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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-12-29

THE PUFILs Of Kridlers school, Miss A,
EBgenia Foltz, teacher, were examined ou
the 2oth instant, IN the presence Of the tras.
tees and patrons. The exercises passed OF
Cassius with much effect, and the blackboard
exercises were given in q eredltable manner,
The Chairman OF the Trustees made an sp-
propria,e speech to the scholars, compliment.
ing them upoa their proficiency The school
has s. papils and has been under the charge
OF Miss Foltz for two years.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-12-29

A gentleman a, Bird Hin sends a solution
10 the query OF car Patapsco correspondent,
Published as, seek. VIZ A. dug s73 rods
Al Sl-13i per Fod. and B. 81 rods AZ ~
ceats per rod
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-12-29

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DIX
10 county certificates outstaBjiDy
20 Dec. IL, isT7-..,-......- sgs..
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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-12-29

LAST WrSTER's Sxows.-Ths FRS, snow of
the fall Of 1875 was on November 10Th. BE.
tween that date and April 18th following snow
Tell on twenty seven different DAYS. The
heaviest fall, - inches, was on the first AZ
January and the next in depth, four inches.
occurred January 10Th. The other SHOWS
we're insignificant, although every particle
that fell seemed to remain and freeze. the
sleighing being good for several weeks
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-12-29

Portable and Substantially >
Of brick, containing ) re
and pantry 90 FIRST aoos b
rooms on second floor tAa
aud esllar With a l.rya $40,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-12-29
Public Sale of Bank STOCK

ONE Hundred and Sixty Shares o. p. y
" ers aud Mechanics National pA1 ~,
will be sold at the Court House ~ n
public auction, on Monday, January w.
al o'clock p. m. TERss CAsh; pyIOy
dec 2o.tss JOHN BAblLO-
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-12-29
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n,lsidld negseea fula Rival Cantitz2es ~ ~.
assfc-Tts fiiifss Nan az ne tttrzi Neflltl - 4
- hrf..-raf ~ fsassrai- -ldsll versus lllf.l..
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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-12-29

covSrERFEirs. The IS notes of the Fist
National Bank OF Hanover, Pa, have been
eounterfeited. Mr.. B. G.. Underwood. re-.
eeiving teller Of the National Bank Redemn.
ton Agency, furnishes the following in rels.
ton to the new eonnterfeit. All notes havins
the words "Act approved June 30, 1884, IN
the lower border Of the note are counterfeit
On the genuine the date is February Is, is6s
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-12-29

The average boy makes no distinction be-
tween Christmas and the Fourth Of July. Il
is POp, pop, on both occasions, just a. long as
his money lasts, or unui his last cracker or
other explosive is exhausted
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-12-29

The Westminster Dramatic Association
rea3sred the Pear Of Savoy. on Wednesday
evening to a fair audience. The characters
we're well iakea
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-12-29

CazlsruAs- Dali as the weather has been
oar citizens have managed 20 eui0y the hoij-
DAYS qaite as we'll as ssuAl Aasqucfudes,
surprises, sociabies, hops, theatucais, &c,
have been the order Of the day or rather Of
the night
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-12-29

IHE NEw COUSTT.-A large number Of
citizens Of the four counties contiguous TO Mt
Airy met on the I'D inst, to consider the
proprlety Of petitioning the General As.
sem6ly for the privilege Of voting on the pro-
position to form new county; when after an
interchange of views it was decided not to
petition as the requisite amount Of territory
400 scr. miles, could not be obtained, How.
ard county not possessing that much after
taking of the required area from that county.
Addresses we're made by Drs. A. H. Bean, Of
Carroll, and Warner Hobbs, Of Frederick.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-12-29

Real EsTATE SALEs-Henry L. thinner.
man, as executor Of John X. Zimmerman,
sold on the 18Th instant, farm Of 81 acres
roods aud 30 perches, situate in Manches.
ter district, to Henry F. Hoifacker for S25OO.
On the I'D instant, Philip II. l.. Myers,
trustee Of David BachInan, sold a farm Of lTd
acres, situate in Bachman's Valley, known as
Bachman's Mill, to William Baehman, At
Sll0 per acre.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-20
WEAPONS REVERSED,

