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About The new Northwest. (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887 | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1879)
r amaHr asnsssBi mwaaasa aaaaaaaaaaBK- !jc Ken JJcrfftwest. THURSDAY.... -JULY 31, 1879. HI8T0EY BEPEA.T8 ITSELF. r. Puni way's recent experiences in Southern Oregon, where sbe has openly accused tbeclergy of joining hands vrflli whisky-drinking, Immoral devotees of a continued "aristocracy of sex," form another link in the long chain of his toric evidence that proves 1kv passing strange and yet how o'er true it is that those who consider themselves in the lead, whether socially, politically or re ligiously, are prone to pander to the vicious and Ignorant element", until at last the very opposition to whie.li they cater Is led, under Providence, to over throw Its own alms through its own in sane opposition to the reform work of the lenlooe advocate of rightand justice. When William Lloyd Garrison began the publication of the IAberator, lie very naturally expected the aid aud counsel of the clergy, lie was at that time a strictly orthodox religionist, and to Dr. Lyman Beeober, who was at that lime at the bead of the orthodox pulpit in Boston, hjustly looked for support and sympathy. But be was bitterly disap pointed, wall or men Who have so long both shielded by each other in justifying the unjust conditions under which women are suffering in a so-called Iree country, that we opine that Shakapeare might well turn over in bis grave to repeat the inspired words, " No vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on lu o'Uward parts." The mob in Southern Oregon, led on by its editors, will be compelled to learn that awakened public geutiment, even there, will rally to the support of law aud order. The sober second thought of thinking people is always right. OURIMG INTEMPEHAKOE. "The notorious Mrs. Smallden," the unfortunate creature who is a hopeless tot, was most brutally beaten a few days ago by ber huebaud, Jack McDonald, whom she married two years ago. The daily papers state that his patience in trying to reform ber gave out, ami he lieat ber brutally while in a violeut pas sion, jumping upon aud kicking her prostrate body. Me was let ofl with a fine of $50, because he was only prose euted lor assault and battery, and that is the extent of the penalty allowed by law. It was kind of McDonald to marry a woman of the known failings of Mrs. "Your zeal it commendable," gmalldeu with the bone of reforming said Beecher, "but you are misguided, the poor ereatnre's faults, aud the ruth- Time will ultimately obliterate slavery. : leas law should not pat a damper on You would do better to pursue some ' such philanthropic endeavors. Ills ef forts were so successful that the poor victim will not be able to get drunk for some time to come in fact, sbe may never be able to leave the hospital until carried in a hearse. How different Mr. Jack McDonald's treatment of his spouse was from those cruel wives of drunken consorts who everlastingly beg and plead with their husbands to quit the cursed cup. His action stands as an enduring monument to the superior iu telligence aud consideration of men over women, and furnishes another evidence that the mind of mail is stronger than that of woman not to say anything of heels and fists. Iu order that the gen tlemen may not be too severely taxed in their endeavors to cure the great curse of intemperance, so rampant lu the city, it would be well to provide an asylum for inebriates. other avocation and abide the slow, un aided logic of events." But Mr. Garri son bad imbibed the doctrine of Imroe-; diate action in righteous causes from Dr. Beecher himself. He was amazed that such a man could excuse or palli ate the sin of unpaid servitude of hu manity, "the sum of all villainies," and yet so vehemently oppose sin iu geueral. He resolved to visit other clergymen and seek their co-operatiou. But, to bis great disappointment ami disgust, he found the evangelical recipients of com fortable salaries, who professed to preach the religiou for which Christ Mas crucified, disposed to bear the bur deus of the slave with the same com mendable fortitude with which tbe same classes now bear the burdens of women. This result shook Mr. Garri son's faith in creedal religion. He be came a free-thinker, but never an infi del, never an uubeliever in tbe mission of Jesus, or tbe inspiration of tbe Bible. He could not arouse the clergy, hut be could quote Scripture like this for tbe people: "Loose the hands of wickedness, utido the heavy burdens, let tbe op pressed go free, break every yoke, hide not thyself from thine own flesh; then shall thy I lent break forth as the morn ing, and thy health shall spring forth speedily; tby righteousness shall go be fore thee, the glory of tbe Lord glial 1 be thy reward, and tby darkness be as tbe noonday." Equally earnest was be In depicting tbe calamities which, in tbe order of Providence, would have come upon the nation, If it should persist In refusing to carry