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Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-02-13
PUBLICATIONS.
PACIFIC COAST.
The Prairie Farmer

Was established in 1911, and is now the lead
ing Agricultural and Family Journal in the
West. It is devoted to the interests of Agri-
culture Horticulture and Stock Breeding, the
Apiary, Poultry, Household, etc. it has also
literary and young folks department., and
the day. It is published weekly by TIE
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-02-13

And 500 acres are on the San Gabriel valley
plains, lying West of the Mission OF San Ga
brel and adjoining the famous Lake Vine
ward Tract, the property of Hon. }. ID. WILL
son. The main-trunk line of the
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-02-13
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Assessment Notice.
Farmers and Merchants Bank OF Los
Angeles.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a meet.
V ing of the Board of Directors of the
-armers' and Merchants Bank of Los Ange-
es,held on the 9th day of December, 1873, an
essment (No. 81 of fifty dollars $50 per
tfc was levied upon the capital stock of
operation, payable Immediately, in
Uui states gold coin.
y ) stock upon which this assessment
sh.,h remain unpaid on the
LIST day of March. 1876,
Will be delinquent and advertised for sale ut
public auction, and unless payment be made
before, will be sold on Saturday, The 18th day
of March, 1876, to pay the delinquent as
sessment, together with costs of advertising
and expenses ofsale.
ISAIAS w. HELLMAN,
Los Angeles, Jan. 25th, 1876. Cashier.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-02-13
CAMEILIAS.

We offer large stock OF very fine plants ut
from s33 to 500 per 100. For catalogues OF
these. as well as of AZALEAS, RHODODEN,
DRONS and Evergreen Trees in great variety
address ~. b. PARSONS a. co..
Box 90, Flushing, N. Y.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-26
ANOTHER VICTORY.

We notice in an exchange the an
nouncement that the California Medical
Society on the Goth ultimo agreed by a
unanimous vote to admit women to full
membership. Thus, one step at time,
are the courageous and persistent women
of the land advancing in the highway
of justice toward the citadel of equal
rights. And though the gates of the
castle be triple guarded by arrogance,
ignorance, and prejudice, yet will these
grim wardens in due time be forced to
yield the keys to tolerance and Justice,
and as the massy bolts and bars, wrought
in the forge of tyranny, and strength
ened by the weight of ages, fly back at
the bidding of the new wardens, women
will enter their rightful heritage as CO.
laborers in the work of humanity with
their brethren. The next step in ad-
vance will be the opening of the legal
profession to those women of California
who have the desire, opportunity, and
ability to engage in its labors and share
its emoluments. Let the good work &c
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-26
LETTER FROM IOWA.
Portland, May 10, 1876.

To THE EDITOR OF THE New NORTHWEST:
Persons who, after the lapse of quar-
ter of century, have visited places ia
miliar to their youth, can imagine
something of the feelings with which I
looked around me on our arrival at what
was once my home, in Iowa. We
reached here on the 4th of May, after
pleasant trip by sea and rail.
After looking around me a while, L
began to recognize some things, but
there is still strange popularity about
the country to me, and one that l never
thought of before 1 left here, and that is,
it seems so small. The people have
small farms, which produce good crops
of corn, which, together with pork,
seems to be the staple product, so far
as have observed.
The time was when all account of a
| trip across the continent might have
been written with a prospect that some
body would be interested in reading it,
but since travel back and forth has be-
come so frequent it is too common a
subject to write about, much less read.
1 will mention, however, one incident
of our journey, and that was terrific
thunder storm that took place on the
night of April 10Th, as we were going
up Weber Canon. The deafening peals
of thunder and binding flashes of light
ming were enough to scare Webfoot of
q years standing out of his wits. Then
the rain-it rains in Oregon, but moth
ing like this deluge. A land slide oc-
CURED, which delayed our train for
some time, but we finally moved on to
Laramie Station, place of about $500
inhabitants. 1t was q melancholy time
for some of them, as they had just
buried eight of their citizens, who had
been killed by the Indians.
For the encouragement of the farmers
in Oregon will say that that is not the
only country visited by late rains and
unreasonable frosts, for here it is still
raining, and yesterday itsnowed. There
is as yet no corn planted nor gardens
made, and but little plowing done. The
roads are almost impossible. We will
go on to Ohio in a few days, from
whence will probably write you again.
G. w. B.
Given, Iowa, May 5, 1876.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-26
LIBERAL CONVENTION.

