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NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.
course.

The Puget Sound Courier has entered
Ipon its sixth volume.
Ripe raspberries were picked from the
'ushes at Olympia Oh the 2d inst.
During the year 1876 seventy-four
couples were licensed to marry by the
:lerk of Clackamas county.
Friends of the Olympia and Tenino
Railroad are endeavOring to revive the
movement for its completion.
1t is proposed to build some 1000 or
1000 feet of winglams on the Upper
willamette during the coming summer.
The real property belonging tn the es-
ate of Sep Huelat, at Oregon City, was
'old the other day for 81 $50, Clackamus
;uunty being the purchaser.
The boiler of the fog signals at Cape
Flattery and New Duugenness, and the
evolving machinery of the light at
Jape AragO, were repaired during the
Month of December.
We learn of another case of smallpox
u Washington county. A man who
ately arrived from San Francisco and
,ettled on the Tualatin is reported
Town with the disease.
The Seattle company started in the
present month with 1000 tons of coal in
he buukers, aud with everything run
ring more smoothly than ever before.
should their vessels continue coming in
III good time, causing no detention on
hat score, their shipments this month
IRE expected to go up to II 900 tons.
Captain Hammond, of Port Townsend,
IS engaged in the herring fishery. He
lurus out 40 900 boxes of smoked herring
per annum, equal in flavor AMI as well
.ured as the best Eastern brands. He
also largely engages in the manufacture
If oil, by pressing the herring, produc-
ing an average of 1000 gallons per
month.
A course of six lectures is to be given
under the direction of the Ladies' Work.
lng Society for the benefit Of the Con-
sregational Church of Forest Grove.
The first was delivered by Hon. NJ. P.
Deadly on Thursday evening, January
IL, 1877, subject, "rrial by Jury" The
,econd will be delivered 10y Rev. H. P.
Peck, of Salem, Friday evening, Janu-
lrx 10, subject, "On Ice.n
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EXECUTIVE ABILITY OF WOMAN.

That women are possessed of vast
amount of force aud energy, usually
termed executive ability, cannot be
gainsayed, although in the great pur-
poses of government it has ever been
The policy of the ruling sex to ignore
the fact. There are women well known
TO US all who Lave, in addition to the
rearing of a large family of children,
carried on successfully half-dozen dis
tinct trades, and accomplished all in
good time and acceptable manner.
Who of us whose memories reach back
TO the time when the "dye pot" stood in
the ample chimney corner, and the
clumsy, unwieldy loom at one side OF
the wide kitchen, but remembers the
manifold labors that "mother's" hands
performed, as with baby at her breast
and half dozen younglings about heI
feet, she baked pies and bread; fried
ham and doughnuts; made suasage anu
tried out" lard; boiled maple sap,
picked geese, made pickles, gathered ap-
pies, made hominy, washed, picked,
carded, spun, dyed and wove wool, and
was laundress, seamstress, cook, and
scullion for the entire household :?
Take one example to our purpose
quite" the mother of Alice and Phebe
Carey, the latter of whom leaves this
estimony concerning the executive
ability of her mother:
She was the wonder of my childhood. She
IS no less wonder to me, as recall her now.
How she did so much work, and yet did ii
we'll; how she reared carefully, and governed
wisely, so large family of children, and YET
found time TO develop, by thought and read
ing, a mind OF unusual strength and clearness,
still a mystery to me. She was fond of his
Tory, politics, moral essays, biography, and
works of religious controversy. Poetry she
read, but cared little for works of fictitious lit
erature. An exemplary housewife, a wise and
kind mother, she left no duty unfulflIed, yet
she found time, often at night, after every other
| member of the household was asleep, by read
| ing, to keep herself informed fall the issues
ofthe day, political, social, and religious.
This woman was the mother of nine
children, the names of two of whom
have become as household words all
nver the land. She was the wife of q
Western frontier farmer, living in 8
nalarious climate, surrounded by un.
cultivated land and people, struggling
with her husband to lift the family from
debt, and striving with him "to give
the children better bringing up thar
his had been or hers.n
If but one such example as this ex.
isted-and our memories can all supply
the eounterparts of this one-it woul,
establish beyond cavil in the mind o
every candid person the immense forct
and executive ability of woman.
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PAULT-FINDING.

