WOMAN'S EIGHTS

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 834, 8 July 1871, Page 3

WOMAN'S EIGHTS

According to the " New York Nation, " the very advanced women of America are striking out some exceedingly startling views on social topics so startling, indeed, that not a few of their well-wishers will find it exceedingly difficult, perhaps impossible, to keep up with them. The great Mrs. Cady Staunton will now be content with nothing short of the emancipation of the sex from marriage as it is. The arrangement to be substituted for the vulgar old custom is to be " limited matrimony," the contract between lady and gentleman expiring in three years from the date of entering into it It may, however, be renewed for the triennial period by mutual consent. If such a complication as a baby should arise during the interval, the lady on retiring from her engagement, is to take charge of it, the father paying for its board.

A report made of the number and amount of mercantile failures in the United' States during 1870 compiled by a leading mercantile agency which has branches in all parts of the country, shows that there were 3551 failures with aggregate liabilities of 88,242,000d015. During 1869 the number of failures was 2799 with aggregate liabilities of 75,054,000d015., showing a decided increase for 1870. Of the liabilities about one-fourth are reported from New York city and Brooklyn, there having been 18 failures there in 1869, with 21,370,000 dollars, liabilities, and in 1870 430 failures, with 20,573,000d015., liabilities. The conclusion drawn from the report is that business in 1870 was in a very unsatisfactory condition, but hopes are expressed of a more healthy state of trade this year. The prospects of the cricket season in England are described as remarkably good, and fine weather alone is wanted to make it one of the most successful on record. A householder at Wick, in filling up his census paper, said :—" lam a son of King George the Fourth, and therefore presume I was born in England." A clerk in the postal telegraph department in London, who attenpted to make " April fools " of the newspapers has been suspended.