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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-08

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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-04
The seduoer of Virtue.

| In the course OF his remarks over the
corpse OF poor little frankie Woodward,
Tue wayward child who committed
suicide with her lover in Oakland, the
other day. Rev. IhOs. Guard, in his elo-
quent address,, said:
DO not envy the feelings of him
VINO had won her trusting heart and led
her astTay, In the first place. What are
fallen empires, fallen churches, fallen
States beside fallen soul? To what a
depth of depravity must be the heart of
man be fallen when he can thus crusb
the lovely flower of wOmanhood and
cast it aside TO be trampled in the mud
and mire of the street. And vet the
betrayer stalks arrOgantly through the
saloons of society, petted and eucOur-
aged by thOughtiess, worldly mothers,
to pluck another victim and treat her
as he did the first. He is welcomed
with smiles and bows to the homes Of
innocent girihood, when ne should be
treated as a blighted leper. The woman
who has trusted and been betrayed is
sneered and spit upon, but who thinks
to cast the same eontumely upon the
ten-fold guiltier man who has accom-
plished the fearful wrOng2"
And yet, while the truth Of Mr..
Guards invective is acknowledged, the
seducer still moves in the highest
society" Speaking Of him generally,
lie was at the Sharon Belmont reception,
hail fellow well met Next we saw
him at the most select CrOcker recep-
tion, where only the select OF the select
found place. We saw him at the Au-
thor's Carnival-Ieceived with smiles at
every booth where fair women with
yirtuOus intents were pleading the
cause Of charity. We saw him at the
Carnival ball, Thursday night, in full
evening dress, as becomes Ia nOblesse.
His card was full of the names OF our
leading ladies OF fashion. As it has
been, so it will be. The honest, we'll
meaning, steady, gO-ahead young man,
who acts upon principle, has as much
impression against the fashionable So
ciety-seducer as a mustard plaster on a
wooden leg.-S. +. Stock Exchange.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-04
The Burning of Witches.

Il is generally stated that the last
witch WAS burned in Europe in l773, in
Prussian Poland. But this has now
hecOme a mistake. She was burned
February %, 1879, in NratshevO, in the
gOveTnDent of NOvgorOd, Russia. Her
name was AgTafena Ignativa. She was
a soldiers widow, aud seems early in
life to have acquired fame for her skill
in various secret arts. The name once
acquired, she prOtited by it. Without
working, she had plenty Of good things,
for the peasants in the neighbOrhOd
stood in great awe Of her, aud sent to
her house the best of their harvests.
But at last Nemesis overlook her. Fits
of epilepsy became uncOmmOnly fire.
quent in that part Of the country, aud
they were invariably attributed to
AgTafena's evil eve.
In the beginning they increased her
reputation, but finally the fear of her
grew iutO terror, and the instinct of
self-defence was awakened. One day a
young girl in fit of epilepsy mentioned
AgTafeua's name, and a few hours
later the whole population of ecountry
gathered around her hut, among them
the Justice of the peace aud two mem
bers of the representative assembly Of
the government. There was a short
parley between Agrafena and the crowd.
Then she was driven into the house.
doors and windows were locked, and
the house set on fire and, while the
unhappy woman cried, screamed, and
prayed for her life, the crowd stood un-
moved, looked on to the last, and sang
hymns in praise of the Saviour who had
delivered them from Satan.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-04

