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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-05-18
Political Yot!ings:.

>slstiie 'tin1ds rs holding lii & Several
national conventions draws near there is an
increa6Sd~ activity In political movements,
The Republicans OF Michigan elected an I'M
instructed delegation to the Cincinnati con-
yention, which il pronounced one Of the best
in standing ever sent from the State. Iowa
greenback supporters to the number Of SO
met At Des Moines and elected delegates to
attend the indianapolis convention. The
same iparty In Wisconsin was represented in
: convention in Madison by about thirty dele
gates and representation selected for the In
dianapolis convention. ~.
Prospective Reunion Of the Methodist Church
80 '''' North and South.
..- On the occasion of the recent recep-
ton of tho delegation from the conference OF
the church south by the general conference
1T the Methodist Episcopal church north, 1T
Baltimore, the hall was handsomely decorated
and crowded in every part. The scene is de-
-scribed ~ happy combination Of a Christian
and hosal welcome. The address ofwelcome
by Rev. Dr. Pierce was very eloquent Ar
rangements were made for the appointment
Of = committee to meet that Of the church
south 70 adjust all differences. :.u.
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the patient OF headache in one or two hours,
and will rapidly cleanse the liver Of sur
rounding bile, and will effectually prevent a
bilious attack. They are sold by all drug
gists.
The WEST END HOTEL, on the European
plan, 1926 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, next
door to the Reform club, centrally located and
arranged for two hundred guests, supplies a
long-felt want Accommodations rst.class.
Prices moderate. The proprietor, C.. T. Jones,
Esq, for eight years in the Hoffman House,
New York, knows how to keep hotel.
The Times says DR.. Walpole has lost
his beautiful chestnut mare. She died sud
denly in harness, it is supposed from bots or
pin worms. If the Doctor had used Sheri-
dams Cavalry Condition Powders, he would,
no doubt, have had his mare to-day-they
are death to worms.
Chapped hands are very common
with those who have their hands much in
water. few drops of Johnson's Anodyne
Liniment rubbed over the hands two or three
times day, will keep them soft and white.
Fishermen, sailors, and others will de we'll to
remember this.
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Morn Eastern El00da.

The recent heavy rains in the east has
swollen the rivers Of New IEngland up to the
danger point. The Connecticut was two feet
higher than at any time in the past ten years,
and farmers in that broad and fertile valley
suffered much in consequence. Several rail-
roads were badly washed out and much other
damage done:
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-05-18

only boxed thee for the heathcn's
sake. I gave to thee, thou hast given
to the heather, and now, farewell !"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-05-18

Southern Hotel, st. Louis, Mo.
The most complete hotel in all its ap.
pointments in the West. The table supplied
at all times with the best the market affords
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-05-18
Notice to Subscribers.

Notice to Subscribers.
Attention is called to the arrange.
ment made whereby any subscriber to this
paper fold or newt may obtain FREE, copy
Of that household treasure, "Hodgmsn's Fam
lily Album" the retail price of which, as sold
by agents, is $500. Read the advertisement
in another column.
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Xantipl,e.

1t seems that the memory Of this wom-
an, like that Of her renowned husband, is likely
to be kept alive to the end OF time She is
said to have possessed a very irritable tenn
per, and her name has become a synonym Of
..:vixen," or "scold;" 1t is more than posi-
on he by mankind has been to severe. A
more charitable disposition would undoubt-
edlv have discovered in her, many good
qualities, and have attributed her faitings
more to physical inirmities than t. moral
| obliquity. The party most intimately &C.
quainted with her, and therefore best able to
form a correct opinion, gives her credit for
many domestic virtues. It is now we'll
known that many of the diseases to which
women are subject, have direct tendency
to reIder them irritable, peevish, cross, mo-
rose, unreasonable. 80 that they chate and
fret over all those little ills and annoyances
| that person in health would bear with COM
posure 1t is. fair to infer that most OF the
tantrums Of Xantippe were due to these caus-
| es alone and could Socrates, as he returned
from the Senate, the Gymnasium, or the
Atheneum, have stopped ut Pestle Il Nor
tar's Drug Store and carried home bottle Of
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription now and
"curtain lecture" allayed many "domes-
i tic broil, >" made it much more pleasant for
the children, and more enjoyable for himself,
and rescued his wife's name from the unen-
viable, worldwide, and eternal notoriety it
has attained. Thousands of women bless the
! day on which DR.. Pierces Favorite Pre~crip-
ton was first made known to them. A sim
gle bottle often gives delicate and suffering
women more relief than months Of suffering
treatment from their family physician. In
all those arrangements causing back ache,
dragging-down sensations, nervous and gen.
eral debility, it is q sovereign remedy. Its
soothing and healing properties render it Of
the utmost value to ladies' suffering from in
ternal fever, congestion, inflammation, or ul-
ceration, and its Strengthening effects tend to
correct displacements Of internal parts, the
result of weakness of natural supports. 1t ii
sold by all druggists.
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Mutiny ut Sea.

