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About The new Northwest. (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887 | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1878)
FRIDAY MAY 8, 1S7S. (vrrepondnu, in order to Inrare roin attention to their coraninnlcattons, sboakl ktl itreiiail letters containing remittances or mat ler for publication to the Xw NokTHWfKT. letters intended for Mrs. lMnlway or Mrs. Oo burti should be addressed to Uiem personally, ',thoui reference to tbc paper. THE T70NDER. "Women should not be aggressive If py wish men to look favorably upou Sir claims to equality," said a gentle man eommefiiuior on lie lectures of a Uly who recently visited this city. "Perhaps not, butHooking back over the centuries, it does seem as if being patttve has not done much toward se curing equality for them," remarked a lady, reflectively. "Well, men do not like for a woman to make a demand; they prefer to hear her speak mildly at all times." "Quite likely. But should not the necessity that causes a demand for equal rights to be made be rather to be deplored than the fact that the demand is made? And did It neveroccur to you that constant opposition Is not a great Incentive to mildness of speech ?" The demand for copy was urgent, and we passed on, not waiting to bear the reply passed on, musing. Have you never thought, brethren, what an immense wear and strain upon the temper and nerves of these women workers iu the woman movement Is the lordly superiority with which men, often very inferior in intellect, assume to dictate for ail womankind? Have you never thought how unreasoning op position and coustant misrepresentation bring to the front the aggressive quali ties that, being human attributes, exist in the minds of women aud men alike? Place any human being in any circum stances you please, and constantly ami persieteutly oppose and find fault with ami misrepresent his motives, actions, and words. Can you expect replies uni formly kind, couched in language al ways faultless and devoid of sarcasm ? Then think, we ask, before you repeat the unjust criticisms aud broken-down witticisms of every penny-a-llner for the past quarter of a century concerning wnmen who have given thought and time and strength in advocacy of equal rights, of the misrepresentation and in justice and ridicule that have sometimes betrayed women Into actiug human Iu the display of vexation which prudence would have oouuseled them to check or hide. That these things have sometimes told upon women in rasping speech and impatient gesture Is small wonder. In deed, the wonder is that, being human aud professing to be naught else, asking merely human rights and receiving contempt instead, advancing argument to be met with that most senseless yet often most effective weapon, ridicule, their sphere defined by narrow minds that In the very aetlon were out of their own province, their duties descanted upon by those to whom personal duty is an idle aud meaningless term; iu view of all this and much more, we say, the wonder is that women thus placed upon the defensive because of their sex do not more often assume the aggressive, aud neglect to temper their language with kindness and their invincible logic with patience and conciliatiou. Were they otherwise in this particular they would be more than human, a distinction sen sible women do not claim or crave, and might be entitled to the doubtful honor of au angelhood neither human nor an- gelie, but wingless and nondescript, which vapid men declare to be the true estate of woman, an estate which, were it attainable, would be the grave of all womanly aspiration, deep-digged by ar rogance, aud heaped high by the debric of the ages. "FULL PR0TE0TI0N." The low affords women full protec tion," said our sapient German cotem iw nary a few weeks since. Bead the following and tell us where the "lull protection" comes in: "Mary Sulli van, the poor girl In New York who left her child wrapped in her shawl on a stoop, and pleaded before the justice, I loved my chikl, but I had no place to take care of It,' was sentenced by Re corder Hackett to three years in the penitentiary for abandoning her child. What about punishment for the man who 'abandoned both mother and child?' On the other hand, Christian Ohlandt, proprietor of a low liquor saloon in the same dty, who, finding a sick ami half-erased woman in the street, Mrs. Addle Oakroan, enticed her Into his shop and outraged her, was sentenced by Judge Gildersleeve to' 'eighteen months' Imprisonment.' And this week Bobert Baker, indicted for bigamy, who admitted in tile court of sessions that within the last four or five years he had married three wives, was seuteuoed to tlie peuitentiary for four years. Only sixteeu months' imprisonment for ru ining an iunoeeut woman for life, uuder circumstances of tlie basest de ception and falsehood! Only four years for ruining three women, and casting them aud their .