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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-08-13
THE HAIR VEST.

Dispatches from all parts of MINES
ota show that most bountiful harvest
IL being gathered. Here and there the
crops have been injured by hail or grass
hoppers, but the damage is so slight as
scarcely to affect the general average,
and a surplus of q, ooo, 900 to 80, 00O, 600
bushels of wheat in the State is conf
IDENTIFY predicted.
This good news is supplemented by
dispatches from Europe indicating an
upward tendency in the grain market.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-08-13
Cor. 10th St. & Sd Ave-,
Warrington,
Minnesota

With thanks for iavors In the past. We desire
TO remind the good people Of Worthington and
surrounding country that We are here, ready at
all times to serve them with goods as low as they
can he found in Southern Minnesota.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-08-13

ANOTHER RAILROAD PROJECT
The Sioux City Journal says:
Judge Brookings, with party of
practical railroaders will soon look up
practicable railroad route from Sioux
Falls to Worthington, Minnesota.
And in a recent number of the Yank-
ton Press and Dakotian we find a letter
from the Chicago Ocean, written
by Mr.. j. J. Rochussen, in which lie
says:
"A branch line from Yankton, via
Sioux Falls, to WorthiDgton, distance
OF about 12O miles, on the Sioux City
and st. Paul, in Minnesota, has been
projected.
We have not the particulars of this
project, but learned from Mr.. Rochus-
sen, during lis recent visit to Wor-
thington, that the parties contemplated
the building Of narrow-gauge road
from Worthington to Yankton. It is
understood now that the branch of the
Sioux City road westward will be built
lit 1t is built at ally from Sibley. We
must therefore look to some other CON-
p0ny Tor q railroad westward.
Practical railroad men, prominent
among whom is Mr.. Woods, of Valley
Springs, Dakota, say that there is nat
ural railroad route from Worthine ton
to Sioux Falls, and it has been gen eral-
~ said that a road could be built from
Worthington ut considerably less cost
than from any other point OH the Sioux
City road.
The building OF a road from Wor-
t''lngton to Sioux Falls is of course OH
" 4 question of time. We hope it will
not be long before the narrow-guage
road spoken Of is set on foot. .:-.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-08-13

The suicide of Charles Scheffer, for
merly State Treasurer, causes the pro-
foundest sorrow at St. Paul and else
where where he was known. His OFF,
cial record is spotless one, and his fine
social qualities and great personal mag
netism made him hosts Of friends. He
was injured by railroad accident some
months since while on his wedding tour,
since which he has been subject to fits
of great mental depression, finally driv-
ing him to suicide.
A number Of Republican papers re-
fuse to support G. A. Gilman, who ends
the ticket, as candidate for Railroad
Commissioner, charging him with being
connected with the corrupt Pine Land
Ring. 1t is pity to have the harmony
OF ticket otherwise so unexception-
able married by one name upon which
there is the smell of corruption. But
let us not condemn until we know the
facts. The Republican party is distin-
guished Tor its prompt Investigations
and its punishment of corrupt men,
bers. Let this matter be Investigated,
and if Gilman is guilty, throw him
over board and take up General Edger-
ton or some equally good man.
The Mankato Review says: de-
spite the injury to crops by grasshop-
pers in the western tier of towns, we
think it is quite safe to say that more
bushels of wheat will be harvested in
this county than for many previous
years." In Watonwan anu Cotton
wood, there will be from one-half to
two-thirds of crop, and in Jackson,
Mobiles and Rock nearly full crop. At
least this is the present prospect.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-08-13

"Uncle Ebenezer's Aunty Monopoly
Convention" is what the Monticello
Times calls it.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-08-13

Blank Deeds md Mortgages for sale
at the ADvANc office. -.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-08-13

Clerk Of the District Courts tie County Of No
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-20
Sailor HerOisnl.

