The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-04-26
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

a fortnight prior 70 tue 9NYJ"AHcN
date, the peregrinating portion Of the
! NORTHWEST staff, accompanied by bas-
ket and bundle, boarded the train for
Southern Oregon and intermediate
points, and got as far as Oregon City
under the happiest auspices, having en-
joyed, during the day, a pleasant So
jOurn at the quiet village Of Clackamas,
in the company OF w. a. Mills and /
wife, who attend the post Office, station /
aud store, and Mrs. Bailey, who keeps /
the hotel. These are about the only /
business enterprises visible in the little /
burg, though a church and school house
give evidence of intellectual enterprise,
and the good villagers are hospitable and
wide awake.
An ex-governor carried our pouderous
basket from the Oregon City depot to
the pleasant home of our progressive
and intelligent friends, the Chase's,
where he left US to enjoy their agreeable
society while he wended his way to the
hotel and political headquarters; for it
was convention times for Clackamas
county, and the lords OF the realm were
busily engaged in setting their bache-
: lors' hall in some semblance of order.
J Friday being convention day did not
, deter us from calling at business offices
on Main street, where many renewal
, subscriptions were gathered for the peO-
ple's paper, a commodity which most
of our readers declare to be as necessary
In their homes as bread.
Our work in Oregon City-under-the-
bill being accomplished, that Of the
city-on-the-hill next followed. The
, homes of Professors Worthington and
Stevenson were visited, where we learned
Of the gratifying success of the academy
over which they and several ladies pre-
/, side. Then visits at the homes of Hons.
, w. Cary johnson and +. o. MCGOWAN
were in order, the time being occupied
4 in conversation on all practical ques-
tions, from housekeeping and Orna-
l. mental gardening to national govern
Il ments aud State and county officers.
y Nor did we neglect to consider babies,
Y DIEhu anu nuAAGEf RAAA-beANA7f iesNAs
n rights, and legal literature.
. Saturday morning found US too ill to
. pursue our journey. What a nuisance
= human avoirdupois becomes when lis
constant accumulation brings no ade-
- quate increase of strength to support it,
. while it yet fails to ward of the neces-
: sity for constant active effort to fioat
% the financial part Of the suffrage move
70 ment,
"A The trip TO Southern Oregon was in
7 definitely postponed, aud We returned
II to Portland to help with the sprinl
i house-cleaning and-take a rest. II
At add to our leisure we were placed on I
10 committee to get up an entertainment
"a for the benefit of the open Temperance
meetings; and the visits, persuasions
4 arguments, contrivances, aud so forth
m necessary TO secure the services OF Ger
10 tain elocutionists, musicians, orators
w and the like, were crowned with graft
tn flying success; and We repaired to tn
of regular meeting on Saturday night {
~ make the announcement for the forth
So coming literary aud social jubilee, whe
nj a letter from the finance committee @
an the y. NJ. G. A., from which the TEN
VI perance society rents the hall, and 70
whose financial benefit we were reall
he doing the work, offended our sense c
IN Justice aud blew the whole arrangement
n so far as we are concerned, into smith
-s eresns, by demands for consultation
ba with them as to the character Of th
~ proposed entertainment, ere we shoul
be allowed to announce it. IL the goo
IN Lord can't hold Us level without th
"A intervention of Wadhams, WarreI
Macrum, or any other man, he'll nc
ka be apt to succeed with their assistance
he much as they may feel disposed to ofe
u il. And, il in the half-dozen yeal
of which We have spent before the Portlan
nv public, they have so far held themselv,
-. aloof from our work that they do nC
n know that we will never do, or sanctio
,it Rnything-not even prize fight-th'
would desecrate Y. NJ. c. A. hall,
H. is time they step down and out, an
NO make room for those who DO know i
-, But the reader will excuse US. o.
40 wrath was bottled at the temperate
30, meeting, and now we have efIervesce
-, here, so we are serene again.
ale The entertainment being Off our min'
,rd we did some more ehouse-eleaning, wro
no, chapters Of the serial story, letters
II business, and so forth, and on the 70
,cb lowing Wednesday, being partially r
n1 covered from the fit Of illness, took Il
me train for Salem and the Republca
NJ Convention.
cir The solons who guard the liberties
,,,a their constituents, and all the savai
,o,s who can't, but want to, were on hat
NO in large numbers when we reached Il
Opera House. The crowd, though most
or of the masculine order, was well b
ON, haved and harmonious, barring the i
> cessaHt smoking Of few Of the U
-, washed aud unterrified, who were
last led to yield their pipes to the sire
a. Of deceney by gentle reminder from
: ;, Portland delegate, who Informed the
- that there were ladies present Th
- came the natural query: If the me
presence of few respectable wom
y eau settle large body Of law-make
- into the temporary observance Of {
Jul ..-.,,-;ot;,s of lifa What may we n