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FRIDAY JULY 27, 1877.
NOTICE.
Agents will p'.ease take notice that It Is a
gseattax upon us to pay express charges upon
small sums, and they will confer a great favor
by remitting to us through money orders or
registered letters.
THE GEEAT EA.ILWAY STEIKE.
The great labor riots that have struck
terror to the hearts of dwellers on the
eastern half of tbe continent, devastated
homes, destroyed property, and sacri
ficed life, have a deep and broad founda
tion, and one that cannot be easily
shaken. Begotten and born of the "pri
mal sin of selfishness," fostered by
greed and enhanced bygaln, the oppres
sion of the laboring classes has at length
aroused a spirit of stubborn resistance
which culminated, first, in an ordinary
"strike" of railway employes, second,
In the forcible detentions of trains, and
last, in violent and frenzied riot, which
stopped at nothing because it was un
lawful, and brought citizens and mill
tary into open and deadly conflict. On
tbe one hand, the railway companies
claim that the remuneration given em
ployes was fall and indeed liberal for
the times; on tbe other, laborers claim
that the pittance paid would not supply
theirfamilies with the barest necessities
of life, while double duty was imposed
upon them in running double trains,
Whichever side is right in this special
case, it is clear that something is radl
cally wrong in the aggregate, when
railroad kings ran, like Yanderbilt,
build up colossal fortunes in a few years
and die, leaving an estate of millions to
oftentimes profligate heirs, while those
who furnish the muscle to keep in mo
tlon all of the vast and intricate ma
chinery that drew these millions to
gether are compelled to submit to one
reduction after another in wages until fl-
nally outraged beyond endurance, driven
by penury aud pursued by grim want
over the very thresholds of their poor
homes, they take their lives in their
hands and for a while offer frenzied re
sistance to tbe cruel might of wealth
that so oppresses them.
This concentration of wealth among
tbe few, leaving the toiling masses
constant prey to grim want and anxiety
lest their supply of bread shall be cut
off, is all wrong. The law "In the
sweat of tby face sbalt thou eat bread
is a dead letter, as far as tbe aristocracy
of earth are concerned, and just so sure
as one shirks his portion of labor it is
doubled upon another. Having never
known the pressing hardship of want,
or earned themselves by the straining of
a muscle a single loaf of bread, men
who control millions are unable to ap'
predate or understand tbe hand-to-baud
conflict for bread that is going on all
around them, and become accustomed
to tbe gaunt and poverty-stricken ap
pearance of the laborer's family, if, in
deed, they give to them a passing no
tice. Habitually grinding the poor into
the very dust, they become hardened to
tbe misery around them, or take no no
tice of It, eager at any time to add to
their accumulations, which, gotten un
der the spur of selfishness, are ill-gotten
There is no effect without a cause. And
when such dire effect as the following
extracts from Monday's dispatches is
seen, we instinctively feel that tbe great
underlying cause, though lightly re
garded by tbe people before the out
break, was of magnitude correlative to
tbe effect.
Speaking of the scene at Pittsburg on
tbe evening of July 22, the dispatches
tell us that cannon shots were fired at
the COO military cooped up in the round
house by the 20,000 persons, including
women and children, who were aiding
and urging the strikers. Pillaging
tneantime flourished, though private
property was untouched. At 4:45 eight
men were killed by the soldiers, and
their comrades swore vengeance over
their dead bodies, declaring that not one
of the military should escape. At that
hour two or three hundred cars were
burned, and tbe mob were threatening
to burn overyear between Pittsburg and
East Liberty stock-yards, five miles dis
tant. The wires were cut at East Lib
erty. Up to that hour, three hundred
and fifty persons were killed and about
one hundred wounded. At 7:15 many
infuriated men still surrounded the
round-bouse, and the soldiers had taken
refuge in tbe pits, which was an admir
able defense. Kobody was allowed to
pass tbe dead line at the peril of life,
Tbe mob bad lost tbe cannon, and were
trying to recapture it from tbe soldiers
by running cars between it and the
building, so as to form a defense against
the soldiers' rifles. Many cars were
burned with grain and provisions. The
loss is roughly estimated at $2,000,000.