The bark Caswell has arrived at Lon
don after q voyage from Brazil in charge Of
three men and two boys, all who survived Of
crew Of fifteen. In the original crew there
were three Greeks and two Italians, who
mutinieed and killed the captain, first and
second mates and the steward The three
Englishmen then overpowered the Greeks
and put them with the Italians in boat and
sent them adrift, but near land, after which
they made for England where they arrived in
safety
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To all, particularly lnv;elids,. spring
is trying season. Indications OF sickness
should At once be attended to. Fatal diseases
may be caused by allowing the bowels to be-
come constipated, and the system to remain
in disordered condition, until the disorder
has time to develop itself. An ounce ct pre-:
vention is worth pound Of cure, is an old
all who are troubled with the complaints now
very prevalent headache, indigestion, dis
ordered liver, want Of appetite, nausea, or
feverish skin, to take, without delay,
Schenck's Mandrake pills. We know of no
remedy 50 harmless and decisive in its action.
1t at once strikes at the root Of the disease
and produces healthy tone to the system.
People never need suffer from any disease
arising from a. disordered condition of the
liver # they would take this excellent medi-
cine when they feel the first indications of the
malady. Families leaving home for the sum-
mer months should take three or four boxes
ofthese pills with them. They have an al
most instantaneous effect. They will relieve
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-05-18
Sunday LIQUOR Law for Ireland.

The house of commons has passed a
resolution to provide for the closing Of places
for the sale OF intoxicating drink, in Ireland,
on Sunday. The government opposed the
resolution, and caused asubstitute to be Offer
ed, limiting the hours OF sale. Stafford
Northcote favored the substitute and Glad
stone, Bright and Lorne advocated the orig
inal. The vote stood 222 in favor of closing
the shops on Sunday to 1877 against The
liberals cheered vociferously at the result.
Foreign War Imminent.
The London Telegraph has informa.
ton of most interesting character from Con-
stantinople, and says violent outbreak, in
which Christians will be the victims, may &C.
cur At any moment, and the England Medi-
terranean squadron is expected to be ordered
to Be.ika Bay, the same as on the eve of the
Crimean war. The massacre at Salonica adds
fuel to the fame at home, and furnishes fresh
reason for the interference of foreign powers.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-05-18
The Old Minnesota State Railroad Bonds.

The Old Minnesota State Railroad Bonds.
The recent decision of the United
States Supreme Court relative to the liability
Of the railroad companies to pay the bonds
Of the State Of Minnesota under the ''fve
million loan" clause Of the State constitution,
declares that ''the faith OF the State, solemn
~ pledged for the payment Of both principal
and interest, has never been kept" and that
the bonds are illegal obligation" and the
estate is bound by every consideration Of
honor and good faith to pay them" The de-
cision AYERS that were the State 'amenable
to the tribunals Of the country, as private in
dividuals are, no court Of justice would
withhold its judgment against her in All action
for their enforcement.
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The Molly Maguircs.

