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.1 FRIDAY AUGUST 3, 1877. NOTICE. Agents will please take notice that It Is a gneat tax upon us to pay express charges upon mall gums. and they will confer a great favor Uv remitting to ns through money orders or registered letters. UP THE "HILLJttFFIOULTY." Nothing is more certain than that, if women are to make success in any walk of life, they must contend with and overcome not only difficulties, but disagreeables; that it Is easier, pleasanter, and more natural to womankind to live In retirement, nursing the unobtrusive virtues, than to go forth and do battle with the world for a maintenance.

Un fortunately, however, many of the most naturally retiring women are forced by circumstances which are inexorable to emerge from the retirement of home, however grateful this may be to their feelings, and work out their own destiny earn their own subsistence. It is a cruelty indeed that these women, in addition to the obstacle raised by their own timidity and inexperience, must fight step by step their journey up the slopes beyond which repose the fair fields of science, where professions are attainable, and where knowledge brings Us meed of power. Surely, if work is hard, to and work at the same time must be doubly so, and every woman in the land who honors a pro fession to-day fought her way into it in the face of obstacles that had their ori gin in custom, and were only sustained by prejudice and selfishness. Kosa Bonbeur, we are told, donned man's apparel and went into the abattoirs from which she was excluded as a woman, and there won the knowledge through which she has achieved world-wide renown. Women physi cians have met and conquered many se vere prejudices, in addition to the regu lar course of study with men studeuts, and in many instances are proving by their works what has long been demon strated by theory, that woman can ex eel in the profession and practice of medicine.

Those who start out, determined to conquer and achieve for themselves name and competence expect to encounter difficulties and hold conflict with much that is unpleasant, but many of the barriers that have opposed woman's advancement hitherto have been broken down by the brave pioneers in the struggle for equal rights, and, in due time, others will be overcome, un til it will be as easy for a woman as for a man to attain not only the knowledge that honors a profession, but the prac tice which renders that knowledge profitable to its owner aud a benefit to the race. When those who are even now struggling for a foothold and enduring censure because of their departure from the old regime shall attain a degree of success in their profession, nothing will be said about their unwomanly conduct but a meed of praise will instead be awarded them for their courage and perseverance. A consciousness of this cheers many a weary toiler who labors to ascend the "hill difficulty," heroic ally placing beneath her feet the slurs of ridicule and the grim gibes of preju dice. SENATOE MOETOU'S SPEECH. Senator Morton made a speech at Sa lem to a large audience on Friday even ing, predicting for Oregon a great fu ture, and complimenting her water courses, wheat fields, beauty, and fertil ity.

The speech was mainly political touching upon questions of State and national Interest to every loyal son and daughter of the Republic. Of Southern consolidation, and how it was accom plished; of Northern unity, and the vi tal necessity of securing it: of the at tempted Oregon electoral fraud; of th electoral commission and what it de cided; of the doctrines of rebellion and State sovereignty still taught in the South these ana otber tbemes were touched upon in language which disclosed statesmanship and breadth of un derstandlng seldom equaled. The distinguished Senator and his family are resting for a few days at Clatsop beach, and will soon bid adieu to our State, leaving with us pleasan remembrances of their visit and regrets that duties elsewhere compelled its early termination. THE INDIAN WAE. The bostiles, with Chief Joseph at their head, have transferred their field of operations from Idaho to Montan and the military and officials of that Territory are preparing to "welcome them to hospitable graves." Joseph band is about 400 strong and well armed and appears determined to force a pas sage to the buffalo country.

The gov ernor issued a proclamation on the 26th calling out all organized companies i Deer Lodge and Missoula counties. General Howard will perfect his ar rangements and pursue the Indians by way of the Lolo trail, going through Missoula ns rapidly as his command can move. Auother force under General Wheaton will march from Fort Lapwai north through the Spokane country and cross over into Montana through the Sabon pass, when they will pusii dow to Missoula and join General Howard, The forces under command of these two number about 1,000 men. The Montana troops having allowed Joseph and his band to escape beyond the Bitter Boot Mountains, the efforts of Howard to overtake them will with out doubt prove futile. Whether Jo sepli has been superior in generalship, or only excelled in activity, the fact of his complete escape remains the same.

