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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-04
FOREIGN NEWS.

Persia has 10000 men ready to join
the Russians.
Some Italian men-of-war have ar
rived at Salonica.
The Turkish ambassador left st. Pc
tersburg on the Goth.
1t is estimated that $4,000 Russians
have so far crossed the Pruth.
Subscriptions have been opened
throughout Hungary for wounded
Turks.
1t is expected state of siege will
shortly be proclaimed in CONSTANT
nople.
Twenty thousand inhabitants are rem
dered homeless by the overflow of the
Dniepier.
A Rutschuk dispatch says on Satur-
day over 1000 Turkish women and chill
dren took the rail for Varna.
The Turkish army on the Danube has
been reinforced by forty battalions and
10000 Circassians from Sofiar.
The Khedive is reported favorable to
the naturalization of the Suez Canal.
He is willing TO sell his 10000 shares
1t is stated that all foreign officers in
the Turkish service are promptly paid,
but native officers and soldiers are not
paid at all.
A Vienna dispatch reports that Aus.
tria has intimated that there is a point
beyond which the extension of the wal
would interfere with her interests.
The Pail Mall Gazette says the Dan.
ube is declared closed to navigation by
the Russian commander. No inward
vessels will be allowed to pass aftel
Sunday.
During the night passage of the Bos
porus and Dardanelles is absolutely pro
hibited. Alllights will be extinguished
except two at the entrance of the Bos
porus and two in the Dardanelles, ant
these may also be put out.
A dispatch from Bucharest mentions
a report that the Turks have taken pos
session of a wooded island between Kal
arash and Silestria when the inhabi
tants fled. Public feeling in Buchares
inclines more and more to an ailianc,
of ROumania with Russia.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-04
"AN EQUAL RIGHT TO PAY.n

The West Shore for May contains an
essay upon the "EviIs of the Free
School System" by Mrs. F. F. Victor,
which shows that the author has given
the subject some earnest consideration.
While we cannot agree with her on some
points, we are pleased with the effort
she has made, as it will inevitably set
people to thinking. And first in the
van of reform is thought, then speech,
then action, and last, results.
We quote from the article the follow
ing paragraph, reserving further COM
ment until future occasion:
Instead of both rich and poor enjoying. as
they now do, an equal. right to be educated at
the public expense, neither Of them should be
so; there should be an equal right 10 pay Let
the free schools take in all, up TO a certain age
say fourteen-after that let everybody pay a
fair rate. Be it ever so little, it will make a
difference in the pupilage. Those who cannot
afford TO pay that little, as rule, ought not to
be growing up without the knowledge of a
trade. The talented and ambitious will find a
way to get more complete education; nor
will foreign laborers be found in every manu-
factory, while American youth stand Just
around the corner to pelt them with stones for
earning the wages they refuse TO work for; nor
yet will fine young ladies laDguish upon sofas
with the latest novel while uneducated
mamma gets the dinner.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-04
LET THEM VINCE,