For more than a year past there has
not been time when there did not exist
serious trouble in some of the great coal dis
tricts. The latest is at Massillon, Ohio, and
Pottsville, Pa, where the attitude Of the
strikers has been threatening since the
first of the year. Gov. Hayes, Of Ohio
was compelled to call out several companies
Of militia to hold in check the strikers at Mas
sillon, and put stop to the frequent murders
there. New hands were put into some Of the
mines, and protected by troops, but the pros
poet for an early settlement Of the trouble is
not very encouraging. A company Of militia
was ordered to assist the sheriff in making a
dozen arrests, last week, and one man, who
refused to submit, was shot through the bowels
and soon died.
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This Claim. House Established in 1865.

This Claim House Established in 1865.
DcNel:1 G obtained for officers, soldiers
CcVOIU'O and sealnen Of WAN Of iS61 and
s. and for their heirs The law includes deserers and
those dishonoraby discharged. II wounded injured
have contracted any disease apply at once. Thousands
aud should apply immediately. All soldiers and eeanen
er short. whether disabled or not-and a widows OF
such not the Pension rolls are requested to send
me their address at once.
DIVINITY. Many who enlisted i'll 1862
0UQW ] and sare entitled. Send your discharg
es and have them examined business before the At
ENT OFFICE solicited. Officers returns and &C.
counts settled and al just claims prosecuted.
AS make charge unless successful request all to
enclose two stamps for reply and return OF papers.
GEORGE E. LEMON, Lock Box Al, Washington, D. Z.
recommend Captain Lemon as an honorable and sue
cessful Practtoner-S A. Hurbut, NJ. c. 4th Congres-
sional District of Illinois, late Mai -ienl U. s Vols
In writing mention name Of this paper.
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aaz $3.50
TIE sun.
FOR THE CAMPAIGN.

The events Of the Presidential campaign will be SO
faithfully and fully Illustrated In TaE NEW
parties! We will send the WEEKLY EDITION
eight pa8es post paid from June LIST till after election
At the price; the DAILY four pages. for ~3.
Address THE sun, New York City.
The New York herald., 1876-01-01
The whiskey Frauds.

If there is any Presidential capital to be
made out Of vigorous and successful opposi-
tion to corrupt rings it will inure to Secre-
tary Bristow and not to Governor Tilden.
Our democratic Governor has made a great
parade of zeal, but he has not accomplished
any important practical results. He has, in
deed, suspended the Canal Auditor and sent
him to the Senate for trial, but in other re-
spects everything goes on in the State govern
ment as it would have done if our reform Gov
ernor had not been born. He has not saved
the State treasury as much money as his
Commission of Investigation has cost. Sec
retary Bristow has acted on larger scale and
with more satisfactory results. He has
broken and demolished the Whiskey Ring
at st. Louis, and the Whiskey Ring at
Chicago is equally certain to be prostrated by
his vigorous onset. He will recover large
sums to the national Treasury, whereas it
does not yet appear that the taxpayers of the
State will be saved dollar by Governor Til
dens assault on the Canal Ring. 1t is q fur
ther point in Mr.. Bristow IS favor that he has
done his work without boasting or parade or
pet Secretary Bristow has shown that he is
bent on business, not buncombe.
The proceedings against the Chicago Whis-
key Ring have been admirably managed, and
there seems no doubt that the Secretary of
the Treasury has got the thieves within the
clutches of the law He did not seize the
Chicago distilleries until he had quietly got
possession Of evidence and made sure of his
ground, and he is likely to recover great
part of the money out of which the govern
ment has been swindled. If the republican
party should nominate Mr.. Bristow as its
candidate for the Presidency there is no
democrat who would have any chance of sue
cess against him if the election should turn
on the question of official reform. At any
rate, he has quite eclipsed our more demon
strative Governor in the solid results and
practical value of his work.
The New York herald., 1876-01-01
New Years Calls.