forward tbe mission of Christ, who "came to break every yoke, aud let the oppressed go free." "There fore, thus saitb the Lord: Ye have not hearkened unto me in proclaiming lib erty, every one to his brother and every one to his neighbor; behold! I proclaim a liberty for you, saith tbe Lord, to tbe sword, to the pestilence aud to the famine." Tbe ready plea of tbe clerical apolo gist for an aristocracy of race was pre cisely analagous to tbe ready plea of tbe advocate of an aristocracy of sex to-day. The agitation of the subject would, it was argued, inevitably quench tbe in fluences of tbe Divine Spirit. It is true that a few clergymen were brave and v. ise aud conecieiit ious enough to under Hi and that the Spirit of the Infinite Good it ever ppon tbe side of right; but even these were prone to listen to tbe evil babbling of selfish fanaticism and give way sometimes before the wicked slanders aud insane bowlings of iufuri ated mobs. Tbe Bible was used as a stumbling block then, as now, to ob struct tbe onward march of human lib erty. Ilevereud Albert Barnes said of slavery that "there was no power out of the chord) that would sustain it for an hour If it were not sustained in it. Mr. Garrison foresaw tbe coming re bellion, aud be struggled single-handed, but without avail, to avert the impend' ing danger. But tbe aristocracy of i race was not more obnoxious to bis en lightened and unselfish mind a quarter of a century ago than Is tbe aristocracy of a sex to the thinker of to-day. Tbe political missionary of title era is strug gling against almost overwhelming forces to avert another war, which will not be forced upon tbe nation by men alone, or bv women alone, but by tbe inevitable logic of oft-repeated human history. "Ye have not hearkened unto me In proclaiming liberty, saith the Lord," and "behold! I proclaim unto you a liberty of the sword, the pestilence and the famine." Let not the salaried clergy lay tbe flattering unction to their souls that humanity cau escape the In exorable fiat of tbe inevitable. Give woman of the fruit of ber bands," saitb the Scripture, "and let her own works praise her in the gates." "The seed of the woman" is yet to bruise the head of the serpent of oppression, and woe shall be uuto r i,j whom the otleuse against their liberties shall come. To many of those who have read tbe Jacksonville Sentinel of tl,- anj tbe last issue of tbe New is. .4;lu tlit It will seem marvelous that Mix litmi- way nas stood ner ground with u(-, n i goodly degree of serenity and courage. But tiie thousands who know ber per sonally will only be tbe more deeply confirmed in their opinion of her un daonted earnestness In tbe prosecution of ber mission. No one will wonder that sbe Is both defiant and jubilant. The outery against ber for daring to tell what sbe has learned to be tbe trutbi concerning tbe domestic conduct of a bigb official, who claims that women have no legal or political rights that men are bound to respect, is simply the "PEMALE LIQUOS-SELLEES Tbe Standard raises a pitiful wail be cause some degraded women are "openly selling liquors without having been compelled to pay anything for the priv ilege, or without any tear or arrest irom our blind police." The occasion for tbe wall Is that "there are respectable men in the saloon business in Portland who have to pay their licenses with clock- EDITOEIAIi CORRESPONDENCE. Willow Spri-no, July 21, 1879. Dkab RkadeksovtheXkw Xoktuwkht: As we are well aware of the excite ment and indignation of the thousands of frleuil9 of iiuman rights who nregatu ing new strength and zeal in the prose cution of our work because they see more and more the need of another and better element in the law-making power of tbe laud to hold iu check the lawless clashes who are now Iu posses sion or the balance or power every where, and who, through this power, virtually tie tbe hands of the best aud most honorable men whenever they are so inclined, thereby placing the sacred liberties of the people, for which our fathers fought and died, in constant jeopardy; and, as we know these thou sauds of friends to our sacred oaue are waiting anxiously to hear further news from tbe political missionary who lias been compelled to become the Arnold Wiukelried of tbe new dispensation lu Jacksonville, we this morning, Monday, tbe 21st of July, awake with the dawn, and regarding you, our friends and readers, with far more consideration than another badly-needed nap for our humble aelf, we sharpen our pencil aud proceed to business. On Saturday morniug we stopped over In daylight In the city of tbe Phil is tines, where a woman who preaches morality and human rights is in danger of losing her life at tbe hand of a mob after nightfall, though she is perfectly safe from molestation when the sun shines, and lo! aud there wasn't a man of any olaim to respectability who wasn't ready to swear that he was the very fellow who had beeu our staucb frieud all along ! Very well ; let 'em think so ; but we wih we hadn't made our appointments to lecture in other places iu such a way before