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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-22
A SHORT LIFE, AND A SAD ONE.

Almost every subject is studied thor
oughly before the human body and the
laws of health are considered worthy of
Much more can be done
than is at present being done toward
the avoidance of disease.
In some instances parents are unable
or indisposed to teach their children
what would be the most valuable por-
tion of their education. The desire to
make money, and other ambitious mo-
tives seem to absorb the attention of
the masses, and divert their thoughts
from the care and consideration of
health.
My college classmate, Corrine, was
brilliant brunette. She arranged her
long, abundant black hair in one hund-
red curls when going to attend class
party, sing at concert, or read an essay
at the Literary Anniversary. She mad
flashing blackseyes. Her form was very
frail. 1t seemed impossible that so
much energy and strength of will to
overcome mountains of physical and in
tellectual toll could be possessed by one
with such a delicate frame.
She was a gay, dashing girl, with
something grand about her. She bore
herself with a certain majestic grace
that gave her queen-like dignity. An
only child, early in life she studied in
an Eastern seminary. Her father dying
with consumption, she came to Ohio
and commenced the literary course in
the State, continuing to take lessons in
vocal and instrumental music.
A hereditary tendency toward con-
sumption, constant study, unwholesome
food, corsets, heavy skirts borne upon
the hips, all these enemies disastrous to
health, tortured her frail physical frame,
deranging the nervous system, until she
grew very weak. With winter winds
came a constant, troublesome cough.
Her physician gave her cod liver oil,
until her stomach rejected it. She
should have had nourishing food, rest,
worn hygienic garments, and spent
much time in the open air, with free
dom from all forms of excitement.
Three years passed. Because she pos:
sessed an unusually strong will, she
overcame her physical weakness, COM
pleted the course of study, graduating
with high honors. She had the best
literary, artistic, and musical training
the country could afford; but the all-im-
portant physical training was left out.
After two years. training in domestic
duties, varied with lessons in vocal
music, she formed the acquaintance of q
man of considerable musical talent
one whom her friends thought in every
way worthy of her. How they were de-
ceived. He proved to be a shallow man
of the world, and a heartless libertine
determined to live upon Corrine's for.
tune. This hypocrite had won pure
accomplished young girl as his own
and in a short time the seeds of the
most intense suffering were sown in bel
already perishing body. Her remaining
days were spent in excruciating pain
and death came to her in a most ago
nizing form. In her rich bridal robe!
she was laid to rest. The truthful
chronicler of such a life and such s
death, Though divine, might weep"
Medina county, Ohio.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-22

Mart. Brown asserts that he ihas never
yet countenanced the disfranchisement
of citizens already possessing the suf-
frage." He certainly did his best to
place the women citizens of Wyoming
who exercise the franchise in false and
ludicrous light before his readers when
giving an account of his flying trip
through that Territory last year. Is
this your method of countenancing
Woman Suffrage where it exists,
brother? or is your memory falling?
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-22
MARTHA MARBLEHEAD
The Maid and Matron Of 0hehalen

Mrs. Duniway's new serial story,
bearing the above title, will begin with
No. AZ of the present volume, and will
continue without interruption during
the next six months. These stories of
real, everyday life, which have become
standing popularity of the New
NORTHWEST, are in no way diminished
in interest, as thousands will testify
who have followed the principal charac-
ters through lives of toll and vicissitude
to their final triumph in the story of
"Edna and John" just closed. martha
Marbleheadn is not a fictitious charac-
ter. Her lot was cast at an early day in
Oregon, where many of her friends yet
reside, and where she hopes to return
and live again before her work on earth
is finished. To all who follow her mar
rative faithfully we promise an instruct
i've treat. The story will abound
throughout in graphic descriptions OF
the localities given, though fictitious
names and places are substituted for the
real ones for obvious reasons.
Those who wish to supply their friends
in the East with descriptions of Oregon
scenery, wrought into life experience
of thrilling interest, should subscribe al
once for the NEW NORTHWEST and for
ward it to their address as a present.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-22
LETTER FROM IOWA.

To THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
After having read your paper for
nearly a year, and ever since my earli-
est recollection been very much inter-
ested in the cause you advocate, the
thought occurred to me whether might
not throw in my little mite to advance
the noble cause in which you are labor
ing.
In reading the article Domestic Tyr
amy" it seemed to me that the ideas
advanced would apply equally to our
selves and the Constitution of the United
States as to individual parties. Our
present Constitution is tyrannical
toward our sex, yet we have never failed
to submit to its whims, aud we too well
know that its operation has been at
tended with a great many evils. Still
all along we have fostered and aug
mented these evils by our unreasonable
submission to its requirements. Then
why continue longer in this channel ?
Why not stand upon our dignity and
quietly, but unflinchingly, assert our
selfhoOd and assume our rightful re-
sponsibility, and never again be found
guilty of going about cbildlike, asking
the tyraut whether we can in those all
important questions of the day have
our say, as well as our brothers, hus-
bands, and fathers, who are no more
concerned than we?
1 have often thought, why were the
Indians not euslaved as well as the Afri-
cans? Was it because the white race
would not have done it? Most certainly
not, but because they could not. The
Indians would not submit to the pale
face, consequently they were compelled
to treat him with Difference, but the
poor African had not the will-power to
resist, and need not stop to tell you
the result. So it is to-day with our own
sex; we crouch back in the corner like
well-trained dogs, and wait till we are
! hidden before we taste of the tempting
morsel, when all we have to do is to
step forward and claim that which is
already ours. No wonder we are classed
among the idiots and insane when we
are too cowardly to help ourselves at
our own table. I, for one, do not feel
very much elated over the prospect Of
being told, "Well, you may go to the
polls this time and we'll see how things
come out, and if everything works all
right maybe you may go again" II
seems to me this is too humiliating fol
any intelligent woman to submit to.
know we have women all over the
land that say, ave don't want to vote
1 have as much as I can do to take
care of my family; I have all the rights
1 want, etc." All such silly, insignifi-
cant remarks as these are made, but
they are not the women am appealing
to, for doubt whether they have self
confidence sufficient to cut out baby's
pinafore without first asking their hus
bands what shape it shall be; but t.
those that feel and know the unfavor
able circumstances in which we arr
pla :ed and want to step out from undel
the yoke of bondage, to you I woulC
say, "Come, let us reason together anC
see if we are not kept in bondage simply
because. we submit to the yoke"
TYRo.
i Iowa, June 2, 1877.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-22

The plea of insanity is put in for the.
young man, Moore, whose brutal treat
ment of his mother caused her to make
her final quietus with morphine at
Hillsboro a short time since. We hope
indeed, for the credit of humanity, that
the plea is well-grounded.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-22

The unkindest cut of "A corre-
spondent of the HillsbOro Independent
tells the editor thereof, in his own pa
per, that if he had the business energy
and thrift possessed by Mrs. Duniway,
bis subscription list would soon be much
increased.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-22

The WomGn's Journal says that the
ninth annual convention of the New
England Woman Suffrage Association
was one of the best, if not the very best,
that has ever been held.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-22

Resolutions embodying a vote of
thanks to the editors of newspapers who
have furnished the Young Peoples
Christian Association of Albany with
copies Of their papers, were passed at
recent meeting of the Association.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-22

Governor Packard has recovered from
his recent illness, and departed for New
York. He will not, it is said, go to
Washington.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-22
NOTICE.

Agents win please take notice that 1t 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, 1877-06-22
Iowa, June 2, 1877.
TYRO.

