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MARY SMITH PER JOHN SMITH. "

The difference in the opinions of Mary
Smith per John Smith and Mary Smith
herself is illustrated in the following
letters, the exact counterparts of which
come to this office many times a year.
Says Mary per John:
Please discontinue the NEW NORTHWEST
sent to my address, as I cannot endorse its
teachings.
Accordingly, we draw our pencil
through the name of one of the repre-
sentatives of the respected and respecta-
BILE Smith family, and the paper, so far
as Mary is concerned, stops.
Two or three weeks pass by and Mary
Smith, ignorant of what she has said
"per john" and nerved by disappoint-
ment, seizes her pen in desperation and
writes:
Has my subscription to the NEW NORTHWEST
expired? If so, please notify me, and will re-
new at once. Send the last two issues, as
have not received them, and 1 can't afford to
miss a number.
Now, here is fix. If we start the
paper again, las, by the way, we invaria-
bly, do), John orders it stopped through
the P. NJ. lest he has the bill to pay, and if
he finds out that Mary has remitted the
years subscription on the sly, he
shrewdly suspects that she took the
same from his breeches pockets in the
same manner while he slept. If she is
truthful and Independent, she owns up,
and further informs John that she has
ordered the renewal and proposes to take
and pay for the paper, fairly if she can,
unfairly if she must. If she is weak
and timid, she will be Mortified to learn
that we have found out that Johns and
Mary's brains are not one and the same,
and that one invariably Johns, and
she will again desperately seize her pen
and cancel the words of her former let
ter and send US transparent explana-
ton long drawn out, trying to cheat
herself into the belief that by faIsifying
she can deceive US into the idea that she
and John are a unit. Sbe-being "or-
thodOx, veryr-declares she believes
just as John does, and John being or
thodox, so far as mans headship of the
woman is concerned, but no farther, is
equally ready to vouch that if she don't
believe as he does he will speedily find
means to make her.
Dogmatic John! Deluded Mary
We don't care fig whether you stop
your individual paper or not, but we
would like to know that you are toler-
ant of and truthful to each other.
Happily our books do not contain the
names of enough of such to embarrass
us seriously if they should all order the
NEW NORTHWEST discontinued. And
if Mary should put in all of her time
between meals for the rest of her natu-
raj life in inditing wordy "expIana-
tions," she could not convince US that
she wrote or endorsed, or now endores,
the note signed "Mary Smith per john"
| No use, Mary.
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FOREIGN NEWS.

The Russian attempt to throw q bridge
over the river before the Turkish lines
at Batoum was repulsed with loss.
The German squadron in the Egean
Sea will be increased to a dozen vessels,
including four or five first-class IRON
clads.
Since the Car returned to st. Peters
burg, he has shown such excitement
and uneasiness as to cause great fears
for his health.
Next week, under the pretence of
grand review, the entire English IRON
clad squadron, now in the East, will as
semble at Portsmouth.
The German ironcIads sailed Monday
for the Mediterranean, with orders to
remain at the disposition of the German
ambassador at Constantinople in case of
emergency.
The Turks are stationing pickets of
thirty men at intervals of two and
half miles along the whole Turkish
bank of the Danube, communicating
with each other by signals.
The Turks have about 10000 men in
the neighborhood of Erzeroum, and
about 76, 900 at Kars. It is impossible
to give reliable accounts of the number
of their guns, as those sent from Con-
stantinople may be still at Trebizond or
on the road.
A special from Berlin reports that
some vessels of the Russian squadron
which left America with sealed orders
will return to Cronstadt, and others will
anchor before Gibraltar to intercept
neutral ships carrying arms and ammu-
milton for Turkey.
The center of the Asiatic army, under
General Melkoff, is estimated at $4,000
men and 240 cannon. The right wing
of the Ivan corps, under General Oklol-
jie, numbers 5000 men and 14O guns.
The left wing of the Ivan corps, under
General TergukadOff, numbers $4,000
men and 155 guns.
England comments with bitterness
on Russian deception, and points out
that the objects of the war have been
ignored, and that instead of relieving
the so-called outrages in Bulgaria, the
Russians are waging war in the East,
where English interests are jeopardized
by every step of her army.
Dispatches to the English envoy rep
resent unless instant steps are taken,
the Russians will be within striking
distance of Constantinople from the
east within a month. The Russians
now in Asia are in a condition to attack
Mukhtar Pasha, capture his army and
strike for Constantinopls without seri-
Gus obstacles.
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FROM TACOMA,

To THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
Pardon my intrusion upon your time
and notice, but an article in the last is
sue of your paper really does exercise
me a little. I refer to "Straining at
Gnats," and must ask to offer you my
unfeigned congratulations for the bold
and true position you assume in regard
to canting hypocrisy and a spirit of
domineering bigotry that makes slaves
of servile masses who dare not assert or
maintain the truth, because it is ttnpop-
uLdr. Hit them again.
Sub R0Sa.-Is "Yours Truly" really
married to "Jim," or any one else =? To
English it: I'd like to know, you know
and that sort of thing, you know-at
all events her head is level, generally,
and particularly in regard to "Dr,"
Brennan. A.
Tacoma, w. T., May %, 1877.
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A subscriber and occasional contrib
utor of Washington Territory writes:
"Your paper is much valued by the
women of our neighborhood. They
would all subscribe if they had the
money in their own right. I am now
descending the hill of life; am fifty-four
years old, but hope to live to see my
posterity enjoy freedom in its fullest
sense" This correspondent further tells
us that "crops are growing finely, and
there is a prospect of a SPLENDID yield. {"
We will see whether the women who
are to toll through the harvest will have
any money in their own right when the
crops are garnered, so that they will be
able to subscribe for a paper.
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HER HUSBAND WAS INT0XICA-
TED AT THE TIME"

These are the concluding words of
dispatch from Vallejo, California, Civ
ing the sickening and revolving details
of brutal wife-murder, which took
place there on the night of the 25th inst.
Uttered inan exteuuating tone, as if the
crime of drunkenness was in some wav
a palliatiOn for the crimes that it di-
rectly leads to, this sentence has con-
cluded many a domestic tragedy of
greater or lesser note.
Sometimes the tragedy has come in
the form of slow starvation to innocent
wives and children; sometimes in the
bitter taunt induced by abject penury;
sometimes in cold and cruel me- lect;
sometimes in harsh words and vet
harsher blows, but always the recital is
concluded with the pitiful excuse: ''The
husbard and father was intoxicated at
the time.n
1t has not been long since one of the
daily papers in this city contained an
account of a domestic horror, consist
ing ofa husband applying to the crouch
ing shoulders of wife cruel rawhide,
while his children begged him in vain
to desist. What was the excuse, and
why did the monster husband 90 "un-
whipt of justice ?" Because he was sim
toxicated at the time"
Yet, notwithstanding the fact that
women are uniformly the greatest suf-
ferers from this greatest curse; notwith-
standing the fact that thousands of
them fill untimely graves to which
they were hurried, no audible murmur
meanwhile escaping their lips; notwith-
standing the fact that yet other thous-
ands live lives of ''sore privation, toll
and tears" branded through all the
years of their womanhood, men and the
laws they make assume and declare that
they protect a0Onle1l, and deny to them
the privilege of self-protection by the
only means available-the ballot. Per-
haps the husband was Intoxicated at
the time" that he deposited his last bal
lot; but that matters not, for thereby
the whisky ring received his vote Per-
haps the same state of affairs obtained
in his muddled brain when he signed
the petition for a license "to sell liquors
In quantities less than one quart" and
without doubt this was the case when
he refused in ungentlemanly language
to sign the petition for Woman Suf-
frage, to which sober and earnest wom-
an asked his signature. Those who can
excuse reprehensible conduct through
all Of its stages, from ungentlemanly
rudeness to fiendish brutality, because
the perpetrator is intoxicated, are en-
dowed with more charity than is for
the best interests of the people of the
commonwealth, or the feminine por-
tion thereof, at least. Poor irresponsi-
victims to hereditary appetite should
be subjected to hospital treatment for
their fearful disease, and kept where
they will be powerless to harm those
who are their physical interiors, but
the majority of men who become first
drunk and then abusive to their fami-
lies, or neighborhood pests and enemies
to good morals, should be dealt with in
justice untempered by mercy. When
this is done, we shall not so often see
the sentence which heads this article
used in extenuation of crime.
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the tyrant, and he can't help it. This
is the spirits revenge. Ignorance is
the father and mother of oppression.
Wise men and wise women are never
tyrants.
Although the deliberations of the
Grange are 'secret," fact leaks out
now and then that is worth recording.
Two ladies were sent as delegates with
out their husbands, and were not per-
mitted to take their seats, although
many men were present without their
wives. Now, it happened that these
rejected women delegates represented SO
much of the brain power of the order
that it was impossible to get along
without them, and, consequently, a res
olution was passed admitting the mem
bers of the prescribed sex. And the
woman movement had cut and gained
another niche amid the strongholds of
prejudice!
We were present by invitation on
Friday evening at the Granger's feast.
A long table was loaded in farmers
style by the host, S. F. Matthews, who
knows all about the hotel business, and
uses his knowledge unsparingIy. Beans
and bacon and cabbage and mince pie
and stewed apples and custard and hot
biscuit and fried eggs and numerous
other edibles surrounded roast pig and
boiled beef, and everybody attacked
everything and was happy. But this
letter is quite too long, and must be
closed. Adieu. AID.
Salem. Nav 2S. 1871
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-01