It was then rumored that the company
would accede to the strikers' demauds,
The soldiers were denied food and
couldn't sleep, and were getting desper-
ate. At 5 o'clock the cars before the
transfer office, laden with combustible
material, were fired and burst, spread
ine the flames everywhere. Tbe Phila
delpbia troops thereupon, at 7:40, left tb
round-house and fired upon tbe crowd
The walls of the main office soon after
fell, and the soldiers were driven back
into tbe shop. At 7:45 the military
formed a solid column and went down
Liberty street with a Gatling gun I
front, and made for the Alleghauy ar
senal, where the firing soon commenced
At 8:20 tbe upper round-house caugl
from the burning freight cars, and I
with seventyfreipht engines, was speed'
lly destroyed; loss, Sl.000,000. The
building Is a mass of ruius.
A titbe of the amounts mentioned
above as "lost" paid In regular and
equitable manner to under-paid em
ployes through tbe summer would have
prevented these horrors. The dreadful
scenes enacted 'during the past week
may serve to impress upon the minds of
employers for a while 'the Scriptural
declaration, "The laborer is worthy of
bis Lire." The end, however, will be
as heretofore. It is one of those cases
that always follows precedent. Capital
eats not; can afford pecuniary loss
which usury will soon make good. La
bor hungers, thirsts, starves, and must
submit. It is the old. old story, and the
equel will be as sad and hopeless of
good as formerly.
AN APPIEM ATIVE ANSWEE LOOKED
TOE.
As will be seen by our Colorado let
ter, tbe suffragists in that State are qui
etly and, as we doubt not tbe sequel will
prove, effectively carrying on the cam
paign that shall decide whether sex or
intelligence will form tbe base of suf
frage there hereafter. Though the State
abounds in enthusiastic workers, there
has been no display of unseemly zeal
on the part of suffrage advocates, their
object being to appeal to tbe reason and
reach the understanding of tbe men
who are to decide upon the question this
fall.
The help that is promised them from
abroad, together with tbe judicious se
lection aud general circulation of cam
palgn papers, tracts, etc., will afford
ample means for enlightenment upon
tbe subject, and if a patient bearing is
granted to speakers, and a careful pe
rusal given to tbe papers and pamphlets
furnished, men will have no excuse for
voting "Nay." The demand is so just,
so simple, so plain, that to state the
propositions is sufficient, and an eluci
dation of them seems entirely superflu
ous.
We are sure that if the men of Colo
rado will leave their prejudices at home
and allow cool and candid judgment
full sway while Susan B. Anthony tells
them why they should vote "Yes," that
a magnificent affirmative majority will
be rolled up.
Men are unjust to women in property
laws, in financial matters, in political
and social affairs, not because they de
sire to be, but because they are taught
to be so. Show them once that the
sphere of woman should be alone cir
cumscribed by her capacity and her
knowledge; that it is unjust to base her
political status upon the accident of her
sex: to say to her, "This is your place
that is mine," without regard to her in
telligence, her choice of occupation, or
her ability, and they will not be slow to
acknowledge the fact and abjure the in
justice.
Women do not expect the ballot to
act as a panacea for all ills; they do not
sue for it as a favor or privilege which
their brethren have a right to withhold
from them, but they do think that if
this potent thing is necessary to protect
the interests of working men, and is
theirs by right as an emblem of their
freedom, that it is just as necessary to
protect the interests of working women
and is theirs by aright equally Inherent
and sacred.
Men of Colorado, is not this true
Your affirmative response is anxiously
looked for at the ballot-box in October,
not only by the women who share your
homes, divide your sorrows, enhance
your joys, are gratified at your sue
cesses, and sympathize with your fail
ures, but by thousands of women
in
other portions of tbe nation, who feel
that you are weighing their liberties in
the balance, and tremble lest you be
found wanting.
THE SENAT0EIAL PAETY.
It is a consolation to know that if tb
disclosures made before tbe Senatorial
committee gave tbe distinguished trio
who but lately made a temporary bom
in our city a contempt for the material
that composed tbe majority of our last
State Legislature, tbey at least had
chance to form a favorable opinion of
the country. Senator Saulsbury's over
land route will take him homeward
through some of the finest farming
lands and most magnificent mountain
scenery that can be imagined. Senator
McMillan journeyed up the valley as far
as Albany, and In Marion and Lin
counties saw the thousands of acres of
grain just as they were taking on th
golden harvest tint and nodding with
theirburden of glorious harvest pro raise,
and tbe orchards bending beneath thei
weight of finest fruits. Senator Morton
journeyed upou the broad Columbia u
to The Dalles, where the pressing and
growing commerce of Eastern Oregon
asks loudly for a gateway by which her
surplus products can come down to tb
sea. It is a matter of regret that tim
would not allow the Senatorial party to
take a leisurely trip of observation on
tbe Sound, as well as to various other
points in our State and Washington
Territory, as in this case they would
certainly have returned to tbe eastern
part of the Republic grandly impressed
with the magnificent region that com
poses its northwestern domain.
