The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-10

we were soon ensconced in his hospita-
BILE home, his good wife greeting US
gladly.
In all our travels we have never seen
spot that equals this in beauty. It is
little valley containing about eighteen
square miles, cuddled up under an en-
closure of mountains at least nine hund-
red feet high, which are covered at in
tervals with groves of massive ever
greens. At the time of our visit, both
hills and dales were coated with snow,
though not deep enough to hide the
rank bunch-grass that everywhere
adOrns the beauteous landscape. The
valley is Of course thiekIy settled, the
farms being mostly small, and all fenced
and cultivated. The little town of Cove
sits under the lee of the farthest hills,
and contains a number of fine dwellings
store, Mr.. Mcdaniel proprietor, and a
Universalist society and church, of
which Rev. Mr.. Morrison is pastor.
The people are almost all suffragists.
Our lectures were given in the church,
and well patronized, despite the intense
cold.
Many of the women in Grand Ronde
valley, of which The Cove is a part, own
extensive property, carry on business
and pay heavy taxes, although they
cannot vote. Mrs. Hendershott,
(whose husband is Register in the State
Land Office, and whose business calls
him to Uniontown) has, in the past
year, carried on large farm, raised
over thousand bushels of grain, and
put up hundred tons of hay. She has
paid her own farm-hands, done her own
housekeeping, and commanded uni
versal respect. Her husband often asks,
"Why shouldn't she have a vote ? Her
hired men are all voters"
The effects of Uerdigris poisoning at
Baker City still fingered upon us, and,
after the second lecture, we were taken
seriously i'll. Couldn't have been in
better hands, though, for Mrs. Hender-
shott, who is styled the "good Samari-
TAM" doctored and nursed US, and by
Saturday morning so far restored us that
we were ready to accept a seat in the
wagon of Mr.. Rees, a brother-in-law of
our friend Ben. Hall, Esq, of Wood
burn, and, accompanied by Mrs. Hen
dershOtt, Mr.. Rees and Rev. Mr.. Nor
rison, we went over to La Grande,
where we became the guest of Hon.
Daniel Chaplain and his splendid wife,
where again we were doctored by gen.
tie, womanly hands; and where, COM
PEELED to lie by, like damaged steamer,
for repairs, we waited and rested till
Monday evening, and then met a large
assembly in the Methodist Chnrch,
Elder Hines presiding, and the people
listening with marked decorum to a
temperance lecture.
The snow, which a few days ago
wrapped everything anear and afar In
its spOtless coverlet of icy down, has at
length departed upon the wings of a
wild "Chinook," and the air at this
writing is as mild as a Webfoot April
day.
The change in the weather changes our
programme, and tomorrow we are to
proceed Walla- Walla-ward. A. J.D.
November 90.
P. SIT is excessively mortifying to
the soul of an editor to perpetrate an at
tempted ''goak," which, when printed,
requires the next weeks paper to SO ex-
plain that the reader may see where the
wit comes in.
If anybody but ourseIf can see the
point of our declaration in our Union
town letter, that we were "six hundred
miles from home," when, really, the
journey from Portland to La Grande
"bOth ways' only makes the distance,
they are more astute than the poor
joker, who, for once, attempted to be IA
cetiOus and failed. AID.