We have often wondered, as we have
seed man bring to his home and loved
ones a lowering brow and sharp reproof,
why it is that, in poetry and fiction, it
Is the woman whose seolding propensi-
ties are represented as a misery to those
who surround her. The question we
never could solve, except upon the hy-
pothesis that poets take to themselves
a sort of unquestioned license in dealing
with facts-and fiction is fiction to the
end of the chapter.
Be this as it may, it has ever been
popularity accepted as a fact, since the
days when Solomon declared that 'it
we're better to dwell in the corner Of
housetop than in a wide house with
brawling woman" that women did the
seolding of the world. Now, Solomon's
opportunities for rendering judgment
upon women must, if sacred history is
well authenticated, have been ample;
but we can easily set aside his decree in
the premises by stating that a lot of
women herded together in royal harem
in Oriental Asia, some hundreds or
thousands of years ago, are scarcely pat
terms by which to judge the women of
the Nineteenth century of the Chris
tian era, whose feelings are not so rasped
and soured by masculine sovereignty.
No matter what the mass of printed
assertion is, experience and observation
both prove that women by no means do
all of the scolding. 1t has not been long
since we heard a man rail at his chill
dren for leaving the gate ajar, quite as
bitterly and Unreasonably as we ever
heard woman speak to child or SER
want for breaking the best soup tureeD.
rhe truth is, that scolding is the escape
valve of undisciplined and passionate
human nature, and men and women
alike possess this nature, and each are
equally liable to open the valve upon
provocation.
1t is easy enough to give lecture on
fault-finding. We all know that it is
productive of evil-that it does no good.
Yet habit weaves such strong fetters
that the men and women who are the
most incorrigible scolds are frequently
unconscious of the evil spell that it casts
about them, and resent hotly an impu-
Lation from their best friends that they
are under the dominion of the tVraDt.
Of the evil effects of habitual fault
inding, a recent writer says:
There is no human being who can endure the
constant patter and drip of a fault-fnding
ongue, and not be the worse for it, Even ii
he victim be grown up and so sweetly self
controlled that he or she can listen to the mos
Unjust and bitter criticism, without any Other
'etort than that of patient silence, it does nc
good. 1t hurts both the person who utters
labitually the harsh reproach and the words
that burn, and the other person who is Obliged
TO listen and take the storm as it comes.
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RECENT EVENTS.

Trains snow-bound in Maine on the
4th.
Ferryboats between New York and
Brooklyn were stopped by floating ice
on the 4th.
Heaviest snow-storm known for years
In Southern New York the first of the
present week.
Nearly 1900 employees of the Trenton
potteries struck on Monday on account
of 20 per cent. reduction.
Cronin has been excused from further
attendance before the Senate Commit
tee. He is coming West at once.
Two Legislatures in full blsst in Lou
siana, and two Governors, Nichols and
Packard, were inaugurated on Monday.
Extreme drouth prevails in Califor-
MIA. Farmers on the coast are killing
cattle to prevent them from perishing.
Fires are raging in some of the coal
mines of Pennsylvania with great vio-
ence. The damage is already esti-
| mated at S3OO,OOO.
The monument at the Vanderbilt
tomb is about 80 feet high, of granite,
with marble statue of grief in front,
md the simple inscription, "Vander-
tilt"
1t is understood that the military au-
.horities have orders to transfer 3,000,-
100 pounds of ordinance and stores from
Baton Rouge to New York, including
100 barrels of powder, guns, shot, shell.
etc.
Mrs: Charlotte Deforest Egbert, sister
nf the late Commodore Vanderbilt, died
It, her residence at Staten Island on
Saturday, of pneumonia. Mrs. Egbert
vas eighty-five years old at1he time Of
Ter death.
The appropriation for transportation
If U. S. notes aud securities for the pres
INT fiscal year is exhausted, and unless
the deficiency appropriated be made
immediately, the government must vir-
'ually suspend payments in some local.
ties.
Many of the most prominent clergy
uen of New York and Brooklyn have
united to form new local eongrega-
ionaI association, most of them having
withdrawn from the old association in
consequence of its endorsement ol
8eecher.
Two thousand people assembled In
mass meeting in San Francisco on Sat.
'rday evening, to give expression to
. heir sentiment and opinion in regard
the action of Governor Grover, o.
