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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-09-20
from salt Lake City.

Probate Judge Elias Smith, Of Salt
Lake having refused committee of the grand
jury access to the books and papers, was or.
dered to appear before Judge shaffer, on the
10Th, and not appearing was adjudged guilty
of contempt and fined $500; $50 for each day
he kept the paper from the grand jury and
costs. The Marshal was ordered to arrest him
upon further refusal. The grand jury were
thcreupon allowed access to books and papers
of wholesale divorce business.
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A Fever.strlclken Ship.

The whaling schooner Charles Thomp-
son, of Provincetown, Mass arrived at New
York on the 18th from a cruise via Fernandina
Fla, in charge of the mate ofthe bark Cinque
which vessel found the Thompson drifting
about :. without q navigator Capt. Leach
having died of the yellow fever and the mates
being down with the same disease.
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Ohio vworkinsmen'e Candidates.

One hundred and fifty persons from 80
counties of Ohio, met at Columbus on the 18th
and nominated ticket for State officers as fol-
lows For Governor, Stephen johnson, of
Miami; lieutenant governor, Christopher Lewis,
of Franklin; supreme judge, Milton L. Clark,
of Koss; treasurer, James Jenkins, of Tusca-
rora; clerk Of supreme court, E. p. Pitkin, Of
Clark; attorney general, George A. Duncan,
Of Huron; school commissioner, John c. Lo-
gan, of Mahoning; board Of public works, C..
G. Strong, of Defiance.
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32a Re.niea ~ Col. Aayes' nesiasae.r
A reunion of the Esd Ohio regiment of
which President Hayes was Colonel, took
place at Fremont on the 14th, IN the presence
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Of = crowd estimated as high g q, 900 persons
Addresses were made by the President, Gen.
Sheridan, Gen. Rosencranz, Secretary Nc
Crary, Gen. Cox and others.
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The painter, when he first sees baby
eat whortleberry pie, begins to compre-
hend how limited il the power Of his
art.
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The New usrnsn- Pre.aae~H.

The New Aornaen, RreslAeat.
John Taylor, president Of the twelve
apostles Is acting President Of the Mormon
Church until new President Is elected. Tay.
lor was shot at Nauvoo at the time Joe Smith
was killed; and il most bitter and bigoted
religious fanatic.
Heavy 9tern On the Coast.
A heavy rain storm began at Atlantic
city on the night of the 7th, and continued all
day The tide was higher than ever before here
doing great damage to property. The excur-.
sion house was carried out to sea. Railroads
were covered with two or three feet Of water
extinguishing fires in locomotives.
Marriage Of senator.
Geo. E. Spencer, United States Senator
from Alabama, and Miss May Nurse, actress
were privately married early on the 18th, IN
the parocnial residence OF St. Bernard Catholic
church, New York. The marriage was known
only to few friends Of the bride and groom
Determined to stay.
News from Fort Walsh of August 18th
says Sitting Bull is encamped at point neal
Horse Buttes, 120 miles from Fort Walsh and
from Wood Mountain. He has no intention
Of going on tho war path. He is determined
to remain under British protection:
The Workings Of . stricken Consclence
The Secretary of the Treasury receivce
on the 18th, from New York from an unknown
person 1851 for an error in income return:
for 1865 andt 1866 and an omission In 1870
and placed the same to the credit OF the con
science fund,
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One HsnareA Persons Lost at Sea.

Information of a fearful disaster and loss
oflife in the English Channel was received on
the 12th. The British ship Avalanche, Cap
tain Williams, from London, September 4th,
f0r New Zealand; came in collision With the
British ship Forest, Captain toekhart; from
London for New York, of Portland, and both
vessels foundcred. Ninety.six persons were
drowned. The Forest was in ballast and had q
crew..numbering2 Captain Lockhart, the chief
filate ind seven others are saved. The Forest
struck the Avalanche between the main and
mizezn masts, nearly cutting her in two. The
latter sank Immediately. The Forest, though
utterly wrecked, kept ahoat an hour Or two,
&hd three boats were launched from her, only
ono Of which has yet been saved: It contain.
cd the twelve persons mentioned as saved
One boat washed ashore and several ladies.
The other boat, it is feared, is lost The Av-
alanche had 63 passengers saloon, II Sec
ond class and q third class. mostly colonists.
The disaster occurred at halfpast last night,
eand seven miles of Portland. From latest in
ornation received up to the 18th, it appears
that over loo persons lost their lives. i
Turkish account Of Russian Atrocities
The Turkish legation in New York city
furnishes the following: At Kezoulik, as
soon as the Russians occupied the town, the
Cossack and Bulgarian inhabitants entirely
despoiled the Mussulmans. The were sub.
jected to thousand torturcs in the presence
OF their wives. Those who declared they had
no money were put 10 death. At Gaiineham,
the governor Of the town had his eyes torn
out and his teeth pulled out, and for three
days was taken through the streets In that
condition. On the defeat Of the Russians at
Eski saghra, the Bu1garians left the city, but
returned next day, and murder and rape were
permanent Independently Of those killed
In the houses, every day from twenty to thirty
Mussu]mans were executed publicly. In the
vicinity Of Roxenlek Mussulman villages were
devastated. Destruction by fire followed the
.pillage..> All the Mussulman population which
L remained were omassacred. save young girls
and youngest women who we're taken to the
y Balkans. In Eski lSaghra a portion Of the
tflussulman people were massacred. On the
other side Of the Balkans the enemy systemat.
tesllI burn eyeryvillags on his line Of march,
Hccven begins to burn plantations; the same
Il systom is found in Asia.
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A ser.ers Fern IT Cattle rlasue.

