FRIDAY.. DECEMBER 29, 1876.
3TOTICE.
Agents trill please take notice that .It is a
great tax upon us to pay express charges upon
small sums, and they will confer a great favor
by remitting to us through money orders or
registered letters.
GIYE THEM SOMETHING TO DO.
"Labor Is rest from the sorrows that greet us ;
Best from all petty vexations that meet us;
Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us ;
Best from world sirens that lead us to 111."
Truer words than these were never
penned. Iiet any one use his eyes and
understanding and see If two-thirds of
the ills which young people are betrayed
or decoyed into are not directly the re
sult of idleness, of having no fixed pur
pose, no regular employment. The boy
to whom honorable employment gives
continued activity of brain or body, or
both, finds neither time nor incliuation
to perfect himself in the arts of the
street Arabs who infest alleys and loiter
about questionable places, daily grow
ing wiser in the lore of vice. The young
man, trained to steady business habits
and secure iu the self-respect which ac
companies active endeavor, iscompara-
tively proof against the mean snares
that so readily entrap the listless lounger
or the pampered pensioner on a mis
taken father's bounty. He knows noth
Ing of the sneaking subterfuges that
lack of pocket change forces'the idler to
practice, aud a feeliug of security and
respect that comes with pecuniary inde
pendence is visible in every action.
First on the downward grade m mor
als is idleness, next viciousness, then
closely following in its fearful wake-
dishonor, crime, and its penalties. But
it Is not only necessary for boys aud
young men to have employment In or
der to develop the inherent good and
keep down the bad eqjually inherent in
the general organization of humanity,
but girls and young women also should
be thus placed above present temptation
and future distress, dishonor or want,
by giving them some steady occupation
We read in an up country paper but
last week of a girl 15 years of age who
committed suicide by taking strychnine
because, forsooth, she was tired of living.
Is It not clear that the sickly sentimen
tality that would induce this state of
feeling in one so young, to whom life's
trials and cares were all unknown could
and should have been corrected by di
recting the mind into active and health
ful channels, and giving the hands, and
mind as well, steady employment that
promised happiness to self and others?
"Tired of living." Sentimental and
nonsensical as this sounds to active, en
ergetic workers in the world's broad
vineyard, there are hundreds of persons
who are in such fearful, pitiable strait
Tired of living because life to them is
but an endless routine of "eat and sleep,
and wake, and eat and sleep again." If
life presents nothing better for them,
present or prospective, it is little won
der that a few years gives them a sur-
felt. Rut a grand and certain panacea
for this surfeit on nothingness is active,
earnest labor. The remuneration, if
not in dollars and cents, is none the
less sure aud efficacious, for it comes to
every one in the- consciousness of duty
performed, of miuds enlarged, of energies
called out, of charities quickened, of
health and happiness assured.
Therefore to weary idlers who beat
and beat the beaten track, only "to sur
feit on the same and yawn their joys,"
we say go to work, work with a stout
heart and resolute will, and be sure that
the scripture which says, "Indue time
ye shall reap if ye faint not," will be
fulfilled. Throw aside your "yellow-
backed" literature, girls, face life's re
alities, first of all by being earnest in
your desire and efforts to be helpful to
those around you, and at a proper time
to help yourselves pecuniarily and see
if its unreal phantoms will not cease to
haunt you.
TO SUBSCRIBERS.
In closing- up accounts for 1876, we
find that many of our patrons, some of
whom have from time to time given us
theircordial sympathy aud co-operation
in our journalistic enterprise, are still
in arrears for the last volume of the
New Northwest. We have during
the past few mouths made repeated ap-
peals to delinqueuts to pay up, and have
furnished many with statements of
their accounts, and yet from careless-
ness or some other cause many are still
iu the delinquent's list. This We be
lieve would not be the case did each un
derstand the need that exists for every
subscriber to pay his or her own indl
vidual obligation. Mrs. Duniway has
now been absent nearly seven months.
and still tarries. Of course all under
stand that the field work she so busily
prosecuted while in this State has
necessarily been suspended during the
time that she has been sojourning in
the East, giving personal supervision t
the publication of her poem, and under
standing this, will see how Imperatively
necessary it is for subscriptions to be
paid iu order to meet constantly-recur
ring bills. Newspaper people, like
other folks, like to commence -the new
year with money sufficient to meet bills
when presented, and like other folks,
are entitled to iux-ive lueir money
when due
We hope that this plain statement of
the facts in the case, and the assurance
that we need outstanding subscriptions,
will be sufficient to cause every sub
scriber to think the matter over, decide
whether he or she is in arrears, and re
mit at once, not only what is due, but
year's subscription In advance.
Those of our agents who have money
in their possession for this office 'will
please forward the same immediately
by money order, express, or registered
letter.
