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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-14
FROM THE SEAT oP WAR y

To THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
Doubtless you are safe at "home
again" ere this, engaged in thinking
over the experiences of your Southern
Oregon campaign, and expressing as
tonishment with your friends at the
discoveries you made while in Jackson
Vile. But you are not more surnrised
than we to discover the fact that not
only is the freedom of speech and of the
press abridged by force Of eggs in some
cases, but in others the barbarous free
dom Of the Dark Ages is openly in
dulged 10. The fact that any wearer of
masculine apparel could be so cowardIv
as to use insulting aud obscene Ian
guage to an unarmed woman on tba
street-language that he wouId not
ddre use to man-ought to be enough
of disgrace for Jacksonville to bear
without the subsequent fact that. bv
virtue Of cash in hand aud supposed nm
limited credit in San Francisco sucI,
persons are enabled to WELD such an in.
nueDce that even the witnesses to the
cowardly outrage are asserting that
rather than testify to the truth. tbev
Will swear they know nothing about i,
-anu that, too, when eUen lgonaen know
that such swearing would be periurv
And the saddest thought 10 this connec-
tion Is that men, heretofore supposed to
nave some regard for honor. will meet
such olackgusrds on '1evel.u tharabv
such indeceucy. The Dra.s
TOO, Is subsidized and silent. Money
ana vuIgarity are evidently at a pre-
mum among the voters.
verify the situation of the "pro-
tec'ed" women of this place is almos,
hoPeiess' when they dare not even at
tenu lecture when they wish to for
iear OF being attacked with eggs and
u'rty sticks. What indignity must we
suher next3 Pray that we NAV have
iaith' equal to yours, that better davi
coming. Yours for change, NJ
Jacksonville, August >, 1879.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-14
AEOTHBR DOMESTIC HISTORY.

We are somewhat surprised to sec a
widespread and influential journal like
the OregoRidn deceived by the mlsrep-
reservations OF a woman, Of whose
standing it knows nothing, into pub
fishing unjust attacks against her
former husband, whose worst sin seems
to have been prodigal expenditure of
more means than he could Justly afford
in providing prior to their separation
for her and her dissolute stepson. Now
that he is honorably divorced aud re-
married, aud the ex-widow Is reduced
by her prodigal son to depending upon
her own resources for a livelihood, not
withstanding the gentleman gave all he
had, including their child, upon sepa-
rating (which was right, though not
legal, il is doubtless natural, though it
Is certainly unjust, for her to pursue
him further. No journalist should pub
lish, "for the good Of society" or for
any other reason, any statement Of the
condoned and settled derelictions Of any
human being for any other purpose
than 10 point out the necessity for a
change in the laws, lawmakers and
usages that make such derelictions pos
sible. There are bad wives as well as
bad husbands in the land, aud it rarely
happens that divorces spring into exist
ence unless both parties are more or less
at fault. The fight Of the NEW NORTH
WEST against those who have wronged
women is not waged against the indi-
viduals who have committed the
wrongs, but against the laws and law
makers that render one-sided advantage
Of the weaker sex possibility.
Captain Smallwood, like the editor Of
the Oregonion and all the rest Of hu-
manity, may sometimes make mis-
takes, but, if we know the man, injus-
tice to woman is not one Of them. There
is no gospel, and there is gradually
coming to be no law, to compel a dis
contented husband or wife to remain in
unwilling eOnjugal bondage. But there
ought to be a law enacted to protect the
equal rights Of both in such cases, with
out distinction Of sex, in the children,
property and civil immunities which
are now accorded, unquestioned, bySs,at-
ute, to every husband who is not, like
Captain Smallwood, superior to the ex-
isting law. Had the Captain used the
full power of the law against an inno-
cent aud slandered wife, as Judge Prim
did, there is little doubt but the editor
Of the Oregonidn, If he had dared to tell
of it, would be honored by eggs and eff
gies from the hands Of indignant "pro-
tectors of women" The Oregonian has
said some grand things lately In favor
Of equal rights. Let the good work go
on. The time is not far distant when
that journal will take a more decided
stand than heretofore in this sacred
cause. And, after all, it is not strange,
with its editors predictions for jus
tice, that he published the divorced
woman's story. 1t certainly bore the
semblanee of truth, and its publication
enabled the gentleman who was at
tackled to explain the other side.
y. B.-Our columns are open to p. p.
Prim, without charge.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-14
NEED OF THE WHIPPING POST.

