men own theirs; that women who were married might be the
legal guardians of their children's property and persons as
well as the father; that women should be appointed with
equal responsibility and authority as assistant physicians
in insane asylums, and that the appointment of all the
officers in such asylums should be made by the legislature,
and not by the governor, as now; that women be appointed on
boards of visitors and commissioners to all asylums where
women are inmates or prisoners.

In 1884, all of the Clay sisters--Mrs. Bennet, Mary, Laura and
Anne--with Mrs. Haggart, again went to Frankfort, and held
meetings in the legislative hall, which were largely attended by
the best classes of the citizens of that city, as well as by
members of the legislature.

For several years we have had a woman for State Librarian. In
Fayette, one of our most aristocratic counties, Lexington being
its county seat, a woman was elected to the office of county
clerk by a majority of 200 over her male competitor. In two other
counties women are also county clerks. Each of them had served so
efficiently in her husband's office, that at his death she had
been elected in his place.

That woman has to fight every step of her way to the recognition
of her rights as a citizen equal before the law, is shown by the
following despatch from Frankfort, dated December 18, 1885:

Mrs. M. C. Lucas was elected by the vote of Daviess county
to the office of jailer, to succeed her husband, who was
killed by a mob while in discharge of his duty. When she
appeared before the county court to give bond for the
office, the Judge refused to allow her to qualify. A writ of
mandamus from the Circuit Court was applied for to compel
the court to allow her to qualify, but the motion was
denied. An appeal was then taken to the Court of Appeals.
Yesterday that court affirmed the decision of the Circuit
Court, that a woman cannot legally hold the office of county
jailer.

A woman in Madison county acted as census-taker, and performed
her duty well. She was the niece of Mr. Justice Miller of the
Supreme Court of the United States. Gen. W. J. Sanderson,
internal revenue coll