The Liberals and Free Thinkers of
Oregon aud Washington Territory are
requested to meet in Convention at
Portland, Oregon, July 8, 1875, at 10
o'clock A. NJ, at the rooms of the Lib
eral Association, for the purpose of per-
fecting a general organization of the
Liberals and Free Thinkers throughout
the country, and for such other business
as may properly come before such Con-
vention. 1t is hoped every community
will strive to be represented.
By order of the Liberal Association of
Portland, Oregon. J. B. GARRISON,
H. B. NICHOLAS, President
SRprntarv
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-26
EQUAL RIGHTS AND MATRIMoNY

The sentiment that there is a position,
a sphere for woman outside of matri-
mony, is gaining popularity and doing
much to redeem and elevate marriage,
since it tends to the prevention of many
Of those uneongenial and unjustifiable
unions, which have been directly and
indirectly the result of woman's une-
quail position. Thousands of wives have
passed lifetime void of happiness to
themselves or others, when, if they had
been taught when young to believe no
sin greater than unjustifiable marriage,
and to regard upright self-dependence
preferable to marriage with sordid mo-
tives, would doubtless have been ben
eft instead of curse to the race. When
woman once stands on a plane equal
with man, wise and happy matrimonial
relations viii be the rule-not the ex-
ception, as now.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-26
NEITHER DOLLS NOR DUMMIES. )

1t is quite refreshing to find a man
occasionally who is disgusted with the
current clap-trap about the extravagant
desires and tastes of American women,
and who is manly enough to state plain
facts in their defense. The infrequency
of such an occurrence tempts US to pub
lish the following from the Puget Sound
Express:
Opinions differ as to what is ''the most serious
social national question of the age" Some
think it is "temperance;" some think it is ia
Dor reform;" others think it is something else;
but one Of our Eastern exchanges believes it to
be "matrimony on 81 200 year" That is a Sc
rious question and no mistake, but we do not
think this inquiry of an Eastern contemporary
very difficult to answer: "Where can honest,
competent, and even cultivated poor men get
wives that will occupy their positions and cir
cumstances, and be happy in them until hon
est toll and thoughtful endeavor have raised
them higher?" Right here on Puget Sound,
right here in Washington Territory, "honest,
competent, and even cultivated poor menu can
get wives, their peers in every particular, who
win do their full share of "honest toll and
| thoughtful endeavorn to raise them higher,
Thousands of that kind have been found, and
thousands more can be found if sought dill
gently and in amanly way. American women
are neither the dolls nor the dummies that
some men think them to be.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-26
A STEP IN ADVANCE.

