The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-04-02
RAKINGS AND SCRAPlNGS.

lit is announced that Col. Fred Gran,
and wife will Immediately 60 from Wash
'ngton to Chicago, he to resume his dutie.
on Gen. Sheridan's staff The President
and Mrs. Grant will accompany them a.
far as New York.
The Salt Lake people were surprised
but not saddened by the removal Of Chic
Justice Mclean Of that territory. Th@
W hitney contempt case and tho An1
Eliza Young divorce suit are said to bt
the rocks on which tho Judges fortune
were wrecked.
1t is said that the nomination of Par
dee to be District Judge of Louisiana was
tabled in the Senate It the request of the
President, to give the nominee until next
December to disprove the charge against
him. The Democrats voted solidly
against tabling the nomination, while iii
the Republicans but one voted for the mo.
tion.
A man named Merritt, from Troy. N,
Y. has discovered in Dominica in the
West Indies bottomless lake of red.het
water, boiling savagely, half a mile wide
and two miles in circumfe: ence. In the
centre the seething mass shoots far into
the air. and the arid, desolate shore is
laved by steam. The water is heavily
charged with sulphur.
The envy of Louisville and St. Louis
for each other is shown in remarks like
this which, of course. comes from 4 St.
Louis paper: louisville car drivers are
an emaciated set, all from excessive bias.
phemy. 1t is rarely that a Louisville
|girl drops her foot upon the tail board
of bob tail car without lifting the front
wheels off the track, and this wears on
the drivers.
The District Of Columbia indictment Of
Whitelaw Reid of the New York Tribune
describes him as "a person of an envious,
evil and wicked mind, and of a most ma.
licious disposition, who sought to injure
''the good name, fame, credit, and repu.
tation of Alexander R Shepherd, good,
peaceable, and worthy citizen" The
latter individual is better known outside
Of merely, formal documents as "Boss
Shepherd.
Prof. Donaldson contemplates balloon
voyage from New York to London next
autumn, the expenses to be paid lin &C.
cordance with an agreement signed At
New York on thu 15th) by VIM. II. Bel
knap of Cincinnati, Geo. L. Bruce Of New
York. Nathaniel G. Hathaway of London,
and Narcisse Pelletier of Paris. These
gentlemen are to provide $4,000 for OK.
penses, and give Donaldson $4,000 if he
makes the trip from New York to Lon.
don in forty eight hours, or $4,000 if he
takes seventy.two hours.
A motion for new trial Of the suit ol
Helen Josephine Mansfield against the
widow and executrix of her former para.
mour and dupe, James Fisk, Jr., has
been argued before Judge Van Brunt OF
New York. In the first suit the Mans.
field recovered verdict of $25,700. In
the new proceedings it is asserted it can
be shown that the money derived from
the sale of stocks for which the note Of
el5. 1000 was given was applied by Mr..
Fisk to the purchase of Miss Mansfield s
house in Twenty.third street. Judge
Van Brunt took the papers.
A surgeon has lately published the re.
suits Of experiments tried by him which
have pr, we'd to his satisfaction that the
application Of .white.hot iron to the
body is absolutely painless, while when
only red-hot 1t is an extremely painful op.
Grafton. When operating with rcd.hot
iron on men their screaming was fearful,
whereas when the iron was white-hot, not
a murmur was heard. When he operated
on horse with white-hot iron, the animal
seemed scarcely to be aware Of what hi
was doing.