Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1890 — HISTORICAL. [ARTICLE]

HISTORICAL.

The Lincoln medal, struck in honor of Abraham Lincoln, is described in a catalogue by A. C. Zabriskie of New York, a celebrated student of numismatics. There have been 189 of the Lincoln medals struck, and no other American except Washington has received the honor. TJhe two housesof the Massachusetts Legislature were first established in 1644. Previous to that time the general assembly had constituted one body, bnt an arrangement Was now ( made for the magistrates and the deputies to assemble separately, and tho measures agreed upon by one be sent to the other, and the passage of any act depend upon the concurrence of both. From that date the present parliamentary conduct was established. The first Boston woman to devote herself to literary study was Miss HanDah Adams. In 1784 she published a learned, but, it must be said, rather stupid book, called the “View of Religions.” Later she published a “History of New England” and a “History of the Jews.” The former involved her in a vigorous contioversv. Rev. Jedadiah Morse also published a New England history, which Miss Adams claimed to be an infringement of an abridgment of her own work, which she had arranged as a text book. It is said that the controversy was a lively one, and extended over a period of ten years. The place aux dames was not especially recognized, and the lady was compelled to assert her own right of way, a task to which she appears to have been fully equal.