-liildren on the world, disgraced, nauteles, and Iromeless! Tt.. 11. . ....c r me iruits of men's laws for women!" Brother Abbott makes a feebV at tempt at wit and good wishes, express ing the hope that "some good man muy gobble Slater Coburn up and make her a life companion." Thank ydu, brother; but, to say the truth, "gobblers" are not our especial admiration, neither can we construe their discordant notes into the "sweet things" whleh you profess yoor self anxious to utter. The Iowa House of Representatives recently voted to submit a Woman Suffrage constitutional amendment to the qualified voters of the State. Ayes, liity-five; noes, forty-two. "INTIMATE AGQUAINTANOE WITH! THE NARROW-MINDED." Said an Interrogator to a lady physi cian: "Does the racket vou under. and do the painful scenes you witness recoil disadvantageous- upon you? Has your grain become coarser and your moral sense blunter?" "I have simply become sublimated," was the answer. "I have come to have Immense pity for the human race, and most of all for my half-emancipated sis ters. I have learned that no weed is a weed to the artist; no trash, trash to the chemist, and nothing unworthy of inves tigation to the thinker. What the exact drift of the grim comedy called human life Is I cannot answer, but it seems to me that the path of many to a higher state lies through a putrid fermentation a notion that teaches me to be tol erant where formerly I would have flung stones. But I think it well to tell you that I eschew intimate ac quaintance with narrow-minded peraons who object to women living out their own lives." Iu order to "live out their own lives" in a manner that shall not only satisfy oonslence, but promote public weal and preserve equability of temper aud stead fastness of purpose, It is, if not neces sary, at least well for women thinkers to observe the last clause In the para graph above quoted. A dally contact with things we loathe saps aud exhausts bodily and mental strength more than ony amount of the hardest congeulal labor can do. So dally association with narrow-minded persons persons whom for humanity's sake and for the sake of common politeness we endeavor to treat with courtesy, feeling all the time as if courtesy is thereby in somesort sullied narrows and to some extent belittles In their own estimation those who strive for fairer visions and broader fields wherein to labor and to plan. "Filled with an immense pity for the human race" one can be, without allow ing its most hopelessly narrow-minded representatives to clog and weight him down with dally companionship. It takes ofttlmes a brave heart and deter mined purpose to work unflinchingly in ways hedged up by custom and double guarded by prejudice and ignorance, and evry one w1m has tried it knows how much more of comfort and of self gratification there is in meetiug a log- lea), sensible, and courteous opponent : in these ways than is to be found iu en- deavoriug to convince pig-headed nar- rowness of its error. The latter, con- I viuced over and again, Is of "the same1 opinion still," because, forsooth, there is j room for but oue Idea in the mind, and ignorance has tilled and planted with such ignoble success that her heritage thereiu is forever assured. Workers iu the reform field may meet and exchange shots with these elements at long range without Injury to their own tempers and detriment to their own mentality, and this may be done fre quently or constantly without diseom- lfort; but intimate acquaintance with narrow-minded persons should be es chewed by those who work on the higher plane of intellectuality, for the reason that life Is too short and holds too many high possibilities to waste its vital forces iu meaningless warfare with human stocks and stones. MADELINE TOJTHE RESCUE. Madeline Vinton Dahlgren, the self appointed mouth-piece for "silent and modest" women, a woman who goes be fore the Congress of the United States petitioning that body not to allow the voice of woman to be heard in political matters, lest it "open a Pandora's bos from which much evil must Issue, and which, once opened, may never again be closed," is evidently too meek and saint-like to live much longer iu acorn munlty composed of ordinary human beings. She d iscourses of "si leu t masses" (If silent, how came she to hear them speak?), "Christian society," the "Im mutable laws of the Almighty," which last she is sacreligious enough to think women can break if allowed to vote, ill' dulges In totally irrelevant talk on mar riage, declares, with wonderful acute n ess that the "family is the foundation of the State," says she is deprived by the "adorable will of God of husband, father, brother, and son, and stands alone, having minor children to edu cate, and considerable property Interests to