A serieas EerA II Cattle Plague.
A cattle plague, thought to be form
Of the Texas fever, has broken out among the
cattle In the country surrounding Cleveland,
O.. Texas cattle this year are covered with
ticks Of two varieties, the bite Of which is
poisonous to the blood Many cattle are dy-
ing daily. Several cases OF children having
been poisoned by drinking of infected milk
have already come to the notice Of the city
physicians. Beef Is affected By the disease;
but can be easily detected by experts: The
disease is said to be very infectious, and a
veterinary surgeon who has treated about 10
cases says the symptoms with milch cows are,
first, falling of OF about half the yield of milk,
than bloody passage Of urine and in few
hours, death. He recommends as treatment
to wash the animal In lotion which acts a.
disinfcctant for the ticks and an antidote for
the poison.
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CROW WING.
DAKOTA.

The wife of Richard Van Valkenburg,
o. e sna
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Less in sight this year.

California is short. ...................1 It
as compared with last year, and
many estimateIit over that quantity.
The English stock in store and
afloat at the dates named was short
as compared with same time in
1877 II
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ADVICE TOsFARMERS',

kets-Csnaitlsa- aaa5 Rrsspees It she
Breadstunb Trade.
Duncan Stewart, of Detroit, writes to
The Tribune of that city: As see many
of the English newspapers and reporters
Of the markets are doing their utmost to
induce our producers to hurry their crops
into the market, l consider it fitting
time to communicate to our farmers the
facts of the case, as regards the supply of
breadstuffs for the world at large, and the
bearing these facts will have on prices for
the crops just secured.
I start out with the now acknowledged
fact that the great wheat-consuming
countries of Europe are largely deficient
in both quantity and quality, in the crops
just gathered and now gathering. The
second fact is, that rarely have the sup
plies Of former crops and reserve stores
been so closely consumed as during the
past year. and seldom have such frantic
efforts been made to get the crops out of
the American farmers hands at prices far
below their value as have been made dur
ing the past six weeks.
Before going farther will take glance
at the condition of stocks when the pres
ent harvest year commenced, to establish
the fact of almost empty granaries every
where, before the advent of harvest, as
we'll as the short supply on the way to
England.
Beerbohm's London Corn Trade List
gives the following facts of wheat and
flour on passage for the United Kingdom
exclusive of steamer shipments from
American Atlantic ports, and from the
ports Of the Baltic sea and northwestern
Europe for the years 1876 and 1877.
Quarters.
Aug. II. 1876, wheat afloat. 1887, 600
Aug. II, 1876, -four equal to wheat. $4,000
Total quarters afloat Aug. II, 1876. i, ,266 900
Aug. 16, 1877, wheat afoat. $4,000
Aug. Is, 1877, -four equal wheat Il, 600
Short as compared with last year. 1856 600
This is not the only shortage, for stocks
were also fearfully reduced, as the following
figures will show:
Quarters.
Net imports from Sept. 1, 1876, to
Aug. 1877, both DAYS inclusive. II PIC, $50
Home deliveries for same time. ..... 7,759,26s
Total supply for same time. ......... 1885, ,SO1
Consumption for same time. ..... &c, ,170, ZIG
Deficiency in supply. ..::::...........1,2o ,2oo,915
Total deficiency for 1877: ..::...:. 1,968.915
A.. ~ -, f~,,\
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The following statement eminates from
high financial authority in Washington. "Con-
slant allusion is being made to the policy Of
France in regard to resumption, as being dif.
ferent from that adopted here, when the truth
is that the country is acting upon the very pol.
icy that the United States is pursuing; but
France is reducing the circulation much more
rapidly than the United States. The Bank Of
France has withdrawn It's circulation during
the last nine months, to the amount of at least
twelve million pounds sterling, or sixty mil.
lion dollars, and has accumulated coin about
the same ratio, and is now practically at specie
payments, and wuold no doubt formally re-
sumo but for the unsettled condition of the
silver question which is far more disturbed
there than here.
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The National brotherhood Of locomo-
tive fremen closed their session in Indianap.
oils on the evening Of the 18th. The follow.
ing officers were elected for the ensuing year;
Grand master, F. B. Allen, Louisville, Ky.
vice grand master, W. A. Gundie, Philadel
phia, Pa; grand secretary and treasurer,W
N. sayre, Indianapolis; grand warden, John
Savage, Lynn, Mass; graud conductor, Chas
Pope, Toronto, Ont; grand inner guard, c. G
Swim, Buffalo, grand outer guard, ", C.
Cowles, Camden, n. j.; grand chaplain, NJ.
Barphis, Indianapolis; grand marshal, E. v
Debs, Terre Haute, Ind.
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Total supply for same time. .18, 1863 ,S01
Consumption for same time. 20, 10, ZIG
Deficiency in supply. 200 ,915
Amount less a1oat for 1877. 7........... $4,000
,1,2o0,915
$4,000
1.868915

