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YAMHILL COUNTY W. S. A.
FIRsT DAY-MoRNTNG SESSION.


The Association met in Amity, May
18th, at IL o'clock A. NJ, and was called
to order by the Secretary.
The President being absent, Mrs. a.
NJ. Martin was called to the chair.
Minutes of last session read and ap-
proved.
Mrs. Loughary, Mrs. Henderson, and
Mr.. Loughary were appointed a COM
mittee oD programme.
The constitution not being at hand,
Mrs. Martin stated its principal fea-
lures, and received two signatures.
Committee on programme made their
report, which was adopted.
The first on the programme being i'm
promptu speeches, Mrs. Martin and
Mrs. Loughary responded.
The question for afternoon discussion
was read, after which the Association
adjourned until o'clock p NJ.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Meeting called to order at the ap-
pointed time, Mrs. Martin in the chair.
Minutes of the previous session read
and approved.
Music.
The question for afternoon discussion
was "Plans for the more effectual work
of aiding woman's enfranehisement."
A few members spoke quite ably on
the subject.
Mr.. Mcleod, from Washington
county, made a short speech.
Mrs. Loughary read before the Asso-
citation the petition for a Sixteenth
Amendment addressed to the Senate
and House of Representatives of the
United States, which was circulated
through the house, receiving several
signatures.
Mrs. Duniway addressed the Associa-
tion for few minutes.
Adjourned to meet at u o'clock.
EVENING SESSION.
Met pursuant to adjournment.
Minutes of the previous session read
and approved.
Music.
The speaker of the evening Mrs.
Duniway) was then introduced to the
audience, and entertained them for
three-quarters of an hour.
Music.
Subject for discussion, "The proposed
Sixteenth Amendment to the COnstitu-
tion of the United States"
Mrs. LOughary offered the following
resolutions:
Resolved, That measures be speedily
adopted for the passage of a Sixteenth
Amendment to the Federal COnstitu-
ton, which will remove the political
disabilities now entailed upon United
States citizens because of sex.
ReSOLUed, That we use the most active
efforts to secure the largest number of
signatures to Sixteenth Amendment
petitions for the United States Senate
and House of Representatives of the
45th Congress that was ever rolled up in
the State of Oregon.
Resolutions adopted, after much dis
cussion.
Programme for second day, morning
session read.
Adjourned to meet at ten o'clock,
Thursday morning.
SECOND DAY-MORNING SESSION.
Met at ten o'clock, Mrs. Martin in the
chair.
Minutes of the previous session read
and approved.
Music.
Mrs. Duniway called upon to state
the object of this Association, after
which two signed the constitution.
After short speeches by several par
ties, Association adjourned to meet at
McMinnville the 2lst of November,
1877, at II o'clock A. NJ.
Mrs. A. NJ. MARTIN,
Mrs. a. HENDERSON, Pres't pro tenn.
Recording Secretary.
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RUSSIA.

The administration having been Off
cially notified by the Russian Minister
of the fact of war between Russia and
Turkey, is now at liberty to take any
needed steps to preserve our neutrality
and to protect us from future claims for
damages committed on war material,
such as ships, etc., made in this coun-
try for either of the belligerents. The
Turkish Minister gave immediate noti-
fieation, but Russia has seen fit to delay
till now. Apropos of this war, rumor
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The Rev. Howard Crosby says:
"Women have had no more difficulty
than men in mastering linguistic, math-
ematical, scientific and philosophic
truth; and if the opinion has prevailed
that such learned women made poor
wives, it is because, under the pressure
of society, hitherto only pushing women
could attain these high ends. But let
society be such that modest and retir-
ing women can equally achieve and ex-
eel in high studies, and we shall lose
false opinion about blue stockings We
shall find that the truest examples of
domestic happiness are when both hus-
band and wife have reached, by careful
study, the higher realms of thought,
and have thus enlarged the field of their
common pursuits. We shall find that
the color of the stockings is not altered
by any amount of thorough culture, and
that feminine delicacy is but promoted
by the sharpening of the perceptive and
discriminating faculties.-M Y Sun.
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Serves Him Right.