guard," and prefers to trust to her "moral influence" over men to secure the favors and privileges she wishes. We would Indeed like to know what vandal ever proposed to attack this cit adel of silence and modesty and drag this recluse (?) to the polls. The follow ing is the chief argument set forth In this remarkable "memorial:" We have bat to look at the condition of our Indian sister, upon whose bended back ibe heavy pact li laid by ber lord and matter, who treads In sabJectionlbe beaten pathway of equal lights, and compare ber situation with oar own, to thank the God of Christian nations who has placed as above that plat form, where right Is might, and might Is tyr anny. Truly, the men of this nation must feel complimented by this estimate of the latent brutality which Mrs. Dahl gren supposes to be sleeping Iu their na tures, ready to spring forth on their mothers and wives when they dare ap proach the polling-placesof the republic. To interpret this argument literally, one would be foreed to conclude that, were its premises true, the Sixteeuth Amend ment asked for by thousands awl tens of thousands of our most thoughtful men and women would not only confer suf frage on women, but would at the same time transform all men into ignorant, barbarous, and merciless savages. Our acquaintance with our brethren cer tainly does not warrant us iu endorsing such unjust suspicions of them, and our advice to the fair Madeline is to get her self Into a nunnery as quickly as possi ble, where "silence" can more efleotu ally environ her. " The widow of PresldentTyTer has for years been in the jiossesslou and exei clse of the franking privilege. WOMEN AS JYSIOIANS. Among the many successful profes sional enterprises of American women who are proving that their enfranchise ment is deserved, we are proud to men tion the triumphs of Mrs. Dr. Murray, of this city, whoalready has no acknowl edged peer among her gentlemen asso ciates in the healing art. In some of the most difficult cases In obstetrics of which we have any knowledge she has recently performed marvelous feats of skilled surgery. At herdatly receptions for the aflllcted her rooms are crowded by waiting ones who can only take turns for treatment. We ha vecon versed with a number of our most eminent gentlemen physicians concerning her, and all who know her are firm in her praises. Dr. Murray has spent several years in Paris, under the most scientific medical tuition In the world, and is a "regular" of the straighten sort. Of the representative women iu medi cine who occupy first rank witli gentle men in tills Important science, the peo pie of Oregon point proudly to their own Mrs. Dr. Owens, physician, surgeon, and druggist, whose testimonials of her wonderful success in restoring the af flicted could be produced by the bund reds. Hut. tier most valuable testimo nials are the healed and gladdened men and women who go forth from under her treatment, rejoicing that woman has at last found her proper professional sphere. Dr. Owens combine the Allo pathic and Electlc branches of the med ical schools. In her practice, and also makes excellent use of medicated vapor baths. And now comes Mrs. Dr. Burr, Homeopathic physician, and one of the mo9t skillful of the order, who has al ready built up an extensive practice. though a resident of but a few months in tlie city. She is as much rushed with business as either of the ladies above mentioned, and Is equally success ful. Her Saturday afternoon lectures to ladies are well attended, anil her standing with the medical profession of her school Is ol the highest order. The above are only a few of the many results of the agitation of the woman movement in our midst, but for which the average woman would yet turn up her nose at the mention of a'lady physlcian. The change In public sent! ment concerning the many things that women may and can accomplish Is as agreeable as unexpected. All honor to women as physicians, emphatically say SEX REVERENCE. The census of Massachusetts contains the names of about sixty thousand more women than men, yet, notwithstanding this fact, the number of men who are paupers arc greatly In excess of the number of women so situated. Anion the people of Massachusetts, as else where, the disfranchised class is de scribed as "idiots, paupers, criminals and women." Among these last in that State are those who pay taxes oil mill ions of dollars, thus helping to support the paupers; yet Is the classification be cause of this not varied, though women by thousands have asked yeir after year for a removal of their political dis abilities that would lift them out of such obnoxious classification. All who have kept up witli the workings of tlie woman movement know how extremely difficult It has been in years past and how very uncertain it is, even iu times present, for the law-abiding, intelligent, anil