The dispatches inform US that resp
luton has been offered at the General
Conference of the NJ. E. Church, now in
session in Baltimore, to the effect that
women be declared eligible to the office
of leader, steward, exhorter, and local
preacher. Whatever disposition that
honorable body may make of the reso-
luton at this time, it is evident to all
that sooner or later the power of women
will be felt in the church to an extent
that will compel a recognition of their
rights, whether pompous bishops and
bigoted clergy like 1t or not.
In justice to the Methodist Church,
however, it should be said that women
have long been allowed more of a place
in its active work than is accorded to
them in almost any other church. We
can remember quarter of a century
ago, when our mother, patient, devOut,
and toiling Christian that she was,
would deny herself the much-cOveted
privilege of attending the morning SER
mon, that something nice might be
cooked and waiting to be devoured by
the bevy of ministers whose arrival on
each Sabbath converted our paternal
home into a Sunday restaurant, with
meals from II till o'clock. And these
godly men, supposing, perhaps, that if
this hand-maiden of the Lord wished to
know anything, she could task her hus-
band at home," seemed to think this
self-denying labor on her part was as
necessary to the salvation of mankind,
as was an implicit belief in the brim-
stone doctrines which they so loudly
proclaimed from the village pulpit.
"Six days shalt thou labor and do all
thy workp could not by any possibility,
even in the most creed-bound days, be
made broad enough to cover the servile
condition in which the "mothers in
Israen found themselves. We won
der whether it never occurred to
them that the curse, ain the sweat OF
! thy face shalt thou eat bread" had by
some strange mischance been added to
their own, as they lifted the steaming
viands from the glowing stove and
wiped the perspiration from their fore
heads, and bade their soft-handed, cool
headed masters "eat and be filled"
We imagine that had a good angel
whispered the purport of the resolution
referred to above in the ear of one OF
them as, weary and worn with manual
labor, she donned her spare dress and
prepared to attend the evening service,
she would have been no less amazed
than delighted at the prospect-de-
lighted not for herself, but for the little
daughters that were growing up around
her, destined, so far as she could see, to
follow in her weary footsteps.
1t would, indeed, ill become church
that has been blessed with the untiring
labors of Mrs. Van Cott to ignore the
claims which such as she have upon it
for recognition of the work so valiantly
performed in the Masters vineyard, and
all friends of equal rights must rejoice
if the resolution in question is adopted
by the Conference.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-26
Secretary.

The editor of the Eastern Oregon
Tribune recites, in pathetic terms, the
impositions practiced upon "copper"
colored sister" by her lazy lord, and af-
ter suggesting blood-curdling punish
ments, calls upon us to come up to her
defense. Inasmuch as this particular
field of literature seems especially
adapted to Brother Abbott's brilliant
rhetorical powers, we decline to inter-
fere, though we don't doubt that the
aborigine could appreciate and under
stand logic quite as we'll as some editors
we wot of.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-26
YAMHILL COUNTY W. S. A
May %, 1876.

Concerning the recent session of this
organization a McMinnville, Mrs. Ann
NJ. Martin, Corresponding Secretary,
writes: "Our meeting at McMinnville
was decided success. 1t was as inter-
esting a meeting as 1 ever attended.
Every one seemed to enter into the
spirit of the occasion, and worked to
make the meeting a success" What
ever suffragists are doing in other local
tiles, those of Yamhill are not asleep
We hope the "sovereigns" of that
county will see to it that this portion of
the citizens thereof will not be so shame
fully misrepresented in the Legislature
as they were at the last session.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-26

DIR. Dillon, of the Pacific Christian
AdUocate, "though differing with us
widely in his religious views" as be
has an undoubted right to do, is yet SC
tolerant in his opinions and SO kindly
in the expression of them as to COM
maud the respect both of his readers and
ours. In proof of this, witness the
following, taken from the last issue OF
the journal over which he presides with
such ability and dignity:
While on Puget Sonnd we met Mrs. A. ].
Duniway, who exhibits a zeal and persever-
ance in the prosecution of her self-imposed
mission, worthy of all emulation. She lectures
sells her books, visits, canvasses for subscrib-
ers to her paper, in every place she comes TO.
Although differing widely from her in religious
views, we rejoice at the temporal prosperity
which her genius and toll have enabled her to
achieve. Let the lords of creation take lesson.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-26
RECENT EVENTS.

