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JRSDAY MAY 16, 187.
m'Cciai. aotick.
will send out, during the present
tilt, bill to delinquent In
: The change of nrm necessitates an Im
itate settlement ot Um mum. ah hn.u
letters pertaining to the Xkw North -
and all money dne this office on wb-
lion or otherwise, most be directed to
DraiWsT rTBUSHtXQ COMPAVT.
A NEW SEASON.
'hat, a new reason why women
nld or-sbould not vote? Yes. really.
I latter, and here it Is, and It ia Jrom
i a source than from the hraln of
thony Trollop, and was given In a
at meeting In London, called to con
tue political advancement of
Jen.
master of a bonne In the master of the
and he in the master became he baa
pone. It 1 the man'i duty to go oat
rn wages, on which the household Is
ued on which the household Is bronchi
d so long as the man has the purse, so
ust political power remain with him.
a difficulty which the advocates or
Suffrage cannot ret over.
rding to this new argument,
is nothing, principle is nothing.
and humanity go for naught, ami
rules the world. Yet, does not
'rollope know, or has he been indeed
fill a scholar, that equal rights mean
lal equality as well as polities!
ity? that "yours" and "mine"
Id no more be used in connection
h the family puree by the husband
ife than these terms should be used
n regard to the home or children ?
lliat "ours" is the proper term, and
wiibould he reeoguised in all community
property ? And again, does not lie, and
all others who profess to be informed
upon this subject, know that the de
mand includes the privilege for women
th fL'nrlr nt trim tarar lnjlitia f I nil nmmnta
. ,
PpU, capability penults, for wages equal
!J&:'. : I r lit- i. a '
tg tMose received by men for like work ?
Ill England, as in Massachusetts, there
s"4,' large preponderance of spinsters,
vgnaen who work, earn their own j
.monkey, and carry their own purses. If
' purse argument were all, these
Id be at once enfranchised. Ttteu i
tiTe are all over the civilised, world
Ml nd red a of households wherein, what
ever be the "man's duty" in the prem
ijsgs, woman's labor supplies the needs;
llgtKeholtls which woman's hard-earned
mosey, "brings up." What of these,
ufld how will this new argument debar
then from the exercise of political pow
der? Again, itis a well known fact that
a man is not always master of the
house, however loudly he may make
proclamation. Whenever there is noisy
taVkabout family headship, be sure that
a vman is at the head ot that family
t&O&that the man does the boasting.
jtRfRflect and thrift will rale, ami both
krcexless. The advocates of Woman
ISflilrBge have toiled too severely in the
Ifnsion of the "Hill Difficulty" to be
back when the summit is within
sfgtit, by any argument, old or new,
that is conjured up as a specter In their
Itetli to frigbteu them. It is easier to
surmount au hundred imaginary ob
stacles than to take a step backward
over a hardly contested Held. It is a
thousand times more pleasant to over-
conic difficulties than to yield supinely
crushing force, feeling as we
beneath them that our cowardice
. add yet n heavier weight to the
age of injustice that will de-
i our daughters.. Women do full
ilf the work of the world. This,
i whose opiuion is worthy of seri-
sneideration will dispute. Why
'have men the most money ? Slm-
suee they take it, and custom
4Ta. actions the theft, and women propose
get over the difficulty" by demand
untii their demands are heeded,
al pay for equal work, equal oppor-
ttory to engage iu remunerative labor
wjfli men, an equal share In the ac
'.'Jgibulatlons of the matrimonial firm
fnjkhort, equality in all family and
fastness transactions. The great lever
' wUrCh they are trying to grasp whereby
ttajyvHI accomplish much of this, is
;JtlgJfeJtot; with that they, like men,
able to redress wrong ana compel
til consideration of their rights
ibie, intelligent human be-
BEHIND THE SCENES.
' If any one, after reading the eulogies
limn "celestial marriage," otuerwise
pwn as polygamy, to which the na-
was treated last Wiuter by Mrs.
U and Mrs. Zina Young, became en-
5 red of that peculiar institution, we
Jrise litni to reau now trie oeiausoi
tine Miles ease as published in the Salt
ALake papers, and he will get a glimpse
f Mormon life behind the scenes.
jtead the testimony relative to the tears
the girl, Miles' wife, when she found
it another took precedence over ner
sure of age, and was to he called the
"first wife :" the wedding reception at
'Elder Cannon's, where the outraged
- iri "slapped the other wife In the face"
because she refused to surrender the
piano stool ; her refusal to play If the
4)tber wife danced ; her stormy exekv
nations, "f wi'l not work for her. You
timber your wife; what am I?" the
.fjjluctant evidence of Presideut Taylor,
ftwbo, though disliking to disclose such
' matters, being compelled l y cireum
stances beyond his control, te&t.iW that
Miles bad sought him to uwrium
whieh of three women be should marry
first, and stated that these things went
by age, the eldest being first, the next
the second, etc Isn't this a lovely mat
rimonial picture? Not all the sophis
try of all the religious zealots In Chris
tendom could convince a woman of de
cent self-respect that any woman of
pure and true wifely instincts can be
satisfied in a relation that of itself, and
fmm Its very nature, begets heart burn
ings and jealousies and family feuds too
bitter to be forgiven, too galling to bo
borne.
