The new Northwest. (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, May 10, 1878, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Texttit? Isrtue5f. A FRfDAY -MAY 10, 1878. xoncn. Correspondents, in order to insure prompt attention to their communication, should wu dri' all letters containing remittance or mat ter fir publlratiun to the New Nokthwbht. fiCtu-ni intended far Mrs, ltanlway or Mrs. Co burn should be addressed to them, personally, with' .11 i reference to the paper. A PANACEA. A woman in "Waldo Hills," who re joices in the venerable sobriquet of "Aunt Lib," has discovered It, Ami with the customary unselfishness that characterizes the sex, she resolved to Rive poor struggling humanity the ben efit of her discovery; and fired with this laudable purpose, she heralds it abroad through the Statesman. She says: lt there be mora young ladies suitably edu cated to be wives, and there will be more young men worth having, and, as a conse quenoe, they will more readily seek ibe mar riage relation. Now, as Is well known, the education and training of young wohien in all the pact decades has been carried on with the exclusive view of fitting thetn for wives, aud wheu this supposed fitness, which generally consisted in being able to cook, wash and sew with becoming neatness aud celerity, was attained, the girl was expected to spend her time In practicing small economies while she waited for the coming man to put In an appearance and elect her chief cook, laundres, seamstress, nurse, chamber maid, ami scullion for a home where she cou Id 1 "supported." It is against this system of false education a system which has made women helpless de pendents upon the tiounty of men, rather that) independent arbiters of their own destiny that thoughtful workers in the woman movement have directed their most earnest efforts during the past quarter of a century. These efforts have already compassed such gratifying results that intelligent girls pursue their studies side by side with their brothers in our high schools and colleges, gravely meditating upon future plans for self maintenance, iu which suitable profes sions or trades figure, to the eclipse, If not the exclusion, of husband-hunting. If there is anything more unwomanly in all the catalogue than in sitting down and wailing for a proposal of marriage, busying the brain meanwhile with transparent artifices that are brought to bear upon every eligible "catch" that comes along, we confess that we have not as yet heard of it. But our friend neglects to make it plain just how educating women with the sole purpose of becoming wives is going to increase so largely the "number of young men worth having." If we should reason from such a point, com nion sense would certainly compel us to reach a conclusion directly opposite to the one expressed. If all girls and women were solely dependent upon matrimony for a maintenance; If it were marry or starve, and that without exception or remedy, young men oould be as worthless or as vicious as possible without at all Impairing their chances in the matrimonial market, and every woman would feet Herself impelled to elose with the first oiler, lest she never received another. To Inctease tlie uum ber of young men worth having, girls must learn to be self-reliant able to de pend upon themselves financially ami this lesson many of them are fast learn ing. We don't know how it is in the "Waldo Hills," but in places of which we have knowledge we note no disin clination on the part of young men, or old one?, either, "to seek the marriage relation," and in our opinion the num ber of women in this Stale, at least, who remain single from necessity, Is Inoon siderabie, If not altogether mythical. Tills panacea is so old, has been so often prescribed and administered in such unsparing doses, that sensible peo ple refuse to swallow it, ami even minc ing misses gum it uown witn many a wry grimace. FROM TILLAMOOK. Mixs Anna Fearnehte, formerly type-sticker in this office, but who has for the past year been accumulating ex periences as a "country sehoolmann" in Tillamook county, returned last week, and will shortly resume her plaee at llie case. She reports the road across the mountains in good condition. A number of immigrants have already crossed the mountains this spring, and found pleasant locations in that retired nook. Tillamookers are expecting a large immigration this year, and wel come addition to the populBtiou of their somewhat Isolated region with genuine hospitality. Those who have resided there a few years are comforta bly situated, and are well content with their retired and peaceful abiding-place. "Shut in from all the world without" Through the rainy months of winter,.) tney yet manage to enjoy numerous pleasures and pastimes of the old-fashioned sort; watch eagerly for the weekly mail across the mountains, nod wait i liectly for the snows to melt, so that travel over them can be resumed. 