The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-26
CONCERNING WOMEN.

The Womsns Relief Corps has a membership of
over thirty thousand.
Mrs. Orpha Dinsmore is president of the board of
charities of Omaha, Neb
Mrs Charlotte NJ Clark has been appointed special
agent to examine the Indiana school service.
IRELAND. Yesterday To-day and To morrow is the
title of Mrs. Helen NJ. Cougar new lecture.
Miss Sallie Morgan and Miss McAfe are successful
managers of large plantations the Yazoo delta
1t is estimated that women are employed on the
staff of ever two hundred newspapers in the United
States.
An English edition of Miss Frances E. Wilard's
Nineteen Beautiful Years is soon to be issued in
London.
A Freeport H.. girl stands at the head of Cornell
University in mathematics and has $500
scholarship.
The liveliest school election held in Michigan
was that in Grand Rapids recently. About half the
votes wore cast by women.
The New Orleans Woman's Exchange has paid
$11,97425 to women during the past year for work,
and for supplies furnished
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore attended The Unitarian
National Conference at Saratoga the delegate from
the Melrose Unitarian parish.
Mrs. G. E. Barron and daughter of Des Moines.
won over hundred different premiums their
exhibit of needle and fancy work at the Iowa State
fair.
The Woman's Standard is the title of new month
ly issued as the organ Of the Iowa Woman Suffrage
Association with Mrs. NJ ]. CoggeshaL editor, and
Martha @. Callahan, business manager.
home-rule petition, bearing the signature of half
million women, will soon be presented to Mr.: Glad
stone by deputation of Irish ladies' headed by the
wife of the Lord Mayor of Dublin.
The Woman's Magazine for September contains
excellent and appreciatve biographical sketch of Mrs.
Zerelda g. Wallace. Of Indiana by Mrs. May Wright
Sewau of the indianapolis Classical School.
Through the agency of the woman's reading-room,
recently opened in Chicago, two indianapolis girls
have been sent home to their mother and three Ekhar
(nd) girls have been rescued from evil associations
and restored to their friends
The National Woman Suffrage Association will hold
one more twoday conventions in each of the seven
congressional districts of Kansas beginning in Leav
enworth the first of next month. Miss Susan b. An
thony will be the principal speakerY
The Southern Woman recently published q list of
over fifty women who are connected with Southern
newspapers and issued call for meeting at Greens
boro n c.. Nov. 3, for the purpose of organizing
Southern Womans Press Association.
womans exchange and coffee house have been
opened in Los Angeles. GAL, by the Young Women
Christian Temperance Union The coffee-house is
managed specially for the benefit of shop girls to af
ford them comfortable, friendly resort at the
and evening hours.
Mother" Bickerdyke visited Boston this summer
in the interest of old soldier who needed aid and
then returned to her work in the United States Mint
in San Francisco. She is seventythree years old and
was voted pension cf $25 per month by the last
Congress, but no back pay.
The journals kept by Mrs. Joseph Cook during her
round theworld tour, fill twenty one good sized vol
umes, with not erasure in all their pages-plan
print These journals contain full accounts of seen
cry customs. persons and events, and illustrated
with one thousand photographs, taken by Mrs. Cook
who is skilled amateur photographer
Dr. Mary F. Thomas, of Richmond Ind, left few
days ago for the East She viii visit her sister Dr..
Hannah NJ. Longshore of Philadelphia and her
daughter Mrs. Julia Irvine, of New York. Mrs.
Thomas and Mrs. Longshore were among the pioneer
will be remembered the Ind ana girl who won ma
tional prize for proficiency in Greek.