the riot that we cannot now stop to test their woman protecting bravery. On Friday night, only a few hours before, we well remem ber seeing brazen prostitutes standing unmolested among tbe law-makers ou the street, while we were being con veyed away to the couutry for personal safety in the elosed carriage of Mrs. Wright, one of tbe good Methodist sis ters, who, with Mrs. Plymale, had opened the church for our lectures, but bad at last had it locked In their faces by tbe imstor, who, as usual in such cases, had takeii sides with tbe prosti lutes and their associates, who, under tbe stop-tblef cry of their class, had risen en matte to mob a woman who had dared to say In public, in answer to Power than men or mobs that overrules this Woman Movement. A. S. D. Willow Springs, July 2i Again, as we are well aware that anx ious friends by thousands are awaiting a truthful version of the closing scenes of our sojourn In Jacksonville, we hur riedly seize our oft-ollending, though truth-tolling, pencil to portray facts as they have oecurred during the interim since last we wrote you. On Monday, the 21st, we returned lo incisive, but tbe cure was certain. Bot wbeu will scurvy politicians learn that the influence of women who dare to strike for liberty because it is tbeir rightful heritage is not, like theirs, for sale? We've got away with Jacksonville. We've defied Its eggs, its whisky, and its thugs. We've left every chaste woman within its borders with her po litical understanding quickened into ac tive thought. W've left every intelli gent woman sorrow! ner beeauae aha did the city of the Philistines as we had j ,)ot n, for fear of her protectors, to promised, though we were careful to en ter and depart miring daylight, as the "militia" and other protectors of women witli whom we have bad to deal in that modern Sodom are of the kind that are only to be feared iu the darkuess. At Mrs. Vlulng's we again found hos pitable welcome, and, nfter a qnlet, social dinner with Mrs. Kenney, Mrs. MaDonouglt and Mrs. Plymale at Mrs. V.'s well-filled board, we scribbled an open letter to the men of Jacksonville, which, after n little elimination, tbe ed itnrxol the Timet and tlie.S3enfinef agreed to publish, the former in his issue of the 24th, and the latter, whose paper was already full for this week, on bis next publication day. We found our breth ren of the press disposed to be affable, though they are not yet sufficiently over the licentious craze of a few of their evil-minded, loud-mouthed patrons to fairly distinguish virtue from vice ; and ho they still persist In saying that we have Mandallxed a lady by declaring her In have beeu unjustly attainted with masculine oppression aud slander. "You ought to have permitted her and her children to bear the stain forever, because It wus no longer tbe subject of street talk, and the Judge's wife bad got used to It," is tbe substance of their so- called logic. A man who is either so blind tbnt lie cannot, or so perverse that lie will not, pee tbe sacred principle in volved lu the facts we have published, and who has tried mob law to ebeck the progress of free speech, free press aud free women, Is a thousand times wiser lu his own conceit than teveii women who cau render a reason. You may "Bray a fool seven times lu a mortar," says Solomon, "und yet his folly will not depart from him." We refrain from publishing tbe un wise attempt of a eertain young man to defend the Injustice of his father at the expense of his mother's character, for tbe boy will be deeply enough ashamed of It after he has come out from among his mother's defamers and learued a lit tie wisdom. It is not untural for a sou attend our closing lecture. But we're coming back agaiu, good ladies. Tbe earthquake has come among your law makers, ami it has eomo to stay. Its eruptions will henceforth be periodical. The rotten eggs with which your pro tectors were prepared to pelt you if you ventured out that night will be con sumed before this time next year with the glowing fires of law and liberty. We thauk God and take courage. A. S. D. An edition of "I'nele Tom's Cabin" is iu circulation Iu Paris, accompanied with tiotes in which slavery is declared to be not contrary to natural order ; and the assertion Is made that most ltd torero would be happier If they were slaves. Whereupon Mrs. Stowe save: "He must be a bold editor who boies to neu tralize the effect of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' on those laborers who ought to be slaves by a foot note." Tulare Lake, California, is still said to be receding. Should it oontiuue to fall as rapidly as it has during tbe last two years, it will be but a few years till tbe bottom of the large lake Is dry land. Crops are being raised this year on land over which a steamer sailed three years ago. GENERAL MEWS. Yellow fever Is spreading. Michigan's wheat crop will be 30.000, 000 bushels. Con- tbe "free love filth" with which they j to assist iu defending a rabble In Its in had sought to besllme her, "Both the dignatlon against a lady who has dared, fallen