1). II. St. sr: formerly editor and j proprietor of the Ixmd Itegi.tcr, has! diepesed of his Interest iu that j xirnal i to G. P. Dorris, who will lenreiorth j have control of the same. Mi. s'enrns' will devote hie entire time to the a 'ver 1 Using business, and In furnishing "i t- j eut outside" to the interior press ol' this State and Washington Territorv. i He Is energetic, painstaking, aud tire less iu business, aud deserves success. Hon. T. F. Campbell has withdrawn from the contest for Congressional lion- ors in this State, awl the Greenback party is thus left without a camel forjernor Irwiu did, securing for him the sacrifice. The gentleroau explains self thereby the gratitude not only of bv stating tbat the health of his ife la ' the women of his own State, hut that of in sueh h state as to prohibit bia mak- Jug the campaign. THE OAT'S PAWOF A PACTrOlf. While the columns of the J'jcific Chrittian Advocate were conspicuous with the dignity, grace, and- firmness liteta characterize Dr. Dillon, the members of the Method! n Episcopal Church looked unon that imiri.al as their exponent, and regarded Itsc -rduct with admiration. Then it be. or; -d to the church, eschewed scurrility, aud dealt not in offensive irsooaities. Now, with its imported editor at the helm, it is an organ of that faetiou that met defeat iu the stormy annual con ference that was held four years ago in Portland. Occasionally Mr. Acton has ventured au opinion without consulting the pot ters whose plastic clay he is, but a feiv dextrous turns of the screws by which be Is held Iu place have caused him speedily, and without the slightest show of. self-respect, to retract aud as sume the poor role of a "joking parson." His own experience In olitlcs when he first arrived in this benighted land, all the way from Ohio, was most adverse, and seems to have convinced him that ministers ought not to participate therein, even to the extent of voting. The latest evidence of the power of the leading strings iu which he is held is seen In the uncalled-for attack upon Rev. II. K. Hlnes, Republican nominee for Congress-, which appears In his. last issue. Those who heard a certain min ister at the session of conference men tioned tell in pathetic tones of mock de spair how dearly he loved a brother whom he was laboring witli all the ability be could summon to deetroy, cannot fail to recognize the malice which dictated, If not the hand that penned, the article referred to. We give a sample: With all due respect to our worthy brother. we cannot but Mel that Rev. II. K. Hlnes, who accepted the nomination of the Kepabllcan State Convention for Congress, has made a great mistake. He Is not a statesman. It would be unreasonable to require he should be. Nor do we risk anything In saying he Is not the choice of the Republicans of the State. We doubt not hut name never would have been thought of tor this position but for the unusual game by which unheard -of things are accom plished among politicians. Who has done this work we do not know, nor are we worried in the least about the coaling election. We believe, however it tarns out. It will prove a Anal Injury to our good brother, and without benefit to the Wale. Mr. Hloes, If elected, will doabUeas maintain his integrity and do ail he can; but integrity and success at Washington are two things. Note Ihjw hard he tries to hide his ehuckleat the thought that the election, however it terminates, will "prove a final injury to our good brother," behind a snivel of pretended sorrow. And is not the lesson that integrity aud success are incompatible the last one that a paper pretending to labor in the inter ests of Christianity should attempt to teaeh ? It Is not to Mr. Hlnes that this tirade of pious abuse will work final in jury, but to the Advocate Itself, if re traction is not speedily made, and a oke" evoked to give the editor's iu discretion Himsy covering. We pity Mr. Acton mueb as we would pity a eat whose paw had bees made a compulsory instrument in Taking chestnuts from the glowing coals. THE DEAF MUTE 80HO0L. This useful aud charitable Institution at Salem closed Its year's work on the SOtli of April. The pupils numbered twenty-six boys and girls, and the teachers, Mr. ami Mrs. Tuek, have la bored with great faithfulness, and given abundant satisfaction. The examina tions in wrltiug showed great Improve ment. One little girl less than eight years of age, who had been In theseliool nine weeKs, writes legibly tier name ami a number of short sentences. An other about the same age, who had been seven mouths in school, writes as well as an ordiuary child of ten. A number of the prominent citizens of Salem were present at the closing exercises. Rev. P. S. Kuight, who has in the past la bored so efleetlvely for the interests of this school, took occasion to speak be fore those present of the necessity of suitable apparatus to aid In conducting a school of this kind, and it is to be Imped that our legislators, whoever they may be, will lose sight of party preferment and Senatorial contest long enough to consider carefully the