"Single or double, life's full of trou-
ble," hath an ancient prOverb well said
There is one form in which misery can
attack an old bachelor. No matter
what a mans talent, or education, or
experience may be, il is impossible for
him to struggle successfully with hole
in a stocking. There are difficulties
connected with it which feminine gen.
ius alone can combat. 1t has peculiar
tiles unshared by any rent or aperture
that ever appears in any other descrip-
ton of garment. If any other part of
the attire meets with misfortune, and
requires to be reconstructed by the aid
of needle and thread, the materials are
all there. If the disaster takes the shape
of plain slit, if it's edges are as Jagged
as a streak of lightning, or if it appears
in the form of an old-fashioned winkIe-
hawk, it is nevertheless only an affair
of simple seam, and no very great tai
ent for sewing is required. But hole
in a stocking is an entirely different
matter. Here there are no two areas of
material with shaTply-marked shore
lines, distinct capes and bays and PEN
insulas nicely fitting into each other, to
guide the mender and show him where
and how to put them together. In the
stocking a single thread breaks. Moth
ing is lost, nothing is gone, and yet in
stantly there is vacancy, vacuum. Not
a shred of cotton, not q filament of wool,
has disappeared, yet there is the hole,
round as circle, empty as space, enig-
matical, bewildering, disheartening.
The question is now how it can be filled
up. 1t is one with which no masculine
intellect should attempt to grapple. The
mind of man may be equal to the in
veution of the electric telegraph, he
may build great cities, and measure the
distance to the sun, but the intricacies
of darning hole in stocking are be-
yond the uttermOst limits of his genius.
He is more helpless than a spider. The
latter could go TO work and spin a web
over the orifice, and thus repair it neatly
if not substantially. But only the deft
fingers of a woman can really do the
work as 1t ought to be done. She alone
knows how to gather up those recalci-
trant stitches, how to wiggle and twist
and coax needle In and out until every
one is caught, and then how to weave
the thread backward and forward, in,
across, and around, until the offending
hole has disappeared, and the stocking
is once more in condition to be worn.
1t may have been that women were eX-
pressly created for the purpose of con-
tending with this stocking difficulty.
But the discussion of this question
would carry US away from the purpose
of our article. She is, however, the
only means so far discovered of getting
the thing done properly, and Will also
remain so, Notwithstanding the fact
that some would-be benefactor of the
human race has recently invented a
darning machine. But its operation is
so tedious and the work so clumsy that
women can we'll afford to sneer at so
contemplate a rival.
1t is impossible to sympathize with
the bachelor in this matter. Man, be-
ing stocking-wearing animal, cannot
afford to be a misOgamist. The unani-
nous sentiment must be, "Serves him
right. ."-HdrpeT's Weekly.
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has had it that Minister Maynard was
to be recalled, and Attorney General
Devens sent to Constantinople. But
we are assured the rumor has not the
slightest foundation, Notwithstanding
General Devens is hardly pleased with
his present position. Though he regards
his abandonment Of the judicial bench
as an error, yet resignation for the pur-
pose of going as Minister to Turkey he
regards as a graver mistake, hence he
proposes to fight it out on this line if it
takes four years.
SOCIETY.
Washington has been again thrown
into flutter of excitement and pleas
ure by the wedding of the eldest daugh-
ter of Admiral Porter to Lieutenant L.
G. Logan, at the Church of the Epiph-
any. A brilliant throng witnessed the
ceremony, consisting of army and navy
officers, Senators, and diplomats. The
first attraction upon entering the church
was the chancel, WhlchJ by the profu-
sion of lilies and white liIacs used in
decorating, was turned into a floral
bower. From an arch of lilacs in front
of the altar depended bell formed of
lilies of the valley, with tongue of scar
let verbenas. The dim light in the body
of the church threw into prominence the
brilliantly lighted chancel, and the eff
feet was unrivalled in beauty. The
groomsmen were in full uniform. The
brides dress of white satin, with its lus-
trous folds, was further set off by the
full uniform of her father, the Admiral,
upon whose arm she leaned in entering.
The usual after wedding accompani-
ments of reception, supper and dancing
closed the affair. FELIX.
Washington, D. c., May II, 1877.
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Though man can gather and scatter,
move, mix, and unmix, yet he can de-
stroy nothing. The putrefaetion of one
thing is preparation for the being and
bloom of another. Thus tree gathers
nourishment from its own fallen leaves
when they are decayed, and something
gathers up the fragments so that moth
ing is lost.
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In the Presbyterian Assembly at Chi
cago, Rev. Mr.. Roberts, of New Mexico,
explained the religious systems preva-
lent there. The women, under the in
fuence of the Catholic church, were
governing the men, influencing them
against Professionalism. He said there
was an urgent demand for women
teachers there. Women could approach
the women, but men could not, ow-
ing to the watchfulness of the priests.
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Woman's degraded, helpless position is the
weak point of our institutions to-day-a dis
turbing force everywhere, severing family ties,
filling our asylums with the deaf, the dumb,
the blind, our prisons with criminals our cit
les with drunkenness and prostitution, our
homes with disease and death.-[ National Cen
tennial Equal Rights Protest.
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"Dar now," said the negro preacher,
as the deacon left the meeting in pet.
"Dar now, dat's just what the Bible
says, DE wicked run when nobody's
arter him.
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EDNA AND JOHN:
A Romance or Idaho Flat.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the
the Librarian of Congress at Washington City. ]
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MAJOR RENO.

