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1 Unci FRIDAY 7, 1877. NOTICE. Agenu wHlp'-oase take notloe that tt Is a great tax upon us to pay express charges upon small sums, and they will confer a great favor by remitting to us through money orders or registered letters. END OPYOE. VI.

Good readers of the Kew Northwest, we make our best bow to you this morning witli a bappy heart. As a journalist we are six years old. Though the paper was started the first week in May, 1871, we suffered one delay of two and a half mouths in '73 through illness in the family. It has always been our custom to give the typos and all other hands a holiday during State Fair week, anil, as fifty-two numbers constitute a year's subscription, the changing seasons have glided over gaps enough to the anniversary up to the second week iu September, in 1S77. In lookiug back through the departed years, we cannot but wonder that strength has been given us to carry the business over some of the roughest places.

We were as ignorant of the details of journalism iu the outset as a child. Not a member of our family had ever had a particle of newspaper experience. The boys, upon whom the mechanical department was to depend, were young and wholly untaught; men could charge us what they pleased for labor and material, and teach the typo9 Just such rules as suited them, against which we lacked the skill and power to object, no matter how arbitrary the rules might be; the expenses were double what they ought to have been for several years, until we saddled the concern with a nightmare of debt, out of which we have been slowly crawling ever since the tide began to turn, while interest has all the while been eating into our earnings, like a death-watch eating into a shattered wall. Public opinion was against the idea of our mission; women who wanted to assist us could not, and those who could would not, so our work oftentimes so far deflected from the main object, while we "meddled" in politics, that men of all parties became anxious to patronize our efforts; and thus the New Northwest grew to be a permanent institution, popular and respected. Aud today it dips its flag, at close of its sixth subscription yearj with the pride of a veterau who has weathered the storm aud shock of battle and ueared the haven of prosperity and peace.

The paper's indebtedness on the subscription year just closed, as elsewhere stated, is $106. Who will put shoulder to the wheel aud help us through this mire? Will not our friends rally andlift thf8 load, so that we may next week launch Volume VIL free from all entanglements of Volume Have we not earned this at your hands, good readers, who have enjoyed the fruits of all these years of our toil, secure iu the havens of seclusion, while we have breasted the high seas of public opposition to usher in the dawn of' a better, freer day for men and women To all who have aided us by pen or deed we say, in gratitude, We thank you. For our enemies we have never an unkindly thought; and to the thousands we have learned to know and love iu the years we have struggled with and for them, iu our zeal for human rights, we cordially say, All hail. TREAT BOTH ALIKE. "Our Washington Letter" contains an item or two about "men's honor" iu divorce cases, concerning which we wish to say a word.

It seems that our correspondent thinks the Sickles homicide an infallible panacea for the wounded "honor" of individual bus bands, who, from his own showing, must desire to re-enter the marriage re lation, else they would nut want to be divorced at all. The supposition that any pure man would live for years in open or covert knowledge of his wife's infidelity, and make no sign of remon strance, until the trouble became so unbearable as to force him at last to parade his own shame, is too absurd for serious consideration. It is very "easy for a man or woman who wants to be divorced from a legal consort to trump up imagiuary grievances to cover up his or her personal delinquencies; but the man or woman who will become for a time a silent witness of infidelity upon either side, and afterward live witli the offending party for a season, deserves no quarter when he or she concludes to "cry out." The general idea that worn an la the only frail mortal, and man the only party to be dishonored by marital infidelity, although he may do as he pleases, is fostered and kept alive by just such newspaper commeuts as the letter in question contains. Iu order to relieve the Pacific Chris tian Advocate of the iucubus of debt uu der which it has long been struggling, conference lias decided to meet the present emergency by dividing the in debtedness into shares of silo, so any preacher can thus aid in putting the paper on its feet at once. A number of shares are already taken, and it is be lieved that all the stock will be taken in less than tweuty days.

The executive officer of Professor Hay aeu's geological survey has just re' turned from the field of exploration, The result of this year's examination will be equal in importance to any previous year. The work of survey the present year has been in the Territories of Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. Miss Kellogg intends to found and endow a musical conservatory in New Turk City, and she will devote the prof its of her coming California engagement with Max Strakosch to that ob ject. WOEZ TOR EVERYBODY. Circulate petitions for a 16th Amendment, to enfranchise women, not of one State alone, but of all the States and Territories.