The New York Herald, speaking edi
torially upon the riots, says: "We re
peat our warning to honest and respect
able working men.not to let their sym
pathieB go out to wrong doers. Men
who are blockading roads, burning cars
attacking troops, breaking open and
sacking shops, throwing stones into
moving trains, are not strikers; they are
rioters. It is not a strike, but an insur
rection without a hope of success. It
may still further cripple railroad com
panies and disable them from paying
fair wages. It may put the public to
great inconvenience, loss and expense,
but it will be crushed out, and when
the end comes, after all the disgrace
such anarchy brings upon tbe country
and upon the working man, what good
will have been accomplished?"
Mrs. Duni way departed for Astoria on
Monday morning, from whence ou
readers will probably hear from her
next week. She hopes that a short so
journ at the seaside and a tour of tbe
Sound will restore her strength suffl
ciently to enable her to visit Southern
Oregon In the early fall.
TESTIMONY FOB 00-EDU0ATI0N.
A little pamphlet, glistening In a gilt
cover, comes to us from Gallatin, Tenn.,
and removing tbe wrapper, we find it to
be tbe annual catalogue and announce
ment of Neophogen College, an institu
tion based upon co-education of tbe
sexes, located at the above place. Tbe
portraits of fourteen "honor students"
are given, five of whom are young la
dies. Enrolled on tbe catalogue are tbe
names of 182 young men and 101 young
women, and the standard for applica
tion, punctuality, aud deportment, as
published opposite each student's name,
is about tbe same in both sexes. Es
pecially in tbe matter of punctuality, in
which carpers say that girls are defl-
ient, we are pleased to note that "100"
stands opposite the names of the girls
quite as frequently as after those of tbe
boys. Now, although a practical dem
onstration of a fact proves more than
any amount of the most logical argu
ment, we cannot forbear quoting' from
thi3 catalogue tbe opinions of educators
who have a national reputation in sup
port of what we have ever endorsed and
often advocated through the columus of
this journal co-education.
Says James Freeman Clarke, of Har
vard : "It is no sufficient objection that
the other method baa hitherto prevailed
We have inherited the present system
from monastic times, when priests were
the only teachers; when the college was
a cloister, and when It was thought that
the only way to preserve purity was a
separation of the sexes. We have now
learned not to put asunder what God
has joined together, and we know that
the presence of men and women together
in the pursuits, studies, and pleasuresof
life, is good for both. We say that ex
perience shows that the effect Is good on
both; that, by these common studies,
the young men grow less rude, and the
young women less frivolous; that the
characters of tbe one are refined, and
the minds of the other deepened."
President Hopkins, of tbe University
of Michigan: "My impression is, that
the advantages couuected with our
higher institutions for young men
might be shared by young women, to a
great extent, with advantages to both.'
President Blanchard, of Knox College
"If I wye giving an argument upon
the case, I should say this : That God
has united tbe sexes In the family, and
that mau and Satan have separated
tbem in tbe convent nnd in tbe camp
that love between the sexes cannot be
shut in or out by seminary walls; that
shutting tbe sexes apart to keep them
pure Is a mistake; that imagination of
tbe absent sex in the separate schools is
worse than its presence In the mixed.'
Professor O. F. Lumry, in College
Courant: "Boysand girls think of each
other less, and seek each other's com
pany less, in Improper ways and im
proper times and places, when brought
Into frequentcontactin recitation-rooms
and college balls, than when kept in
separate institutions. Each sex is not a
hindrance, but in every way a help to
the other. The best education, in every
respect, is that which, while providing
for intellectual, moral, and physical cul
ture first, best fits the pupil for all the
relations be is to sustain in the great fu
ture. Now, it 60 happens that tbe life-
work of men and women, in every de
partment of society, has to be performed
side by side, and an intimate knowledge
of tbe mental ldosyncrasies of tbe other
sex, and an easy bearing in their pres
ence, are absolutely necessary to the
happiness, and, in mauy cases, to the
success of each."
These opinions might be multiplied
but tbe foregoing will suffice for our
present purpose.