tax-paying women of Massachusetts to get a hearing iu her legislative cham bers. "Male" paupers, It seems, have no such trouble. Search was commenced in that body aud vigorously prosecuted to Hud out what length of time must elapse alter n man nan eeaseti to be a public burden before lie could vote. Tlie legislature, which has hesitated not to declare that no length of time would suffice to qualify tax-paying women for the franchise, could not decide this im portant (?) question for the "male" pau pers of the State, and the Supreme Court was appealed to. This august body decided that no special time was necessary, virtually deciding, as Lucy Stone puts it, "that 'male' paupers who have been kept at public expense for S04 days in tlie year may before the day of election saw wood enougli to earn a breakfast, and then have the party or candidate who needs their votes pay their poll tax, and they are free from political disqualification and entitled to vote. When this high duty of citizen ship has been performed, they can next morning resume their old place at the public expeuse, aud for auother year he fed aud clothed, while thrifty aud in dustrious women who are not permitted to vote will be taxed for their support." Further comment is unnecessary. The lesson of injustice and oppression founded on sex reverence is plain for all who are acquainted even with the al phabet of freedom. He who runs may read. "PRESAGE OT VICTORY." ' Democrats remember with a shiver of dread for the result of the coming con test, how one balmy June In the years agoue they gave their banner Into the hands of a Methodist Episcopal minis ter, and he bore it to victory for th3m. All their efforts to hide their grim fore bodings behind feeble pleasantries about "Methodist Conferences" Just now are of no avail. If it were not for Mart Brown to float them along on his shal low and Irreverent wit, they would lose all hope. As it Is, they "grin ghastly smiles" while they echo him to keep their courage up. Meanwhile this little historical scrap, once so comforting, but now so dhquietiug to Democrats, flits Republicans with' "Predate of victory A nil flrrce desire of battle," While they whistle "turn about Is fair play." M. S. Booth, of Seattle, has recetitly written for the InleUigascer aud Orego- nian several articles on fiHanoe that are worthy of consideration. AN HOUR WITH CORRESPONDENTS. rV friend lr Idaho City accompanies her yearly remittance with the follow ing words of appreciation: "I welcome the Xkw NoimnvKST with Its words of cheer, and trust Its mission may be still more nrosnerous uutll the many wrongs It is combating shall be righted, and equality before the law shall he acknowledged throughout the land." Words like these, coming, as they do, from an earnest woman worker and a life-long educator, are like "apples of gold," and, when placed on the "phil osopher's scales," outweigh the adverse opinions of a thousand tiarrow and ig norant souls who affect to think that womanly purity is protected only by woman's political bondage. from Tacoma comes the following: "lam going to start out thl week so liciting signatures to the petition to our constitutional convention asking to have the word 'male' left out of the suffrage qualifications. I will canvass tills place ami New Tacoma, aud report what proportion of the citizens sign the petition. There is a growing interest iu tills cause on the Sound, and I earn estly hope when Washington Is added to the galaxy of States she will have embodied in her constitutional provis ions equal rights and equal privileges fur all intelligent and law-abiding citi zens." We are glad, indeed, to note that the advocates of freedom iu Washington Territory see the opportunity that oilers to distinguish their expected State with au honor to which her predecessors have not attained nor even aspired. There is uo doubt but proper effort in this direc tion would compass the much desired end. It will be a proud day, not only for Washington and her Pacific sisters, but for the myriads of the entire nation when she wheels into Hue, decked, uoi only with the semblance of liberty, but proclaiming to the world her belief in its realities. With her wonderful In land sett iuviting the commerce of the world, her lofty mountains challenging its admiration, her exhaustlees forests contributing largely to its habitations, her fertile valleys responding liberally to the demands of a growing population, she needs but tills crowning element of equality to complete her success. -An Olyrapla correspondent says : "I have read with pleasure your comments on Dr. Smith's lectures. It is rather astoulshing that a man of his erudition will lecture evening after evening on 'Folks' and ignore women, of whom half his audience is composed, utterly That is just our opinion. But we be lieve women are to blame when they listen