Montana officers and regulars did not care to interpose their breasts as an impediment to his advance. THE EAILWAY STEIKE. The great labor strike seems to have about spent itself, following, as we said last week, the track these movements always do follow precedent. Strikers are eventually driven to tba wall, capital asserts its supremacy, and the con dition of the laboring classes Is even worse than before the frenzied effort to better their bard lot. The Vanderbilts of the nation, with dictatorial voice, issue orders and make terms which hun ger and sore distress compel laborers to accept.

The old monotony of toil, re lieved only by the pittance paid for It, succeeds the violence and excitement that attend strikes and riots, and the world, with its extremes of riches aud poverty, of industry and idleness, of plenty aud want, moves on as before. It has greatly damaged the cause of the laborers, and abated much of the sympathy felt for them at the outset, that the late strikes took on to such an extent the form of riots, and were at tended by incendiarism, plunder, and tter disregard ot law aud order. It is stated, and we believe, that the dissatis fied working men were not abettors of these disgraceful acts, but their move ment being the prime cause or furnish Ing the coveted opportunity for the idle and the vicious to rise in their lawless might and work such ruin, much of the blame will be attached to them, and the odium that attaches to lawlessness will be fastened upon them. It Is impossible to think without pity of the distress and humiliation with which hundreds of men resume their old work at the old wages after so fierce a resistance to what they considered the tyrannical demands of employers, who are attended on every hand by luxury, while chill penury waits as closely as before upon their serving men. Think ing of these things, we feel in our heart of hearts that it is wrong, wrong, while we are equally sure that strikes and their lawless attendants do not lead the way toward the right.

PACTS THAT TELL. When the idea was first advanced that women not only should but could carry on business heretofore performed only by men, women who had been ac customed all their lives to have their thinking done for them and their sphere lines drawn by custom were shocked, and men who had through all the past ages held a monopoly of remunerative labor were astonished and incredulous Fact and experiment, however, followed swift upon assertion, aud practice tri umphantly proclaims to-day what but yesterday they timidly suggested, that women can successfully carry on vari ous kinds of business. In a single article in theBIoomington (III.) Pantograph, we find reference made to the success in business of sev eral ladies in that State. We find men tion made of Mrs. W.

N. Moore, of Joliet, manager of the financial depart meut of the Joliet Solar Stove Works Mrs. Louisa McCall, director of a bank in that city, and second woman bank director ever chosen in the United States, Mrs. J. M.

Bradley, of Peoria being the first; Mrs. Sarah Mcintosh, Joliet, superintendent of schools for Will county, and the Misses Perry and Martin, lawyers, Chicago. To these are added the names for Bloomington of Miss Mattie Marble, who during the war accumulated a large fortune by lie care ful and successful management of th furniture business left by her deceased father; Miss Georgiana Trotter, of the lumber-dealing firm of J. J. W.

Trotter, who is not only one of the shrewd est of financiers, but a leading member of the city board of education Miss Raj mond, superintendent of publi schools at Bloomlugton a very success ful educator; Miss Welch, superintend ent of public instruction of DeWitt county, and Miss Whitside, of Peoria county, both leading instructors, recog nized as successful in their work. "Let facts be submitted to a candid world. WAS IT ADEFEAT The victory gained over the Woman Suffragists in Parliament this year was not one to boast of, as we have before shown. It was achieved by confusion and being so achieved, has gained for the measure strength, instead of entail ing weakness upon it. We publish elsewhere an extract from an Eugiish journal, together with some comments thereon, furnished us by a resident Idaho, "an English Republican of th most advanced type, who has had some experience in the movement in Eng land." To this we invite careful pe rusal, being assured that after such perusal our readers will agree with us that the defeat of the "woman's disabilities removal out" in rarnament tins year was more of a disgrace to the victors than a discouragement to the van quished.

