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:S rnroBSDAY January 20, ieso. IBON-OLADjOBDINANOES. TJudera pretext of "commencing moral reform," tbeCIty Council basentertalned a report from tbe Committee on Health and Police, which looks a little more like business than auytbing in that di rectlon we have seen which has at templed to assume a legal shape, in a long time. Section 1 provides tbat it shall be un lawful for any person or persons to set up or keep any sort of house of Ill-repute or assignation. Section 2 provides for punishment, by One and imprisonment, any person or persons who shall violate section 1. Section 3 diflnea tbe intent of section 1. Section 4 makes It misdemeanor, punishable by fine, for therlwDer or agent of any bouse or ten ement to rent, lease or ortherwlse per mlt any premises to bo used for tbe pur- named in section 1. Iher ordinauce very properly pro- jpmvide eflectually against any arrylng aay.ort of concealed pAJsv tbXV a prostitute, at lew&Vmmra shall stand or iaMaiaatbeopn uoor or winnow oi aajfllj-repuW'withln the city pofiSSWi'g ,r action, ply flilirtTocatloB.lc.. etc. It is further rtraripsebatrneneo! these women shall ridSTBfflBySrrlage In theday time, norVtslSra'driDklDg saloon, under a heavy penalty ; and tbat It shall be un lawful for any person or persons to dis turb any lawful assemblage of people by rude and Indecent behavior, or be found loitering at tbe street comers, etc. ; and tbat no bell, or other sounding Instrument, shall bo used upon the streets as a means of attracting people to an auction or other place. With section 1 of the first named or dinance, and tbe other sections relat ing to Its enforcement, the wives and mothers of men of Portland are in hearty accord. Tbat such a law is needed they are painfully aware. Net one of the id can attend a church on Sunday or go shopping on a week day without passing these men-supported .harems, where the ultimate resultof the generally accepted doctrine of woman's subjugation to tex is flaunted In their faees from behind the latticed doorways of the dens of shame. The next proposed ordinance Is good in part, and was doubtless the work of .an honest brain. And yet, when It comes to denying tbe right of any per son or persons to simply ride upon the street in an open carriage In the day time, or at any time, no matter who or what they are, the demand is unconsti tutional and silly, besides being wholly unnecessary. Let section 1 of the first ordinance be enforced, and there will be no need of any attempt like this to keep lewd women out of carriages ; for the men from whom they get their money to hire oarrlages will hare no place in the city to meet them, and, with the oessatlon of men's patronage, their bus iness and credit will cease. Then, as to their visiting drinking saloous, we say keep them away by all means ; but keep tbe men away too. If one act is ' constitutional, so Is the other. What Is sauce for the goose, Is sauce for the gander. We like the proposition for keeping military drill or musical processions ironi annoying public assemblies on Sunday or any other day; and we be lieve street gatherings of every descrip tion, including patent medicine vend ers and corner preaching and singing, should be prohibited by law; and that rude behavior is a misdemeanor, and should be treated as such. But we con sider church bells within the city limits - an unpardonable nuisance which ought to be suppressed along with the auc tioneer's bell-boy, the military parade, the patent medicine vender's harangue, and street Binglng and preaching. .Grown people ought to know when to assemble at church. The bells are a barbarous relic of by-gone days when there were no clocks nor newspapers, and when nobody but the preacher could read; aiad any business, religious or seeular, that cannot prosper without them In this era of intellectual enlight enment Is uot worth preserving. . If these ordluanees are passed, in any, . or all of their sections, we believe Mayor Thompson will do the best he can to enforce tbetn; and yet we do not see ,how men are to be kept from supporing ,tbe social evils named, except by the power of the military, and even then, we fear they'd fight faintly. OF SOME IMPOBTANOE. The National Woman Suffrage Asso ciation held Its twelfth annual conven tion in Lineoln Hall, Ninth and D streets, Washington, D. C, Wednesday and Thursday, January 21 and 22. Tbe society has grown to such Importance that short reports of its sessions are fur ultdied by the Associated Press to vari ous newspapers throughout tbe country. Prom Hie Oregonian's telegraphic news, wo. learn that on last Thursday, Miss Florence Harding, of Indiana, appealed to young women to abandon their Uvea of frivolity aud lake the subject of suf frage iuto serious consideration. Miss Phcnbe Cousens, of SL Louis, who had as her subject, "The Moral Aspect of the Woman Question," and who held ,tbat In tbe revolutionary and other wars women had always been foremost In neble deeds, was