The latest story of heroism and suffer
ing performed and endured on the part
of those who 60 down to the sea in ships
is one of great interest. In December
last the bark Mendoza left the island of
Java with full cargo for New York.
The Captain and one seaman were suf-
fering from Java fever when the ship
sailed. Of the two mates but one under
stood navigation, and to him fell the
command. In few days the second
mate, the cook and the steward were
down with the fever, which, in its insa-
table progress, had left the Captain
nearly skeleton, and would soon waste
before but five of the seamen were in a
mate died. The first, Frederick Adams,
held nobly to his post and 50 i'm
pressed the seamen with zeal, &C
tivity and endurance that they felt
the safety of ship and crew de:
pended on his successfully fighting off
the fever should it attack him. He was
attacked, but he refused to succumb.
Daily he crawled out of his cabin on
hands and knees in order to ascertain
the ships position and work her. He
to make no diversion, but as man after
man died of the fever, and as it so filed
the ship that it could he smelled, ne
made for st. Helena in order to obtain
medical assistance. 1t took six long
and weary days to reach the island, but,
though almost dead, the mate was on
deck daily directing the movements of
the ship, which, without his guiding
knowledge, might as well have been rud-
derless. Finally the fever was banished
from the vessel, and, after what the mate
modestly characterized as the toughest
voyage he ever made, it reached New
York in safety.
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"What has happened?" he replied IN
an ecstacy, ramming down ball; moth
ing, only blaze away at 'em. Our bacen's
saved. Somebody is pelting at them,
and we must show our hands,"
was quite willing, but the red villains
paid no attention to our fire. winged
one of them and Wolford tumbled nOless
than three. The conflict was brief: Their
line gave way at all points, and those
who were not shot down broke for the
river in dismay and swan to the opposite
bank under fire.
"Why, they're fighting among them
selves" I cried, as the red forms of the
pursuers became visible.
Not much" replied Wo1ford; "the
Osages are after EN-"
The shooting, in which we zealously
participated, was soon over. We were
saved and was enlightened. For years
and years the buffalo grounds of that
vicinity had been matter of sanguinary
dispute between the rival tribes of the
Arapahoes and the Osages. A war party
of the latter had heard the fighting of
the evening previous, and had FASTENED
to the rescue from mere motives OF
clannish malignance. They had pre-.
served US from destruction, however,
and they treated US as allies. We
never found Sandy's body; we buried
Joe as decently as possible, and never
again prospected for gold along the Lit
tie Arkansas.-San Francisco MORNING
TnH.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-20
The Tallest Chimney in the World.

This is the Townsend chimney at Port
Dundas, Glasgow; height above ground,
454 feet, besides fourteen feet founda-
ton under ground, standing without
piles on blue clay, which was there found
to be as solid as rock. The foundation
consists of thirty courses of brick set on
edge, the lower course forty-seven feet
and the upper one thirty-two feet in d.
ameter. During the first season, 1857,
this foundation and part of the shaft was
erected; in 1858 the shaft was continued
20 228 feet, and in 1859 it was finished; ;
but during that time work was suspended,
as the chimney had settled during gale
seven feet nine inches sideways, which
was corrected by twelve saw cuttings on
the opposite side of the inclination.
Holes were punched in the sides so as to
admit the saws if this had not been cor
rected at once tt is the opinion of all ex-
perts that the chimney would have fallen.
The inside is lined with 1853, 600 fire.
bricks, and the rest contains, with f1ues,
l, 400 600 common bricks, which were all
laid in 1,17O days of ten hours. The
whole weight is II, O00,OO pounds; iron
hoops surround it at distances of twenty.
five feet, while the thickness of the wall
decreases from five feet seven inches be-
low to one foot two inches at the ton,
Its total cost was $4,000. 7{7.s.,,,'
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-20
Deadly Insects.

The buffalo gnat is credited with &C.
casioning widespread mortality among
the horses and mules of West Tennessee.
Many farmers have lost all their working
stock at a season of the year when they
can least afford to do without them. The
bite of this insect seems as deadly as
that of the African tsetse, the pest-of all
travellers in South Africa. Man and wild
animals appear to be invulnerable to the
tsetse, but camels, dogs, oxen and horses
cannot survive its attacks. In one ex-
petition DR.. Livingstone lost forty.three
oxen from this cause. He was inclined
to the belief that the ass was bite.proof,
but the experience of his last journey
convinced him that he was in error. The
donkey, though not so susceptible as
some of the other animals above men
TONED, still succumbs before the little
brown fly with yellow stripes. Its pro-
boscis pierces the skin of its victims, and
draws thence plentiful supply Of blood.
No special harm at first seems to have
been done, but in few days the eyes
and nose of q bitten animal begin to
run; swelling makes its appearance
under the jaw; the muscles grow weak,
and finally the digestive organs are dis
ordered, and death soon follows, When
dissected, the cellular tissue under the
skin is found to be injected with AIR, as
il soap-bubbles were scattered over it.
Wehave not yet received full details Of
the operations of the Tennessee insect,
but, whatever it is, it's ravages are quite
like those Of the tsetse. x incinnati Ga
setts. "a "
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-20
Affections In Turkey.

