The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-06-19

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not space for a synopsis Of this lecture,
and we should be pleased to publish
Miss Miller's valedictory in full. On
both evenings the college chapel was
crowded with the wit and wisdom and
fashion and respectability Of Albany.
Miss Matte Foster and Miss Jennie
Clark officiated as ushers, and 1t was
refreshing to see them escort young
gentlemen to appropriate places and
eourteously bow them into seats.
Albany beats the whole OF Oregon in
getting ahead on the woman question.
This description would be incomplete
if we omitted to mention a solo by Miss
Nettie Piper, which called out wilder
ness of boquets aud a most enthusiastic
encore. This young lady is great ia
vorite with the musical public of both
Salem and Albany. Her voice is re-
markably pure, pleasant and pathetic,
and her control of it is surprisingly near
perfect.
On Friday evening a surprise party
was given at the Comstock House by a
party of young folks, who presented
Mrs. Edgar, the popular landlady, with
a necklace and locket as token Of
esteem. The lady accepted the present
in a brief and graceful speech, in i'm
promptu response to a neat and apprO-
pirate address from one Of the gegtle-
manly donors. Then the dining
was cleared, and at eleven o'clock we
doZed away into dreamland, while the
crowd below US whirled in the giddy
mazes of the dance, which, by some in
sane stretch of human Imagination, has
been universally dubbed the trip Of the
light fantastic toe.
Mrs. Hendershott, mother OF Mrs.
Edgar, hadjus arrived from La Grande,
aud it was not the dance, but her con-
versation, that kept the weary ehron-
icler of these journeyings away from
dreamland till eleven O'Clock. This
lady is one OF Oregon's heroines, whose
womanly valor will figure in the future
history of the pioneers as an example
worthy Of the highest emulation. She is
now in this valley for the purpose ofvisit-
ing the State Executive Department,
prepared to make a final personal set
tlement with the commonwealth, for
deficits contracted by her husband when
receiver in the land Office at Uniontown.
That such a woman should be denied
the right of suffrage while every igno-
rant or vicious man may be a law
maker, is one Of the anomalies of the
century which can never be satisfac-
/ toriiy explained.
| On Saturday evening it was our good
/ fortune to meet a hurriedly- gathered
assembly in the Courthouse, which
was addressed first by Mrs. Hendershott
and afterwards by your correspondent
There was much interest manifested il
the woman question by all present, an,
Mrs. Hendershott's remarks were re
ceived with special favor by the under
signed. Sunday, aud We attend, will
the Fosters, the religious service Of Rev
;. G.. Irvine in the United Presbyterian
Church, where we meet not only tn
same preacher but very nearly the sam,
congregation that we used to meet
half score Of years ago. The SAM
psalms are sung by the self-same sing
ers, with only solitary voice, tina
death or distance has claimed, missing
here and there. After service we gree
a host of old-time neighbors, and in
the evening, after a sermon in the Con
gregational Church, we hold glad com
munion with Colonel ThOmpson's inter
esting family, upon whose genial face
the changes of life are evidently resting
lightly.
Morning, and We are Off to Halsey
But before We go We take hurried rul
down town, and hastily note the i'm
: provements on the business streets, an
realize the constantly increasing pros
perity of the beautiful capital OF tn
county of Linn. But this letter is Ion
} and there is no better place to end
than right here. a ;. d.
! Halsey, June lG, 1879.