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H030E TO THE BBA7E BEAD.
One by one the heroes who eprang to
tue assistance or an Imperilled nation in
tllo .!.!. .1 . ...
" " "aj-s oi me rebellion pass
away, le&viug their record for future
generations to read and proudly emu
late. Among the latest of these was
General John A. DIx, whose memorable
words, "If any man attempts to haul
down the American Hag, shoot litm on
the spot," has been embalmed in the
patriotic literature of the uation. While
the then arrogant foe iu (he field is the
now arrogant foe in the American Con
grass, threatening annihilation by starv
ation to the army which embattled force
labored In vain to vanquish, patriotism
proves that it is not dead, iu the demon
strations of grief and the profound re
spect that follows a soldier of the Union
to his last refttiug-place. The obsequies
of General Dix were conducted with
that solemnity and pomp which befits
the last rites to a departed here. From
Ilia time the funeral cortege left the
house of the deceased until it reached
Trinity, where the soleoiu service of the
Episcopal Church was rendered, the
roar of minute guns from Castle Wil
liam reverberated over the great city
and bay, carrying to all within sound
of their resonant tones the intelligence
that the remains of the scholar, diplo
matist, statesman and soldier were on
their way to that final rest which the
heaviest thunders of artillery are power
less to disturb. Let the notion give
honor to its brave dead. Whether these
are left in trenches where they fell gal
lautly righting, or are conveyed to costly
mausoleums amid the reverberation of
minute guns ami the strains of solemn
music, let their memories be revered,
while liberty unfolds over our broad Re
public her starry ensign. Obedient to
the behest of patriotism and the prompt
ings of tender memory, the surviving
comrades and friends of the soldier deed
will In a short time gather choicest gar-
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And go a fragrant wreath to lay
Upon the lowlfr craves that still
Are sweet with all the flowers of May,"
Testifying by this action, so appropri
ate and yet so simple, the appreciation
that true eoniage and self-sacrifice ever
inspire in generous hearts.
"Ail know the work those brave men did."
Let all testify to this knowledge by
offering floral tribute to their memories
on Memorial Day.
LADY PHY8I0IANS.
We are pleated to make special men
tion of Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Andrews,
physicians and surgeons, who are nicely
located at their new institute, No. 251
Kiret street, and nave come to Portland
highly recommended by the medical
fraternity of the eclectic school. Mrs.
Andrews is the third lady physician
now in practice In the eity, Dr. Murray
being the first and Dr. Burr the second.
Our own Mrs. Owens, who preceded
these ladies by a year or two, is now at
Ann Arbor, finishiog her education iu
the higher branches of surgery and the
healing art. There Is not a gentleman
physician In the eity who lias a larger
practice than Mrs. Murray, w!k, being
a regular of the regulars, has none of
ttie prejudice to conquer that disciples
of more recent medical systems of prac
tice must encounter. The lady physi
cians of Portland, a well as of Salem,
Albany and the East, compare favora
bly witli men in their chosen vocation,
a faet of which the Xkw Northwest
is justly proud.
If Judge Deady's tedious exposition
of the property rights, the validity of
deeds, wills, etc., of married women,
and his voluminous citations to musty
tomes that, relics of a buried , are
never taken from the shelves of law
offices but to abet fraud, grew as tire
some to himself as It does to the readers
of his "opinions," we are quite sure he
would be ready to advocate equal rights,
or, In other words, to remove the idea
of sex from law tablets, whose first In
scription should be justice. Can any
body read without impatience, not to
speak of absolute nausea, this oft-repeated
citation : "At common law the
deed of a feniMe-covert was void, and
she could only convey tier lands by
levying a fine as it was called a. pro
ceeding which involved a privy exami
nation of the wife, as in the ease of an
acknowledgment. (2 Blaek, SIS; 4
Kent, 497 ; 2 Wa.li., It. P., 539)."
xV correspondent at Itome reports that
the progress of Catholicism in the
United States has Induced the Pope to
arrange for thecompleteorgauizatlon of
the hierarchy and the more Intimate
union with Rome. New bishopries
will soon be created and the establish
ment of the "Society of Jesus" will be
more satisfactorily organized. The dog
mas of Romanism hold in thrall more
Intelligent persons than all other super
stitions put together. Careful educa
tion, uuremltting attention by the
church to her children from babyhood
Is the secret of her power. Not being
allowed to think for themselves, from
earliest recollection church dogmas be
come as much au inheritance as the
blood that flows through their vein?.
The recent breaking out of the yellow
fever ou a ship which, though a fleeted
last season, had been thoroughly fumi
gated and moreover subjected to the
frosts of the entire winter in a northern
port, Is causing much alarm in the
south, lest the germs of this dread
scourge have not been killed, as was
hoped, by the frost. In this case Its re
turn may be looked for with the first
approach to Summer bent.