In addition to the famine, which is
raging with undated violence, Turkey
is visited with another national affection
A cattle disease is ravaging the focks
and herds all over the Empire, from
Bagdad on the Tigris to the Adriatic
coasts. At Scala Nova, in the province
Of Smyrna and in the vicinity ofthe OAR
danelles, the smallpox among the sheep
and pulmonary disease among the cattle
have caused the loss of so per cent of
the former. A recent visitor to the
plains of Troy remarked the skeletons
of thousands of sheep lying on the
ground. Reports from Smyrna state that
vast focks have been totally destroyed,
and one letter tells of a shepherd who,
stripped by the murrain of his en-
tire flock, has become insane and
takes out to pasture a pocketful
of white pebbles, which he fondly
believes to be the fleecy tribe in the
possession of which he was few weeks
ago comparatively rich. In the region
around Adrianople 80 per cent. of the
horned cattle and horses have been lost,
and a much larger ratio of sheep. In
the province of Gallipoli the horned cat
tie are swept away by a disease which,
in some localities, affects the bowels,
in others the respiratory organs, but
which seems to partake generally of a
typhoid character. In the case ofhorses
the disease affects the spine, and is very
rapid in its action. In the district Of
Enos the sheep are affected by lung
disease, and the sanitary physician of
Varna reports like affection of the
focks in the Dobrudja, between the
Danube and the Black Sea. 1t is pain
fully evident, says the Levant Herald,
that throughout the whole length and
breadth of the Empire pastoral industry
is smitten bya visitation which must tell
severely upon the economical condition
Of the country Observation-Disclosures
Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-20

'sailef from Now York oH the 2StK mt. fof
Hamburg, was totally wrecked off the Scilly
Islands, about thirty miles from Lands End,
Eng, on the.night of the 7th.. The Schiller
ran on ledge of sunken rocks during the
prevalence Of q dense fog. Three hundred
and seventy nine persons were known to have
been on board, and Of these about 800 are sup
pesed to be lost. Several promiaent citizens
of Chicago, Milwaukee, and other portions of
the West were on board, and are thought to
have persisted.
THE ecclesiastical policy of the Government
was approved on the Sth by the italian Cham
Der of Deputies to 149.
In the Prussian Diet on the 9th the bill for
the suppression Of religious orders was read
a second time without amendment, and the
bill giving the Old Catholics a share of the
Catholic Church property passed on third
reading-2O2 to rs The provincial authorities
of Germany have been instructed to treat the
collection of money for priests who have been
subjected to legal penalties as a punishable
offcnse.
THE Belgium Chambers on the Sth adopted
resolution approving the recent correspond
ence of the Government with Germany.
DISPATCHES from London of the 10th say
that the bodies of ninety-ons of the Schiller
victims had been recovered up to that time.
Only fifteen passengers were known to have
been saved.
THE steamer Badiz was lost near Brest,
France, while on her trip from Lisbon to Lon
don, recently, and sixteen persons were
drowned.
The Intransigente prisoners who were en-
gagged in the Cartasena instruction have
been set free
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-20
Legend Of an Irish Giant.

