The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-11


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CsIiiunx. Gco grant tsss the Interest ~
this work MAJ 90 incres.e tbsi II shau ps
alive foreveTlnoTe." We extend &c anks -
the public in general aud 10 al
individuals, for all fsv0rs shovn and given
In the past years, and hope We will not be
forgotten this year. May God add bis bless
ing TO this work; also the gracious help o!
His holy spirlt. without which Nil LABOR Is IN
vain.
The old md Efficient corps OF officer, were
reelected. President. Mrs. r. X. Parker;
Secretary, Mrs. Mary W. Walker; Treasurer,
Mrs. Nina V. Alexander; Corresponding
Secretary, Mis- Mary ID. Nsylor.
General News Notes.
IspIANAr6Ls.-Miss Sue Ketcbsm's sTt
school at the Seminary building reopened
or las. Wednesday. Miss Keicham spent
the holiday vacation at work in the studios
OF Messers schilling and yenderpooI, of
Chicago. Ehe has added new casts and
studies ftom the antique to her collection
and o number OF paintings by well known
artists.-On last Friday afternoon, DR.. J. L.
Thompson delivered 8 lecture or "The az
~fections OF .be eye in the lecture room of
the Nurses Training School at the City Hos
pital. This is the first OF a series OF valuable
lectures on physiological and sanitary topics,
which ladies not in the school may attend
by payment of twenty-five cents single lee
ture or IS for the eourse.-M rs. L~udington
has sold her las. large landscape 10 Mrs.
L. +. Morrison of this ciiy.-Miss Lizzis
Calls is candidate for reelectiol
ss State Librarian Miss Florence Williams
Il ~. loo- .-->,nyal Lnrort;D~ Hiark ~, ,La
| Senate. and Mary Difhey Copying Clerk in
| the House.-Mrs. Mary A. Iivermore will
lecture on Wendell Phillips at Plymouth
Church on next Wednesday evening.
OREGoN.-Mrs. ?. L. Price, OF Albins, has
been appointed a special agent for the Pa
| cifc Mutual Life Insurance Company, OF
California. She will give particular atten.
ton to the insurance of women.
PxNE-The fifteenth annual meeting of
the State Woman Suffrage Association held
at Philadelphia, Dec. IL, adopted resolutions
looking toward an amendment OF the State
Constitution. The President, Mrs. Mary
Grew and Secretary, Miss Annie Shoemaker
l have held their positions continuously By
| election since the Association was organized.
Hannah Long has left a legacy OF $780,
coo to The University OF Pennsylvania, TO
establish q training-school for nurses.
JOURNALISM May Wright Sewall contri-
II OIL hItlCA6 vi DuElltSS GutlI6-
ton of Women p to the December Womap's
| Magazine Mrs. Marion Mcbride. OF the
! Boston Post has charge OF the Wonian's
l Journal at the New Orleans Exhibit Miss
| Maud Howe is writing letters from New Or.
leans to the Boston Transcript.-On account
| OF the failing health of the associate editor,
| Mrs. l.. NJ. Latham, the Cedar Rapids, Ua.A,
Transcript has suspended. Mrs. J. l.. Wa
| son, the editor and publisher will take
l charge oil a department In the Cedar Rapids
| RepubIican.-Mrs. g. L. Champlin, Of
Rhode Island, prepares the liable Talk" for
| " ait edits e column in the Lincoln (Kansasl
| Beacon, which is entitled Woman as II
I Citizen
| NEw 1oRk.-TheS Supreme Court recently
| rendered an important decision with refer
| ence to business partnerships between hus-
band and Wife 1t is held that 3 vile may
| not only contract q copartnership with d
! pefsen other than her husband and carry on
| business as q member OF such firm, but that
with reference to her separate estate she
/ may contract with her husband the same 90
II che we're = femme sole; and that 10 neces-
sarily follows that husband and wife have
| the capacity to enter into q c~opartnership
I! for the purpose of carrying on q trade or
| business, and that contracts made py such
| firm are enforcible against the wifes estate.
Mrs. Lille DeveTeux Blake he's published
| a forciole showing tina. woman's
I franchise Is constitutional IN that State BY
| virtue of the Constitution itself watch de
| clares: Nc member OF the State shall be dis
franchised or deprived of any OF the rights
| or privileges secured to any citizen Thereof,
I unless by the law OF the land or the iudg-
| ment OF his peers.
WORCESTERSHIRE New England We.
| mems Gu celebrated the birthday OF Pre-
! fessor Maria Mitchell.
WARRINGTON Tk-kRIToRY.-The Supreme
Court hes affirmed the validity of The cotton
| OF the District Judges in appointing women
TO serTe on grand iuries.
/ D~AKorA-JUdee Seward Smith, OF the
Federal Conrt has appointed Miss Lizzie AZ.
CochTane Clerk OF the District Court for
Faux County.
CTAH-lt has been decided in Utah that q
plural wife does not, upon the death OF her
fraction OF a man, become q widow IN law
and that in the absence OF a will she can not
inherit a portion of his estate.
LAiScI@.-The seth birthday anniversary
of Mrs. Mary thompson Willard, the mother
Oh Frances 4. Willard, the President OF rhe
National Womsn's Christian Temperance
Union, and the mothef.in.lsw OF Mrs. Mary
b. Willard, the editor OF the Union Signal
was celebrated at REST Cottage, the hon e
OF the family, at Evanston, H., the evening
was made by Professor Joseph Emerson: of
Beloit College. Miss Willard presented the
portrait of her deceased father, Hon. J.
+. Willard, also an elegant arm-
chair. Mrs. Mary B. Willard read
numerous letters and congratulatory tale
grams f-on Mr.. and Mrs. Il, d. Hays, Pres
loent Fairchild, OF 0berlin Colledee; Ros'
we'll c. Smith, founder OF the Century Mag
azine; Henry c. Bowen, of the New YORK
Independent: Professor Maria Mitchell, o.
Vsssar College; the W. G. T. o., OF Iowa,
Kansas. Maine and almost evesry state in
the Union. Firm tbs South came messsges
forwsrded.by presidents ofState unions. Mira.
Sallie L. Chaplin, of South Carolina, sent y
vase OF cnmelias; Mrs. Judge Merric' of New
Orleans, testimonial lines: Mrs Merriweath-
er of Tennessee, a poem, etc fromJe1erson,
Wis, . testimonia, signed by old neighbors
and friends; from Chicago W. G.. Il T., res
~oiutions on ~parchments presented by Mrs..
T.. L. Csrse, and many other gifts from all
parts OF the country. The refreshment
table was lighted by eighty
candles, q bevy OF children presented a has
ket OF eighty roses. Little Mary Willard, q
grapdchIld, presented on behalf o Mrs. II.
b. Willard An elegant birthday souvenir,
etc. A song composed by Miss AIMS Coz
don, Miss Wizards private secretary. war
SUD to the time OF Aud Lang Syne.''
Mrs. Hull, President of the Evanston ". O.
T. u. presented on behalf OF
Miss Willard, two elegant al
l buns, containing 100 photogr spbs