Hie new Constitution of California
goes into effect on and after the 4th of
July, 1879, so far as the same relate? to
the election of all officers, the com
mencement of their terms of office, and
the meeting of the Legislature. In other
respects and for all other purposes Us
provisions take cflett on the first day of
January, 1SS0.
EDITORIAL OOBEESPONDENOE.
Hill KcADOssor tme Nkw Xobth Wsjrr :
Knlama, or "Calamity," as the ere
whlle pretentious eity of the Columbia
was once prophetically culled, which
was for a time the headquarters of the
Northern Pacific Railroad, tlieabodoof
the Kalama Jtcacon, and the general
rendezvous for impecunious seekers
after corner lots and landlords' bonan
zas ; Kalama, the disappoi tiled, doomed
and dying city of fizzled expectations,
was the scene of the visit or visitation
of the author of these peregrinations ou
Wednesday of last week. The good
steamer "Emma Hayward" left her
dock at six o'clock ou the morning uf
the day named, and, journeying down
the tree-bordered Willamette to its
mouth, and from thence down the Co
lumbia to the above-mentioned city of
ueolmatlon, we lauded at 10:30 A. ji.
and proceeded to the Fulton House,
where arrangements were completed,
after musli delay, for securing theM. K.
Church for an evening lecture. The
church Iu question siu, as it did in the
palmier days of the ealauilty-striekuu
lowu, in a eul-de-tac formed by the in
tersection of two spurs of the billowy
and abounding hills, and opeuin at its
mouth beside a roaring stream, spanned
by a slippery foot-bridge, safe euough
in daylight, hut a very bridge of peril in
the dense glooui of a rainy, moonless
night, when you couldn't see your hand
before you, nor hear the footfall or your
equally night-blinded guide, because of
the din of the madly-rosrlng stteom
beneath us.
We were advised by Mr. Cometrvs.
one of tho remaining merchants Iu the
once busy burg, to call upou the Auditor
and secure the court-room for the lec
ture, which is now the county's rented
property, and was once the dining-room
of the than pretentious Kazan o House.
Trie Auditor Is a inltd-niannered, corpu
lent auu good-looking specimen of the
aristocracy of sex, who graciously iu-
lormed us that the Commissioners
couldn't let the court-room for any
thing but legal or political business, so
wo weutour way church-hunting, won
dering what be thought our busiuess
was. Mr. Vestal, as janitor, received us
kindly, and caused the long-olosed
church to be opened, warmed and light
ed for the use of the public But the
long-unused stove-pipe had rusted so
nearly off at lu base that a little expan
sion by fire sent It tumbliug with a
erasli upon the yet fortuoately empty
benches. Had the accident occurred
fifteen minutes later, there would have
been a chronicle of broken heads to
render this column tragically interest
lug. Some gentlemen carried the hot
stove outside with ropes, the few citi
zens gathered themselves together, and
the lecture was delivered amidst pro
found ami respectful attention, the
County Commissioners themselves hon
oring us with their preseuoe, and evi
dently feeling crest-fallen because the
quiet, orderly political meeting had
been deuled the use of the court-room.
We are sure they wilt be more cour
teous with us uexttime. Men are not
half as selfish as they imagine them'
selves to be. Aud when they under
stand that this woman movement does
not mean a crusade against their own
individual rights, we have yet to see
oue of them opposing It. Their supreme
caution permits them to be frightened
without being hurt ; that's all.
We had gone to the church, over the
foot-bridge, and through the gulches;
by the expiring twilight. On return
lug, the night was black as Erebu
ami there was that yawning chasm,
equally suggestive of the gap at Its fatal
mouth, that were to us no fable.
No
body had a lantern ; the rain beat time
with the roaring waterfall, and beat a
silent symphony with the waves of
darkness. What was to be done? Never
did the headlight in a hotel seem so far
away.
We not only have no dread of death,
but we have iu later years had no desire
to escape it; but the idea of broken
bones and crippled bodies has long been
our pet horror.
A small boy eaoght an Idea. We had
with us a few copies of the Xkw North
west, ami he said be would make
torches If lie had a match. Somebody
had matches, aud both small boy and
smoker are hereby blessed for their sa
gacity aud providence.
The agouy was soon over; but it was
long before your correspondent could
forget in sleep the memory of that fall
ing stove-pipe, that slippery foot
bridge, that roaring waterfall, and those
blazing newspaper torches.
The county of Cowlitz boasts a lady
Superintendent of its Common Schools,
iu the person of Mrs. Professor Hunt
ing ton, whose acquaintance we had
formed while yet a high private in the
commercial and domestic walks of life.
Tills lady has been for several months
the principal of the Kalama school, aud
Is highly esteemed as a capable aud
honest teacher and office-holder. At
the time of our visit, she was holding
public examination for the benefit of
the teachers of the county, the most of
whom were present, with whom we
formed a very agreeable acquaintance.
As usual, the large majority were ladles,
and, as a matter of course, the larger
salaries were commanded by the minor
ity, or men. But there were none of
the terrible and oft-predicted conse
quences of women holding office visible.
The gentlemen were as courteous to the
ladies as ever, and vice versa, and that,
too, notwithstanding that the lady
teachers all want to vote.
