the Supreme Court; Miss Mary C. Lowe of Colby
University has taken a college prize for declamation. They are
the first Maine women who have ever enjoyed honors of the kind.
Miss Cameron spoke, too, at the last Congregational conference,
and Miss Frank Charles was appointed register of deeds in Oxford
county.

It is further to be noted that the legislature voted as follows
on the question of giving the ballot to women: Senate--14 yeas,
14 nays; House--62 yeas, 69 nays. Women are rapidly obtaining a
recognized position in our colleges. There are now five young
women at Colby, three at Bates, and three at the Agricultural
College--eleven in all. Bates has already graduated two. In the
latter college a scholarship for the benefit of women has been
endowed by Judge Reddington. Finally, the first Woman Suffrage
Association ever formed in Maine held its first meeting at
Augusta last January, and was a great success. Carmel, Monroe,
Etna and some other towns have elected women superintendents of
schools, but this has been done in other years. For a little
movement in the right direction we must credit Messrs. Amos,
Abbott & Co., woolen manufacturers of Dexter, who divide ten per
cent. of their profits with their operatives.

Clara H. Nash, the lady who, in partnership with her husband, has
recently entered upon the practice of law in Maine, says:

Scarcely a day passes but something occurs in our office to rouse
my indignation afresh by reminding me of the utter insignificance
with which the law, in its every department, regards woman, and
its utter disregard of her rights as an individual. Would that
women might feel this truth; then, indeed, would their
enfranchisement be speedy.

In the _Woman's Journal_ of January 1, 1873, we find the following
call:

The people of Maine who believe in the extension of the elective
franchise to women as a beneficent power for the promotion of the
virtues and the correction of the evils of society, and all who
believe in the principles of equal justice, equal liberty and
equal opportunity, upon which republican institutions are
founded, and have faith in the triumph of intelligence and reason
over custom and prejudice, are invited to meet at Granite Hall,
in the city of Augusta, on Wednesday, January 29, 1873, for the