We have one fault to find with th
college, the catalogue of which is men
tioned above, and that In our estimation
is a grave one, laying tribute, as it does,
upon taste and dignity. It is this : The
beautiful name "Neophogen" is supple
mented by the words "Male and Femal
College." Our antipathy to this low.
manner of expression is so great that to
us its sight or sound, when used In con
nection with the human family, borders
almost upon indecency. We hope, in
deed, that tbis coarse form of expres
sion, used to distinguish the sexes, an
equally applicable to brutes and human
beings, will shortly fall into such de
served disrepute as to cause it to' be ex
punged from the title page of every col
lege catalogue in the land.
THE INDIAN WAE.
News from "the front" is neither
startling nor particularly interesting,
Joseph seems to have outgeneraled
General Howard, and has escaped to
the Bitter Boot country with most of
his braves. A dispatch from Howard
was received at the military headquar
ters in Walla Walla, under date of July
23.1, to tbe effect that he is waiting th
arrival of Colonel Green's cavalry from
Boise. He will then assume command
of the cavalry in person, and take the
Lolo trail in pursuit of Joseph. He will
also send a force of infantry through the
Spokane country to overawe by their
numbers any Indians who may be in
clined to engage in hostilities.
Let each reader of the New North
west who Is in arrears remember that
by allowing the bill to remain unpaid
he subjects us to great inconvenience
and expense. The amount that each
orfe owes is quite a small sum, so small
that almost any one can raise It, but
the aggregate Is considerable, and we
need it. Dunning is such disagreeable
work that we hope our friends will spare
us further by coming up with amounts
due at once. It omit by post office order
or check when possible; when this is
not convenient, remit by currency or
express.
Mrs. F. F. Victor is at present jour
neying on the Sound collecting mate
rials for a revision of her work, "AH
over Oregon and Washington." She
intends spending tbe summer at Seattle
or Olympia.
NEEDED EE0EEATI0N.
Several years ago we remember In the
announcement of the annual Confer
ence of the M. E. Church great pains
was taken to proclaim that "no provis
ion would be made for the entertain
ment of ministers' wives." This very
narrow, selfish, and inhospitable act
brought upon the heads of the brethren
such a storm of indignation from sisters
who had spent the strength that be
longed of right to their children, and
time that should have been devoted to
their own culture and preparation for
the present life, and through it for the
life eternal, in concocting through sum
mer's heat and winter's cold dainty
dishes to tickle the palates of epicurean
ministers, that it was not thought best
to repeat the insult. There is, indeed, a
marked difference between the perempt
ory refusal to entertain these toil-worn
helpers in the Master's work a few years
ago, and the request made tbis year by
the preacher in charge at Seattle, that
'members of the Oregon Conference
who anticipate bringing their wives
with tbem to Conference will confer a
favor by furnishing information imme
diately of their intention, that provision
may be made for their entertainment."
Women compose the great body of
the M. E. Church, (and other churches,
too, for that matter), and do two-thirds
of the work connected with tbe dissem
nation of tbe gospel within its limits,
and preachers and laity alike have
learned that tbey will not submit to in
sult in meekness, nor be ignored in si
lence merely because they are women.
Cooks, scullions, band-maidens, and
drudges of tbe most menial type have
tbey been to ministers and elders ever
since the days of the Wesleys; nncom
plaining, to all outward appearances,
but wondering, if not rebellious at heart
for all these years, until within the last
decade tbey have caught the inspiration
of individuality.
To toil-worn and weary wives of min
isters, who have spent the Conference
year in acts of self-denial, benevolence,
aud hospitality; who have economized
so as to make the preacher's pittance
provide comfort for the household and
entertainment for frequent guests; who
have lived lonely lives in Isolated cir
cuits where tbe discretion of the bishop
cast their temporary abiding places; to
all of these we Bay, go, if possible, to the
annual Conference; drink in health and
renewed life, purpose and energy from
the invigorating breezes of PugetSound
If there is benefit to be derived from
change of air and relaxation of home
cares for awhile, get your share of it,
Your home and your children; you
husband and his parish will be the bet
ter for it throughout all tbe year. Go,
and may heaven bless you, and make
the ever-present baby that you bear in
your arras too happy .to disturb your en
joyment or break your rest by a single
Iretiui wall.