There are several good families yet
living In Kahuna,-trylug to hold on to
their homes aud business and waiting
for better times. These, doubtless, will
come by and by, but they will advance
steadily and healthfully, and with little
thanks to the erewhlle alma mater of
the place, the Northern Pacific Kail
road. At twelve x., the steamer Dayton
touched at the wharf, and we suddenly
decided to board her and go to Freeport
So, .with several of the lady teachers of
tho county for company, we were soon
on our way, cruising leisurely along the
shore line, and entering the Cowlitz at
last, up which tho trim craft labored
steadily, and at five l. M. came in sight
of a wide stretch of alluvial green, roll
ing awy upott either side, through
which upon one band the railway runs,
and upon both the white houses nestled
lovingly upon the lawns and among
the fruit trees, a very Arcadia of loveli
ness, late as the hour was, It wa-i not
too late to circulate au appointment for
a lecture, which was given in the
church, followed by nuolher on the suc
ceeding evening, both of which were
well atteuded by an intelligent aud ap
preciative auditory.
There being no hotel In Freeport, we
found pleasaut entertainment at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Catlln, the former
a brother of John Catllu, Esq., and the
latter an old-time brief acquaintance of
the undersigned, with whom we were
soon tUIIglitfully engaged iu reviving
olden memories). The Cutliu brothers
are owaers of an immense stock and
meadow farm, and were once also en
gaged far a loug time in merchandizing.
There are now two stores in full opera
tion, oue the property of Commissioner
Olson aud the other of Mr. Caples. Pro
fessor Elyea teaches the district mjIiooI,
aud J. Uierdon keeps a boot and shoe
shop. These, with the post offiee, par
sonage and a few other dwelling houses,
constitute the village proper, back of
which beautiful farms lie iu smiling
luxury, lavei at their feet by the River
Cowlitz, which is navigable for small
steamers muih farther up than we have
yet explored It. A. S. D.
Portland, Hay IS, 1S79.
We have always opposed divorce for
trivial causei, beliuviug that marriage
should be entered into with a delibera
tion that wi.t insure its permanency.
The strongest argument we remember
to have met In favor of eu-y divorce is
attributed to Peter the Great, and Is as
follows : "God established wedlook for
happluess, for mutual support, and for
consolation ia the vicissitudes of life,
and, as wretched marriages do not sus
tain God's purposes in matrimony, it is
proper in such cases to grant divorce."
BEOESTEVENTS.
A bill has been introduced by Back
ner, fixing the Presidential term at six
years.
Tho weather recently has been very
unfavorable to glowing crops in the
middle West.
Tlie House Committee on Claims has
decided to trausaut no general business
during the present session.
Tho race to decide the superiority of
the champion scullers of Yale aud Har
vard resulted in triumph for the latter.
President and Mrs. Hayes have aban
doned their proposed trip to California,
and now Intend to go to New York this
Summer.
Mrs. Slmoutoii, wife of the general
agent of the associated press, died at tier
residence iu New York on tbel3th Inst.,
of pueuuiouia.
Hot weather is already recorded in
New Eugland, the thermometer In
many places iu New Hampshire stand
ing at 100 in the shade.
The income tax bill was defeated In
the House yeas oue hundred aud four,
nays ninety-four, not the ueceseary two
thirds in the affirmative.
The Confederate monument, erected
by the Ladies' Monumental Ass iciatlnti,
iu the capital square, Columbia, S. C,
wus unveiled ou the 13th, iu the pres
ence of 12,000 people.
Governor Cullom, of Illinois, congrat
ulates and compliments President
Hayes upon his recent veto of the army
bill, ami urged a like actiou in relation
to the pending bill to prevent military
interference at elections.
Ex-Secretary Mct'uMoch Is delivering
a seriee of lectures on money at Saun
ders's Theater. Harvard College. He
has changed his views, and now advo
cates bi-metallic currency, whereas he
was formerly iu favor of a single staud-
aru.
The bill to prohibit military inter
ference at elections was returned to the
House of Representatives on the 12th
Inst, without the Prer-ident's signature.
Tbe veto message that accompanied it
wns wen grouiHieu iu law ami admits ot
no refutation.
The Woodruff" scientific expedition,
which was to make a tour of J.he world,
has collapsed for want of support. In
stead of two hundred passengers having
been booked, a required, to insure the
success of the expedition, only about
forty persons had paid a deposit of $500
each.
An attempt, on Tuesday, to pass the
military interference bill over the Pres
ident's veto, was lot, the vote standing
one hundred ami tweuty-seven ayes,
ninety-seven nays, not the requisite
two-thirds majority. The veto mes
sage was then referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
Extensive forest fires are causing
great destruction of ti in Iter in the region
of Scrauton, Pa. The village of Toliy
hanna, twenty miles from there, was en
tirely surrounded by fire on the 11th.
Theoillzens turned out and fought tlie
llanies. finally getting them under con
trol. The destruction of property will
bo immense.