claims that this humane institution has upon the people for proper support. Superin tendents, teachers, and managers are alike commended for their faithful and efficient labor daring the past year. A commonwealth can well afford to turn aside from tlte accustomed hurry and moil that prevails amour its fa vored classed to bestow care, sympathy, and financial aid upon those who, "With wisdom at one entrance quite shut out," Appeal to us with mate eloquence for means that alone can open to them the mystic portals of knowledge. K0TE8 OF YI0T0EY. We have befortt mail men t Inn In tneM! columns of the victory in the Cal- ifornia legislature secured mainly by the timely presence and persuasive elo quence of Mrs. Foils and the good judg ment of Mrs. Sarah I Knox, which en abled her to know just when the effort should be made for the passage of the bill enabling women to practice law in the courts of that State. A member of the late legislature, in writing to the Woman' t Journal ol the triumph, says: I never knew before how much pluck and energy there was in a vittuan-liov they could urge their claims, plead for the privilege of i iSIng the batfleol life; for such our friend Mrs. Foltx did, gently and eloquently. I have -en men fall down here this winter, and felt orry for them, but to day when a few of them tumbled I enjoyed It. But it was a close shave; only two majority In a full house. I have found Mrs. F. a well-informed Isdv cer- lalnlv r.. - V.- . l. . " jucrsakei bop. the usual prejudice and sign the bin. This we all proudly remember Oov- the workers in the miuti movement i throughout the nation. OUT UPON SUOH SOPHISTRY. The house of a widow who lives near Monroe, Ilenton county, was visited by five boys a few nlgliU) since, ami after tying an old man who lived there, these young monsters subjected the woman to fearful outrage. Commenting upon this matter with Its usual disgusting detail, the Bee thus excuses the male factors, who, by the way, have not been arrested for their revolting crime: Poor whisky cot away with them. The hoys were not so much to blame, for the whole neighborhood have for years been talking against the way t lint tinrtinghouse and ths woman have been living, frequently saying In presence of their hoys that tl - ought to be tarred and leathered, or rod' on rt ra.l, or driven out ot the country. After li' inns all this, the boys thought they were doing God's scrt ice In doing as they did. Encouraged by such damnable soph istry, It is small wonder that boys should cousitler themselves privileged to com mit the most revolting deeds, Because they are boya they are "uot o much to blame" for heiug influenced by vile neighborhood gowlp and viler, whisky to commit the vilest of crimes. Any sort of villainy may be excused in the same reprehensible way, and if in ex tenuation of jueh deeds, the gossip of a uelghborhood may be plead, what may uot the influence of a (taper that Is scat tered hroaileast over the land In defi ance of the statute prohibiting the trans mission of obscene matter through the mulls accomplish in the same lawless direction ? Imagine the feeling of self satisfaction with which these offenders would read the above paragraph unac companied by comments calculated to show their misdeeds In their true light. Sueh ollenses against decency, moral ity, and humanity should never be given Iu detail aa news, and, we may add, never are in journals of respecta bility, and should be spoken of as to tally without excuse, iNtlliatlon, or ex tenuation, under any and all cireu in stance. A reform school, with a strict disciplinarian at the head, is the proper plaee for sueh "hoodlums," instead of the free range of a county with "poor whisky" aaastimulus to dark misdeeds, and apologistsat their back whoare ready to brand them already villains as Id iots as well, by assuring the public that the "boys thought they were doing God's service in doing a they did." Out upon sueh sophistry, and teaeh boys instead tbat they are personally re)onsible first, for drinking whisky, ami afterward for any villainy perpe trated; tiiat their sex la no cloak for crime, and that the community expects them to conduct themselves aright be cause they are boys, aud uot unreason ing animals. A SHOW OFJJALLAHTBY. Mis Gertrude Jackson is Deputy City Clerk of New Albany, Indiana, ami her tax-book is said to be one of the best ever made In that oily. The mass of figures, name, and descriptions are not only thoroughly correct, but beautifully executed. Ileing unmarried, it would be somewhat out of plaee to remind her that a woman should attend to ber chil dren, and the opinion Is fast gaining ground that to bestow unsought advice so far as to tell a woman she "ought to get married" savors greatly of imper tinence. Hence, deprived of their usual weapons of oflente and defense, sphere sbrlekers in tbat State cover their dis comfiture by a show of gallantry In glibly reciting facta and giving figure whlcii apeak for themselves. When women have fully demonstrated that