the final speaker. , A London letter gives a pleasant de scription of an interesting ceremony which takes place every year In the Royal Academy of Arts-the presenta 'tlon of medals and prizes, In which the dgn(ty,of the Academicians and tho en .thuslasm. of tbe students makn 'picturesque contrast. One of the most pleasant features of the occasion was lue gauani aeugiu wuu wuicu me siu dents greeted tbe success of a younj lady who won two prizes. FAVOBABLE. Tbe San Francisco rival new&naner?. tbe Chronicle aud the Oatl, are both fa vorable to Woman Suffrage. They are admitted to be the greatest journals on the coast, and the most widely read. Therefore, the Woman Suffragists are juBtly glad of their sympathy. The Call's style of championing the move ment Is characteristic of that m per uot outspoken and affirmative, yet not nega live. It does not boldly declare in favor of the measure; it contents itself with clippiug favorable paragraphs from exchanges without endorsing the re marks. But It never dissents. We cannot remember reading an article in it in opposition to the movement, even witbout.endorsement. However, as the Chronicle, with characteristic foresight, speaks to the point and avows Itself In sympathy with tbe "reasonable and fust" demands of women, the Call will doubtless soon commit Itself openly to tbe movement, though we do not have any hope tbat it will strongly advocate the measure. Mr. Pickering Is very slow and careful. He is too much so. He waits uutll his rival strikes a path, and then follows. Less thau two weeks since, a bill was introduced in tbe Assembly of the Legislature of California by Mr. York (probably Dr. J. L. York, of Sau Jose), "to enable female citizens to vote upon all matters relating to the public schools of the State." It provides that all women 21 years of years of age and up ward shall be entitled to registration on the great registers of their respective counties; and, being so registered, shall be allowed to vote for all school officers, district, municipal, county or State, and upon all questions of taxation for Bchool purposes. The Chronicle, in notiug the fact that a small percentage of women vote lu tbe States where such a law Is In force, says tbe mere fact that more do not avail themselves of the privilege, "is no argument against the justice and reasonableness of it." The live journal Is aware that women In Massachusetts were taxed twice as mucb to vote for school committees as men were for unrestricted suffrage. Here are some of the comments of the OironUsle on Mr. York's bill : It cannot fail to enlist tbe sympathy or an honest and chivalrous public It will b sup ported by tbe ladles and others enlisted in the movement for Woiasa Suffrage, as the eater Ins wedge for an act which sball confer tblt privilege upon female citizens without re striction to school matters ; and It must be confessed that tbe number of these agitators has greatly Increased within tbe last ten rear, not only In New England, but here as well. There ts.unfortonalelj for the cause, an obstacle In the way oi the passage of llr. York's bill at this sestrion which is insur mountable. We mean tbe first section of the second arUelo of tbe Constitution, which, by every rule or construction, prohibits females from voting. The portlou of tbe new Constitution referred to contains the word "male" three times In reference to voters (native, naturalized, and those who have the right under the treaty of Queretaro), aud in such connection that tbe meaning cannot be misunder stood. At the time it was adopted it was Intended to exclude women. The framers of the new Constitution were largely Workiugraen, who, while prat ing so loudly of their own grievances, bad nothing to say of the wrongs of woman. They, with sufficient "uou partisans" to make a majority, placed a ban upon the sex of half the people. Thus It appears necessary to amend the Constitution of California before women can volo for school officers, eveu, in tbat State. We think It can be so amended. The section, "No person sball, on ac count of sex, be disqualified from enter ing upon or pursuing any lawful busi ness, vocation or profession," shows that a sense of right pervades the people of California. The Chronicle of the 20th Instant con cludes an editorial on the subject by ex pressing the fear that "the ladies will havo to defer their reasonable and Just claims" uutll the word male Is elim inated from the section of tbe Constitu tion ou auflrage, or a new section added confirming the right which the bill asks. BEAEINfi FBUIT. The Supreme Court, now in sesslou at Salem, has decided In the case of Mary J. Atteberry vs. Thomas T. Atteberry, an appeal case from Douglas county, that, under the law as it now exists In this State, the wife Is entitled to hold any property acquired by tbe proceeds of her own personal labor, and tbe hus band has no right to compel her to turn It over to him. This just aud equitable holding shows what the woman's rights agitatlou has done for women