Oregon, in the electoral college matter
md the act Of Governor Irwin in at
empting to commit the State of Cali.
, nrnia to the endorsement of Growers
| course
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HIS LOVE OF OFFIOE,

The petty little greenback post Office
that was so tenaciously held on to by
DR.. Watts, to the discontinue of the
Republican party not only in the STATE
but in the nation, must have been d
mammoth affair in the eyes of its whi-
lone, mammoth incumbent. We very
seldom see anything in the editorial
columns of the Lafayette Courier thai
we can endorse; but we found something
last week, and here it is:
The Doctors love of Office has brought him
TO grief, and he rushes off to Washington to
swear TO his ignorance. The bubble upon whieL
he was building hopes has burst under him,
and he sees the fond dreams of good times in
the coveted Custom-house receding from him.
Even If Hayes be inaugurated, Watts will be
his chief aversion, and when he implores his
Excellency for an appointment, the President
will inform him that he is the Lafayette post
master who never read the Constitution of his
county, and will leave him in obscurity
where he belongs. Whatever may be the re-
suit Of the Oregon electoral case, one thing
seems inevitable; and that is, that the ponder
Gus form of the Doctor will be perpetually in
humed politically.
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James Gordon Bennett, whose nup-
tials with Miss May were to have been
celebrated early in the New Year, has,
owing to his intemperate habits, fallen
into disrepute in the family of his aft
dnce, and the match has been broken
of. He received castigation at the
hands of Miss Mays brother for tine un-
manly part which he played in the mat
ter. A number of rumors are afloat
among which are the following: "One
rumor says the f1ogging was long pre-
meditated because Bennett resort ed to
dissipation expressly as an excuse for
breaking off the engagement. An. other
is that Bennett will challenge May.
Another is that the marriage WAS to
have been celebrated on the 4th, bat
that Bennett was in a hopeless static al
II o'clock on that morning"
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THE PLACE TO LIVE.

From all points up the valley of the
Willamette. come favora BILE indications
Of abundant crops for th e current year.
The extreme mildness of the winter
thus far has enabled ia rmers to ploW
and sow with but slight intermission.
In fact, everyone agrees that this is 3
winter such as the oldest settlers used
to write about, when mails crept al
snaiPs pace across the almost ira ckless
deserts that intervened between Oregon
Territory and "The States" A private
letter from Eastern Oregon tells us
incidentally that the skies had been
bright and the sunshine like spring. up
to Christmas, when slight fall of snow
had made the land of bunch grass look
slightly wintry, although the weather
was not cold. No snow, however slight,
is as yet reported from any locality il
this valley. An abundant harvest fol
Oregon is a foregOne conclusion for the
coming year, and the drouth in Califor.
MIA, the mntterings of war in Europe
and rigorous winter in the Ea st will
well remunerate the industriou hus.
baDdman for his toll. For the Sc anC
many other reasons Of different nature
Oregon is emphatically "the best place
to live.n
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THE MASONS GAVE"

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
Another of those affairs that max,
women feel the injustice of men mos
,ccutely have just transpired in Our
midst. The Masons gave a grand bal
asst night, the proceeds to be applied
lowards furnishing their new hall. Nov
The MasOns Gave" sounds very lib-
,ral, until we begin to realize the fact
hat Masons' aOives, by great labor, an'
Iver exertion, prepared the priucipa
part of the supper, which was said b.!
rood judges to have been the finest eve
'een in the place, and reflects greai
credit on all assisting.
Now have no doubt that in return
or this successful effort of their wives.
these same Masons will betake them
,elves to the Lodge-room, and tender
the ladies vote of thanks" in place o.
hey assisted to furnish. How many oi
hose wives will say they have all the
privileges they want, and think justice
s done them AS am not one of thenI
[ am unable to state what kind Of inf1u'
snce or arguments were brought to beal
IN them to produce the result men
toned. l cannot realize the amount o.
cheek man must be possessed of to ask
mis- wife to aid in furnishing a hal
whose doors are closed against her for.
ever. When will women get Justice
Never, 1 fear, while such orders are s,
we'll patronized.