A victory accompanied by brow-beating our advocates and drown ing their arguments in the roar of dis graceful tumult, our friends over th water are welcome to; let them mak the most of it. The Secretary of War has received th following dispatch from Governor Pen nington, of Dakota, dated Deadwood July 2o: "rue Agency Indians are murdering citizens and destroying prop erty in ail parts of the country. Twenty ranchmen are already dead. Seth Bui lock, sheriff of the Territory, has no arms or ammunition. Can disposition of troops be made that will give tb Black Hills some protection?" Nikopolis, recently bombarded and burned by the Russians, was one of the oldest towns in European Turkey.

was founded by the Emperor Trajan i the second century, and "had a popula tion of about 10,000. The Salem Statesman rejoices in a new bead. It has shown marked improvement in every department under the present management. SEOTAEIAN BIG0TEY. We have from time to time noticed in Eastern papers, and occasionally mentioned the controversy between certain members of the "Woman's Christian Temperance Union," of Massachusetts, and Mr.

Moody, originating in the demand of the latter to change Its name by substituting "Evangelical" for Christian," as the price of his co-oper ation. The object of Mr. Moody was declared to be to exclude Unitarians and Uuiversalists from the society. This declaration was said to have been made by him through Miss Frances Willard, who further asserted that Mr. Moody had made arrangements to start another organization unless the man date was obeyed.

The secretary stated that this debate concerning the change name aud the president, Mrs. Liver- more, whom Mr. Moody was reported to have declared "not a Christian," went on for weeks; and that be had re plied, when they had endeavored to convince him that their president was a Christian woman, "If so, why don't she join the church This personality Mr. Moody, in a let ter published in the Springfield Jtepub- lican, denies, but says: I explained that I could not connect myself with any fcociety where there might arise oppo sition to what I deem the fundamental doc trines of the gospel regeneration, justification by faith, and atonement. What he has gained by this denial we are unable to see.

When he declines to work in the great temperance reform with a body that may possibly contain members who do not interpret the New Testament exactly as he does, he cer tainly displays a narrowness of mind that writes him down a sectarian bigot; and when, as the price paid for his co operation, he demands tiie exclusion aud expulsion of earnest Christian tern perance workers who differ from him in doctrinal points, but would fain unite with him in rescuing from inebriety the victims of appetite, he assumes the of fice of dictator, which illy comports with the character of a true reformer. This "stand aside, I am holier than thou" spirit has spanned the centuries that roll between our day and the time of Jesus of Nazareth, and is never so ar rogant or so presuming as when closely hugging a book of creeds that contain not the essence of Christianity. It is the very same spirit which prompted the cry, "Crucify Him 1 Crucify Him! "That through the ages that have gone before us, In long reverberations reach our own." Born of bigotry and nurtured by in tolerance, this spirit gives no quarter or help in auy good work to those whose "human hands are weak to hold to iron creeds," being always disposed to ask any good come out of Nazareth The Woman's Journal, commenting upon the controversy above mentioned says: This type of sectarian bigotry is not new nor peculiar to Mr. Moody alone. Bat how much more manly and truthful it would be.il Mr.

Moody would frankly say what his words nec essarily Imply, "No one who does not believe as I do can be a Christian, and I will not work for temperance with any one who does not ac cept the so-called evangelical scheme of the ology." We congratulate Mrs. Llvermore and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union upon having defeated and exposed this sectarian conspiracy to narrow its platform and impal its usefulness. Let them appeal from Mr. Moody to One who has said: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God" and "tby neighbor as thy self; ontbese two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." TAXED FOE THE EDUCATION OF GIELS. If any further argument were needed to convince friends of education and lovers of justice of the need of women on school boards, it comes in the guise of an argument from a school commit tee man in a city of the "Old Bay State," against the public being taxed for the education of girls.

This is th way he puts it: "What justification is there in takiug the property of one per son to educate the children of another Clearly there can be none except th safety of the public, which is the su preme law. To educate the voter, who controls public affairs, so that he can read and understand tolerably well what he votes for, this is a matter of public safety. This will of course ex clude the education of girls at the publi expense, until they are made voters." Should not this narrow-minded advo vocate of the aristocracy of sex be made to give his place as member of tb school board to a woman who can see that ignorant women are fully as dan gerous to public safety as are ignorant men? That a man could have the au dacity to promulgate such doctrines name them "arguments," and set them afloat in the world is both a marvel and a humiliation. His mother, unless, like "Topsy," he simply must regret mo uour tnat one "man child was born," when she reads this infamous proposition. Three premiums have been offered by Mrs.