upon her face on the unfinished web Of
bome-spun, into which she had spun
and died, spoiled aud warped and
woven the flickering threads Of her
nervous force, till jaded nature had at
last recognized her Office.
The senior Hardine did not think of
this as he leaned over her bowed and ST.
lent form, aud, for the first time in the
children's hearing or remembrance,
uttered an exclamation of entreaty and
endearmeut. But ne did think con-
fusedly of her faithful toll and many
virtues, and his memory flashed back
involuntarily to the days OF their court
ship, and the happy times when they
we're young and care-free.
"She is gone, ta=nk Heaven :" ex-
claimed Lie. as she chafed the fur
rowed brow of the sleeper mo, no "
she cried, sit cannot be. See! she re-
wives. stand back snd give her air /!
The poor, overworked darling has only
tainted %
But the uauEuleES NoiuS hSio ouig
partly true. Her mother was not dead /;
but she awoke from her stupor partly
paralyzed, and for long time bed
ridden.
Eliza's dream Of home Of her own
seemed farther of than ever. The
burning welts upon her arms aud
shoulders were not again to be inflicted
by her fathers hand, she thought, for
she would not bear a repetition OF the
outrage now but she felt that she must
stay at home indefinitely, and be her
mothers nurse, and, with Sally's aid,
the literal helpmeet for her fathor and
the younger children that her mother,
the patient, uncomplaining and now
stricken servant Of the household, had
ever been.
That Captain Hardine was really
poverty stricken, not one Of the family
doubted. In after years, when his sur
viylng children were wasting the accu-
mulated savings OF his sOul-thwarted
lifetime in litigation-but stay We
will not anticipate the fRdie.
To be coutiuued1
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-04
MISSING.

Missing, no more; a dumb. dead wall
or silence and darkness stands
Between us and they who len us here,
IN the golden morning Of the year,
With hope and promise and parting cheer,
Wet eyes and waving hands.
Never an omen told our hearts
How fate lurked. grim and dark;
Fresh and sweet smiled the April day,
And the treacherous waves In might lay,
kissing the sands Of the sheltered bay,
And laughing around the bark.
Like molten silver shone her sails,
As she glided from our gaze,
And we turned back 10 our homes again,
To let custom grow o'er the yearnlng pain,
And TO count by the hearth-ah, labor vain :
The lonely, lingering days.
Never letter from loving hands
Never message came;
We knew long since should the port be won;
We knew what the fierce north gales had done
And slowly crept over every one
a terror We would not name.
All. met those weary mornings,
When ont on the great pier-head
We strained our sight o'er the tossing seas,
And strove TO answer. in tones OF ease.
Light questions cOldly said.
An. mel those weary midnights,
Hearing the breakers roar:
Starting from dreams Of life and death
With beating pulses and catching breath,
To hear the white surf ''call" beneath,
Along the hollow shore
Never flash down the wires.
Never "a word from the East,
From the port she sailed for-hoW long asot
Why, even "a spar one would weep 10 know
Tossed on the wild waves ebb and How,
Were something real at least.
VI ssing, missing, and silence:
The great tides rise and fail;
The sea lies dimpliug out in the light
Or dances an living cleaning white;
Day follows day, night rolls on night;
Missing, and that is all.
The bark crossed out in the log-book,
The names dropped out Of the prayers;
In many household vacant place:
IN many life vanished grace;
We know our cast in the long life race
But only God knows theirs.
-rTinsIeyfs Magazine
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-04
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
IFRoM OUR REGUIAR coRREsFoNDENr.l ]