A bill was reported in the House on
the 10th, from the Committee ou re
vision of laws relating to widows of
pensioners of the war of 1812, so as to
give pensions to women wbo are a
second time widows. It was opposed as
an entire change of the pension laws and
was, on motion of Garfield, referred to
the Committeo on Pensions.
The Timet, Tribune and Inter-Ocean
Washington correspoitdeuts agree that
the following will probably be the
course of the Democrats after a second
veto: They will hold another caucus,
and the present opinion appears to be
that tbe legislative appropriation bill
will be passed under the greatest posii
ble restrictions aud the army bill will
be allowed to fail. They will then dis
band aud go home.
A bill providing for appropriations for
the army for the fiscal year ending June
1st, 18S0, was introduced by Townseud,
of Ohio, on Monday. It was the same
as the regular House bill with seotlons
sixty and ninety left out. A motion to
suspend the rules and pass the same was
defeated by a vote of one huudred and
nine to one huudred and one. Demo
crats all voted "no," Republicans all
"aye." Of the Greenbackers eight
voted "aye," one "no." The result of
tbe vote was greeted with clapping of
hands ou the Democratic Bide, and with
counter demonstrations on tbe Republi
can side.
ENLIGHTENED JUDGMENT.
To those who spend all their spare
time In sympathizing with the poor,
down-trodden Indiausof the Northwest,
of which Chiefs Joseph and Moses are
representatives, we commend the fol
lowing statements of General Howard,
than whom no one has had better op
portunity to judge in the premises. The
letter was published in the Army and
Xavy Journal:
The statements mad by a correspondent in
yonr paper of the 2Mh ot March, that Joseph,
Chief at tbe Nr i'erees, and bis Indian were
ha mane In their eondnet of the so-called N'ei
Perce war. Is a mistake. ICow far tbe chief
himself is rasponttble, I cannot say, bat more
horrid oatrares loan tboea committed near
tbe Moant Idaho country cannot be found fn
any annals ol Indian massacres. I saw a poor
woman who had ftu tiered from repeated acts of
brutality, one Indian naceeedinr. another In
(Hi trace. I saw a Utile child with part of Its
tongue cat out ! The details concern I nr tbe
dead -concern Ins what preceded the flnal acta
that ended life are alekenlna; In tbeir horrors.
In what purports lo be Joseph's account of
the war, you will And a complete answer in
my report, a part of which I send you. Joseph
did not at Ibe time complain ol the thirty
days. It waa long enough. If bis people had
Intended to comply with. tbe will of tbe Gov
ernment. Kreu with tbe old Too-hul-bul-soot
I was patient. White Bird and Looking Glass
pledged themselves for his subsequent good
behavior after he had defied the authority of
the Government and behaved as harshly and
Impudently as any Indian conld. Upon this
pledge and his own promise I released him.
No baud of Indians In the United States were
ever treated with more earefnlneas and con
sideration than Joseph's by tbe officers ot tbe
army, and Joseph said to me at tbe final cap
ture that if be bad taken my advice and sub
mitted to the 1 not ructions of tbe Government,
he would have avoided all trouble.
People not bdbnging to the army were
killed In the beginning of tbe war, as we have
seen In tbe Horse I'ralrle country; after pass-
lag Leinbl In that vicinity; along the stage
road in tbe National Iark, several ot different
parties killed or wounded; on tbe Clark's Fork
upper waters; a number of miners, several
near Hart Mountain; and, scattered along to
tbe crossing of tbe Missouri, every white man
was killed or badly wounded that came In
their way, so far as I can learn.
Tbe only exceptions were when a truce ar
rangement was made In crossing the Bitter
Root country, and when Joseph spared the two
ladle and a brother with tbem in the National
Iark. also a couple of white men that he used
as guides.
Joseph's Indians had primary provocation
when the whites of Wallowa killed one of their
number; but these savages were not saints.
and It is not well to attempt to use tbelr
treacberous memories to falsify history.
Again, the Government had to require obe
dience to Its authority, and I believe this to be
right throughout our domain.
We do not redress the wrongs of the Indiana
because tbe army Is called lo make tbe Indians
obey, and cannot from our system be called In
U make the white man do the same. We did
our best in Joseph's case, and have done our
utmost under the law In all other eases to
help tbe civil authorities punish white men
wbo murder Indians and steal their property;
but tbe posse eomltatua law Anally hindered
this help. The balances of Justice are not In
equilibrium; but It is tbe tanlt of an inade
quate and one-sided system, and not no much
tbe fault of the executors of IU
A SH0ET JOLLY-PIOATION.
Frank B. Jolly, of Hillsboro, was mar
ried on the Sth iust., at the residence of
the bride's parents, to Miss Llllie A.
Short, Win. Whitloek, Ki., officiating
at the ceremony, frank (good boy) iu
writing us concerning the important
event, says, in allusion to the New
Northwest's editorial mention of an
other recent wedding in the Jolly fam
ily, "Sure enough, she is a materialized
angel." May your Jolly-tleatlous never
more be Short, and your hearts be as
Jolly as the Short span of this life will
allow, is the sincere wish of all your
friends.