A fire at Green River, Wyoming, on
the Goth, destroyed about $1,000 worth
of property.
Daniel Drew is in a critical state of
health, with small prospects of i'm
provement.
Snow fell in Powder River Valley on
Monday and Tuesday of last week to
the depth of seven inches.
Ben Holladay's property at his West
Chester county IN. " farm was sold at
sheriff's sale on the 18th, to satisfy judg-
ments.
Charles Francis Adams has been Sc
lected by the Centennial Committee of
New York City for orator on the Fourth
of July, 1876.
From $4,000 to $4,000 persons were
within the Centennial Grounds on last
Monday. The paying visitors on Sat
urday numbered IS, 1872.
The Senate on the 22d confirmed the
nomination of Pierrepont as Minister to
England, Taft as Attorney-General, and
Cameron as Secretary of War.
A hail-storm of great fury passed over
Morristown, n. J., on the 21st. The
hail-stones killed chickens and many
birds on the wing. Plate glass was shat
tered as easily as common glass. Some
hail-stones s. inches in circumference
were found.
The funerals of the murdered consuls
took place at Salonica on the 18th with
great ceremony, and in manner salts
factory to every one. Perfect order was
preserved. A Paris dispatch says it is
expected that the widows of the consuls
will each receive two hundred thousand
dollars indemnity.
Mitchell has submitted a resolution
instructing the committee on commerce
to inquire into the extent and condition
of the salmon fisheries on the Columbia
River in Oregon and Washington Ter
ritory and report bill for the regula-
tion of such fisheries and protection of
artificial Matching in said river; adopted.
Frank NJ. Pixley, one of the delega-
tion appointed by San Francisco to
urge action on the Chinese question by
the Federal Government, appeared be-
fore the House committee on foreign af-
fairs, accompanied by Congress-
man Piper, and presented an argument
on the subject. Among other things,
he stated that there were 10000 Chinese
in California, of the lowest class of Coo
lies, Mongolian criminals; that the ar
rivals number not less than 1000 per
month, and that the State is, in fact,
rapidly becoming China's Botany Bay.
The subcommittee on expenditures
in the Treasury Department, investigat-
ing the bureau of captured and aban-
doned property, is of the opinion that
Bristow's course has been entirely cor
rect, but in the administration of his
predecessors, Richardson and Boutwell,
and McCulloch-especially the latter
the committee finds an inexhaustible
fund of evidence of the most startling
character. Thus far there is an unex-
planned deficit of over Sc, 100000 Sixty
seven thousand dollars are charged
against S. H. Kaufraun, who was at
that time clerk in charge of attorneys
account, and will be called upon to ex-
plain what he did with the money.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-26
PURCHASING DEPARTMENT.

Mrs. S. G. G.: Sent hat Odd.
Mrs. G. A. H.: Sent bonnet 23d.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. A: Sent bracelets 23d.
Hattie: The polonaise is again in
vogue.
Mrs. n. NJ: The plated ware you
mention will cost from S3S to $40, owing
to quality. Can get very nice and war
ranted for $35.
Miss G. A: Can send you a pattern
for the full suit for 81. Patterns of all
kinds range from 30 to so and 75 cents
for the garment
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-26

beautiful young wife, with an occa-
sional newspaper notice like "Mr. -,
with his beautiful and accomplished
lady, arrived this morning, and stops
at the Palace Hotel" Now, would not
that be gratifying, and look well in
print? And why should an old woman
play smash with all his fine hopes q?
Stop, 1 beseech you, and don't advocate
your pernicious doctrine any more; ''for
it can't be did" We propose to hold
on to our rights as we have them now,
and not advance single step in
your proposition of emancipation of
women"
Portland, May 10, 1876.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-26
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

F. NJ. B., Salem: Note received, and
order attended to.
Mrs. NJ. F. c., Lafayette: Please let
us know if the package sent per steamer
"Beaver" was received by you. If so,
we hope for good results.
Mrs. ]. A. J., Salem: The article rel
ative to Abigail Adams, from the ED
itor's Easy Chair' in Harper'S Maga-
zine for March, was published in the
New NORTHWEST of April 7th.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-26
NOTICE.

Agents will please take notice that it is a
great tax upon us TO pay express charges upon
mall sums. and they will confer great favor
by remitting to us through money orders or
egistered letters.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-26

At the meeting of Plymouth Church
on the 18th, Henry G. Bowen was unan-
imously expelled.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-26

Under this head the New York
Graphic thus discourses relative to the
recent Convention of Woman Suffra-
gists in that city:
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-01
An Example from Boston.