in the last few years. It Is In the memory of every man and woman forty years of age that formerly a husband could col lect his wife's earnings In defiance of her protest and squauder them for drink in spite of her tears. The law being appealed to, said the wife's earnings be longed to the husbaud to collect, dis burse and control If he so desired. Let those who sneeringly contend that the labor bestowed upon this great question of equal rights has borne no fruit, take note of this. We have received the Yaquiua Baj- memorial too late for publication. It recites tbe commercial advantages of the bay, and asks an appropriation to Improve tbe entrance to tho harbor. We are in accord with the movement. There is urgent necessity for a direct outlet for the products of the country which Is naturally tributary to Yaquiua Bay. Mr. Gladstone, In one of his recent speeches In Edinburgh, addressed the feminine portion of his large and refiued audience as "women," and remarked : "I use the expression women with greater satisfaction than I use tbe name of ladles." We will venture tbe asser tion that Mr. Gladstone Is also averse to tbe terms 'male" and "female" as applied to men and women. "KELSO'S OBIME THE GBEATEE." ' Under tho above heading, the Hills- boro Independent contrasts the two crimes which have, within the last two mouths, created so much oxoltement In Washington county. The first is tbe seduction of a girl by a young man named Henry Kelso, who would not offer his victim even the poor atone ment of marriage until tho violent hand of the law was laid upon him and his personal liberty was at stitkp. Tho girl, who was then as deeply disgraced as possible, properly refused the ofler, and tbe seducer was put under small bonds by tbe court. If the man had been guilty of only an "indiscretion," be would have married the girl before It became uecessary to do so to escape the law, and thus have borne a proper share of the disgrace. But his proposition of marriage came "too late." As the In dependent says, no sane man believes he intended to live with her and love her as a wife ; "it was a cowardly dodge to afford himself a meansof escape from punishment." The second crime Is the murder, by Harry Wlntzlngerode, of the old German, Jacob Swanger, for money he was supposed to have. "The old man was brained pitilessly and clubbed uselessly until the skull was crushed down to Its very base." Wo select the following as among the best sentences of the Independence earnest and able article: "The grave feels no sorrow and no dis honor. Jacob Swanzw aleeiw peaeelully, and no eosrse Jest nor scorn fat anger can torture his quiet breast. IJut Kelso's victim lias a cruder fate "deserted and disgraced." Ah ! death Is preferable to dishonor. And however sltzht her fault may have been, the' drsersee will attach to her, and her seducer will have pleasant associations, ami will go free to Hod other victims. It is hard tbat tbe rmltv for sued a misstep ralllnc victims to the lusts or men) even If criminal, is miiicu upon women by society with lasting disgrace, and It Is cruet ami Inhuman when the fault is not theirs. But there U no appeal from the customs of men. And the poor, de ceived, dishonored child receiver all the pun ishment for HIS sin, and. It belne more than she can or ouulit to bear, she too often Bees from tbe company of the rood and mire and becomes the woman of sin. In the red Until or the in under of JacobSwanger, men talk on our streets of lynching Harry Wlntzln. gerode, but they dn not take a second thought about tbe murderer of the honor of a poor. young, helpless and trusting girl, rhe former robbed a man of his life, but the latter robbed a woman of what Is dearer than life her honor ! The former It In Jail, but the latter roves at his pleasure. We trust that hereafter Woman Suflra- glsts will have the assistance of the in dejtendent in advocating a change lu tho present one-sided ay ft em of representa tion, that those who are most deeply wronged by the crime of seduction may have a voice iu fixing its penalty. Brother, don't you think women should be allowed au expression of opinion on this subject, at least 7 MB. PARKMAN'SJJONSTITUTION. A prominent advocate of woman's rights once remarked that healthy men were generally found to be friends of the woman movement, while sickly men were as generally fouud onnosed to It, A correspondent of the National Vtuzen asserts that this statement is strikingly true in tho case of Mr. Francis Parkman, tho author of the two articles against woman's rights in re cent numbers of the Xorth American Review. In the Atlantic Monthly for October, 1S65, page 500, there Is a re view of Mr. Park man's books, from which we learn that "in his f Mr. Park- man's) case, as in that of Champlin, it was not from the burden of years and natural decay, but from the touch of disease In the period of life's full vigor In its midday course, that mental activ ity was restrained. When, beside the inflictions of a racked nervous svstem. the