THE EAILWAY STEIKE.-
A strike of railroad employes was be
gun last week on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, which has since spread
rapidly over the various lines of travel
and caused riots, pillage, and murder,
the like of which lias never before been
known in the United States. Th
prime cause of the strike was a recent
10 per cent, reduction in wages.
All the passengers and freight trains
on the Erie railroad were abandoned on
the 22d.
Seventy rioters were nrrested at Buf
falo on tbe 22J and sent to UMca. New
York.
Out of sixty rioters arrested in Balti
more on the 21st, not one was a railroad
man.
The freight depot and general offices
of the Cincinnati and St. Louis railroad
were burned by a mob, and $3,000,000
worth of property destroyed.
Many large manufacturing establish
ments have been forced to close for lack
of transportation.
All conductors and engineers on Long
Island railroad receiving $100 cay
monthly are notified of a reduction of
10 per cent, after the 1st of August.
STATE TEA0HEES' INSTITUTE.
We are in receipt of a carefully ar
ranged programme announcing the an
nual meeting of the State Teachers' In
stitute, which will take place in Salem
on Tuesday, August 21, and continue i
session four days. The names of some
of our most prominent educators appear
upon the programme, among which we
note that of Professors Anderson, Pratt
King, and Crawford, of Portland, Pro
fessor J. W. Marsh, of Forest Grove,
Rev. P. S. Kuight and Miss Powell, o
Salem, and Mrs. M. P. Spiller and Pro
fessor Condon, of the State University,
Superintendent Rowland is untiring i
his efforts to advance the cause of edu
cation in the State, and his efforts
should be seconded by all friends of tru
culture. Tbe attendance and co-opera
tion of all such be earnestly solicits, and
we feel certain that the time spent 1
such attendance will be well and profit
ably spent and thoroughly enjoyed.
THE "GEO. S. WEIGHT" DISASTEE
Victoria papers'of the 18th Inst, give
details of the testimony furnished by
Billy Coma, Indian coal-heaver, and
sole survivor of the ill-fated steamship,
"Geo. S. Wright," concerning the mur
der of Captain Ainsley and several
his officers and crew by Indians near
the scene of the wreck. The mystery
which shrouds tbis sudden and fearful
shipwreck will probably never be fully
lifted, but -Sufficient is now known to
render the fact clear that the disaster
was supplemented by the butchery in
cold blood of the survivors of the fearful
wreck by tbe Indians; and that som
five or six men, including the Captain
escaped the treachery of the cruel sea
only to fall victims to tbe greater
treachery of more cruel savages.
Pittsburg has become quiet, the civil
authorities having complete control.
AN EXPLODED IDEA.
Every one who has read and who
as not? the arguments against Wom
an Suffrage, advanced during tbe years
that are past, will remember that those
that do not hinge upon tbe "domestic
difficulty" hinge upon the cry of "un
womanly women," or some equally ab
surd platitude. It has been predicted
that Interest in political matters will
make women careless of their dress,
'manish" in their manners, patrons of
short dresses, monstrous bead-coverings
and blue cotton umbrellas; and this, un
mindful of thefact that women who have
brains and most of them have a modi
cum, at least, of that article are always
Interested in politics, and discuss tbe
election probabilities In animated and
earnest words, while buttoning dainty
gloves, arranging delicate laces, fasten-
ng neatly-fitting gaiters, shaking out
voluminous flounces, or tracing Intri
cate plans in embroidery. But the ah
surdities of opposition based upon the
ground that suffrage privileges will
serve to make women unwomanly in
dress never come out in such glaring
colors as when these same critics criti
cise Woman Sullragists for dressing
elaborately. Having declared that the
entertaining of suffrage principles will
make women careless in the matter of
dress, these carpers find fault with and
ridicule them because itdoesuot. Thus,
In speaking a short time ago of Dr,
Clemence S. Lozier, President of the
National Woman Suffrage Society,
well-known suffragist wrote that on a
certain occasion Dr. Lozier"was attired
in a handsome black velvet costume
with point lace and diamonds." Fault
was found not with the dress, for that
was surely womanly enough and taste
ful enough to put to flight the assump
tion above mentioned, but with the fact
that so noted a suffragist should disap
point carpers by giving attention to
dress, and that another suffragist should
see fit to mention it in her press report
It is about time for the world to know
that women have learned to be forcible
without forgetting to be womanly, and
that women reformers, writers, suffra
gists, leading women in the domain of
thought, of action, of principle, as well
as queens of home, bavenotand will not
forget tbe traditions of their sex. The
theory that a woman must either be a
vapid, weak, unstable bundle of nerves
and frivolities, or dress in uutasteful
garb, has been long ago exploded with
persons of average discernment. Worn
en who are active workers in tbe world's
broad vineyard may and do dress as be
comingly as do those who are quiet
dwellers by obscure firesides. Common
sense teaches that so far from there be
ing incompatibility between intelli
geuce and good clothes, that women and
men of broad ideas consider it a duty to
be as well clad as their meaus will per
mit. It is not the independent owners
and disbursers of their own earnings
out tne "protected ' women, pauper
wives, who go about in scrimped, un
tidy, and uutasteful raiment, and look
forlorn and unwomanly. Look abou
and see if this is not the fact.