Woman's right to a voice in the government under which she lives is a natural right, and must be guaranteed to her by the Federal Con stitution. Now is our time to knock at the doors of Congress and plant this right deep in the fundamental law of the land. Petitions fora Sixteenth Amendment, for woman's enfranchisement, from 10,000 Uuited States citizens, from twenty-two States, have been presented iu open House and Senate by 31 Repre- sentatlvesand 29 Senators since January 19, 1877. The friends of Woman Suffrage in both bouses, who Intend to advocate the Amendment in the new Congress, desire Its friends to sustain them by mammoth petitions from every quarter. Circulate this petition through the autumn and winter up to January 20, 1878.

Obtain the names of all who have signed similar petitions to the present Congress, and as many more as possible. Head the petitions with such well-known names as you wish to have appear in tlie Congressional Jtecora. Fill the blanks for State, town, and county, that members may refer to their own districts in presenting petitions. Have all the names signed plainly with iuk on two copies of the petition, one for the House, aud oue for the Senate. Ask each signer to remit at least ten cents to the Treasurer of the National Woman Suffrage Association, Mrs.

Ellen E. Sargent, No. 1,733 De Sales street, Washington, D. to defray expenses of classification for presentation to the 45th Congress. Every name received before December 1, 1877, will be classified with its appropriate State and county petitions, and pre sented by the appropriate Representa tive and Senator.

Send with the peti tions name and post office address of each one who obtains signatures, so the officers may know the workers. Cut thss out, and paste it at the head of a sheet of paper aud go to work. Put the names of men on the right, and women on the left of your petition, and trace every name carefully in ink PETITION" FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE. To the Senate and House of Represen tatives, in Congress assembled -The undersigned, citizens of the Uuited States, residents of the State of county oi town or earn estly pray your honorable body to adopt measures for so amending the Constitution as to prohibit the several Slates from disfranchising United' States citizens on account of sex. ON PAR WITH WOMEN.

The dispatches from New York an nounce that the Republican organization of the State has disbanded, in com pliance with the President's order. We have heard, as yet, of but one man who has had the moral courage to protest against the audacity of the President iu disbanding the organization that caused lia election; and that man is A. M. fSSapp, of Buffalo, who says: "This na tion has readied its centennial in history, aud this is the first instance in which the destruction of peaceful and useful political organizations has been demanded to propitiate the powers of Slate. If this is Republicanism -I want no more of it, though I propose to be a Republican of 185G as long as life lasts." Apply the whip, my lord Rutherford, and let political sycophants bow the knee that thrift may follow fawning.

But it rejoiceth us to know that the men who placed you in office have the power to protest yet left iu their posses sion. Your masculine serfs will soon be on par with women if this sort of thing is not interrupted. THE MORMON SEER. Brigham Young has been gathered to his fathers, and the many wives who were wont to receive his divided affections will enjoy his fractional carresses nevermore. In the laud of shades, whither he hath departed, no supernal glory awaitetii him, for he failed to humble himself in this country, there fore he -will hardly be exalted in the land of the leal.

The funeral was a very imposing af fair. Though the Mormon people are greatly divided among themselves, there are many thousands who would think it an honor to die for Brigham Young, aud they all thronged to the city to participate in the ceremonies of inhumation. Who is to be their leader; now that the old man is gone, is as yet a matter of doubt. But the backbone of Mor monism is broken by Brigham's death, and his successor can only hold the peo-pie by a rope of saud. The greenback party held an open mass meeting iu Reading, September 1st, addressed by Francis W.

Hughes. He is the head and front of the green back movemeut in Pennsylvania, and intends making au active campaign during the fall. The sovereign remedy for hard times was the issue of greenbacks to the wants of the trade, the-re-monetization of silver, with Judge Kel-ley's interconvertible bonds. Mr. Hughes particularly denounced the national bauks, aud said that a country bank with a nominal capital of $50,000 cleared 50,000.