Elizabeth Thompson, ofNew York for the best articles on the "Labor Question" which shall be sent to tb office of the Library Table in New York City before October. This lady est! mates that there are now about 3,000,000 of unemployed persous in the United States, and desires to ameliorate tbei condition by inviting a thorough dis cussion of the subject. The articles must be about two thousand words i length. The premiums offered are $100, $75, aud $50 in gold coin, and the funds have been deposited in the East River National Bank. Our Colorado letter failed to come to time this week.

We hope hereafter to keep our readers posted concerning tb progress of events In that State by a lo cal correspondent. The suffragists of Yamhill county are agitating the question of a "Sixteenth Amendment" meeting to take place after the labor and bustle of harvest is over. LITTLETHINGS. The art of keeping one's private af fairs to one's self has been assigned by a recent writer as an essential quality of good breeding. This we think is quite correct estimate.

Those strangers who, thrown into our society for half au hour, employ the time in detailing fam- ly cares and trials, husband's peculiari ties and wife's frivolities, call each other by their Christian names and detail the general course of events with them, cer tainly fail to win either admiration or sympathy from their listeners, and fas ten upon themselves the stigma of ill breeding by the most casual observer. How so many persons can subject them selves to the ridicule of acquaintances aud the contempt of strangers by mati ng personal matters public property, we are at a loss to divine. The least sense or dignity possible muse iuaKe persons consider their own affairs sacred enough for silence, altogether too sacred, at any rate, for their slightest clue to be Klven to the stranger's ear. Then the assumption that our own business af fairs or family trials or joys are as interesting to others as to ourselves, is to tally unwarranted, and could spring only from selfishness or from egotism. In the "little things" that go so far toward making up the sum total of every life, common sense and kindness are the surest guides.

As has been observed by a lady of literary note, "Com mon sense tells us whether it is well bred to glance in at au open door us we pass by; to read the superscription on a letter passing through our bauds; to pass a spoon so that the bowl or handle shall be next the extended hand." If conimou sense is in these and kin dred matters a sure guide, kindness is an equally unerring one in dictating the gentle closing of the door when passing out, the low tone used in the sick-room, the restraint imposed upon officious or wordy consolation to the bereaved, and hundreds of like acts of courtesy aud thoughtfulness. Trifles make the sum of humau things, aud the happiness or unhappiness of many, many lives turn upon them lound witli a dress that was ar ranged with the desire to please will cloud an evening of expected enjoy ment and cause it to be succeeded by a day of lassitude, if not of discontent. Every woman knows this, and every man should learn it. Nor are these things so small as we are apt to suppose. We remember to have heard a friend express au opinion which in the main did great injustice to a genial, kind- hearted mau who was guilty of the gross impoliteness to call it by no harsher name of reading in her presence the message on a postal card given into his hands to deposit in the post office.

"He may be good enough," said she, as lie disappeared still trying to "make out" some obscure word on the card, "but he lacks delicacy, politeness, and common sense." We were forced mentally to coucur, while we felt constrained to offer a defense. Since a proper observance of the small courtesies of life contribute so largely to its happiness, and their neglect detract so much from it, who, whose present business is to make the most of life, will undertake to pass them by scornfully as "little things?" EEOENTEVENTS. Work was resumed by most of strikers early in the week at the wages. the old General Grant laid the first stone of the American Churcli at Geneva on the 27th ult. Live stock detained by the strikers at Colliugwood suffered greatly, much dy ing from exposure to the hot sun.

The Marquis of Salisbury, Secretary of Stale for India, gives a very gloomy view of the famine prospects in India. The hoodlum element in San Fran cisco has received a wholesome check, and, as a consequence, peace aud quiet prevails. One hundred workmen were dis charged from the West Albany shops on the 31st for participation in the late disturbances. Thousands of men and women who were forcibly turned out of employment in Chicago, resumed work as soon as the riot was suppressed and peace re stored. The mayor of New Orleans has for bidden all assemblages of people in largo bodies for tiie present.