author suffered In addition a malad v of the eyes, which limited him, as ho says, to intervals of five minutes for reading or wrillug, when it did uot wholly preclude them, we may well marvol at what he has accomplished." If, in reodlug Mr. Parkman's two articles, we, therefore, keep In mind the fact that he is burdoned witii "the touch odlsease," that his "mental activity" is "restrained," that be suffers "the iufllctious of a racked nervous system," aud tbat he has "a malady of the eyes," his objections to woman's rlglits will loso much of their force, aud will appear, as the correspondent as serts, "little else than the peevish quer- uiousnesa or a nervous valetudinarian.' Ltir Hill Is anxious that theSuprcme Court take some action upon tho affida vit filed by himself and three other at torneys, In reganl to Sidney Dell's com ments upon recent decisions of tbe Court, and has asked the Court what will be douo about it. In reply, he Is Informed that It will be necessary to give Dell notice of his (Hill's) inten tions, and thus enable him to reply to any questions that may be propounded. The Court intimates further, the Ore gonian says, "that the matter will re ceive the attention of the Court before the close of the term." As Dell's criti cisms appear to be too much for the four attorneys and the Supreme Court, it is natural they should wish to get rid of him. However, the Court shows good sense in proceeding as slowly a Its great dlgulty requires. Very probably tbe righteous wrath of exoited lawyers will cool dowu "before the close of tbe term." Frank Leslie's sons, In contesting his will, say that Mrs. Florence Leslie Is uot and never was his wife; that her maiden name was Marion Florence Folien, otherwise known as Mrs. Squires ; that the making of the will In her favor was caused by fraud and cir cumvention and undue Influence on her part. From this, one infers that the boys are sons of a former wife. We shall make no further comment on this case until further particulars are re ceived, except that tbe woman who nursed Leslie through his feeble aud de clining years, while his sons were caring for themselves, ought to be entitled to some consideration. 8HEFFIELD'SBEHEFA0T0B. Mr. Mark Firth, a "commoner" of Sheffield, England, some four years ago established a spacious park "for tbe en joyment, the health and the amuse ment of the good people of Sheffield." The same gentleman has since built a college for both boys and girls and do nated It to tho town of Sheffield. It cost 20,000, aud Mr. Firth gave 5,000 toward the endowment fuud, which now reaches uearly 20,000. The college was recently opened, and Prince Leopold made the address. Hannah T. King de scribes the Prince as a very modest, re tiring young man, who started out early in life to do good ; who Is possessed of a meditative and serious turn of mind; who Involuntarily opens his eyes aud takes a common-sense view of life as It is past, present and future. Instead of spending his wealth In folly, or worse, he bequeaths It to noble Insti tutions, that will benefit mankind and prouuee a migbty progression. The young Prince, In speaking of degrees, designedly said "the graduate would proceed to take hit or her degree with honor," showlng'that in his mind there Is no belief In mau's superiority over woman that he recognizes the Intel lectual equality of the sexes ; aud the inference therefrom Is that he cannot be otherwise than an affirmant of the great truth that they should bo politic ally, morally and socially on the same footing. Perhaps the fact that his mother is such a noble and able woman, is sufficient to warrant the belief that he Is a Woman Suffragist. Certainly he could not regard any man as Queen Victoria's superior. The times are indeed ad vanced when an English Prlnee, a young one, too, will publicly glvo ex pression to ideas which cannot be con Btrued otherwise than as directly favor able to universal equality. Mr. Firth was received with loud cheers when he stepped forward to make a short address. Among the remarks of the gentleman was the assertlou that tbe college had been established to "provide in a systematic and permanent form educational means aud facilities for promoting the intellectual, moral and social elevation of the Inhabitants of Sheffield." The fair-minded gentle man also expressed great happiness at being able to donate to bis uativc town the college, which lie hoped would be the "means of helping forward In some degree for ages (o come the great work of a large and ever-advancing civil ization." Verily, Sheffield Is to be congrat ulated In having so large-hearted aud noble a man as tho "commoner," Mark Firth. WHAT THE "NEW NORTHWEST" WANTS. Portland vagrants to use more soap and less beer and tobacco. A State law establishing the. whip ping-post for wife-beaters. Tho new theatrical troupe to merit and receive a large patronage. The industrial status of women care fully noted in the tenth census. The long-promised reforms In official preferment carried