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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-07-25
How to Treat the Depraved.

I care not, says well-known pbysi-
clan, how impure a man is In his per-
sonal life, il he will give me supreme
control of his food and drink, I will
pledge myself so to reform him as that
he shall become pure in his conduct in
life. He may be debauchee, gamb-
ler, a profane man, a loafer, q man
whose passions are uppermost, so that
they riot and revel like fire in brush
wood. Notwithstanding, will agree
80 to regulate that mans life that penal
courts and officers of retributive justice
shall have no need to deal with him.
There is only one possibility of failure
in such case, which is that the mans
vital force shall have become 80 ruin
ously used up that he is not able to
stand the taxation which change in ex-
listing habits must necessarily impose.
If he be physically incurable of any
disease, 1 will not take him as an ex-
ample. But if he have constitution
enough to undergo the necessary re-
covery, will agree, under the condi-
tions named above, to cure him, not
only of his disease, but to make him
outwardly decent man. do not care
how debauched or guilty such man
may be. pledge myself that, given
complete supervision OF his table prepa.
rations, will bring him where he will
cheerfully walk in the paths of morality
aAd righteousness.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-07-25
SPARTAN NERVE,
Judge Passes Sentence of Death on the
Son of an Old Friend.

son OF an Old Friend.
A recent letter from McMinnville,
Tenn, says: To-day the jury in the
case of the State against J. Fletch
Woodward, charged with the assassina-
tion of Enoch Cooksy, found guilty as
charged. The counsel for the defence
moved for new trial, but the court re-
fused to grant the request, giving his
reasons in a succinct manner-making
running digest of all the testimony in
the case, and characterizing the murder
as cold-blooded and cowardly.
He called attention of the counsel to
the fact that the matter had undergone
tedious and impartial investigation
before the jury, and no new facts had
been set forth in the affidavits asking a
new trial, to Justify the granting of
the request. Judge Hickerson was
deeply affected throughout his address
to the counsel, and clearly evinced that
nothing but the stern demands of the
law controlled his action.
After disposing of the motion for
new trial, the judge addressed himself
to Woodward, and requested him to
stand on his feet. The counsel for
Woodward asked that he be allowed to
remain on his seat The Judge stated
that the law required the prisoner to
stand up. Woodward arose to his feet,
when the judge proceeded to pass SEN
tence. He said -.
l had hoped when I took the oath
of Office that 1 now fill that the duty of
passing the sentence of death upon any
human being might pass from me. 1t
would have been painful under any cir
cumstances, and if that duty isnow more
painful to any one than yourself, it is
to me. Your father is one of my oldest
and best friends, and to pass the sen
tence of death upon his son is doubly
painful.
GA jury of your country, after q
faithful and tedious hearing of the tes-
timony and counsel, rendered verdict
of guilty of murder in the first degree,
the penalty of which is death and it
only remains for me to discharge duty
1 cannot avoid. The sheriff will, on
Friday, the Oath day of June next,
within one mile of the court house OF
Warren County, between the hours oi
10 and 2 o'clock, hang you by the neck
till you are dead, dead and may God
have mercy on YOU"
The judge was so overcome by his
feelings that he dropped his head on
his hands, and some minutes elapsed
| hafora bo oor1I n ,,roooad With tho bu OF
ness of the court. The prisoner showed
but little outward signs of any emotion
Profound silence reigned in the cour
room, and at the conclusion of the sen
tence the crowd dispersed, satisfied tina
the ends of justice had been served
and, although the penalty was terrible
the demands of offended law were in.
exorabIe.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-07-25
RaYageS of GraSshOnners.

A gentleman who has recently re-
turned to st. Paul from a tour in
Western Minnesota, says that the grass
hoppers have laid waste section of the
country sixty miles wide, and extending
indefinitely from the southern border
in the direction of the Northern Pacific
Railroad. At the present rate of pro-
gress the destroy ers will run over the
border some time before the close of
the season. Dispatches received in st.
Paul represent that there are 1000
people in the devastated region without
food, and in danger of starvation.
Legislative aid is asked. This news
merely confirms the predictions that
were made last year as to the probable
temperance of the grasshopper in
Iowa and Minnesota, and the great
suffering likely to ensue. A more dis
tressing calamity than visitation of
this description can scarcely be inn
agined. s'
Mr.. Atherton, of the American Ex-
press Company, just returned from
travel along the st. Paul and Pacific,
Hastings and Dakota, and Sioux City
Railroads, says the grasshoppers, COM
mencing south of the last-named road,
have devastated 60 miles wide, moving
northward toward and beyond the st.
Paul and Pacific, and will, at the present
rate of progress, probably clear off all
vegetation on a strip that wide as far
north as the Northern Pacific road. A
dispatch declares that there are 1000
people in the grasshopper region with
out food or means to procure food, and
urges that an extra session of the Legis.
lature be called to give $100,0 fol
their relief.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-07-25
PompOslty Flattened Out,