The Queen will open the next session
of Parliament in person.
EETEOSPEOTION.
The Centennial year of our Republic's
history has but to couut a few more
sands from Time's great bour-glass, and
then its records of 'good and of ill com
pleted will take its place in the ranks of
long silent centuries. But yesterday, as
It seems, 1876 came to us aglow with
bright anticipations, and full of -vigor
ous, buoyant lire and energy, with
which to convert them into realities;
to-day he stands as an emblem of de-
repit age, waiting for his melancholy
daughter, dark-browed December, to
close her own and bis last accounts and
give place to his young successor.
Retrospection, now fitting companion
for our thoughts, will, as the glad bells
tell us in one stroke that the Old Year
is dead, and the New Year born, speed
ily give place again to anticipations,
high hopes, and good resolves. "Prom
ises made but never kept" will hide
from sight their shadowy forms, while
new ones will with increased confidence
occupy-their room. No thought that
they too may share the ignominious
fate of their predecessors for the present
darkens their prospects. The ghosts of
these murdered resolves will be relent
lessly crushed beneath the feet of re.-re-
solves, aud these, in turn, will, in many
instances, share a like melancholy fate.
Happy are they, and few as happy, who
can cast backward into the receding
months of the year that is gone a self-
satisfied glance, and turning, greet the
year to be, with cheerful confidence in
their ability to triumph over errors that
so easily ensnare humanity.
H0LIDATSEAS0N.
The Holiday season, its evenings
ablaze with light in shop and church
and street, in home and heart and im
pulse, is upon us in all of its old-time
glory. Concert precedes ball, and ball
is followed by theater; and up and down
and through our streets and into our
homes and out again come and go
troops of merry children with their
scarcely less merry elders.
The expectant stockings by the chimney
hung;
The sweet conspiracies of old and young;
The Christmas tree, with its surprislngfrults
Toys, candles, picture books, the boy's first
boots,"
All have claimed in their turn their
share of attention, and all will soon
take their places in the memory cham
bers of the Centennial year.
Glancing only at the bright side of
this festal time, one forgets for a mo
ment that it does not extend its hand of
rejoicing to all; forgets that pain and
disease lias Kept weary vigil in many a
darkened chamber; that want and woe
hold in relentless grasp many to whom
glad sounds of merriment are but a hol
low mockery, aud the gala week but a
bitter taunt; that even through every
day of the gladsome time graves have
been hollowed out and filled and closed
It is for the time an effort to believe
that sorrow and penury tread so closely
upon the heels of joy and affluence,
Holiest amongst the impulses and influ
ences of this season are those that un
lock the well-springs of charity and
sympathy In the human heart.
INTOLERANCE.
Bigotry and intolerance, twin sisters
of superstition, gohaud in hand through
the world, making proselytes of the ig
norant, strengthening bonds of tyranny
aud olten by overreaching, defeating
their own ends. When intolerance pur
sues any object, whether it be of a relig
ious, political, or social character, its
actions, sooner or later, work its own
discomfiture. The idea that a man may
be possessed of good and noble qualities.
and yet differ materially from ourselves
either in his theological views or his
political opinions is one which all who
would not be slaves to intolerance must
cherish.
We read in an Eastern exchange that
the marble bust of Thomas Paine, sculp
tured by Sydney H. Morse, and offered
to the city of Philadelphia to be placed
in Independence Hall, has been refused
a place iu that historic building. It was
designed to perpetuate the services of
Paine in the cause of American inde
pendence, and the act of o fieri ng it as
above recorded, referred to this solely
and not in any manner to his religious
opinions. We quote from the New Age
concerning this matter:
All fair-minded people can see that no reason
is to be found in Paine's religious opinion
however offensive they might be to an-, for re
fusing to recognize his Revolutionary services
and the bigotry that is so unjust lo his memory
now, cannot have been fair to his character
hitherto. Thecity which sanctions this refusal
will cover Itself with a darker obloquy than
that it seeks to prevent.
A POPULAR "SAVINGS BANE."
An exchange says :
A saving woman at the head of a raniily
the very best savings bank yet established.
Possibly, but there is small incentiv
for a woman to establish these banks.
for after a longlifeof rigid economy and
careful -painstaking the entire accumu
lations are beyond her reach and belong
solely in law as well as in name to her
husband. The use of one-third during
her lifetime, and the "bank" building
rent free for one year to live in after the
death of the husband is by men's laws
aud enactments deemed sufficient com
pensation to the woman to whom
common consent is accorded the credit
of saving ihe whole. Women whp
have to "pray the court for relieP' in
the shape of a monthly stipend for tb
support of themselves and children an
find this doled out to them from tbeirow
"saving's hank," according to a strang
er's judgment of their needs, understand
this matter. While present customs
obtain, we don't advise any woman to
deny herself anything that the finances
of Ihe firm will 'purchase, in order to
build up a future over which she has no
control.