The suffragists of Colorado are vigi-
liant, quick to perceive an opportunity,
and ready to seize upon it. The Cath
olic Bishop Machebeuf, of Colorado, has
recently delivered two lectures in Den
yer against Woman Suffrage, and these
have called out a vigorous reply from
Rev. DIR. Crary. The Colorado Woman
Suffrage Association Immediately had
five thousand copies of this reply struck
off on convenient size for gratuitous dis
tributiOn.
Among many people the Bible argu-
ment against Woman Suffrage is the
most potent of all, as they deem it sac
religious to attempt to disturb the status
of woman as expounded to them by
priests and ministers, who interpret GER
tain Scriptural texts to suit their own
narrow ideas. When, however, these
are fairly met by more enlightened
ministers, and the absurdity of their
arguments shown up and refuted, humid
reds whose conscientious scruples have
caused them to array themselves with
the opposition see that there are no
Biblical reasons for assigning to woman
a menial or subordinate position, and,
truly converted, make public profession
of their belief in woman's political free
dom. The reply of DR.. Crary is an able
review of and answer to the so-called
Bible argument against equal rights
and its distribution throughout Colo.
RADIO at this juncture will be most op'
perfume. Thus the labored effort of the
Catholic bishop will add strength to the
cause of woman's enfranchisement, in
stead of being an instrument of warfare
against it. 1t is therefore quite appar
ent that His Grace the bishop buildeC
better than he knew when attempting
to strengthen the old citadel of error.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-20
EXERCISE CARE.

For the credit of Oregon abroad, and
the consequent permanent prosperity of
the State at home, our farmers cannot
be too careful in placing in the market
in good condition the great staples, of
which the financial and commercial
importance of the State is made up.
Shipments from Oregon to Eastern
cities and foreign ports have always
been a credit to her when carefully
made, whether these shipments have
been of fruit, flour, wheat, or wool. It
is to be regretted, however, that due
care has not always been observed, and
some Of these productions, perhaps
more especially the latter, have not
been a credit to producers. Apropos to
the subject, we submit the following,
taken from the leading New York and
Boston circulars, being assured that
wool growers will at once acknowledge
the truth of its timely suggestions:
We would again call the attention of farmers
to the necessity for honestly and carefully put
ting up their woods. Every season buyers dis
criminate more closely in their selections, and
any community that will put its wool in the
| best merchantable condition will soon find
that it cannot only command the highest
price, but that it will have a ready sale when
the wools of other sections are neglected.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-20
FOREIGN NEWS.
Concentration of the Russian armies
is very slow.

Concentration of the Russian armies
is very slow.
Five thousand Russians are at Beb-
rova, marching on Kars.
Mukhtar Pasha is at Kars with about
1000 men, all told, including the Kars
garrison.
Refugees say the Russian troops at
tackled wagon trains fleeing to Shumla
and murdered people indiscriminately.
Correspondents in Shumla state they
personally witnessed the Russians at
tack unarmed Turks, wounded, old men,
women and children.
It is stated that Austria intends to
propose mediation as soon as decisive
action of either of the belligerents has
clearly defined the military situation.
Nikopolis was captured by the Rus
slams on Sunday, after severe loss. The
Turks, finding their line of retreat
threatened, abandoned the town, which
was filled with Turkish dead.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-20
LETTER FROM COLORADO.

To THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
The "glorious Fourth" has come and
gone, and the sound of fire-crackers in
the land has fed. Some one has said
that this day, which means so much to
men, means nothing TO women. But
we think it means much to all, for does
not broader freedom for man argue
broader freedom for woman, just as the
freer life for woman that we are now Ia
boring to introduce will bring also still
freer life for man? At any rate, the
Coloradans determined that it should
mean something to women this year,
and planned a suffrage celebration at
Colorado Springs. The "Woman's Col.
umn" in the Ne1Os of this city gives a
glowing account of the occasion. [See
extract from Rocky Mountain Nea0s in
another cOlumn.-ED.
Mrs. Margaret w. Campbell, whose
name rouses feelings of gratitude in all
friends of equal rights here, has just
started with her husband on a journey
south. Going in her private carriage,
she will be able to make thorough
canvass of that part of the State which
is included in her route, and it is hoped
that her labor will bring forth abund-
ant harvest in the shape of clubs and
converts.
The heart of the Association beat with
renewed warmth, hope, and courage
when the liberal present of two hundred
dollars from Mrs. a. J., Margaret, and
Ellen Hamilton, of Fort Wayne, Indi-
ana, was received.
The Pennsylvania Association are to
send Miss Leila Partridge to help us this
fall. The "WOman's Column" speaks
of her as a graceful and effective speaker
and if report says true, this lady will be
worth more than her weight in gold tC
the suffragists of Colorado.
Susan B. Anthony will be another @
our helpers. Her suffrage lectures are
entitled, "Woman Suffrage" and "Why
the men of Colorado should vote yes."
Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell
are coming, and perhaps Mrs. Liver
more and Wendell Phillips.
We throw up our hats and shout
"Can Colorado help being converted p
We think not, if friends of the caus
everywhere will realize the importanc
of her conversion and give US all possi
bic aid with pen and pencil. H. L.
Denver, July S, 1877.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-20
In Memoriam.

The Liberal Association, of Portland,
on Sunday, July Is, passed the follow
ing resolutions upon the death of DR..
James Pilkington
WHEREAS, In the course Of events
this society has been bereft of one OF its
most devoted members by the death of
DIR. James PilkingtoD, a man whose
chief desire was to gain perfect knowl-
edge of life and its duties, and use this
knowledge to the benefit of the human
race; therefore, be it
Resolved, That in the death of DR..
James PilkingtOn this society has lost a
most devoted and influential member,
and society at large beneficent friend.
ResOLUed, That the faith of our de-
parted brother in Immortality as re-
vealed to him by the communion, as he
believed, of spirits, through whom he
judged immortality, is one not easily
disprOved, and should not be idly dis
carded, and that in his case it did not
tend to loosen his hold on earthly ex-
istence or lessen his efforts to free man
from the shackles imposed by intolerant
priestcraft.
ReSoIUed, That in the death Of our la
mented brother, free thought has lost
one Vi lts most earnest cnau plouSI SUI
ence one of its most enthusiastic devO-
tees, and social progress one of its most
fearless advocates.
ResoLUed, That the sympathy of this
Association be rendered to the relatives
of the deceased, these resolutions be
spread upon the records of the Associa-
tiOn, and copy of the same be trans
mitted to the New NORTHWEST for
publication. II. B. NICHOLAS,
Secretary.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-20
RECENT EVENTS.

James Russell Lowell, minister to
Spain, sailed on the 14th. A salute of
fifteen guns was fired from the Boston
navy yard.
The senate of the university of Lon
don has decided to admit women to de-
grees in other faculties, as well as that
of medicine.
Vice-President Wheeler is enjoying
excellent health at his home at Malone,
and refuses to allow his serenity to be
ruffled by the many rumors circulating
in the newspapers about him.
The Secretary of the Navy has in
formed Captain Howgate, originator of
a plan for establishing a colony for
Arctic explorations in the far north,
that he regrets his inability to detail
civil officer or loan instruments for such
purposes.
The HeTdLdS special of the 14th says:
Grant is stopping at the Hotel de Rus
sic, in Frankfort. Yesterday was de-
voted to sightseeing, and last night he
visited Hamburg. To-day he will be
given banquet at the Geological Gar
dens in that town, which promises to be
a magnificent affair.
Through confessions made by several
members of the silk and lace smuggling
ring at New York, three trunks have
been secured containing a mass of in
voices, bills of Iading, cancelled checks
and private letters. These papers will
be used to secure the arrest of impli-
Gated parties, and as evidence against
them on prosecution.
The Secretary of the Interior summa-
rily dismissed L. S. Hayden, clerk in
the Indian bureau, on the 14th. This is
the first public result of the pending in
vestigatiOns and fraudulent practices in
the Indian service. The Secretary says
the investigation shows that Hayder
has accepted valuables, and has CORE
sponded with outside parties concerning
official business. This cannot be en-
dured, and similar action will be taker
with all similar cases. Hayden is {
Marylander, sixteen years in the ser
vice. He claims the testimony has
been misunderstood, and asks a suspen
sion of sentence for four days.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-20
THE INDIAN WAR.