to these lectures lime and again without calling tlie attention of the lec turer to the grave omission. If you will bo ignored, you may be nine times out of ten. Now comes a puzzling question, all the way from Walla Walla: "What would the world be without marriage?" We shrink from contemplating social anarchy and riot, and do not care to visit, even In imagination, suoh a world. Besides, any reply to this question could only be Imaginative, and would prove or disprove nothing. If congeulal mar riages were tlie rule, the task of depict ing tlie world in Its marital relations would be a gracious one. A friend in Clackamas comity sub scribes to the Xkw Nortiiwkst, so he says, -to kiii time ami patronize a worthy paper." We shrewdly suspect him to be a widower, .with a "number two" In view, who Is a staunch Woman Sullraglst, and he, like a sensible man, seeks the surest road to her nilectlons by posting himself on a subject In which she is Interested. But "copy" accumu lates, the paper is full, and others will be considered in the future. Republican Platform . Political platforms are little else than platitudes put out by party leaders, who meet, carouse, drink their grog, hatch schemes for party or personal aggran dizement, and imagine themselves par ticularly designated in the preamble to! the Constitution of the United States as "we, the ieople." We're "uothlng but a woman," and not supposed to have any political sagacity, yet we know that platforms and declarations of priuciples aud all that vote-catching sort of trash are never heard of nor thought of after the otllciul count is duly made and at tested; hence we have given but little of our space to their publication. We gave three planks from the Democratic platform, and these we supplement wim the following from the Republican platform : 7. Tiiat we condemn in the most posi tive manner the reckless and corrupt Democratic administration of our State allalrs, which lias in the last eight years heaped una State debt of nenrlv St.non.- 000, In direct violation of the constitu tion, and which has created new offices, and Increased official salaries to eat up the substance of the people; anil which has robbed and mismanaged the State school and university fundi, loaning them to nartisuu favorites on straw se curities. 8. That the office of Stato nrlnter ought to be abolished, and the contract let to tlie lowest responsible bidder. 9. That tlie attempt by tlie leaders of tlie Democratic party of Oregon to de fraud tlie (teople out of an electoral vote was au outrage unparalleled in the po litical history of the Slate, and deserv ing the condemnation of all fair-minded men. 10. That we heartily endorse the ef forts of the members of Congress from the Pacific Coast to so modify the exist ing treaty with China as to restrict it to commercial purposes only. A good question for sensible men to pouder: Why is It that a woman own ing property and paying taxes thereon should be prohibited from voting, while men who never pay a cent of taxes vote at every election ? If some logical man will reconcile this state of allalrs with the declaration that "taxation without representation is tyranny," and still show that women are not subject to tyranuy, we shall be greatly obliged. "Daniel Deronda" has thus farprofited its gifted author, George Eliot, two hundred thousand dollars. MINUTES OF THE MARION 00UNTY W.j A. The Association held a called meeting at the Opera House In Salem, April I9th, for the purpose of appointing com mittees and transacting sucli business as its officers aud members might direct. The President, Mrs. Mlnto, called the meeting to onler. 'file minutes of last meeting were read anil approved. The President stated the olject of the meeting, aud briefly recapitulated the workings of the society. Mrs. Duniwoy being present, was in vited to address the Association, which she did in her usual spirited style, espe cially urging the worklug force present to be of good cheer. Among other things, she said: "You may think, be cause you muster scarcely more than your corps of officers on an occasion like tills, that the wnmen of the rank ami file are apathetic or liidiflerent as to your success. But 1 assure you they are not so. When you go thiough a vast manufactory and see the wheels and spindles at work, you see only the mag nitude of tlie enterprise that feeds the hungry and clothes the naked. But If you would see the moving force, the di- reotcoitueof all the motion aud enter prise that makes that array of buildings a very personification of life, you go away from the throngs of bright-eyed women who attend to the bobbins, spin dles, desigus, looms, and shuttles, with their countless paraphernalia of intrica cies, aud you search out an obscure apartment in tlie Iwsement, where only a few chosen ones are at work. 