William Penn and Thomas Story,
travelling together in Virginia, being
caught in shower of rain, uncere-
moniously sheltered themselves from il
in q tobacco barn, the owner of which
happening to be in, thus accosted
them "You have great deal of i'm.
pudence to trespass upon my premises
you enter without leave. Do you
know who am" To which was an
swered, No." "Why, then, I would
have you know that 1 am a justice OF
the peace !" Thomas Story replied,
"My friend here makes such things as
thou art he is Governor of Pennsyl-
vania." The would-be great man
quickly abated his haughtiness.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-07-25
Cheating Grocers in England.

In apt adulteration
-,- Our tradesmen now exult
They'd kill the English nation,
Both infant and adult.
In trade what lots of trickeryl
In ale how little malt! ......
The coffee's fun of chiccory,
The beer is full Of salt.
Nutrition for the nursery,
81 For babies plump and arch, . .
Turns out upon cursory
Inspection to be-starch
W Maizena, and oswego 80 20 ..g
Are starch without the blue;
But where the deuce will he go
Who dares such things to do7 ..
What though man has led list
OF traders of renown? ......
Even a Moscow medalist
The analyst runs down.
And o how sad to utter
The statement Punch has seen,
That even best fresh butter
Is made from butterine
The truthful grocer non est
Alas his frauds are gross .....
Neither is vintner honest
Nor brewer, inter nos. f
-, If you would wear gray locks on
Brains that with age won't fail,
Grow your own sheep and oxen,
And brew your own good ale.
WIZ Punch.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-07-25

"Carbolic acid plentifully sprinkled
in room will drive out the flies" And
the human occupants, too,
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-01-09
The Oregon State Tsmneranna nninn.


The second annual meeting of the
State Temperance Union will be held in
the city OF Salem, commencing Monday,
February l6, 1874. The attention of the
friends OF Temperance is called to Artf-
Gle III. of the Constitution, which reads
as follows: 'FThe Union shall be COM
posed of delegates duly elected and ac-
credited from all Temperance Societies,
Churches and other religious bodies
that enioin the duty of temperance upon
their members as q rule of faith and
practice, within the State of Oregon
Societies, Churches and other OrganiZa-
tions coming under the requirements of
said Art. III. will be entitled to one dele
gate for the organization and one for
every twenty members or fraction of
twenty.
Arrangements have been made with
the railroad and steamboat companies
as follows: Delegates travelling over the
lines of the o. * c. r. r. and O. c. r. r.
will pay full fare going to the session
and will be returned free upon presenta-
tion of certificate signed by myself Del
egates will be charged half fare going
and coming by w. r. t. Co.
Intemperance and the liquor traffic,
with their whitening and blightinr in
fluences, leave their impress of L cry,
sorrow and crime in every social Gle
and in every sanctuary, and are curse
to every human interest. Through the
perverting influences of these evils, the
country is to-day filled with wrecks OF
manhood, sOrrOw-stricken families and
starving children who appeal to us for
aid and relief These monster evils are
the greatest barriers to social develop
ment and happiness. The cause OF
christianity, the cause OF common hu-
manity, demand that these evils be re-
moved. The license system is stupen-
dOus fraud upon our social life. 1t is
blot upon our Nations otherwise fair
escutcheOn, which should be removed
without the least possible delay. To
unite all moral elements in q ceaseless
warfare against these evils; to secure
unity of sentiment and action; to give
the cause its true dignity and power
and thereby secure such legislation as is
necessary TO remove the widespread
ruin and desOlatiOn caused by these
evils, are the objects of the association.
| We ask the Christian Clergy and the
| Christian Churches within our State to
/ give US their sympathy and most ac-
/ tive, earnest effort in this work. Let
us come together as Christian and hon
est men and women, determined to ar
/ rive at true solution of this great ques-
! ton, and join heart and hand in the no
ble effort of delivering humanity from
! the curse of the Rum Fiend.
L. w. RYAN,
President Oregon State Temperance
/ Union.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-01-09
ARRIVED.