The mutterings of discomfort against
General Howard for what seemed tardi-
ness in pushing the campaign against
the Indians have been supplanted or
hushed by news of a victory achieved
by the forces under his command on the
18th inst. In his account of the battle
General Howard says: "The losses of
the Indians appear to be thirteen killed
and quite a large number wounded.
We have Captain Bancroft and Lieu
tenant Williams wounded; also eleven
enlisted men killed and twenty-four
wounded. Their camps were abandoned
in great haste, leaving much plunder
The Indians fought as well as any
troops ever saw, and so did ours, not
one man failing in duty. now believe
that am in fine condition, just as soon
as Green appears from Boise, to make
thorough work with these Indians.
They are making for the Snake coun-
try, and for concentration at Mount
Idaho. Troops have never done harder
or more rapid campaigning or better
fighting than these"
We all understand how much easier
it is to fight imaginary battles upon pa
per than in rough, mountainous dis
tricts under a burning July sun with
powder and musket balls, and should
not hastily call in question the eff
cheney or criticise the conduct of officers
who are working valiantly on the rough
edge of battle for victory over a treach-
erous and well-equipped foe. 1t is well
for an enemy who thinks that General
Howard will not fight on Sunday ex-
cept with psalm-singing and prayer
books to keep out of range of his guns,
while they "to their mates thus in de-
rision CALL" or the chances are that
their Sabbath day pastimes will be in
terrupted by the "diapason of the can
nonade." At all events, the General
has been making his Gatling guns and
mouutain howitzers speak in language
that needs not TO be interpreted to the
Indians.
We hope indeed that his belief that
be will make thorough work with the
Indians may prove well-fOunded, and
they receive such eastigation as will
cause them thereafter to be sought for
in vain on the face of the earth.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-20
"OYsTERs AND DRINKS. !"

Women of the State, read carefully
the details of the Grover investigation
now being published, and answer us
candidly, do men who go to the State
capital and haggle with notorious polit-
ical tricksters about the price of vote;
who beat around the disreputable places
of the city at unseemly hours, "when
good men sleep" taking "drinks,"
smoking cigars and gorging themselves
on oysters until whatever brain power
they may originally possess is perverted
and befuddled into a condition resem-
bling idiocy, do they represent you?
Remember these are not orr charges
against our Legislators, but are facts
brought out on their own sworn testi-
mony. A sample will suffice. Senator
Salisbury interrogating State Senator
Palmer, of Benton:
Q.-Stiles states in his testimony that you
came into the hall and invited the whole lobby
to go down and take a drink with him. Al
had some friends in the third house that !
wanted to get out and go down town with me;
got up anu moved ludJ All 20 uOWu ana take 4
drink.
Q.-He states that he invited you and Gen.
eral Brown TO take oysters that night. Al
went down and took oysters and drinks SO
many times with different men-that man
might have been in the crowd.
1t is in midnight carousals, with theiI
late supper, drinking and smoking ac-
compartments, that men of this class
hatch laws for the government of the
commonwealth, and fresh from such as.
sociatiOns, proclaim that they legislatt
for women more wisely than they could
legislate for themselves. Again we ask
Women, do men of this kind who too
frequently form the majorities in legis
latures represent you, as they claim
TO dO2
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-20


Harper'S Weekly, commenting upon
General Grants reception in England,
says: "Could old King George open
his eyes upon his great-grandson con-
graduating the realm that General
Grant was its guest, and know that the
reason of the congratulation was that
the guest was illustrious because of
maintaining unbroken the Independent
national Union whose formation the old
king himself had striven so hard to pre-
vent, he would gladly close his eyes
again and resume his dream of unbroken
empire. Yet while the feeling of which
General Grant is hailed as the symbol
continues, that empire is not only un-
broken, but is bound together more
closely than ever. The true English
empire is the realm of the political
ideas of the English race; it is the en-
pire of civil aud religious liberty under
popular institutions. England has
just right to be proud of America, as
America may, with equal justice, re-
joice in every step of political progress
in England. Their meanest and most
insidious mutual foe is the jealousy and
suspicion of those who should be the
most intelligent of friends"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-20