they not only can, but wilt, employ their own talents as seemeth unto them I test and wisest, those who have opposed imagined "expediency" to com mon sense will be the first to declare their belief in equal rights prefacing every declaration of audi belief with the words, "I always thought so." WASHIKGTOK 800IETY. It Is said tbat the extremes of youth ami age never met in Washington so ciety more beautifully than daring the past winter Iu the little circle of "cabi net ladles." The first of these Is repre sented by Miss Agatha Shurg, slender, delicate, and girlish, who takes her lost mother's place as Secretary Shunt's lady. The last by Mrs. Thompson, who has arrived at the tieriod of caps anil while lace tabs for the hair, aud lias au air of dignified grandmotherllness necu- liarly winning. The toilets of the cabi net ladies at Mrs. Haves' last reconfirm are thus spokeu of by a Washington correspondent: "Mrs. Hayes appeared In her brightest crimson silk aud velvet; Mrs. Evarts in half-mournlne: Mrs. Sherman in black velvet and lemon silk; Mr. McCreary iu dark and pale blue silk; Mrs. Thompson in black with wane laces; Airs. Key in neaeh-blossmn brocade, and Miss Shun in black velvet ami white silk." How these ladies can bear with becoming- grace four veara' consecutive worry about toilets! for Pres idential reception and levee passes our comprehension. "IMDUSTBIALEQUALITY." The eighth annual convention of the "American LahorReform League" on to me need In New York City on Monday. E. H. I ley wood, President, made the opening address, saying tbat the league reeks liberty to assert the natural rights of alt people -tn do their beet at their own risk, and to repeal all laws recog nizing property, and to abolish all mo nopolies which give property special ad vantages against labor. From the mass of what may perhaps truthfully be called Utrrpiau nonsense set forth as "views" ty this branch of reformers, we cull the following resolution which smacks so strongly of truth and justice as to be worthy a place in reform liter ature. Resolved. That the National and Working men's parties, like their older brethren in sin. the Republicans and Democrats, by sustaining uurMttlon, enslnve, defraud and lesHiil worn-' an ; that, demanding for her eqn.l pay for e-inul aork with mau.we seek induMrt.tl equity to enise sex lines, as well :s ra-e and color lines, trora labor reform. , "PBOBATE COMFISOATIOH." Mrs. J. W. Stow, whose work on 'Trobote Confiscation" was published In San Frauctfco and circulated to some extent au the Pacific Coast, has been In New England during the past year can vaasing for and distributing the work named. She has devoted her time, means, aud ability almost exclusively to the exposition of terrible injustice which women miller under the laws reg ulating the disposition of properly after the death of husband, aud furnishes the following as a specimen of what a husband can do by way of devltement to-day in the Old Bay State: I appoint , of Boston. Mass., who shall be exempt from furnishing sureties on his official bonds, executor ot this, my last will and testa ment, and also give, devise, and bequeath to him all the real and personal estate of or to which I shall die seised, possessed or entitled, in trust, nevertheless, to manage and lake care of sakl real estate, with power to lease the same and to collect the rents and profits accru ing therefrom; anil to take care of, manage and Invest said personal estate and any per sonal property that may arise from any sale of real estate, as herelnstter provided and collect the income thereof; and of the net Income of all said real and personal properly remaining alter payment of all proper charges and ex penses, to pay over one-thlnl to my wife, once a quarter, her receipt to be a full discharge therefor, during her natural life, and after the death of my wife, to pay the whole net Income to my children, etc., etc Says tMrs. Stow: "This frightful in strument, this moribund grasp upon a living soul, writhing in hopeless, help less torment, remiuds me of the tomb of Rousseau. Thrust forth from that eharuel-houe is a sinewy arm and hand clutching a blazing brant). Thrust out of this other man's grave is the tlealiles arm of the law, with its skeleton fingers alutchlng his will, n blazing, queucblees brand, burning into the heart of n noble womau, consuming with Its corroding flame the dew of peace ami happiness, and the garnered wealth of wifehood, motherhood, and womanhood. Oh, masculine Massachusetts I There is no cloak thick enough to hide the rank in Justice of a law which penult a hus band and father to make 3uch an Iron clad will as the one from which I have quoted above !" A N0BLEW0BK. Tlte annual meeting of the "Christian Union" was held at the Unitarian Church on Wednesday evening of last week. Many subjects of interest were discussed. The attention of the Uuion was called to that benevolent institution of Portland in which a home for worthy women, strangers or otherwise, is pro vided gratuitously