The mail from Eastern Oregon and
Washington Territory arrived in this
city on Tuesday, having endured the
ice and snow blockade for over n month.
Certainly a far more important petit
tion than the one put In circulation
by malcontent Republicans, and
signed, occasionally, by drunken
Democrat, for the removal Of Senator
Mitchell, could be sent among the peO-
pie, praying Congress to pass, without
delay, the appropriation bill for
necessary Improvements upon the Co
lumbia river.
When we see the insane zeal with
which some of our brethren strive to oruin
what they can no longer rule, and turn
from the good work which they have left
undone TO their futile attempts TO do that
which had better be left alone, we are
lost in wonder and amazement at the
incapaeity of the peoples protectors.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-01-09
LETTER FROM LAFAYETTE.

Dear Mrs. Dlu,iicdy:-I have just
finished reading the New NORTHWEST,
and desire to say a few words through
its columns in reply to the excellent adj
dress Of Mrs. NJ. o. Brown.
This lady quotes largely from Judge
Grants late speech at an Iowa fair, in
which he lays down a feasible plan for
roterS TO pursue, but Of what avail would
ii he to us women? We cannot vote
without subjecting ourselves to fine and
imprisonment. Again, she closes her
able letter by appealing to all men OF
whatever party that believe in Woman
Suffrage, to help form political party
with that principle for its basis.
Were it not for the party slavery un-
der which men, imagining themselves
to be freemen, labor as Republicans or
Democrats, slavery which they hug 50
tightly that they never will voluntarily
cast it off-unless their party fails to
keep them in ofiice-something might
be done for women in that way. Then
there is another reason which / can best
illustrate by the following little story:
While the farmers of this county were
busy with the initatory steps to organize
Grange, one OF them, an elder in the
church, by the way, was asked to Join.
~ can't jine the Grange" said he,
grufily.
81 am sorry" was the reply; 1--WE had
counted on you"
"No, I can't jine," said the voter, ''be-
cause they've let the women in, and
they'll work it round so as to get to vote
d'rec'ly, and / won't have nuthin' to do
with it. The women is gettin' above
their privileges anyway. They don't
stay at home enough now, as st. Paul
commanded, and / tell you won't have
nothin' to do with Oranges"
\ great many men are just like that
old farmer. If you will keep the women
out of any prospect of securing power
they are ready to use woman's influence
and form new party right off. There are
Others, too, who are willing that women
should vote if they could be kept from
the possibility of holding Office.
Women want men to understand thai
they claim individual freedom on ex.
actly the same political basis with them
selves. not only want to vote but tC
be as free to hold any office which may
be qualified to fill as any man is.
One word of cheer, and L am done
Your paper grows better all the time.
hope you will be well sustained in your
labors. or one thing be assured-my
interest has not abated in the least In
the great cause of woman's enfranchise-
ment. Yours for freedom,
a. NJ. MARTIN.
LAFAYETTE, Or, January 2, 1874.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-01-09
CENTENNIAL.

Hon. a. J. Dufur addresses a stirring ap-
peal to the people through the columns of
the Mecs, urging decisive action in Cen
tennial matters, telling them that "all in
formation TO citizens OF this State who
wish to attend or exhibit in this great
national show, will be furnished through
the Centennial State Board of Mana
gers, and all application for space must
be made to the Director-G General through
this Board. The State Board Of Oregon
will consist Of His Excellency l.. +.
Grover, of Salem; s. G.. Reed, Esq, of
Portland; Rev. +. r. Geary, of Albany;
Hon. Jesse Applegate, OF IoncalIa; Jo-
seph Beezely, Esq, of The Dalles; with
the Commissioner and Commissioner
Alternate, who will permanently organ
ize at an early day, and make all posi-
BILE arrangements for seeing that Oregon
is not behind any other state in the Tn
ion in this grand national show"
We are awaiting orders from Mr.
Dulur as to the ladies' department of
this great work, and hope soon to hear
from him.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-01-09
asn NEAR. AND YET so FAR. "
BY JOIN A. wo,rAoE.


