The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-25


| A. z. Ferry.-Mrs. Josephine r. Nichols sd-
retsed the annual meeting of the Louisians
| w. &. 7. u. at New Orleans, last week, tax
| ing for her theme, THE Orphans of the
Liquor Traffic" = Mrs. Emily Thor ton
Charles who is visiting friends in the city
fas new volume Of poems in preparation
The annual meeting OF the Indiana
Bee keepers Association last week was
largely attended by ladies. Mrs. Z. Stout
WIS elected Treasurer. and elected Que of
| OF the delegates to the national meeting at
New Orleans next month. Mrs. G. Robbins,
Who has served most accepta bly, as President
during the past year, declined reelection.
Mrs. Lucinda Harrison, of Peoria, and editor
OF Inc Apiary column in the Prairie Farmer,
read an interesting paper on Work for
women" dwelling upon the suitability OF
bee.culture as an industry FOR women.
New YORK "A bill to enfranchise the
women citizens of the State was presented
in the Assembly on Jan. 1.-The Daily
Press and knickerbo cker, at Albany, recog-
Mics that the woman suffrage party has
ri en- to a commanding position in politics
Richardson is giving a series OF lectures in
New York city upon Poets and Poetry of
the Nineteenth Century"
CALIFoBNIA.-At q recent meeting of the
Women's Christian Suffrage Society O paper
IVES read upon the responsibility of Christian
women with regard TO the suffrage question.
1t dwelt forcibly upon the necessity for
earnest and faithful work on the part of wo-
men OF all denominations in the cause, and
deprecated the desire OF great many TO re.
Train from active work, through disincli-
nation to place themselves upon the same
plane with the masculine political worker
and manager.
INDIANA.-At the declamatory contest. at
Aurora. Miss Rowenna Smith received the
first prize, $40, Mrs Flora Stementhal, sec.
ord, s., and Mr.. Frank Ramsey, third, So 80.
written poem entitled THE White Ribbon
Amy to Louisiana, at Her New Orleans
Exposition" This greeting she proposes to
have printed in elegant style, at her own
expense, and used as souvenirs at the
Worlds Fair, and sold for the benefit of the
w. Q; I. U. 1t is also offered as a premium
to subscribers to "The Organizer"
SouTH.-Miss Bessie Bisland edits the brio.
a-brac department of the New Orleans
Iimes-Democrat Another lady engaged on
the same paper is Mrs. Pavy widow of DR..
Pavy, who died on the Greeley expedition.
Mis- IS Annie Pettigrew, of Fay etteville, has
been elt cted engrossing clerk and Miss Jen-
ME Sims enrolling clerk of the Arkan as
House OF representatives. The effort to e.
tablish female college at Baltimore, under
the supervision of the Methodist Episcopal
church, has so fer progresse d that Sl35, 900 OF
the 500 600 re ouisitc is alresdy subscribed.
Indications are that the remainder will soon
be subscribed.
MAssACHUsETTs.-A Joint special commit
tee on woman suffrage has been appointed
by the Leeislature.-At a reunion recently
held at Boston by the New England men,
bers OF the National Educational Associa.
ton, Miss Sarah Z. Doyle of the Providence
high school re sponded for the ladies' She
paid fattering compliment to President
Bicknell, assuring him that his popularity
among educators was attributed to the fair-
ness with which her sex
i mad ri. nt n.ea recognized g1 ss dur
pie OF recognizing the ability OF women to
do committee and other convention work
was worthy to be followed by his successors.
Professor Nathaniel I. Allen of West New
ton followed, and applauded the gro wing
appreciation of woman's usefulness and in
huence IN education
LITERATURE.-A trustworthy guide to
householders ia the practical. application of
sanitary science is to be found in new vol,
Women; Plumbers, and Doctors, or House
hold Sanitation. Mrs. Helen Ekin Star
rett and her sister, Mrs. Frances Ekin
Allison, are the joint authors of little book
now in the press of Jansen, McClurg & Co.,
ST Chicago, and shortly to be issued, entitled,
Men, Women. and Money" Mrs. Allison
is the author of several remarkable papers
on social and domestic questions, and also
OF some OF the best current poetry of the
past few years. OF Mrs. Starrett's essay on
the Future of Educated Women" Frances
Power Cobbe wrote, on its appearance in
continued chapters in the Weekly Magazine,
of Chicago: 1T is one of the very wisest
and truest utterances l have had on the
woman question.
FoREIGN.-Miss Octavia Hill is enthusi-
astically praised by Felix Adler for her la.
bors among the poor of London. She does
not eeem to find herself hindered in her
charitable work by the right to vote in mu-
nicipal elections which English Law accords
extend the parliamentary franchise to
women, which stood for second reading on
December 9th, was postponed owing to the
adjournment of the House of Commons.
MI Woodall has set it down for Wednss-
day, March A correspondent of
Educational Association, having charge of
the international College for Ladies at Flor
ence. expects to- send over large class next
year. Fancy Chicago girl studying music
side by side with q damsel from Rome, q
Boston maiden lending her palette to a
young lady from Athens, and an English
heiress taking conversational lesson with
q Spanish senorita. The college is q wise
idea and gives an objective point for the
American girl abroad.-At the monthly
meeting Of the Welsh miners where 1000
present q resolution was unanimously
passed approving of extending the franchise
to women, and instructiDg their agent to as
sist Miss Jeanette G. Wilkinson in holding
woman suffrage meetings.
Expressions.
Theft is regarded in Scotland, as in EGG
land, as good deal worse than ife-murdsr
At the the Hieh Cour. of Justiciary, in Ed
inburg, Lord Young condemned man to two
months imprisonment for having Knocked
his wife down and kicked her to such az ex-
tent that she almost Immediately died from
the lesion OF the brain. The next prisoner
was convicted of having stolen letter con-
tanning two halt sovereigns 81 sixty stamps.
His sentence was FIVE years penal servitude.
Labouchere says, THE moral of this is, kill
your wife, but never commit the far greater
crime of stealing q postage stamp" A
woman would say that the moral is to give
her sex q voice in the law.making Of the
realm.-New Northwest.
The Port Townsend, Washington Terri
tory, Argus, in its review of 1884, says:
woman Suffrage has been tried IN the Ter.
rltory and is SO much success that both 20.
htieal parties are committed in favor of it.
Many good people have in previous years
aay1 IN Nrrht lx,rxx - T.