if the necessity ex ists, hut preferably by payment of small boarding rates. It was reported that forty places have been found for women lu various employments during the past two mouths. What the institution most needs is uot tnouey, but the sym pathy ami encouragement, socially and Iu other ways, of those whose Interest! will help to elevate and define the char acter of the philanthropy. A "women's bonis" Is a form of Christian work dis tinct from any other, aud with a dis tinctive mission one in which hutnaii- lly and humanizing elements, rather! " J than charity, are uppermost. prin fT generally need the constant application A E0RB0WFUL MEETING. of the reme,,y 'hat brings them to can m , , . ; vlctlou and repentance in order to keep Tfiere arrived at Itoseburg from Ports- then , the slralght and narrow path mouth, Ohio, a few days since the aged J of ,,,. mm, yet there are al mother of oue I Ham Skelton, who I. way8 H.toray gool, me , Ut conflued In Ju l in the former place, teot!aryi who RVe uo u,uegs t awalthig his trial for murder Tlte an(, tue , th rel Itamdealer tells us that the prisoner I at le meetings is often a heallug WAR fnknii frnm Ilia fall fn Hia oAnrl. ' . ..... .. .. MW j - i house to tee his mother, anil that the Interview was extremely affecting. Sympathy cau scarcely reach such a case as this, and even gentle pity must stand abashed before such a sorrow, not ; daring to profler her assistance In the attempt to assuage It. What Imagina- tion is vivid enough to conceive, orl ...... , 3...,s .U.OW.. iu portray a ; wayward sou after perhaps years of sep aration, with an awful gulf of crime be tween, nnd the dread shadow of the gal lows or the State prison-banging darkly over them? In recording such n sorrow. - - The historian, though divine, might weep.- PARTIALITYTO WIDOWS. Mrs. William Barbour, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, contests the will of her late husband who leaves an estate of $100,000, with a provision that she may have tho income of $12,000 while she re mains a widow. He leaves an income of $o,000 to five women iu case they be come widows, $1,&00 to another widow, and $500 to an aunt too old to marry. Whether this might be construed iuto partiality to widows, or hostility to mat rimony, we are at a loss to determine,! and are puzzled to know why he ditl not place hh wife in the evidently en viable catalogue of widowhood' years ago by committing suicide. This wait ing lor the slow process of nature to aid In carrying out a cherished scheme is contemptible In one who oilers a pre mium to at lea&t five women if they will hasten the departure of their I lege lords to other, If nnt milder, regions. A woman who has educated two gec eraltoiis of voters, yet Is herself disfran chised, hus recently closed her 101th term of school at Vavsar, Michigan. She began teaching in 1S30, and has followed It as a profession for nearly fifty years. What a volume of realities a faithfully transcribed record of her life ami labors would make, ainl how Impossible to estimate in any degree the results of her labors! Perseverance, tact, skill, patience, endurance, what a fund of each has she brought to bear upon life's creat battle-field! "An amusing paper for boys aud girls, free from dullness and from sensa tional, vicious trash," Is what tlie American Young Folk, a paper pub lished at Topeka, Kansas, claims to be. Looking over the pages of the May num ber we find theelalm well substantiated, .. . . r I I . t'rtCe, Illiy cents tor one jmr. iuuic33 J. K. Hudson, Topeka, Kansas. j EDITOBIAL CORRESPONDENCE. Deab Rkadkks or tub Nbw N'okthwest: Tlie thread of narrative which usually connects these peregrinations from week to week was buddenly snapped a fort night since by a spasmodic determina tion on the part of the chronicler to "go home." We were, as you will recollect, at work iu Salem, and had gotten as far In giving epistolary account of our toils and wanderings as the prospective Sat urday night open temperance meeting In the capital city, vfhlch we couldn't attend because so thoroughly fagged that weary nature would uot tie whipped up to the poiut of taking another step. Sunday morning found us sufficiently re-ted to be able to hear Brother P. S. Knight's very able Easter sermou. Tlie church was artistically decorated, the singing flue, aud the preaching or the progressive order. There was a good congregation of well-dressed ladies pres ent, but barely enough gentlemen to give the meeting toue. After the sermon, Superintendent Bureh st hi, laundolet to convey us to the ienltentlury, where we had the pleasure of holding an Easter meeting with Rev. Dr. Hall In the prison chapel, in presence of a congregation quite as large as Brother Knight's, with the dif ference that well-dreated men (in stripes) were In a market! majority, with barely one woman convict present to give the meeting toue. Women evi- deutly go to church from choice, while men attend under compulsion. Mr. Bureh is doing a splendid work among