A meeting of shoe-makers, claiming to be like in its character, was broken up on the 29th. The Doniesticsewing machinefactory at Paterson, New Jersey, has been closed, the company being unable to ship manufactures on account of de rauKemeut in railroad traffic. A large number of hands are thrown out of em pioyment. The committee examining the affairs of the office of United States Treasurer upon the transfer of the office from Wy man to GHIfillan, have completed their investigation. During Wyman's term there was received into the treasury and paid out over $740,000,000 without an error, excepting one of less than five dollars.

The receiver of the Central railroad of New Jersey issued an order suspending all engineers and brakemeu not now actually in the employ of the company, aud directing that when they resume work they be paid only for actual work done. Heretofore engineers and brake- men have been paid a full month's pay, whether they worked every day or not, President Vanderbilt, of the New York Central Hudson River railroad baa issued a circular stating that of 12,000 employes of the company, less than 5,000 struck and no injury was done property. In recognition of their feality, he directs that $100,000 be di vided ratably, according to their post lions on the pay roll, among all em ployes engaged in operating the road EDIT0EIAL 00EEESP0NDEN0E. Dear Readers of the New Northwest; Again your editorial correspondent fiuds herself upon the wing, her destination, this time, Astoria beside the sounding sea. It is not necessary here to go Into particulars concerning the Columbia River route to the new metropolis of the Northwest.

Everybody knows that the winding Willamette worms its course from Portland to its confluence with the River of the West, a point, or poiuts, a dozen miles or so below the headquarters of the Board of Trade and the Senatorial commission, where it the river, not the board or commission becomes absorbed by the greater current, just as you sometimes see the greater consort absorb aud overslaugh the lesser husband or wife. The "Willamette Chiel," a duckling of a steamer, too light for the Columbia River trade, but an excellent substitute for the larger boat that happened to be hauled off for repairs, coquets with tne ouuetlug waves, like a saucy mai den with a surly lover. We are too busy to look about us, for the New Nobtiiwest, like the horse leech, is ever crying, "give, give," and ts insatiate maw must be supplied, or the mill must stop. By and by break fast comes, and, after a few hours, din ner. Afternoon, aud we begin to reach the canneries, and at intervals, till 5 P.

our little craft locks up against the slimy piles, like a tipsy Irishman against a row of hitching posts. Here we halt a minute pr two, while greasy Chinamen rub their slimy clothes against the slippery salmon that lay in heaps upon the docks, and truck men, mail men, and boat hands throw pack ages in all directions at a lively rate. The whistle blows, and soon wo are off again, while a solitary passenger, from whom we have just parted com pany, climbs an adjacent bluff aud looks after our boat regretfully. We haven't visited the canneries yet, and must defer any attempt at descrip tion till next week, but we have already spent eight days in Astoria among friends and strangers at the Parker House, where we've lain ill of a bilious attack the most of the time, and be moaned our bad luck on general princi pies. But we're better now.

The salt spray of the Ages comes In unceasingly from the grumbling breakers in the offing, aud fills the air with an invigor ating salubrity that corrects complain ing bile and compels it to discharge its erswliile neglected duty. Astoria, though yet quite small of its age, is a nourisuing miant, waxing ex ceedingly strong in its swaddliugclothes, and growing fat on fish. The Parker House, kept by our friends Card well Perkins, oflers every facility for the convenience of guests at reasonable rates. The main portions of the building are new and commodious. The landlords know how to keep a hotel, aud one of the neatest, spryest, aud jol-liest house-keepers imaginable keeps everything in excellent repair in every room.

Messrs. Wright Megler also keep an excellent hotel, the Occident, and Mrs. Arrigoni sustains a first-class boarding-house. We have met friends and acquaintances here from all parts of the country, all of whom have faith in Astoria and have determined to cast their lot within her borders. The Jack dramatic troupe are playing nightly to fair houses, Mr.

Jack and wife being great favorites with the Astoria public. Our friend Ireland of the Astorian is getting on swimmingly, as, indeed, is everybody else in the town who "rustles." Last night we had the pleasure of meeting a good audience in the theater, where we discoursed as best we could upon "Constitutional Liberty." There is much desire expressed by the citizens to hear more lectures, but there is no hall at our disposal. The churches are too holy to do good in, and the theater is in use every night save Sunday. Everywhere among the better classes the progress of woman's mission is no ticeable. Mrs.