women and tbe fallen voters who I In the face of long-established masculine support them know as well as I that i opiulon to the contrary, to declare that work regularity." If tbe degraded just so eoou as the wives and mothers of his mother is innocent of a crime. Ihe women eau be raised to a standard of re- j men in Jacksonville shall have the youth, the Inexperience, and the bad speetability by tbe purchase of a parch- j power of the ballot to aid them, they 'example that surround the boy are ment allowing them to deal out liquid ! will make and enforce such statutes ai generously brought forward in his de- damnation with the full sanction aud protection of the law, tbe certificate of respectability is cheap. Perhaps tbe Standard can be able to divine from Its notice that "the women who preside shall banish drunkenness and prostitu tion from yoar city limits, and drive them in confusion to the abode of owls aud bats." We can't see tbe utility of the "protection and esteem" of such feuse. Let us cover his mis'ake with the mantle of eharity. We have another matter to tell you of, good reader, and It concerns the in famous conduct of the Brigadier-General The Louisiana Constitutional ventiou has adjourned. An aged couple, named Defor, were murdered in bed uear Atlanta on tbe 6th. Yellow fever is spreading, and almost all Southern cities are quarantined against others. On the 25th, at Chicago, Sleepy Tom made the fastest pacing lime ou record a mile in 2:12. There was $7,866,407 in national bank notes redeemed at the treasury in Wash ington during the year. Henry Miller, u negro, was hanged at Johiisville, Miss., on the 26tb; for tbe murder of Henry Murphy. "Try, try again" Batter has an nounced bis willingness to contest for I tbe governorship of Massachusetts. There is a growing hostile feeling I toward corporations lu New York State, ! similar to tbe distrust in California. Oeu. Donald McLeod, a veteran ol , tbe battle of Waterloo, died at Cleve I land last week, aged over 100 years. The money appropriated for river and ' harbor Improvements will not be with . held, but will be expended this year. I H. S. Tibbey, engaged In Dopont ' street and Montgomery avenue frauds i in San Francisco, is mil ou $90,000 bail. Secretary Hvarta has received a dls- opihtoits 0FTHE PRESS. Tbe newspapers comment very se verely on tbe action of the rabble of Tlnnnvllla who could find no other wav of answering Mrs. Duniway's , ebarges than the rowsrdly attempt at mob violence. We give a few extracts to show the sentiment of tbe people at tbe cowardly outrage. Tbe following Is j from the Attorian; r The Jacksonvlltiana deserve severe censnre for their vulgar treatment of Mrs. Donlway al that place lately. But she is able to nsnme them ax they deserve to be Banditti, "without gloves." Let her do it. Tbe Hillsboro Independent condemns the proceeding In these words : SotrrsraK Oueoa Ciirv a iuby. A crowd of brave Jackaonvilllans burned Mr. A. J. Donl way in effigy, and subsequently, when sbe appeared on tbe street, threw eggs at her, one or two of which bit her person. Theofienae given tbe people of Jacksonville by Mrs. Qon- Iwmy wu a letter to the New North w sat, tn wbich sbe spoke very severely of some of Its citizens; bnt the meana ol retaliation nsea wu both cowardly and brutal, and will be ao enduring tlgma apon the character of tbe p-le of Ihe place, and their unmanly action deserve a righteous rebuke at Ihe bands of tbe entire mate press. This is tbe Walla Walla Slatetman't opinion : TllEKI WKKK OlASTS IX THOSE DATS." A telegraphic dispatch Inferos ns that xn. Donlway, of the Portland Sew Kobthwbst, was horned In eOgy at Jacksonville. The dispatch was signed Committee," and from this it U evident that there are yet in Jack sonville a class of men who are so lost to all sense of honor, decency, and courage, a actn ally to glory la a deed tbat a Digger Indian would scorn even to contemplate. They may have felt aggrieved at Mrs. Dnnlway's strict ores, which may or may not have been true; at any rate, their recent action abowa only too plainly tbat tbey deserved all tbey received, and more too. Tbe action will forever be a blot upon tbe hitherto fair fame of Jackson ville. There was a time in early days when even to look darkly at a woman would bave been avenged by a hundred honest miners; truly, "there were glanU In those days." The crvioar ou Inure will redound to tbe benefit of tbe cause for wbich Mr. Duuiway is straggling. Tbe few ex tracts given show tbat majority of tbe citizen of the State are possessed of sufficient intelligence to understand right from wrong, and sufficient man hood to acknowledge it. From an exchange we learn tbat tbe Jews are being excluded from tbe Coney Island hotels this year, as well as from those at Saratoga. This is following tbe precedent set by Jodge Hilton. A nice specimen of freedom in the boasted land of Jlemiblican America ! "Evl-f dently civilisation ia by uo means uni versal yet." General Grant, it is said, recently gave a confidential friend a moat posi tive declaration that