And now it is said that w. H. Highly
has left for parts unknown, the state
ments of one, Lake, before the investi-
eating committee being too damaging
for him to withstand. Every viliainy
has been disclosed by this investigation,
from casual "drink-taking'' to habitual
drunkenness of Legislators, and from
unseemly jocularity in members con-
cerning the offering and taking of bribes
to the lowest deeps of perjury in wit
nesses. Women, aren't we proud of our
protectors, our law-givers, our exam
plars, our heads?
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-20
LET HIM PARTIOULARIzE.

The editor of the Salem Record, es-
saying through a sham correspondent
located at Gervais to be pertinent and
witty, but only succeeding in being i'm
pertinent and untruthful, asks and an
swers:
Can you explain why Mrs. A. J. Duniway, of
the NEW NORTHWEST, always champions
everything that the Portland Custom-hOuse
Ring has anything TO do with, and always en-
dorses any dirty, contemplate scheme they
have in hand? TIvoLI.
The solution is as easy as rolling off log
backwards. Mrs. Duniway's better, but weaker
half, holds petty clerkship in one of the Of
fees of that building.
1t is apparent to the most casual
reader that this question was trumped
up solely to give the editor chance to
fling in a little scurrility by way of re-
ply, and this opportunity he is not slow
to improve. That "petty clerkship'' in
the Custom-house seems to be terrible
thorn in the side of this editor, who is
owned, now by Mart. Brown and now
by Sam Clarke, and whose politics and
opinions are, according to his own sworn
statements before the Senatorial COM
mittee, "mixed"-like his potations.
Let him particularize concerning any
"dirty, contemplate scheme which the
Custom-house Ring have in hand" and
which is endofsed by the NEW NORTH
WEST, and we will engage to prove him
a falsifier, as he has already proven him
self blackguard.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-20

the heated metropolis, bringing with US
the memory of all we have tried to
chronicle, and much more that is mama
to US, which would not interest the gen.
eral reader. Every where we meet good
friends and true, who welcome us in the
interest of woman and freedom, and the
work goes marching on. A. J. D.
Portland, July 16, 1877.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-20

At a recent meeting, in which there
was much religious interest, an old man
gave expression to his joy by shouting,
and continued it until it began to inter-
rupt the services. Brother H said
to Brother W, $50 and stop that
old mans noise" He went to him and
spoke a few words, and the shouting
man at once became quiet. Brother
H asked Brother W, "What did
you say to the old man that quieted him
so promptly ?" Brother W replied,
81 asked him for dollar for foreign
missions"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-20

The execution of ten "MOlly Ma
guires" on the same day i'll Pennsylva-
MIA doubtless has been some check on
the movements of this secret organiza-
ton. But continued and vigorous
measures will be necessary, it would
seem, to show the power of law. Re
ports have been received from the min
ing districts that several witnesses
against the "Molly Mcguire" murderers
have disappeared, and that two persons
have been assassinated.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-20

A pious hen crawled into Methodist
Church in Jefferson City, recently, and
laid an egg in the contributlon-box.
While the minister was making an
earnest appeal to his congregation for
foreign missions, the hen suddenly left
her nest, and presenting herself in the
chancel, cackled most energeticaily.
The deacons discovered the egg when
they went forward to get the boxes.
The piOus hens contribution was
adapted to the domestic rather than the
foreign field.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-20
NOTICE.

Agents will please take notice that it is a
great tax upon US to pay express charges upon
small sums. and they will confer a great favor
by remitting to us through money orders or
registered letters.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-20

Dead Turks have so effectively ias-
sumed the offensive" in the town of
Bayazua that il is impossible to remain
in the place.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-20

The Danube and its tributaries drain
an area of 100000 square miles. At the
points now occupied by the contending
armies it averages three-fOurths of
mile in width with a three mile current
at low water
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-20

Even if boy is always whistling az
want to be an angel" it is just as we'll
to keep the preserved pears on the top
shelf of the pantry.