Rev. I. D. Driver is married again.
We hope the seventh act in the tragedy
will close with, "And last of all, the
man died also"
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-03

"What Is the reason, we wonder" ex-
claims the Coushatta (Red River Cit
zen, In disgust. shat the Mayor and AL
dermen elected in this place last No
vember have not been commissioned by
either OF the Governors? The city
ticket had no opposition: and we can't
exactly understand the cause or neces-
sity OF the delay to put the newly
elected officials in charge of the town. -
Why, it's the status quo. If there is
anything wrong from turnips up to tax
collectors it is safe to charge it to the
status quo. Nine times out Of ten you
will be right.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-03

Frosts are no longer terror to our
crops. They have been unusually fire.
quent and Of almost daily occurrence
this year, but have failed to produce
any damage at all. The five or six
severe frosts we have already had, have
not accomplished as much injury as one
slight frost produced last year. What
is the cause Of this phenomenon Is
it that all the weak and feeble trees
have been killed off in past seasons, or
III it that these trees have grown harder
aud stronger with ill treatment and bad
weather, like the people OF this State,
and are better able to stand such Wis.
itors from the North /?
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-03

Agriculture and politics do not agree,
In crops we are just o month ahead Of
time; cotton has been planted earlier
than ever before, and cane and corn will
come of age about four weeks earlier
this season than they did in 1876. In
political matters, on the other hand, we
are Eve months behind hand, and the
officials who were elected in November,
and who should have been dispensing
justice then, are waiting for commits
sion to be organized to come here to re-
aNnrt
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-03

The ducks have gone North, but there
Is fine hunting yet in the country. ANA
teur hunters have grown such a nui-
sance In West Baton Rouge, st. Charles,
Ascension and other parishes, that the
planters have found it necessary to re-
verse operations, and now instead OF
these Nimrods hunting the planters
chickens, as of yore, the planters are
hunting them and have got several of
them locked up In jail for violating a
section of the Revised Statutes.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-03

Columbia, Caldwell parish, and sew
eral other little towns, are mourning for
their municipal officers. Coushatta has
none, out of Difference for the status quo,
and as for Columbia, the following ad.
vertisement, which we clip from the
Herald Of that place, will tell the whole
story:
LOSr-The Mayor. City Councilman and cor.
poration OF Columbia, Caldwell parish. Any. per
ION returning the same TO the taxpayers OF the
town will be we'll rewarded for his trouble.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-03

An exchange says that whenever Carl
Hohurz Is seen coming out OF store
with two or three new wire waste
baskets under his arm, the Washington
correspondents hurry off to telegraph
"Mr. Schurz is In constant receipt OF
additional love-letters. However. the
affairs OF the Interior Department will
be reached at the earliest moment pos
ufhla -
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-03

The Kentuckians are taking initiatory
steps towards erecting monument to
the memory of the late hero statesman,
Gen. John O. Breckenridge. We hope
that no untoward circumstance will
come between the intention and Its
accomplishments.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-03

t6cnthiv ativartiaau,entH, having tho run 81
cha naner. inserted every other daYs 10 pe
nkersrnd twosthirds the above rates. .as,
EiIturia page m9nthly adveftlse'hehss' o''o"
square, $40 per month
ssates Tor Advertising In the Weekly New
Orleans Democrat.
Transient and general rates the same as ZOE
xdsyertisements for the period Of one month
asd ionupr pA Tnlinwn.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-03
.nvnuT1sIra nATEs-pAILs.

Transient advertisements u per square sto =
itnns Of eolid agatel fret INSERTION. eo oeh'e
nal,h atibseuuent consecutive insertion. a.
Wantn, no Hent. For Sales end Hoatni.n,a ~
vnrtisements, 10 cents line. net cash soho "e"
nttrp, None taken ut less than no Genus. ,,,a,,tt
Advertisements for the period Oh one haoh."
nd longer, NJ follewHt ~. .aata ttna aat
EDITORIAL Notices. In Editorial types ~ CENTS
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-03

It seems to us that it Is very long since
somebody has written an open letter to
Hon. Stanley Matthews. Come up.
boys, we want something interesting to
usMnd
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-03

We are indebted to Hon. Randall dib-
son for number Of Congressional doc
uments, reports Of the Department OF
Agriculture, Congressional Directory,
a,tr
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-03
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
TERMS or THE PAPER
HytuECurpTrON HATES.