'What?' you say; 'can this be all the interest the women take in clothing their bodies? My brave co-workers, you can easily see the implied comparison. The prime movers in all great works radiate their ellorts from a compara tively small focus. I tell you the masses of women are not aputlietie in relation to tills question. They have set watch women uon their walls that shall never hold their peace till the work is done. Meanwhile, the rank and rile are In the school-room, the studio, tlie med ical college, the physician's office, the store, the boarding-house, tlie sick chamber, the kitchen, and at the cradle side, sewing machine, wash-tub, aud ironing table. I regret that there is not a larger attendance, but I know why they are uot present, and I take cour age." Mrs. Davis made a short and stirring address, in which she alluded feelingly to woman's need of the largest freedom that men etijoy, politically and finan cially, and, per consequence, physically and intellectually. Mrs. Davis was followed by C. A. Sehlbrede, Esq., who made a brief and able address, identifying himself with the movement, which he said he had but recently espoused, lieeause lie had but recently investigated tlie principle. He believed woman's enfranchisement would be folio wetl by a higher standard of self-respect and consequent moral ex cellence among men. Dr. H. Parker said be was a Woman SuHragist, but he was sorry to see the women of the rank and tile so apathetie as he was compelled to believe them to be. If he were a suffragist for popular ity's sake, lie would -hardly be present, for he had seen very few ladles coming toward the hall. Mr. Hugh Harrison said that he was a sullraglst, n Methodist, a Granger, and a Good Templar. He had long be lieved in woman's equal right with man to u voice In the administration of the government that taxed her to meet its liabilities. But, to accomplish this work, woman herself must be roused to action. He thought tlie majority of women did not yet desire the elective fruuehi'e, else they would manifest more interest in the cause. This brought Mrs. Duulwuy to her feet, who thanked the gentlemeu for their speeches, of which, she said, syn opses would be given in tlie New Northwest. She protested that the women were not apathetic; that they were bound, hand and foot. They worked their way to conventions, State and national, in spite of financial hin drance', such as men never thought of. They could notall come to the front, but they sent their representatives yearly from every Slate and Territory iu tlie Union to legislate for them. More they could uot do. Their enfranchisement must come through the ellorts of men, who alone debarred them from their rights. Mr. Harrison thought tlie men were nut remiss in duty on tills occasion. Mrs. Duniway gracefully acquiesced, and again thanked the gentlemen lor their assistance. Mrs. Johns read a oem. Colonel C. A. Heed believed witli Mr. Harrison that tlie women were apa thetic, but he did not wonder that they were discouraged. Their repeated efforts for liberty had been met by continued repulses. But the good work could not retrograde. A final triumph wad cer tain. Tiie President liked the speeches, but reminded the soetety that unfinished business must be considered. Mrs. Duniway moved that the Asso ciation leave the committee work with the President and Secretary, who were rightfully eniowered to call to their assistance such aids as might be neces sary to carry on the work. Airs. u;s motion was paseed oy a unanimous vote. Convention adjourned till time of next regular meeting. Makv Mint, Hattik Bowker, President Secretary. Auother woman has left a large be quest for the education of men. Mrs. Anne P. beaver has given 5100,000 to Harvard College, the doors of which, notwmisiamiuig me most persistent knocking by women applicants, have through all the past decades remained closed to women. LETTER PROM PRI8EVILLE To the Editor op tiii New Nokthw: I cannot help believing, at least lion. ing, that a few of your many readers have misset! tlie "Wasco county let ters," and have wondered the cause of their absence from the columns of your paper; so I will once more attempt to chronicle for their benefit a few of the passlngevents of this coruerof the world. In the first place, let mestate that the past wiuter has been one of real enjoy ment to me, who had been so long ex cluded from society of any kind. Prine- ville has achieved a name abroad far the rough and uncivilized character of its inhabitants, but of the number of its moral, intelligent citizens little has been hoard. Suffice It to say that this class is as well represented here as else where. During the winter we had two literary societies In successful operation; one for both gentlemen and ladles, the oilier for ladles alone; and the latter, I can safely say, is one of the most socIhI, pleasaut, and Intellectual little