WASHINGTON, ID. c., Nov. 10, 1879.
To THE EDITOR Or THE NEW NORTHWEST:
The equestrian statue of Gen. Geo. II.
Thomas has arrived The most exten-
sive preparations are being made for its
unveiling. Next weeE / will speak
more particularly of the event. Should
l attempt it now, it is possible the pro-
gramme would, through a November
tempest, be as mythical as 4 certain
brilliantly pictured description in the
past in HaJper's Weekly OF the Presi-
dents New Years reception, which a
heavy snow-storm interposed to pre-
vent. Mr.. Ward, the sculptor, has been
engaged for more than six years in pre-
pairing the model Of this statue and the
horse on which it Is mounted, aud it is
claimed has succeeded in giving US a
perfect specimen of art. We hope so,
for several Of those already erected in
our parks are open to severest criticism
sufficiently so to lead many to ask that
We be spared further effort in the eques-
trian direction.
Since my last letter, Mrs. Margaret
Eaton, one of the most notable women
that ever moved in Washington society,
has passed away after suffering from
prolonged Illness. Mrs. Eaton became
famous during General Jackson's adj
ministration by her causing the disrup-
tion Of his Cabinet, through his attempt
to force the members thereof to recog-
nize her socially. Her maiden name
was Margaret O'Neill, and she is said
to have been peculiarly handsome and
fascinating when she reached maiden
hood. But the fact that she was a
daughter of an inn-keeper suflieed to
bar her from admission into the higher
circles Of Washington society, which in
those days was as entirely aristocratic
as any portion of the South and as
strongly opposed to 'parvenus" as the
BourbOns of France. Her maiden vi
vacity Of disposition never deserted her,
| though we saw little in our limited in
| tercourse with her during the past
ten years to indicate that personal
magnetism and strength of char.
acter that led her into single.
handed conflict for years with of1icia
and social aristocracy, and with which
she was so eminently successful as tC
become virtual controller Of the Gov
ernment and dictatTess Of the Whit,
House. Her tall, slender form, only
slightly stopped with age, her apparen
intense mental and physical activity
clear-eut features, marked Throughout
with decision Of character, showed how
much she was capable of performing
and Of mastering If associated with Tia
rare beauty and personal fascination
which tradition gave to her. Will
the wife OF member of the Cabinet, sh
asserted her strongest power Of mind, 10
there she met the greatest obstacles in
ierposed by society against her, and he
history during those days reads lik
some vividly drawn description OF ficti
tious life Since the war, she has led
retired life, aud particularly so since tn
eventful chapter growing out Of her in
fatuation for, and marriage with
Buchignani, the dancing master.
Dom PEDRO.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-04
The Sorrows of Genius.

Homer was a beggar.
Spencer died in want.
Ceryantes died OF hunger.
Terrence, the dramatist, was a slave.
Dryden lived in poverty aud distress.
Sir Walter Raleigh died on the scaf-
fold.
Butler lived life OF penury and died
poor.
Bacon lived a life of meanness and
distress.
Plautus, the Roman comic poet, turned
a mill.
Paul Borghese had fourteen trades,
and yet starved with them ALL
Tasso, the Italian poet, was often dis
tressed for five sbillings.
Steele, the humorist, lived life Of
perfect warefare with bailiffs.
Otway, the English dramatist, died
prematurely, and through hunger.
Chatterton, the child of genius and
misfortune, destroyed himself at eigh-
teen.
Bentivoglio was refused admittauce
into a hospital he had himself erected.
Savage died in prison at Bristol,
where he was confined for the debt
OF so.
The death of Collins was through
neglect, first causing mental derauge-
meut.
Goldsmith's "Vicar Of Wakefield"
was sold for trifle to save him from
a grip of the law.
Fielding lies in the burying ground
of the English factory at Lisbon with
out a stone To mark the spot.
Milton sold his copyright Of Para
disc Lost" for SO, at three payments
and fnished his life in Obscurity.
/ Camoens, the celebrated writer OF tue
'T.usiad," the great Portuguese epie'
ended his days, il is said, IN an aims
| house, and, at any rate, was supported
I by a faithful black servant VINO oeggeu
I in the streets Of Lisbon Tor hlm'-Ioh-
/ kers Gazette.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-04
A Sunernatnral Storv.

Every thing Of this kind should be
doubted until fully proved, else there is
great danger Of being imposed upon by an
artful designer, as in the following case,
recorded in a French paper
NOT A SAINT-Jacqueliue Bosse, a
girl employed by farmer in France to
watch his sheep upon the hillsides, ar
rived in a state of great excitement a
few weeks ago at her masters house and
Informed him that while she was look
ing after the sheep, a man had taken
her into wood and shown her a light
burning in a fir tree, and that she had
there received a visit from the Blessed
Virgin. Little attention was at first
paid TO her story ; but she repeated il
With slight variations, and said that
the Virgin had eniOined her to ask for
money 10 build "a chapel on the spot
where she had first manifested her pres
ence. Several people came i'm the hope
OF seeing the same vision and, though
the Virgins presence was not visible
to them, they all heard her conversing
with Jacqueline BOsse. Miracles Of a
certain kind were also performed, aud a
child dug up some baricOt beans at a
spot where Jacquelins said that she
would be certain TO find them. These
strange proceedings at length reached the
police; and one day when about 1900
persons had assembled in the expeeta-
ton Of witnessing fresh prOdigies, they
arrested the youthful visionary, who
confessed that she had been making
use Of her talents as a ventriloquist to
mystify the public, and that she had
done so in the hope Of being received
into convent She still maintained,
however, that she had been instigated
to do this by the person whom she de-
scribed at first a. coming out Of u wood
and giving her q glass Of white wine I;
but the tribunal gave no more credence
TO this than to the supernatural part of
the story, aud seut her TO a reiOrmatory
L. u.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-04

