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C0LORED SILKS.

Our stock of Colored Dress
Silks is the largest we have
ever shown, and includes every
desirable Fall Shade.
HANDSOME GOODS at 81,
$1.1O, $l.26, $1.35. and $1.60.
Special attention is invited to
q 1ice Of 22-in. Colored Dress
Silks, very heavy, at ST.. CO.
last years price Of same, $2.26.
, 1877-11-15
THE FIRE.

IHE flkE.
Field & Letters Great Re-
tail Store De-
stroyed.
loss on Building and Stock
Will Reach About
$l,200,000.
On Which There Is Insll-
rance Amounting to
About 81, 100, 600.
The Fire Broke Out
Where 1t Did
in 1873.
The Fault Being with That
Same inaccessible
HaEf-Roof.
Various and Conflicting State
ments About the Origin
Of the Blaze.
How the Fircnen Fought IT,
Fall Of the Blazing
The Brave Boys Caught Beneath
the Ruins---0ne Almost In
stantly Killed,
The Melancholy List Of Kill
| ed, Wounded, and
Missing.
Tho Insurance OH Building and
Stocl1---WIlat They Man.
| aged to Save.
Scenes and Incidents at the
Conf1agration...Fire Of
1873.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-16
PROPERTY RIGHTS OF MARRIED
WOMEN,

We publish elsewhere ian act relat-
ing to the rights of married women and
matters properly connected Herewith"
which is proposed to be placed upon the
statute books of the State of Indiana, our
attention being called thereto by Hon. G.
w. Lawson of Salem, who says: "Would
it not be good idea to keep the follow
ing propositions of law on married
women's rights set in corner of your
paper for the next Legislative Assem-
bly,, and thus educate the public mind
up to the full standard of wOmen's prop
erty rights? Let it be understood that
no man will be favored by women for
Representative or Senator who does not
favor the law"
Women, who, while they feel keenly
the injustice that is done them by the
One-sided property laws that they have
been compelled to live under for ages,
have yet frequently been abashed and ST.
fenced by the blunt inquiry as to "what
women want" in the way of change
~ eACoC lows cL4O W buCLu VIC
the proposed Indiana law as being in
most of its provisions and details just,
alike to men and women. We are sure
that all who are proud of the advance
ment of civilization, and who are vota-
ries at the shrine of progress, will agree
that it is high time that the "English
common law" wherein it relates to the
property of husbands and wives, was
''abrogated" and its place supplied by a
law that, based upon equality, shall
meet the just demands and intelligent
requirements of the women of this pro.
gressive century. That the public
mind needs educating upon this i'm.
portant point is apparent to all who in.
terest themselves in the welfare of the
race and nation. Women are them.
selves largely responsible in this mat.
ter, and nothing is more certain thar
that they can effect the changes desired
by all and demanded by few of the
leading spirits of the age, if they will
only act in concert and in haI mony
They are called the educators OIL the
race. Educators they should and may
be if they but watch their opportunities
and seeing, go brsvely and persever
ingly forward and make the most o
them. Take heed, sisters, and act upoI
the hint given in the concluding para
graph of the note above published.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-16
THE COMMISSION AT WORK.

The electoral commission, graphing
with the conflicting returns presented
to them for consideration, weigh these
steadily, and to all appearance carefully
and as nearly without bias as politi-
clans could be reasonably expected to
do, and slowly the count goes on. Flor
ida has been counted for Hayes, and in
dications are that the other "doubtfuW
States will be decided in like manner.
The fuss and fury over the Oregon cleo
toral matter will amount to nothing in
the end but the needless expenditure of
the peoples money! and in case as
now seems certain, that Hayes is de-
clared the choice OF the people to pre-
side over the destinies of the nation for
the next four years, Grover, Cronin, et.,
al, will visit foreign courts or wear cab
met honors only in dreams. We hope
soon to be able to announce the result,
for though its painful lingering and
the disreputable developments that the
contest has brought out has killed most
of the enthusiasm that glowed and
burned so fercely during the ides of No.
vember, every one will be glad to know
that the question is at rest, whether his
candidate or the other has the disposal
of the Federal patronage during the
next Presidential term. That is about
all the question amounts to, as matters
are at present, any way.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-16