Dr. Patterson and Mrs. Dr. Burr have each au extensive practice. Mrs, Stears keeps a music store and circulating library, and the usual quota of la dies are engaged in millinery and dressmaking establishments, in restaurants, fruit stores, and the like.

G. W. Cornart has opened a general news depot, where readers may get the latest news, from the New Northwest to the New York Tribune. One of the jurors in a case of assault recently written up for publication in this place by au occasional correspondent, informs us that the article in question did said jury great injustice. We are sorry if any feel aggrieved, but can onlyofler our columns for the defense, if any is desired.

But we're tired, and can't scribble further. Good reader, pray excuse us. We'll do better by and by. A. J.

D. Astorio, July 30, 1S77. F0EEIGN NEWS. When the Russians reach Adrianople, the Sultan aud government will go to Brouasa, on the Asiatic side of the Bos-phorus. Gladstone's magazine article criticizes the reinforcement of the Mediterranean garrisons as a perfect example of the art of disquieting and aunoyiug one side, without conferring the smallest advantage on the other.

There has been a horrible massacre of Bulgarians by Bashi Bazouks atYeni Saghra. Not a single soul would have escaped but for the arrival of Turkisli regulars. The Bashi Bazouks, Circassians, and irregulars treat all villages they pass the same way, burning, ravishing, and pillaglug. Lehigh Valley railroad officials have discharged all connected with the strike. THE WAY ITWAS DONE.

To tiie Editor of the New Northwest: I Eugiish papers of date of June 10 re port the following scene in the House of Commons on the occasion of a debate on the "Woman's Disabilities Removal Bill," the second reading of which was moved by Mr. Jacob Bright, brother of the great orator aud statesman The remainder of the sitting was occupied with a debate on the "Woman's Disabilities Removal Bill," the second reading of which was moved by 51 r. Jacob Bright, Mr. Hanbury moved the rejection of the bill, and took the opportunity to explain how he, who had twice voted In favor or the measure, now assumed this hostile position. He confessed that he had been influenced by the fact that some oi the most honored members of his own party had advocated the measure, and that the women when enfranchised would support the Church and the Conservative party.

He now recognized the lact that political strongholds were not to be built on shifting sands, and that on the whole "It was time to rise above petty political considerations." Mr. Cartwright seconded the amendment. Mr. Forsyth pointed out that every argument used by Mr. Cartwright and Mr.

Hanbury was equally effective eight years ago, when the lat ter had been Secretary of a Woman Suffrage Association. The debate was continued by The O'Dono- ghue. Sir W. Barttelot, Mr. Balfour.

Mr. Beres-ford Hope, and Mr. Butt, who opposed the bill, whilst Mr. Hopwood, Mr. M'Laren, Sir J.

M'Kenna, Mr. Heuley, and Mr. Jacob Bright supported it. At a quarter past 5 Mr. Courtney rose, and a remarkable scene followed.

As soon ns the member presented himself, cries for a division went up lrom the Conservative benches. Mr. Courtney persisted In his right to speak, and recognizing tbls determination, the Ministeri alists continued to shout for a division, with the result that not a single word of Mr. Court ney's opening remarks was audible. After the scene had proceeded for some minutes, it be came evident that the intended orator and his audience had pitted themselves against each other for a trial of strength.

At twenty minutes past5 a glass of water was brought to Mr. Courtney, which he gracefully accepted anu uranic amiu ringing cneers. Thus re freshed, he proceeded In dumb show, only the Indistinct sound of his voice occasionally reaching the gallery. When he stopped to look at hisnotes, the cries for a division were varied bycalls to "Read, read;" when he mo mentarily stopped till the storm had passed over, he was greeted with shouts ot "Go on, go on;" when he raised his voice to its utmost pitch, and endeavored to get In a word amid the roar, entreaties to "Speak up" were ad dressed to him. At half past 5 another glass of water was brought in, and once more the varied calls united in a resounding cheer.