The administration has seen fit in
its superior wisdom to mitigate the sem
tence of dismissal from the army passed
upon this officer for indecent overtures
to a brother officers wife, into suspen-
sion from rank and pay for two years.
To US, this action merits criticism, for
the Cabinet has no more right to take
into consideration Major Reno's war
record than the court at law has that
of the man tried for burglary. Scores of
men are now in our prisons whose ca
reers as soldiers are without a blemish,
but this did not suffice to deter the courts
from administering merited punishment
for crimes committed. Yet Major Reno's
case was cOwardly endeavor, not only TO
seduce wife in the absence of her hus-
band, but, when he failed in the attempt,
to visit upon her blackest and vilest
slander and oppression. He even went
so far as to interdict the chaplain from
holding religious service when she was
present, and so devilish was his perse-
cutiOn that no jury court in the country
would have held the husband amenable
for taking the law into his own hands.
Yet Major Reno, under the pitiful plea
of past service, escapes with mere sus-
pension. The Queen of England dis
missed Colonel Baker for an offense not
tithe so gross. As volunteer soldier,
we have no sympathy for the West
Point influences which obtain in the
War Department, and Major Reno's
condoned shame is simply due to the
theory that a West Pointer cannot CON-
NIT crime. The old Common Law OF
England held that the "King could dc
no wrong" and the dogma of infalli-
bility teaches that the "Pope cannot err." "
But we are heretical enough to say and
believe that more i'll can be condoned
because the transgressor is a West
Pointer than would people our peniten,
taries, were just deserts given.
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Mrs. Sarah Joseph Hale is said to be
the oldest woman editor in the country.
A native of Newport, n. H., she re-
moved to Boston, when she was thirty
three, and conducted the Ladies' Mdgd-
zine for nine or ten years, until it was
united with the Ladies' Book in Phila-
delphia. She went to that city, became
the literary editor of the consolidated
magazine, and has held the position
ever since. She is now eighty-two-a
rival of Bryant in age and service-still IL
vigorous in body and strong in mind,
and able to do a great deal of hard work.
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Jennie June writes: ''There are two
points in regard to my going abroad
which 1 wish to have clearly under
stood. am not going to stay long THAT
will be sad news to some), and am not
going to write book (that will be good
news to all),n
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MEXICO.

The administration means to put an
end to the depredatiOns of the Mexican
cattle-stealers on the Texan frontiers.
These "greasers' have become so strong
in numbers and so bold in action that
fOrbearance has ceased to be a virtue.
Whether it will assume the form taken
by General Mckenzie, who crossed the
Rio Grande some years ago with his
troops, and gave the thieves a good
drubbing upon their own soil, or whether
a general setto will ensue is not yet de-
termined. But that these Infamous
"greasers" must cease to cross the from
tier is settled, and we may expect the
quiet of the Rio Grande to be disturbed
this summer by the presence of troops
fully able and authorized to take proper
care of Uncle Sans important material
interests in the shape of cattle and
horses.
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Gbe a!eU 4 1!stort5west. e

A Journal for the People.
Devoted to the Interests of humanity.
Independent in Politics and Religion.
Alive to all Live Issues, and Thoroughly
Radical in Opposing and Exposing the Wrong
of the Masses.
Correspondents writing over assumed sigma
lures must make known their names to the
Editor, or no attention win be given to thei1
communications.
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OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

To THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST
The report of Fred. Douglass' lecture
on "Washington City," delivered re-
Gently in Baltimore, and which he will
repeat throughout the North, has caused
not little feeling among the old resi-
dents of this city. If we may judge the
lectures by the extracts published in
the Baltimore papers, he deals in rather
severe structures upon the elements con-
trolling Washington under the old re-
gime rather than upon the Northern and
Western element, which has done so
much toward the improvement of the
city since the war. He thinks the IA
vorable change in the condition of the
colored people has been remarkable,
but pitches into everything white. And
people wonder why he should develop
so much bitterness when so highly fa-
vored as he has been by the President.
He was made Marshall, but was not
permitted to become usher by courtesy
at the White House, and rejecting
upon the spleen exhibited by him after
his return from San Domingo in 1869,
we are inclined to think he is still en-
bittered at the halfway treatment given
him by the white man.
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
Mr.. Defrees, the new public printer,
will apply the civil service rules to his
department, which means he will re-
move the old force in so far as it does
not suit him, and replace it by new men.
His clerks and foreman have already
been selected, and are worthy men as
well as practical printers. He, like all
others occupying high positions, finds
himself with "fre in the rear" made
by some disaffected persons who seek
thereby to secure his rejection by the
Senate. Charges trumped up after ap-
pOintment rarely had any weight in the
Senate in the past, and serve more to
bring the nominee into favorable notice
than to iajure, hence Mr.. Defrees' friends
treat these brought against him with
Indifference. Those most Jealous in
opposing him are now in the govern
ment printing office, and if Mr.. Defrees
does not make some summary dis
charges after he enters upon his duties
on the 25th, we will be surprised, as he
is not much inclined to give preference
to enemies.
The New York herald., 1877-02-03
FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.

WASHINGTON, Fob. 2; 1877.
THE MICHIGAN INELIGIBLE ELEcToR-A NEW
COMPLICATION TO THE ELECTORAL RETURNS.
Ottawa county, the residence OF jacob Den Herder
one OF the Michigan Presidential electors is in tho
Filth Congressional district, represented bv William
b. Williams, republican, who says that ho has not the
slightest doubt about Den Hcrder being naturaIized
citizen When found low close the Presidential
votc was the democrats OF the Fifth Michigan district
IN common with citizens OF other States, went
to work TO ascertain II there were any disqualified
electors on their state ticket Den Hcrder who is re-
ported TO be very careful business man, had been
prominent politician in Ottawa county, and, having
been resident there since 1876 when that part OF the
Stale was not thckly settled, 1t is possible say other
members of the Michigan delegation that he drifted
frs: into local politics among the Hoandcrs who COM
pose a large part OF the settlers OF that county
and subsequently was appointed to a federal
office without tho question Of citizenship over being
raised. 1t Is certain that the democrats OF Michigan
have been very careful in their researches and accord
court officials in Michigan there is no record of Den
Herder ever having taken out naturalization papers
AS he was but boy when he settled in Ottawa,
having been there eight years before arriving
At the age OF twenty is possible says tho demo-
cratic representative from that state that he
Rarded as American citizen and permitted to enjoy
official honors unqucstioncd. HIS failure TO produce
documentary evidence OF his naturalization will add
complication to the electoral returns. inasmuch
as the law Is explicit upon the question OF citizen
ship that without the proper papers his action n voting
with the other electors must be regarded irregular.
The New York herald., 1877-02-03

continued before tho Senate Committee on Privileges
and Elections to-day.
c. b. Bellinger, chairman OF tho Oregon Democratic
Committee, was recalled. His testimony was simply
corroborasve OF that previously gwen by himself and
other democratic witnesses.
The following kilograms were introduced in evidence
by Senator Mitchci:-
4. A. GROVER. Salem Oregon =
Man left Omaha to see you; will arrive Monday.
Delay action GEORGE L. MILLER
DECEMBER 6ysas76
To Colonel W. ]. PELrcS, New York;
Glory be TO God Hold on to one electoral vote In
Oregon. have 100, 200 men to back it up. CORSE.
WASHINGTON, u. c., Dec. s, 1876
To Judge STRONG, Salem, Oregon
Tildcn las lS5, including IRON Oregon.
A. $. HEWITT
SALEM. Oregon, Dec. O, 1876.
PETER DoyAHrE, New York.
appreciate tho sentiments expressed. Thanks for
congratulations l.. A. GROVER
OMAHA, Neb., Dec. -.
Colonel W. T. PELroy, Is Gramercy Park, New York
Ignorant whole business. Partner power ul motives
TO hdelty on Gould order. Can IL be done through
A. kountz, IL Wall, or myself or bothf Kountz Til.
densh republican. reliable beyond doubt Last resort
protect everybody and use DAVIS Answer.
GEO 1. MILLER.
Thcrc were marks the despatch signed sCorse''
to indicate the place from which II was sent.
MR.. STEPHENS CONDITION IMPROVING.
Hon. Alexander II. Stephens Is evidently better
to-day. His physicians greatly encouraged.
The New York herald., 1877-02-03
MIDNIGHT WEATHER REPORT.
WAR DEPARrMEyr,
OFFICE or THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER,
WAsnISGToY, Feb. 81 A. NJ