have more than enough and far more
work than usual to occupy their time
and attention this winter, which has
been the coolest for twenty years past
The Potomac has been frozen since the
latter part of December, and no sign Of
thaw yet comes to encourage the idle
river men, nor make the fishermen
mend their nets for the spring haul.
Work is almost at a standstill; no
money is being invested; mercantile
houses are tottering, and all classes are
anxiously awaiting the ominous fourth
of March. OF seven hundred shares of
soup served daily to the poor, six humid
red are to the cOlored population. These
people have not yet broken into traces;
it is still hard to supply their own wants,
accustomed through generations to be
thought for, fed, nursed, and directed,
they cannot learn to provide for the fu-
ture; a days work here and there to
supply the present want, and then the
negro's delight-rest. Ambitious of
high wages, they are too ignorant to
earn such, and the consequence is that
the majority of the negro population in
Washington are out of work, living by
their wits, stealing and begging. Can't
Oregon hold out some inducements for
emigation? CACTUS.
Washington, D. c., January 26, 1877.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-16
George when man dared to attempt the

George when man dared to attempt the
same thing hundred years ago.
At the close of our argument, which
was heard with the most profound and
respectful attention, land which you,
good reader, shall have laid before you
in these columns as soon as the Chicago
papers get done with the "copy'), Sena-
tor Robinson, of TazewelI, being called
upon by Col. Harlow, arose and made
an impromptu speech, indorsing, as did
the Secretary of State, the missionary
and her mission, and paying a tender
and touching tribute to the memory of
our dear maternal grandfather and the
old times when we had been school
mates in the log cabin in Pleasant
Grove, where there is now a cornfield,
but where some of the holiest recollec-
tions of busy life yet linger. He drew
vivid picture of the long line of emf
grant wagons, the anxious friends, the
never-tO-be-forgotten words of parting,
and dwelt with much enthusiasm upon
the progress of the age that had, in a
quarter of a century, returned the pale
faced girl from her far Pacific home to
these halls Of legislation mature wom-
an and an earnest worker in the high
ways and byways of an eventful career,
winding up with an eloquent appeal for
the ballot for woman, which was ap-
plauded to the echo.
AS the next day IS adventures will be
best understood by the following letter
from the Springfield Journal, we hereby
lay it before you, reader, knowing il
will need no further explanation. THE
letter appears elsewhere.-ED.1
The meeting alluded to in the lettel
published was very enthusiastic indeed
and did more to convince men that the
government women are taxed to sup
port is an aristoeracy of sex than {
dozen addresses could have accomplished
where everything was going on will
only the intangible and yet powerful
opposition of a few dogged sovereigns
votes.
Men do not mean to be unjust t,
woman, and all the wise ones in thei
ranks are ready to espouse justice 70
her when the light is given. The onl,
trouble is that narrow, contemptibl
bigot, or self-cOnceited egot, with NOR
pomposity than brains, will count a
much when he votes as will an oracle o
statesman.
Had health and time permitted, W
should have gladly remained in Spring
field for a week or two, as we foun
many friends among the best people
but we're going home if we're compelle
to be carried on shutters.
The weather is warm and sunny, an
we should be happy if we could only
surrounded by the loved ones at home
Tomorrow we strike for Laramie City
A. J. D.
Mt. Pulaski, ILL.,, January %, 1873.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-16
RECENT EVENTS.

The Senate, on the 9th, ratified the
extraditiOn treaty with Spain.
The army appropriation bill will be
framed on basis of reduction from 25,-
900 TO $4,000 men.
Sheridan Shook, proprietor of Union
Square Theater, has forwarded his check
for $4,000 to the treasurer of the fund
for the sufferers by the Brooklyn theater
fire.
The electoral commission, by strict
party vote, eight to seven, decided on
the 9th inst. the four electoral votes of
Florida should be counted for Hayes
and Wheeler.
The death rate from diphtheria in
San Francisco continues aIarmingIy
large, being IS for the past week. There
is marked decrease in smallpox, only
10 new cases having been verified dur
ing the week.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-16

Hon. Joseph Engle, State Senator
from Marion county, died at his resi-
dence near Gervais February 7, 1877,
aged 81 years. Deceased had long re-
sided in the place where he died, and
enjoyed the respect and confidence of all
with whom he associated. The women
of Oregon have cause to hold him in
grateful remembrance tor his advocacy
of their claims to enfranchisement in
the Legislature. We trust that his
mantle may fall upon a successor who
will as honorably wear it in the cause Of
freedom and of right.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-16
THE SEASON, PAST. PRESENT AND
PROSPECTIVE.