DAILY per annum SO, and at safne rate half
s9@efnsyr Nh 'innnbshed every Saturday morn.
snw,. ter annusn ~ /. and at same rate hall
vpariy and quarterly.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-03

The popular wine before the war vas Piper
Heidseick. We still call for Piper.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-03
LEEDS FOUNDRY.
ESTABLISHED IN 1881
Corner DeIord anu Foucher streots.
NEW ORLEANS.

We are prepared to manufacture
STEAM ENGINES, BOILERS,
SUGAR MILLS, SUGAR KETTLES,
DRAINING MACHINES, SAW MILLS,
CoTToN PRESSES, NEWELL SCREWS,
GIN GEARING, FURNACE MOUTHS,
CRATE BARS, JUDsoN's GOVERNORS,
and all kinds Of Plantation and Steamboat work,
and every description OF Macn1In4eery , for tne
South. LEEDS ".
rnhg 3rn dHw
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-03
LAGER BEER

He Il urenared to sell the same At a LOWER
PRICE than any other HOME-HAD AkT!-
Gle and Of as good quality as any similar artl-
|cle produced IL fhe United States, mn1 en-
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-03
NEW ORLEANS LAGER BEER.
CASPAR LUSSE,
Nos. 4zG and AIS Chartres street,

Announces to the proprietors, OF BEER
pleted his immense apparatus for maaufac-
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-03

The above statement Is 9. true and correct
transcript from the books OF the company:
THOS. A. ADAMS. President.
HENRY Y. OGDEN. Secretary.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10th
day of May. 1873. WIN. n. HOLMES.
Second Justice of the Peace. parish OF Orleans
The Board Of Trustees resolved. That after
paying the annual interest OF ten per cent on
the capital stock of the company, that dividend
Of TWENTY PER CENT be paid In cash on and
after the 18th day of June next, to those parties
insuring with the company entitled 70 receive
the same. -
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-03

BOARD or DIRECTORS.
DAVID UHQUHART, Chairman.
NEWTON BUCKNER.
j. q, SCHROEDER,
GEO. wfGd,
FosTEa EtttoT, Resident Bee'y. rnh2o
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-26
CAPACITY of the Soil.

You cGn strain machine, or an Gni-
NAL, or even tree (by over-production),
but you cannot thus hurt the ground;
that will bear all you can do with it in
the way of growth. The reason of the
difference is: the former is organized,
the latter is not; it is only an accumnla-
tion of harmonious material, which the
plant quietly appropriates, to be re-
placed by similar material, without effort
by the soil. This disposes Of the idea
that land needs rest. What rest has the
land had that grew for ages the Ameri-
can forests and prairies-always busy,
and growing the same product at that;
or, the product removed, growing equal
ly well another and an entirely different
onei II is because the material is there,
and in a condition to he taken up-the
soil being dry enough and porous enough,
the weather shOweTy and warm. We
have, therefore, something that we can
put to the greatest strain, the highest
pressure-Tealizing the most that 1t is
possible to yield, without harm; only we
must not abuse it. This, however, is
generally done sometimes less, some
times more, according to the nature of
the soil and the careless or ignorant
treatment it gets. 1t may be poisoned,
as is sometimes the case, with iron COM
pounds, or hurt for while by an excess
of strong saline ingredients, like common
salt. There are other ways. TO hurt il,
but the worst, because the most ex.
pensive, is TO work the land when wet,
followed by the strong drying heat of
the sun. This bakes it, and for years
makes it harsh and unfit for high pro-
ductiveness. Well treated, with only
the necessary elements and conditions
for the highest yield, it may be worked
for any length of time.
Such soil is not only lasting, but it
has many advantages which are wanting,
or Of less value, in an ordinary soil. 1t
is warmer; II Is more porous, yet suffi-
ciently compact; 1t is also more mellow,
and more easily kept so; withstands
drought much better, and disposes rsadi.
~ Of surplus water, not alone because 1t
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-26