A grand temperance rally for Linn
county will take place in the grove near
Roberts bridge, on Saturday, June 10th.
A number of prominent speakers have
been invited. Prof. L. J. Powell has
the honor of planning this enterprise
1t is expected this will be one Of the
largest and most successful meetings of
the kind ever held in the State of Ore
gon. A temperance pledge will be cir
culated during the meeting.
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TAKE NOTICE.

Mr. Hendee is in town and is taking pictures
in all styles of the art, and has all the advant-
ages of easy access to his Gallery aud the best
light in the State, and takes as good pictures as
any other man and at as reasonable prices, and
is always ready and good-natured. Please call
and test his ability. Gallery in the middle OF
the block, First street, between Morrison and
YamhiIl, Portland, Oregon. 6-2l
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-01

Acting through the pores upon the sources
of Inflammation GLENN's SULPHUR SOAP
promptly relieves the burning, itching, and
other annoyances caused by Salt Rheum, Scald
Head, ImpeUigo, Erysipelas, and other SKIN
diseases, and ultimately removes every vestige
of them
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-01
MRS. b. A. OWENS, NJ. d.

Office and residence, east side First street, be-
tween YamhiIl and Taylor. Special attention
given 10 women and chfldren's complaints.
Also, gives INDICATED VAPOR BATHS, COM
bined with Electricity, in treating rheumatism
and chronic diseases. 5-&
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The Catholic census in Germany
shows the number of adherents is 53,-
$40, against 4O,SO8- last year. To this
extent does bigotry and fanaticism hold
sway in "Faderland."
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NOTICE.

Agents will please take notice that it is
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.
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Subscriptions are being raised in Ber-
lin for wounded Russians. Large sums
are coming in.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-01

The Russian bombardment of Kars
has slackened.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-01

A new Greek army corps is forming
in Thessaly.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-01

The difference in the opinions of Mary
Smith per John Smith and Mary Smith
herself is illustrated in the following
letters, the exact counterparts of which
come to this office many times a year.
Says Mary per John:
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-05-24
CLIPPINGS

The man who owns a kicking gun knows what it Is to fire and fall back.
 The Norwich Bulletin says sensible Americans will not marry Spanish wo- men. They are ali Snoras.
 What is the difference between Chris tian and and cannibal? One enjoys him. self, and the other enjoys other people.
 ''I am afraid Its mixed goods, said the lady to the clerk "Oh, no, madam, im- possible" replied the polite gentleman, all our camels hair shawls are made of pure silk direct from the worm.
 In court-room-A lawyer to his client: fI am sorry, poor fellow, but notwith- standing my eloqueDce, you have been sentenced to prison for three months." "Oh, don't let that worry you" was the answer; ''I am not sorry. In the neigh. borhood where live, they wIli think I have gone to the country, and that will give me social status"
 A know-nothing from rural neighbOr- hood recently entered a store in Connecti- cut and sat down in front of an iron safe to warm his feet. After sitting some twenty or thirty minutes he remarked that he ''never did like them kind of stoves-they don't throw out scarcelyl any heat, those gas-burners don't"
 Students of Natural History will be surprised to hear of @ ''fresh-water'' urch. in. An account of this creature, togeth- CT withe illustrations by Mir. Church, ap- pears in ''St. Nicholas"
 Plenty of them about the Hartford wharves. They dive in head first Hartford Times.
 Gay young Soph, loquitur: II knew blue glass business was all a humbuR. Didn't wear blue eye glasses all last summer to give me Q studious look and didn't 1T get rusticated all the same? The faculty saw through them better than I did"
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-05-24
LYONS Iowa. May 12th, 1877.