be would not per mit bU name to be used for the Presi dency. It is thought he would like tbe English mission. over low dives" are granted more eon- 1 law-makers as desert tbeir post when 'of tbe Oregon militia; but eminent sideration than those who adopt lomeiu,, sun goes down, and who compel ' counsel advises us to wait till the raat- f, upright businees. Fallen women al- tuer jelr gooo wives and mothers to ) ter ,,as firal been ventilated in a court at y8 resignation lias been forwarded by ways get plenty or consideration Irom nm;!liu a(r,y frnm lectures they have men, and are able to exercise even more hen long plauniug to bear, for fear tbe than "equal rights," as the paragraph alluded to will show, while their moral and honorable sisters are denied privi leges, although taxed equally with their brothers. In a certain sense, a premium is set up for the degradation of women. We hope in the course of tbe years to ebrouicle that tbe Standard has discov ered that, when women have equal po- nlltical privileges and ean command fair salaries for services performed, their proud anil rellne.1 natures will prevent gue, shame them iuto decency. You tbera from following the saloou busi- ,hH know bow we have succeeded. ness, where exhibitions of debauchery i can shock and disgust them. rabble will pelt them with eggs. When these virtuous daylight friends come out over their own signatures In the county papers, aud declare themselves on the side of law anil order, and deter mined to maintain it, we'll be a little more ready to accept tbeir apologies aud explanations. Anybody can be a sun shine friend. But we're not done with Jacksonville. We're going back there to-day to defy our defamers, and, if pos- Eastern dispatches show tbat the peo ple on tbe Atlantic slo e are beginning to get an insight into the natural treach ery and cowardice of tbe Chinese char acter. Four Chinamen at Cbarleslown, Mass., followed two unarmed, intoxi cated men and chopped them to pieces with axes on the 23th instant. The trouble arose from a dispute about a washing bill. Tbe police records of New York show tbat no other nation figures more prominently than the Chi nese in the use of deadly weapons. In tbe Ksst, where "tbe little browu men" are so thoroughly appreciated, no ex cuse can be given for these facts, as no fears of violence cause them to carry arms. Tbe Southern "ehivs" are getting un easy for fear they will bave to stop ar guing points of honor in "the code" and go to work in tbeir cotton fields. Jere Haralson, au Intelligent colored man, who was formerly Congressman from Alabama, declares tbat the negro exodus bae hardly begun yet, aud predicts that it will start anew this Fall, with a wholesale sweep not dreamed of. He sayv tbat no less than 15,000 blacks will leave tbe First District of Alabama alone. On Saturday we came out to Willow : Springs, to the bouce of our stanch ' friends the McDouougha, and on Sun day, having previously engaged the best livery turn-out from friend Ply male's well-stocked oiatde iu Jackson ville, we started, with Mr. and Mrs. Plymale and Mrs. McDonough, to Foote's Creek, where we were apiMiinted to lecture at one r. m. Our road lay along the foot of the mouutaius, and, after a three or four hours' drive, led us up into the very heart ol au old mining camp, yet vastly rich in tbe golden ore ; but tbe diggings are now dry, aud mill ing has ceased, and tbe good couutry ' people are turnlug tbeir attention to , farming, home-making and stock-rais ing. At the beautiful farmer's home of I Mr. and Mrs. Laucc we were all hospit ably entertained, aud after a sumptuous dinner we repaired to the school-bouse a mile or two further up the little valley that lies between the Delectable Mountains. We bad no idea that there were so many people here. Tbey were thicker than July blackberries, and they kept coming after the lecture began till we had to pause frequently till new benches could be improvized, aud then every body eooldn't get seats. Our speed continued for over two and a half hours, ami when, al last, we bade the friends good-bye, it was difficult to leave them, Bnt we promised to go back sometime, On our return to Willow Springs we Tom Lawton, who was engaged with Anderson In tbe murder of Tullls in California about a year ago, lu 't,rearae by another route, through a lovely, tbat Dye, tbe ruoue Auministraior, verJallt ami rertllcr valley, past lunum might administer upon hla large-estate, erabe gou flewg, yet fabulously rich in has been arrested at Jiewlsron, niaiio, ofei wuere t)e diggings bave so loug aud has ooofeeaed. He will probably I been jr( owng lo tbe scarcity of the expiate his crime as did tbe others. TAnfti Una many places that have been burrowed out and turned over iu bygone years are now overgrown with trees and briars, as though Nature were ashamed of the nudity to which the avarice of ber children had wickedly subjected her. It is almost niRbt when we reach Mrs. McDonoueh's pleasaut home, anil here we dismiss our team and retire to rest at an early hour, as calm aud care-free and