The struggle proceeded for fully a quarter of an hour longer, and when at a quarter to 6 the Speaker rose and observed that according to the rules of the House the debate stood ad journed, a final cheer went up from the Minis terial benches, and Mr. Courtney, who had been speaking with much animation during the final minutes, resumed bis seat. The Ministerialists mentioned above are the gentlemanly Conservatives, of whom the crafty aud unscrupulous Earl of Beaconsfield is a type, and who, in times gone by, have opposed every measure having for its object the ad vancement aud amelioration of the con dition of the people, and who, under th Duke of Wellington, brought the coun try to the very verge of civil war, and then yielded to force what they had contemptuously refused to reasou un eloquence. The gentlemen who oppose the bill mistake assertion for argument and ideas for facts. It is a reform which will be finally carried for want of any real objection to it, and it seems impos sible here, as there, for men to oppose the bill in the quiet aud sensible way in which its advocates support it.

Tiie gist of the reform proposed is simply the removal of an unjust re striction, and allows all householders, whether meu or women, to vote in Par liamentary elections if they choose, aud with the aid of the whole Republican party, and many of the Liberals, the time is not far distant when women shall avail themselves of the most pre cious privilege and protect their sex un der the protection of the ballot-box. A. F. Parker, Lower Weiser Valley, I. July 15.

0EEG0N STATE FAIE. To the Editor of tiie New Northwest Permit me lo announce through you paper that W. A. Lueiling has consented to deliver the opening an theHon. A.

J. Dufur the annual address at the coming State Fair, beginning October 8th. We are always ready and willing to encourage our young men, and believe that Mr. Lueiling will acquit with credit to himself and profit to his hearers. Mr.

Dufur having witnessed the Centennial exhibit, will thereby be enabled to make comparisons that will be enteresting to all, particularly the sons of Oregon, his adopted State. We believe his motto is heaven first, Oregon next or maybe Oregon first. With their usual magnanimity, the O. S. N.

the O. C. R. R. and theO.

C. R. R. have tendered half-fare rates on their lines to the fair grounds; so let there be a rousing turnout, a grand old-fashioned holiday, a sociable jubilee, old acquaintances renewed, new ones formed a grand annual gala day worth the intelligence and freedom of the people of this coast. Come one, come all.

W. P. Watson, Pres't. The steward of Vassar College formerly employed a man as head cook, but recently a woman has been put in the place. Under the last management tiie food improved so that it was really twice as good as it used to be; but (we blush to relate it) she is paid only half as much as the man was.

Now, if what she gave the students was only one-half as good as what he gave them, the reasonableness of this reduction would be apparent. Yet such an act of gross injustice is perpetrated and permitted in an institution built and endowed expressly for the benefit of women. Where can women look for justice Among all the periodicals that visit us, none are more appreciated for wisdom and common sense than thePAren-ological Journal. The August number is ut hand, full to the brim of the portraiture of life and suggestive as to the means of making it useful. NEWS ITEMS.

state and territorial. Work began on the Olympla and Tenino railroad last week. A number of fast horses are expected from California for the State Fair races. Diphtheria hasanneared in Lafayette. A little son of Dr.

Poppletou died from it last week. Soda Springs, tbirtv miles sooth of Jacksonville, is becoming quite ft fash- onauie resort. An Alden fruit-drying establishment will soon be in working order on the Coquille River. Work on the university Imllrtinn- nt Eugene is being pushed forward rapidly oy tue contractors. In Jackson county last week the lightning struck a tree rind killed ten sheep that were lying underneath it.

The hop crop of Lane county is esti mated at figures ranging between two aud three liuudred thousand pounds tills year. Myriads of grasshoppers have ap peared in Boise Valley, Idaho. Most of the harvest was leathered before they appeared. The assessment of Walla Walla county foots up a gain of over last year. The county has 23,025 acres of wheat.

Six thousand gallons of blackberries will be gathered this year from a two- acre patch near Dayton, owned by Henry Hewett. Professor Condon, of the State Uni versity, has gone to Eastern Oregon on A scientific exploration. He will be absent several weeks. The government snag boat during the month of July removed 349 snags and other obstructions from the channel of the Upper Willamette. Salmon are running so thickly in Fraser River that the companies' ap pliances are insufficient to can them fust enough.