EDITOR ENQUIRER.-'When doctors disa- gree, etc" One of our physicians has been sued for $50, 900 for publishing in his little book. that another Physician has not diploma. When that case is de- cided we shall probably know the value of physician's 'sheepskin." Its the same doctor who was having 8 little diff ficulty with some darkeys about which l wrote you. He is in fair way to gain notoriety if nothing else.
 It was woman this time that shielded in Clinton by taking laudnum. It is claimed that 19 husbands have shielded in Iowa since house cleaning time com- menced, and the women are not half through yet. ..
 More fruitless efforts have been made recently to recover the body of the man supposed to have been murdered on Clin. ton R. R. bridge An expert with diving rig examined the bed of the rlver for some distance down, thinking possibly the murderers sunk the body with weights. The family have spent about $500, in ef- forts to find the body. but without suc- cess.
 Recently stroke of lightning (there was but one clap of thunder heard) killed g span of horses and stripped the clothes of from boy plonghing in the field, even to his boots, but did not kill him.
 All sorts of conflicting reports come to us in relation to the grasshoppers. Min nesota set apart day of fasting and pray. CT, for their destruction, and the next day cold wave came down from the north and destroyed millions, it is claim cd, but one of our editors says it extended into Iowa and destroyed millions of our fruit. and thinks we ought to be protect ed by State Rights, next time. One far mer who had been saving his grass to burn them at the proper time, according ly set fire to it prematurelv, and now claims that the eggs were all cooked so that grasshopper has not appeared, and the birds regale themselves on eggs cook ed in as many different ways as the Frenchman's. H6 thinks he has found the specific for them. Vast preparations have been made for burning them, and the 10th of May was set for the united on- .slougEt. The farmers in the afflicted districts are hopeful and with the war stimulus are sowing an unusual quantity, in fact the same is true all over the West where spring wheat is sown. One man, down south, however, is:very much discouraged. He says there is go- ing to be a drouth in consequence of the hoppers. Ha has seen them stand right up on their hind legs and with open mouth drunk in all the rain of a heavy shower before ever it had reached the ground.-the story is doubtless stretched.
 Burlington, not to be outdone by her sister cities on this river, is moving for wa-
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-05-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

Senator Christiancy's son recently failed to pass an examination to be Q clerk in the patent office. .
 There is lively discussion going on in Kentucky concernig the authorship of the Resolutions of '98. It makes the newspapers as fascinating as Patent of- Report.
 Secretary Thompson is going around looking at the navy yards, without giving the officers any warning of his coming.
 There is loud call for Gov. Stone of Mississippi to be doIng something about that Kemper County massacre. Newspa- pers of all parties are joining in it, and there is an immense volume of public in- dignation behind it.
 It is told of stout Andrew Jackson that when he was President he was wait. ed upon one day by a Washington boarding house keeper who complained that Tenneseean, who was ppOinted by him to clerkship in one of the depart. ments, would not pay his board bill. itGet his note, said the President ''for the fnll amount, interest included. payable m six ty days, and bring it to me-" ..That will be of no use. replied the boafding house. keeper. ''for he never pays. his notes" ''Do as tell you. sir, " said Jackson, and turned away. The nexs day the board. ing-house keeper again appeared at the White House and handed the note to the President. He took it, read it, wrote ''Andrew Jackson" across the back in hls well-known autograph, and handed it back, saying: ''Take that to tha bank of the Metropolis and tell them that at its maturity it wall be paid either by the drawer or the indorser. They will dis. count 1t for you," A few days aferward the man who had given the note met the creditor and tauntingly said: '.Well. I don't suppose you have been able to ne- gotiate my paper?" 'sYes, replied the boarding house keeper. I had no trouble in getting it discounted at legal rates of interest" ''Who in thunder is willing to discount my notes2" asked the Tenne- seean. ''The bank of the Metropolis dis. counted the one you gave me upon the assurance that if you did not pay it the 1ndorser would. But who would in. dorss my note?" General Jackson, and he sent word to the bank that if you did not pay the note he would" It is hardly necessary to add that the nOts was promptly paid by the maker.
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-05-24