organi zations known anywhere. This society adjourned a few evenings siuce to meet in October; and in the meantime we wish to get ail tlie information we can as to tlie best means of promoting the intellectual growth of its members. And I, as their Corresponding Secre tary,' would ask you, Mrs. Kditor, for any assistance in your power to give iu tills matter. Will you kindly advise us as to what kind of books we most need, ami where to procure them ? We al ready have a paper called the "News Budget," which we think will compare quite favorably with oilier papers of like pretension. In closing my extended mention of our little organization, I would advise ladies everywhere who wish to enjoy the long winter evenings uot to allow auother winter to pass without organizing such a society as this one. We held our meetings in the nice little hall belonging to tile Odd Fellows, for whieh we paid the usual rent, ami there, seeure from all intru sion) what pleasant and profitable limes we have had. 1'rineville is improving rapidly, uot only iu tlie number of buildings, but in tlie character of the bouses constructed. But the best ami most substantial im provemeuts, ami the surest means by whleh to judge the real prosperity of the place, is the fencing in of many houses which erewhile stood out boldly with out auy protection whatever, and other wise improving the ouce bare and dusty lots. I prophesy that in five years from now Prineville will present a flue ap pearance, with many grassy lawns, flower beds, and shady streets, whete now naught but the ever-present sage brush flourishes. Newspriug goods are arriving daily by the prairie schooners, and business is fast resuming its usual briskness; but nevertheless Prineville will soon seem lonely to the feminine portion of its cit izens on account of so many of the win ter residents moving out of town. I have been interspersing my house keeping to-day with unpacking and ar ranging hats and sundry fancy articles which the feminine mind more natu rally grasps than the mind masculine. But, lest your readers may wish that I ouce more retire from these columns, I'll say good-bye aud close. E. E. S. Prineville, Oregon, April 20, 1878. REGENT EVENTS. Another Indian raid Is reported on the Texan froutler. Johu Morrlssey was stricken with paralysis on the 2Sth. Coal miners in tlie region of St. Louis have struck for higher wages. The Providence savings banks were subjected to a run on Saturday. Murders by Indians are reported al most dally ou tlie Texan froutier. Extremely high waters are reported In the Merrimac and Nashua Rivers. Tlie Detroit Free Pre building was destroyed by fire on the morniug of the 29th. Tiie House has passed the bill forbid ding the further retirement of legal ten der uotes. A motion to increase' tlie number and salaries of letter-carriers was defeated iu the House. April 26lh, Confederate "Memorial day," was generally observed through out Georgia. Tlie post office at Marshall, Texas, was entered and rubbed of $2,000 ou the night of the 20th. The President was received with great eutbusiasm during his visit to Phila delphia last week. Fifty petitions iu bankruptcy were filed in Chicago ou the 29th uit., mostly iu small auiouuls. The' bill creating the Territory of Oklahama has been agreed upou by the House committee. General Gibbon favors a transfer of the Iudian bureau to the war depart ment as a safe aud economical measure. Tlie Secretary of the Treasury directs medical officers of the murine hospital services to make use of the metric system. Senator Morton's remains were taken from the vault where first placed aud quietly buried in the family vault at Crown Hill Cemetery ou the 20th. A Chinese minister, accredited to Washington, and accompanied by mem bers of a legation aud consuls fur the principal ports of this country, will soon leave China for the Uulted States. William H. Vauderbilt has gone to Europe, rumor says, to arrange for a uew line of steamships to run in con nection with the New York Central Railroad, of which he is President. The House committee on education agreed to report favorably a resolution authorizing a conference between the United States, Great Britain, aud China, ou the question of Chinese Immigration. NEWSJTEMS. "UTS AND TEKKITORI U atlon a UU9il,e9S college in oper- Tlioi. j - rrwi. have don. w .ii.i. " enerii wv.1,1 hBTnds XT dollars. Mxieeit thousand The steam saw mili twni.u. Yakima Reservation will V'".8 operation iu a few days. The Yamhill Republicans will hol.l their couniy convention on the 6iu of May; Democrats ou tlie 13th. The Democrats of Walla Walla huve suhaeribed $1,500 to enable Tom Merry to start a party organ at that city. Mrs. Wood, an insane woman from Coos county, arrived at the asylum ou Friday in charge orSherill Aiken. Tiie Jam iu the Skagit Is now op-i enough to permit a canoe to p iss Miromji