tue prisoners, or whom one hundred anil thirty-six are men. One solitary woman is there as a prisoner, and she Is committed for life, her crime, the murder of her husband. The poor old creature is excessively miserable, and yet the penitentiary is evidently the I test place on earth for her. We would suggest a stove in her cell; and several appliances of comfort and lux ury could tie added at little cost, to en liven her lonely quarters. She was very humble and obsequious with us until we told her plainly that we thought she was better oil In the prison, where she could not gel liquor, than she would he If allowed to run at large; aud then didn't she rail ? "An' it's the like's of yes that goes gallivautin' round the couutbry, lav in1 yer pore husban' at the ke ray die au' the wash-tub, while yex he's makin' the spayehe, an' boesin' tlie payple!" she said, adding much more of the same sort, which was equally laughable. We record with profound humiliation the not very surprising fact that the one woman convict in the Oregon' peniten tiary is opposed to Woman Suffrage. But then she has a good deal of cotnpauy among the would-be popular women outside, ami that's some comfort. Dr. Hall Is doing a very earnest work among the prisoners, who listen with a great deal of apparent feeling to his Sunday exercises. They joiu in the singing with the average congrega tional harmony, and many are muoh atTttmlt 1... (ha u.mnn. TV 1. 1!.. O iM i m i Lnir wnumlM ..(.. ai..l raged ene of justice. We tire satisfied that there are at least one doxen men in the Oregon peniteuliary who ought, in - s-s. ... BVV HHU VUft- justlce t0 themselves and humanity, to aowe,, to c,mn(;e Iaee9 wh aJike numlwr r a e 0 ie,.W.tor9. But sueh is luck On Monday we again visited the prison iii Brother Burch'a laundolet. Good reader, imagine a rattletrap or the most dilapidated granger style, drawn by a superannuated equine, comforta ble, fat, and uncomfortably lary, the rattletrap a cross between u farmer's L.,...ti ...i ... . . . snji.il on., . w,i uuiM-cari, snu you ,ave an accurate nf .,,, ,,w fcf. We think an appropriation for the purchase of a hack-and-palr for the prison will be first In order at the com Ing legislative session. A friend at our elbow suggests that Brother Bureh has the right conception of retrenchment ami reform; and while the State is groaning under the visitations of Dem ocratic swamp angels and the lock and dam swindle, he'd better stick to his laundolet. After a bouutiful dinner at tlie hos pitable board of Superintendent Bureh and wife, we were shown over the priton grounds and through tlie build ings, where bands of convicts are let, by contract, to different manufacturing en terprises, all of which are in a nourish ing condition. Blacksmithing, tanning, Middle, and harness making, boot and shoe making, cabinet work, and Iron shaft making are among the enterprises in active operation, and Mr. Unroll is Justly proud of the success of his experi ments In utilising convict labor for the benefit of the State. As we watched the men at work, we could uot but wish that their earnings might go to the sup port of their families, many of whom are reduced to extremest straits to keep soul ami body together during the pa ternal Incarceration. We think com pulsory education and compulsory sup port of families should go baud In hand In every civilised community. But In this, as In most tbiugs, we are not fash lonable nor orthodox. Mr. Bureh says that the men are much better contented when at work. When Idle they are much disiioeed to plau modes of possible escape. Many of them are learning useful trades, ami when their terms ex pire they will be better oil financially than though they had never been con victs. The attache of the prison are gentlenvmly aud obliging to visitors. and the prisoners are well pleased with .1 : . ! . I : men msviimue. Wednesday, and Lome. Xobody ex peeled us, but everybody professed to be glod, even to the "pore husband," whom our convict sister had mentally burdened with imaginary "keraydles" and "wash-tubs." What a blessing that the "pore" gentleman Isn't sensi ble of his misery. A week is spent among the loved ones, aud again we are on the wing, or wave, our destination Corvallls, our steamer the "Occident," Cuptalii Bell, commander. All tluy and all night we patiently plow the waters of the wild Willamette, enlivening the waking hours by conversation, reading, writing, and sight-seeing. Ami when, at last. we reach Corvallls in the bright glow of the vernal rnorniug, and sally forth, unheralded, to cross the sleeping town in search of the home of our good friend', the Cheuoweths, we call at the Gazelle office, where tlie future State printer of Oregon lias his forces at work with the dawn of the day. A little merry chat and we continue our stroll, anil are soon exchanging greetltiKs with Mrs. Chenoweth and discussing her savory breakfast witli a hearty relish. Corvallis, which, prior to railroad times, was ahead of Albany, has lately lieen outstripped in the race with its more fortunate neighbor, and has conse quently settled down Into a rural vil lage-like state of quaint anil curious quietude. But her good people are genial and obliging as of yore, and her railroad prospects are by no means hopeless. SufUcient funds to build and equip the Yaquiua road have been sub scribed, and graders are very soon to be set to work. And. then the town will arouse from Its lethargy, and its people will prosper as of old. Our meetings are being held in tbe City Hull, a recent Improvement, and are largely attended. At this writing (Saturday) we are not prepared to say how long we shall remain here, or what shall be the next move on the checker board of our wanderings. A. J. D. May 4. 