Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-07-21
CONCERNING w OMEN.

There are now one hundred local suffrage
societies in Nebraska. That has the right
look, and evidently means business.
Mrs. Mary jones' who made cartridges for
Gen. Jackson's soldiers at the battle of New
Orleans, died at Baton Rouge the other day.
Miss Matte ]. Evans, of Richmond, Ind,
received over $3.50 for her work as steno-
graphic reporter in narrow gauge railroad
cases in the Sullivan county courts.
We are told upon unquestioned authority
that the report recently circulated, of Mr.
Oscar Wilde's engagement to young lady in
this country is entirely without foundation.
Mrs. George Furnas of Brownville Nebras.
ka, has this summer been testing the possibil-
ity of rearing silk worms in that state, and
has met with remarkable success, having
raised and fed over ten thousand.
Mrs. Mary McGill is proprietor of the o.
wego, Kansas, Independent She publishes
daily and weekly edition and has been very
successful with the paper during the several
years she has been the proprietor.
Miss Violetta Swearenger of Anderson,
Ind, has been invited by the county commits
sioners to deliver an address on behalf of the
tax paying women of Madison county, at the
laying of the cornerstone of the new court
house, August l.
The painting of Mrs r. B. Hayes, present
ed by the temperance people of the country,
has been assigned permanent place on the
wall of the green parlor in the White House.
At the recent examination for admission to
the free college of New York, out of nine
hundred girls, six hundred and sixty, or II
per cent, passed the examination, whereas
only 4S per cent. of the boys were able to
enter. One girl reached an average of 9S.
In the Union Telegraph Building, corner
Dey street and Broadway, New York, GOO OPP
orators and clerks are employed, being divided
into relief gangs, so that the work never
| ceases large portion of this force is com
posed of young women. The best operators
receive $ll5 per month, and all work entirely
by ear
A gentleman who has lived in Wyoming
speaks particularly of the universal respect
paid to women at the polls. He has seen
women of the highest responsibility and re-
| finement walk up to the polls in the presence
| of scores of drunken, red-shirted miners and
ranchers who would clear the way, close
| their mouths, and treat them with the great
est Difference and respect.
The Lynn Union pleasantly says: The Wo-
mans Journal, the bright and able organ OF
the woman's movement for political and bust
ness equality, is enjoying an increasing pros
perity, which it richly deserves. Once intro
duoed into family, it soon becomes recog
nized as a necessity, and is powerful agent
in promoting the cause in whose interests il
was established.
Miss Alice Freeman the new president Of
| Wellesley College, who now has the degree
of PHI D., from Michigan University, is one
of the first woman in this country, if not the
first, to be honored with this degree of Doc
tor of Philosophy, and what is still more re
markable, she has not yet reached the age O.
thirty years, being in reality but twenty seven
according to what appears to be an accurate
report.
Poor Mrs. Carlyle, only imperfectly reading
the moral of her ruined life, used to war;
young girls against marrying man of genius
There is no evidence that the genius had any
thing to do with it, The stupidest man wh'
ever lived if he sets out upon the theory tina
marriage is TO be an absolutely one-sided in
stitution, can make his wife miserable as eff
fectively, though not SO sublimely, as die
Carlyle
Mrs Clara B. Colby, of the Beatrice (Neb.
Express, recently visited Cheyenne, ito 80
from personal observation how men and wo
men look after being subjected to woman SUI
frage for thirteen years." Mrs. Colby says
''At the dining hall in Sydney, Wyoming W
made known our intention of going to Chey
enne to an acquaintance, and were overhear
by lady of unusually modest and refine
appearance, who Immediately said, i hay
voted for twelve years and don't think
has hurt me any We afterwards made tn
acquaintance of this lady, who with her it'll
daughter was returning to her home in Chey
enne, and from her learned that woman sui
frage was taken very much as a matter Q
course and was regarded with favor by all
Having arrived at Cheyenne, we inquired q
many parties and learned many interestin
J details, but all tending to the same end thl
woman suffrage had produced no evil effect
and while the women had not enlisted for an
sweeping reforms, yet the weight of the
moral influence was felt and respected by tn
: choice of better men for offieerR. We me
many prominent citizens, and they all e.
pressed in different ways pride in their ow
advanced standing on the woman sutfral
! question