happy as a weary aud sleepy child. Justice will be satisfied with the loss of three worthless lives for one good one. Tbe Union Sentinel relates, and the Portland Standard copies, a tale of mar ital Infidelity, and, not seeing anything wrong, leave tbe matter to us for com ment. About the worst punishment we can think of is close confinement, with nothing but lbe.Senrinc ami tue ,saMt. rtt to reau. In a little while, complete disgust for tbe immoral ami iiM will result. uuti as we told you in the beginning, ,,. " . " i U Is. Monday now, ami we are again oil -r! A , lu.anK8 to Mrs. Pioibstel. I for Jacksonville. Kind friends, every- urauue, ,or reeeut favors. J whcre, do uot worry. There la a higher law. Even ooii Id we bring our pencil low enough to make it write them, we could uot (Hit the common street ex pressions of this chief of the home guards about iu aud to us upon paper without danger of being tudicted fur sending obscene matter through tbe United States mails. Iu the afternoon of Monday we made au addrees on the street, right in the midst of tbe crowd where we bad beeu threatened with eggs and publicly howled at ou the Friday before, and there was the most respectful si lence and attention while we spoke. We defended tbe boys who hail been accused of instigating the riot. We charged tbe whole eause of the disturb ance upon older heads voters and law makersand we here predict that the sequel will prove it. The boys are not to blame. It was bearded and beardless hoodlums, nud bad whisky aud voters aud law-makers, that did it. But, after all, It's fun to see how we have soured the politicians. Quite a number of tbe bedrock Democrats think we have come out here under the patronage of the Republican party, for tbe purpose of laylug wlre-i in the inter est ot some candidate or other for the United Stales Senate. Others say we are surreptitiously working for the suc cess of the greenback or independent movement, and still others that we are iu the. interest of tbe dominant wing of the Oregon Democracy. But, no mat ter w hich horn of the dilemma they ac cept, tbey seize bold of it like drowning men catching at straws. The editor of the Sentinel hurls ruin iu the path of Judge Prim, by protending to be angry beoau90 we bave told the truth ; and a hundred Democratic voters who read the Sentinel have failed to see the point till tbey hnvo fallen in the trap. The In dependents and the Democrats of the Thayer ccliool are also Jealous of tbe man's rights Judge, ami they are a unit with the Republicans in secretly excit ing the bedrock ring to go ahead and spoil the future chances of the Judge. But he is wiser In one sense tbau them all. Years ago, when the Republicans joined with the Democrats lu au organ ized warfare ngainst the woman move ment, we successfully silenced their "free love" cry by publishing a partly hidden chapter of gossip concerning the domestic history of the President of the United States. The outcry f r a while was almost equal to this one; but the President had senEeenough to say, when his attention was called to It: "The woman tells the truth. And she is right. If our wives and mothers had all along been equal with men before the law, such things would not have been." It was not to degrade the Pres ident, but to establish a principle, that we applied tbe hair of the political cur of politics lo the venomous bite of tbe rabid quadruped. Tbe application was FOREIGN NEWS. mail J. P. Krieger, President of tbe Broad way Savings Bank, Su Louis, baa been arrested for embezslement of funds of tbe Institution. Two brothers near Columbus, Ohio, named Henry and Aleck Covert, had a shooting affray at breakfast yesterday, and both were killed. Tbe total value of exports of mer chandise from the Uuited States for tbe year ending June 30, 1879, is $204,636,602 tn excess oi Hie imports. The Public Lands Commission will meet at Omaha August 18th. They will visit Denver, Salt Like City, aud other points, lu illseliarge of their duties. A gravel train on the Northwestern Railroad, in Illinois, was ditched on the 27th by backing over a cow, killing sev eral workmen and wounding others. An incendiary fire at Tlartford on the 27lh destroyed a good part of the ma chine shop of the Hartford foundry. Loss, about $25,000; Insurance, $19,000. James Ord, son of General Onl, was arrested on tbe 27th at San Antonio, charged with complicity in the crimeof murder, bnt was subsequently released. The Kngllidi bark BeeberJass Am bard I ass, of Liverpool, proves to have been tile vessel wrecked at Barclay Sound. All bands were saved and have arrived at Victoria. A railroad collision occurred on the northern braiiob of the Reading Rail road on tbe 27th in Pennsylvania, com pletely wrecking bolli trains and injur ing several passengers. There are about 15.000,000 grain saeks (tooled in San Francisco. The manipu lators expect to make an advance of four cents, which will give a profit of $600,000 u dear lose to farmers. A farmer named Kranc drove into a lake In Wisconsin on the 28th to water Ills horses. Tbe latter