The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-09-05
For the Advance
WORTHLNGTON SEMINARY

WORIHINGTON SEMINARY
It becomes my duty, on behalf of the
Board of Trustees, to announce to the
patrons and friends of Worthin gton
Seminary, a temporary suspension of
the active operations of the institution.
The board reached this conclusion with
extreme reluctance, and only from
a conviction of their entire inability,
in the present destitute condition of
the country, to inject the expenses nec-
cessarily involved. Like other public
enterprises, institutions of learning de-
pend on the ability of the people to
sustain them. The opening of the
Seminary has been marked SUCCESS.
The indications of an increased atten-
dance were of the most flattering char
acter. Had it not been for the lament
able visitation that has overtaken us
it would have gone forward without
interruption. AS it is the stern fact
must be recognized that all the means
of the people are demanded for their
first necessities.
Providence has seen fit to very seri-
ously disapp0int our expectations.-
We have been permitted, however, to
establish beyond the shadow Of a doubt,
the Unreasonable capacities Of the soil.
With another season these prairies
may be successfully developed, and the
Seminary, with augmented force, will
resume its regular work. In the inter-
i'm the resident members of the facul-
ty are authorized to carry forward any
branch of instruction that can be made
self sustaining. OF any special move
ments in this direction the public will
be duly informed. B. II. CREyER.
UNWISE:
We have heard of one or two men
who refuse to subscribe for the AD-
VANCE because the former editor is
still owing them for subscriptions adj
vanced to him. When the change was
made, he took with him the books and
files of the office and refused to give
either the names of subscribers or the
amounts advanced Oh subscription. If
any subscriber is cheated out of his
money, and we understand that sever
al hundred are, he is wholly response
BILE. The universal custom, when news
papers change hands, is to transfer the
subscription list and to arrange with
the incoming proprietor to fill out I'D
vance subscriptions. But the former
editor of the ADVANCE refused to do
this, prefering to cheat his subscribers
in the hope of thereby injuring the
present management. It seems unjust
to hold us responsible for the conduct
of the former editor, and unwise to re-
fuse to take the ADVANCE because the
former proprietor has cheated them
out of their money. However there
are but two or three men, so far as we
know, unwise enough to cut off their
own nose5, and deprive themselves of
the happiness of taking paper so in
tensely interesting and edifying as the
ADVANCE. However again, they prob
ably borrow it regularly from neigh
bors and read it on the sly.
NEW PASSENGER RAT TIES.
The new passenger rates on the east
ern end of the railroad went into effect
Oh the first Of September. The rates
us follows:
FROM WORTHINGTON.
Present rate. Former rate
To Chicago $20,7d &21 70
10 st: Paul :. $3.50 8,N
10 minneapolis S,l5 S;t4
10 Mankatj 4,40 4,G
To st. James $50 2S5
No change has been made on the Yves
tern end Of the road, as tins end of the
road lies nrincin)lav in Iowa