out to the letter. More steps taken in the right di rection, t". c, toward home in t lie early evening. People to learn that the most etlective way to feel for tho unfortunate is to feel in the pocket. Several buudrcd Idlers in this city to start out Into tbe country aud go to cut ting cord-wood. Boys taught from their infancy that there aro no rights that pertain ex clusively to sex. A Board of Health, its members en dowed with a keen seuse of smell and broad humanity. The Infamous Ute murderers and rav- Ishcrs caught without delay, and ade quately punished. All men to try as hard to be pleasant and agreeable to their owu wives as to the wives of others. A reform school where girls aud hoys prone to evil may be properly disci pllned and taught to work. A municipal law requiring tho fines paid by drunk and disorderly husbands to be handed over to their wives. Women who are sheltered and pro tected, to castoffthe habiliments of self ishness, anil work for the good of those less fortunately Bltuatcd. A law designating smoking, bias pbemy and obscenity in the presence of boys as grave misdemeanors, punishable by fine or imprisonment. A Common Council witii nerve suffi cient to pass stringeut laws for the abolishment of houses of prostitution. Hand a public sentiment strong euough to enforce tbe same. The special police system of this city abolished, and a sufficient forco of pa trolmen, paid by the city, employed to enforce ordinances that were framed for the morality and protection of tho city. Meu with sufficient humanity and fearlessness to report to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals some of the outrages almost daily per petrated upon dumb brutes iu this city. The words, "and males," added to that portion of tbe Chief of Police's re port just where he recommends that "females" found loitering about saloons, or golog In and out of the same, should be arrested. On last Sunday evening Rev. Mr. Cruzan delivered one of the ablest lec tures with which he has favored the Portland public, basing bis remarks on the recent annual report of tbe Chief of Police to tbe Police Commissioners. During tbe evening he squarely stated that the Individual rights of women should be held aa sacred as those of men, and, while applauding the ordinauce which is to keep women from entering saloons, demanded that It should also apply equally to men. His views on this point were tbe same as the New NoimtWEST expressed last week, though greatly elaborated. Our space la crowded thia week, but we shall again refer to tbe lecture. EDIT0BIAL CORRESPONDENCE. DA RBtDKSHOrTHKEW NoUTHWFJ-T. It was Saturday, January 24th, and only a quarter to three. Your eor- resjiondent was In the midst of a multi furious conglomeration of opened and unopened exchanges, and for two hours had been hurrying for dear life to get through with them before west-side train time, when ono of our smaller sous, who was poriug over a book, looked up aud suit suddenly, "Mother, if you're going lo Forest Grove this ufteruoou, it's time you were oil." We looked up aud glanced anxiously out at tbe wludow. The better weather, for which we bad been waiting for a fortnight, hadn't come, our traveling basket wasn't packed, and those ex changeshalf of them had not bei-u opened. Then, around us was the cy room with Its comfortable fire, Inviting books, waiting music, and tho cheery presence at every eventide of tiie loved ones at home to tempt us from out-donr duty In tho mud and rain. But there was no time to dally with temptation, even of this alluring character. Thirty five miles away, by rail, we could see, though the eye of memory, the village of Forest Grove and the grand old sire, who would be waiting for us in the olden homestead, and his face, we knew, would brighten at our approach, aud his heart would be the lighter for the promised visit. So we left the unfolded papers, and were off in less than three minutes for the station, bound for the classic shades of the Oxford of Oregoli. All along the road, upon either side, thegiant forest lay In prostrategraudeur, its roots upturned to the pitiless ele ments, and Its broken limbs distorted in ten thousand shapeless mosses, while the great trunks, iu their mute help lessness, reminded us of the dead anil dying brave ones who have fallen on full many a well-fought human battle ground. In many places the whole as pect of the country is ohanged by the fallen timber. Trees that, before the storm, stood almost as thick as stubble, hiding from the road the visions beyond with their pcrenuial greenery, are now prone and dying, and form no obstacle to the view of the more distant land scapes. Others, tbat grew scattered at sufficient Intervals apart to enable one to see through their ranks, are now piled in tangled heaps, one upon a half dozen others, forming an opaque mass of formidable proortloiis, aud of char acter so combustible that one shudders involuntarily at the thought of the future eontljgratioiis that must ensue unless precautions for