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About Liberal Republican. (Dallas, Or.) 1872-1??? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1873)
IB J JL M 0 VOL. 3, DALLAS, OREGON. SATURDAY, FEB. 22. 1873. NO' 49. B -4 V t ! 41 Qhi'&to'trnl Bublinn OFFICIAL! PAPER FOR COUNTV. POLK If limed Ever Saturday Morning, at j - -- Dallas, Folk County, Oregon. P. C. SULLIVAN PROPRIETOR. SUBSCRIPTION BATES, SINGLE COPIES One Year, $2 00. Six Months, $1 25 Three Months, $100 For Clubs oT ten or more $1 75 per annum. Sttbierijation mutt be paid ttrictly in advance ADVERTISING BATES. Qneiqoare (12 lines or less), first insert'n, 12 50 Qaeh subsequent insertion 1 00 A liberal deduction will be made to quar terly and yearly advertisers. Professional eards will be inserted at $12 00 per annum. Transient advertisements must be paid for t advance to insure publication. Ail other advertising bills must be paid quarterly. Legal tenders taken at their current value. Blanks and Job Work of every description ur nished at low rates on short notice. THE ILLUSTRATED PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL, is in every respect a Fimt .ClaM Magatine. Its articles are of the highest Interest to alL It teaches what we are and how t make the most of opfselve. The in forma tion it contains on the Laws of Life and Health )s well worth the price of the Magazine to every Family. It is published at 3 00 a year. V.y special arrangement we are enabled to oflee the Phrenological Journal as a Premium tor new lubscribers to the Orego Rrptbi icas, er will furnish the Phrenological Jwuhsai. and Obegos Republican together for $100 We commend the Journal to all who want a good magazine PROFESSIONAL CADS, d.C R P Boise P L Willis II o i s ir w iiiLi s. Attorneys at I,av SALiiU, ()iii:c;ov Will practice in all the courts in the State FJ5 73 )j JOU J. DALY, JktVy & Consellcr-at-raiv, DALLAS, QKECiON. practice in the Courts of Record and In pilor Courts. Collections attended to promptly. OFFICE In the Court House. 41-tt Attorney & Counsellor-At-Iaw, Dallas, Oregon, Kill practice io all the Courts of tbe State. 1 J. C. BELT, pjiysjician and Surgeon, OFFERS ?IS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES to the citizens of Dallas and vicinity. Hav bad ten years experience in hospital and pri- Tata practice, feels competent to treat all csises J that may come under pis care. Utliee adjoin ing Vt, Rubell's denistry office. J,R,SITES,M.D Pbyticinn and Surgeon Dallas Oregon OFFICE at Residence 24 ;f IV, II. rv n E I.I,. D BN .TIS T . Office on door Korth of the Post Office ALL AS OGN. Particular attention given to the regulation f ehildren'i teeth, AH work waraatei. Janll '733-tt J. C. GRUBBS, M. D., PHYSIIAV AND SURGEO.V, Offers his Services to the Citizens Dallas 'and Vicinity. OFFICE at NICHOLS' Drug Store. 24-ti or. niiDS0N-j. m. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. OFFICE. Over Souther's Store, Cof Commercial A State Sts., Salem, Ogn, V'ith Dr. Richardson. Nov 9, tf C. S. SI L VK IS, No. 130, Firtt Street, PORTLAND, - . . OREGON Wholesale and Retail Dealer in DRF HOODS, fUfflllXC, LADIES' DRESS GOODS, HOOTS AND HOES. HATS .t p ip GROCERIES it- PROVISIONS. Highest Ca.-thPrieepai l f..r all kinds of Country .Produoo. FARMERS READ lrAXTi:i), A I.I. THH IM)ltK IN t f Plk County, fur wheb the highest rush AT THE EOL1 STOSU?. AVINO PURCHASED A LAROR ANI complete Stock ofXHW 5oi. ,.,! receiving Treh nuppHea erery week I cai sup ply everytudy w-thj imvaevries1 Tohacco, l ini M And all articles fuand in a (JEN'KRAL VAR1 ETY STORE, I would respectfully call the attention of the Public to my Establishment. Highest Cmsu price paid for 1 UHS AND PELTRY. R. A. RAY, Eola, Polk Co., Ogn. 16-tf DALLAS LIVERY FEED & SALE 5LE Cor. Alatu aud Court Streets, Thos G. Richmond, Proprietor. HAVING PURCHASED THE ABOVE Stand of Mr. A. H. Whitley, we have re fitted and re stocked it in such a manner as will satisfactorily meet every want of the com munity. Buggies, single or double, Harks, Con cord .Wagons, etr, etc., Furnished at all bourn, day or night, on hort notice. Superior Saddle Iloreen, let by Ve Day or Week. TERMS, REASON FILE. T. G. RICHMOND C II E A P P A 1 i T I IV G. A S I AM NOW THROUGH WITH THE l most of ray work this k this full, I ir vTAi,iijaii. G1KM at $10,50 apice. Now U the time to bring on your old Harks and Wairona as jou will never get them painted cheaper. Shop on tka corner, over G. B. Styles store II, P, SIIKIVKR. "GEM" SALOON MfrliX STRliET PEI0ETVCE. The best of wines, liquors, sles, porters and TEMPERANCE CORDIALS always on band, fine Havana cigars, Free reading rooms attached to the