A T0REN00N WITH CONTRIBUTORS. The experiment of allowing every contributor to be heard, so thoroughly attempted two weeks ago, has brought to us a score or more of additional letters, in which al sorts of comments, ad vice, experience, questions, and so forth, are as freely indulged in as though the writers knew the editor to have a cuticle like leather, through which the nettles of criticism could not reach to raise a blister of disturbance, or make a single abrasion upon the epidermis of her editorial understanding: 'Stop the paper! addressed to Mrs. George So-and-So," says one irate head of a family from Eastern Oregon. "I will not permit a paper to come into the house which will editorially admit that there can be anything goo I In any of the manifestations that border ou mod ern spiritism, no matter wtiat their teachings may The human heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, aud we must guard our children from all these things, as from a pestilence. It amazes me to know that a sensible woman like you can look upon such deviltry with the least degree of allowance.

If we would save our children's souls from eternal burnings, we must purge our homes of all abominations." We half agree with our suspicious friend about the "desperate wickedness" of some "deceitful hearts," especially after we have looked in vain for the name of "Mrs. George" in mercy to the woman we omit the surname and find in its stead, at the post office indi cated, "Mrs. Mary" So-and-So, as one of our valued subscribers, whose dues are paid in advance. We'll not stop 'Mrs. Mary's" paper, Mr.

"George," and if yon refuse to take it from the post office for her, we'll publish your name in a black list, as sure as you're born. from lioise City, Idaho, comes a gladsome, cheery letter, inclosing six dollars, "for my own renewal aud one new subscriber." "Your naDer has become dailv food for me," she says, "and I would not be without it for ten times its cost. Your stories are marvelous, because they are so true. The editorial letters are well worth the subscription price of the paper, and Mrs. Coburu's editorials are simply grand.

The man or woman who can read your journal without be- coming better, wiser, purer, and more devoted to liberty, humanity, and jus tice than before is narrow and selfish in the extreme." Would to heaven there were just a thousand like you, ready and willing to assist us just now with coutributions aud words of cheer. Shall we not be able to report a few more letters like tills next week A good friend from Salem asks: "Are you behind in your bills at the close of the current volume? If so, how much? Please state the financial con dition of the work in your next issue, and let us see what cau be done to re lieve you if you need help. The parti san papers all have subsidies to sustain them if they need assistance, aud you should have it, too. I looked at you on the platform in Salem last week, and saw and felt the load you are carrying, mentally, physically, and financially, and I feel that it is too hard for you to do all the work for woman's enfran chisement, and bear all the burdens of its debts besides." Thank you, good friend. We have often "felt sorry for ourself" in realizing the 'truth of what you so forcibly express.

In spite of all the economy and Industry of ourself and family during the summer, there is an indebtedness of $106 in Sau Francisco on a paper bill, of which we do think the friends of the cause ought to rally and relieve us, Who will start the matter? Who will give $20? who or even smaller sums We are not co- iug to let the paper die, even if we must again do dress-making after lecture hours to meet its deficits, but our phys ical strength is giving way under th added weight of increasing years, and we are by no means sure we shall not die ourself before the work Is completed unless we do have assistauce. Please print the iuclosed poetry. It was written under spirit control," writes another. "If you do not print, return it to me, and I will send it to a more liberal paper, and you may discontiuu my name ou your subscribers' list." It is remarkable how often a request to publish tills or that vagary of au un cultivated miud carries with it a covert threat to withdraw patronage unless we acquiesce. We examine the "poetry," and find the rhyme faulty, the metre ir regular, the grammar execrable, and the sense obscure.

Now, we believe i the power and existence of certain man ifestations, which, if not the work spirits, are beyond human comprehen sion. We believe this, because we have "tried the spirits," aud kuow whereof we speak. But we do not believe that every spirit, any more than every mor tal, is a Solomon, or even a Shake pea re. If spirits of Intelligence desire to communicate to mortals, they must send in their "copy" in such shape that it will command repect in its literary merit, as well as moral sentiment, published, else it will find its way into the waste-basket, like ail other trash As our correspoudent did not send stamp to pay return postage on "spirit poetry," it follows the fate many a phantom like it, and we must discontinue her paper when her sub scription expires, unless the "good splr its" influence her to renew, which we have faith euough in them to believe they will do, even if they fail to "con trol" her to write acceptable poesy. Another writer says "If I were competent to advise you at all, I would say, Never miud your ad visers.