There are calls of all kinds about the first
of the year. You may call upon your friends,
and your friends may call on you. But how
shall the calling be? Observation-Disclosures
says in one of his heroic ments:-"Go, call
a coach and let coach be called, and let the
caller be the man who calleth, and in his
calling let him nothing call but Coach
Coach Coach =" Here is calling which will
be exclusively used to-day, when all the
Youth of New York proposes to call
upon all the Beauty. This general
dema nd for cabs and coaches makes a happy
New Years Day for those whose calling is to
keep carriages for the public good No
young gentleman with large feminine ac-
quaintance can expect to make all his calls
as pedestrian, and as the Brummagen
tailors said when they took George Frederick
Cooke home from the theatre, so may we say
of the typical buck ''Confound the expense
let's have him in coach" To-day is the
day for extravaganza in eve'v phase of life;
and it is also the day to resolve that we shall
never be guilty of such folly for the rest of
the whole year.
But about New Years calls. If your friend
calls upon you for friendship and good fell
lowship, it is a delightful compliment and
beginning of the year. But suppose he calls
upon you for loan1 New Years then be-
comes day of gloom, q day of wrath, some
thing akin to a day for fasting and swearing.
This is unhappily very often the case. By
a singular combination of fortunate and
,ai.N fofa fha e
the year is chosen as the anniver-
sary for the calls of festive revel-
lers and of duns Everybody who calls
does not call for glass of wine. The most
punctual visitors are those who call for their
little bills. We have always thought this
was bad arrangement, one which is de-
cidedly inconvenient to large number of
worthy, yet somewhat impecunious citizens.
Why should not pay day be the 10Th Of Feb
ruary or any other suitable anniversary?
But as it is, people have their good and evil
inextricably confused and New Years Day,
like all the other days in the year, must
have its share of sorrow and JOY. We can
not advise people where to call, ex-
cept upon their friends. They need
not call upon Mayor Wickham, for he will
not be in his Office. If they get into a row
they should not call upon the police, for
they might come, and would then be sure to
arrest the wrong man. They should not call
too often upon the ruby wine. If they wish
to call upon the HERALD they will find us
always sat home" to the public. Finally, if
they wish to make calls which Heaven will
hear let them call upon the poor, whom we
have always with us, but who never need
our assistance more than in this brilliant
mid-winter festival, which contrasts so
strangely with their pinched and suffering
lives.
The New York herald., 1876-01-01
The BROOKLYN Ring.

AS will be seen by our news columns, the
Grand Jury of Kings county yesterday
indicted William A. Fowler, member of the
Board Of City Works. of Brooklyn, for bribery
and corrupt practices in the discharge of the
duties of his Office. Under a contract be-
tween the Brooklyn city government and the
Peoples Gas Light Company this company
agreed to supply gas for large number of
city lamps and to keep the lamps in condi-
ton and light and extinguish them. For
lighting and cleaning the lamps there was
fixed sum due the company from the city /;
but as the price of gas might vary, and as
the amount supplied would necessarily vary
for the different months of the year, the CON-
pensation due the company had to be deter
mined at stated seasons between its agents
and the city authorities 1t was the duty of
Mr. Fowler, as a Commissioner of City Works,
to certify to the correctness of the accounts
presented by the gas company. Without his
certificate the company could not collect its
bills from the city treasury. With this
certificate it could apparently cjllect what
ever sum it demanded Here was an oppor-
tunity for that sort of collision between
those who act for the city and th1se who sup
ply it by which New York was so effectively
robbed in the regime of Tweed connolly and
company. Evidently it only was Necessary for
the gas company to add hundred per cent to
its bills and agree that the Commissioner
should get at least half of the fraudulent in
crement. For his part the Commissioner
could make an arrangement for division with
such of the disbursing agents of the city as
might stand in the way if their attention
were attracted to the company's heavy bills.
By such an arrangement commission
ers get rich and gas companies thrive,
and such an arrangement is the usual form
taken by municipal thievery il these days.
Strangely enough, however, thepresent in
dictment does not deal with such trans
action. Indeed, it is discreety, and, we
suppose, properly silent as to whether the
city was robbed by understanding between
the company and the Commissioner. 1t
charges Fowler with the attempt to extort
one thousand dollars from the company, on
a specified day, by the threat that if the sum
were not paid he would not certify to the
correctness of the company's accounts against
the city. Whether this were first demand,
promptly resisted, or whether it was his
regular monthly consideration objected
to at last as exorbitant, will, no doubt, be
shown on the trial.
The New York herald., 1876-01-01
method seems beyond all human attain
ment
Our Cable Dispatches.