Our latest advicea from Mrs. Duni
way will be found in the editorial corre
spoudence. She probably still remains
In Illinois.
EDITOEIAL 00EEESP0HDEH0E.
Dear Readers of the New Northwest:
When last we wrote you from Chi
cago, a week ago, we had great hope
that our next wouldhail.from Baramie,
or some other point even farther west.
But business and bad weather have de
tained us, and we are now to make a
forward movement that seems lo us
like snail paces, so anxious and impa
tient are we about the loved ones at
home. We thought we had become
philosopher enough not to fret over
bat cannot be helped, but find ourself
badly mistaken over this failure to make
more rapid progress toward the setting
Leaving Philadelphia on the morning
of the 29th ult., we reached the town of
Latrobe, Pa., at midnight, after having
traveled on a way train till thoroughly
exhausted. An obliging porter here
met us at the station, and escorting us
to the hotel, consigned the wanderer to
cosy room with a glowing grate, where
e were soon in dreamland among the
far off dear ones at home.
The early morning brought good
Father Machesney to meet us from his
home on an adjacent farm, and we were
soon a pleased and welcomed guest in -a
rambling, roomy, substantial farm
house, aglow with cheery fires and peo
pled with warm-hearted friends who
were no strangers to us, although we
had not mfet them before, except in
pi fit.
It was Thanksgiving day, aud good
inners and public service were in order.
Amid ail the glow of good cheer which
greeted us, our thoughts ran out to an
other Thanksgiving, thousands of miles
away, where loving hearts beat in re-
pousive sympathy to our I'ongiug soul,
and made the prayers of thanksgiving
doubly dear to the spirit of the home
sick wanderer. There were other links
than our own to make the attachment
strong, for the pet and pride of the
Machesney household had been trans
planted to distant Oregou, and loving,
hoping hearts were yet aching because
of the pangs of parting.
As usual, there was work for us to do.
A hall was procured and "dodgers" scat
tered, and for two evenings the good
people came out through the storm and
cold to hear the women's gospel. Sev
eral subscribers to the New North
west, and a liberal patronage to "Da
vid and Anna Matsou," followed as a
matter of coursej'and then, on Satur
day, we came away, reaching Chicago
at 10 A. 31. Sunday, where Dr. A. C
Machesney met us at the train, 'and
here at his house we have been a guest
for over a week, eugaged in attending
the woman's convention and Moody's
meetings, when not interviewing news
paper people or writing up the serial for
the Phrenological Journal or New
Northwest, or scribbling some poetic
effusion for some of the Chicago papers.
The woman's convention was decidedly
slim in numbers, the Moody excitement
having filled many womeu's miuds to
repletion. But the interest was great,
the deliberations wise, and the papers
respectful, with the exception of the
Times, which got "Duniway" on the
brain, and was especially worried be
cause Providence hadn't endowed us
with a more delicate little mouth.
Since the men havj become so badly
muddled in their political relations that
thev are unable to tell who is their
President, they are more deferentially
humble on the woman question than
they would otherwise have been.
The old adage, "It's an ill wind that
blows nobody any good," s being veri
fied for Oregon, for Governor Grover is
gaining newspaper notoriety as rapidly
as the women are gaining independence,
The Eastern press is full of "Oregon."
The dear nameconfronts us everywhere;
and though we cannot say that we're
exactly proud of her present political
standing, we feel a little like the man
felt who was partly compensated for his
forthcomidg execution by seeing his
condition thoroughly advertised at the
public expense.
Talking of politics, we've patronized
the Machesney dentists, three brothers
who do the largest business of the kind
in Chicago, and they have succeeded iu
making a partial plate to fill the gaps in
our bicuspids, and so forth, which hard
ship made in them in Oregou before
dentists were, and we can wear the plate,
As this is the fourth experiment of the
kind by as many dental firms, and the
first that has succeeded, we desire Ore
gonlans iu passing through Chicago to
always patronize these dentists. They
make' full sets of teeth for $8 00, and are
getting rich, because everybody needs
teeth and can afford them at the price.
If somebody next door would go into
the wig business, and supply the capii
lary substance equally cheap, that
would prevent toothless masculines from
looking oh the top-head like frost-bitten
watermelons, they would soon find
themselves equally prosperous, for two-
thirds or tne men everywhere are as
bald as eagles. Toothless people are
scarce, thanks to dentists, but bald
beaded men are plentiful, and no thanks
to anybody.
Chicago is iu as thorough a ferment
over the Moody and Sanknj meetings
as Portland was eighteen u cntbs ago
over Brother Hammond's gospel. Mr,
Moody very much resembles Rev. Mr.