Hold your own umbrella. Pad die your own canoe. Direct yourow helm. And make everybody else mind their own business." We really think this friend more com petent to advise us than the others. At east, her sentiments are more nearly after our own heart than those of any fault-finder in our coterie of guardians.

Another says: "Mrs. Coburn is a much better and more finished writer than yourself. While Iadraire your courage and enterprise, candor compels me to say that I ofteu wince under your crude comparisons and hurried comments upon what you see aud hear. Your letters fur the ublic eye should be prepared and fin ished with more care. You will pardon me, but they are often not up to the re-J quired literary standard.

I know you have a great deal to do, and I often pity you from tlie bottom of my heart." To which we answer, Whew! Pity thee! soldo! I pity the dumb victim at the altar. But does tbe robed priest for his pity falter?" Seriously, good friend, we are irre- istibly Inclined to vary from our usual course, aud treat you as you treat us, for a little while, just to give you an op portunity to "know how it is yourself." Of course you'll "wince" again, for that last expression is decidedly slangy. We use it, not because of the slang, but be cause of its truth. We were In your neighborhood a few months ago, good woman, and we heard several of your friends descanting upon your house keeping. They criticised a great many things very severely, saying well, no matter what they said, they were all true.

But they forgot to say, by way of palliation, "Mrs. is not a strong woman. Her tastes run iu literature, rather than housework, and her means will not permit, her to hire tbe hard work done by others, which we aiesure her ideality suggests. We think she deserves credit for doing the best she can, under the circumstances. She does considerable literary work to assist her husband iu supporting and educating the family, aud, as she is very critical and careful with that, her housework is neglected.

But she had better keep house poorly than not keep house at all." This, dear friend, was our comment; and now let us say to you, by way of re' ply to your last letter, that our regular literary work is a good deal like your housekeeping. It is a secondary con sideration, altogether. In justice to ourself, we should never touch a pen, except in our business, as the financial care of the New Northwest and our regular lecture work is all we ought to he compelled to do. But we do literary work for two reasons: One, because. we have gathered much knowledge in i busy life which others with less experi ence ought to learn.

The -other, because our writing pays. It helps to sustain the woman movemeut, and keep alive the New Northwest. It floats Mrs. Coburn's admirable and carefuly written editorials. We usually Write upon the wing: she always in tlie office.

We are proud of her. We are glad to be able to furnish the ballast to float her gems of thought, and we don't care how much you criticise us, so long as you help to sustain her on the editorial We do literary work on tlie pa per for nothing aud board ourself. She must have her salary to maintain he family or quit. The price of the New Northwest is $3 00 per year. Do you understand "Dear friend," writes a valuable ally from Yamhill, "I fear that I shall not be able to command the means to renew when ray subscription expires.

My good husband is as much iu sympathy with your labors as myself, but we have had unavoidable reverses this year." To this we answer that the credit of such a subscriber shall be considered as good till the reverses she mentions are so far reversed that she may find herself iu funds again. iiere is a tiny envelope, marked "pn vate," sayiug: "Please tell me what to buy for a wedding outfit. We are in moderate circumstances (Ben and I), and we're going east of the Cascades to take a claim under tlie timber act, as soon as our visits among friends in th country are over. Could you get my wedding outfit? and what would he its probable cost?" When a correspondent writes to an editor upon her own private business she should send a stamp for return post age. You failed to do.this, so your let ter appears iu this connection.

You cau be married in simple white, if the cere mony takes place at home, or iu th eveuing. Victoria lawn, trimmed with embroidery, and made iu three pieces, skirt, basque, aud overskirt, the first fin ilied with a kilt ruffle, the second aud thin! witli embroidery, edged by bias band, will be both stylish and durable, and will serve to dress the little Bens in long clothes when you are done with it. Dou't wince and blush and be a fool. If you haven't considered th little Bens, aud Mollies, too, before this, it's quite time you did. They're almost sure to come, aud they ought to, if they don't.

You should get a cashmere or camel's hair suit of trimmed with itself, fluished with bows of silk or rib bon to match, and a hat of drab straw, with long lisse veil of the same color as tbe dress, fastened with an abaioue buckle, mounted by an ostrich tip, Wear orange flowers at the wedding, if you like, but never appear In tbem af terward, as they are, pot only inappro priate after marriage, but give tbe vul gar cause for comments that would make you very angry if you could hear them. Your gloves should match you dress. We cannot give you tlie cost of the outfit, as you do not particularize tbe items. Again our space for this department is full. Whether it coutinues or not mustdepeud upon future contributions from friends and enemies.

