ther minister.

The president of the New Hampshire association, in writing from
Concord to the _Woman's Journal_, January 30, 1871, says:

Our second annual meeting was a grand success, if we count by
money and numbers. The intense cold on Wednesday and Thursday
made our audiences thinner than heretofore, but they were large
in spite of the elements, Mrs. Churchill and Mrs. Emma Coe Still,
who had never presented the subject here before, were well
received. Rev. Dr. Savage of Franklin made an excellent address,
and encouraged us by timely suggestions. Stephen S. Foster
aroused us, as he always does, with his bold declarations. The
resolutions adopted look toward future work, and embody the
principles which move us to act.

Lucy Stone, in the _Woman's Journal_ of June 14, 1871, says:

The Select Committee, Harry Bingham, chairman, to whom was
referred a bill for the further protection of the rights of
married men, reported the bill in a new draft as follows:

Marriages shall not hereafter render the husband liable for
the debts contracted by his wife prior to their marriage:
_Second section_--No marriage shall hereafter discharge the
wife from liability to pay the debts contracted by her
before such marriage, but she, and all property which she
may hold in her own right, shall be held liable for the
payment of all debts, whether contracted before or after
marriage; in the same manner as if she continued sole and
unmarried.

This report was signed by eight of the ten members of the
committee. The minority, through Mr. Sprague of Swanzey, made a
report recommending that the whole subject be postponed to the
time when women in New Hampshire have the right to vote. Mr.
Sprague moved that the minority report be substituted for the
majority, but the motion was lost by an almost unanimous vote.
The majority report was sustained in remarks by Messrs. Wadleigh
of Milford and Cogswell of Gilman. The latter, hard pushed by an
interrogatory concerning his social status, admitted that he was
not married, but intended to be soon. The bill reported by the
majority was then ordered to a second reading.

If this action should be sustained by the legislature, we can
imagine some future suitor for a lady's hand tell