n. 1T Is so sad and dreary tonight
The cold winter rain, how il does patter,
natter down upon my roof! And the
chill wind, how it blows, how it roars
around my lonely dwelling aud sighs
and sings a funeral strain in unison
with my sad heart. My thoughts are
far away amid the yine-olad hills of the
sweet, sunny South, the home OF my
childhood.
Ny friends-where are they? Some
are sleeping silently in the village
ehurch-yard; there the birds may sing
the squirrel may gambol, the rains ol
winter and the summer sunbeams may
fall, but they sleep, quietly sleep, and
heed not the summer rain, nor the win
ter's cold. The bright sunbeam is not
seen by them. Sigh on, o winter rain
and spring, weave chaplets Of flowers
around their guarded dust! Shine
brightly, o Sun, and pour thy golden
beams in halo of glory upon theiI
graves.
Mother! thy wayward son has not for
gotten thee. Mother! let me lisp thy
name tonight as Of yore! A mother
love! what holy, what lovely thing
Mother, thou art thinking of me to-
night. feel it, and oh, may we meei
again. Thy once raven tresses are white
as snow, but thou art my own deal
mother yet. Father, brothers and my
only sister, are you thinking of me to-
night? Do they think of me, or are
they listening to the clear, bright
streams of Tennessee d? Perchance they
are asleep; il so, may the sunny smile.
of guardian angels protect them. Rol
on, thy swift wheels, oh, ruthless Time
You have plowed deep furrows in my
soul. When will the spring time Of
Eternity come to me with its amaran
thine flowers and its angel music? DC
the angels think of me
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-01-09
BE CONSISTENT. "

80, Consistency, thou arr a jewell" and o,
Airs. puniway, thou shouidsi he consistent. But
Jon alnT
The above elegant sample of remark
able rhetorical diction is clipped from
the last weeks issue OF the McMinnville
Prtcnt Outside, and constitutes a char
acteristic caudle appendage to a verbose
accusation against us which rambles
through mortal column of ''sound and
fury signifying nothing"
II the Obtuse editor OF the aforesaid
paper has not yet perceived the very
valid motive, so palpable TO every COM
prehensiye brain, that caused us, just
for once, some two years ago, to give
our brother man a taste Of the nauseous
dose which he was continually, at that
time, thrusting down the throats Ol
leading Woman Sufiragists-a dose
which proved radical cure, too, con-
sequently there was no need that II
should ever be repeated-if he Is yet SO
dull as to fail utterly to understand
whence the vital antidote for woman's
long continued insults came, we teaI
that 1t will not be possible for us to PEN
citrate his darkened understanding al
this late hour.
But while he Is preaching so elegantly
upon consistency" had he not better
pause and ask himself if il would not be
well to cast the beam out of the eye OF
the head man In the National Admins.
trstion, that the people might thus sec
clearly TO pick the notes from eyes be.
longing to the lesser lights?
Men who have vainly and ineopsist.
enly sought TO cure a Mitchell ulcs,
with a Nesmith poultice, while striving
to their utmost to cover up Grant gan
grene, are hardly deemed by competen
judges to be the proper persons to preael
"consisAncy" TO us.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-01-09
PERIODICALS.
ST. NICHOLAS


