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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13
Woman Suffrage in Wyoming.


Chief Justice Kingman, of Wyoming
Territory, in reply to letter of Mrs.
Foltz, of San Jose, inquiring as to the
workings of Woman Suffrage in that
Territory, submits the following:
CHEYENNE, w. T., March %, 1877.
Mrs. Carrie IT. F0Lts - Ny Dear
Madam Your favor of the 10th instant
is received. In answer to yOur inquiries
about the results of Woman Suffrage in
Wyoming Territory, can only repeat
what l have so often said elsewhere,
that our people are very generally satis-
fed with it, and know of no one-man
or wOman-who would like to see it
abolished. 1t is constantly growing in
favor, and in general practice; and may
even now be regarded as a settled usage
and habit amongst us. / am quite sure
that our women vote more generally
than our men; aud ARE more sure to
vote right. While it is quite common
for the drinking saloons to influence
the men, and exert powerful control
on election day over certain class of
men, they are utterly pOwerless with all
classes of women. | have often known
of men who boast of their intelligence,
and are proud of their political opinions
selling their votes for whisky, for
money, and for Office; but no woman in
| Wyoming has ever yet so far forgotten
her wOmanhoOd as to initiate the
wretched example.
| l do not wish to convey the idea that
we have elevated society to higher
plain of morals, by means of Woman
Suffrage. The experiment has been too
brief, and our society is not sufficiently
/ OF hla to onahla no fO aaanTp1rliah onnh
great results under such circumstances.
But l do say that the evils and difficult
ties which have been so constantly pre-
dicted, as sure to attend upon such
radical change in the laws and customs
of people, have not befallen us. Our
women are not less respected or femi-
nine than formerly. The degraded and
shameless among them do not make
themselves more conspicuous or more
offensive than elsewhere; nor are they
the only women who exercise the priv
ilege of voting. Our best and most
prominent ladies go to the polls, and
! carry with them the elevating atmos-
phere and influence which surrounds
them everywhere. And it is that quiet,
unobtrusive, but pervading influence
which is gradually making itself felt in
our politics, as it is in our social life
J aud slowly lifting us to a better and
purer condition of public morality. The
great wrong and injustice of class legis-
latiOn, of DISTINGUISHING one-half and
clearly the best half of all the citizens
is no longer working out upon US its in
evitabie evils. Our thinking people
are carefully observing these tendencies,
watching their operation and rejoicing
t in the results. We are satisfied that
great good, and no harm, will follow this
step in the paths of equal justice to all,
and that we have already realized more
than might have been expected of genu-
| inc improvement and reform.
Very respectfully,
J. w. KINGNIAN.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13
PROPERTY LEGISLATION.

Lawmakers are slowly cropping their
way out of the darkness of dead centu-
ries and coming out into the light.
Their efforts are still attended with i'm
perfections that seem born of blind
ness to the just legal responsibilities of
women, but in due time with the help
of women this blindness will give place
to sight.
A bill has just passed the Legislature
of Connecticut which provides that hus-
band and wife shall not by marriage ac-
quire any right to the property of the
other; that the husband shall be liable
for all debts incurred for the joint main
tenance of husband, wife, and children;
that the separate earnings of the wife
shall be her own property; that the wife
may make contracts or sell her real or
personal property; that all her property
shall be liable for debts; that the hus-
band shall be liable for none of her debts
contracted before marriage, nor for
those contracted after, except for arti-
cles for the support of the family, or for
the joint benefit of both, and that the
husband and wife respectively, upon the
death of the other, shall inherit during
the remainder of life the use of one
third of the others property.
These are certainly radical changes in
the law concerning the rights of mar
ried women, under which erewhile a
woman had no right to the money she
earned, the children she bore, or the
clothing she wore.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13
CHAMBERLAIN GIVES UP THE CON.
TEST.

Governor Chamberlain, in abandon
ing the contest for the governorship of
South Carolina, issues a stirring procla-
nation to the Republicans of that State.
His letter is commended as manly and
able, though somewhat bitter, and closes
with these words:
cannot ask you to follow me further. In
my judgment 1 can no longer serve you by
further resistance to the impending calamity.
With gratitude TO God for the measure OF en-
durance with which He has hitherto inspired
me, with gratitude to you for your boundless
confidence, with profound admiration for your
matchless fidelity to the cause in which we
have struggled, I now announce to you and
to the people the State that shall no longer
actively assert my right to the Office OF Cover
nor of South Carolina. The motives and pur-
poses of the President of the United States in
the policy which compels me to pursue my
present course are unquestionably honorable
and patriotic. I devoutly pray that events
may vindicate the wisdom of his action, and
that peace, justice, freedom and prosperity
may hereafter be the portion of every citizen
of South Carolina.
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"ONE HUNDRED AND FLFVEN.u
An exchange says :