Once upon a time, a long time ago,
when giants were as plenty in Ireland as
mites in cheese, there lived ON the Dor.
ders of the county Armagh one Barney
Mcconnell, who lawfully came under the
above appellation, being seven feet high.
and made in proportion. His prowess
was we'll known and there was one thing
that grieved Barney above a. little, name
~: that he could get nobody who was
able TO stand before him in his own coun.
try. Now, report spoke of a certain
giant in Scotland who was laboring in:
der the like grief and from precisely the
same cause. Therefore Barney, after
consulting his friends on the subject,
sent q challenge to the Scotch giant Ito
come over to Ireland and get the conceit
taken out Of himself" After due time
the bearer Of the challenge returned with
word that it. had been accepted, and
further stated that he was advised to in
form Barney that he had better make
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-20
Danbury Street improvements.

The practice of placing down boards
in the mud is revived this spring. 1t is
q good idea. The board always warps
downward in the center, leaving the ends
sticking up about six inches above the
walk. The Fastening pedestrian comes
along in the dark and picks up one end
along some six feet, the other leg all the
while trying to get foothold and con-
troll itself. Then the board swings off
and catches him on the shin of that leg,
and, after an almost herculean effort to
recover himself, he goes down with
dreadful force, striking on his elbow
with one arm and showing the other in
the mud half way to his shoulder. If the
owner of the premises should be killed
by lightning in the first thunderstorm
that man would cheerfully lose days
work to attend the funeral.-Danbu'y
Nens. ~. =.
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his will, get his coffin made, etc, as lie
that he was to encounter never Left his
work half done. T
! ibid you see himP" asked Barney.
Faith an did," said the messenger.
"What, is he like'" Intercepted the
the giant. IT,.
Faith, Barney, avic! he's. like any
thing at all but a mortal being!'s
"How big is her" said Barney, looking
but little pleased at the description of
his rival:
"How big is hep did you say! Faixl
he's az big as the ould tower fornmst the
door, an head an shoulders on him
like Father McGurney's bull. By all &C.
counts hel IL ait you alivep
Barney began to feel rather uncomfort-
able at the prospect before him, and
straightway went to consult his wife as
to what should be done in the event of
his rival proving to be such as his mes.
senger had represented. While they
were thus engaged, one of the children
came running in and exclaimed: dad
dy, come to the door an see the great
man that's coming up the HILL" Barney
peeped through. the chinks of the door,
and, to his great terror, saw the monster.
One look was enough to satisfy him
that his messenger had not exaggerated
his account OF him, and, turning to his
wife, he said:
"Shelah, jewel! I'm eat up alive, for
sartin! Here comes the Scotch baist to
drum your Barney"
When Shelah heard of the approach
Of the coming foe, and saw her lords
inability to wage war with one so far
superior in strength and size, she con-
cluded that it was only by some piece of
woman's wit that her husband could es-
cape from the affair without dishonor.
Accordingly, she gently lifted the child
out of the cradle, and, depositing it in
the inner room, made the father get in it's
place, and, covering him up with quilt,
gently seated herself and resumed her
work. After few moments, in walked
the cause of all the disturbance, and de.
manded an interview with the giant.
Shelah, after motioning with her hand
for him to keep quiet, walked gently
across the floor to where he stood, and in
an uadertone told him Barney had gone
out to the woods. The giant told her
that he intended waiting his return.
Every well!' said Shelah. "Only
don't make word of noise for the life
that's in you, for there's nothing makes
him more furious than to hear the child
crying when he comes home"
BY this time the giant had seated him.
self on bench and was quietly survey
ing the apartment; but when his eye
rested on the cradle, with look of unut-
terable establishment, he asked what was
in it. !.
I'm til" cried Shelah. "Don't you see
it's the child that's in it? An Heaven help
you if you wake him! The crayture
didn't get wink of sleep last night,
with two back teeth he's cutting"
The giant, with look of terror and
establishment, asked what size the father
was.
"Faith an I can't tell you'll" said She.
lab, "'cause never measured him. But
that gossoon," pointing to the cradle
"when the father is angry, runs and
hides himself in one of his boots!"
Laird save us!" exclaimed the giant
II Wilma mind waiting the moo, lassie
Imaun be gaun! GUIDE morning!"
So saying, he took to his heels and
never thought himself safe until he got
among the hills of his own country.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-20
Victor Hugo ON Women's Rights.

