Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-03-22
ITEMS BOu WOMEN.

| ueMS A6OOI WOMEN.
Mrs MARY A. LIvERMoRE will bs
in New England the rest Of the season.
Mrs j. ELLEN FOSTER is ~lecturing
in Iowa, on the Irish question, to large
audiences.
FRANCES E WILLARD has gone to
Washington in the interests Of pending
bills to secure better protection for
women. and the prohibition of liquor
In the District Of Columbia
Miss HANNAH TAGGARr. Of North
cumberland, Pa, with her mothers A.
sissance. dragged her unconscious
father from a burning room. when .
few seconds delay would have been
fatal
Mrs SARAH h BoLToS is engaged
upon . new volume. to be entitled
Famous American Statesmen" Il
will give short biographies Of men who
have been prominent in the history VI
this country.
Mrs JEANETTE THURBER. who pa
triotically sunk so much money in the
American Opera has given a musical
education to number, of poor girls in
New York. and sent them to Europe
to complete their studies.
Rev. FLORENCE Z KoLLocK, pastor
of Englewood (nl) Universaliss
Church. lately commemorated the
twelfth anniversary Of her entrance
upon the ministry. During her pas
toFate, the society has increased from
fifteen members 10 two hundred.
Miss FLoKKScE MESKAEYER. the
young pianist and composer over
whom musical circles at Vienna are
going into raptures. is n grandniece Of
Rubinstein- and a pupil of Lsxt. Her
playing is said to be wonderful. and
she has already composed an opera
She is only eighteen
Miss MARY l. BoorH has translated
more than fifty works from the French.
She earns IS. eco ayear by her ~transls.
ions in addition to her salary Of
5000 ~ editor of Harper's Baxar. IL
Is related that once, when Scribner was
in a great hurry for Angenor de Gas
par5n's Uprising Of a Great People"
Miss Booth translated the whole book
in i've days
Ms CHRISTINA r. HALxr. of New
York. has made n comfortable fortune
in a business rather unusual for q
woman-the examination of inventions
and patent claims She Is described as
very quiet and retiring. and Is said no,
to look nearly old enough to be the
mother Of two grown sous. She is
chairman Of ohe II the committees o!
Sorosis
ETA >HArrUck- the brave Nebrask,
teacher. vss a heroine long before she
sacrificed her life to save her little
pupilS A disposition Of the s4.oDO
raised before her death develops the
fact that her father Ca disabled vet
eranl. her mother. two sisters and /,
brother had all been largely dependen.
upon her earnings StiIl the sex she
represents are excluded from the right
TO vote. along with idiots. Inmates and
fslons- Ho1Gan's Journal
LADY MACKENZIE has opened a bon
net shop in London The family
property Is in the Highlands. where
estates no longer pay the old-tims
tents 1T Is no USE" saws Lady
Mackenzie. in 8 lately published in
terview. "trying to hut out the truth
-socialism Is making enormous
strides. unpleasant though i. NAV bs
to have to face it." Commenting on
this the CAristiaa Union SAYS: III
Socialism means such changes in con-
dinons that men and women who used
to Inv OF other peoples industry must
now 20 to work and live OF their own.
II only another name fordemoeracv.
or rather let Us say for organic Chris
tianity."
MRS SrERRr. Of Emporia. Kan. 10
talked Of as a member Of the St.,.
Board OF Charities. intelligent people
believing that At least one of the i've
persons on that board should BE- n
woman The Hiawatha (KAn.) World
y 1T viii be wise. as a matter of
economy. to make this change. The
board buys immense quantities Of dry
goods groceries and cooking utensils.
d. which a woman is n better iudsa
man q a But as q matter ~
humanity. the hundreds Of women Who
are inmates Of public institutions .bSo-
iutely need the attention Of = woman
on the board Who else knows 80 we'll
aasa nc health. the clothes. the bo-lv
ana mind OF the female inmaiess Tn.
States that have adopted this reform.
! arc entirely satisfied with The result