Statistics show that four hundred and forty
one married men in the United States com
mitted suicide last year, and only one hundred
and eleven married women. Here is text,
preach your own sermon.
So we will, and it will be a true one,
founded on fact" as the story writers
say, and with fact for its warp and woof.
We have ever thought and frequently
said that any coward can die, but it
takes brave and courageous spirit to
buffet patiently the storms of life; to
endure until such time as God sees fit
to lift the veil that hides from mortal
vision the glories of the land of souls,
"the filings and arrows of outrageous
fortune;" to toll on and on, weary in
body and oppressed in spirit, longing for
rest as the most precious boon that
could be given, yet certain that nothing
this side of the grave can give it.
We say it takes brave spirit and de-
termined purpose to endure all of these
things when they could be terminated
ocable by cowardly slipping the bolts
that open the dark gates of death by
self-destruction.
There have been at least three cases of
suicide in Portland during the past
year, caused by financial discourage
ment, all of the self-destroyers being
married men," and one, at least, the
father of half-dozen helpless children.
Think of it for moment. A man who
possesses physical strength, with the
wide world and its varied occupations
his prospects for making a living for
himself and family are not so bright as
he could wish, and regardless of their
comfort and maintenance, or to get
away from its responsibility, kills him.
self, leaving the mother to battle alone
for that which in his estimation was
unattainable by both. Which one OF
these, pray, was the stronger minded
and more resolute? ? Clearly not the one
who, shirking the burden, let it fall
with double weight upon the shoulder:
of the other.
The extract above given, if true
merely shows that three hundred anC
twenty more men than women in the
United States last year would rather die
by their own hand than meet and ell
dure, if unable to conquer, the stern re-
alities and unfortunate vicissitudes o
life. "Only one hundred and eleven.'
The legion who, beset by sore privatior
and bowed down by care and grief, still
toll on, hear the echo and thank Got
for strength that enables them to en-
dure.
Again we say: A coward can die; i
takes brave person to live when bese
by misfortune, overwhelmed by grief
or cast down by poverty. Dlsprove i
whoever can.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13

Mrs. F. F. Victor is at present can
vassing the city soliciting subscriptions
to a work she has been for some time
preparing for the press. The book will
contain about $50 pages, and will consist
of Pacific Coast stories and poems, pub
lished and unpublished. 1t will be
ready for delivery about the 1st of Sep
tember, and the price, 50 90, places it
within the reach of all. We shall be
pleased to chronicle the authors sue
cess.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13
WOMEN IN MEDICINE.

Notwithstanding the opposition they
have encountered, women are quietly
and steadily working their way up in
medicine. On the 18th of March fifteen
women took the degree of doctor of
medicine at the "Woman's Medical
College of Pennsylvania" Women in
this pursuit have proved their efficiency
and the prejudice against them-much
of which was engendered by their
brethren in the professionals rapidly
dying out. The various medical COL
leges are annually sending out talented
and skillful women as physicians, and
many of these are rapidly rising to posi-
tions of eminence. When we remem-
Der that few years ago a woman doc
tor was almost unknown, and that the
regular practitioners secuted the idea
that q aUOn1dn could become skilled in
nldteriG nledicG, and then reflect upon
the numbers of women who are now
gracing the profession, we can readily
see the advance that women have made
in the past few decades. Professor Isaac
Comfy, NJ. D., in the valedictory of the
annual commencement above men,
toned, said that "women could and
would be physicians, and the whole
medical profession would assist them"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13

The Washington correspondent of the
Eugene Journal says concerning the
charges preferred against Grover in the
United States Senate: "These petit
tions are signed by six hundred and
thirty-one citizens of Oregon, including
many prominent citizens in nearly all
parts of the State. A large portion OF
the petitioners are Democrats. In the
petitions presented last week there were
four hundred and sixty-nine names,
making, in all, eleven hundred persons
who have petitioned against Senator
Grover up to the present time"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13

"Demorest's Monthly'' is responsible for the
following "Word comes to us from Paris of a
recent cOntrivance of the modistes, by which
the long trains and collant dresses are to be re-
tanned in position. A strong elastic is attached
to one garter, just above the knee, carried over,
and fastened to the other; thus the length OF
the steps taken by the wearer is regulated, and
the classical folds of the costume remain un-
disturbed" If such contrivance could only
be attached to the tongues of some of these
fancy steppers, what a blessing it would prove
to "hen-pecked" husbands who would have
the regulating of the "elastic."- [Sunday We'll
come.l
Suppose now, brother, that some such
contrivance could be fastened to the
pencil of impertinent editors who de-
light to slur women and fill their col
umns with small talk, and let a sensible
woman have the regulating of the elas-
tic" Would not your columns stare at
you 6Lankly next Sunday?
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13
MAKE A NOTE OF 1T.

Glaneing over the report of the
County School Superintendent Of Linn
county, we find that the average
amount of salary paid male teachers
per month during the year was S44 SO;
average amount paid female teachers
per month, S2s 40. Following the sta
tistics that usually accompany such
documents, the superintendent gives
quite lengthy disquisitlon upon the
duties of parents, school trustees, etc.,
relative to educational matters.
Now, we knew this superintendent of
schools several years since, as a student
in Pacific University-an institution, by
the way, that, while it gives young la
dies equal educational advantages with
young men, endeavors, by every art
and device known to the straight-laced
faculty, to impress upon the minds Of
lady students that they cannot legiti-
mately use the knowledge they gain,
because they are women-we say we
wot of this young man in those days,
and always in the several debates that
occurred in the Gamma Sigma So
ciety,n upon Woman Suffrage, heard of
him as upon the negative side, and Bit
terly so; hence we did not expect to find
a word of recommendation for the
equalization of teachers wages in his
report, and we were not deceived. We
did find, however, that of the number of
teachers employed in the public schools
of that county during the year, 12S are
men and 20 women. In order to crowd
even this scanty number of women out
of profession which all educators of
experience agree that they are emil
nently fitted for, this superintendent
thus Eliminates against Iow-priced
teachers" :"
The low-priced teacher may be able to teach
your school after fashion, but at the end OF
the term your children come home to you no
farther advanced than they were when the
term began, and the consequences are, time is
lost, money thrown away, and nothing accom-,
plished.
If he had prefaced this by advocating
the paying of teachers according tc
their ability and proficiency in the pro,
fession, without regard to sex, it had al
been well and good, but after showing
in his report that the women employed
were the "lOw-priced teachers" the
above advice can be interpreted as
meaning nothing but the exclusion o.
women from the teachers ranks in tha
county, and is a most ungenerous thrust
at the ability of the women who taugh
within his jurisdiction last year, if no
downright insult to their intelligence
Let the women of "old Linn" make
note of this, and when they are allowed
the ballot, send al. Bilyeu" back t,
'"The Forks of the Santiam" to medi
tate upon the righteousness of the de
mand of "equal pay for equal work"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13
LABOR, ALL LABOR IS NOBLE
AND HOLY.n

Although much has been written,
printed and said concerning the nobil-
ity Of labor and the false pride which
prevents many persons in actual need
from engaging in it, we still see those
who belong to the "shabby genteep Or
der-too proud to work, too poor to live
comfortably aud dress respectfully with
out it.
The pioneers in the great movement
which has for its object the widening of
the circle that has for ages circum-
scribed woman's field of work are stead
lily gaining, inch by inch, the fiercely
contested field. Yet it is a fact most
notifying and discouraging that many
women and girls consider it in some
sort beneath them to earn their own
living. They seem to have no thought
or conception of the Injustice of living
off of the hard-earned wages of father
or brother, and contrive in the most un-
accountable manner to feel justified in
taking the proceeds of their toil-often
mere pittance-to supply their own
needs. We have all seen these women;
strong in body and possessed of ability
to earn their own living and add to the
family purse besides, yet so grooved in
custom and so entangled in the meshes
of prejudice-forebodihg always "what
people will say''-that they stay at
home with scarcely the commonest
comforts of life, and narrow their minds
and warp their tempers by the most
pitiful economies, merely to be able to
say that they have "never earned their
own living" And after this boast is
made, what does it imply? What, but
that you, girls, are dishonesty taking
from others, no better able than your
selves to work, money for which you
render no adequate return? What, but
that you are merely drifting with the
current, "piecing along" from day to
day, waiting for a husband to come
along and take you off the burdened
and not reluctant hands of father OIL
brother?
1t is this helpless inactivity that
makes so many young women the sport
and prey of ill-assorted marriage, ant
nothing but recuniary independence
an ability to take care of themselves
and a determination to use this ability
to their own best advantage-wille evel
enable the great majority of women tc
rise above the temptation and double
fraud that marrying for a home i'm
poses.
Dependence among women is now tht
rule; unhappy marriages are also tn,
rule. Let independence once becom,
the rule, and women will not go veerins
about hunting for matrimonial chances
and happy marriages will most likely
become the rule.
So, girls, if you would prepare your
selves for life of usefulness, happiness
and self-respect, learn to be self-depend
ent, remembering that "labor, all labO
is noble and holy" Be assured tha
Elizabeth Barret Browning embodie
truth with poetry when she says:
''Free men must freely work,
And woman, also; otherwise she drops
At once below the dignity of man,
Accepting serfdom."
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13

Mr.. Sutton has, on account of i'll
health, been compelled to give up his
newspaper enterprise, and as a conse-
quence the Ashland Tidings appears un-
der a new management, J. M. Mccall
& Co. taking charge.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13
Portland, Oregon, April IL, 1877.