So mildly and pleasantly have the
winter months dealt with the State of
Oregon this season, that we can scarcely
realize that February is fast counting
the last days from winters calendar. Yet
so it is, and already we hear prognOsti-
cations-well founded, too-for the fruit
full summer that is just at hand. Neither
cold nor rain has interfered in any de-
gree with the labors of the husbandman
during the past months, and the eonse-
quence is that the hills and valleys that
smile along the course of the William
cite will, when a few weeks more have
passed, present a vast bosom of bright
est emerald to the spring skies, and re-
sound in the golden harvest months
with the whirr and click of machinery,
as propelled by eager satisfaction it
garners the seasons bounties and gives
it to the ready hand of commerce to
transfer to the great granaries of the
world. The acreage of fall and winter
grain sown in almost all localities far
exceeds that Of former years, and lands
are everywhere in readiness to receive
crops, which farmers, well pleased, will
sow in due time with unsparing hand.
A mild, bright spring is not here, as in
pest-ridden Kansas and Nebraska,
dreaded, lest its benign influences will
bring to life myriads of grasshoppers
l., ~ q
consume the crops so anxiously looked
for. Nor does drouth terrify as in Cali
fornia, nor frOsts blight as in the East,
but the assurance, "As ye SOW so shall
ye reap" has literal translation ever
sure to Oregon farmers.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-16
OUR LITERARY SOCIETY ON THE
WOMAN QUESTION.

To THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST
suppose for some time past you have
been thinking 1 have been gathered to
my fathers, or else have forgotten the
New NORTHWEST. Well, neither of
these calamities has happened. 1 have
only been busy-busy trying to invent
a machine, or something, with which to
supply a number of good people with
brains enough to comprehend the force
of an argument and honesty enough to
acknowledge it when they perceive it.
But am unequal to the task. You can
rain down facts on them, and they will
not admit they are facts, and you can
fairly belabor them with sound argu-
ments, and they will simply toss their
heads little disdainfully and all the
arguments glance off their craniums
and never get inside. So turn again
to the NEW NORTHWEST for sympathy
and counsel.
You see, we organized select literary
club to meet twice a week to read and
discuss science, literature, poetry, art,
etc. At first we had no trouble and all
went well; but somehow it came to pass
that after while there was not scien-
tific problem nor a scrap of history or
poetry but led US to the woman question.
1 don't know how it was, for 1 didn't
write the learned essays nor the history,
poetry, or romances, but all the club
blamed me for bringing up the vexed
question to destroy the harmony of our
meetings. To settle the question for
ever beyond all future cavil, we set an
evening to discuss it, and invited in the
minister, the schoolmaster, and a would
be candidate for the next Legislature, as
judges, all of whom, it was said, had
not as yet fully made up their minds
which side of the question they were on
and it was thought it would be quite ar
achievement for US to show them where
they ought to take their stand.
The eventful evening came, and sc
did our judges. The question was read
"ResoLved, That women already posses;
all the rights and privileges that are
necessary for their own well being anC
the consequent we'll being of the coun
try and of society,"" 1t made me indig
nant to hear the question read, anC
when the first speaker introduced hi
remarks with, "Mr. President, if womer
are to be allowed to do everything tina
men do, think we had better quit"
1 interrupted by inquiring, "Qui
what ?" for which 1 was called to orde
by the chair.
"Quit everything" continued tn,
speaker, "for everything would go t.
destruction. Mr.. President, 1 hav,
1 looked into this matter, and I know
whereof speak. Women are the bal
ance wheels of society now; but let then
be allowed to do as men do, aud it i
plainly to be seen that ruin would b.
inevitable. Then, again, this so-callet
reform would make man and his wifi
two distinct and Independent beings
which was never intended to be the case
and no true woman wants to be per
sonage' on her own account, Will
many man owes his success and emf
nence to the self-sacrificing spirit of hi
wife, who, in aiding and encouraging
her husband, is his helpmeet. Woman
by nature is the helpmeet of man, ant
not his rival" etc., etc.
Mrs. C.'s turn came next. eyes, Mr.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-16