1 bad almost neglected to tell you
the ball was preceded by public in
stallation of officers, attended with grea
display, and calculated to excite curiOs
ity and envy, and thereby draw in /
few recruits with twenty-dollar pieces
Christmas this year fluids US enjoying
the best roads and the finest weathe
for Christmas ever remembered by thu
"oldest inhabitant." Ever thine,
JUSTICE.
Jacksonville, December %, 1876.
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WOMEN AND LODGE FELsTs.

We publish elsewhere short letter
from a Jacksonville correspondent, in
which the writer exhibits some feeling
upon the matter of societies that ex-
clude women from their membership
because they are women. We believe
that every woman who is the wife of a
member of any of these organizations
has ber day of bitterness over the insult
to her womanhood and the injustice to
her as wife which such membership
plainly implies, yet many of them learn
to accept what seems to be the inevita-
bic in the matter with tolerable grace,
and many more for the sake of popular
ity act the part of bypocrites concerning
it to the end of their days. Sensible
women, moreover, recognize the fact
that their fulminations against organi-
cations that are sustained by the money
and influence of the most wealthy and
influential men of the world, are about
as effective as the "Pope's bull against
the comet" and save themselves the
waste of vitality and loss of temper
which would accrue to them by the un-
equal contest. There is one thing, how
ever, that women can refuse to do, and
until they do so refuse, we shall not
waste our sympathy upon them, and
that is, this. They can decline to act as
cooks and scullions in these great feasts
that celebrate they know not what, and
publish to the world the lack ofconfidence
which men have in them as women.
We are always conscious of a diminu-
tion of respect for women-and we have
some very dear friends who annually or
oftener make fools of themselves in this
way-who will pick, and draw, and
roast chickens; beat eggs and stir cake
until their right arms are almost para
yzed; chop mince meat by the houI
while the baby cries in his cradle, and
perform all the drudgery that accom-
panies a great feast, and after it is over
sit shivering in the ante-room or ac-
company each other to their darkened
homes, while their husbands in gor.
geOus regalia enjoy and participate in
| forms and ceremonies that it would bt
perjury to rehearse to their wives. We
don't pity them. No. While women
thus hug their chainsy we can only il
this particular feel sort of contempt
for them, and hope for the day whel
they will have better and truer appre
ciation of their own worth and dignity
than to think "a vote of thanks" suffi
cient compensation for days of drudgerN
and the qualification of their woman
hood. Our advice to all wives who fee
themselves aggrieved and slighted il
this way is to let men run their exclu
sive orders and the fea sts that accom-
pany them alone, as they y profess to do
and save their time, ana strength, ant
patience for more congeilial and bette
appreciated tasks. Be sure that moth
ing is more pitiful or con temptible thai
to be wistful and yearn ing hangers-oI
on the outskirts of an OF ganizatlon tina
insults by its refusal to accept wome
as members-honorable, intelligent an
enlightened women the world over.
ALI honor to the Ora ngers that hav
not only accepted the aid of women a
their feasts, but have d, acked them. wit
the regalia of the order and given ther
place in its councils.
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Mrs. A. J. Duniway, of Oregon, or
Abigail Scott Duniway," as her poetic
nom de plume has it, is here on her way
nome from New York, delivering a
course of lectures before crowded audi
-nces. Since Mrs. D. visited us last
,ummer she has been to the East and
published an epic poem entitled "David
md Anna MatsOn," which is receiving
gOodIy share of public patronage. The
New York and Chicago critics speak
highly of the work; the New York Her
aid announcing that the publishers, 3.
R. Wells d Co., are Tecpiving orders aV-
raging about u thousand copies weekly.
The Chicago JOuTnuL says of the poem
That it has the "r1ar of the sea in some
passages; the illimitable solitude or the
wilderness in others, and the spirit oftrue
,,oetrv i'm the production as whole"
SINCE Mrs. Duniway was here in the
summer she has lectured often in the
East. and in making her way across the
Continent to her hOmein Oregon, will
fiji many engagements. Her subjects
thus far have been Life in Utah."