The catch will be enor mous. The Pioneer Society has been pre sented with the first almanac ever printed in Oregon. It was printed in Oregon in 1818, and contains twenty- four pages. Captain Cochran's new boat recently launched at Canemah is christened A. McCuIly," in honor of a prominent citizen of Salem and formerPresidentof the old People's Transportation Company.

The residence, office, drug store, and medical library of Dr. Thessing were destroyed by fire on last Fridayj near Milwaukie. Everything is a total loss, and estimated at between $5,000 and $0,000. Captain Bancroft, who was severely wounded in the engagement with the Indians on the 12th and afterward reported dead, is rapidly recovering. and has returned to his former quarters at Port Townsend.

Cornelius Westerfield, a young man formerly of Yamhill county, but more recently of Wasco, is under arrest at The Dalles for. inflicting a dangerous wound with a knife upon a man with whom be had an altercation. The saw-mill of Mr. Adam Simmons, on the Nortii Yamhill, was destroyed by fire on the 20th ult. The loss reached about $2,000, aud was a severe blow to Mr.

Simmons. His residence was only saved by the greatest exertions. Senators Morton and McMillan, in company witli number of citizens of our State, visited some of the fisheries on the Lower Columbia on Saturday, observed their capacity and work, aud were impressed with the magnitude of the Industry. The Supreme Court of Washington Territory lias made a decree iu favor of Mrs. Phelps, increasing her damages against the steamer "City of Panama" to $15,000.

It will be remembered that on the first trial of this cause in the court below, the plaintiff got a decree of $5,000 in her favor, with which she was dissatisfied. She was injured some months ago by falling through the steamer's hatchway. Beecher's sermon upon the strikers being widely commented upon, he makes the following explanation: "I have forforty years, iu every conceivable form, under good report and evil report, been an advocate for working men and for the single-handed who are struggling to rise in the world. At my time of life men do not change their viewson such subjects. This whole outcry arises from snatching a single phrase from its proper connections, and giving it special iustead of the general application it had in the discourse.

Iaid in substance: 'Every man ought to enlarge his sphere of life and live well and amply so soon as he could afford it. When times of adversity come, men must learn how to come down and live scantily, working men as well as all others, that when in this universal decline men come down to a dollar a day, they ought not to rejoice or despair; that is enougli to give bread and to carry them forward to better One More Unfortunate. Almost every day the papers chronicle the suicide of some poor unfortunate whose mind has been enfeebled by dyspepsia, over whose earthly horizon a heavy gloom has gathered from the untold and untenable agonies of this cruel complaint. Dyspepsia is one of the most depressing diseases afflicting humanity. It Is cosmopolitan In Its nature no country Is exempt lrom its visitations, no family free from Its attacks.

There is a balm in Gllead it comes in the shape or the Peruvian Syrup. For years it has been scattering Its blessings abroad. There is, probably, no disease which experience has so amply proven to be remediable by the Peruvian Syrup as dyspepsia. The most Inveterate forms of tbls disease have been completely cured by this medicine, as ample testimony of many of our first citizens proves. Sold by all druggists.

I'rom X. l'luiiimer, 21, Auburn, X. II. "Although averse to countenancing patent medicines, I cheerfully make an exception of your very excellent lung preparation Dr. Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry.

This preparation I have used in my practice for more than ten years past, and have always found It to be of more effectual service than anything within my knowledge. I recommend It with the greatest confidence to those subject to coughs and pulmonary complaints." Sold by all druggists. 46 A Valuable Discovery. Dr. J.

P. Miller, a practicing physician at 327 Spruce street, Philadelphia, hasdlscoveredthat the extract of cranberries and hemp combined cures headache, either bilious, dyspeptic, nervous, or sick headache, neuralgia and-nervousness. This is a triumph in medical chemistry and sufferers all over the country are ordering by mall. He prepares It in pills, at 50 cents a box. The Doctor Is largely known and highly respected.

Philadelphia Bulletin. Beautiful Helen no doubt bad a fine complexion, but It Is more than doubtful whether it exceeded the purity of the complexions of the ladles who use that inimitable auxiliary of female loveliness, Glenn's Sulphur Soap..