F0EEIGN NEWS.
Raouf Pasha defeated the Russians on
Friday, inflicting a loss of 3,000 men,
A detachment of Greek volunteers
passed the Turkish frontier on the 20th
The third pontoon bridge over th
Danube has been constructed at Kahova
Osman Pasha reports having defeated
tbe Russians near Plevna, after two
days' fighting.
The new fortifications at Adrianopl
have been completed, and will be armed
within a week.
Only two thousand Turks were cap
tured at Nikopolis. The remainder were
killed, wounded, or escaped.
Hobart Pasha has been ordered to
bombard all places of importance on th
Russian coast of tbe Black Sea.
Families are preparing to leave Con
stautinople from fear of the vanquished
army of Irregulars retreating before the
Russian army.
Grand Duke Nicholas has invited all
foreign military attaches to personally
inspect tbe places which have been
named as scenes of Russian atrocities.
Tbe Tribune's London special says
the formidable character of the Russian
advance across the Balkans was realized
on the 22d, when it was learned that
40,000 men had gone through Hainkal
pass, and that artillery is on the way.
A correspondent telegraphs it will be
difficult to restrain tbe Cretans and
Thessalians any longer. The prestige of
Turkey is completely destroyed by her
failure to guard the Danube and Bal
kans. The misfortune is that Greece is
not ready.
Hassan Pasha, commandant at Niko
polis, who is a prisoner, had an inter
view with the Czar on Tuesday. He
said when he capitulated his ammuni
tion was all gone, and he had been
obliged to kill three or four soldiers
with his own hand for leaving thelrduty.
The Times' special from Shumla says
whatever justification there may be as
to reprisals, there is no doubt that the
Cossacks, Bulgarians, and Russian
troops are committing the most fearful
atrocities on helpless musselmen, non
combatants and fugitives. Men, women
and children are alike subject to their
cruelty.
During the last twenty-one days the
bombardment of Kars by tbe Russians
has been continued. An average of
2,000 shells per day have been thrown
into the town, but many of tbem have
failed to explode. The Turks fired 18,
000 shells during the same time. They
have a sufficient supply of ammunition
for 125 days, Including a stack of shells,
which may be exploded at tbe rate of
500 each day. Mukbtar Pasha is re
victualing the garrison and laying in
additional stores of ammunition, so that
no force tbe Russians could possibly
bring against it could reduce Kars in
any event in a shorter period than 12
months.
ODE 00L0EAD0 LETTEE.
To the Editor op the New Northwest:
Although our weather at present is
not conducive to suffrage work, or, in
deed, to any kind of work, the cause Is
not quiet. Even when there Is not
much progress to report, there is a
uiet circulation of arguments and ex
change of views at our dinner-tables, on
our croquet grounds and shady porches,
and wherever people meet together and
converse.
Mrs. Campbell, writing from the
southern part of the State, reports good
success so far, but observes, "We have
found some women who did not know
tbe question was to be voted upon tbis
fall !"
Says a letter from Boulder, July lltb,
In the Tribune of tbis city : "Mrs. J. M.
North delivered a lecture on Woman
Suffrage yesterday to a full audience,
after which a committee was appointed
to form a permanent organization of a
club. Tbe suffrage movement numbers
among its advocates many of tbe most
Intelligent people In the town." Of
course. Is it not always the most In
telligent people who favor schemes of
reform or progress? Else, the world
would be in a sad way, doomed to stand
still or be led by the ignorant and unin
telllgent In a backward direction. I
am sure that very few of the most in
telligent men will be found in tbe class
that Dr. Crary so well describes as "the
men who go trotting along in the wake
of progress, bowling because tbe centu
ries won't stop."