which the genu ine Anglo-Saxon has never yet been noted, are tuken at the earliest avail able moment to prevent the threatening holocaust. It Is said that, If fires are planted In the tangled brush-heaps lu the early Spring, as soon as the leaves are sufficiently dried to burn, they will then destroy all the lighter growth without a fleet itig the great bodies of the timber that, if ignited later In the sea son, will burn like tinder and heat the very heavens red-hot. Another strlklug evidence of the storm-king's track is seen In the demol ished fences that mark the lino of his destructive wake. These despoiled fences have set tbe farmers to moral izing anew about the "no-fence" law. And, indeed, It Is quite time for such a law to be passed and duly enforced In all farming 'communities. The stme principle that protects your forest trees from the raid of tho trespasser should protect your fields and orchard from the raid of the stock-man's property. We hope the people will continue to urge the righteousness of the proposed law. Let the matter be so thoroughly agitated that proper legislation shall be promised by incoming members of the State Legislature. If you are so fortu nate as to havo large droves of cattle, sheep, horses or swine, you are able to go beyond the limits of the farming lands, where you can feed your prop erty on Uncle Sam's domaiu with lui puuity; but let no disinterested citizen bo uuduly taxed on account of your possessions. Such a law, like one for the enfranchisement of woman, will compel no persou to take advantage of it against his will. Any ono can build fences for bis own use if he desires, but nobody will be compelled to do so against his inclination or convenience. We pass Beaverton, Beedville, Hllls- boro and Cornelius, and reach the Forest Grove station almost before we are aware of it, tbe cogitations here chronicled having occupied tho time, aud uearly annihilated the ejwee be tween Portlaud aud the ware-house at the station. Here we find a four-horse mud wagon, in which four or five wayfarers are quickly dumped, and on we go, through mud and muck, far over a mile, toward the village proper, which we reach at nightfall, to find the genial patriarch we have come to visit suugiy ensconced In the rambling homestead, a cheery fire on the broad stoue hearth, and a cordial welcome from the depleted household, where the Death Angel has stooped since our last visit aud gath ered In his-chill embrace one of the fairest virciu flowers of this .U.th. doomed earth. Ah, me 1 Yet a little while, and the great change shall come to all who read theso pages. To gome the journey will be longer thau to others; but it matters little who goes flrit, If at the last we reach the goal or glad reuulon with the dear ones gone before. Pure as the fall ing suow flakes that we pause from our wrltlug to watch from behind thecalla lilles ou tho parental window-sill, was the life of Elvla F., and green as the broad leaves of tho plant she loved and teuded is her hallowed memory. Like the snow, she vanished iu the mornimr. and like the lily, she will bloom again lu the glory of the blessed by aud by. caooatu uay, so still aud stranro and quiet, with only the echo of departed feet and voices. Ilugerjng now where once the glad accjalbi' of many sounds filled tbe old rooms with mirth and clatter; aud we sit aud chat all day mm mym I with the dear old on u pie, ourself no longer young, and listen to the sug gestion of the wise ami thoughtful sire, who, eveu as In our childhood's days, views ear future moves upon life's checker-board with concern, and hails every successful breaking of our ene mies' "king row" with quiet exulta tion, albeit he often gives warning lest we make move9 rashly, and thus cancel past success and destroy the chances for future victory. Oil I the quiet, dreamy languor in spired by a day of perfeet rest. How rare Is such a day In these later years, and how weleome. The ohureh bell does not tempt us across the threshold, nor can the Sunday school allure us from the atmosphere of the dear old home. Will another quarter century find us yet upon the earth ? Aud shall we be quietly anchored in a still harbor like this when the "grasshopper be comes n burden?" Will our children ever taste a joy as soothing, a pleasure as chastened and complete as this, when they come home on annual visits? We'd beg your pardon for writing of these things, good reader, only we know that you are human, and will be inter ested. "A touch of nature makes the whole world kin." Monday, and the heavily-fallen snow of tiie 19 1 night-time has covered the earth with a billowy blanket of choicest eider-down. Forest Grove lies so near the foothills that snow is not uncom mon, though it rarely lies Ions; upon the bosom of nature except about the holi day time, wnen it has been known to endure for a fnrtulght or more. To-night (Monday) we are to leeture Iu the Congregational Church ; subject, "The Need of the Hour." In our next we will try to write of other things