We have several letters yet unanswered. JIadara Dunlway wants to be called mister, as we judge by a late editorial. Which will you have, sister, Mr. Abigail or Mr. Jennie Bee.

What a booby the boy is, to be sure. HREN0L0GI0AL MUSEUM AND AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHRENOLOGY. To the Friendt of Phrenology It bad long been the desire of my husband, and I heartily approved the object, to place Phrenology on a solid and self-perpetuating foundation. His labors for this life are now closed, and the work is left for others to accomplish. To carry into effect this object, it will be desirable to purchase or build a plain, substantial, fire-proof edifice, say five stories in height, which shall serve as the depository of our large cabinet which It is my design to contribute to the enterprise and of the valuable ad ditions which may be donated by trav elers and scientists, thus forming a per petual Museum of Phrenology aud the related sciences, open and free to visitors.

This Museum should, be so arranged as to include a large auditorium of circular form, witli tiers of seats rising one above auother, the walls and pauels of the hall containing pictures of eminent persons and objects of Interest illustra tive of Phrenology and kindred sciences, Space s'hould be given, also, to crania, busts, arranged iu cases for obser vation aud reference. Such a room or hall would be exceedingly well adapted for lectures. The American Institute of Phre nology" should also be connected with the Museum, and continue, as hereto fore, to hold lectures and give instruc tion at stated seasons of the year; tbe various objects of science and art, now the collection, being admirably adapted to a full illustration of its cur riculum of study. Every city and large town throughout the country needs a practical phrenologist, hence the neces sity of such an iustitute as this to truct and train young men and young women of proper intellectual culture for the work of disseminating the val uable truths which are embodied in the science of Phrenology and Physiology. The object of this announcement is to bring the subject to the notice of the friends of Phrenology, and to ask their advice and aid toward obtaining the means to procure such a home for Phre uology, aud a place wherein our cabinet can be ou perpetual, free exhibition We would iuvite all who are inter ested in Phrenology and kiudred reform atory sciences, to contribute as liberally as they are able toward the accomplish ment of this important work.

Who will offer a thousand dollars toward the endowment aud permanent establish ment of the Institute? Who five hund red dollars? Who one huudred dollars Who fifty dollars, or twenty-five, or teu or five, or even less? Small amounts given heartily iu a good cause are just as acceptable to the "Eye that seeth all things" as large sums. The beautiful Masonic Temple in this city, recently dedicated, is the result of a few remarks made by Mr. Herring, twenty years ago, which were to the following effect Gentlemen Something must be done for the widows and orphans of our departed breth reu and as a pledge. of my sincerity, here Is one dollar to start the subscription list. Within the memory of many of ou readers a mission ship was purchased and sent out through the aid of Sunday School children.

A story is told of a little boy who visited tlie ship whil she was lying in port, nearly ready to sail. He asked the. privilege of going abroad and examining the as serliug that he was part owner of her, as he had contributed ten cents toward tier outfit. Let none "despise the day of small things." There is no better time than now to do good. Delay till "a more couven ient season" is usually fatal to the ac complishment of good resolutions.

We should like to hear from the friend of Phrenology with regard to tills pro ject. It lies very near my heart, and would not ask outside help if the de sired end could be secured without it. Charlotte ITowler Wells, 737 Broadway, New York. LETTER PR0MMISS ANTHONY. To THE EDITOR OP THE NEW NORTH WEST: Are you never going to speak to again? It seems au age since I saw pen track of yours, but I see the New Northwest every Tuesday, a.

reg ularly now, aud have read "Martha Marbiehead" thus far to my dear mother, aged almost eighty-four. What a hard- headed old flint you do make of that Senior Marbiehead Do make the New Northwest bris tie all over with the Sixteenth Amend ment. I shall give tlie last four weeks prior to electinu in Colorado to canvassing there. Can't get out of It. I go with out promise of pay, even for traveling expenses, just as I went to Kansas I '67, and Michigan in '74.