1t is pity that no penalty commen-
surate with the crime can be imposed
on the two inhuman scoundrels who on
last Saturday cut off part Of a horses
tongue with piece Of rope because the
poor brute was unable to pull the load
required. The act was committed
near East Portland. The cruelty ex-
hibited places them below the poor
equine in british propensities. Think
Of allowing a man TO control a horse,
when his temper can so get beyond his
control as TO allow him. for the purpose
of gratifying his hellish spleen, to fasten
a rope to an animals tongue aud pull
on that member until it is cut in twain.
We sincerely regret that we cannot give
the name OF the one that was guilty
but il is evident that one is about as bad
as the other, or the fiendish atrocity
would have been prevented. The ex-
treme penalty OF the law is $50 fine, or
thirty days in Jail. II they had stolen
the harness from his back, the offended
law would have given them a term in
the penitentiary but for as british and
inhuman a deed as was ever committed.
the punishment is almost nothing.
They are bound over before the Grand
Jury in $50 bonds.
Think Of men Of this stripe having
wives and children under their control.
At any moment the displeased lords
would be liable to wreak vengeance on
their defenseless life partners aud un-
protected offspring. Imagine them
correcting gtheircbildren with bludgeon
and ordering their wives around with a
poker.
The proper punishment for such mis-
creants, and the only punishment that
their british natures can comprehend,
is whipping. Their dulled sensibilities
will not be shocked by the disgrace at
tached to so horrible deed. Fifty or a
hundred lashes with a cat t-o'-nine-tails,
laid on their bare backs by stalwart
hands, would awake them to a realiza-
tion of the enormity of the crime COM
mitted. Then, Imprisonment for awhile
to ponder over the crime and its conse-
quences would afford a splendid oppor-
tunity for forming good resolutions, and
fear Of a repetition of their terrible
physical punishment would deter them
from exercising their cruel proclivities.
Physical punishment is the only rem
edy that will offset their cases, as it is
all that will put a stop to beating.
Whipping would cause a marked de-
crease in the business Of the police de-
pariment, aud the county would not
have so many professional loafers to
board. It is well known that il is only
in rare instances. where the whipping
post is in use that the same culprit has
to receive a second fiogging. Give us
the whipping post.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-14

In Massachusetts, at a recent Convention OF
the Lodges Of the Rebekah Degree, IL was de-
cided not TO admit unmarried sisters and
daughters Of Odd Fellows. As the Rebekah
Degree and its management is largely optional
with State Jurisdictions. Massachusetts takes
the position that it will not be- OF advantage to
admit any unmarried ladies.
1t certainly would seem that the wo-
men Of Massachusetts should have suffi-
cientsense to stand by themselves. There
has been considerable indignation be-
cause women are not admitted to full
membership in the Orders Of Masons
and Odd Fellows; and now, when they
are managing a society for them
selves, they Introduce the prescription
against which there has been so much
Indignation. Massachusetts,, which can
produce the greatest leaders in reforms.
can also produce the silliest opponents.
Women must be just to themselves If
they desire men to be just to them.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-14

1t is said that all the lady teachers Of
Massachusetts will register and take
advantage of their right TO vote on
school matters, which leads the New
York Tribune to justly remark This
new right may be the means Of strength
ening the position of a most deserving
class Of women, who are not, as a rule,
any too well protected" The San
Francisco Cal, which was never known
to venture an opinion on anything, tao
lilly approves the above few lines by
placing them in its editorial columns
with an introduction that comes near
endorsement The Call sees that the
great question of to-day is Woman Suf-
frage, and its first opinion will probably
be advanced in favor Of the idea, though
it will wait until success is at hand.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-14

4 Piute squaw will not permit her
"buck" to work, and will discard him
instanter II be insists on working. She
bad rather do the work herself, and let
her lord live in idleness, apparently re-
garding him as made Of nobler clay than
herself. The squaws do not consider
man who will work as any man at all,
but as a nondescript. A great many
young men nowadays would consider
our system Of society more perfect If the
Piute standard of guaging man could
be impressed on the whites.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-14

A Ladies' Physiological Societyp
has recently been formed in Washington
City, at the Office Of DR.. Lucy w. AbelI,
at MeCauley's Hall, No. 200 PennsyIva-
MIA Avenue. Among the ladies present
were Mrs. General Carmen, Mrs. Gard
ner, Mrs. Barnard, Mrs. Cranch, Mrs.
Hunt, Mrs. Spencer, and six of the grad
uates of the Business College. Besides
the physiological society, class for the
study of medicine, under the direction
Of DR.. Lucy Abel, was organized at once
probably" says the evening Star, "as
the nucleus ofthe women's Inuch-needed
medical college at Washington.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-14

a ten-dollar bill, with the following
words written across the face, was passed
over an Ithaca counter the other day:
This is the last Of fortune OF $4,000 LEFT me
by my uncle. Beware OF woman and wine.
JASPER GOULD.
The New York SUMS comments on
the note are to the point. 1t says:
"Rather let man beware of indulging
his passions until they become ungov-
ernable. Neither woman nor wine is
responsible for Jasper Gould's poverty;
Jasper himself is alone to blame"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-14