For January is the raciest, spiciest,
most sensible magazine for children and
youth that has yet come to our table.
la CREME DE LA CREME
Is the title of q monthly publication of
choise music for advanced players, pub
lished by ]. i. Peters < Co., at 81 a year,
at 500 Broadway, New York. The con-
tents of the present number are Alpine
Horne, Prussian Eagle, Sleep, my Child,
Cugus Amman and Ia Harpe, which
occupy "a pages OF solid music.
PETERS MUSICAL MONTHLY
Is by the same publishers rs the other
work, terms So year, and the January
number contains % pages Of songs and
instrumental music, social and sacred,
well selected. At the price it is the
cheapest way good music can be secured.
This is an old established magazine, in
the 18th year of its publication, and has
become standard work.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-01-09
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Mrs. NJ. J. H, Canyonville, writes:
IF you have any more of those month
old babies on hand to bind out, just re-
serve one for us, as We are so unfortu-
nate as to have none Of our own"
Sorry to say we are unable to supply
the demand.
Hon. Aaron Payne writes: "When
my subscription to the NEW NoRTH-
WEST expires please discontinue it, as l
am not exactly pleased with the way
you manage woman's rights, or rather,
her wrongs" Then, good friend, a bet
ter way than TO discontinue your pat
ronage to the paper is to furnish us with
your views as to the proper way to man
age "woman's wrongs" We promise to
print for you anything you may write,
no matter how hard it may bear upon
our own ideas, provided its publication
in these columns will not, IN our judg-
ment, work adversely TO woman's en-
franchisement. Your subscription ex-
pires with No. A.
NJ. ]. r.. Salem, says: 'T have not
troubled you with objections to your
course for good while, but now 1 want
to find fault with you for enshrouding
Mrs. NJ. o. Browns appeal to men to
join woman's suffrage party in a wet
blanket. If / were a man 1 shouldn't
want to join party whose leading pa
per would class me among broken-down
political hacks, if / did, We simply
told the truth, friend, and while We are
very sorry it Is the truth, it is better to
tell the truth plainly that the people
may not be deceived. Many men came
to US year or two ago, proclaiming
themselves woman suffragists, ready to
cast aside personal politics to forward
/ the enfranchisement of woman. Well,
these men, without exception, voted
the Greeley ticket, when they knew that
by so doing they were stultifying their
woman suffrage record. Again, last fall,
when a good woman suffragist was out
for Congress, many men who had de-
clared themselves suffragist from prin-
eiple either stayed away from the polls
on election day or voted directly against
the woman suffrage candidate and in
favor of the shabbiest foe to the move
ment that dirty politicians were able to
set up. If such men think that women
have no better sense than to be gulled
by such conduct, they reckon without
their host. But our friend will ask,
'How, then, are women to get the bal
lot? Surely it is bad policy to speak o.
our friends as you do" We answer
that women are to get the ballot as the
negroes did, through the necessities o.
some existing or to-be-created political
party, which has interests that women:
votes are needed to subserve. Occasion
ally you will find a strong, noble maI
like Higginson or Blackwell or Reed
who will lay his PARTISAN isms aside ant
work with and for the woman move
ment unselfishly. Such men have
sense enough to know that we tell tn,
truth and mean them no injustice by
speaking of the broken-down politica
hacks who want to be Identified gitl
almost any movement, provided the!
can rule it, but who are ready to chang
their colors when their own pet preju
diees fail to be appreciated. We are a
anxious as any one that Mrs. Brown
plan could work, but We have tested tn,
the matter, and we know it wont.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-01-09
CENTENNIAL TEA PARTIES IN
BOSTON.

The New England Woman Suffrage
Association commemorated the Centen-
nial of the famous Boston Tea Party,
December 18th, in a manner that proves
the earnestness and ability Of its men,
bers. Faneuil Hall was densely iammed,
and the enthusiastic audience entered
heartily into the spirit OF the protest
against taxation without representa-
tiOn;" n protest quite as necessary now
as that other and more belligerent one OF
r century ago which this was intended
to both commemorate and emulate.
Speeches were made by Col. T. w.
Higginson, Julia Ward Howe, Lucy
Stone, Henry b. Blackwell, William
Lloyd Garrison, Mary +. Eastman
Stephen J. Foster and many others.
One of the anomalies Of human in-
telIect, and a striking example OF the
fallibility of human justice, is exhibited
in the fact that to-day the Government
OF the United States of America, while
glorying in its rebellion against the
tyranny Of the mother Government
which sought to control il without per-
mission, and tax it without consent, yet
persistently pursues the same course
against one-half of its citizens, while
continually justifying itself in con
demning the usurpatiOns Of the Gov
ernment Of King George.
At the same time that the present
century protestants against taxa
ton without representation" were
holding forth in Fanueil Hall, an
other dense crowd was listening il
fremont Temple to the glorification o
the present United States Government
Did Collector Russell, who was calle,
to respond for the President OF tn,
I United States, imagine the Significance
OF his words when he said on that oc
casion that the theorists OF to-day ar
the practical men of the future? Di,
his hearers, who glory in the rebellion
that made them free men, feel no ting
OF shame at the reflection that as tn
the mother Government did by thei
protesting fathers one hundred year
ago, so are they dealing by their Ow
protesting wives and mothers now?
1t is very strange to contemplate tn
little consistency with which the worl
is governed.