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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27
RECENT EVENTS.

\ boat and cargo Valueu At @-ViVV'
was burned at Trinity, Louisiana, on the
27th.
Grand requiem mass was celebrated
over the remains OF Bishop Farley, at
Baltimore, on Sunday.
a majority of the House committee
on territories agree to report against
several bill to establish a territorial gov
eminent in Indian Territory.
The anti-Chinese bill passed the
House, with all the Senate amendments
intact, by vote of one hundred and
forty to ninety-fve. It now goes TO the
President
a dispatch from Philadelphia, under
date Of February 2Sd, says: The steamer
estate of California" returned at mid
night, after a successful trial trip. She
goes to Oregon in about ten days.
The Boston Adrcrtiser states that the
officers of Harvard College propose to
allow young women to go through the
| different stages of instruction under the
tuition of the various professors; but
with a distinct organization, to be con-
trolled by a board of seven Cambridge
ladies. They are not to be considered
students Of the college, but more prop
erly private pupils of the professors
with all the various branches of the col
lege course open to them.
The President and Secretary Of Stat,
are extremely reticent on the Chimes
question; but it is believed by man,
here that the bill would have been signe,
but for the Senate amendment requir
ing the President to give notice to tn
/ Chinese government Of the abrogatio
of Articles and Of the treaty. It j
held that by this notice we would sur
render all rights Of protection for Amer
leans travelling or trading in China
and release her from any treaty obliga
ton, even not to enslave our citizens.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27
CHBGKMATED BY VICE.

Wereferred several weeks since to the
variety theaters which, contrary to city
ordinance, make night hideous in sew
eral localities, in the city, aud pour a
constant stream Of corruption through
the veins Of society. Chief fBesser seems
at length TO be awakened to the import
ance Of the matter Of their suppression,
and armed with Ordinance2 >, ,364, Of which
the following is a copy, attempted re-
Gently to close them out by arrest of the
proprietors:
Any keeper OF O. bar-room or drinking shop
who shall permit or employ any woman to act
as waitress or bartender, OF 10 sing OF dance
OF serve in any othercapscity in such bar-roou
or drinking shop, or in any room attached %
and connected with such bar room or drinking
shop, or who shall employ any person 20 sing
or dance in such bar-room or drinking shop
or who shall permit any theatrical or minstrel
show, exhibition or concert 20 take place ia
such bar-room or drinking shop, or in any room
attached % and connected with such bar-room
or drinking shop, shall be deemed guilty OF q
misdemeanor, and upon conviction taereo fbe
fore the police court shall Doe fined not less than
$40 nor more than $50. or De imprisoned in the
city Jail not less than ten nor more than
twenty days, and shall forfeit the license %
such bar-room or drinking shop.
To set aside or override the above or
dinance, however, the following resolu-
tion was passed at a late meeting OF the
common council; in whose interests the
passage was secured is plainly visible:
looms, and who have been holding eNhibi tions
or other performances in the same, shall take
out and pay license Of $50 from this date un-
Oh April 4, ls79 and that said section OF ordi-
nance 1854 shall be construed 10 authorize
such license until such date, when the effect OF
this resolution shall expire.
On account ofthis resolution, the city
attorney, Mr.. Moreland, declined to draw
up a complaint, claiming that the ordi-
nance was suspened until the time spec
flied therein, so that according to his
Interpretation Of law, one section Of a
vital measure for the peace and morality
Of the city is rendered imperative dur
ing the only season when there is any
money to be made by its violation, by a
resolution granting license TO annul il.
II this is the best that the common coun-
ell Of the city Of Portland can do, they
owe it 90 outraged decency 10 resign the
responsible position Of city Lawmakers
and give place TO those who cannot be so
easily hoodwinked by proprietors Of low
theaters, or checkmated by the intrigues
of rfoa
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27
HORRIBLE MURDER.