julius CESAR's VIEW OF DEATH
Throughout his career, Caesar always
displayed a singular Indifference to life.
He had not much belief in God or the
gods. On all such questions he observed
from first to last profound silence.
But one conviction he had. He in-
tended, if he was to live at all, to live
master of himself in matters which be-
longed to himself. Sylla might kill
him if he so pleased. 1t was better to
die than to put away a wife who was
the mother Of his child, aud to marry
some other woman at a dictators bid
ding. Life on such terms was not worth
keeping. What a joy it is 20 read of
one man in the worlds history who
never played the fool or the hypOcrite.
On one occasion the majority of the
Senate, of which Caesar was then a
young member, wished to consign a
large numbrr OF political offenders to
capital punishment. Cesar opposed
this. He contended that death was not
a punishment at all. Death was the
end of human sorrow. In the grave
there was neither joy nor sorrow.
When man was dead he ceased TO be.
He became as he had been before be was
born. Probably almost every one 10 the
Senate thought like Caesar on this sub
ject. Cicero certainly did. Caesar spoke
/ his convictions out. 4. Fr0ude.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-04

GENTRY.-The other evening" at a
lille dinuer party in New York, one Of
the guests-the yOnger brother Of an
English nobleman-expressed with
commendable freedom his opinion Of
America snd its people. II do not alto
gether like the country" said the young
gentleman; "fOr one reason, you have
no gentry here" "What do you mean
by gentry ?" asked another of the com
pany. "Well, you know" replied the
Englishman, "well-Ohi : gentry are
those who never do any work them
selves, and whose fathers before them
never did any" "Ah ~ exclaimed his
interloeutor, 'theu we .have plenty OF
gentry in America, but we don't cal
them gentry We call them tramps ~
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-04

"Ouida's" name is Rosa de la Rama,
and she is the daughter Of Frenchman.
More information than this the most
indefatigable interviewer has not Deeh
able to get from the author. she ilVes
in q lovely villa about two miles irOm
Florence, where she is surrounded Dy
books, pictures, and W1at sue prizes
more than both OF these uogs. one mas
a burving ground on her place for her
5ogs. where they are laid away with
tenderness that is not always bestowed
on the human race.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-04

KEYS ABSURD ORDER. - The alb
surditv of Postmaster-G General Keys
order. that letters not directed to a post
office shall be sent to the Dead Letter
Office. is admirably illustrated in the
case OF mail matter for naval stations.
Take Mare Island, for example. 1t is
well known all over the United States,
and has large correspondence, yet how
few persons are aware that its post office
address is Vallejo. Or, for another in
stance, suppose that it is desired TO COM
muuicate by mail with the League
Island Navy Yard, how is letter to be
addressed? There is no League Island
post Office, therefore, as matter of
course, mail matter so directed would be
reiegated to the Dead Letter Office.
The "Postal Guide" is no guide in such
circumstances, 50 that the ordinary
writer Is prevented by the late order
from communication with any station
whose post office bears a different desig-
nation. The plain truth of the matter
is, that Keys plan TO instruct the
people will not work, aud the sooner it
is abandoned the better it will be for
Key aud the letter-writing portion OF
the c0mmuuity.-S. T. Chronicle.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-04