If women had money they might move the world. But they are making this fight with hands tied, finaucially, as well as politically, Now, if Colorada votes No, I shall say to the States Right's plan, Three times and out. But we must push the Na tional work, and this can be done more effectually by petitions from the Six teetith Amendment than by any other method. In haste and affection, Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, N.

August 19, 1877. Miss Carrie Parker, of Princeton Il'liuois, is a victim of the mania for pe- destriau feats. Some time ago she wo a wager for walking twenty-four con seculive hours, of one huudred dollars, Now, from the effect of her over-exer- tion, she has become hopelessly Insane aud has been confined in the State hos pital. If yon want to teach a dog arithmetic, tie up one of his paws, and he will put down three and carry one every time. Life's pleasures, if not abused, will be new every morning, and fresh every evening.

RE0ENTEYENTS. A lady, Miss Margaret Jenkins, has been appointed postmaster at What com, W. T. Thirty-nine failures occurred in New York during August. The liabilities aggregated two aud a half millions.

A tornado of terrific violence swept over Marysvllle, iientucny, on tue morning of the 1st doing great damage to property. The post office at Goose Lake, Lake county, has beeu discontinued. There has been a post office established at Parkersville, Coos county. The Sun says the negroes compose only about one-fourth of the population Memphis, Tennessee, aud yet of 1,253 votes iu that city last year, 601, or nearly one-half, were negroes. The appointment for tbe vacancy on the Supreme Bench will be made this month, and a gentleman will be se lected.

Judge Hunt, of Louisiana, aud Bristow are most promiuent iu the President's mind. The Sandwich gavings Bank of Bos ton has been declared insolvent. The total amount of deposits Is about 000,000. The present difficulty is due to the shrinkage of value of property iu Boston and other places on which mort gages to the amouut of $10,000 are held, A storm of wind and rain at St. Louis arsenal on the afternoon of August 31st caused considerable damage to tbe pub lic store-bouses, and destroyed a large portion of the beautiful ornameutal trees upon the parade ground." It took the roofs aud porches off the northern side of the barracks, carrying them over the buildings southward, and halfway across the parade ground.

It blew down number of large trees iu the soldiers' quarters, and left a general air of ruin and desolation to what was previously the prettiest locality in the viciuity St. Louis. Fortunately no oue was In ured. P0REIGN NEWS. The Prince of Roumania has left Nik opolis for his headquarters at Poregin A special, dated Poredin, August 29lh says the Russians have evacuated Selvi Specials from Batoum announce that tbe Turks have beguu to evacuate Su kum Kaleh.

Some Turkish troops crossed tlie Aus trian frontier on the 1st near Kan idabaka, carried off some cattle, set fire to a barn, aud fired upon the Austriau patrol. A correspondent at Vienna telegraph that the Porte has ordered that the for tifications of Adriauople shall be com pleted before wiuter, and decided they shall consist of twenty-four detached forts. Cannonading began again atSchipka ou Saturday, aud continued Sun day. A prisoner states that the effective force of most of the Russian battalions has been reduced by one-half. The Bul garians also suffered cruelly.

Athens dispatchesstate that theDuk of Ediuburg had arrived there and vis ited tbe King and Queen. The British government, fearing he would seem to countermand the war party, telegraphed that he must leave immediately, which order lie obeyed. A Russian official dispatch, 'dated Gornystuden, Saturday, says: All quiet towards Rustchuk, Osman Bazar, Lo vatz aud the Balkan Passes. There was heavy fighting before Plevna August 31st, from 8 A. M.

until 4 P. ar. The Turks numbered 25,000, and were re pulsed along the whole Hue. Russian loss, 600. Osman Pasha telegraphed from Pievna last Friday as follows: We have made an offensive reconnoissance in force against the Russian fortified position at Plicad probably Pelishal of the maps, five miles east of Plevna, and encoun tered tbe enemy half a mile from Pii chad.

After two hours desperate fight ing the enemy fled. We carried three redoubts by assault, captured a gun many horses and arms. The Russians who numbered 30,000, lost heavily; we slightly. TheTurkish minlsterof foreign affairs has addressed a dispatch to the diplo matic agents of the Porte abroad, saying every day brings to light a great num ber of Mussulman women aud children belonging in the district of Kasaulik who escaped massacre. Two hundred and fifty Mussulman women and children were found barefooted and in a most deplorable condition.