Mrs. Hager, a woman who lived
about four miles from Oregon City, was
murdered, with circumstances Of the
greatest atrocity, on Friday. She was
alone on the farm at the time, her hus-
band being in Portland on business, and
her daughter absent. The death-deal-
ing instrument was a batchet, with
which the poor woman was horribly
mUtilated about the head and face. In
dications showed that she made some
effort for her life, the assassin's collar
having been torn from his neck in the
struggle. Cupidity seems TO have
prompted the murder, as the house had
been ransacked aud about $50 in coin
aud a watch abstracted. The deed was
first discovered by the daughter, who
was well-nigh deprived OF her reason at
the awful spectacle that met her gaze
upon her return. a German named
Groeder was arrested near Candy on
Monday on suspicion, he having been
seen near the Hager farm on Friday.
the day the murder was committed
The entire community is horror-stricken
at the fearful tragedy, aud no efforts
VIII be spared to ferret out the assassin.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27
FAMILIARITY WITH DREADFUL
THINGS.

We find the followingin the local col
umns Of the Orcgonion of Saturday; a
journal that believes in the rigorous en-
forcement Of the Mosaic law Of q 'life
for life, ~ aud advances as chief argu-
ment in support thereof, the belief that
executions, by the terror they instill In
to the hearts of bad men, stay the hand
of the murderer:
Familiarity with dreadful things robs them
oftheir horror. The gallows upon which John
son and Brown and others now under sentenc,
OF death viii die has been built in the court
yard, Just beside the Office OF the county clerk
When Just erected It's associations caused IN,
gentlemen employed In the clerks Office 20 al
most shudder az its sight; but after having {
in plain sight for fun fortnight, this feelin.
has given away 20 perfect Indifference, so tina
when, yesterday, its casual shadow fell upon
desk, obscuring the view, the incident cause,
but an impatient exclamation.
Surely the most earnest advocate o
the abrogation Of the death penalty
could not wish for q stronger argument
OF this side Of the question. If"famili
my WIN AAA EaAAnA AAAAnEa ADA7 NAtLl q
their horror" a statement that admit,
Of no dispute in the case Of humane and
well-disposed citizens like those EN-.
ployed at the clerks desk in the court.
room, what is the inference with regard
to such familiarity upon the mind Of the
eriminally disposed, the hardened, the
reckless, the morally diseased? II il takes
but fortnight to enable men who first
viewed the gallows "with shuddering
horror pale, and eyes aghast,n to regard
il and all it's dreadful appliances with
''perfect indifference" what must its
demoralizing effects be upon those who
at first regard it without other emotion
than that Of eager curiosity. "Famili-
arity with dreadful things" is always
greatly to be deplored, bunting as il
does the finer sensibilities ofthe humane
and charitable, and rendering yet more
obdurate aud reckless those whose in
stincts primarily, and whose associations
with dreadful things secondarily make
them ripe for lawless and cruel deeds.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27
THE SCHOOL LLAw.

To THE EDITOR or THE NEW NoRrIfwFsr -
Please inform your readers II there was any
change in the franchise right 20 women in
school meetings by act OF the last legislature.
II so, please say just what IL Is. Ihave under
stood that an women who have property sub
Ject 10 taxation will be permitted % vote ia
school elections. Please set us right ON this
subject enclose a slip clipped from the VIII
lamette Farmer, claiming TO be all the changes
ID the law. Yours.
Mrs. j. A. l. CASIO.
New Era, February Il. ls76
Section 4S of the amended school law
provides as follows: "Any citizen Of this
State shall be entitled 10 vote at the
school meeting who is twenty-one years
Of age and has resided in the district
thirty days Immediately preceding the
meeting, and who has property in the
district upon which he or she pays tax. ("
If the word citizen according to the old
Interpretation was construed 10 mean
man only, the illusion is dispelled by the
prOnOun near the close of the clause.
There has been a further question raised
by opposers, who fight TO the bitter end
any innovation that gives women equal
rights before the law. and it is this:
care women who are p years Of age and
own property on which husbands or IA
theirs pay taxes and give receipts in their
own names eligible as voters? This is
OF course the merest quibble, as the wo-
man owning the property upon which
the tax is paid, clearly entities her to
the privileges Of an elector under the
new law. AS to who pays the taxes is
matter usually of convenience between
the parties themselves, and the money
with which the tax upon a wife's prop
erty is paid is not more the husbands
money than that paid upon the property
assessed to him is the wife's money. All
Of US know of butter which the woman
partner in the matrimonial firm has
made, the apples which she has dried, the
socks which she has knit, and, in some
instances, the rag carpet she has woven
being sold to pay the taxes on such prop
erty. That the receipt was given in the
husbands name was a mere matter Of
form, and should not affect her right to
vote, even when owning only commu-
nifty property, certainly not when own
ing property in her own right. The
plain state Of the case as We understand
tits that by the recent enactment women
and men are on exact political equality
at the school elections. To be a voter
in such election, man or woman must
be p years Of age or upward, and own
property in the district in which the
election is held, upon which tax is paid.
All organized districts will hold elections
Oh the first Monday in March. See to it,
tax-paying women, that you are on hand
to vote. The clipping from the Farmer
does not touch the point, and is liable to
mislead.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27
FOREIGN NEWS.