Jolly, of Oregon, aud if the latter gen
tiemen would compel himself to run
counter to nobody's ology, and merely
tow everybody along in the popularly
accepted channels, as does Moody, the
people and preachers would soon look to
him to be saved just as they now look
to Moody.
There is none of. the charlatan snob
bery about Moody that disgusted every
body that kept their senses when Ham
mond was dashing through Portland on
horseback and crying, with a loud voice,
"Fifty ceuts for an excursion to Oregon
City, and a free pass to Heaven I"
Ail over Chicago, side by side with
"Humpty Dumpty," the "Adelphi,"
and "Neilson," you may find yellow
placards advertising Moody and San-
key, and their performance being free,
as the gospel should be, it is not strange
that the crowds follow them. Aud
then, that singing! Sankey's singing
sounds at times like'the wail of a lost
soul. Then again you hear the thunder
and see the lightning as the reverbera
tions of his voice go through you like
electricity; and while
Jura answers, through her misty shroud.
Back to the Joyous Alps who call to her aloud,"
You shut your eyes, and Oriental le
gends fill your brain with mental con-
jurings as the dying miserere steals
athwart your senses when
"Jesus of Nazareth passeth by."
Moody's preaching Is simply Bible
readings and stories. He tells a story
with inimitable pathos, and though you
cannot often see the connection between
his illustrations and the test, you find
'that he strikes your feelings through
some natural, simple vibration of your
being, aud then there is positive luxury
In tears. While we know that there
will be no such result from these labors
as many of the faithful anticipate, we
are profoundly glad to see the people
thus stirred. Whatever touches their
sympathies will make them more
Christ-like, and anything like change
iu religion is an improvement upon the
formal sectarianism and self-righteous
coldness of. the churches. There is not
one person in five hundred who attends
church iu any city for the simple reason
that the poor cannotsustain theexpeuse
of pew rent and costly apparel. These
meetings break down the walls, and
though human arrogance will rebuild
them as soon as Moody is gone, yet the
masses will have caught glimpses of the
gospel, and much bread will have been
cast upon thevvaters which shall yet after
manyyearsreturn. The reformed men's
meetings are largely attended, and when
men and women make it "respectable"
to reform fallen women as well, and
thus prevent wholesale ruin while phil
anthropists are satisfying their souls by
saving at "retail," we shall have a great
deal more faith in the religion of the
day than we can now have in anything
that is one-sexed and one-sided, whether
it be in church or state.
We are pleased to chronicle one hope
ful symptom of better times. A pro mi
nent Democratic politician has made a
public confession. We heard him, and
while the faithful followers of Moody
were rejoicing over what they 'devoutly
believed God had wrought, we could not
help thinking (and may Heaven forgive
us if we're mistaken) that tills Mr.
Wright, who told us he was a politician
and "the head of the Democratic party,"
must be fishing for a nomination
against Col. Bob Ingersoll, a Republi
can who is known to be an unbeliever
in experimental religion. But, be that
as it may, it is quite time for the politi
cians to go to praying, and it 'is to be
hoped that they'll keep at it till tbey
are compelled to enfranchise women.
Lizzie Boynton Harbert, President of
tlie Illinois State Woman Suffrage As
sociation, deserves great praise for her
recent efforts in the face of the excite-
ment here, to keep alive the attempts of
Jesus to break every bond and let the
oppressed go free.
Most of the workers in the woman
movement here are active Christians,
and we were especially pleased with One
lady who informed uslhat her husband
bad found, in translating theScriptures,
that great injustice had been done to
Paul by King James' translators in
making spurious use of his originally
liberal views on the woman question, in
order to suit their own bigotry and
prejudice. It was pretty tough on the
translators, but it was doubtless just to
Paul, whereof we are glad. Thus little
by little are the scales falling, and little
by little does the world grow wise,
Since we have been in Chicago we
have met Father Harmon of The Dalles,
who, as usual, is busily engaged in good
words and works. We were also called
upon by Mr. O. S. L.Potter, formerly of
Portiaud, and now of Milwaukie, who
is on liis way to Eugland to visit his
parents afteran absence of sixteen years,
He is looking well aud says there is no
place like Portland, where ho intends,
sometime, again to make his borne,
The faces and voices of Oregonians
look to us like apples of gold in pitchers
of silver whenever we come across them
A. J. D.
Chicago, December 12, 1876.
Seuator Mitchell is asked to amend
that portion of his bill for the protection
of salmon in the Columbia River which
relates to the size of seine meshes so as
to allow meshes Si inches, instead of 8,
as the bill provides, ruo reason as
signed for this is that if the bill is
passed and goes into .immediate effect,
it would result in great pecuniary loss
to proprietors who have their nets pre
pared for the coming season, the dimen
sions being as formerly, 8 inches from
corner to corner of meshes when ex
tended.