Or over Is, 600, 600 bushels Us, ,095, ,32o buy.
In face of these The Mark Lone Erpress
declared last week-and the declaration
was at once cabled across the ocean to
scare American farmers into selling cheap
"Wheat is pouring upon us in such large
quantities that in some cases it is difficult
to find storage room." 1t may just be
possible that one or more storehouses had
been filed, because the owners Of the
grain in them were holding for higher
figures (Which they, by -the-by, have AZ
ready obtained), so that no more could
be taken into such stores, but the state
ment was made, and the cablegram was
sent, for the purpose of creating a false
impression on this side, and so break
down our markets. To show how utterly
untrue such statement was will state
two facts; first, the supply and demand
for the week The Mark Lane Erp1ess was
reviewing were as follews:
Imports and home deliveries. .......n .n6,250
Quarters consumption. ...............411,O ,OO
Consumption over supply, 44,750 quart
ers, or 358,000 bushels.
Second, the London Times the very
next day after this cablegram was sent
stated that " the Bank of England :" had
raised the rate of interest to prevent as
far as possible the "shipment to the
United States Of gold to pay for wheat,
stating further that England would have
to import more this year than last an6
pay higher prices for it.
I will now glance at our own sigh
wheat at about this time last year.
Bushels
Tho quantity In sight last year on
Sp
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The estimates for the support of the
army for the present fiscal year have been
prepared BY the war department and sent to
the treasury department, which will transmit
them to Congress at the extra session. These
are the only estimates to be sent in. The
Senate will act upon the nomination OF per-
sons who have beet placed in Office since the
adjournment Of the last Congress. It is
thought tho Presidents message and accom-
panying documents will relate only to the
business for which Congress is to be es-
pecial1y consched and not TO yetletal subjects
of legislation. The message viii therefore be
brief.
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Bushels.

Tho quantity In sight last year on
Aug. g.. ................. 7,277,82l
Aug. Is, the present year. 1861, ,76
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Advices received from camp Bourc and
Clifton, New Mexico at San Diego, CAL, on the
!. 18th, state that the Warm Spring Indians re-
Gently left San Carlos, and having killed at
least fourteen men and wounded eight, they
captured one freight train, killed the team
sters and destroyed goods. Seven horses were
taken from Rolston and the station
abandoned. No mail from Silver City for
week. The Iongfellow copper mining com
pany at Clifton, lost thirty team mules by In:
dians, and have to stop operations. Three dc.
tachments OF Arizona troops have gone after
the Indians.
The 8rOtherhO0d OF Locomotive Fire.
The New York herald., 1877-02-08
Tea and Toxicology.

AS everybody takes tea everybody will be
interested in the fact that suit has been
brought to restrain man from continuing
the business" of preparing old tea leaves
with various poisonous substances, to be
sold to the public as good new tea. An en-
thusiastic person might, indeed, applaud
the public spirit and high moral purpose of
the citizen who had brought the suit; but
this enthusiasm, like enthusiasm generally,
would be mistaken for the suit is brought
simply because the plaintiff wishes to pre-
serve for himself monopoly more or
less absolute of this lucrative dispen-
sation Of palatable poisons. He defends
the public against rival in order
to preserve the profitable privilege of
killing them himself It illustrates some
of the peculiarities of the trade in cheap tea
to find that the injunction is partially aimed
to prevent publication of the precious
secret of poisoning tea, and the answer is
that this secret is published in all the cy-
clopedias. Inveterate tea topers will, per-
haps, enjoy their tea all the more if in
formed that the principal substances they
take with it ore plumbago, China clay. Prus-
sian blue, turmeric, gypsum and indigo.
The New York herald., 1877-02-08
Repatrtng streets.