It is thought the June frenhel will eon, plete the work. Immigrants are floeking Into Yakima from all quarters, taking up land under the homestead, pre-empiiou, timber-culture, aud desert laud acts. The Columbia Chronicle, published at Dayton, Washington Territory, bas made its apearaiice. T. M. May aud H. H. Gale are publishers. Teachers wages iu Whitman county. Washington Territory, during the past vear have averaged, for town schools, S40 per mouth; fur country schools, per month. Sixteeu thousand head of cattle will be swum across the Columbia River, driven out of Eastern Washington, through Idaho, over the Rocky Muuu tains and to Cheyeune, iu Wyoming Territory, during the next three mouths. Grading began on Monday at Dayton on the Vanillin railroad, rnty men are employed on this part of the work. The rolling stock has beeu shipped from Carnollsville, Pennsylvania, and track Jaying will begin in about sis weeks. Yakima county cares very little whether Washington is a State or a Territory. The vote fur delegates to frame a State constitution was very light, several of the ureciuets returning their poll-booR without a single vote being registered. P0REIGN NEWS. A famine is raging at Uranjo, caused by military requisitions. Germany in seekiug to seeure neu tralization of tbe Bailie in the event of war. There is great activity at Portsmouth iu converting tuercliautshlps into armed cruisers. The JCconomist says tbe opiniou that peace will be maintained Is still widely entertained. General Todleben has beeu appointed commander-in-chief of the army in Tur key, with General Imeretineky as chief of staff. Grami Duke Nicholas has been pro moted to the rank of Field Marshal Gen eral, ami recalled to Russia ou account of Hi health. Tbe Duke of Edlnburg has been trans ferred to the eommatid of the "Black Prince," one of the channel squadron, uow btationed at Malta. At Rustchuk, out of 6,000 Russians, forty or fifty diet! with typhus. At Adriauople, Sistova, and Triuova, it is reported that hundreds die daily. A numberof German bankers, induced to meet at Berlin to consider the practi cability of floating another Russian loau, uuauimously refused to eugage in the work. War-like preparations go forward in England with great activity. A consid erable portiou of tbe first army corps is likely to be dispatched to Malta withiu a week. An Intelligent Echo. Lucy Stone has tbe following in the Woman's Journal relative to the Oregon State Woman Suffrage Association and the workers therein. It is gratifying to note that the echo of words spokeu for freedom at Albany, iu February, so soon reached the eastern verge of our nation with such force as to seud imme diately its reverberations back to her western shores. Let us labor, friends, to deserve the commendation of the words "always onward :" "The fifth annual meetiug of the Ore gon Woman Suflrage Association was in every way a success. It was well at tended and well sustained. There are no more constant or efficient workers for Woman Suflrage than those iu Ore gon. The activity of Mrs. A. J. Duni way is truly Herculean. Wife, mother, editor, lecturer, author, she is at the same time tilling the duties of all these iu)Hirlaut parts, and through them all, and by them all, is proving her capacity to serve the Stale. Her watchful criti cisms of opposers, iu tlie State or out of it, never cease, while tier husband and sous give her their effective support iu her various fields of duty. Mrs. Lough ary's heartfelt devotion to tbe sauio cause makes oue always ftisli to grasp her baud and give her a fervent 'God speed.' Mrs. Foltz, with equal fidelity, uses the lecture field with persuasive eloquence, aud whether she is iu Oregon or California, every frieud of suflrage Heaks her name with respect and affec tion. Others add to tbe strong force their contributions in various ways, so that the cause is always onward in Ore gon." - Miss Catherine E. Beecher, la a letter to the New York Tribune, says: "My father rejected the idea of literal fire and brimstone tormeiits, but he de scribed the suflering of the wicked in such terms as caused myself and Mrs. Stowe to leave the church iu the midst of Ids sermou." The letter review3 the teachings of clergymen who were con temporaries of the Rev. Dr. Beecher, and is severe enough to create a sensa tion. MAItY F. 1'OSTEIt, Commission Merchant and Purchasing Agent, I prepared to make purchases in New York and other cities, on order, of all goods. Jewelry , groceries, etc., on commission of ft per cent, for S. of I. aud 10 per cent, for others outside of tbe Order. West India preserves and Mexican conserves. Address 1. O. Station "I New YoikClty. OW The National Gold MMlai oX j to Bradley 4 Kulofsuu tor tbe best Photographs ' in tbe Uulted states, and the Vienna Medal or the best in the world. t9 .Montgomery 1 street, San Fraoefeeo.