Cronin, with his strawberry nose and
mystic envelope, is exciting much com
ment in the East. The dispatches are
burdened with details of his movemeuts
and the probabilities and possibilities
that will result from his presence iu
Washington. Kelly has also arrived at
the Capital and the twain will soon be
reinforced by Grover, when the trio will
probably go into executive session at
once. Whether they will succeed in
making or unmaking a President is still
a matter of speculation.
Governor Grpver missed a reception
which San Francisco Democrats had in
store for him, on account of the steamer
arriving sooner than was expected. He
was waited upon by a large number of
prominent Democrats, and expressed
his views on the Oregon electoral mud
dle freely.
Mrs. Duniway's new poem, "David
and Anna Matson," arrived by the
"Elder" iu quantities sufficient to meet
temporary demands. Orders already
received will be filled at once.
LETTER PROM SOUTHERN OREGON.
To the Editor of the New Northwest:
Although somewhat secluded from so
ciety in this southern mining district,
we still take a deep interest in the work
which your journal a regular visitor to
oue of our number so earnestly advo
cates. Prior to coming here I was a resident
of Walla Walla, where I had the pleas
ure of hearing Mrs. Duniway lecture
two years since. I will not say that I
was then and there converted to the
doctrine she so ably preached, that con
version having long before taken place,
but I subscribed for the New North
west, and have since read it regularly,
Besides reading the papers myself, I
have sent them around through the
camp, and have lectured at home to the
old bachelors who abound, until I have
had the pleasure of seeing many of their
prejudices against equal rights vanish,
gradually, it is true, but still vanish
Here, as elsewhere, I am sorry to say
that some of our most bitter and un
thinking opponents are among members
of our own sex; but then we cannot
wonder that long years of serfdom will
give persons the spirits of slaves. We
must wait, nay, we can afford to wait,
for a gradual change is sure to be perma
nent. I shall indeed be happy and proud to
do all I can to give circulation to the
"People's Paper" in this camp and else
where, when opportunity offers. It Is
with me, however, as with hundreds of
other women in the land; the cares of a
large family, struggles with poverty
aud want of education prevent myriads
of women from aidiugas they otherwise
would be glad to do iu the advancement
of just aud qual opportunities for their
sex. I will, however, do the best that I
can; (aud who shall say after all that
though its results are slow it is not first
best,?) I will train up my girls and boys
to be strong in thedoctrinesof universal
liberty, and use whatever influence I
may possess to bring those around me
to see and bask in the light of freedom
With now and ever best wishes for
the cause, and its earnest exponent, the
New JSorthwest, lam respectfully,
Adni.
Gallce Creek, December 16, 1876.
EEOEN TE VENTS .
During a recent gale on the east coast
of Scotland and England many wrecks
occurred, aud a total of 250 lives were
lost.
Performances at the New York thea?
ters on' the 21st netted about $19,000,
which is to be devoted to the aid of
Brooklyn sufferers.
The New York Tribune editorially
says: The fact that (Jronin organized
himself relieves his Creator from a
heavy responsibility.
A reception was given Governor Gro
ver at Sacramento on Tuesday. He left
on the same evening for Washington
A salute was fired in his honor.
The newsteamshin "Citv of Chester."
just compIetedi to run between San
Francisco and Portiaud, Oregon, sailed
for her destiuation last Thursday:
The Republican electoral vote was de
posited by the messenger with Ferry on
the 26th. No receipt was given as there
are two sets of votes from Florida.
Senator Ferry states that in all cases
in which conflicting electoral certificates
are known to have been issued no re
ceipt will be given by him to either,
A dwelling-house was burned in
Bangor, Maine, on the night of the 21st,
in which a young girl eighteen years of
age and a child were burned to death
The Times1 Monroe special says
Witnesses of high standing before the
sub-committee are contradicting every
essential particular of Eliza Pinkslon's
story.
The Journal's Washington special
says: It Is said that Crqnin has delayed
delivering the pretended electoral vote
of Oregon to Mr. Ferry at the instance
of prominent Democrats, who are con
sideriug the advisability of withholding
it altogether.
Small-pox seems again on the increase
in Ban Francisco. Twenty-eight new
cases were verified by the health officer
during the week. The mortality from
diphtheria also contiuues alarmingly
large, amounting to 144 during the last
six weeks, or oue-quarter of the entire
death rate of the city.
The messenger bearing the Tilden
vote of Florida, handed Ferry his pack
age on the 22d. .berry received the
vote, but decided not to give any re
ceipts to the messenger who brought the
electoral votes that were contested on
the ground that .both could uot be paid
at present by Congress for such services,
It appears that the receipt is used as a
voucher on which to collect mileage.
