The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-11-02
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INDIAN LAkEITEIEN.

: Farmers are busy blowing up their
land for next years crop. DR.. Church.
i'll, F. Fiero, Isaac Horton and Cllas. !
F. Bulls are through blowing, and q.
Campbell, II. Brayton, Mr.. Coyer, and
others, are nearly through john Hag-
gard is still buying stock. People are
anxiously waiting for the first OF No
vember in order to begin trapping.
Some excitement has been raised by
parties coming in from tile outside and
trapping already The citizens warned
them off and they left. There was
minor arrival recently at the residence
of Child. Hopkins, a girl weighing 81
pounds. There are very few grassllop-
per eggs to be found now in this town
ship. Tile blackbirds seem to he the
principal destroyers.
On Monday evening last John ogle,
who had been out hunting, came home
and set his loaded gun down in the
house. After a time the younger chill
dren began to play with the gun, which
was heavily loaded with large buck
shot, when it was discharged, the con-
tents tearing the legs of one or two
chairs and lodging in the organ. One
of the shot struck the little girl in the
foot. The children, naturally enough,
were very much frightened and at
tempted to conceal the matter fro N the
parents, who were absent at the time of
the discharge. But the marks on the
chairs and the organ, and the pain in
the foot of the little girl, brought the
facts to light. DR.. Craft was called
and extracted the ball from the foot.
We consider the escape without further
injury as marvellous, and we take occa-
Sion again to warn our people against
the careless use of firearms.
The three gentlemen who talked with
us about an armistice with the roWdy
element, will bear us out III the state
ment that the article in the Journal on
the subject is false from beginning to
end. That article was designed to re-
new and reopen the trouble. The
Journal does not want peace. 1t was
started to make war, and war it is. If
the journal will enter into an arms.
tice not to encourage rowdyism, then
there will he peace.
Ia +1,n& |,
cent story of being threatened at night
on the street by the boys, and the one
about being wilfully annoyed by them
on the way no from the depot, was the
result of lis vivid NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ral.
This is all out-and-out falsehood-
File on the "only lady editor in the
State " to be printing f;lsehoods in her
little paper. Go home and read to the
children what Artemus Ward says a.
bout strong-mlnded ladies:
On the cars was 4 female with Il
green cotton umbreller i'll l hand and Il
HANDFUL Of Reform tracts in the other.
Speer. All as didn't demand thare
opCCAO, uIuIi AiOV " uStV "Io HOOO lVl
'em. whats my Speer p she axed,
'd:essin the people in the cars. is It
to stay ter home and darn stockings.
mend briches, and be, the servale of Il
| d0myneerin man? Or is tiny Speer to
vote, and speek, and show myself the
ekil OF man? Is thare sister in these
ka;s as has. her proper Speer?' S;lyin
which this ecksentrick female whurled
her unlbreller around fu times, and
finally jabbed me i'll the Weskit with it.
| heV no objections to yer gOin inter
the Speer biznis, sez I, but you, H plees
remember, [ amt IL pickerill. Don t
Speer me agin, if you plees.' She sot
down.
Please remember that we amt pick,
eral, and he careful how you flourish,
your umbreller.
! LETTER FROM ILLINOIS,
BEVERLY, ILL.,, Oct. Is, 1876.
EDITOR ADVANCES: Enclosed you
will find one dollar and twenty five
cents ($1.25) for which you will please
send me one Of your new County Maps.
The balance give me credit for on sub.
scription. Mr.. c. II. Funk says the
maps are we'll got up, and as we are
Gerry much interested i'll your town and
county, one of these, | think, would be
very useful to us. The grasshoppel
raid, since I left Worthington in June,
is certainly very discouraging, but, not.
witistanding the little pests, I still
have full confidence i'll the outcome OF
the whole northwest, and Of your coun.
ty and town particularly, with it's many
advantages of soil, water, beautiful
scenery, cheap lands, and healthy eli
mate. Why, to think of DESERVING a
country like that Oh account Of few
grasshoppers is simply out of the ques
ton. We will not think of it. Think
what has been done since Worthingtor
was first laid out (some five years, be-
lieve,) the many farms opened through
out the county, the rapid and substan
tial improvements of the county seat
Considering the drawbacks, where is
the place that has done better? AS ]
look at it, you have thousands OF dol
lars going to waste every year or burnt
up. All that is required is capital tC
stock the country with and a little Ia
Dor to look after it. You have al
abundance of grass Of the best quality
for all kinds of live stock for, Say, 81
months during the summer, with plenty
left for hay to winter the stock on
And know when there year since, ]
saw Il great deal growing besides grass
When grain comes to the Worthington
market by the thousands of bushels
week after week, as it did last winter