Probably because of the abundance of
more interesting iterature-possibly
from oversight-we did not read the AL
bany Democrat of week before last, and
hence did not notice, until our attention
was called to it few days since, the
paragraph in which the editor, in man.
ner eminently Mart. Brownish, rushed
to the defense of L. Bilyeu, superintend-
ent of schools for Linn county, and the
vilificatiOn of the women teachers
therein. The report of Mr.. Bilyeu, as
our readers will remember, first set forth
the fact that obtains everywhere, con-
cerning the disparity of wages paid to
"male and female" teachers; for this
fact or its statement we did not blame
the superintendent of schools, but we
did blame him when we had looked in
vain through the advisitory portion OF
his report for single word of protest or
the slightest hint as to the justice and
expediency of equalizing the wages of
teachers without regard to sex. And
further, when we read the suggestion of
the superintendent, discouraging the
employment of low priced teachers and
recollected that in every instance those
designated in his report as females"
were those referred TO as "low-priced," !"
and remembered again that he had
either lacked the justice to perceive or
the courage to denounce the inequality
of wages which is governed solely by
sex, we felt that he deserved, as all public
men who are derelict in duty deserve,
rebuke for passing gross injustice
which came under his official eye in
silence by. Mart. Brown, with custom
airy logic, guesses that 'if the women
teachers can stand it we ought to-" and
we imagine that if Mr.. Bilyeu can stand
our criticisms or Tebuke for selfishnes:
and lack of justice, Mart. Brown will
hare to.
This editor further tells US that wom-
en- teachers in Linn county hold certifi'
Gates of a low grade, and some are un'
oOAC SNNh " pAOCuAC LhGoC nlCn IL
not surprising when we remember tha
all applicants for teachers must go to L
Bilyeu for them. A man who can winl
at injustice will quite likely perpetual,
it. So, also, will he who seeks to ex
tenuate it.
1t is the purpose of the NEW NORTH
WEST to bring before the public for pub
lie odium the acts of those in a public
capacity who arrOgate to them
selves superiority because of their sex
and it will take more powerful batter.
than Mart. Brown commands to silenc
our guns when we choose to open then
upon the enemies of equal rights. LIE
these opponents vince; it will do then
good.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-04
DON'T BLAME HIM FOR WHAT He
DON'T KNOW"

The Gilroy Advocate of April 7th
contains review of a sermon on "Mar-
riage," delivered recently in the Metho-
dist Church at that city. This review
has been sent to us by an esteemed
friend with request that we publish it.
This, but for its length, we would cheer
fully do, albeit 1t is merely a recapita-
ton of what dogmatism under the guise
of orthodoxy for years past has prOmul-
gated from pulpits whenever it could
find a minister narrow enough for fit
ting mouthpiece. We are beginning to
have more patience with this class of
ministers than when, as was the case
two decades ago, we weIe obliged to
hearken to them or remain away from
church, for now we haze ministers who
recognize the equality of the sexes, and
we can hear them preach without quit
ting the city of Portland. This fact en-
ables US to smile serenely upon fossil
lied venders of theology, for we know
their day "ebbs fastly to its finish.n
Besides, you can't blame this species of
men ''for what they don't know" and
they can tell what they do know in an
incredibly shart space of time.
We clip the following az a sample Of
the manner in which the Gilroy divine
dealt with his subject, and the way in
which his reviewer dealt with him
through the journal named:
The reverend gentleman then launched out
into perfect torrent of abuse on these modern
women-righters, strong-minded. free-thinkers,
and free-mothers, and without discrimination
said very naughty things about us; but the
"unkindest cut of alp was, after having ex-
hausted the English language and all the good
forcible Saxon he could think of in invectives
| he applied the Latin epithet of IchthyOsaurus
to us. I am at a loss to know what he meant
unless that there is taint of Darwinism in his
system, and, while he would Indignantly deny
that man was developed from a monkey
would nevertheless insinuate that we strong
minded women, etc, were in direct descent
from that hideous monster of the pre-Adamitt
age, part fish, part lizard, and wholly reptile
which we innocently believe became extinc
ages and ages ago.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-04
RECENT EVENTS.

Ex-senator W. G. Brownlow died at
Knoxsville, Tenn, on the Both ult. He
was seventy-two years of age.
Two hundred and fifty employees,
mostly females, in the bureau of en-
craving and printing, were discharged
on Saturday.
There was a general observance of
fasting and prayer throughout Mime
sofa for deliverance from grasshoppers
on the 26th inst.
A body supposed to be that of P. P.
Bliss, of Chicago, who was lost in the
Ashtabula disaster, was found on the
9th ult. by some sportsmen.
1t has been decided that Ann Eliza
Young, in her suit against Brigham,
"should go hence without further COM
pensation," as they were never married
de jure, merely de facto.
C.J. Vanderbilt will bring suit against
his brother, VIM. H., for breach of con-
tract, asserting that the latter promised
him 81, 1,000,000 for discontinuing the suit
to break his fathers will.
General and Mrs. Grant, with their
son Jesse, will sail for Liverpool from
Philadelphia, May 18th. President
Hayes and Cabinet offered him passage
on government vessel, but the General
preferred going as private citizen.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-04
Women as Voters.