The most beautiful and touching rem
iniscence of the late Prince Imperial
that we have seen is the following En-
glish translation Of written prayer,
said to have been found among his
papers. Grant, o, God, that my heart
may be penetrated with the conviction
that those whom 1 love, and who are
dead, shall see all my actions; that my
life shall be worthy Of their witness, and
my innermost thought shall never make
them blush"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-14

''Ihe Careful! Man, c. B. r., p. o.
box 81, Jacksonville" is informed that
his communication Of advice to ''fe-
mails" will appear Uerbatim in these
columns, where everybody is allowed
fair play, if he will furnish this Office
with his real name, and a satisfactory
guaranty that the same is not forgery.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-14

The official proceedings Of the
fifteenth annual session Of the Grand
Lodge, l. o. G. T., held at Salem, June
18th, 18th and 18th, have been received
The valedictory address of w. R. Dun
bar, P. G. w. C. T., is given in full. 10.
gether with an exhaustive report from
the P. G.. s., exhibiting the heaItbv
financial condition Of the Order.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-14

The PhNsiologist and Family Physi-
clan is the suggestive title of one Of the
very best journals on our exchange list.
It is published monthly in New York
at 81 50 per year; Sara B. Chase, A. NJ ,
NJ. D., editor. Send l5cts. for a speci-
men number.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-14

The interim of the Standard whimpers
an impudent attempt at reply to the
well-merited castigstion he received in
these columns last week, and winds up
with vociferously bowling, "If 1 can't
whip you, can throw mud at your sis
for
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-14

There is so seldom anything worth
reading in the Salem Statesman that
we hardly ever think it worth while 10
quote it; but, since 1t begins to copy its
editorials from the Bee, it is deserving
some attention. Having failed thus far
10 frighten the New NORTHWEST from
its course Of duty, it now turns to Mrs
Coburn and begs her to whip us-if she
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-14

The Congressional Labor Committee
have announced that they will probably
not visit Oregon during their stay on
this coast. The people Of Oregon will
eheerfully forgive this slight, and only
wish that the word probably was posi-
lively.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-14

We find the address Of Hon. NJ. p.
Deadly before the graduating class Of
the State University at Eugene, which
has been placed on our table, superior
to ordinary productions Of its class, con-
tanning evidence OF careful preparation
and earnest thought. II will well repay
DerDsaI
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-14

Mr.. Charles Applegate, another pio-
neer, died at Yoncalla on the 9th inst,
aged seventy-four years.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-01
A Letter for Murphy.

A little freckle-faced ten-year old
schoolboy stopped at the postoffice in
Columbia, the other day, and yelled out:
Anything for any Murphy S''
"No, there is not.'
Anything for Jane Murphy"
"Nothing.''
Anything for Ann Murphy"
"No."
Anything for Tom Murphy 20
mo, sir, not bit''
Anything for Terry Murphy 20
"No; nor for Pat Murphy, nor Dennis
Murphy, nor Pete Murphy, nor Paul
Murphy, nor Bridget Murphy, nor for
any Murphy, dead, living, unborn, ma
tive or foreign, civilized or uncivilized,
savage or barbarous, male or female,
black or white, franchised or disfran-
chised, naturalized or otherwise. No,
sir, there is positively nothing for any
of the Murphys, either individually,
jointly or severally, now and forever,
one and inseparable.'
The boy looked at the postmaster in
establishment and said
please to look If there is anything
for my teacher, Clarence Murphy ?'
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-01
The Recipe for Prosperity.

Let every youth be taught some use
full art and trained to industry and thrift.
Let every young man lay aside and keep
sacredly intact a certain portion of his
earnings. Let every one set out in life
with fixed determination to engage in
business for himself, and let him put his
determination in practice as early in life
as possible. Begin in small way, and
extend your business as experience will
teach you is advantageous. Keep your
own books and know constantly what
you are earning and just where you
stand. Do not marry until in receipt of
a tolerably certain income-sufficient to
live on comfortably. Let every man
who is able buy farm on which to
bring up his sons. 1t is from the farm
the best men are turned out, morally
and intellectually. Bear in mind that
your business cannot be permanently
prosperous unless you share share its
advantages equally with your custo-
mers.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-01
n ALL r o Ap s .
PHILADELPHIA AND READING R. R
OF rAssENeERrRAINs.
Nov. 10Th, Isys.