An editorial in your issue of July 6th,
entitled, "Investigate, then Pronounce
Judgment," touches upon a point which
has caused the leaders of the movement
here to be accused of lack of policy and
judgment. A paragraph In the Times
last Wednesday reads thusly : "The ad
vocates of Woman Suffrage are in
earnest, and are in the field. We are
informed that next month a number of
the most prominent workers in tbe
cause are to arrive in Colorado from the
East, among them the well-known
Susan B. If they should win the ballot
It will not take long for them to find
out that when any important political
measure is to be carried at an election
there is such a thing as commencing
the campaigns too early, and working
the excitement up to the highest pitch
before, instead of at the election. Reac
tions are dangerous, and we trust that
our lady friends will not experience
this fact in their first efforts for the gift
of suffrage." Now, though it be quit
a new order of things in tbe conduct of
campaigns, it is nevertheless much de
sired that in conducting this one there
be as little excitement as possible,
Dickens' vivid description of tbe riots
of 1780, In "Barnaby Budge," shows
what excitement can do, and we want
none of tbis unruly and lawless elemen
to be instrumental in giving us the bal
lot. We do not believe in "working th
excitement up to the highest pitch,
either before or at tbe election, but we
believe in a "patient and dispassionate'
consideration of the matter, and calm
judgment upon it, and that the ballot
put into our hands under those condi
tions will be far more surely conduciv
to peace and justice than if we gained
It by rousing that sort of Insanity called
excitement, which renders men ofte
unscrupulous and irresponsible for thei
actions. H. L.
Denver, Colorado, July 14, 1877.
EE0EHTEYENTS.
Crops in Nebraska and Iowa
give
promise of the largest yield known for
years.
In the riot at Reading, Pennsylvania
on the 23d, thirty-seven persons were
killed and fourteen wounded.
Tbe President's order separating pol
ittcs ana civil service nas been pro
mulgated in tbe New York custom
house.
The coroner's jury at Montreal, in th
case of Hackett (Orangeman) gave
verdict of murder by persou or persons
unknown.
Employes of the U. P. R. R. have re
ceived notice that the order reducing
their wages is rescinded. This gives
satisfaction and averts danger of a strike.
Governor Hartranft arrived at Chi
cago en route for Pittsburg on the 23d
by a special train, having run over from
Omaha, a distance of 495 miles, in
twelve hours.
The President will shortly visit Rich
mond and Norfolk. He will place him
self In the bands of the committee hav
ing the matter in charge, and will en
deavor to carry out their wishes in his
movements. A number of prominent
Virginians have written to the Presi
dent, expressing a desire that he should
go over their State.
Notices are being prepared by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company to be
served upon tbe sheriffs of counties and
mayors of cities, reciting that threats
have been made against their property
by evil-disposed persons, and that tbey
will be called upon to protect the same,
and that communities will be held re
sponsible for all pecuniary loss.
The President does not regard the
present disorders as evidence of tbe
prevalence of the spirit of communism,
since tbe attacks have not been' directed
primarily against property In general,
but merely against that of railroads
with which the strikers had had diffi
culties. He expresses the opinion that
the most vigorous measures should be
used in putting down tbe trouble.
The Columbia Typographical Union,
July 21st, passed resolutions condemn
ing the action of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company for denouncing
the action of the labor league, con
demnatory of tbe strikers, extending
sympathy to the strikers, and declaring
that they will sustain them by all legit
imate means. Tbey also adopted a res
olution sympathizing with tbe work
men of tbe navy yards, who have been
notified that their present rate of pay
shall be reduced.
NEWS JTEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.
Tbe debt of Douglas county is $4,236.
The wheat harvest bas begun on
French prairie.
There are now confined in the State
Penitentiary 104 convicts.
The Dallas Ilemizer has suspended
publication for a few weeks.
New wheat, crown in Jaokson county.
was in the mill by July 11th.
Linn county farmers have commenced
hauling their oats to market.
Fifty men are wanted at Port Gamble
to do rough work in a saw-mill.
The citizens of Junction Cltv have
subscribed $800 toward building an
academy in that city.
A lady in Polk county, who has lost
five children by diphtheria, calls It the
King Herod" of all diseases.
O. C. Yocum bought 0,000 bushels of
wheat in Yamhill county last week,
paying $1 00 per bushel therefor.
The express office bas been removed
from Cornelius, to the disgust of citi
zens of that place and Forest Grove.