All accounts agree that the Yamhill
County Woman Suffrage Convention,
held at Lafayette last week, was COM
plete success. An efficient corps of off,
GERS have been selected for the ensuing
year, and the work will be pushed
bravely forward. The time will come
when Bradshaws will be decidedly be-
low par in the estimation of the men,
as they are already in the estimation of
the women of Yamhill county. Full
reports of the Convention are crowded
out of this issue.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-16

People Of the Centennial State" are
waking up to the importance of the
woman question. At the late suffrage
convention in Denver, aisles, seats, and
standing room were crowded with
earnest listeners. The campaign in
Colorado bids fair to be earnest and
thorough. All the advocates of suffrage
ask is the ear of the people. Give them
plenty of quiet listeners, and the result
is safe.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-16

The State Woman Suffrage Conven-
tiOn is in progress at Albany as we go
to press. We will probably be able to
give full accounts of its work in our
next issue. Owing to sickness in our
family we have been unable to attend.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-16
NOTICE.

Agents will please take notice that ii 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
letters.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-16
INDEPENDENCE OF WOMEN,

If women were born to be dependent,
to be housed, and clothed, and fed by
the bounty of men, and if such were the
designs of the great Creator, tell us, you
who pretend to expound the word of
God and declare His plans immutable,
His DEGREES Interchangeable, what you
are going to do with facts and statistics
which show that women by hundreds
and thousands are not only self-support-
ing, but are compelled to maintain
others?
In Massachusetts alone, l92, $50 wom-
en- are maintaining themselves; they
are money earners and not dependent
on man for maintenance. OF these, "a, :
SIS are employed in what is termed the
domestic industries" 1. e., as servants,
washerwomen, watchers, nurses, mat
rons, boarding and lodging-house keep
ers, etc. The remainder are engaged in
what is generally considered mems
work. These are classed as follows:
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-16

The Historian says the twelve fishing
establishments at Astoria and Upper
Astoria, will employ 5000 labOrers dur
ing the busy season.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-16

We are sorry to learn of the serious
Illness of J. NJ. Sutton, editor of the
Ashland IEdings, and hope soon to be
able to chronicle his complete restora-
tion to health,
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-16
ILL.,, j

THAT Is TO SAY, TELLS ABOUT HER POss SESSION
OF REPRESENTATIVES HALL SATURDAY EVEN
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-16

The Pioneer aud Historical Society
are preparing for their annual celebra-
tion at Astoria on the 22d,
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-16

More than one-half of the telegraph
operators in the State are women. There
are 5,724 engaged in making boots and
and shoes; 2S7 clock and watch-makers;
100 spool-makers; AZ needle-makers; "a
saddle and harness-makers; 527 mer-
chants, and l,OS9 bookkeepers, account
ants and clerks. That these laborers
may be protected in their property and
their wages as men are protected, they
need the ballot. 1t is considered indis-
pensable to the rights of working men,
why is it not equally indispensable to
rights of working women?
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-08-08
TRUSTEES SALE.

10y VIRTUE OF a DEED OF TRUST
ID made 10y Edmund Booking to the
undersigned Trustee, dated the - h day
OF December. A. ID. 1870, and OF record in
the Clerks Office OF the County Court OF
ONO county, in deed OF trust hook No. II,
page 49,, / Will, on Monday. the I3Ih
day OF August, 1877. commencing AT 10
O'Clock a. M, at the Drug StOTr OF the SAID
Edmund Booking, ON the corner of l-th
and Chapliuc streets in the city of Wheel
.ug, sell AZ public auction 10 the highest
and best bidder The following described
property: All the castings, furniture, YES
sells, medicine, and property contained IN
The drug store OF the SAID Edmund Book
ing, embracing, among other things, n
show cases and contents, 1860 bottles, Jars
and cans and their contents, package
and case OF patent medtcsneS, / iron sale,
1 book case aud desk, ] library containing
two hundred volumes of paTnaCuctiCal,
chemical and scientific books, pTescrip-
ton ca e together with its bottles and con
tents, ! soda fountain, microscope, / pair
Of scales. and all kinds al medicines, drugs
Inc liquors that app"riHln TO n frst-claSN
drug ore.
At the same time, but at the dwelling
house OF the said Booking, situated on
18th "rt, between EOti and Byron streets,
the I, t-rSigucd Will sell, by virtue Of the
said 'd, all The household and kitchen
Turn. O. OF said Booking, consisting of
beds. ...'lsteadS, carpets, dIyanr, chars
stands, book cases, stoves, glassware, look
INK glasses, and almost everything lhai -
usually contained IN well furnished
dwelling house, At the same nm" Will
also sell several pieces OF Jcwelry ware.
For more particular description OF The
property To bc sold, reference Is made to
lie said deed OF trust, or parties desiring
10 purChas, may obtain iull Information
from the Trustee.
Terms Of payment made known on the
Jay of sale. ". ID. JOH NSON,
iysD Trustee.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-08-08
TRUETEE,S SALE