A woman, writing upon educational
matters iu Minnesota, and pointing out
the need of reforms that can never come
until women are allowed a place on the
school boards, concludes with this eon
soling reflection: "But to us mothers
whose shadows are so rapidly lengthen
ing towards the east, comes the blessed
assurance that as all reforms move on
ward, never backward, the mother lu
ll ue nee will be more and more felt in all
moral and educational matters, as one
after another old fogies wrap their man
tle of old fogyism about them and lie
down to pleasant dreams."
lly the laws of Kansas, women stand
on exact equality with men in regard to
property. If a man dies intestate, leav
ing a widow and children, the widow
takes half in her own right aud the
children the other half; or, IX the wife is
tbe owner and dies, the husband takes
one-half and thechlldren tbe other half,
and neither can deprive the other of
such share by will. In all respects re
garding trading, suing and being sued,
there is not the slightest difference be
tween tbe two.
The new Constitution or California
provides that women shall not be de
barred from enterlug luto aud pursuing
any profession or business avocation
iu the State, on account of sex. There
was a strong flght made for a 'Woman
SuOrage article, but old fogyism finally
ruled it out. Another clause provides
that no corporation doing business In
the Slate shall employ Chinese labor,
and the Legislature is required to enact
such laws as will enforce it.
George H. Himes and V. W. Munk
ers, State printing experts, report to His
Excellency, Governor Thayer, that they
have measured tho work of W. B.
Carter, State Printer, as per instructions
ami fiud the same done in accordance
with the law ami with hut a diflerence
of $2S 19 between bis bill and their own
estimate, a discrepancy so slight that
they recommeud the payment of the bill
as rendered.
Oregon contains 96,350 square miles or
61,000,000 acres of land, au area greater
than New York and Peunsylvaniaoom
bined. The estimated division of this
land Is as follows: Agricultural lands
30,000,000 acres; grazing, 20,000,000 acres;
timber, 11,000,000 acres. The total pop
ulation of this vast area does not at
present exceed 200,000.
Wasco county reports 1,916 children
of school age.
NEWSITEM8.
STATS ANB laaallOBIAI-
V. Randall has been elected Mayor
N
of Oregon City.
Late rains are a great benefit to toe
mines in Josephine county.
Chinese have left Lewistou. Idaho,
being unable to obtain employmeut
there.
The state of the roads leading to the
saw-mills renders lumber very scarce in
Wolla Walla.
Mueh of the fruit in tbe vicinity of
Ashland and Phoenix was destroyed by
frost la.Hl week.
Tbe Southern Methodists will soon
commeuce the erection of a church at
PbuMiix 24x40 feet.
The wool clip of Grant cnuuty prom
ises to be large. Much ot it is already
ou the way to Tbe Dalles.
There are now 190 convicts in tbe
Oregon Penitentiary, and the number is
augmented almost weekly.
teacher's institute for Umatilla
county will te held at Weston ou the
12th, 18th and I4lh of June.
Junction City has taken four hundred
dollars' worth of stock in a celebration
for the coming Fourth of July.
Kx-Sena tor Mitchell was warmly re
ceived by the citizens of Roseburg on
bis arrival there ou the !nh Inst.
Seventeen miles of the grading on the
west-side railroad is completed. Tbe
iron will arrive by tbe first of 'June.
Nehalem Valley is fast rilling up with
actual settlers, and good land merely for
the taking is getting extremely scarce.
It is estimated by th-se who have op
portunity to know that therein sixty
thousand dollars' worth of marketable
beef in Grant county.
The Jountauteer learns that . vast
army ot crickets is moviug from tbe
hills to bottom lands on Three and Five
Mile Creeks, Wasco county.
A reward of $200 is ottered for the
arrest of Wm. Hicks and Knoeh Baker,
wno vscapeo: ou me iilgni ot it ay 6iu
from the Oregou Peuilenliury.
Iong A, Birmingham's cheese factory
at Claqoato is turning out 300 pound:) of
cheese daily. The same firm has a like
factory in Sumas Valley, B. C.
Initial steps are being takeu to build
a new school-house at Turner, the old
one being too hkihII to meet tbe require
ments of the rising generation.
A petition is being circulated and
very generally siened in Lake county,
asking that the Klamath Indians be
allowed to remain where tbey are.
Professor Powell, Superintendent of
Public Instruction, has called a con
vention of County School Superintend
ents, to meet iu Salem on the 29th iuU
Tlie bridge on the Utah and Northern
Ballroad that is to span Snake River is
a quarter of a mile long. Between fifty
aud seventy-five men are employed in
its erection.
Another Indian, charged with com
plicity in tbe murder of Lorenzo Per
kins and wife, near Priests' Rapids, last
July, was a r rented iu Tbe Dalles by
Sheriff Croen on Friday.
A post office has been established at
Mount Scott, Douglas county, with Mrs.
Matilda Blabely as Postmaster. There
lias alM beeu a post office established iu
Baker couuty, called "Home."
Tbe case of The State vs. Bernard,
King and Fairebild, indicted for tbe
murder of Mrs. Hager iu Clackamas
county, has beeu passed over until the
next term of the Circuit Court.
