The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-08-24
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE

DEAR READERS pF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
Our stay in Astoria was cut short on
Thursday of last week by a desire to
give Eye sage associate" a holiday. Yet
we remained long enough, after that
"sea-sick" epistle of last Monday was
written, to canvass several new quarters
for the Peoples Paper, with very salts
factory results.
Found our good friend Gearheart in a
a bran new store, and driving a good
trade in the grocery and queensware
line. Mrs. Derby and Mrs. Pangburn
are each doing fair business, one in
millinery and the other in dressmaking;
1. Bergman, as before, is the leading
butcher; Hamburger, formerly of Port
land, has tiourishing dry-goods store;
Messrs. Sehlussel and Kaut, the former
erewhile of Albany, and the latter of
Turner's Station, excel in the same oc-
cupation; Simon Schmeer and his bright
and busy wife keep a tidy little res
taurant; Backensto, formerly of Salem,
is barbering; Page deals largely in gro
ceries; Nudge, an old "Hardscrabble"
acquaintance, is a prosperous pile
driver; Merrill, erewhile of Albany, is a
successful blacksmith; Busbee, a valued
Baker City friend, has handsome dry
goods store, and Mrs. Corwin, one of the
most active, intelligent, and good ma
tured little apostles of freedom to be
found anywhere, keeps the people
awake on the woman question by can
vassing for the NEW NORTHWEST.
Now that the fishing season is over,
the town begins to wear a compara-
lively deserted look, yet it's delightful
summer climate attracts many half
roasted Portlanders, while Salem and
Albany are also well represented among
the pleasure-seekers from the interior.
1t was our good fortune on the even
ing of the fifteenth to meet an intelli-
gent aud attentive audience in the
courtroom, to whom we discoursed
upon claw and Liberty" The attend
ance, though not SO large as we could
have wished, was respectable in num-
bers, and in point of intelligence and in
terest was second to none.
We take pleasure in making special
mention of Sheriff Twilight, Secretary
Spedden, Colonel Taylor, William H.
Grey, Esq, and Judge Shattuck, whose
kindly courtesy we shall ever hold in
gratified remembrance.
Six A. NJ. Thursday, and we are off for
Portland. The Emma Hayward" a
gallant boat, with its gentlemanly cap
tain, courteous purser and steward, good
breakfast and substantial dinner, gave
us travelling aid aud comfort, and
speeded on her way as leisurely as re-
spectacle craft like herself has an un-
bounded right to do. She crossed the
river from one side to the other at in
tervals all day, pursuing a zigzag course
not unlike the roadway up the noun
tain sides of the Sierras.
Six P. NJ. and home. The serial story
must be written, countless buttons must
be sewed on the clothing of the small
boys, who will persist, boy like, in tear
ing them off; bills must be sent to de-
linquents here and there; plums must
be made into jelly, or they'll get too
ripe to be managed; callers must be
met, editorials written, exchanges read
and clipped and credited; beds must be
made, and rooms swept and busted
but stay; if we should tell you half we
are trying to do, you'd fail to believe
any of it, so pray excuse us this time.
We go to Salem tomorrow (Wednes-
day., to attend the Teachers Institute,
and next week, if we're still alive to
carry on our work and Eye associates"
you shall hear again from A. ]. D.
Portland, August 21, 1877.
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