became fright ened, got into deep water, and the farmer and five children were drowned. The coinage of standard dollars will fall $500,000 below tbe minimum fixed by law this month, owing to the fact that there was no silver bullion at San Franeiseo or Carson on the 1st of July. Another treasurer, Geo. B. Dnrfee, of tbe Mechanics' Mills, Fall River, has lost about $130,000 in speculations iu cotton, though he put up but $35,000 as margins. His relatives will settle tbe matter. A contract lias been sigued with the Delaware ship-building works for an other steamer for tbe Oregou compauy. It will be the largest in the company's Heel 352 feet loug, 38 feet beam, and 3,000 tous register. Pennsylvania was visited by a storm on tbe 26th, which destroyed many houses ami tlamagea railroad property. There is but one death reported as caused by the storm, Mrs. Dailey. Growing crops were greatly damaged. Professor Chantiler, of the New York Health Board, says that scarlet fever caused more deaths in New York State last year than yellow fever did in the South, and yet failed to excite public appreliension or to make people ordina rily careful to prevent infection. A ship canal, 11,000 feet long, is pro posed between Newark and New York bays. It will enable vessels to load at rewarR lor foreign ports, and would Cholera is abating at Cabul. Yellow fever Is raging in Havana. Sir Gurnet Wolaeley thinks tbe Zulu war Is over. Tbe Colorado beetle has appeared In County Cork, Ireland. Three hundred Kogllah striking engi neers are coming to America. Cetewayo has sent the Prince Impe rial's sword to tbe British by a messen ger. Tbe British defeated tbe Canadian fu the match for tbe Kalapore challenge cup. The Arehbiabop of Pris protests againat educational bills, iu tbe name of liberty. . Sitting Bull and bis band are on friendly terms witb the Canadian gov ernment. Tbe British mission was received at Cabul on the21tb with" military bouors and salutes. The harvest In France is better in quality tban last year, but hardly aver age tu quantity. The Raeeian Government has stopped lite publication of tbe OraeMautn, Moscow journal. Latest a Ivlces say the Chilian army on tne Peruvian rrontter uas oeen largely reinforced. A woman named Kate Webster was hanged In London on the 911), for mur dering a Mrs. T bo mas. A waterspout in Swltaerland ha slopped trains, whirled masses of earth about, and iujurid crops. Theodore Ribltaille, of Q iebec, suc ceeds Lelelller as Lieutenant-Governor of tbe province of Quebec. The Russian Minister of the Interior reports 3,501 tires durlog June, over one seventh of which were incendiary. Raasia has given assurance that the last Russian soldier will bave quitted Turkish territory by the 4th proximo. Russia proposes establishing and forti fying on tbe Siberian coast a maritime station for a lieet in the Pacific Ocean. Farrow, the American, was loudly cheered when tbe Duke of Connaught presented him with tbe Wimbledon prise. There was a violent hurricane last Sunday on the Adriatic near Trieste. Twenty vessels were damaged and one sunk. Shorter time and no further reduction of wages Is the remedy suggested fur the present depression in tbe Oldham cotton trade. The French Chamber of Deputies has voted to demolish the ruin-of the Tuileries aud transform tbe site into a garden. Lord Derby, as arbitrator, has reduced the wages of 57,000 persons tn the Dur ham colleries, in addition to a former reduction. The unfavorable opinion of the Brit ish Columbia grain crop expressed two weeKH airo is not reallzeil. The vield uiiis iair to ie aoumiaiit. Heavy rains and inundationo are re ported from various parts of France. The Scheldt, Meuse and other rivers iu Flauders are overflowed. Complete extinction of slavery in Cuba is uot expected until coolie labor ers arrive in sufficient numbers from China to care for the plantations. Tlit International Bank of Hamburg has gone iuto voluntary liquidation, li has had nothing hut misfortune since Hie financial crash following the Frauco Prussian war. An Algiers dispatch say 9 the Gov- HEWBITBMS. STATE ASS TWJOUTQBiail. Sheridan is in need of dwellings. Au iron foundry is in operation at Roseburf?. A glove f tetory baa been started at Cornelius. The harvest iu Washington county will be large. Rust ban appeared in grain fields near Oakland, Oregou. A new saw-mill is being erected two miles south of Hillsboro. new l.ri ige lias been built across Palmer Creek at Dayton. A wood wairoo road is being; Dlade from Port Orford to Coos Bay. Th. thermometer reached 94" In the shade at Tbe Dalles last week. vim. O.M Fellows of Ashland have de cided to build a new brick ball. nillpv. in Washington county, has been established as a post office. The Com otoc k House at Albany will probably l rebuilt in sixty days. A netilJon is In circulation tot a aany mail between Corvallls and Newport. Th. black snots on the Walla Walla peaches make tbem bitter to tbe taste. A lodge of the Ancient uruer unite.. Workmen has beeu instituted at Cor vallls. Three men at Spokan Falls have been Imprisoned