Judge McArthur reeeutly delivered
his lecture on "Industrial Education"
in Pendleton. The proceeds of tbe lec
ture will be applied on the purchase of
an organ for the M. E. Church of that ;
piace.
Mr. Carter's whole claim for the State
printing for the Legislative session of
187? is less than S8,000, Including the
report of the Investigating Committee ;
that of Mr. Brown, for less service, was
over $24,000.
General Howard, accompanied by
Chief Moses and bis baud, started up
the Columbia on the 14th inst. Tbey
go to fix the boundaries of tbe reserva
tion recently allotted the chiefs by the
powers at Washington.
The funeral of tbe late . N. Cooke
was one of the largest and most iroios
ing that Salem has ever witnessed. The
remains were deiiosited in tbe family
vault, recently completed in Odd Fel
lows' Cemetery near that city.
Mrs. Crump, a resident of Salem since
iMi, died at her home in that eity on
the 12th Inst. She was seventy years of
age anu was universally respected to
life aud mourned in death by the com
munity in which she bad so loug re
sided. General Sprsgue, Superintendent of
tlie .Northern raclfle Railroad, with
Colonel Doaue, Chief Engineer, are iu
Walla Walla, getting ready for au im
mediate start to survey and locale the
iiueof the road from tbe moulb of Snake
River.
Kvery indictment disposed of at tbe
late term of the Circuit Coort held at
Oregon City resulted Iu conviction.
Criminal trials are no longer a farce iu
tlie Judicial District presided over by
Judge Bellinger and District Attorney
Caples.
A lady living in Canyonville, seventy
two years of age, is tlie mother of six
teen children aud basseveoty-twoKrand-chlldren.
She was married in 1SI4, and,
as may be surmised from the foregoing,
her life since that iteriod has been a
busy oue.
The lime trade is beeomiug one of tbe
most importaut interests ou Puget
Sound, there lieing now three kilns in
aetive operation, two on San Juan and
one on Orcas Island. Oue of the former
will probably ship 30,000 barrels the
coming season. Tbe total shipment
will aggregate 73,000 imrrels.
A sister of Rev. S. C. Adams, of Sa
lem, Mrs. C. E. Stone, died on the 22d
ult., at Helena, Montana, at tbe age of
forty-three years. She was the young
est of eight children aud the first of the
band to pats the mystic river. The
mother, now over eighty years old, re
sides at MeMinnville, having lived fn
Oregon since 1852.
A company to construct and equip a
railroad from Astoria through the Ne
halem eoftl fields, to a point ou tbe Ore
gon Central road, near Forest Grove,
ami thence to Wiiinemucea, Nevada,
has been formed in Astoria. Tbe capi
tal stock is fixed at $3,000,000, a large
amount of whieh will be immediately
taken by capitalists of that city.
Twenty-five years ago, reckless aud
brutal young men, of white skins, were
migrating from all parts of the South
to Kansas. Their aim was to make that
a slave State. Now, men, women and
children of dark skins are migrating
from the South to Kansas by the thous
and, and their reason is that Kansas is
known to them as a State where
real freedom' can be found. Few of
them, If any, It la probable, have auy
Intention of affecting by their hegira
the condition of the State from which
tbey lly. Nevertheless, it is true that
this movement will tend most strongly
to produce In Louisiana and Missis
sippi more real freedom than has ever
yet existed. Ar. TriOune.
7pxsaxinswi.
General Garibaldi is seriously indis
posed. Mahometans in Adrianople are plun
dering shops on account of hanger.
Fifteen farm-house near Partna.
Italy, have been destroyed by a land
slip. The principal part of the Russian
town of Irhit, at tbe confluence of the
Irbit and Neiro Rivera, has been burned.
The Czar's proclamation pronouncing
atrict compliance with the Trfatv of
Berlin has been pul-liaaed iu Phillij-
A division of Turkish troops is on tlie
frontier of Rium?lia. The Sultan has
nrotnised the Albanians autonomy an
compenoatiou for territorial eouce-siou
to Greece.
The Emperor of Austria has consented
in arbitrate between Great Britain an. I
Nicaragua respecting differences arising
out of their treaty of friendship, com
merce aud navigation.
The Municipal Council of Paris hat
resolved t" it-fuse to admit any longer
free of duty articles of consumption in
tended for representatives of foreign
countries residing there.
General Stolipine has arrived at Con
stantinople, to confer with Aleko Pasha
relative to the transfer of tbeadmiuin
t rat ion of Eastern Roumelia. A speedy
arrangement is probable.
Intelligence from Turkestan represents
that the Chinese troops have been twice
successfully attacked by Kbirgaz tribes
from Andejan District, who now hold
Kasbgar. A Chinese army of 20,000
men is eonseutrated on tbe Eele River.
The French Minister of the Ioterior
has authorized the Vice President of the
Committee of the Franco-American
Union to organize a lottery of 300, OOo
one-franc tickets to raise" a fund for the
completion of the statue of liberty to be
presented to the Unite! States.