The Democratic leaders have in
structed Cronin not to deliver the Ore
god certificates at all, purposing to pre
vent the couut of the electoral votes
from Oregon, and then to claim that
either 184 is the constitutional majority,
or else that the Presidential election has
been thrown into the House of Repre
sentatives.
The choice of a President of the Uni ted
States is no longer dependent upon the
voice of the people, but upon the manip
ulations and tricks of party managers,
The great drama of self-governmem
has, during its century performance, as
sumed different phases; reality, comedy
and tragedy, had each their turn and
the whole thing seems now to be near
its close in a farce. Mouarchy, tricked,
decked and equipped, should now occu
py the stage fori time, and with Iron
will teach the men of America the value
of liberty.
During the six months intervening
between May 10 and November 10, 1876,
it is said the Erie railroad carried 3,000,-
000 passengers without a single accident
to either life or limb or the loss of a
single piece of baggage.
HEWS JTEMS.
STATE AUD TERRITORIAL.
The Puyallup academy huildlmr. soon
to be erected, will cost $4,000.
About $45,000 were turned loose In
Polk county the past two weeks, all for
wlieat.
The assistant teacher of the deaf mnte
school, Mr. La Rue, has resigned his po
sition. The new bridge across the North Yam
hill is about finished. It is a well-built,
substantial, covered bridge.
The shipments of coal from Seattle to
San Francisco, for the year ending June
3utn, isb, were 'M,J.Jo tons.
The capital stock of the People's Pro
tective Transportation Cotunanv. of
Yamhill county, has beeu increased to
$50,000. .
The Pacific Threshing Machine Com
pany proposes to locate Its works at
Albany if it can secure a "subsidy of
Siu.uuu.
M. H. Coun, of Douglas countv. has
brought several quails of the "bob
white" variety from the East, aud
turned them out.
A scow, with eighteen car loads of
coal aboard, sunk in the Duwamish
River lust week, and will probably
prove a total loss.
joun Harrington is Dunning a new
cannery iu the vicinityof Pillar RuckK
calculating to paeu irom Zo,WU to 30,000
cases next season.
Five Christmas trees laden with va
ried aud delightful fruit made Klad the
young men and maidens, old meu aud
cuuuren oi Aioany.
The- Territorial University at Seattle
closed its fall term last Friday: the
teachers and pupils take a rest from
books and study until Tuesday, January
lOI I.
The funeral of D. S. Moore and C. S.
Rlnerson, the two men killed at Owyhee
uapuis Dytne explosion of giant powder
used for blasting purposes, took place at
Oregon City on Friday.
On Monday of last week there were
1,085 letters mailed from the Salem post
oflice, by actual couut. This is the
largest number of letters ever sent from
that city on any oue day.
There is great complaint among the
carpenters iu Astoria because of the
scarcity or lumber,'! tie three local mills
being unable to supply the current de-
maud, an havingorderssix weeksahead.
In Grand Ronde Vulley wheat Is
worth 50 cents per bushel, oats ami bar
ley 7a cents per iuu pounds, noui s3 per
barrel, nutter zo cents per pound, egtis
25 cents, potatoes 75 cents per 100
pounds, pork 5 ceuts per pound, gross.
ik cents net, greeu apples 3 ceuts per
pounu.
There are forty-seven hop yards in
Puyallup Valley, W. T.. aggregating
nearly 400 acres, some 75,000 cupital in
vested, giving employment the year
round to about oue Hundred hands,
necessitating during the harvest season,
say one month, commencing early in
September, 1,'JOO pickers and 150 add!
tional helpers. The crop of 1S76 is esti
mated at six Hundred thousand pounds.
and is more likely to go over than under
that figure. The average price for hops
for ten years has been, for all engaged,
twenty-one ceuts per pouud.
A Voice from the Waste Basket.
'The Father of a Family" wishes lo
know why the editor admitted a story
which he is constrained to say is far
from tlie standard which he conceives
the editor of a publication of such lofty
pretensions should constantly re card;
and he is sorry to say that he, the par
ent, is considering whether it be not his
duty to decline to receive tlie work any
longer. This is unquestionably an In
teresting consideration to the parent,
but he should remember that editors are
very busy men, and should therefore re
frain from troubling them with his
mental processes. If (he father of
family would but reflect for a moment.
he would perhaps suspect, what is the
precise truth, that lor every letter ot re
proof, an editor receives another of com
mendatiou; and if be should undertake
to govern his conduct by them the re
sult would be pitiful. Indeed, the same
disposition must be made of the didactic
letters as or the indignant, and they
must be dropped into the Umbo or entire
uselessness. What the individual A
suggests, the individual B ridicules; and
that which arouses the ire of U, rejoices
the heart of D. The editor, therefore, I
the only person who can intelligently
and properly reply, In the fabled word
of an eminent philanthropist, whose
charitable attention was asked to
single case of suffering, "I am too busy
with humanity to have time lor ludi
viduals."