The announcement that Mrs. S. L.
Knox will be a candidate for the Assem-
bly, from this county, at the September
election, although a departure from the
general rule of political ethics, will no
doubt meet the hearty approval of all
friends of justice and equality through
out Santa Clara county.
That no structure is stronger than its
weaker point, is law among mechan-
les that will apply equally to govern
ment, and just so far as this government
denies justice to women, it is weak aud
preparing for its own downfall.
One century ago the walls of Inde-
pendence Hall echoed to that famous
"Declaration" of our fathers that started
the world from its old dreams of author
ity, and proclaimed the individual
above all principalities and powers.
The five great principles recognized
in the Declaration of Independence are:
1st. The natural rights of individ-
uals.
ID. The exact equality of those
rights.
Sd. That rights not delegated by In
dividuals are retained by individuals.
4th. That no person can exercise the
rights of others without delegated au-
thority.
5th. That non use of rights does not
destroy them.
Under these principles the rights Of
every man, black and white, native
born and naturalized, have been Sc
cured, while the mothers, wives and
daughters of this Republic stand to-day
where their fathers did when subjects
of King George, "slaves," according to
the definition of Benjamin Franklin,
"having no voice in the laws and rules
that govern them" Our rulers may
learn a lesson of justice from the very
government they repudiated a century
ago. In England women may occupy
the highest political position, fill many
offices, and vote on property qualifica-
ton at all municipal elections, while
here in America the political status of
the daughters of the Pilgrims Is lower
than that of the paupers from the old
world who land on our shores and pro-
ceed to vote our taxes and governors.
Mrs. S. L. Knox Is one among the
heaviest taxpayers in this county, and
may Justly protest against the rights of
men to legislate for her without dele
gated authority. She is lady of un-
questioned ability and intrinsic worth,
and will legislate for the best good of all
concerned, a right "inestimable to her
and formidable to tyrants only."-SdH
Jose Pioneer.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-04
COMING THE SAME BITTER LES.
SON,

What story of crippled, but most
heroic effort and pathetic hopelessness
is told in the subjoined paragraph,
taken from the Christian Woman, a
temperance journal published at Phila-
delphia. 1t is the old story, that was
so often told and so pitifully illustrated
during the woman's crusade in this
city; the story of woman's desperate en-
deavors to accomplish by a show of her
helplessness, what it is impossible to
perform without political power and
equality with men in and before the
law. Many women con this lesson in
silence, but those who repeat it aloud,
after the process of learning it has been
completed, are daily becoming more
numerous.
Imagine, if you can, brothers, the
feeling of helplessness which fills the
souls of women who walk weary miles
to obtain signatures to petitions, feeling
'morally certain the while that they will
offer them in vain to their rulers, yet
seem impelled by an unseen power to
work in some way for the suppression,
regulation, or eradication of evils that
thrive and grow under present laws and
customs. Over and over again this bit
ter lesson of helplessness under political
serfdom is being conned by brave WON.
en- throughout the land, and again and
again their labor returns to them Ia
beled failure. Wesubjoin the quotation
referred to above:
A petition for home protection, signed by
/ thousands of the best men and women of thii
commonwealth, the solid columns of names
measuring FIFrY-Two YARDS, passed through
this office recently on its way to the State Legis
| lature Of Pennsylvania. But too many of thu
men of both political parties have sold them
selves to the rum power in this State to leav,
room for hope that such prayers for the defens,
Of home and women and children would b,
| heard
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-04
NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.

