The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-02-10
GENERAL MATTERS.

The boat crews Of Harvard and Yale
Colleges will row an eight cared race ut Spring.
field June 30th.
The French government has declined
the proposition Of England to L,,y their fishing
rights in New Foundland
The Union Pacific railroad is block.
aded at Bridger Station and other points. An
attempt to force the drift At Toama on the 3ist
with train Of twelve engines was unsuccess-
jul.
The United States Senate in executive
session on the 1st, confirmed the nomination
Of E. McMurtrie a. pension agent At st. Paul,
and c. w. Darling, as Indian agent at Fort
Berthold, Dakota
In the Wisconsin Senate on the Sd bills
were introduced to FIX the salary of the secre-
tary of State, State Treasurer and Attorney
General at %, 500, commencing from 1873. and
cutting off all the tees.
The Court Of Appeals Of Missouri has
affirmed the decision Of the circuit court that
the State lottery is illegal. Judge Blackwell
diasented. The case will probably be appeal
ed to the supreme court.
The manufacturers and mechanics of
St. Johns, N. B.. have memoraIlzed the gov
ernment to increase the duties on all imported
articles which come into direct competition
with domestic manufactures.
The boiler. weighing nearly 10, tons,
Of Shippers cotton press, Galveston, Texas,
exploded on the night Of the 4th, wrecking
the building and seriously injuring two men
named spriggs and William Thompson,
It is announced that the Prussian min
lister of commerce will send several officers Of
the mining department OF that country to our
centennial exhibition, with instructions to
study the mining industries Of the United
States.
kilograms Of the Sd from points in In.
diana, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Teunes-
see and Arkansas, mention heavy storms, of
snow, sleet and rain. Throughout Indiana
and in some portions Of Missouri the snow fall
exceeded six inches.
The Oxford (Eng.) college crew has de.
clined the challenge Of the American inter-col-
legiate rowing association to row in the latter
part Of July At Saratoga, on the ground that
amateur regatta.
:, The first stage of F. D. Yates l. Co. s
semi-weekly direct line between Cheyenne
and Custer City, via Fort Laramie and Red
Cloud, carry ing United States mail, left on the
I'd. A daily line will be in operation in twen-
ty days. Large parties are leaving there daily
for the mines:
The Secretary of War, in answer to
the inquiry Of the House committee, gives it
a. his opinion that the best and most econom-
ical way 70 protect the Texas border from Mex
ican raids il to i'll by recruiting the military
companies now stationed along the Rio Grande
up 70 their maximum strength
The Committee ON Indian Affairs. Of
the House Of Congress has decided that the
government Is not At all liable for depredations
committed by Indians and win report to the
House i resolution to that infect, exo<pting
only cases where the United States has' as
sumed the responsibility lin treaty 'stipula-
tions. .s:vt:1 :. =: ii, II. s:.,: .: ;.,s:!
h 1tie announced that Cardinal Manning Of
]aRnsland isstov visit Rome in order to defend BE-
fore the Sacred congregations scheme which
nas oeen eabnitted to him, and on which he
has been engaged ior two years, for the union
Of . portion Of the English rituaiistic clergy
With the Romtn Catholic church. III Thee pope
Il beafevsdto b III favor Of the schhe1nnne: tbut
the Sacred congregations are opposed. toll t.s
ThsU. s., .,Ssnats 'on:ths 4th confirmed
he following nominations: Chas. P. Gill ol
I wisconsin, coomn,miasioner of pensionu.;; Henr,
III: Atkinson, surveyor general of New Mexico
! Wm: Beckel, collector q informal ftvepne,