for selling wbisfcy to lu- dlaus. Harvesting has commenced in Sooth- em Oregon. Tbe yield will n Deiow average. John Pemr. a olaeer miner, was Kineu near Canyon City on the 22d by a cav ing bauk. Douglas county has 3,720; school chil dren; Jackson, 2,493; Josephine, la, Lake, 601. Th MAthodlst Church at Jackson ville has been thoroughly overhauled and repaired. There is an uncommonly large amount of rust in tbe wheat fields of tbe lll- pooia Valley. The house of William H. Davenport, near ColfaxW. T., was blown down by a recent storm. The Walla Union says tbe crops In all tbe country around there are heavy be yond precedent. Farmers say there will be 300,000 bushels of wheat threshed in Jackson county this year. Coaledo, iu Coos county, has been dis continued as a post office; also, Wing- ville, Baker county. Richard Goean. the herder who acci dentally shot bttnself last week, died on tbe 25tb at Fendlelon. Crops on Applegate Creek never looked better. Tbe mines are about closed down for the Summer. A fierce wind st Lewiston, fdabo, last Friday, shook off vast quantities of ap ples and p rostra lea mauy trees. A special agent of the Government seised 1,400,000 feet of saw-logs at Pa- louse City, W. T., hist week, for viola tion of U. S. laws. Foster, the bawdy-bouse keeper at Seattle, arrested for kidnapping a little girl from tbe Orpnao s Home in Port land, jumped tils bail. Over $7 000 worth of opium Is annu ally smoked in the Chinese dens of Boise City, aud white men and boys are tbe principal consumers. J. H. Foster and Montietb A Son, of Albany, offer to pay a premium of four cents a bushel iu mill feed for all graiu sold to or stored with tbem. A Wills Walla dispatch to the Ore- gonian says tbe Oro Fioo express was robbed ou toe Jotb oy inree men, wuo got about $1,200 in gold dust. Haodley & Sinnott are rebuilding tbe Umatilla House at Tbe Dilles, to be tbe third building on tbe site. Mr. Thomas Smith is also building a hotel there. The youngest son of Mr. L. L. James, aged sixteen years, living near Cham poeg. was drowned iu tbe Willamette lat Monday afternoon while bathing. The fire in Kaiama last Friday de stroyed about $40,000 worth of property, no which there was $8,500 insurance. The fire started in a building used as a hotel aod saloon. A fire broke out next door to tbe In ternational Hotel at Walla Walla yes terday evening, and destroyed property to the value of $3,000; partially in sured. The hotel was saved. Tbe Colfax, W. T., Council is com posed or the following gentlemen: E.N. Sweet, D. Wolfard, C. Cooper, H. S. Holllugsworth, 'Julius Lippitt, E. N. B.acli and W. W. Beach. Another wife-beater comes to the front tbls week. His name is Michael Mooney. He is said to be the champion. We suggest that, in view of tbe extreme brutality be has' evinced, tbat there is no need of other aspirants trying to out do him. If tbey succeed any better tban he has, tbey may bave to answer for tbe crime of murder. The Oregonian names tbe proper punishment for scoundrels of bis stripe when It says, "Bring forth tbe cat -o'-nine tails and 'lash the rascal naked through the world.' " b'oi. uii,inK ituu ware-nouse erunr-Ueueral has Issued a decree e businees. General Newton, the I'niteit questrating the territory of the cities Slates engineer who blew up Hell Gate, which recently revolted, aud imposing says tbe plan is feasible, aud tbe route j the extraordinary contribution of 50,iWO is to bo surveyed at once. I franca upon them. Many a dollar formerly (pent on expensive noiphar baths ta now saved bj substituting therefor Gush's hclphur Soap, wbich is Just an beneficial and Infinitely cheaper. Local diseases of the skiu, rheumatism and gont are all relieved by this standard remedy. Com- plexlonal blemishes are eradicated by It, and imparts to the cuticle a pearly whiteness and velvety softness which greatly enhance tbe ef fect of female charms. Its soothing, anti phlogistic action constitute It a prime remedy for sores, ulcers, cots, sprains, scalds, bruises, and. In fact, every abnormal condition of tbe cuticle attended by inflammation, swelling or Itching. Ladles moving In oar best society speak of it beautifying properties In enthusi astic frm and give it a decided preference to cosmetics, which merely conceal but do not, like (iuEXS'sHCLPHraSoAi', eradicate defects of the complexion. Tbe nse of ointments for eruptive complaints is to be deprecated be caue of their having a tendency to clog the pore, and In some cases to aggravate rather than remedy- the disease. They are, besides, seldom thorough enough In their eflects to prevent the recurrence of eruptions of an in veterate trpe, and bave the disadvantage or fcoiling the linen of persons who use them. ;i F.jn-sSn.PHCRSoAi,on the contrary, rail - le.illv enre Ihe disease to which It is adapted, an. I -itlll further recommends Itself on account of Its cleanliness. It is, besides, an admirable disinfectant of clothing wbich has been worn by persons afiltcteit with diseases of a con tagious nature. 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