saloon. It. M. Bean Pr. IS ST A WOMI5N OF WASHING TON Rella A. Lockwod, io a communi cation to the Golden Age, makes the following iutere? ting statement : fi A question was raised in New York some time since, as to whether woman physicians had evr been a success, when a JNew Orleans Picayune, com menting on an article in Apeltou's Journal headed, Women in Medical Colleges," says, "A woman who can go through all of the detail of a three. four or five years course of study in a European medical college, including the horrors of the dissecting room, and the practice of a hospital, ere beiug allowed to become a regular physician or surgeon, may be considered to be virtually unsexed." If his logic be true it must operate with equal potency upon the male mind, and consequently a very large portion of male practition - ers must be al.-o unsexed. Rut I think this writer must have overlooked, and certainly did not intend to under-tate the army of efficient and self-sacrificing women nurses iu the late war, on both sids of the lines, who witnessed more; horrors than could possibly be developed by the usual hospital practice. I U not suppose he would declan; Miss Dix Clara Rarton, or Florence Nightingale unsexed ; and yet they witncMcd a large proportion of the horrors of the late war of the Crimea, and the Fran co-Prussian war. No more gentle and i S Oitvttheti t humanitarians can be found. To woman has always leen allowed, as li-itimaft-ly within her sphere, the privilcdge of nuring the pick. The Utstiot) i, Shall she do thw work intelligently ? It nerds no argument to j ursu .de any intelligent mother M young ctuldren, tt.at a wo- man i.Ityucian w desiraMe. Ana no int. Hint nt mind ought to need any arguircnt fur its perfusion. The only ) wonder is that the deeencis and pro -; which there is several hundred. These prieties of life have bet n o long main- lady clerks, many of whom are highly tainod without them. 'J he rtiestion of j educated, and nearly al! of them m their success, like that of any other i esin" Homo remarkable talent or profession, must be the measure of their: application. Washington. Ijts one lady dePtistJ Mrs. K P. lilaek opened an tflice here I IVr 6nn-,r uh.t t. ,,w,n,l,u ! ince, and the ptrfectntss of her teeth filling, and the i-upetior beauty of the sets f-he puts up, dtmonstrates that a j woman niav oc as pucctfslu in thcJ mechanical arts as the ptronger sex. Telegraphing has opened a new depart ment of usefulness for woman, and his been considered of importance enough to call for a letter f inquiry from the Director-Geneial of Pusts at Herlin to Postmasfer-Gt ncral Cresswell, 3 to the number employed jL this country in telegraph offices, and their fflicieney Mrs. Josephine E. Crawford has a fine school of telegraphy here, and prepares both youug men and young women for the 'duties of the office, the is consid ered very efficient, both as an operator and a teacher, and in her persor.ele is a prepossessing and attractive woman Mrs. Elliot is a very successful real esta'c agent; a quiet, unobtrusive bus iness woman, noted for tact, method and order. Mrs Sarah J. Spencer, of the Washington iJusin esColIege, who instituted the social evil reform in this full, I propnuR to.ciy auom one year ago, generally ac . complishes about as much as three in. telligcnt women would be expected to do. She is one of the partners of the institutiou, aud a very successful teacher. The lady authoresses of Washington Grace Greenwood, Gail Hamilton, E. D. K. N. Soutworth. Mrs. Schoolcraft arc too well known for comment, but the newspapers workers are more rarely teen in print. Mrs. R. D, P. Havens, of tho Chronicle, is a ready and sensi- ble writer, a patient worker, with a r , . . . v sense of justice and right, and unob trusively wields an infleunce forfeocd ' Mrs II. G. Barnard, tho well-known newspaper correspondent, at one time acting-editor of the Chronicle, iutenda to devote the pen which she wielded with ability for Grant during the late campaign, to illustrate and encourage woman's work, and to open for her other fields of usefulness. There are many newspapers correspon dents here, and prominent among them U Mrs. Rriggs, of the Philadelphia Press. The lady echool teachers of Wash ington are a class well worthy of study j au(J mention, and one wonders, while j looking at the elates of well-traioed ! bys ntl Kirls where all the stock of ; patience has come from that has reduc ed this mass of refactory humanity from chaos to o much order and I decorum. These teachers are an insti ! tutioD iu themselves, but a e too many hr any specific delineation. Suffice it l 10 say that lho public' school, of ! Washington are an ornament to the nation's capita', aod'a credit to the free school system, The lady treasury clerks of Wash ington have been already immortalized in print many times over; but it is now not only possible, but probable, though j civil service reform aud competitive examinations, that latent talent of that j USUal misrepresented class may j develop into unusual distinction Csp iciully, as Geueral Cres- well says, that "there is a growing pub- lie fieutiment iu the United States favoring the employment of women i clerical and other minor positions in th civil service, the duties of which can 1 e s appropriately and satblac torily discharged by women asby men." this, of cours'j, includes the Postal j Clerk lho io the P0non and 1 ; ft nt vfflcCftf Qu,rtcr-Ma9ter General's j offirc aflli othcr minor offices, includ- tn,. tltWQ jQ tl0 0,JVcrninent Piint- ;nc offic0 an(j agricultural IJ.ireau, of historv. form distinctive nart of Washington society. They have counted and printed the greenbacks for Unc,w am' anu navc ke1 n,s DWKS' unttl they have become a necessary m' " the Government t Jfet'hh-- Till! C)NSU MlVlO oi' ' Science The U. S. Commissioner savs : "If ! fVr ivrnir vnrs to come the demand for lumber shall advance in the same ratio to the population as in the past twenty, more than $200,000,000 worth of American sawed lumber will be needed each year, denuding more than ten million acres of land. About 7.000 are cleared each week-day io this country. Of the annual crop, 75, 000,000 worth goes to fucl,and twice as much for ftncin. The locomotives in this count iy comsumo about 7,000, 000,000 cords a year, or 500 acres a day. j This is a startling revelation, but there is no dobt that it is substantial ly true, and the day is not far distant when every acre of timber land will 'be immensely valuable. Coal will soon be used for fuel by all our locomotives, and also by families. Hut, if we would keep up our supplies of timber, even for building purposes, we shall need to plant trees, to take the places of those now being destroyed. Why will not each State organize a Tree Planting Commission, whose duty it shall be to encourage this most use ful interest 1 Then a first class journal should be established, called The 'lrce j Plan ter, in which every tiusery-man Jiwould take an interest. It must come to this in time. Why not begin now ? Science of Health. j - ' A prosperous merchant has for nig i M',w-iw v . Htlo: fi:ir,J t0, b,ed' ? t0 M?' pcycr get tight, and advertise. .RESOLUTIONS. The following Preamble and Resolu tions were passed by the Womam Suf frage Convention, held at Portland, on the 14th and 15th inst. Whereas, In the course ot human events it becomes Decessary to set new landmarks, from time to time, in advance of the old ones, that regulations and usages of Government may thereby meet the enlarging require ments of a growing intellectuality: therefore. Resolved, That we, the Oregon State Woman Suffrage Association, in Convention assembled, hereby declare our allegiance to the letter and spirit of the original Declaration of Indepen dence and Constitution of the United States of America, with the further addition of the Eourteenth and Fif teenth Amendments thereto appended and adopt them as our Article of Faith. Resolved, That we, as . an organiza tion; are clinging hopefully to the fa mous tplinter, inserted among the planks of the Republican Platform, by the dominant party of the voting sex. in which the demands of women fur additional rights" are guaranteed ''respectful consideration ;' and that we, having accepted its proffers in good fdith, hold it to Us part of our national agreemen t. Resolved, That we now demand of the party iu power, in the Congress, as it holds the majority, a declaratory and enabling act, pronouncing women voters under the declaration of our National Articles of Jaith. Resolved. That we exact of the dominant party the same recognition of public service and the same apportion mcot of public office, for our leaders that are accorded to men who have aided in tecuring its present release of power. Resolved, That we appeal to the cit aens of Oreeon who believe in the principles of '"equality before the la ft to aid this Asociation in evtry possi ble way by placing these self evident truths before the people, that all men and women are and of right ought to be equally free and independent in law and ethics; and we urge them to pro ceed at once to perfect the different county organizations throughout the State. Resolved, That we recognize tbe necessity of Sustaining the New North West as the organ of this Association. and urge all members to use their