The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1874-10-10

tracts from Gov. Kellosg's check book
showing that he sent Senator Matt. Car
penter, April %, 1873, three thousand dol
lars tor counsel fees, and that altogethe
the Governor expended twenty-five thou
sand dollars in nine months for warlikt
experiments. "A London dispatch say!
that the Mark Lane Express says tha
wheat is declining, and that the crop i:
much above the average as to quantit,
and quality. -. The recent elections ir
France resulted in the success Of $50 Re.
publicans, $50 Monarchists and 100 avow.
ed Bonapartists. New elections will ke
required in thirty districts. .. NJ. J. Town.
send, 9th District, N. Y, II. H. Powell,
Sth District, NO., have been nominated by
the Republicans for Congress-.
THURSDAY, Oct. S.-Moulton's business
partner has gone | is bond in the Beecher
libel suit. ...Ex-Alderman Cowan, one O:
the Tammany ring Of New York, who fled
the city soon after the exposure, has re-
turned aud furnished bail to stand trial.
....James Gardner, for many years editor
and proprietor Of the Augusta (Ga.) Con
stitationali,t, died at his residence near
Augusta yesterday, aged G2 years. Gold
smith Maid trotted for sp:,cial purse at
Chicago yesterday making 2:l9 and 2:17,
Il fastest time ever made on the track
In a trial between Gloster and Judge Full
lerton, the former won III 2:22, 2::23 1-2
and 222 H.. The Massachusetts Repub-
licans nominated the following State tick
ct at Worcester yesterday: Mr.. Talbot, for
Governor; Horatio G. Knight, Lieutenant
Governor Oliver Warner, Secretary of
the Commonwealth Charles G. Train,
Auditor, and Charles Adams, Jr., Treas
urer. The platform is specie standard,
denounces Southern whi:e-leaguers rs end
promises honesty and reform. ...~. K.
Armstrong, present delegate in Cong ress
from Dakota, accepts the nomination of
the Democratic and Anti Monopoly party
for re election. Gen. Bebccck, superin-
tendent of public buildings, Washington,
estimates that $4O0, 900 will be needed for
the Improvement Of the public grounds
the next fiscal year. A great
in this respect has
been made the current year. -.
The 18th Infantry left Omah, yesterday
for the South. Applications are constant
ly reaching the Department from Alabama,
Tennessee and Louisiana for troops, to fill
which the Secretary says would require y
large increase in the force of the army -.
The election in Georgia Wednesday for
OF the Legislature was a jig han
lie affair, the Democrats electin3 nearly
all their candidates giving them a majority
on joint ballot Of 2O5. The Pacific
Mail steamship company has commenced
suit against Richard R. Erwin, its late
San Francisco agent, to recover *750, 900
he is alleged to have appropriated. -. The
aid society Of Nebraska have
made an appeal for aid from the people Of
more fortunate States. DIR. r. NJ. Eddy,
one OF the most prominent ministers in the
Episcopal church, died in New
York city Wednesday morning. Dr. Eddy
was in attendance on the Minnesota gener-
Il conference recently in session in St.
Paul .Ex-President Johnson is rlaking
l vigorous canvas for u. S. Senator from
Tennessee. The war i'll Spain and the
in Brazil show no new features.
Fully 20, 900 men are at work strength
.ning the embankments of the Nile to pre-
vent an overflow