The object of this brief discourse Is to
save the time of worthy people who are
about committing Indignation to paper,
or who Kindly design to teach somebody
else how to manage his business. The
text is found to be in an editor's waste
basket. Harper's Magazine.
Saying Hateful Thixos. -What a
strange disposition is that which lead
people to say "hateful" things for the
mere pleasure ot saying them I You
ate never sate with such a person
When you have done your best to please
and are leeiiug very Kindly and pleas
inlly, nut win co.ne some tiiiderliuui
stab, which you alone will comprehend
a sneer which Is masked but which
too well aimed to be misunderstood. It
may be at your person, your mental
feelings, your foolish habits of thougl
or some little secretopinion confessed in
a moment ot genuine confidence.
matters not how sacred it may be
you, he win nave ins ning at it; and
since the wish is to make you sutler, h
is all the happier tlie nearer he touches
your heart. Just have a dozen words,
only for the pleasure of feeing a cheek
flush, and an ere lose Its brightness
only spoken because be is afraid you are
too happy or too coucelted ! Yet they
are worse thau so many blows. How-
many sleepless nights have such mean
attacks caused teueer-hearted mortals
How after them one awakes with achiug
Ayes aud head, to remember that speed
before everything that bright, sliari
well-aimed needle of a speech, thai
probed the very ceuter of his soul !
Misses Angie and Ella Ford, of Salem
are students in the Medical Institute,
They were born in Oregon aud display
iu a very marKed degree adaptability
lor the proiession thay have chosen
They will doubtless graduate with honor
and spend useful lives in alleviating the
sutleritigs of humanity. One exaiupl
of. this kind is worth more than a thou
sand theories, however seutimeutally
expressed, for settling the vexed ques
tiou of "woman's sphere," aud clearly
demonstrates the fact that a woman'
work is whatever her capabilities lead
her to accomplish or her inclinations
prompt her to pursue.
As if coal oil had not enough to be re-
sousible for in Incendiarism, un iMiglish
physician now announces that it is also
responsible for diphtheria. This disease,
he says, was not known until coal oil
came into use; it is most fatal iu houses
where this oil Is used, aud most preva
lent in districts where this oil Is pro-
uucea.
Christmas Night.
The following sweet and familiar pic
ture of Christmas night is taken from a
Christmas story by J. T. Trowbridge in
Harper's Magazine:
Tired Nature lets her starry eyelid down,
a. wintry quiet lans on ail the town;
A tlnelln fmat is in the silent air.
His own breath whitens on his beard and hair
As Allenbam, with homeward-hasting feet.
a. vac ecnoes or tne icy street.
The shops, on Christmas eve ablaze with light.
Are closed and dark on this cold Christmas
ntcrhf
But in the homes above him. Maurice knows
What pleasure sparkles and what comfort
glows;
The dance, the song and story, told or sung;
Smiles from the elders, laughter from the
young;
Enraptured childhood with Its pictured page:
The homely games, uniting youth and age-
Scenes which the curtained windows scarce
conceal;
And all the joys which friends and kindred
feel
In that glad time with sympathizing heart,
He seems to see and hear and take a part
In all; and now his eager fancy rnns
Before to his own home and little ones.
There waits the'partner of his home and life.
Their mother and (ecstatic thought!) his wife,
The ever-faithful Laura. Fondly there
His own good mother trom her easy chair
Watches the baby Maurice on the floor,
upbuilding still, to see it fall once more,
His toppling house of blocks; or turns to smile
Ou little Laura by her side the while, .
Bending In the warm light bergipwlnghead,
Hushing her doll and putting It to bed.
The last house rails In ruins; In the box
Are packed at last the bright new Christmas
blocks;
The doll's asleep, the cradle put away;
And so the happy children end their play.
And In Imagination now he sees
Two cherubs In white night-gowns on their
knees,
Mingling their curls before the mother's chair,
Lisping with dewy lips their evening prayer.
The Astorian will publish statistics of
Oregon's commerce and agriculture, the
first week Iu January. These statistics
have been compiled with care, and will
be of reliable character and much value
to the State. The energy displayed by
the proprietor of the jourual above
named is commendable, and cannot fail
tobeof great benefit to the Interests and
industries of Oregon.
Representatives of each cannery on
the Columbia River are invited to meet
at the Court-house in Astoria on the
first day of February to consider meas
ures for the protection and propagation
of salmon in the Columbia.