Our brilliant neighbor, the S,u, is still dis
satisfied with our dispatches from Europe.
1t does not say that they are not the best de-
spatches ever received by an American jour
nal 1t does not object to any essential fea-
ture of the dispatches. Doubtless its love
of truth stood in the way of allegations to
that effect. Our contemporary is as justly
vain of its love of truth as Sir Plume was of
his amber snuff box, and therefore it could
not say that our dispatches are not the best,
and even only good, ones that come over the
cable for they are. Our contemporary OBJ
jects to the way in which some of the words
in one of our dispatches were spelled. On
this point we are thoroughly liberal. Not
only do we admit that our contemporary
could have spelled the words in question
more ingeniously and quantity than we did,
but we will promise that if our neighbor will
send US an outline of his system of or
biography all our future cable let
ters shall be spelled according to
that system, provided only it can be
reduced to practice in an ordinary sublunary
establishment like ours. Indeed we are
so willing to please our contemporary that
we are seriously thinking of having special
cable letters every day. We invite his criti-
cism of their merits, and shall endeavor to
profit by his suggestions. Tomorrow as
usual, We shall have our Paris and London
letters sent by cable, and, though we do not
know what they will contain we shall print
them as they are sent-gossip, news. rumor,
facts about the finances, the theatres, the
opera, politics, literature, science, poetry
and all. We only regret that we do not have
the opportunity of rendering our critical
neighbor the same service it renders US, but
as it does not seem to care for special news
letters by cable the burden of obli-
cation must rest upon our own shoul-
ders. Unfortunately, however, we be-
gin to fear that it is not possible that our ad-
mirable dispatches can ever be altogether
agreeable to our neighbor, print them we
may 1t is credibly recorded that Webster's
father once called upon him to repay with
his services in the hay field some portion of
what had been spent on his education. Web
ster cut into O swath, but found that the
scythe did not chang right" SO the old
gentleman readjusted the blade and snath at
a different angle. Still the scythe "did
not hang right" But after some Intellectual
endeavors to improve the implement the old
man impatiently said, Hang it to suit your
SELF" whereupon the scythe was imme-
diately hanged upon the limb of handy
apple tree. Is it possible that we can
not please our contemporary with our de-
spatches unless we hang them in such way
that they will not make our columns lively
with the latest news from all parts of the
world?
The New York herald., 1876-01-01
Reform an IsIation.

some OF the measures passed at the last
session OF Congress ara of such character as
70 JUSTIFY us in suggesting that there should
De reform In our whole method of legisla-
tion- An amendment was attached to a Post
once olll, which, it was discovered after the
adjournment, imposed tax apon mail matter
never intended by Congress orbv the govern
ment. This tax has been of the most op-
pressive character to the readers of news.
papers. We have a despatch from
Washington, informing US that an act
of Congress guaranteeing the issue Oh
what Is known as the three-sixty-five Dis
trict of Columbia bonds is open to con-
struction not intended by Congress-. In
other words, this measure was passed for the
purpose of securing debt incurred in the
Improvement of Washington. The plain in
tention of Congress in passing it was to guar
antee the payment of these bonds, principal
and interest, in currency at the rate of three
and sixty-fve hundredths per cent per
annum. The principal was made payable in
fifty years from date, August l, 1874 1t is
now discovered that the law was so peculiarly
worded that the holders of the bonds,
mainly Washington ring spectators, mean
to insist that the government shall pay them,
principal and interest, in gold. If any one
point was clear in the minds of the Senate
and House when they passed the act guaran-
teeing these bonds 1t was that the guarantee
should only be for their value in currency.
Now, we discover that ring of spectators,
by an adroit management of the bill and the
suppression of phraseology and vague ex-
preston of ideas, have practically committed
the government to a pledge which was never
intended by the legislative power.
This tends to show the want of RESPONSE
bility in Congress, which leads to crude and
inefficient legislation. Take this measure OF
the Post Office, this taxing of newspapers
There never was a grosser outrage and yet
we cannot hold the administration respon.
sible The administration does not con-
troll Congress- nor can we hold any
party in Congress responsible. The an
swer is that they passed the measure
hastily, without knowledge of its real effect