:. The Society for the Improvement of
the Condition of Women have sent an
address to Victor Hugo appealing to him
In the name of right to lend them the aid
of his valuable voice. The poet replies
in the following characteristic letter:
MESDAMEs-Ih have received your ad-
dress, which does me honor. am aware
of your noble and legitimate demands
In our society, such as it has been made,
woman suffers. She is right to claim a
better fate. I myself am only con-
science, but understand your rights,
and to obtain them is one of the duties
of my life. You are, therefore, not wrong
to rely on my goodwill and assistance
Man was the problem Of the eighteenth
century woman. is the problem of the
nineteenth. And who says woman says
child-that is, the future. The question
thus put appears in all its profundity,
and on its solution depends the fate Of
the supreme social battle. What strange
and anomalous situation! In reality man
depends on you, for woman holds the
heart of man. Before the law she is minor,
incapable, without civil action, without
political right-in short, she is nothing;
before the family altar she is everything,
because she is the mother. The domestic
hearth is what she makes it; at home she
is the mistress of good and ill. Sow
ereignty complicated by oppression;
woman can do all against man, but
nothing for herself. 1t is imprudent of
the law to make her so weak where she
is SO strong. Let US recognize that weak
ness and protect it; let US recognize that
strength and counsel it. There lies the
duty of man and there is also his inter-
est. No, shall never cease to say it;
the problem is laid down and it must be
solved. She who bears half the burden
ought to have half the right. Half of
the human race is deprived OF equality;
it must be given to them. THIS will be
one of the grand glories of our grand
century. Let the right of woman coun-
terbalance the right of man-that is to
say, let the laws be placed in conformity
with the morals and manners of the
country. Accept, mesdames, my re-
spects"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-20

AT st. Adams, VT, few days ago,
man named jerome obtained verdict of
81, 900 damages for being elected from a
railroad car when'he had ticket, though
it appeared the ticket was not found un-
til after he was expelled.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-20

The Worcester Spy has published an
account Of the collision between the
British and the Colonists in April, 1775,
taken from, its own files of that time.
And no one has said a word about ex-
plotting the centennial of the Worcester
SDv, -s-s ,...." go.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-20

BLEAK. but thrifty: The deposits in
the various savings banks of Nova Scotia
at the end Of last year amounted to $1,-
5S3,S70.O9. sr s<S|& i
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-20

The newhotel ut San francisco is put
together with l6O. 900 barrels Of mortar.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-20

A NORTH CAROLINA householder dis
covered that the burglar he had killed
was a woman in male attire. fs.3
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:a03(sto he for common to extra. shoep,
clipped, brought 5]s@e1sc, and unshorn
6H@Sc. s.-~s-S 49,
AT East Liberty, Pa, on the 10th, cattle
brought: Extra, s65o@7.O0; good, $500
SIS; common, s475@5!Oo. Hogs sold
Workers, s7.4O@765; Philadelphia, 5000
900. Sheep brought s4.2s@625 according
to quality. w. -
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ouu SdhACy3 tHC SulCdSO cHduSCllSGS, were
listened to by over 100000 persons every
week. The Moderator of the British Presby-
terrain Synod, at its session in London on the
18th, expressed his cordial sympathy with
them in their religious work.
The Berlin North German Gazette of the 4th
denies the truth of the statement in the
American papers that company had been
organized to facilitate the return to Germany
of emigrants to the United States.
THE Paris correspondent of the London
Times, in dispatch published on the 5th,
says that uneasiness prevailed in well-in-
formed circles in France and that war be-
tween that power and Germany was deemed
not improbable.
A LONDON dispatch of the 5th says that
over 1900 persons had been converted in that
city-the result of the labors of Messrs. Moody
and Sankey.
The importation into Finland or Russian
territory of American potatoes has been for
hidden.
A BOMBAY dispatch Of the 9Th announces
the appearance Of the cholera in the city of
Baroda.
THE Prince Bishop of Breslau has been
removed and expelled from Germany for vio-
lation Of the Ecclesiastical laws. "
THE Prussian police have received of late
alarming notices of plots against Bismarck
and Minister Falk. A special detective STAFF
has been formed for their protection.
THE American Methodist Church at Quick
arg, in China, was recently destroyed by q
Chinese mob. 5s Z gt;
The Eagle line steamer Schiller, which