A gas machine is being set up In the
new NJ. E. Church at Salem.
The deaf mute aud blind school at Sa-
lem will close on the 4th inst.
The peach crop In Wasco county
promises to be very abundant this sea-
son.
President Marsh, of Pacific Univer-
sity, will visit Eastern Oregon for his
health.
There is talk of starting a new relig-
ious paper at PhiIomath, in Benton
county.
The Astorian says 1000 fishing boats
will be employed on the COIumbia
River this week.
All the fisheries on the Columbia
River are paying or have agreed to pay
fifty cents for every salmon delivered.
About 1900 pounds of Angora goat
wool will be shipped from Benton
county this year-and the business has
just started.
Experienced sugar from the
East recommend that the maple forests
of Washington Territory be utilized by
tapping for syrup.
The hosiery factory will commence
operations at Jefferson the coming week,
under the supervision of Mr.. Blanchard,
from Dallas, Oregon.
There is every prospect of big run Of
salmon this season. When the river
rises little the fish will commence to
run in great numbers.
Two car loads of immigrants, in all
298 persons, left Addison county, VT,
April 9th, for Walla Walla and vicinity,
to come UiG Kelton and Boise.
Rev. P. S. Knight has accepted an in
vitation to deliver the graduating ad-
dress to the graduates of the University
at Salem, at the commencement exer-
cises in June.
Albany Collegiate Institute, under
the control of Professor L. J. Powell,
makes very good showing. The aver
age number of pupils is over 100, and
the tuition fees for three terms amount
to $2,219 20.
One of the oldest fisheries on the Co
lumbia River was run 12G days the year
, it was erected, and at the close of the
season cleared $4,000, or 81 900 per day
while it was running, paying, however,
but twenty cents each for salmon.
1t is estimated that the "great rural
: ORDER" the Grange, contains one-twen-
Q tieth of the eutire population of the
: country. The benefits conferred on
myriads of women heretofore living in
. isolation by the associations Of the
S Grange are incalculable.
b To the 10th of April from the 1st of
January the receipts of coal at San
Francisco aggregated 10000 tons. OF
this quantity, Seattle furnished 80, 195
y tons, and Bellingham Bay $500, or
o something over quarter of the whole
lot. Vancouver Island is gradually
dropping behind, its mines sending in
e 26,798 tons.
!, Near Antelope, Wasco county, on the
: 21st of April, VIM. Robertson, wife aud
child were riding in a wagon down An
telope hill, when the little one saw ra b.
u Uit, and in it's delight slipped from the
II mothers hands and fell out of the
b wagon. Mrs. Robertson sprang out and
:. pushed the child away from the wheels
saving its life, but at the sacrifice Of hel
! own. Her head was almost crushed be-
Ie fore the team could be stopped, aud she
b died shortly afterwards.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-04
pTRCHAsING AGENCY.

Clara Duniway SUearns offers her services to
the public as Purchasing Agent Orders for
every conceivable article of Ladies' and Chill
dren's Wear, or for Jewelry, Silver or Plated
Ware, Notions, Patterns, Musical Instruments,
etc, ETC., will receive her prompt personal at
tention. Persons living at distance will find
il 10 their advantage to send their orders. In
ordering millinery, ribbons, ties, ETC., state the
age and complexion of wearer, color Of hair
and eyes, style of features, and how the hair is
worn. No order attended to unless accom-
panied by the cash, and all transactions to be
considered final. The same conscientious care
will be exercised in making purchases as
though the owner were present, and Miss Dun
ways acquaintance with the trade will always
enable her to secure honorable bargains.
Terms of commission, five per cent. Ladies
writing for information concerning prices,
styles, ETC., must inclose stamp to pay return
postage.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-04
"BETSYn OR BENJAMIN.

"Betsy Baker, in the Corvallis Ga
sette thinks that "young women who
chew gum and men who use profane
language or who are addicted to the use
of liquor or the immOderate use of to-
bacco" should, even if able to answer
the questions propounded by the Board
of Examiners, be refused teachers GER
tificates by school superintendents. We
concur, only striking out the word i'm
moderate before tobacco, the introduc-
tion of which leads US strongly 10 sus-
pect that "Betsy" is not "Betsy" at all,
but Benjamin instead, who, while he
can plainly see that "chewing gum" is
so unladylike as to border on vulgarity,
sees nothing ungentlemanly in the mod
crate use of tobacco. Eh, Betsey?
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-04
Portland, April 80, 1877.
Unsolicited Testimony.
RETSOF.