The telegraph announces that Abraham
jackson, of Boston, has been sentenced to
ten years in prison. Badly informed people
may Jump at the conclusion that Abraham
jackson is probably a poor wretch who has
stolen ham and is now the victim Of indig-
nant justice. We have been SO used to
these indignant manifestations of outraged
Justice against ham stealers in this city that
any such conclusion is natural. But it is
all wrong. Abraham Jackson was lawyer,
good, pious man." who prayed in season
and out Of season. We do not know if there
is bar association in Boston, but it is Ger
tain that Abraham jackson is a member if
there is. We do not know if Boston is
blessed with o reform party, but if SO
Abraham jackson is sure to be distin-
guished member. In fact, Abraham Jack
son has been all that q lawyer could be or
should be. And now he goes to State
Prison!
1t seems that Abraham jackson turned out
to be false trustee. He took the money Of
his clients and Invested" it so badly that
the clients never saw it again. We do not
know how he Invested" it, whether in Pa
cifc Mail or Union Pacific, or in any of those
attractive stocks which are so tempting to
trustees in New York. But the money went.
What is more to be deplored the courts took
an uncharitable view Of what Abraham Jack
son did. If he had fallen into his mis-
fortunes" in New York, how tcnderly we all
should have cared for his reputation! His
name would have been kept out of the news
papers in order not to wound his 'suscepti-
bilities." Ifany impcrtinent lawyer had moved
to strike his namo from the rolls The Supreme
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-01
NEW PORK HERALD SATURDAY. APRIL l87s-TRIPLE SHEET

Court would have denied the motion as
promptly as it denied the motion to strike
of the name Of one of the founders
of our Bar Association. If he had pre-
ferred trip to Europe to ease his "tired
brain" he would have been escorted to the
steamer with flowers and music, and his
partners and friends would have deluged
the newspapers with interviews and ex-
plantations, as was the case when an unfor-
tunate fellow citizen found it necessary to
go to Europe so hurriedly few days ago.
More than all, Abraham Jackson would have
been the theme Of special prayer by fellow
Christians. But in cold, selfish Boston
always narrow and ungenerous Boston
Abraham jackson was sent to Jail. There is
this consolation, however, which we adj
vance for the benefit of our brethren of the
Bar Association, that only in the State which
hanged the Salem witches would a citizen as
eminent and unfortunate as Abraham jack
son have been sent to jail for breach of
duty as a trustee.
And yet, after all, we think the place for
Abraham jackson is in Jail. 1t is hard to
speak SO harshly of Christian and learned
man like Abraham jackson, but the offence
of which he was convicted has become so
come for severe punishment The lawyer
who proves false to his trust, and in doing
SO brings misery and poverty to trusting
clients by squandering the money left to his
care, commits despicable crime. He is o
robber of the poor-a plunderer of the widow
there can be no excuse. We may soy that
bad investments are made through errors Of
judgment. Very true. If lawyer takes
his own money and SO "errs in judgment"
as to invest it in some Of Jay Gould's wild
cat stocks, or in Georgia and North Carolina
bonds, or in General Schenck's mining
shares, it is his own risk. If he loses the
money it is his own matter wholly, and no
one will quarrel with him. But when
it comes to investing the property Of
wards and clients in the hope that the
trustee may have some personal gain while
turning the investments over" there can
not be too severe punishment. Nothing is
easier than to make these investments sure.
We have government securities of our own,
and of France and England. good trust COM
panies approved by the laws and mort
cages on real estate not too large for safety.
The handling of such trust is as easy as
the multiplication table; SO there is no pos
sible excuse for such crime as Boston has
punished in Abraham jackson, and which
we trust to see New York punish some Of
these days in the person of one Of our false
trustees. Justice will be better administered
if for once we send the poor ham stealer off
to Europe with music and flowers and the
false trustee to Sing Sing for ten years.