The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-05-28

m.insd when l:a the F.r.day put into Sidney n

kurops and that General Rufus Ingalls, will be
assigned to duty in charge Of: the Quaztermas.
ten Department.
A di,pasch from NewYork to Chioago IA.
per, . few days ago. says "Erie has been the dis
turbing element In the stock market Today.
and the street is bewildered in regard
TO it,. The German dealers are
attempting to work corner on short interest
and have succeeded in making borrowers pay
K0Xo more use for to-days delivery. This
would have advanced the stock more than it
has excerpt for rumors that the oompany's EN-.
ployees threaten astrike and that the company
will 90 into the hands Of re eceiver next week.
The memorial services At St. Johns Luther
IN Church, in New York City, on the oath, by
Rev. DR.. Held, for those who perished by the
wreck Of the steamship Schiller, were
railroad held on the 22d, the fact was develop
ed that the road instead of being a paying insti-
tuition was sinking the cash Of its owners at
the rate of five millions per annum
The strike Of the Pennsylvania coal miners
is virtually ended.
O'L*ary, the Chicago pedestrian, successful
y completed the hard task Of walking 500
miles in 166 consecutive hours, and was pre-
sented with thousand dollars and fine gold
watch.
The court Of claims has awarded the sons of
the late Stephen A. Douglas quarter Of mil.
lion for cotton oonfscated during the war.
Three brothers named tinley, living in
Missouri, died Of starvation, lately.
A telegram rom Manchester, N. H., says Col
A. n. Eastman Of that city, Of the Direct United
States Cable Co., is in receipt Of information
that the completion Of the line may be ex-
pected at any hour. The Faraday is at Sidney
taking coal and waiting for ice fields to clear
away. Not more than half a days work re-
attended by all the officers and seamen Of the
German vessels in p5rt, the German consul
and large number OF friends and relatives of
the lost
A dispatch from Memphis, on the southern
decoration day, says, "Business is suspended
to-day for the memorial services at Elmwood.
Since eight o'clock this morning
the streets have been crowded
With people The procession now forming is
the largest ever seen here, except, perhaps, at
the funeral services of Gen. Lee The ex-Fed-
eral soldiers have almost to q man turned out,
and in the ranks are seen tattered battle flags
OF both the Federal and Confederate armies
At no time since the close Of the war has there
been such genuine interim Cling of the blue
and gray as is presented here to-day"
A Washington: dispatch says the Secretary Of
War has granted permission to the Southern
Memorial Association, with their friends, to
enter Arlington Cemetery the first of June for
the purpose OF decorating the graves of Con-
federates, with liberty to use the grand stand,
where the exercises, including an address, take
place. Originally there had been inferred at
Arlington s65 Confederate soldiers, but 1872
were removed to family burial grounds. The
Confederate graves at the Glenwood and Con-
gressional cemeteries will also he decorated the
came day. The decoration Of Union graves in
the several cemeteries will take place the goth
Of May.
A dispatch from Jefferson City, NO., says
''During sermon delivered in the hall of the
House of Representatives, by Rev. Mr.. Pratts-
man, he alluded to the destitution among the
people in several counties of the State, occasio-
ned by grasshoppers. After the sermon and
prayers were over, the congregation resolved it
selfinto mass meeting, with Gov Hardin in the
chair, and resolutions were adopted setting forth
that grasshoppers, chinch bugs. &C., were ruin
ing the farming districts, and that Providence
! alone could prevent terrible state of aff,irs !:
that Commissioners be appointed hy the Gov
ernor il every county in the state to solicit re-
lief ior the sufferers: that collections for the
destitute he taken upin the different churches
June Sd, the day set apart by the Governor as
one OF fasting and prayer; and requesting Gov.
Hardin to issue another proclamation embody-
ing in it the proceedings Of this meeting.