FAIRFIELD, Me-, April %, 1854
Gentlemen-Seeing numerous certificates in
the "Maine Farmer" endorsing the merits OF
the Great Lung Remedy, WIsTAR's BALsAM OF
WILD CHERRY, 1 am induced and take great
pleasure in giving publicity to the great cure it
accomplished in my family in the year 1885,
During the summer of that year my son, Henry
A. Archer, now postmaster in this place, was
attacked with splitting of blood, cough, weak
ness of lungs, and general debility, so much so
that our family physician declared him to
have a "seated consumption" He was under
medical treatment for a number of months,
but received no benefit from it. At length,
from the solicitation of himself and others, l
was induced to purchase one bottle Of WIS
TAR's BALsAM OF WILD CHERRY, which bene-
flied him so much obtained another, which
in a short time restored him to his usual state
of health. can safely recommend this rem
edy to others in like condition. for it is, Think,
all it purports to be-the Great Lung Remedy
for the timesl
The above statement, gentlemen, is my vol
untary offering to you in favor of your BALsAM
and is at your disposal. AS ever, yours,
ANDREW ARCHER.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-04
San Jose, Cal, April 10, 1877.

May has grasped the scepter and
donned the royal crown of spring, and
beauty and bloom and gladness are born
of her sweet influences. There could be
no more propitious time than the pres
ent for the arrival in Oregon of immi-
grants and tourists, and all, with one
accord, must exclaim, to the proud and
satisfied inhabitants of this favored
land, "What lovely country! What
a beautiful springw
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-04

VALUABLE DIsCovERY.-Dr. j. P. Miller,
practicing physician at 81 Spruce street, Phila-
delphia, has discovered that the extract OF cram
berries and hemp combined cures headache,
either bilious, dyspeptic, nervous, or sick head
ache, neuralgia and nervousness. This is a tri-
umph in medical chemistry and sufferers all
over the country are ordering by mail. He
prepares it in pills, at 50 cents box. The Doc
tor is largely known and highly respected
philadelphia Bulletin.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-04

Grand Duke Alexis has just received
from his mother magnificent bracelet.
1t has three very large diamonds of the
purest water. 1t was accompanied by
his mothers blessing and prayers for
his preservation and safe restoration,
with the injunction to behave like a
true Russian.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-04

Mrs. Clara NJ. Foltz is meeting with
success and encouragement in the lee
ture field in California. She is, in addi-
ton to her other labors, reading law,
and if she lives, she will prove to the
world that woman can do some things
as well as others.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-04

A winters fight with distressing Cough,
and the end Consumption; or, an immediate
cure, with the irritation quelled and the lungs
vigorous? Choose between the two. Take
HALE's HONEY OF HoREHoUND AND TAR, II
you want to cure the Cough. Don't take 1t if
Won want the Consumption.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-04
Tonic.

Every one, at times, feels the necessity of
some restorative of the vital powers, depressed
by mental or bodily exhaustion. In such con-
ditions, let every one, instead OF flying to the
alcoholic or medicinal stimulants, which must
be followed by depression equal to their excite
ment, reinvigorate his deranged system by the
natural tonic elements of the PERUVIAN
SYRUP. Sold by all druggists, 81
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-04

No. 2 of Vick's Floral Guide for 1877
is at hand replete with suggestions of
value to horticulturalists. Every one
should have it. Price per year, % cents.
Issued quarterly.
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H8- The National Gold Medal was awarded
to Bradley & Rulofson for the best Photographs
in the United States, and the Vienna Medal
for the best in the world. 429 Montgomery
street, San Francisco.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-04

A letter from Marshfield informs us
that the exodus from that vicinity to
the Black Hills has been considerable
during the past season.
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The Salem Record has been galvan-
lied into life by E. o. Norton, who is
not unknown to journalistic fame in
that city, and bids fair to have bright
and active life, and we hope. also, a long
one.
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you do not like "the way some people
do" it is
The wisest, bravest plan,
Whatever comes or doesn't come,
To do the best you can"
E. E. s.
Wasco county. Anril 13 1877
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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 great favor
by remitting to us through money orders or
registered letters.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-04

Pixies Toothache Drops cure in one minute
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LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA.

Wasco county, April Is, 1877.