A number of women and children could not be recovered, having been massacred by Bulgarians. Twelve thousand Mussulman men, women and children fell Into the hands of the Russians and Bulgarians. Two thousand were rescued by the Imperial troops. Times' London special says: The Turks are concentrating all available reinforcements iu Bulgaria. They have gained more strength by delay than tbe Russians.

Unless the Russians hope to gain something by precipitating the Servian army on the communications of Osmau Pasha, their Inactivity is unaccountable, for they are not relatively so stroug now as after the battle of Plevna. Their situation is a serious one. They can extricate themselves only by good luck or by winning one or more battles of most tremendous magnitude. It is believed that not merely the destiny of tbe Turks but that of the Russians depeuds on the next great battle. NEWS ITEMS.

STATE AUD TERRITORIAL. A lady of Umatilla has obtained a patent for a new kind of carpet-fastener. A sharper put off a ten-dollar confederate note on Miss Rankin, at ber store in Eugene, one day la-it week, and she gave him $7 10 good money iu change. Wesley Graves, lessee of the Commercial Hotel at Salem, will build au important addition, 30x70 feet, and three stories high, to that caravansary. There 111 le llvesultesot ruomsou each floor.

John Blevins keens the Grange Union Store iu Albany. Grangers and others ill And it to thelradvautage to patron ize him. Medea's la staple and fancy goods, agricultural implements, at tue coruer or irst ana wasnington streets. Mr. O.

L. Rogers, of Eola, has in- ented a turnlnir lathe of a new pattern. with which he claims to be able to turn out common bed-posts at the rate of oue per minute, and all other turning in like ratio. Mr. Rm-trs-has the utmost confidence in his Inveutiou.

He will apply fora pateutat once. The Vancouver Independent savs: "If there is any oue thing that the cltv of Portland needs more than anything else ust at tins lime it is a nrst-class botel the central part of town. The man who will build and run such an institu tion will be a public benefactor. Why don't Portland have its Chemeketa?" Professor Stone is said to be highly i gratified with the prospects for the sal-, mou catch in tlie Clackamas, aud pre- llcts plenty of salmou fur breeding pur poses. The Columbia River men say they will feel satisfied it three million fish are spawned tills seasnu, and the Professor says he is confident of getting at least ten millions without any difficulty.

A Puget Sound paper says: "Young men, In tramping from cainn to camn. lookiug for work, pass over land that will soon be the site of happy homes, which they might now have by taking up, but which they cannot buy at any price in a lew years from now. These young men will yet envy some settler his home, that they could have as well as not." Tacoma has the appearance of a live place quite a change during this sea son. The building formerly used for a depot and botel has been moved back near tbe bank, and a new depot erected iu its stead. The Puyallup Coal Com pany have about fifty Chinamen era- ployed Here maKlirc the grade, aud the new coal wharf will be pushed forward immediately.

Albany has a sack factory. The Bern- ocrat says: "These sacks are furnished at prices considerably lower than cau be had In ban wbieh is rea son enough why our wheat merchants should patronize this factory. As soon as this contract is finished, the full force of bauds will be put to work ou flour sacks, several large orders for which have already been received." The Seattle Tribune savs: "A letter from Mr. Alfred Freeman, of this city, wlm is now on McDame Creek, iu the Cassler country, informs his "brother here, Asher M. Freeman, that he lias had the distinguished honor, as well as the good fortune, of finding the largest nugget of gold ever found iu British Columbia.

The piece weighssix pouuds, or seventy-two ounces, aud is worth, at at the lowest, $17 au ounce." The town of Dalles is iu a law suit. It appears that the respective Methodist and Catholic Missions, each and separately, claim the City of tbe Rocks. In commenting upon the situation, the Mountaineer says: "If the prayers of the people of this city are heard, and we believe tney will be, we fear and trem ble for the souls of the present Board of the Methodist Missionary Society. As au outsider, with very little or no pecuniary interest at stake, we advise them to do unto others as they would be done by, and thereby save their rep utations aud their souls (if they have any) and obtain the good-will of tlie people of this city, and through this feeling tbey may be able to do some eood for the cause of Him for whom tbey pretend to have so much zeal." Race Between a Pigeon and an ENGINE. The London papers tell of a race from Dover to Lnndou between the continental mail express train and a pigeon.

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