The Historian has moved into new
quarters. Brother ireland, with par
donable pride, says his new apartments
are spacious, comfortable, and about
as nicely arranged as any printing
house on the Pacific slope" We offer
our congratulations, and hope for the
continued success of the Astoridn
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13

1t is rumored that Captain c. P. Gran
dali has been appointed Secretary of
Idaho Territory and that he is now en-
route for Oregon for short visit before
assuming the duties of his new Office.
He is an indefatigable and faithful
worker, and we trust the rumor may
be correct.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13

Brother Acton has written himself
down an egotist, and quit expounding
the gospels to women who have desire
to preach. The rapid diminution of his
subscription list compels him to bot
tie his fogyism or betake himself to
more congenial latitudes.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13

A highly-respected young lady in
Walla Walla Valley has taken up 160
acres of land as homestead, filed her
notification, and lives on the place. If
her example were more extensively fol-
lowed, we should hear less about 'su-
perf1uous women
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13
MARY f. FOSTER.

Commission Merchant and Purchasing Agent,
is prepared to make purchases in New York
and other cities, on order, of all goods, jewelry,
groceries, ETC., on commission of per cent. for
s. of I. and 10 per cent. for others outside of
the Order. West India preserves and Mexican
conserves. Address P. o. Station "D," New
Work Citv
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13

A country editor in Kentucky, speak
ing of having attended lecture deliv-
cred by Mrs. Stanton, says that "the
gentleman who introduced her was so
white with the consciousness of his re-
sponsibility that it was impossible to
tell where his shirt-front left off and his
face began" 1t is refreshing to occa-
sionally hear of man who feels his
own littleness when in the presence of
greatness.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13

The House of Representatives will
contain I49 Democrats and IA Republi-
cans. The Senate is now so close that,
according to Senator Jones, of Nevada,
whichever party has the most absences
will lose. The cloak-room will hold
the balance of power.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13

Let us remember that inventions
have taken from woman the distaff, the
shuttle, and the loom, only to call her
genius into wider work"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13

Some slanderer asserts that paper
makers are the greatest magicians of
the age, inasmuch as they transform
beggars' rags into sheets for editors to
lie on.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13
Stabs In tie Dark

Every fit of Coughing in the still watches of
the night IS a stab in the dark at the lungs.
Heal the stabs and stop the stabbing with
HALEs HONEY OF HoREHoUND AND TAR.
Nothing is so soothing. Nothing so quickly
cures. No remedy can be less disagreeable.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13

p8- The National Gold Medal was awarded
to Bradley & Rulofson for the best Photographs
in the United States, and the Vienna Medal
for the best in the world. 429 Montgomery
street, San Francisco.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13

Mrs. H. A. Loughary has been labor
ing for the cause of equal rights in Day.
ton, Butteville, and New Era recently.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13
NOTICE.

Agents will please take notice that Il 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.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13

A bill allowing women to hold office
in school boards passed the New York
Senate March 2lst.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13

Miss Hattie B. Clarke has charge of
the "Home Circle" department of the
Willamette Farmer.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-13

A resident of Olympia is making a
test of blue glass for the cure of con-
sumption.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-13
The Florida Case
A MAN WHO REFUSES TO BE BULLDoZED
-TILDEN HAS CARRIED TIE STATE.

A MAN WHO REFUSES TO BE BULLDoZED
-TILDEN HAS CARRIED THE STATE.
WASHINGTON, January ~. Mr.. Wood
burn, of the Florida committee, indicated
to-day to several friends in quiet way
that he felt exceedingly provoked at the
ofiiciousness of Chandler in seeking to
warp his views in regard to Florida, try
ing TO prejudice his decision without re
gard to facts, and then sending him for
political aid and comfort to the President
He is fair, candid and independent in his
intentions, and, while not yet willing to
give mas his convictionhatTilden has carri-
edFlorida before the facts. obtained by the
subcommittee can be submitted, ,hemeans
to be governed entirelyby a sense of duty
in reaching judgment after all the evi-
dence isin. He feels able to come to a
conclusion without any bulldozing sug-
gestions from Chandler or other men in
his party. Senator Jones has prepared
his speech on the Florida complications,
in which he promises TO present fair
and candid statement of the history Of
the election in that state, but he heard
will not deliver his speecht till the question
Of granting the second ndnddmus applied
for can be heard by the Supreme Court
and determined. This is now pendineB
and will, no doubt be disposed in a few
days.
Senator Jones will gain the floor at the
proper time by submitting a petition to
the Senate from the democratic electors
of Florida and take the occasion to enter
into the merits Of the count. He claims
to have careful and exact estimate of
the returns, compiled from the only re-
liable sources, and says the result shown
by them is so unmistakably in favor Of
the Tilden electors that the Senate can
not well escape rendering a verdict against
the present radical electors.