E4 . -H ter-works-and 8 company has been or' ganized and stock taken to the amount of $500. .OOO-on the Holly systen-direct pressure. ~ But Lyons still takes the lead in economy having both reservoir and direct pressure at cost of only 5000. s If were to say that, vegetation, garden flowers. and early, vegetables, were ma king their appearance, this might not get published till so near summer it would not be news, so desist, A. B. >'. '.CAMKER IN THE BuD."
 You watch it's development with ex- pectant solicitude-the choice, exquisite ly-nioulded bud which promises to unfold the perfect flower. You perhaps think how it will adorn the drawing-room vase, and anticipate the pleasure of showing it to your fower-loving friends. But some morning you find it's head dropping. it's fragrance fled, and an ugly purple spot on one of the delcately- tinted petals. 1t is the poets "canker in the bud. How often the loathsome cAnkor blightB the cherished 'tinfant blossom" in our honse- hold gardens- those human buds which gives earnest of a brilliant future. The noisome canker, so long concealed d-scrof- ula at length 1t reveals it's dreaded press ence and to our bright hopes succeeds the most agonizing fear-for we know the fatal sequel it portends-pulmonary con sumption. It is estimated by eminent medical authority that at least one fifth of mankind are afflicted with this insidi- ous malady. But it's ravages are so. so. cret, that even It's victims are unaware of its presence until suddenly disclOses It. self in some of its various and fatal forms. A slight cutaneous eruption is often, the only indicator'of it's presence. The only means of exterminitating this disease from the system is by a thorugh course of constitutional treatment. This treat
 ment must fulfill three indications, name I ly, promote nutrition, alter or purify the
 blood, and arrest disorganization of the tissues and the formation of tnbercles. No more efficient alternative can be em- ployed for these purposes than Dr.
 Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
 While imparting strength and tone to the digestree organs it cleanses the blood
 and heals the diseased tissues. Test it's
 virtues ere the deadly canker has blighted
 the life you prize.
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-05-24
Josh Billings on Pets,

Live pets of all kinds are sure to be lazy, and very soon aftsrward get to be sassy.
 Pet Q mule with club and he is pa. unt, but pet him with oats and he will klk out one end of kreashun.
 Pet dogs are full of feas, and pet mon- keys are full of the devil
 Pet children are tyrants, and 8 pet soon wants more cluss watching than Q fast deacon dug.
 A pet lam always makes krosS ram, and what has been once petted iz never happy without it.
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-05-24
PATIENTS.
 R. H. EDDY,

No. 70 STATE ST. opposite Kilby, BOSTON, Secures Patents in the United States also in Great Britain France, and other foreign countries Copies of the claims of any Patent furnished by remittine one dollar. Assignments recorded at Washington. No ASeey in the Uted States possesses supersor aeiies tor obtdniAg Patents ascsrtaiainq Me potestabii @ snueatfens.. R. H. EDDY, Solicitor of Patents.
 TEsTIAfoNIALs.
 "I regard Mir. Eddy as one of the most capable and sticeeSgu practitioners with whom have had official intercourse. 1N
 CHAS. MASON, Commissioners of Patents" inventors cannot employ person more trustwor. thy or more capable of securing for them early and favorable consideration at the Patent Office.
 EDMUND BURKE, late Commissioner of Patents T BOSTON, October 19, 1870. R. H. EDDY, Esq-Dear sir: you procured for me, in l840 my first patent. Since then you have acted fer and advised in hundreds of s and procur- ed many patents reissues and extensions. have oc- casionally employed the best agencies in New York Philadelphia and Washington, but stin give you al. most the whole of my business in your line and ad wise others to employ you. |
 Yours truly, GEORGE DRAPER. BOSTON, January l, 1877. 40-ly