con cerning this praee than our own prosy thoughts. At present our experience hereiis so limited that we cannot do the subject justlee. A. S. D. Forest Grove, January 96, 1S30. GENERAL NEW8. Senator Lamar is eonvalesefng. J. Z. George is the new U. S. Senator from Mississippi. Frank Leslie's real name was Henry Carter. He was of Koglish birth. Senator Sharon says he has not drawn a cent of pay for the preseut Congress. Chas. De. Young has pleaded not guilty to the charge of aseauli to murder. Paruell Is getting aid for the dis tressed Irish all through the Middle States. Tiie Mapleton Opera Company's re ceipts for their two weeks iu Chicago amounted to $60,000. Nine boys were drowned in Randall's pond, near Providence, It. I., on the 26th. They were skatiug. Snow fell In San Franeiseo on Mon day. Many of the natives saw suow hi that day for the first time. J. P. Scribner has lieeii sentenced to imprisonment for life in Illinois for murdering his two children. Texan eowboys reeently entered Lm Vegas and killed the oity marshal and two citizens aud wounded live others. The shoe shop of the King oounty penitentiary, at Brooklyn, Was burned on the 26th. Loss, $200,000 ; iusurauce, $265,000, iu 50 companies. It is claimed that a Chicago electrician has solved the question of dividing tiie light, aud will put it in operation as soon as he secures patents. From interviews with Republicans throughout the country, the newspapers have learned that Blaine Is the eiioice of tiiat party for President. The Protestant .Kniseotval Church wants to raise $750,000 to insure the paymeul or the geueral theological seminary's current expenses. The Internal Revenue Collector at Philadelphia has seised the property of the rtiilauelpliia and Reading Railroad, for claims amounting to uearly $500,000. It Is said the Uuion Pacific. Kansas Pacific and Denver Pacific Railroads have been consolidated under the name of the Uuion Pacific Railway Company. There is rioting in Northern Virginia between white and bluek laborers, the former being the assailants. The mili tary is called out to preserve the peaee. Edison erecting three new buildings in iNew lorK one tor a maohtite shop, one for gloss blowers, and one for four teen dynamo-machines, by which he proposes to start 700 electric lights. Judge Sawyer, of the U. S. Circuit Court, has denied a rehearing of the suit of John II. Burke vs. J. C Flood et a!., anil the defendants gave uotlee of appeal to the L. b. bupreme uuurt. The Son Fronolsco Supervisors have voted (7 to 5) to saddle the Lake Merced water tcheme on the city. A member cave notice of reconsideration, after Ferry charged the seven were "fixed." An engine on the New York elevated railroad jumped the track on Saturdav last, though the cir did uot go over the rail. No oue was dangerously hurt, though several received severe injuries. The New York Commercial llulletin, by careful figuring, shows that De Les sees' Panama canal scheme is the "wildest of financial impossibilities." Its income will not meet the Interest on its cost. The steamboat Charmer, with 2,100 bales of cotton, was totnlly destroyed by fire, ou the 26th, at a place on the Mis sissippi fifteen miles above the mouth of Red River. Eight lives were lost. Ttie boat and cargo were worth $130,000. Appropriate resolutions concerning the death of Senator Chandler were pa'sed iu Congress yesterday, and the Senate and the House adjourned as a national mark of respeet. Eulogies were pronounced by members of both Houee. Jas. Russell Lowell, of Massachusetts, has beeu confirmed as Minister to Great Britain ; Juhu W. Foster, of Indiana, to Russia; Lucius Falrohild, of Wisconsin, to Spain; Philip H. Morgan, of Louis iana, to Mexico. Consul, Lewis Rich mond, of Rhode Island, to Belfast. The colored exodus lias been used by some unprincipled men as a money making scheme. They have held out Inducements to the negroes, assuring them of plenty of work aud good pay In Indiana. The men wero paid by rival railroads a percentage on all fares sold to tbe migrating blacks. The Supreme Court of Maine has answered the questions submitted by the fuslouist legislature, deciding ngalnst that body ou all po!nt9, and holding the Republican organization to be leg3l and constitutional, Aocord loclj'i the fuslooista are giving up tbe fight. They have adjourned till Au gust. Several of them have taken their; seats iu tiie Republican Legislature. The fusionlst Secretary of State promises to return the valuation books. EI9HTH ANNUAL MEETING. Tbe first session of the eighth annual meeting of the Oregon State Woman Suffrage Association will be held at l he residence of Mrs. A. S. Duniway, No. 96 North Fourth street, in this elty, Tues day, February 10th, at 1:30 i x., for the purpose of arranging programme and perfecting piaus for the future sessions, to be held at the Y. M. O. A. Hall on Thursday and Friday following. A full attendance of deh-gatee, members and workers is especially requested at this first session, as business of