The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-04-07
CORRESPONDENTS.
A LETTER FROM OREGON.
NEwBURG, OREGON, J
March 20. 1876 {

ED. REPUBLICAN - The continued
rain brings little cheer to your Web
foot correspondent. But we are not
the only Missourian in Oregon who
puts on long face and says, "Well.
don't this beat anything you ever
saw ~ For every one is willing to
admit that we have had more rain of
late than they have known for years.
Still, we have no cold weather; at
least, what We would call cold.
Farmers are looking rather "blue"
because it is too wet to plow. But
"what cannot be cured must be ell
dured."
A WEDDING.
Our quiet ncighhorhood has for
sometime been agitated by the talk
of wedding. AS there has been
none of the fair ones that seemed anx-
ious to take advantage of leap year,
and our young men being very BASH
full (your correspondent not excepted),
matrimonial proceedings have been
slightly on the decline in this yicini-
ty. Sunday. March 18th, Mr.. John
Atkinson, of West Chehalem, Ore
gon, led to the altar one of Missouri's
fair ones-Miss Eliza PARROT, late of
Barnard, NOtsaway county Mo. We
all sat down and partook of a boun-
teous nuptial feast. All seemed to
enjoy themselves.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
The women of our State are inter.
ested in the woman's-rights question,
They do not seem to endorse Susan
B. Anthony's position, "Thqt it is
bread, not the ballot, they want"
Here they have plenty of bread.
They want the ballot, too. In the
"Woman's Rights Association" they
claimed that they have and should
enjoy the right of suffrage. How this
will be decided we are not able to say,
but believe that the time is not far
in the future when this thing will
come up for decision.
SCHOONER LOST.
We learn that o schooner went
ashore offCapeFoulweather some days
since, and it is supposed all OIL hoayd
pcrished. The name of the Inflated
vessel is unknown, also the fate of the
crew. The body of one man was
found in the hull, but the wreck float
ed away before anything definite
could be asccrtained. The loss of the
'Pacific" last November, with over
two hundred on board, seemed to
take the lead on the list Of "lost" dll-
ring the winter. Since then, several
vessels have been driven ashore or
sunk along the Pacific coast. Never
before has there been such loss of
lives and vessels by marine disas-
ter OH this coast as there has been this
winter. We would be little surprised
any time to hear of the loss of some
Of the steamers between Portland
and San Francisco. These steamers
carry hundreds Of passengers each
way weekly. Few, if any call them
safe, yet they will risk it because
they have never sank yet, and if thou.
sands have made the trip safely, why
not /! There seems to be. something
wrong when Inspectors grant certifi-
Gates to such rotten hulks as some of
the o. S. 5. Co.'S lines steamers are.
The investigation at San Francisco
was only a "put up job" we believe,
and seemed altogether "too thin"
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.
A few days ago, at Usatilla, on the
Columbia river, where government
improvements were going on, terri
BILE explosion took place. There were,
it seems, nineteen men at work Oh a
scow, blasting rock out of the rapids
at that place. From some cause UNI
known, quite a quantity of giant pow
der exploded. Two of the men got
into canoe and started toward the
shore a few seconds before the explo-
sion. These two were the only ones
uninjured. Thirteen of the number
were killed instantly, the other four
seriously, if not fatally, injured.
PERSONAL AND GOSSIP.
The apprehension of In dian troubles