1S7S. foeeignJnewsT The Czar's predi lections are entirely iu favor of tieace. A report is current In Vienna that a famine prevails in Eastern Russia. The Russian government in said to owe one company for victualing the army 20,000,000 roubles. Tlie British government has ordered a million pounds weight of lint and other appliances for the wounded. It seems there is a general impression that Prince Gortsabakoff will not be able to resume the chancellorship. Twelve hundred Martini Henry rifles have been ordered shipped to Malta im mediately, probably for the Indian con tingent. The political situation is uuehauged, aud the course of the negotiations be tween St. Petersburg and London con tinues uneventful. Parliament reopened on the Sth. In the House of Commons notice was given of tlte various questions regarding the employment of Indian troops. Ten Russian naval officers are to come to this country, and, with the alit anee of two American gentlemen, they are to tlesignate fifty fust ships to be purchased and fitted out as privateers in the event of war with England. It is understood Russia has proposed a new military convention by which she will lie empowered to construct camps at Plojesti and Foksehani, en gaging In return to remove her head quarters and other establishments con nected with the troops from Bucharest. Roumaula has refused assent. The coming week will he a busy one at the Lugllsh arsenals and dock-yards and ship-owners who hitherto have beeu privileged to berth their vessels in proximity to the admiralty moorings opposite the victualing yard at Dept ford have received notice to remove them to-day, and all room available is to be reserved for the transports. A dispatch from Syria says that sad news from Kharport, Turkish Armenia, report the plundering of ninety-one Armeuian villages In the district of Cheuiecho by Derslu Koords. The Ot toman authorities are uuable to afford protection. Although the district is greatly impoverished, double taxes are demanded. In Ingieghi, whioh lies be tween Kharport aud Erseroum, the dearth threatens soon to become a famine. Nothing is easier than fault-find ing. No talent, no self-denial, no brains, no charneUr are required to setup iu the grumbling business. To clearly appre ciate this, eue has only to watch one of these chronic grumblers as he fumes and frets over thetetof his shirt that his wife has tried iu vain to make to his liking. The bosom is too wide or too short; the sleeves are too long or too narrow; the band too large or too high, and the garment Is pulled this way anil that, and the man who can work so effectively on no capital does not Indulge oveu lu a gruut of satisfac tion as he finds the garment a perfect fit at Inst. Magnanimous persons have no desire to grumble, and busy persons no time for it. Mrs. Duniway began a series of Inter esting lectures last evening at the City Hall, which our citizens should turn out en matte to hear. Her address last even ing subject, "Money," was as original as it was peculiar. Sirs. Duuiway never says anything the public Is listening for, and this is one great reason of her success. Tills (Friday) evening she will deliver her famous oeuteuulul address uimii "Constitutional Liberty." The Corvallls brass band will lend Its valu able atil to enliven tlie meeting. Every body is Invited. Corvallit Gazette. J. M. Sheppard, ot the Baker City Democrat, is not disposed to bear mal ice uor be unreasonable. Though a de feated candidate for State printer, he ia willing to accept as a solace lor ins uis- j n...i..imnnt iim nnsltlnn of L'uited ainraiiiiiijcK ..w , States Senator. M'ugmtnimlty In polit ical matters Is as refreshing as it is rare. mewsjtems. STATE AST) TgKRITOKIAI-. Wild strawberries are ripe up the valley. MoMIhnville reports 105 pupils in ur publlc school. GradiUsT was begun on the iaqoina Railroad on Monday. Tim cannery at Gardiner ia patting up herring in large quantities. Tncouia was treated to a slight blase on Wednesday night of last week. An nhlltl dmit wheat crop throtighoat the State is regarded as a certainty. A herd of S00 goats is owned by Jodii Mark, of Applegate Creen, Jaea-on county. Two physicians of Biker Uity report 125 ca?w of diphtheria iu their practice since last November. TuMims exnectK soon to be