West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-12-20
WEST VIRGINIA FREEMAN.
THE THREE MEETINGS.
Miss Taylor in Petersburg.

male College, spent last Friday,
and Sunday in our city,
with friends, and the
while, laboring to advance the in
terests of her most excellent Insti-
tuition of Learning, and the inter
ests of lie appearance as we'll.
We are sure we may say in a
word that our people are right glad
Miss Taylor came, and we are per-
suaded to hope she returned not a
whit sorry for her coming.
THE LECTURE
On the Higher Education of Wo-
men, at the Baptist Church, Fri
day evening, was well received by
large audience.
Miss Taylor found herself in the
midst of personal friends, well ac-
quainted with the workings of her
model school, such as Rev. w. C.
Snodgrass, who presided at the
meeting and introduced her, Revs.
G., c. Wilding, J. w. Carter, Prof.
A. l.. Purinton, and others, and
while she is always cat home" in
any duty or enterprise she has in
hand, yet these encouraging sur
roundings seemed to give her a
special ease and freedom in deliv-
ering her address.
Now, please don't imagine, dear
reader, that we are going to be
guilty Of the folly of trying to re-
port a woman's speech: we're a bit
too old for that; but we shall long
carry with us, as will the rest Of
her audience, impressions made by
her most womanly and eloquent
appeals for the higher culture OF
woman.
She spoke for a practical, thor.
ough, "even-sided" culture-a "fair
chance for the girls" along with
the boys; for an education fitting
young women for any position in
life.
The speaker appealed to parents
to put their spare dollars into the
heads of their sons and daughters,
where no panic could affect the
investment.
In this country it was the priv
ilege Of every woman to be a queen,
reigning in triumph over a happy
home, a ad it was the business of
her college to make queens.
But we took no notes, and must
take no further risk. We are sure
good seed were lodged in good soil,
and if we mistake not, Wheeling
Female College will gather some
of the harvest
Prof. Purinton was called out by
the President, and paid a high
tribute, especially to the general,
home-like training, in connection
with the superior literary culture,
received by ladies in the Wheeling
College,
COURT HOUSE MEETING.
Although Saturday night was
cold and blustery, the Court House
was well filled, and what was best
of all, the audience was very large
ly made up of Parkersburg's young
men.
The Parkersburg City Band was
in the best of spirit, and gave US
some excellent music; and as a
happy fate would have it, the Cap
ital that IS and the capital that Is
to be, met here and clasped Temper
ance hands, in the persons of Miss
Taylor of Wheeling and Judge Fer
gusoA Of Charleston.
We shall only mention feature,
or point or two, of each address as
brought away by us without any
note-taking.
DR.. Warner led off in r scathing
rebuke of politicians for having
and nurturing two consciences, a
good one for private use, bad one
for party purposes. He also por-
trayed the awful extravaganza of
our city Legislature in supporting
at such fearful cost the most ruin
ously expensive liquor-traffic in
cur midst.
Mr.. Barna Powell drew a strik-
ing parallel between the rise and