Professor Georce P. Newell, the vet
eran music teacher, has concluded to
locate at Jfhilomath, Benton county.
It is supposed that Linn county will
furnish one and a half millions of bush
els of graiu for the market tbis season.
Mrs. John Sylvester, who was badly
hurt by the falling of a bridge in Liun
county a short time ago, has since died
of her injuries.
There was a heavy rain-storm In
Jackson county last week, which In
flicted considerable damage on freshly
cut grain-fields.
The United States Hotel, and the lot
upon which it stands, at Seattle, was
sold at sheriffs sale ou tbe 17th for $7,-
vw. n cost siia.wu.
The steamer "Zephyr" struck a snae
on the Skagit River on the 19tb, and
sank in shallow water. It is thought
she can be raised again.
The people liviog in Grand Rondeaud
Powder River Valleys are agitating tbe
question of building n narrow gauge
railroad to tne Columbia Kiver.
The residence of Mr. Sinnott, Indian
agent at Graud Ronde agency, was de
stroyed by fire on Sunday, the 15th Inst.
It was owned by the government.
Two youths of Brownsville, aged 11
and 12 years, have been sentenced to 30
days imprisonment in the county jail
for stealing a coat containing $7 50.
A project is on foot for stocking the
Sound streams with Columbia River
salmon. An appropriation for that pur
pose will be asked from the legislature.
Albany wheat buyers are contracting
with farmers at $1 per bushel, and
many of those who sell will have as
high as five and tea thousand bushels.
The M. E. carap-meetlng at Webfoot
grounds, Yamhill county, closed last
Sunday, after an interesting season of
ten days, mere were niteen accessions
to the church.
Mr. J. I. Thompson, of Eola, lost five
children from diphtheria last spring,
and on Jbnday or last weeK bis only re
maining child, a lad of about fourteen
years, was accidentally shot through
tbe leg.
A special train containing about 500
troops and 34 officers, under command
of General Whealon, passed through
Elko on the 20th on their way to Idaho
by way of steamer from San Francisco
to Lewiston.
Mrs. Captain Randall, whose husband
was killed a few days ago in tbe Indian
country, came down on Friday with
her father, Captain Ankeny, and went
immediately to her brother's farm in
Marion county.
W. B. Carter, of the Corvallis Gazette,
bas buried two bright little daughters,
who fell victims to the dread scourge,
diphtheria, within the past two weeks.
We tender to tbe afflicted parents our
heart-felt sympathy.
A survey of the falls of the Yamhill
River at Lafayette has been made, and
the fact disclosed that locks costing
$12,000 will raise the waterso that boats
can go to McMinnville during the sum
mer as In tbe winter season. It is
thought that by the middle of October
the work will be completed.
There are three ware-bouses in process
of erection at Forest Grove Station in
anticipation of the needs of tbe coming
harvest. One of these is being built by
W. D. Hoxter, one by A. Hinman, aud
tbe third by Hines & Buxton. The
depot at tbis place is a great accommo
dation to farmers and shippers In tbe
vicinity.
O. C. Applegate, in assuming control
of the Ashland Tidings, says: "What
tbe people want from us is a spirited
and original newspaper, controlled by
no party, creed, clique, or fraternity,
giving the news of tbe day pruned of
unimportant details, conscientiously de
voted to the best interests of the people,
at a price that will bring it in reach of
all. Such a paper we shall undertake
to make tbe Tidings, but we must de
pend on our friends for tbe 'thews and
sinews of war.' "
One More Unfortunate.
Almost every day the papers chronicle the
sulclde of some poor unfortunate -whose mind
has been enfeebled by dyspepsia, over whose
earthly horizon a heavy gloom has gathered
from the untold and untenable agonies of this
cruel complaint. Dyspepsia is one of the most
depressing diseases afflicting humanity. It is
cosmopolitan In Us nature no country Is ex
empt from Its visitations, no family free from
its attacks. There Is a balm In Gilead; it comes
In the shape of the Peruvian Syrup. For
years it has been scattering its blessings
abroad. There Is, probably, no disease which
experience has so amply proven to be remedi
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The most inveterate forms of this disease have
been completely cured by this medicine, as
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manent situations obtainedfor Inmates. Ladles
who have sewing to put out, who are in need of
professional nurses, or any Kind of help, are
urged to apply at the Home, and thus aid this
noble effort to help their own sex.
From X. Plammer, M, Auburn, N. II.
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