Extensive floods have occurred in va
rious parts of France.
The viceroy Of India has invited Cen
eral Grant to visit Calcutta.
It is reported that Queen Victoria
will visit the continent this spring.
The native forces Of South Africa have
been dIsbanded, in accordance with or
ders from the home government.
The committee appointed to superin-
tend the burning of infected houses in
plague districts has begun OpereratiOns.
The banks ofthe Don aud Vistula Riv-
ers have been broken by ice, and
there is a great inundatiou aud vast de-
struction of property.
a proclamation is extensively cireula-
ted in districts now being evacuated, au-
nouneiug the re-esiablishment of the
Turkish administration, aud dissuading
Christians from abandoning their
homes.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27
THE RUSSIAN PLAGUE.

\ st. Petersburg letter says Of the
plague in Russia: II has spread in the
southern provinces at a rapid rate.
Thousands upon thousands have died
with it within the last five days. The
victims, when taken, live only about
two hours, and turn as black all over as
negro. All physicians ordered to the
care Of the sick have died, within
twenty-four hours after their arrival.
The cOrpses are burned, and so are houses
in which the people die. Whole towns
have been laid waste during the past
few days. The government has placed
a Gordon of soldiers around the infected
provinces, so that the people cannot get
out aud spread the disease. Any who
attempt to break through the Gordon are
shot dead on the spot. People are begin
ming to feel uneasy ali over the empire.
Toe government of course does not allow
the news to get out, and ali reports are
suppressed, but the worst Of all is that
nobody can get out OF the empire. The
Austrian and German governments have
placed double Gordon of soldiers along
the frontier, preventing all persons from
entering their territory from Russia.
Persons arriving by railroads are stop
ped at the frontier and detained twenty
days in quarantine, their clothing disin-
fected, and If they prove all right after
lapse Of twenty days, they are permitted
to cross the border. During the 20 days
the quarantined people are housed in
large sheds aud barns, without any ac-
commodations or comforts.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27

Senator Blaine, after describing the
Chinese mode of life in California, saws:
Is it not inevitable that as Of men,
living in this degraded ~ dlthy eondi-
tion and on the poorest of food, can
work for less than the American labor
er is entitled to receive for his daily toll?
Put two classes Of labor side by side and
cheap, servile labor pulls down more
manly toll to its level The free white
laborer never could compete with the
slave labor of the South. In the China
man the white laborer finds only an
other form Of servile competition, in
some aspects more revolving aud cor
rupting than African slavery. Whoever
contends for Unrestricted immigration
OF Chinese coolies contends for that sys-
ten Of toll which blights the prospects
OF the white labOrer, looming him TO
starvation wages, killing his ambition
by rendering the struggle hopeless, and
ending in pIOdding ami pitiable pow
erty
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27
@be na1v }loct5@est.
THURsDAY-.-FEBRUARY p, 1879.
A TREATIsE AND us LESSON.

