicker has been admitted I,
the bar of the District of Columbia.
Grace Babb, a Maine girl, recently stood frs
and passed the best examination in a class o
1875 at the College of Pharmacy of Philadelphia
Mrs. l.. q. Coburn. lady of San Antonio
Texas, has 10000 silk worms at work in he
yard.
DR.. Anna Warren, of Emporia Kas., has :
practice of $4,000 year. besides mining inter
cSts that will give her a competence in Old age
Miss Eula Marsh is secretary of an exchange
for Womans work, recently established in De
troit, which has met with decided success.
A social festival to be held in Boston on the
evening of May 3lst, is a new and attractiv,
feature of the Woman Suffrage work in New
England.
Mrs. DR.. Tyler Wilcox presented a ballot a
the polls of the West Joplin Missouri Schoo
election, but the judges declined to receive tn,
vote.
The bill prohibiting the dsfranchisement O
ork Assembly by seventy-seyen atfirmatiy,
votes, and it is believed that the Senate vii
concur.
Miss Lizzie Sargent the younger daughter o.
the Minister to Germany, intends to pursue hel
medical studies at German university. She i,
already qualified physician, having been grad
uatcd at the Pacific Medical College.
Mrs. ii. f. Crocker and Mrs. II. A. John,
We're appointed April 18th, as police Matron,
to look after women prisoners in police station,
and courts. through the action of the Firs
Brooklyn Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, which furnishes the money for tn,
purpose.
Several ladies are employed on the staff o
computers in the astronomical observatory o.
Harvard College. We believe that womer
have shown themselves especially competen
in the ordinary reductions of obserl lations il
more than one European observatory.
At the last November election held in the city
of Cheyenne. Wyoming Territory. ,434 votes
were polled, 30 of which We're voted by tn,
women. This proportion confirms the recen
statement of Governor HOyt that women yot,
in proportion as largely as the men, in Wyom
ing.
The progress of women towards complet,
parity with men in all the relations of business
is illustrated by the establishment of an adver
tlslng agency at No. ll0Tremont street, Boston
BlaiSdell 4 Foster; and the propretors arc
Misses J.. \. BlaiSdell and +. F. Foster.
Mr.. W. +. kollOck. of Madison, Wisconsin
has four daughters. The two oldest are Well
educated physicians with large practice; the
third is a successful and popular minister of
church in Chicago suburb; the fourth is
successful dentist at Chicago.
The Senate Of the General Assembly OF Rhode
ton to the laws and the constitution, made re-
port, recommending no action at this time. il
view of the fact that the question of Il conStitl
tiOnal convention is to be submitted to the elec.
tors
Judge Brady has common sense to support
hm. even If he lacks legal precedent in holding
that wife has right to sue her husband for
damages from assault and battery. The record
of wife beating and wife murder in this city has
become lntolerably long and offensive. fChris-
tan Mon.
In Wisconsin,, committee of women cons st.
ing of Mrs. Emma {. Bascom, wife of President
Bascom. of Wisconsin University, Mrs. b. l..
Delaplaine. and Mrs. Helen r. Olin have under
taken to introduce suffrage literature into the
newspapers of that state as far as possible.
1t is worthy of notice that the bill which adj
mls women to practice in the courts of law,
was passed without a word Of debate. Some
voted for it who voted against suffrage. Will
some one of these explain why it is more ''un-
womanly'' to vote than it is to practice ii the
law. Salem, Mass, Observer.
The Connecticut State law has Just been
amended by the House of Representatives
so that women as well as men may vote on the
election of trustees of Methodist churches
Meetings for such elections are to be held in
January instead of September hereafter. The
reason alleged is the insufficient attendance
of male voters.
Five women, graduates in good standing of
several reputable medical colleges. applied
recently to be admitted to membership in the
were blackbaled, although the society had
previously voted that women should be eligible
for membership on the same terms as men.
At the late debate in the Massachusetts
Senate on municipal suffrage for women, Il
couple Of Representatives stood listening to
the debate. One was heard to say: "They're
all Frce-Lovers. aren't they" The other re-
piled. .'Well, they all tend that way. Don't
believe in the Bible. Don't believe in nothing. '
Enlightened legislators, are they not:
Another lady lawyer, Miss Hall. of Con
necticut, has passed an examination before a
committee of the bar association, who have
made favorable report in her case 10 u full
meeting of the bar. The only difficulty in the
way now seems to be legal question as to the
admi>sibilty Of women. This question. the
Home Journal reports, is 10 be argued before
the Supreme Court next month.
A lady. Miss f. L. keelv, is proprietor of a
large establishment for the manufacture OF
steam boilers, fixtures and machinery in
WilliamSpOrt, Pa. The receipts of her husi-
ness exceed $4,000 per month. and she sells
her goods in all parts of the country. east
and west. She was once book-keeper for the
firm which carried on the works hut it failed
the business was sold and she became the
purchaser.
The New Century Club of Philadelphia
one of the largest, is also one of the most
conservative of woman's organizations. One
of its standing rules has hitherto been that
the question of woman suffrage could not De
broached in its meetings. BY general consent
this rule was set aside, last week. and the
taboOed topic was the formal title of the paper
read by MIS- Turner one of the founders OF
the club. \ second innovation was made by
having gentlemen discuss the paper The
meeting is reported by the corresponding
secretary as one of the most interesting ever
held by the society. Woman suffrage and
what it involves, is the main political question
of this century. BY considering it, the club
proves its title to its name.