The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-28
CONCERNING WOMEN.


Mrs. p. d. Armour of Chicago, maintains q
mission school which costs &c. 600 per year.
The examinations OF the Virginia State Uni
versity, established by jefferson, are now open
to women.
The National Woman Suffrage Association
| will hold its annual Washington meeting Jan.
Is, 26 and 81.
"Auntie Jones'" of Smyrna. Del. the oldest
member OF the w. G. I. u, recently died in her
ninety-eighth year.
"Our Motherless Government" is the title Of a
leaiet prepared by Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton
Harbert, at the request of the illinois w. G. I.
u.
In Tolt precinct King county, Washington
| Territory, Mrs Mile Templeton was elected
constable and her husband was defeated for
justice of the peace.
neer IN temperance and reform work in Indiana.
is now in California, speaking under the aus
| pces of the w. G. 7. u.
Through the influence Of Mrs. Mary B.
| Willard, a ladies' union for Christian work has
been organized in connection with the Amer
lean Chapel at Berlin, Germany.
Mrs. A. j. Church has been editing the
Oswosso Mich. Press for eighteen years, and
Miss Hattie Smead recently retired from the
Lansing State Republican after eleven years
service.
Women teachers receive less wages in Maine
than anywhere else in the Union According to
the last official report the average wages of wom
en- teachers. who constitue four-ffths of all the
teachers In that State are only $1623 per month.
The Bristol sisters, professional florists at To
peka. kan.. lately gave a chrysanthemum and
floral exhibition. the finest of the kind ever
given west of Cincinnati Governor Martin
opened the exhibition in the presence of large
assembly.
Miss Alice r. Jordan, who took the degree of
l.. L. B. at Yale College last June and who is
the only lady who ever graduated from that in
stltution, s but twenty-three years old Two
years ago she was admitted to practice in the
Michigan Circuit Courts and recently to the Su-
preme Court
The Union Maternal Association, for the pro-
motion of piety in mothers and of care and watch.
fitness over children. and for a union of effort
to counterfeit temptations and evils which assail
youth has existed for twenty. FIVE years. It has
its headquarters at Boston and is composed of
delegates from local societies.
The young women students of the Packer In
stltute. Brooklyn, have signed pledge not to
wear birds or their feathers for ornaments, and
have entered upon crusade for the protection
of birds by circulating among other girls Stats
tics concerning bird-slaughter and urging them
to bear no share in the cruelty.
The New Northwest declares, Of Washington
Territory, that nowhere in the wide, wide
world are women better treated or more assidu-
ouslv sought in marriage and nowhere are there
aud wives than in the land of the free and the
home of the brave where the women vote"
The Chickasaw Indians recognized the right
or married women to hold and control property
TWO years before the law passed securing the
property rights of married women in Mississippi,
the pioneer of common law States in this re-
spect This reform in Mississippi was brought
about in 1887 by the individual efforts Of Mrs B.
j. Hadley.
Mrs Mary Nash Agnew, the wife Of Dr. Cor
nelius Agnew. the oculist, and Miss Grace
Dodge, the daughter. of the late William E.
Dodge, have been appointed on the New York
board of school commissioners by Mayor Grace
Both have been personally interested in educa-
ton, and Miss Dodge has made a special study
of industrial education.
The Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, at
it's annual commencement had q graduating
class of ninety seven, of whom eighteen were
women. nearly one in five Thirteen prizes were
offered four of which were carried of: by the
women, almost one in three The following
prizes were awarded to women: For excellence
in surgery, to DR.. Grace e. Garrett; for best re-
port of womens clinic, to Dr. Emma T. Men
hardt for best thesis on effect of tobacco to Dr.
Kate /. Graves.
Miss Catherine L. Wolfe one of the wealthiest
of New York's numerous wealthy women, is now
building a house for the accommodation of Epis-
copal bishops on Lexington avenue It ia in
tended for visiting bishops at conventions and
besides sleeping apartments, will contain read
lng-rooms, n library and offices 1t will cost
about $4,000. The same lady presented fort
night ago church to her Italian community in
New York at a cost to herself says an exchange
of some $50, 600 1t is the only Italian Protest
ant church in the metropolis, and has q delight
full choir of boys and girls.
The Supreme Court of Oregon recently rem
dered an important decision respecting the prop
erty rights of married women. It holds that
while any device, designed to cover the property
acquisitions of the husband debtor, or to con-
duct his business in the name of his wife, or
other member of the family to defraud creditors
Is a sham and fraud which. when discovered
the law will not tolerate, the fact that the hus
band gives his time. talents aud services to his
wife in his conduct Of her separate business
is not of itself sufficient to vitiate it with
fraud, to make her interest in the business or
the profits arising out of it chargeable with his
debts.
The San Diego (Cal) Herald tells of the fol-
lowing feat by young lady named Miss Law
renee: ION last Tuesday band of wild cattle |
we're being driven through the streets when one |
of them singled out child at play and started |
for it. The vaquero who was drunk. sumbled |
from his horse as he attempted to turn the furi |
animal At this moment Miss Lawrence
came along, and, taking in the situation at
glance, sprang into the vacant saddle. ran down |
the wild steer, threw her shawl over its head |
just IL was about to gore the child, then rode
up to the child and, without leaving her saddle |
reached and lifted it into her lap and carried it
off in safety This was not only an act of hero
ism, but an exhibition of horsemanship such as
few persons could equal"