in fluence to place this journal in every home on the coast Resolved, That this Covention recog nizes the acts of Miss Anthony and her friends in voting in accordance with their convictions of right and duty, as deeds of brave and noble wo men, nod the acts of the Registers and Judges of Election in receiving and counting their votes as praiseworthy aud just, Resolved, That as men alone have proved themselves unable to quenvh the great torrent of Intemperance that is deluding the earth with dissipation, woman now comes to the front as the co-worker, and respectfully offers her heart and hand in holy mrrriage to the Oregon State Temperance Alliance. Resolved, That this Convention ten der the press of this city our thanks for the fair and honest reports of onr deliberations with which they have favored us and especially congratulate the just and honorablo reporters who have faithfully represented us to the public The engineer of . the Sutro Tuone has submitted a proposition to the Sun Fraucisco Board of Supervisors to tunnel the bay for a railroad from Oakland at the cost pf $70,000,000,000 or $80,000,000. FARM PR'S CLUIH. During the winter monthj there is more or less leisure which sometime hangs heavily on tho handg of the farmers, and it can scarcely be put to a more useful purpose than the formation of Farmer's clubs, where men engaged in the rural industries can meet togethe in friendly intercourse and ducassion comparing notes, exchanging views and. swapping thoights upon subjects per. taining to farming pursuits. Indeed the benefits to be derived from these meetings of farmers, are greater than many suppose. In order to make farm iog profitable all of its departments should be well understood. To keep land increasing io fertility and draw the largest returns from it at tbe least expense, are the sure ways to make farming profitable. The qusstion ia "how can it best be done? Experience observaticn, and rational deductions from facts in possession of farmers themselves, is the chart to this desired information. The experience and judgment of mauy is better than ona in this instance. There is a truth ia the old aphorism m connection with' agricultural pursuits, that " there it wisdom iu a multitude of counsel.,. The time thus occupied by farmers and their boys is infinitely better spent that in frittering it away at tbe corners, in the country store, or lounging about the house when there is nothing re quiring attention out of doors, or when the weather is too inclement to admit of out-door work. We do not say that leisure hours in winter cannot bo pleasantly and profitably employed at. he home of the provident and sentU ble farmer. Good books and papers, may be drawn upn largely tor agreea ble occupation during much of the in clement season of the year; but these, at times grow irksome, and aside from the every day round of farm du ties, fomethiog else requires mental re creation. And right here is where tho Farmers' club supplies the needed pab ulnm. Mind in contact with mind is stimulated into greater activity. The observation and experience of each member are drawn out upon subject which directly concern the business irj which the members are engaged, and a vast amount of practical knowledge i dieted which cannot fail to be of service. The advantages conferred by a Htc, active farmers' clubs are many - and various. They, are apparent to every seusible thinking man, and it is not necessary to enlarge upon them, here. They embrace many valuable consider ations, prominent among which are mutual advantage,1 the acquisition o useful information, mental cultivation associated effort in various farming op erations, and friendly, social intercourse. It is certainly no credit to the intelli gence of farmers if thtse motives are not sufficient to srouse their interest in, and to engage their sujport of such organizations. Point us to a community where a live club of this description exists and we will show you in the same place, enterprise, energy, good farming and thriving farmers. Fir Side Friend. The London Times says: Even after a war without preeedent for ruin and exhaustion, France is pap40o' in indemnity beyond the conception ot old financiers. There vis no country except ours in which money is more abundant and available for any profit ble or promising object. "Pa didn't you whip me for biting Tommy?" "Yes my child; you hur1 him very much indeed." "Well &eu pa, you ought to whip mamma's Qsusio teacher, too, for he bit ma right in bep mouth, and I knew it hurt her, tecsuBe she put her arms aronud his ueck an (Tied to choke him. Let husbands beware of music teicfe. ejs. " . f I : ' : t ' ' 1 ' i: