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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-08
NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.

The lumber for new church at Port
Ludlow is already on the ground.
Two hundred and forty money orders
were issued in Seattle during the past
month.
Linn county has paid her State taxes.
OF the last instaliment Of $4,000, S13,-
40 was silver.
Forty-three of the pupils of William
ette University stood perfect in their
Glasses for the term ending January 25th.
Some parties in and about Oakland
proprose buying up a large drove OF
cattle during the early spring, and drive
them to Eastern Oregon.
Rev. Dr. 5. II. Marsh, Of the Pacific
University, Forest Grove, on account OF
i'll health, has rendered his resignation
as a member of the State Board Of Edu-
cation.
The revival meetings at Albany have
continued during the present week. All
the pastors take part as heretofore. So
far the meetings have been well at
tended.
A series of religious meetings at Pen
dleton has closed with four additions to
the Baptist Church, two to the MethO-
dist, and six not yet entered church
connections.
1t is said that if the lumber can be
procured there will be as many as three
hundred houses erected between Pen
dleton and the Columbia River the
coming summer.
While walking on a wet and slippery
place one day last week, Mrs. Hopkins,
wife Of L. 5. Marshal Hopkins, at
Olympia, slipped aud fell to the ground,
jarring her spinal column so as TO almost
preclude hope Of recovery.
Robert Foster, son of mIr excellent
friends, Mr.. and Mrs. J. II. Foster, of
Albany, takes his departure this week
on the "Chester," intending to be ab-
sent two years, on a European tour.
We wish the young gentleman every
imaginable happiness, and safe return
to bis native land.
AsOciety at Elk Head, Douglas county,
has debated the question, "ResOiUed,
That man will endure more hardships
for the love of women than he will for
money" The judges, being married
men, would not decide the question. It
was left to the President, a man who is
supposed to be looking for a wife, and
he decided in favor of the Affirmative.
The Transcript reports that negotia-
! tiOns are now pending which encourage
the friends of the Olympia Railroad TO
consider success almost certain. The
board of directors at a meeting last week
adopted resolutions ordering survey
from TeninO, or near there, to the Che
halls River, and the preparation Of esti-
mates of cost. Ties for the road from
Olympia to TeninO are strung along the
/ line.
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SOMETHING TO THE POINT.

To THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
You may think strange that 1 write
to a woman and ask her to send me
farm hand, but we want a hand who
will do chores about the house when /
am away, such as make fires, fill the
teakettle, carry swill to the pigs, ETC.,
and a good teamster. Prefer one who
will not swear, drink whisky, nor use
tobacco. We can get plenty Of hands to
board with us, and have US pay them
one dollar per day for it, have a hand
with me now that has worked for me
most Of the time for ten years, but he
will have business of his own TO attend
to hereafter. / will want two or three
hands when plowing time comes, and
one the year round, if he suits. There
will be several hands wanted in this
neighborhood when plowing time comes.
Any one coming to me 1 will try and
help them to get work, If 1 think they
will do anything. Now, one reason of
writing to you about this matter is,
that l do not care about having every
old pipe worshiper sent to me. II il is
out of your line want you to send me
hand that will stay year or two, if
he suits, who will help my wife, as well
as myself. D. P. PORTER.
Shields, Oregon, February 2, 1875.
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HARD TIMES.

While so much is being said by every
body about reconciliation, demonetiza-
tion, stagnation, resumption, initiation,
and collapse, aud all manner Of eonfu-
sion concerning the financial condition
Of the country is rife, of which all can
talk much, and nobody knows anything,
we want to join the innumerable throng
Of croakers, and make our little speech,
as well as the rest of mankind. First,
then, let US follow the usual track Of
statesmanlike originality by copying the
statements Of mathematical phenome-
non. We clipped them from the True
Citizen, paper, by the way, which
everybody ought to read:
a deposit OF money for fifty years, at rates Of
interest indicated below lthe interest being
added TO the principal at the end OF each year
would bring the surprising result portrayed in
the following figures:
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RECENT EVENTS.

Trade dollars have been refused by
the Brooklyn tradesmen, and the con-
duetors on hOrse-cars have also refused
them.
A Washington dispatch says the house
committee has agreed to report a bill
extending the time for the completion
of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
The steamer metropolis" stranded
at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Janu-
airy 3lst. About one hundred and sixty
persons were drowned. The vessel was
a total loss.
The Chicago Journals Washington
special of February 5th says: "The
ways and means committee to-day de-
velOped great unanimity in favor of rec
ommending Woods tariff bill for pas
sage as a whole. 1t will be reported
some time this month";"
A Fort Randall dispatch of February
ID says: Eight hundred Red Cloud
Indians have left the agency, going
North. The Indians assert that all the
fighting Indians at that agency will cut
loose early in the spring and follow the
general Northwest trail. Spotted Tail
Indians are secretly buying fat ponies
and making other suspicious moves"
All the bodies recovered from the
wreck of the Metropolis" have been
buried along the beach from the scene
of the wreck to a distance ten miles
north. The graves are simply marked
by two stakes, indicating the head and
foot of the grave. There are no marks
identifying the eorpses within thegraves.
The survivors having all left, there re-
mains no one that can identify the
dead.
The Secretary of the Treasury will
not open the mint at Philadelphia for
the coinage Of trade dollars, aud will
place such restrictions on Western mints
as will prevent the coinage for shipment
East. Coinage of sufficient amount
to meet the actnal demand for export
will be authorized for the present or
NA@AA NchSASSo ShaAA nave dGlEu upon
the coinage Of the silver dollar for cir
culatiOn.
The Herdlds Washington special
says there is good reason TO believe now
that the Bland bill cannot be passed
over the veto. Silver men themselves
begin to finch a little, aud talk of ad-
mitting an amendment raising the value
of the dollar, but it becomes daily more
certain that no bill attacking the debt
and the interest or interfering in past
transactions will be able to pass over
the veto.
A Washington dispatch of February
9th says: 'The bill agreed upon by the
house committee on Pacific Railroads
for the benefit of the Northern Pacific
Railroad extends the time for its COM
pletion ten years, and reduces the land
grants in Washington Territory, taking
away such portions of land as was here
tofore embraced in the appropriation
for the construction Of the road from
Pen d'OreiIle TO Puget Sound.h
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FOREIGN NEWS.

The Prince Of Montenegro has ac-
eepted the armistiee and ordered ces-
sation of hostilities.
The acceptance by Germany and Rus
sia of the idea of a conference at Nieuna
is announced as certain.
The Populo Romano says that Italy
and France have accepted Austria's in-
vitation to the conference.
a Vienna dispatch says that Austria
would only protest against Russian oc-
cupation of Constantinople.
A st. Petersburg dispatch says that
the cessation of hOstiIities has produced
more anxiety than rejoicing.
A COnstantinople dispatch says that
the blockade OF the Black Sea between
Odessa and Consiantinople has been
raised.
= Paris correspondent says he has re-
ceived on high authority some eonfirma-
ton Of the rumor that Russia is negO-
tiating for the surrender of the whole
Turkish fleet
The dispatch of the Grand Duke Mich
olas, notifying the Servian government
of the armistice, added the assurance
that Servia's interests would receive
every consideration.
A Vienna correspondent says that
Count Andrassy's formal invitations to
the signatory powers of the treaty of
Paris for a conference fixes no date for
the assembling of the same.
A correspondent has reason to believe
an important decision is pending by
Austria which is greatly dependent on
the result of the debate in the British
parliament, and on which the fate of
England and Austria depends.
A Berlin dispatch of February 5th
says: "The situation is still considered
critical. The Cars address to his troops
at st. Petersburg on Sunday, and the
calling out Of forty new battaliOns have
further checked public confidence in an
early re-establishment Of peace"
A Pera correspondent says that appre-
tensions of rioting by disbanded SOL
diers are increasing. Circassians are
massacreing and pillaging near Con-
stantinople. Many residents desire the
arrival Of foreign fleets. Diplomats hesi-
tate to take concerted action for fear OF
increasing the panic.
A st. Petersburg dispatch of February
4th says: "Public opinion here, and
even more at Moscow, regards the pro-
jected conference of the powers with dis
favor. Some papers speak of the con-
ference as a mere device of the Euro
pean powers to deprive Russia of all she
gained after so heavy an expenditure OF
blood and treasure without themselves
spending a dollar or losing a man."
The Turkish minister at Athens des-
ignates the action of Greece as a declara-
tion of war. He telegraphed to Con-
stantinople to the minister of war for a
ship to convey him hence, in conse-
| quence of which the Turkish fleet under
Hobart Pasha has arrived. The Greek
government is in CONSERVATION, and in
tends appealing to the Intervention oi
the guaranteeing powers. A great panic
prevails.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-08
A GAME OF BLUFF.


A Washington dispatch Of February
9Th says: "The House committee on
judiciary to-day took a vote on the
proposition for a Sixteenth Amendment
10 the Constitution as presented by the
late Woman Suffrage Convention. The
vote in favor Of the proposition was.
Lynde, Fry, Butler, Conger, Laphan. ):
against it were Knott, Hartridge
Sterger, MeMahan, and Calbertson. : -
The dispatch also states that Harris NJ
Virginia, who is opposed 10 Woman
Suffrage, was absent. Now heafken to
the conclusion Of the sapient masculine
aristocrat who complies the news" for
the associated press: ''There is no prob
ability whatever that the committee
will at any time hereafter take favora-
BILE action on the subject" This game
of "bluf" is intensely amusing to the
interested parties, who have succeeded
in securing a tie vote, where a year ago
they could not get hearing.
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A New York dispatch Of February lst,
speaking Of the recent great storm, says:
''There have been wreck and ruin all
along the beach. The Manhattan Beach
Hotel property suffered most. The beau
tifuI Japanese structure has been swept
away, aud the east end Of the hotel
damaged. The engine-roOm and bath
ing-house were swept out to sea. The
stables and out-houses have disappeared,
and over 200 feet of railroad track in the
rear Of the hotel are destroyed. The
bodies Of Mrs. Brenan and children
have been found"
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LETTER FROM DENVER.

To THE EDITOR or THE NEW NORTHWEST:
Among the resolutions which were
passed by the Colorado Woman Suffrage
Association at its annual meeting I'm
Denver, January %, 1873, were the fol-
lowing, for which insertion is asked in
your columns:
WHEREAS, The Colorado Woman
Suffrage Association has been the recip-
lent, during the past year, of much GEN
erous aid from kindred societies and
from private individuals who sympa-
thized with the effort We were making
to secure just legislation; therefore,
ReSotUed, That we thankfully ac-
knowledge the gifts we have thus re-
ceived, aud, wishing we might name
each giver separately, we assure those
friends who remembered us in our great
need that their cooperation was a
moral stimulus and support, for which
there Is no equivalent in dollars and
cents.
ResolUed, That to those friends from
distant States who gave themselves
with such zeal aud devotion to the work
OF the Colorado suffrage campaign in
the summer and autumn of lS77-tO
Mrs. Margaret w. and Mr.. J. B. Camp
bell, Mrs. Lucy Stone, Mr.. Henry b.
Blackwell, Miss Susan b. Anthony,
Miss Matilda Hindman, Miss Leila F.
Partridge, and Judge J. w. Kingman-
we offer our most sincere appreciation
and gratitude.
Res0lUed, That the thanks of this As
.sociation are due, aud are hereby
heartily extended, to the editors Of the
IVOmdIfs journal, Boston, Massachu-
setts, the Ballot BoL, Toledo, Ohio, and
the NEW NORTHWEST, Portland, Ore
gon, for the valuable aid they rendered
in our recent campaign by the hundreds
Of copies of their papers which they sent
into the State for gratuitOus distribution.
Yours,
c. w. S. A.
Denver, Colorado, January %, 1875
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According to the Corvallis Gazette of
the lst instant, the prospect of securing
the thirty-five thousand dollars neces-
ssry to purchase iron for the first ten
miles of the Yaquina Bay Railway is
flattering. There remains about eight
thousand dollars more to be secured.
and the Gazette is confident that the
amount will be forthcoming, the iron
purchased, and track laying commenced
at an early day.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-08

We again call special attention to the
meeting of the Oregon State Woman
Suffrage Association, which is to con-
vene on the 18th inst. Let every lover
Of liberty be up and doing. Send your
dollars if You cannot go yourselves but
go, If you can, by all means. Half-fare
tickets and free entertainment will GER
tainly make it possible for you all to 60.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-08

Miss Angie Ford, a graduate Of the
Salem Medical College, has recently To-
Gated IN Albany for the practice Of her
profession. Miss DR.. Ford is following
in the footsteps Of her mother, who is
an illustrious and successful physician
in Salem. We bespeak for DR.. Angie
splendid practice.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-08

DR.. Mary Walker has lately appeared
before House committee in company
with George Q. Cannon, of Utah, favor
ing legislation for the protection Of DO
iygamy, and claiming with the apostle
named that women are better off in Do
lygamy than prostitution.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-08
WORK FOR EVERYBODY.

Circulate petitions for a 18th Amend
ment, to enfranchise the women, not Of
one State alone, but of all the States
and Territories. Woman's right to a
voice in the government under which
she lives is a natural right, and must be
guaranteed to her by the Federal Con-
stitutiOn. Now is our time to knock at
the doors of Congress and plant this
right deep in the fundamental law Of
the land.
Petitions for a Sixteenth Amendment,
for woman's enfranchisement, from
10000 United States citizens, from
twenty-five States, have been presented
in open House and Senate by 81 Repre-
sentatives and % Senators since January
10, 1877. The friends of Woman Suf-
frage in both houses, who intend to ad-
vOcate the Amendment in the new
Congress, desire its friends to sustain
them by mammoth petitions from every
quarter. Circulate this petition through
the autumn and winter up to January
20, 1878. Obtain the names Of all who
have signed similar petitions to the
present Congress, and as many more as
possible. Head the petitions with such
well-knOwn names as you wish to have
appear in the Congressional Record
Fill the blanks for State, town, and
county, that members may refer to
their own districts in presenting petit
I nj ha afm
plainly with ink on two copies of the
petition, Que for the House, and one for
the Senate. Ask each signer to remit
at least ten cents to the Treasurer of the
National Woman Suffrage Association,
Mrs. Ellen /. Sargent, No. 1888 De
Sales street, Washington, d. c., to
defray expenses Of classification for
presentation to the 45th Congress. Every
name received before December /, 1877,
will be. classified with its appropriate
State and county petitions, and pre-
sented by the appropriate Representa-
tive and Senator. Send with the petit
tions name and post Office address of
each one who obtains signatures, so the
officers may know the workers.
Cut this out, and paste it at the head
of sheet Of paper and go to work. Put
the names of men on the right, and
women on the left of your petition, and
trace every name carefully in ink:
PETITION FOR
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
To the Senate and House Of RepreseH-
tatiUes, IN Congress assembled The
undersigned, citizens Of the United
States, residents of the State of -,
county of --, town of -, earn
estly pray your honorable body to
adopt measures for so amending the
Constitution as to prohibit the several
States from DISTINGUISHING United States
nfffvana -
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PETITION FOR
WOMAN sUFFRAGE.


MRS. F. NJ MURRAY, Physician and sur
geon for Women Omce-Monnastes building,
No. l29 First street, between Morrison and
Yamhill. Consultation FREE. MRS. DR.
MURRAY is a graduate of the Woman's Medi-
cal College Of Pennsylvania, and holds GER
thcate Of the Board OF Examiners OF the Med
ical Society OF the state of California.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-08

Graduate OF the Homeopathic School, and
member Of the State Medical Society Of Cali
fornIa, makes speciality OF the diseases Of
women and children. Office hours from 8A. NJ.
to P. N. ofice-Corner OF Second and 8Iorri-
son streets, Portland. III
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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
5. Of l. and 10 per cent. for others outside OF
the Order West India preserves and Mexican
conserves. Address p. o. Station "D,r New
York civ
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-08

Miss Nellie Meaeham and another
young lady have opened an art studio in
Salem where they will receive orders
for paintings and erayOn drawings, and
also accommodate few pupils. We
wish them success.
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A Belgrade dispatch says: 'The gov
ernment, having received a dispatch
from Russian headquarters announcing
that the armistice has been signed, has
ordered the different Servian command
ers to stop hostilities.r
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NOTICE.