The daughter Of Thomas Cole, the
artist, has Inherited her fathers genius,
and paints exq1isitely on china. She
uses his studio, which still holds its pic
lures aud fittings as in his lifetime.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-04

An old lady, seeing a sign over the
door Of an umbrella shop, Umbrellas
recovered" went in and told the shop
man that she would like to have nim
recover the one that was stolen from her
a week previous.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-04

Fifteen years before the revolution,
the wife Of Washington Kept sixteen
spinning wheels TuuDing' ana saw the
fabrics made in her own mouse, unuer
her own direction.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-04

Women are now allowed to practice
in the courts Of eight States in the Union.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-04
G5e ne~ n.ort5we9t

\ Journal for the People.
Devoted to the Interests OF Humanity.
Independent in Politics and Religion.
Alive to all Live Issues, and Thoroughly
Radical in Opposing and Exposing the Wrongs
Of the Masses.
Correspondents writing over assumed sigma
lures must make known their names 10 the
Editor, or no attention viii De given 70 thei
communications.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-04

All that the American navy needs is
some boats. II has plenty of water
burlington Hdtgkeye.
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MPS HARDNESS WILL.

ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNiWAH,
.. 0r nIUnIrH EED," "ELLES Down,"
HESRy LEE,~ "THE HAPPY
"MApeE MonBIsoN,"
"rl.T, PATE And FANCY"
ETC, ErC., Erc.
Inraording to Act OF Congress, i'm the
rea- .s-. .a t1e Office Of the Librarian Of Con
rs FASH lgton, ID. G.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-06-11

A nice legal point has been decided
by Judge Rives of Eureka. This was
/ a case appealed from the Justice Court,
in which the plaintiff recovered judg-
ment for the possession of certificate
of deposit on Paxton & Co. for the
sum of $lC0. 1t seems that A.. J.
Ship had deposited the money repre-
sented by the certificate with Paxton
& Co., in the name of izzie1Shirp, his
wife, and afterwards assigned the GER
tificate to Montgomery, the defendant,
in payment of debt of his own, by his
simple individual Endorsement. The
plaintiff, Ms: Shipp, claimed that the
money deposited was her own separate
property, and as such her husband had
no secured rights to himself by Ships
Endorsement. The Justice of the
Peace decided that the money was the
separate property of Mrs. Ship, and
Mr.. Montgomery took an appeal.
Judge Rives decided that A. j. Shipp
had the right, as husband, to dispose
of the money or the certificate repre-
senting it to defendant, the same being
community property, and therefore
gave Judgment for Montgomery, for
costs. So says the Sentinel:
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-06-11

1t is-generally supposed by physicians
and the people generally that dyspep-
STA can not invariably be cured, but we
are pleased to say that Green's August
Flower has never, to our knowledge,
failed to cure dyspepsia and liver COM
plant i'll all its forms, such as sour
stomache, costiveness, sick headache,
palpitation of the heart, indigestion,
bad taste in the mouth, &c. Out OF the
1000 dozen bottles sold last year, not
a single failure was reported, but thous-
ands of complimentary letters have been
received from druggists of wonderful
cures. Three doses viii relieve any
case. Try it. Sample bottle 10 cents
Regular ST. IS cents
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-06-11
A Fine Rain.

"The country is saved, " say farmers
and stock men to-day. 1t began to
rain about II o'clock last night and
continued to do so at lively rate until
about 7 o'clock this morning. 1t was
the heaviest, steadiest, and yet,quietest
rain storm. that has fallen in the Hum
boldt Valley for over year. As the
storm was undoubtedly general through
out Central and Northern Nevada, it's
value IS inealculable. The grain, which
is now heading out in the agricultural
valleys, required considerable moisture
to insure good crop, and, as water was
not to be had to supply it by irrigation,
farmers were respondent. Now, how
ever, they are cheerful, as very many
of their grain fields will require no
more irrigation this season. The rain
has also been of great benefit to stock
men, as it will make feed plentier in
the cattle ranges.