"Conrtship, Marriage and Divorce" aud
constitutional Liberty" She will
probahly make Lincoln her next object
i've point. She claims that ii Is quite
time woman discuss constitutional af-
fairs when nIen have got political mat
ters so badly muddled that they cannot
tell who is President"
s. r. Wells & Co. publish very fair
portrait of Mrs. Duniway in the Decem-
Der chronological Journal, accompa-
MED by q biographical sketch of much
interest to her friends in Illinois, where
she was born aud where she lived till
seventeen wears of age. She is tile
guest of her cousins, Mr. r. E. TurIey
aud Mrs. s. c. Beam, of Mt. Pulaski,
and a relative by marriage of Judge
Parks, of Lincoln. She leaves here
with kind wishes of many friends.-
lincoln (ILLs. Herald,
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Diphtheria has been so prevalent in
some localities of the State during the
past few months as to render it, indeed,
a devastating scourge. Que of the
places recently sorely afflicted is Forest
Grove, where number of deaths have
occurred with alarming rapidity.
Amongst those bereaved by the epi-
demic is Mrs. Sarah Roberts, daughter
of Rev. Mr.. Chandler, who, in the space
of one short week buried her three chill
dren. We extend to the widowed
mother our heartfelt sympathles in the
great sorrow that has cleft her house
unto her desolate."
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slowly, and you need not look for
wrongs that have been running riot for
ages to be remedied in day, or even a
century. But, If women had their legal,
political, and financial rights-equality
before the law in all things-they would
wage successful war against prostitu-
ton, the ally of the devil, who is maxi
ing more sinners in day than Moody
can save in a twelvemOuth, an ally Of
the devil whom men support, and
whom women would successfully de-
throne as soon as all men and women
could become elevated above the idea
that femininity is in itself degrading,
because disenfranchised and dependent.
Then, if wives and mothers had the
rights against which you sneer, but
which Jesus gave us in the Golden
Rule, they could wage such a war
against intemperance as would fail to
glorify itself because a saloon changed
hands and saved one man by destroying
another"
."But, madam, if women would pray
more"
"Beg pardOn How could they I?
Haven't they BUNDLED themselves H.
the very dust before their rulers, anc
prayed as never man prayed for the de-
struction of intemperanre Aud What
Is the result? Saloons against the very
walls of the churches; bagnius casting
the shadows of their doorways athwarI
The church entrance, women begging
men in the cold streets on bleak winter
nights for the privilege Of sharing theiI
neds that they may get shelter, Will,
thousands of Christian homes in Chi
cago contain sumptuous rooms where,
'oh, for the rarity of Christian charity
hey have no chance to enter. No
sood friends; 1 couldn't get up revival
I'd tell truths that to wealthy Christian.
would be unpalatable, because they
would involve some sacrifice as well a
ylorifcation, and they would lock theil
tabernacIes and cry out, Away will
such teacher from our midst.'"
MADAM, excuse me, but am curl
'us to know your name and location,
'aid number one. .
"They call me the political mission
Try, aud 1 have no special abiding
,lace just now," we said, turning ava!
% eat an orange, and leaving the gOO'
brethren to wonder at the mercy of CO.
IN not striking us dead.
They got of at the next station, an
the conductor whispered to a lady lis
eDer, and we overheard him saying
That's Susan B. Anthony; aud ism
] ,he lightning?"
We hope Susan will forgive US, but W
.njoyed the honor and the fun too muc
correct the mistake, and now we loo
or the papers to have something TO sa
!. sbout an alteration which occurre
, ately between Miss Anthony and som
;lergymen in railway car, in whic
c lie "old lady" got badly worsted. Sue
: 8 fame.
But here we are in Mt. Pulaski, anon
d lear relations, and having flushed OF
missionary Iabors here for the presen
{ will go to Lincoln tonight to finish u
{ he protracted meeting we began la
@ summer. Then no, again for our hom'
ward way. A. J. D.
> Mt. Pulaski, ILL.,, December q, 1876.
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Senator Wright, of Iowa, mad e a
strong speech in the Senate on the ath,
relative to the Oregon matter. He said
the Senate should condemn the cou rse
of Grover and Cronin in the sever est
terms, and see that the will of the pnO-
pie of that State shall not be set aside in
such an outrageous manner. He WIS
very severe on Grover, who occupied a
seat in the Senate Chamber during the
speech.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt died on the
morning of the 4th inst. He remained
perfectly conscious until the last mo-
ment of his life, and died almost with
out a struggle. His funeral took place
at the Church of the Stranger on Sun
day, and was purpOsely devoid of all
needless display. His last words were,
''That is a good prayer" He was
eighty-two years of age at the time of
his death.