able to bhip one hundred barrels of lime per- week Irotn lier lime quarriw. a mi no named Lmain Arrived at the insane asylum on Mouday iu charge of Shenll Couu, of Lake county. Tt.o mtiiiitir season iust drawim? to a close In Southern Oregon 1A been the most prosperous one tor years. The barkeutine "I'ortlantl," from Kiiaiinton for San Francisco, went to seuou Friday with 600,000 feet of lumber. ,V natier on the value of forests was read before the Olympla Academy of Sciences by lion. iSlwoou iiivans re cently. The contract let to A. S. Miller A Son to build a briuge across tbe South San tiam, at Rose's Ferry, was let for $12, 000, instead of $2,000. Walla Walla breweries made 1,599 barrels of beer from May 1st, 1877, to May 1st, 1678. The government revenue from it was $1,S1 S3. A sulmou measuring fifty-one inches ami weighiug fifty-three aud a half pounds was taken by one of Badollet & Co.'s fishermen last week. The hoase or Dr. William Geiger, of Forest Grove, was entered one night last week, aud between $600 aud $700 gold coin abstracted from truuks. Commencement exercises of the Wil lamette University will take place on the 13th of Juue. The graduating class consists of sixteen persons seveu ladies and nine gentlemen. The annual pamphlet published by the Oregon Pioneer Society will be pub lished next week. It will contain among other things the names of members, with date of their arrival In the Slate. The locomotive for tbe Olympla and Teuino Railroad arrived iu Sati Fran cisco early last week from Pittsburg. Work on the road is progressing very rapidly at both ends nf the track. At Puget Sound short logs, tweuty four to forty feet lone, glut the market, and are dull sale at $4. Long logs rang ing from forty to seventy feet are in good demand, and fiud ready sale. The graduating class at the State Uni versity this year consists of four young men and one young lady. The last, Miss Nellie Condon, is eldest daughter of Professor Condon, formerly of Pacific University, Forest Grove, where Miss Nellie was born. RE0ENTEVBHTS. There are now 890 eases in tbe small pox hospitals of London. Eighty thousand persons visited the Paris Exposition on Sunday. A general lockout of cotton spinners and manufacturers iu Manchester is probable. The President has appointed Stephen B. Packard, of Louisiana, Consul at Liverpool. A fire at Bradford, Pennsylvania", on tbe afternoon of tbe 7th, destroyed a hundred thousand dollars worth of prop erty. The government has received no offl olal information whatever concerning tbe reports of the prospective Fenian in vasion of Canada. Tlie syndicate has subscribed for an additional live millions of 4 per cent, bonds, making twenty-five millions taken of t'te fifty million contract. A hi: I authorizing the distribution to puii'ti: libraries of one copy of every dov-uo.it til published for distribution' by Congress bas been reported by tbe House committee on education. The funeral of John Callingham, shot on Wellington Bridge the night of the Orange concert, took plaee on the Sth, at Montreal. About 10,000 members o f the Irish national societies took part. The President has formally accepted the last completed section of thirty-four miles of the California and Oregou Rail road ending at Redding, and a patent for tbe land grant will soon be issued. Dispatches from all over the country say that the transit of Mercury, on tbe 7th, was observed generally wi th satis factory results, eon Hr in lug previous ob servations for the motion of perihelion of Mercury. The House committee on education aud labor have agreed upon the bill making it a misdemeanor for tbe master of a vessel to take more than fifteen Chinese passengers, male or female, to the United States after January 1, 1879. The ICorWaays: "At the annual bus iness meeting of Plymouth Church, held on tbe Gth, It was understood the name of Mrs. Tilton would be dropped from the roll of the church. Whether she appeared and made a statement or not, Is uot known." Thursday, April IS, in tbe Senate, the bills introduced by Senator Mitchell on the 25th of last October, to ehaoge tlte nameof thesteamer "George W. Elder" to "Columbia," and "City of Chester" to "Portland," were repotted favorably without amendment by Senator Couk ling from the committee on commerce. JIAItV F. FOSTER, Commission Merchant and Purchasing Agent, is prepared to make purchases In New York and other cities, on order, of al I goods. Jewel ry , groceries, etc., on commission of 5 per cent, for 8. of I. and in per cent, for others outside of tbe Order. West India preserves and Mexican conserves. Ad lress P. O. Station "D," New York City. COT The Xution.il Gold Medal was awarded to Bradley A Rn I of son for tbe best Photograph In tbe United States, and tbe Vienna Medal for tbe best In the world. 9 Montgomery street, San Francisco. Those accretions upon the 'ruin inh .re ternud uandrufT art- promptl ruu.ir.l i v Oi.ii.s,s scl1'UI-r soap, wim ii. t.v i.pei n; the pores, promotes the natural moisture "r the hair.