nF \ DESIRABLE RESIDENCE. BY
" virtu.. of iced OF trust made and
executed 10y Matthew AltmyeT and Mary
f.. his wife to the undersigned Trustee,
dated the 27tu daT OF July. 1915, and OF
record in IT," Clerk 5 office of the County
court OF Dh.u county, West Virginia, N
decd OF trust q ouk No 9, page -, / viii, on
Thursday. ihc 3OTI day of August,
IS77 beginning at IU o'clock a. IN. OF said
day, at he front door of the Court House
81 said ONO 8uuty. sell at public auction
the following property, that Is To say
tighty-hvc feet in length Of the east end
Uf lot numbered el- ven dot No. III in thu
plat o. lots laid out by John Nc ure, In
the northern part OF the city of Vince ing,
the said lot being thirty-thrce Zee rs feet
In front on Market street, w. 81 side, and
extending back OF the uniform width of
said front toward Coal street, eighty three
feet, together with ali the lmprOyrm ents
o. ereOu, consisting OF "A CommOdtOuN tSsO
story brick dwelling, containing seven
rooms bath room, and modern COnveu-
fences.
TERMS OR ~ALE-Jne- haiiOl the purchase
money M cash, and the residue i'm one
year from the day OF sale, the purchaser 10
give note with approved security tor the
payment of the deferred luSta,lment, with
interest, and the title - the property To be-
retained until the purchase III Oncy Is paid
in tut. PETER COSTELLO, Trustee.
". n. HALLER, AuctiOneer. ty5li
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-08-08
ELIIC'EEGDN.

NO THE VOTERS or ONO COUNTY.
Passed by the BoarI o, Commissioner.
An election will boo held on Tuesday
August :, Ih75, tor u, purpp 70 Of taking
the >. uSc of Ia" persons qualified 10 yOl'
IN said county tor members OF the Lcgi-
lHturc OF the state Of West Virginia, upon
the following questions.
LIST. The permanent location oi the CAPT
tai of the state.
ID. Whether they VIII authorize au adj
d.iiOnal subscription iO be- made IN tn
name, and on behalf p| the sal. county of
ohio, To the cupnTi sfDcb NJ me I'HtyJfpgh,
BhcciiHg and kentucky RIihydd fuUip0HV
IN a sum not exceeding MY Thousand dol
Lars 500 d., Tor the purpps- 81 purchasing
the mort gag" bonds ul SAID railroad com
pIny, or subscribing aud paying Js capital
stock 81 said company iO bee exchanged Tor
said bonds, IT, rcby aiding said railroad
ia lis completion.
Polls suall be opened ON the I'M dgy of
August, ~, commencing at O'Clock 4.
NJ, and closing al ~ =. ~, at the following
places In said county. WI:
In Liberty district, al Mrs. E"agl''-, Val
ley Grove; at WIN. Twins, ia West Lib
trty, and ab.SchOol H"u-" az Potomac.
In RIChiand district, st' R!chiald school
House. and GIcnu's Ran Schpr. HOusr.
In Triad'lphia district, Al Henry liners,
1T!ad"iphla, at Wesley RObIu~Ou'H ana
school Hous" AT Leath"Iwppd, u"sts tol,
house.
In Richie district, at The ,ror" Of X. y.
ASmus'.
IN Webster district at United Engine
liDuS"
In Centre district no toe Guard Hose
iiOuse.
In Union district, 81 the Atlantic FugInr
House.
IN Cay district, Al the Court House.
In Madison district, FL the Market HOUSE
IN Washington Oh Irlcl, at the NIgllaut
l. CINE House.
county Commissioners ofice, July ~.
81 Teste.
CHARLES -. DEIIEE-.
clerk Board Of Commissioners ONO
COUNTY. i"T