The Metropolitan Board of Works,
after a receut expenmeut of the .
embankment, find that e!ectrieiBfct
two and a quarter pence an haijBatT
i .. i . 'i
nuiu more bum, wie uesfc Kas,
equal light. The report declaj
tbe defects connected with elect
ing most prevent its general
An official statement, conf.
the- news published abroad wl
etice to affairs io Russia, says I
Petropauloosky is wholly iuad
contain 4W prisoners, to say nq
tbe 4700 whieh it was Mated
removed therefrom to Kazan :
prisoner ha been removed ffl
fortress to Kazan ; that the
arrests of officers have not taken phase ;
(hat since February only three ouVers
altogether have been arrested, and
finally that no arrests of whole ft mi lie
have been made.
Kr-ttstN.
Xot Colonel Ingenoll's "aristocracy ..I tli.
air," but real human ghosts; ghots that wrr.'
once healthy men and women, but are now
pimply the "ghosts of what they once were. "
As we meet them and Inquire the cause of al 1
this change, tbey repeat the old, old story, "a
cold," neglected cough," "catarrh," "over
work," or "dyspepsia," "liver complaint," an. I
"eonsUpatkra," with unsuccessful pby-icluns
and remedies. In offering his Golden Medical
Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets tur
tbe cure of the above affections. Or. Pierce ilf
not recommend them as a "sore cure" In all
stages. For If the lungs be hair wasted awa .
or I bere be a cancerous complication, no phy
sician or medicine can cure. Tbe Discovery i-.
however, an unequal ed pectoral and bloot
purifier. It speedily cures the most aggravated
cough or eoM, and, in Ita early or inUMI.
stages, consumption. By correcting all Irregu
larities of tne stomach and liver, it rcadtlv
cures blotches, pimples, scrofulous ulcer.
"bunches," or tumors. Hundreds testify that
It has restored their health, after eminent
physicians had failed. For constipation. u-.e
the Pellets. As a local remedy for catarrh , u-e
Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
"Kvery-dny Life."
Arising in the morning, almost the lir-t
thing to be thought of is marketing, or ettint;
the necessaries of life; and should any of t li -family
be troubled with coughs, colds, influ
enza, hoarseness, difficult breathing, or an
affection of the throat, bronchial tubes, or
lungs leading to eon8umption,a supply of that
household necessity known as Hale's Hiim i
or HoaKRorat) Aim Tar. which t.rin--.
strength to the harassed frame, wearied an!
Jaded by a hacking cough, must next be ob
tained. Ask that fresh, bright, rosy-chf-t-k .1
girl, who, but a few weeks ago, was lying help
less on ber bed, with a hectic flush about maU -ing
iu appearance on ber cheeks; ask ) i
what restored to her long nights of lialnn
sleep, renewed strength, aud a dual scarur.n.;
of that cough that was dragging
her grave. Ask ber what phy
successful in ber case, which se
medicine and to defy tbe many
tempting morse's which anxio
pared for her to smooth her joui
life. Ask her who was the benefi
eyes, speaking volumes, will
rosy lips will open, while the
from her mouth in tones of mi
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saving by buying large size.
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A CAHII.
Drs. J.C and Ida E. Andrews, havlrMaated
permanently In this city, tender their prose -slonal
services lo the citizens of Portlanand
vicinity. Office and residence, 251 Front sire, t .
between Main and Madison, where tbey nave
fitted up elegant rooms for plain, medical .1
and sulphur baths; the latter designed lor the
complexion and chronic skin diseases. Tin y
are also provided with allrst-class apparatus
for the chemical examination of urine, hy
which they are enabled to diagnose nn-t-successfully
treat obscure diseases of the kidnf -.
Mrs. Andrews makes diseases of tbe rcpro
ductlveapparatusof the female a specialty. v;
CerMtiH Chw fr Cusecr.
Mrs. Dr. Mary O. Brown takes this method ol
saying to tbe afflicted that she U In possession
of a safe, certain, and parities cure for th.r
most loathsome and terrible disease known
Caxczk, In all Its forms and phases. Her
remedy is never known to fall. Address Mi-.
Dr. Mary O. Brown. Olympla, W. T. 7 n.
A CAJt.
To all who are suSering from tbe error, and
Indiscretions of youth. nervous weakness, early
decay, loss of manhood, etc, I will send a
recipe that will cure yon, FREE OF CHAROF.
This great remedy was discovered by a mis- (
sionary In South America. Send a si r-.d-dresaed
envelope to the Bev. Joseph T. In in ,
Station D, New York City. s -a
Keanoved.
J. Van Benrden, the jeweler, has ren
I). W. Prentice A Co.'s Music storey
will be pleased to show
stock of Imported and Amer
Diamonds, and Jewelry; also,.
and Clocks. Repairing
prices to satisfy.
I Hi not be Induced to enda
using mercurial "blood purti
dry up old sores, but leav
system. Buy Pfnnder's
which is a purely vegetal
will remove, by continual
poison from tbe blood.
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to Bradley A Rulofson tor the bet PtaototfrJrph.-
In the United States, and the Vienna Medal
for the best in tbe world. 24 Montgomery
street, San Francisco.
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