WAsnIsGToN, Feb 81 A. NJ
Indications
For Saturday, in the South Atlantic and Gulf States,
southwest to northwest Winds stationary or lower
temperature cooler partly cloudy clearing weather
will prevail.
For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley rising barome-
ter, northwest to southwest WINDS warmer followed
by higher temperature and clear partly cloudy
weather.
For the Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri val
leys, rising followed by stationary falling barometer
northwest Winds shit to warmer south and east with
generally clear weather.
For the upper lake region, rising barometer, north
west 10 southwest winds, stationary or lower TEN.
pcraturc and partly cloudy weather
For tho lower lake region, rising barometer westerly
winds, slightly cooler, partly cloudy weather.
For the Middle and Eastern States, rising barometer
north west winds and cooler, clearing weather. fol-
lowing light rain or snow.
The Upper Ohio, Lower Mississippi and Lower Mis-.
souri, rivers will rise somewhat, but the Mississippi
continue falling at Cairo and Memphis
Cautonary signals continue for a light northcr At
lndianola and Galveston.
The New York herald., 1877-02-03
THE TOMAHAwKED CHINAMAN.

The body OF All Fong, the murdered Chinaman was
removed yesterday afternoon from Bellevue Hospital
the residence Of the undertaken who had charge Of
the remains Here II neatly att,red in a satin
shroud, with paper collar aud black SILK
necktc, and placed In decent rosewood
conln- The body presented quite respect
able appcarance-much moro than could
have bccu expected alter the mutilation II had
undergone. The young woman who had represented
herself the wife OF the remained with tho
body until twelve o'clock and deitly repealed all Efforts
OF the newspaper to obtain any knowledge OF the
intended ceremonies. large number OF Cinnamon
called during the evening, and II was expected that
characteristic Chinese wake would be held over tho
body. Nothing OF the kind occurred however, tho
visiting compatriots Of the murdered merely
taking a look IN their usual stold manner the
mains, and then, alter dash of Celestial gibbcrsh In
the sing song OF the den2eDs OF the Flowcry Land
passing out OF the a0or silently as they came.
The girl 'katc," the reputcd wie OF All Fong. took
charge OF the body and acted mistress OF cere-
monies all the time The reason, far the reporter
could gather. for the omission OF the wake was that
All Fong by cutting OF his and thus de-Chinazing
himself had taken the position o. an apostatc and de-
prved himself OF the rights and honors OF Chinese
burial
The New York herald., 1877-02-03
GENERAL WASHINGTON DISPATCHES

WAsHyGroS. Feb. Q, 1877.
REMOVAL. OF MADDOX, THE LOUISIANA WITNESS,
FROM HIS POSITION AS TREASURY AGENT.
J. II. Maddox, tho Treasury agent who been Civ.
ing testimony in the Louisiana before the Com
mittcc on the Powers, Privileges and Duties of the
House, to-day removed from his official position as
an agent Of the Internal Revenue Bureau.
The removal OF Maddox was determined
upon by tho President yesterday, and the
President consequently sent for Colonel :. f.. Cham.
bcrlan, OF Virginia, and formerly officer OF the
regular army and rendered the place to him to-day
The Offer Immediately accepted, and this afternoon
Commissioner Raum notified Maddox that he was
IRON this date dismissed from tic service OF the In
tcrna Revenue OGicc, and the commission OF Colonel
Chamberlain signed.
THE OREGON ELECTROMAGNETIC IN
TEoDucED By SENATOR MITCHELL.
The investigation Of the Oregon electoral was