Agents will please take notice that II is q
great tax upon us 70 pay express charges upon
small sums. and they will confer great favor
bv remitting 10 US through money orders OF
registered letters.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-08

The Erening Telegram is out with An
editorial strongly favoring the enfrap-
chisement of tax-paying women.
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Yours,
Denver, Colorado, January %, 1878

Now comes Mrs. Jenny Junks, who
annoys Secretary Sherman by repre-
senting that she knows about his par
ticipation in the returning board frauds.
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Mrs. Duniway has taken flying trip
to Hamhill, to be in attendance at the
County Woman Suffrage Association in
convention this week at Lafayette.
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DR.. Dupareque's French Secret" for ladies,
For sale by Miss c. Blackwell, sole agent
Morrison street, between second and Third,
Portland, Oregon. =
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A bill for the enfranchisement Of
woman is now pending in the legisla-
ture Of California.
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A plan is being drawn up for bridge
across the South Umpqua at RoseburR.
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WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

The woman's Fighters have not ac-
complished much in Congress, though
they have made many friends among
our people, and that, too, in classes op-
posed to the movement. Heretofore
Mrs. Stanton and her sisters have had
standing between them and our people
certain prejudices, or rather, we should
say, certain women whom our ladies
would not acknowledge or recognize
under any circumstances whatever.
But during the late convention thes e
delegates, like Mrs. Stanton aud Hooker,
have been called upon by hundreds Of
ladies who heretofore secuted them and
their objects. FELIX.
Washington, d. c., January Is, 1878.
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OUR WASHINGTON LETTER

70 THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
The eloquent tributes paid in the Sem
ate yesterday to the memory of Senator
Morton came alike from political friend
and opponent. All Joined in commend
ing his greatest abilities, his iudomita-
bic perseverance and energy, and as be-
ing one in whose vocabulary there was
no such word as fail" And while some
referred to past political differences.
they eulOgized his merit as a man and
friend. The eulogy of his successor,
Mr.. Voorhees,, was short, but eouebed
in most beautiful language. 1t was the
fitting tribute Of an orator whose gepins
alone has elevated him to Mr.. Mortonis
seat, and the worthy effort of a soldier
ready to do honor to a gallant foe. The
minority report, so far as prepared by
Mr.. Morton, upon the Chinese emigra-
ton question has appeared, and shows
him strongly inclined to attribute more
good than evil to the influx OF the Chi
nese on the Pacific Coast. The report
is, Of conrse, incomplete, as his last ill
ness seized him in the midst of his la
bors. But it goes far enough to demon
strate to rejecting people that the Chi
nese problem has two sides to it, and
that the very good accomplished by
them is the one great reason the hood
lum element is so inimicaI to them.
They work for low wages because frugal
in their expenditures, and their vices
are due to the entire ostraeism by the
Americans, and the absence of the social
and refining influences Of wives and
families. In our intercourse here with
Californians We find great diversity Of
opinion as to the merits and demerits of
the Chinese, and We opine that Senator
MortOn's report reflects the views OF a
large class of intelligent men on the Pa
cific Coast.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-08

DIR. c. A. White, the Palcontologist
of Professor Hayden's L. S. Geographic
cal Survey, reports an interesting obser-
walton made during the past summer
in the West, in regard to the habits of
frogs and toads. He found in the great
plains at the base of the Rocky Noun
tains, traversed by the South Platte
River and its tributaries, that where ir-
rigatiOn bitches have been introduced
that toads acquire the same habit of
diving and swimming under water,
which heretofore have distinctively
characterized frogs. Formerly the toad
would, when disturbed, merely dive
into the water, and rising, Immediately
swim to the shore again. But now,
like the frog, he dives, burrows at once
into the mud, and there remains until
the danger is past. The Doctor regards
this as the resumption Of an instructive
trait, common at one time to both frogs
and tOads, and aroused from its dormant
state in the toad by the changed physi-
cal conditions Of that country, which ir-
rigation has produced. New and in
creased insect life, grasses and vegeta-
tion of all kinds have always followed
irrigation in these heretofore barren
plains, but this is the first instance re-
ported of radical change effected in
the habits of reptiles through the effect
of water.