"Uncle Allck," said Ernest, glancing
nj his watch, IL don't like to hurry you;
but we have fortyfour calls on our list
still, and"
My dear boy, don't apologize. I've
no idea of being hurried Go and finish
your calls by yourself shall stay here
a while longer-that is, II Hope-Miss
Meyrick allow me to do So"
Pray stay as long as you can" said
Hope cordially; and Uncle Alick stayed
stayed till dark, stayed to dinner, stayed
through long evening, and, homeward.
bound at last, glanced at the still.lighted
windows of the Brixham mansion as he
went by, and muttcred through his
beard something that sounded like, An
escape, by Georgel What an escapem
That was last Now Years Day. Alick
LOTUS makes no calls this year He
stays in his own house, to enjoy, as he
says, the sensation of having q home to
stay in. 1t is an ample, handsome house
in fashionable street; but all over it,
from attic TO basement, reigns the same
atmosphere of graceful use and comfort
which made the dainty little rooms in
Fifty-fifth street SO attractive to their
guest a twelvemonth since. No wonder;
for the same hands preside, the same
taste directs, and every day is made
pleasanter and all life Is frightened by
the new.old love, which waited so many
years for its reward, and whose embod-
led perfection Uncle Alick calls by the
pretty name Of Iope.-HdTper'S BdEar.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-26
A Brave Little Girl.

A lamp explosion occurred in house
on Fourteenth street an evening or two
since. A little colored girl employed inthe
family went to the kitchen in the even
ing to light the fire. She then took the
lamp from the table and started to re-
turn to the sitting-room, and before she
got out of the kitchen the lamp exploded
with the force of gunshot, scattering
fragments of glass all over the room.
One piece struck the little girl on the
cheek, cutting cash nearly two inches
in length, and deep enough to cause her
to bleed profusely, and others tore the
skin from the fingers of the hand which
carried the lamp. Fortunately the light
was extinguished by the bursting of the
lamp. The first thought of the little
girl, who believed the house would
surely burn, was to save the baby boy,
who was innocently sleeping in his
grandmother's arms. She grasped him,
cried DE lamps busted" and away
she went to a neighbor's house with the
white-robed baby, leaving the grand
mother to face the situation as she
might deem best. The lady of the house
soon put in her appearance and went for
her baby, whom, of course, she found
all right, but his white garments were
In sad plight from the blood which fell
from the little girls wounded neck and
hand. She had said few days before
If the house ever teok fire the first thing
she would try TO save would be the baby,
and she was as good as her word.-
Dubuque Times.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-01-26
Your truly. ID. s. FORBES.
WHY AdYertIae1

People sometimes ask why does DR.. r. v.
Pierce, Of Buffalo, n. Y, spend SO much
money in advertising his family medicines,
which are so well known and surpass all
other remedies in popularity and sale. II Is
well known that A. T. Stewart considered
1t good policy, aud undoubtedly it paid him,
to spend many hundred thousand dollars in
advertising his goods, yet nobody ques-
TONED the excellence of his merchandise.
The grand secret Of success lies in offering
only goods which possess merit TO sustain
themselves, and then through liberal and
persistent advertising making the people
thoroughly acquainted with their good quail
ities. Men do not succeed in amassing great
fortunes, establishing thriving and perma-
ncnt business, and founding substantial in
stilutiOns like DR.. Pierce's Grand Invalids'
Hotel at Buffalo, which cost over two hun
drcd thousand dollars, unless their business
be Legitimate, their goods meritorious, and
their services which they render the people
attempt to humhug you by telling you that
his Golden Medical Discovery Wilt cure all
diseases. He says, If your lungs are half
wasted by consumption, my Discovery will
not cure you, yet AS "a remedy fOrSseYere
coughs, and all durable bronchial, throat
and lung affections, l believe II to be unsur-
passed as a remedy" The people have con-
idence in his medicines because he does not
over-recOmmend them, and when tried they
give satisfaction. His Medical Adviser, a
book of over nine hundred pages, illustrated
by two hundred and cighty-two engraVings
and bound in cloth and gilt 70 oTe-''d :" -
people at 60 moderate a
paid), that IL Is no wonder that Almost one
hundred thousand have already been sold.
III ) memorandum books are on every drug
gists counter for free distribution.