importance is to be fransaoted. By order of Executive Committee. A. S. DlfjfnVAY, President. M. A. Kdmo.vis, Secretary. NEWS ITEMS. STATS AND ttinRtl. A U Miring mill will? Jacksonville. Operations at the mines are lively. There were only 33 county during 1679. M. G. Harbord Is watchman at Salem. Tbe sportsmen's olub of EoRMgJfeas titled 1111 a llvur aiualnl lmll -W . " : .mi jeipii aiorgau, livinc from Hepnner. was frfsta eently. A new road, shorter thai Is proposed between Lip sonvllle. Thoa. Davidson, of Waldo IIIHb. eut his right foot nearly off with an adz last week. Indications are that thin season will be the most favorable oue for the miners in many years. Business at Goldendale, W. T., is get ting quite brisk. Farmers lit the vi cinity are busy. The Jacksonville Time says a very large orop of .cereals will be raised iu Southern Oregon. Mr. John Jewett, a pioneer of 1917, died at home lu Astoria on the 22d. He was nearly 84 years old. In Langell Valley and the upper por tlou of Lost River, Lake county, the late wind storm was very severe. Jas. F. Nelson, of the law firm of Dunbar A Netsou, of Goldendale, W. T., died ou the 22d. He leaves a young wife. Mrs. Hannah Herd, while attempting to wade across Jaekass Creek, South ern Oregon, ou last Friday, was dmwued. Mrs. Elisabeth Holieale. aced nearly SI years, died at ttie home of her daugh ter, Airs. A. J. Uauford, at Seattle, on the 22d inst. Alfred Morgan, IS years) of age, living 12 miles from Hepnner, was killed re cently by a tree, which was blown down on ins House. hj - There are 334 school children JfcMi itoseonrg ecnooi district. Thsre : i . . j t i .... pupils in private suuoois. i.ne of voters Is 21S. A miner named Miller, who fefftflrtJ burg on New Year's day to areas Siskiyou Mountains, Is supposed to bavo been frozen to death. The material for the Lake county JJ ammer, while on Its way, precipi tated over Sugar Loaf Hill Into frtv- Lake, ami probably entirely lost. David Hendery aud Mies Altha kinson were married iu Little nreeiuet the other day. six feet high, and bis brf Snow Is several feet dMpmh W. Butte, which will form s Ift8t' of ply for the miners wlthlba""'!mdi several miles wheu water begins t otherwise. Rnbt. Ware, of Heppuer, has Ios , foot, the toes from the other auc finger from his leit hand, the resi haviug beeu severely frozen while lu the suow reoeotly. During 1879, 2,009 orders were issued at the Rtseburg post office, representing $45,S89 S5. There were 676 orders paid, amounting to $174,453 40. There were $1,900 worth of stamps sold. Walter Bingness died, at Seattle, W. T., reeeutly, from tbe efieels of a blow on the bead by a hammer falling from a house near Spring Brook, Kingeounty. He left a wife and oue child. FOREIGN NEWS. The slave trade In Turkey will be sup pressed. Germany's excessively large army Is to te increased. Carrevas, tbe Insurgent chief of Cuba. lias surrendered uneouditioually. Severe shocks of earthquake were ex (terieitced at Havana ou theSUh inst. The Greek ministry have resigned be cause their financial policy is defeated. The wages of eottou operatives at Bol ton, England, have beeu increased 10 per cent. The British forces in Central Asia are somewhat weakened by the casualties of battle. Attempts are belnic made to patch up peace between the Czur of Russia and the Czarina. The distress in Ireland is increasing. There is scarcely a county In the coun try mat is uot aniloteU. Chinese troone are reuorted on tli border of Russia. Seveuty Euglishm n are said to be with the command. 1 1 is thought the Aftrhans are nrprmrint for another demonstration against tbe British atShlrser, early In March. Tbe hlehest number ef votes received by any eandidate on the London Seboot Board was by MissMuller, In Lambeth 18,861. The Lord Mayor of Dublin and tho Council have given tip the proposed fmnjuet iiim vuiou iu ine relief OI the poor. Russian crops of 1S7B were unsatisfac tory, and it is thought tbat craiu will have to be imported from Ameriea lu the Spring. Three hundred lives were lost during the revolution in Lima, Peru, during the oloeing days of December, when Pierola became dictator. General Grant has been well received and royally entertained at Havana. An official banquet In his honor took plaee at the palace on the evenlngof theSlth. Russia has not expressed a willingness toiwltbdraw her troop from the West ern frontier, though their presence is a source of uueasinets to the Cabinets of Austria aud Germany. . T11S iniT... IIm ,an douWe-turreted ironclad Duillo, the moat powerful war vessel iu the world, makes over 16 miles an hour. She has a powerful ram, and at the stern a torpedo boat, Itlsannounredthata civil marrlaee ceremony has been performed between Donna Francesco and Garibaldi," the General at the same. time reeoguUlnff uelr two children, Manllo and CMM Mrf- T. Wood's will edit the col- uron which the Salem fMass.) Pbef Vi i henceforth devote to womou and their lb new &ftgfet jmSsHsHsHHsiV ' -TJ iff flTTtiin' i in.- t Xhasrcx B3 '