TRAINS sLEAvEHARRIsBUR AS FOLLOWS
For New York at $40, $40 a. m. 2.oOp. m.
. r. Eor Phlladelpha, at $40, s.iO s46 am.
For Reading, at 500, $40, s.45a m. and 200
For Pottsyille at $40. $40 a. M. and 400
?, m, and via Schuylklll and susquehanna
For Auburn nv Via s. IT, S. Br. at 5.sOa.m.
For Allentown, at 6.20, 8.lOa. M, and at 200,
400 and 1855 D. m.
The $40, s.iO a. M, and s7.55 p. m, trains
have through cars for New York.
The. 500. a. M, trains have through carsfor
Philadelphia.
SUNDAYS:
For New York, at $40 a. m.
FOR Allentown and Way Stations at $40 q. m,
For Reading, Philadelphia and Way 5tationsat
Las p. m.
TRAINS FOR HARRISBURG, LEAVE AS FOL
LOWS
Leave New York, atS.45 a. M, 100, 5.9Oand
Leave Philadelphia, at s.45 a. m. 400, and
I.20p. m.
Leave Reading, at t44O, 7.4O, 1850 a. m. 1.SO,
Leave Pottsvllle, at e.1O, 9.15 am. and 4.4O
p. IN.
Andvia schuylkill and susquehanna Branchat
8. 15 a. m.
Leave Auburn Was. & s. Br at 12 noon.
Leave Allentown, att2.3O $50, g.O5 a. M, l2.l6
i.3O and 9.05 p. m.
SUNDAYS:
Leave New York at $50 p. m.
Leave Philadelphia, at T20 p. m.
Leave Reading, at 4.40, L40, a. m. and lO.S5
Leave Allentown, at2 80 a. M, and 9.O5p. m.
j. e. WOOTEN, Gen. Manager.
G. g. HANCOCK, General Ticket Agent.
tDoes not run on Mondays.
AVia Morris and Essex II. II.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-01
A New Method of Planting Telegraph Poles.

A new method of planting telegra phi
poles has been introduced in Penns yl-
vania. The ground is staked off at dis
tances of 200 feet apart man starts off
with cartridges of electric powder, and
with crowbar in his hand. The bar
is driven four or five feet into theground
a cartridge with lighted fuse is dropped
into the hole, and the man proceeds to
the next stake, but before he reaches it
the cartridge has exploded, making a
cavity as big as flour barrel in the
ground, and gang of men who
follow, plant telegraph pole in the
spot. In this way four men will set up
100 to $50 poles per day, and at cost
two-thirds less than by the old way.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-01
Grateful Women.

None receive so much benefit, and
none are so profoundly grateful and
show such an interest in recommend
ing Hop Bitters as women. 1t is the
remedy peculiarly adapted to the many
ills the sex is almost universally subject
to. Chills and fever, indigestion or de-
ranged liver, con stant or periodical sick
headaches, weakness in the back or
kidneys, pain in the shoulders and
different parts of the body, feeling of
Iassitude and dependency, are all readi-
ly removed by these Bitters. IA.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-01
A EacetIous ludue.

A MIRTH-LOvING judge, Justice
IA Powell, could be as thoroughly
humorous in private life as he was fear
less and just upon the bench. Swift
describes him as surprisingly merry
old gentleman, laughing heartily at all
comic things, and at his own droll stories
more than aught else. In court he
could not always refrain from jocularity.
For instance, when he tried Jane Wen
ham for witchcraft, and she assured
him that she could fly, his eye twinkled
as he answered: "Well, then, you
may; there is no law against flying. {"
When Fowler, Bishop of Gloucester-a
thorough believer in what's nova days
called Spiritualism-was prosecuting his
acquaintance with silly stories about
ghosts, Powell gave him telling reproof
for his credulity by describing a horrible
apparition which was represented as
having disturbed the narrator's rest on
q previous night. AT the hour of mid
night, as the clocks were striking
twelve, the judge was reused from his
first slumber by hideous sound. Start
ing up, he saw at the foot of his uncom-
panioned bed figure-dark, gloomy,
terrible, holding before its grim and
repulsive visage lamp that shed an
uncertain light. "May heaven have
mercy on US ~ tremulously calculated
the bishop at this part of the story. The
judge continued his story "Be calm,
my Lord Bishop; be calm. The awful
part of this mysterious interview has
still TO be told. Nerving myself to
fashion the words of inquiry, address
ed the nocturnal visitor thus-'Strange
being, why hast thou come at this still
hour to perturb sinful mortal p You
understand, my Lord, l said this in
hollow tones-in what 1 may almost
term a sepulchral voice" GAY, ay,"
said the Bishop, "I implore you to go
on. What did it answer g'' cit an
swered, in voice not greatly different
from the voice of a human creature,
please, sir, l am the watchman on
beat, and your street door is open"
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-01
Anecdote of TeCumseh and Gov. tiarr ison.

At the interview on the 9th of July
1911 held at Vincennes. After Tecumseh
had made long and animated speech,
he found himself unprovided with a
seat. Observing the neglect Gov. Har-
rison directed chair to be place d, and
the aid, said to Tecumseh, your Fat her
requests you to.be seated. My Fathel'
replied Tecumseh. "The Sun is my
Father, and the earth is my mother,
and on her lap will repose, and set
down on the earth"
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-01

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