From Rev. Sylvanus Cobb, of Boston.
loruierly Editor or the Chris
tina I'rcemau."
Dear Sib: It may be some satisfaction to
you to be Informed of the result of the trial of
the Peruvian syrup In my family. My
daughter was brought low by a typhoid lever
last spring, and after the fever left her she con
tinued very weak, and the simplest food dis
tressed her. For months she remained in the
same debilitated condition; but from the 1st of
September last, when she commenced taking
the Syrup, the digestive functions Improved,
and she steadily gained strength and vivacity ;
and now, after taking two bottles, she Is re
stored to a good state of bealta; indeed, she
appears more really healthy than she has for
several years past. I am of the opinion that
the "Protoxide of Iron" contained In the Pe
ruvian Syrup was adapted to her case, and
effected what no other known medicine could
have effected. S. Cobb.
Sold by all druggists. 13
I'UItCIttASI.NG AOEXCY.
Miss Clara Duniway offers her services to the
public as a Purchasing Agent. Orders for
every conceivable article of Ladles' and Chil
dren's Wear, or for Jewelry, Silver or Plated
Ware, Notions, Patterns, Musical Instruments,
etc., etc., will receive her prompt personal at
tention. Persons living at a distance will find
it to their advantage to send their orders. In
ordering millinery, ribbons, ties, etc., state the
i aud complexion of wearer, color of hair
and eyes, style of features, and how the hair is
worn. No order attended to unless accom
panied by the cash, and all transactions to be
consldeied final. The same conscientious care
jrlll be exercised In making purchases as
though the owner were present, and Miss Dun
way's acquaintance with the trade will always
enable her to secure honorable bargains.
Terms of commission, five per cent. Ladles
writing for Information concerning prices,
styles, etc, must inclose a stamp to pay return
postage.
The American Newspaper Directory Is an
epitome of newspaper history. It Is also re
garded as an official register of circulations.
This leature requires the closest scrutiny to
prevent It from leading to abuses. The plan
adopted by the publishers of the Dikectory to
secure correct and trustworthy reports Is rigid
In Its requirements, and Is adhered to with
impartiality. Successful publishers, who have
something to gain by a comparison, are gener
ally prompt, not only to send reports in con
formity, but give Messrs. Geo. P. Itowell Co.
such Inlormatlon as enables them to weed out
unsubstantiated statements of pretenders In
Journalism. The popularity of the book, and
the general confidence in Its accuracy and good
taith, are attested by the Immense body of ad
vertisements It receives. 4 2S
"A Drowning Man "Will Catch at a
Straw." '
If he catch It, it will do him no good. Thous
ands ot people who have neglected Colds and
Coughs until they have become dangerous will
rusn to almost every nostrum for relief. This
is wby so many experiments are tried by the
sufferers. Go to your druggist, buy a bottle of
Wistar's Balsaji or Wild Cherry, and use
it with confidence. It will benefit at once -and
ultimately cure. It is no straw; It Is a cable
well tried; bold on to it and be saved. Sold by
all druggists.
A Valuable Discovert. Dr. J. P. Miller, a
practicing physician at 327 Spruce street, Phila
delphia, has discovered that the extractor cran
berries and hemp combined cures headache,
either bilious, dyspeptic, nervous, or sick head
ache, neuralgia and nervousness. This Is a tri
umph In medical chemistry and sufferers all
over the country are ordering by mall. He
prepares it in pills, at SO cents a box. The Doc
tor Is largely known and highly respected.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
31 US. B. A. OWEXS, 31. D.
Office and residence, east side First street, be
tween Yamhill and Taylor. Special attention
given to women and children's complaints.
Also, gives Medicated Vapor Baths, com
bined with Electricity, In treating rheumatism
and chronic diseases. 5-32
Go to Hendee's Gallery and get the finest pic
tures in the State at the lowest prices. He is
the people's artist and poor man's friend. Buy
one of his fire klndlers and try it, and you will
never be without one. Gallery on First street,
between Morrison and Yamhill, Portland,
Oregon. 6-15
Heaven designed the Juice of theHorehound
plant, the Tar of the Balm of Gllead Tree, and
healing Honey, for the relief of Irritated lungs.
Thesa three specifics are combined in Hale's
Honey of Uoreuound and Tar, will cure a
Cough or Cold, however violent, with unerring
certainty.
If there is any victim or an eruptive malady
who despairs of relief, let him abondon bis de
spondency. So long as It Is possible forhim to
obtain Glenn's Sulphuk Soap he need en
tertain no doubts respecting the possibility of
his being cured.
B3- The National Gold Medal was awarded
to Bradley ABulofson for the best Photographs
In the United States, and the Vienna Medal
for the best In the world. 423 Montgomery
street, San Franclsoo,