Show WOMEN AS borens jn ili an article on old times in in detroit the lie free press has baa the following iii by the act to incorporate the town of Detroit passed in the legislature of the northwestern territory on january 18 1802 all inhabitants of the said town of detroit who are arc freeholders or householders paying 0 an all annual rent of forty dollars were voters this act was in force for many years ou on the day dav of april 1804 on the question whether tho the pickets and gates be repaired or suffered to fall into decay twenty five firo freeholders voted among them four women two of whom voted by proxy they were widow balshan Cal Cals shan bau widow goats coats widow provencal and the late mrs welch who toted by william scott esq it seems to indicate an extension of suffrage beyond any of the propositions before the convention and is worthy the attention of the reformers for mcra 4 Proxies from the other world would a curious element clement in a campain campaign n WHAT ENGLISH TARS uin dir or tile the london times publishes a return of I 1 the deaths of seamen reported by the board of trade as having died in tile the british merchant service in the year 1866 the number nu was 1866 but in instances the cause of death was not Fe reported Ported the most lemarl able thing in the return is tile the large proportion of is occasioned occasion cd by the seam abla anla ailline illing fl half the mortality of the year was by drowning 1310 men and boys aie were drowned by accident accia ent and 1171 by wreck died from falling from aloft 16 by falling down the hold 15 by sunstroke bun stroke and I 1 by ligham 5 were frozen to death and 13 from exposure po surett tt cold 8 were murdered and 3 shot 35 deaths are attributed to scurvy to yellow fever to cholera 40 to dio to aysen tary lary to consumption 18 to the f bre hoof the seventh commandment diore llian ilian w a hundred ways of exit from life are arc distinguished in the return and the rating and the age of the wen men who died are arc recorded |