The Chicago Tribune, speaking of
recent treatise by J. c. Wells upon the
separate property Of married women un-
der the recent enabling statutes, says:
twenty-five years ago lawyer would
have been shocked at the thought that
all the common law which for centuries
has been accommodating on the subject Of
married women's rights-or wrongs, as
and completely swept away by statutory
enactments. There is probably no
branch Of the law in which the recent
changes have been so radical. In such
a case, the present work will be very
welcome. The author is evidently well
acquainted with all the rulings of the
courts, and his arrangement of the chap
tiers isclear and logical
This work, the need Of which is obvi-
Gus, for upon no other subject are per-
sons so ignorant as upon the vital
changes that the steady demands Of the
woman movement have created in the
last decade, is divided into two parts; the
first contains the latest statutes Of all the
States aud Territories on this subject al
phabetically arranged, and the second
containing full and clear statements Of
the decisions Of courts concerning the
rights and corresponding liabilities Of
married women under existing Ameri-
can law. The existence Of such a work
and the care bestowed in the compilation
of the same shows the vast importance
Of the subject matter aud its bearing up
on the rights Of class Of citizens, until
recently ignored by, or at best regarded
as minors in law. We are often told
that the cause Of equal rights makes no
perceptible progress; that the woman
movement has accomplished nothing
beyond agitation, but the journal above
quoted comes with the testimony which
every one will recognize as true that
twenty-five years ago lawyer would
have been shockedn at the present stat
utOry enactments concerning the prop
erty rights of married women. Surely
the changes that have rendered obsolete
the old laws relating to those rights have
a significance that cannot be denied by
those who so delight to bar the wheels
ofprogress. Their only hope is TO ignore
them, and this is a forlorn hope, insO-
much as the workers in the movement
do not propose TO allow any advance
move to be made unheralded. These
things are not done in a corner, and not
TO know Of them argues willful ignO-
rance than can only rebound to the dis
credit Of the ignorant.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27

a New York paper says that there are
atpresent in that great city S75 churches,
classified as follows: Protestant
Episcopal, seventy three Roman
Catholic, fifty-four; Methodist Episeo-
pal, fifty; Presbyterian, forty-one; B4p-
tist, thirty-one; Jewish, twenty-five;
Lutheran, twenty-one; Dutch Reformed.
twenty; African Methodist Episcopal,
nine; United Presbyterian, five; Univer-
salist, five; Unitarian, four; Reformed
Presbyterian, five; Friends, three; mis-
cellaneous, twenty-one; among the last,
one True Dutch Reformed, one Sweden
borgian, and one Greek Catholic. II
often has been said that there is mosque
here, and also a joss temple to which
MOham medans and the Chinese resort,
but this seems to be one of the facts Of
imagination that so abound nowadays.
There may be a place where the Man
haitian Celestials worship, but it is not
worthy the name Of temple. The
churches give according to the pOpula-
ton, about one to every $500 inhabi-
tants; but very large proportion of
these do not attend church at all 1t is
said that there are in the city well-nigh
1900 licensed liquor or beer shops, or
one to every 500 of the population,
which would go to show that bodily
thirst for aichoholic or malt liquors is
nearly six times as great as hunger of
the soul. But in great cities the worst
is always on the surface, and appear
ances frequently fail to represent reality.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27

Mrs. +. A. Logan Robson began sew
eral weeks since a series Of Sunday even
ing meetings in "Vert's Liberal Hall -
at Forest Grove. These meetings are
well attended, the hall being filed with
quiet and respectful listeners. At the
first lecture, three weeks since, it being
also the first lecture delivered in the
above named hall, Mrs. Robson recited
an original poem eulogizing the gener-
Gus donor of the bequest that built it,
which, if not too lengthy for our col
umns, we will at the request OF many
friends publish next week.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27
A sick senator

The excessive corpulency ola certain United
states Senator has long been the butt of edito
rial wit and spicy bon mots from the pens @
Washington correspondents. Few person
have suspected that his obesity was a disease.
and liable TO prove fatal; yet this is the sad
fact Excessive fatness is not only "a disease in
itself, but one liable % generate other and
more serious ones. Chemistry has 40 last re-
vealed safe, sure, and reliable remedy for
this abnormal condition of the system in Al
lan's rAnti-Fat Distinguished chemists have
pronounced 10 not only harmless but very oen-
eicial 10 the system, while remedying the dis
eased condition. Sold by druggists.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27

both. He suggested that It would take
time to systemetize these innovations,
Just as our present excellent laws in the
main have been the gro,yth Of centuries;
he cites one instance, however, Of its in
Justice, in which a husband und father OF
haIf dozen babes, the youngest only a
few days old, had undertaken to sell the
bed from under his sick wife and the
tar would permit him, but the sentl-
ment Of the community would not.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27

We publish a synopsis Of Mr.. Nc
Gowns very able address before the
Oregon State Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation on the evening Of February p.
The outlines are merely given, as the
gentleman spoke ertempore, but the
telling facts given were resonant Of lib
erty, and we felt that IN justice to the
cause they should be as for as possible
heralded abroad. The synopsis will re-
pay careful perusal.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27

The OrcgoHiaH is taking advance
ground upon the woman question.
speaking Of the question as to whether
woman can be called a taxpayer when
her husband pays and receipts for the
taxes on her property, it says: "The
money IN most cases is as much hers as
bis, and she is usually citizen the same
as be is. IT, therefore, any portion OF
the property on which d tax is paid Is
actually hers, her right to vote AT the
school meeting under the new law
seems uudoubted."
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27
Re ON Ynnr GnnrtI. |.

During this very ehangeahle weather, people
are just as changeable I'm regard TO their cloth
ing, one day heavy clothing and the next day
thin; consequently, there are more coughs
influenza, and affections Of the lungs in rms
season than in any other. Parents oe ON your
guard, and always keep iu the house felus loI
use. a bottle of that pleasant and efiectual
remedy known as HALE's HONEY OF HoRE-
HoUND AND TAR. All druggists sell it at 80
cents and 81 per bottle. Depot, Critten do '..s
Sixth Avenue, New York city. Great owing
to purchase large size
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27

Statistics show that a person had in
France, in the time Of the diligence. a
chance of being killed in making 3OO,-
600 journeys, and Of being hurt once in
making $4,000. On the railways, from
1872 to 1870, the chances were reduced to
one death in As, ,OOO, 900 journeys, and in
jury in l,OOO,OOO.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27

Fifty years ago an eminent historian
wrote; "When any great change takes
place in the state of a country, when
any great development Of social pros
perity is accomplished within it, any
resolution for reform in the powers and
privileges Of society, this new event nat
uraliy has its adversaries; it is neeessa-
rily contested and opposed"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27
RAILROADS IN THE UNITED
STATES.


William II. Vanderbilt says that ''the
railroads now existing lin the United
States, il crowded to their fullest capae-
ity, could do four times the business Of
the country" The gross earnings Of all
the railroads in the United States, re-
ported for 1877, were SAP, ,9O9, ,272, a de-
crease S24, BIS. .6S7 from 1876. This is the
smallest gross earnings since 1872, when
there were some IS, 600 less miles of rail-
road. The net earnings Of 1877 show a
decrease of only 15,476,O55 as compared
with 1876, due TO increased economy OF
operation. Dividends fell off 50, ,4S3, ,856,
and were less than in any year since 1871,
when there were 10000 miles less road in
the country. Nodivideuds were paid on.
any Of the railroads in eleven States.
The reduction ofrates continued through
1877, aud, as if it were very general
throughout the country, was one Of the
principal causes Of decreased earnings.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27

Fancy the feelings of a woman who
works from twelve to seventeen hours
daily, as nine-tenths Of the wives Of
wOrkingmen do, when told that she
is supported"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27

Nice-President Wheeler signed the
Chinese bill on Monday. Speaker Ran
dali had signed it previously.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27

American fruit to the value of 80, ,OOO,- =
600 was exported last year Fifteen
years ago the entire proceeds Of such ex-
portations amounted to but S2g8. 900.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27

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