Mr.. Baden introduced bill in the State
Senate yesterday providing for the repav-
ing or repair of all streets in the city be-
low the line of Fourteenth street. The con-
dition of many of the downtown streets is
deplorable, and is at once disgraceful to the
city and damaging to business interests.
stranger who lands in Jersey City or at any
Of our own docks, and receives his first inn
preston of New York from o ride in street
hack up or across town, must form very
poor opinion of tho great Western metropo-
lis Our own citizens who return home
after travelling the we'll kept roads of Euro
pean cities must feel o sense of shame at the
miserable condition of our own streets.
There can, indeed, be no question as to the
necessity of repaving and repairing the
downtown Streets Business is blocked
during the most important hours
of the day through the obstruc-
tions caused by bad pavements Street
cleaning is rendered more difficult and
more expensive and disease is engendered
where the streets are full of holes, which
form receptacles for the mud and slush, or
have rotten, spongy wood for roadbed.
Health, comfort, trade and profit all demand
that the streets shall be put in proper con-
dition.
The only question is the expense. Our
people are already overburdened and prop
erty is crushed beneath the weight of taxa
ton. If we are to have any such jobs in
street repaving and repairing as we have
heretofore had then we cannot afford to
make the improvement at this time. But if
the much needed work can be placed in the
hands and under the control of the present
Commissioner of Public Works, and can be
done with Judgment and by degrees, so as
not to press too heavily on the taxpayers, it
is very desirable that it should be under
taken. Money expended honestly in this
direction would be the best investment that
could be made for the interests of the busi-
ness health and comfort Of the city.
The New York herald., 1877-02-08
Young Man, Go West.

Among the unemployed in New York
there are thousands of unmarried men, with
no one but themselves to care for, who
might obtain employment, property and
additional self-respect by making their way
to the newer countries Of the far West and
becoming land owners in the inexpensive
manner devised by Uncle Sam. A great
deal Of nonsense has been talked and
printed on this subject, but the truth re-
nary men, ignorant agriculture, have found
homes md competence in the West, and that
the chances of others doing so are as good
rs ever they we're. The young unmarried
man is peculiarly fitted for this sort of en-
terprise no amount of blundering can
only the most objectionable carelessness
can prevent him from having the value of
his homestead increase until he finds him
self in comfortable circumstances. No new
country yields living to the man who does
not work, but neither does New York city
to any one but politicians and burglars.
Half of the successful farmers in the new
West started with nothing but rifle, axe
and frying pan, and many of them
declare that they could not afford
even these; but the industry and spirit
that make good laborers and able statesmen
what they are enabled the pioneers to
achieve success. Even tramp across sco
continent is not IN unheard of thing, Many
an unemployed mechanic has within year
done as much walking in search OF work as
would have transported hi.n to the good
lands of the Northwest Texas or California
At the worst no labor and privation peculiar
to new countries con be MS hard as wait
ing. rusting and starving to death in New
York.
The New York herald., 1877-02-08
A Sensible Governor.

Governor Bedle, of New Jersey. has done
a sensible and graceful thing in granting
a brief respite to Ryan and Oschwald, the
Newark burglars, now under sentence of
death. BY this action he has shown desire
to preserve the dignity of his high Office
and Mt the same time afford the people.
through their representatives, an oppor-
tunity to express their will. The people
Of New Jersey, speaking through very
large majority of their representatives in the
State Senate and Assembly, have declared
their desire that the doomed men should be
accorded the privilege of applying for new
trial, it being believed by them that at least
one of the condemned does not deserve
death on the gallows, and it is only right
that this desire should have full scope
The Governor grants respite to the con-
dcmned, but will veto the bill, thus leaving
the Legislature to assume the responsibility
of making it law of the State. 1t can do
no injury to the administration of justice to
give these men IN opportunity to be heard,
and as they were condemned on circum-
and with caution. Once executed no amends
can be made, and as a serious doubt exists,
especially in Ryan's case, he at least is en-
titled to fair play. It is quite evidcn; that
Ryan is not deserving of death, ana it is
gratifying to know that, though under the
shadow of the gallows, he will be accorded
a chance to establish that fact.
The New York herald., 1877-02-08
The Metropolis and Its Component
Cfties.

Cities.
The interests of the several cities en-
braced within the metropolitan district OF
New York are conflicting to some extent at
present because of the absence of any
means of intercommunication except by the
ferries This state of things should not be
permitted to exist much longer for it mate
rally affects the interests of the metropolis
as centre of commerce. 1t must be
remembered that New York is the parent city,
under whose fostering influence the others
have grown to their present proportions.
TO show that location on the mainland
did not necessarily bring development and
prosperity, but that both were due to the
influence and proximity of New York. we
need only point to the relative growths of
Jersey City and Brooklyn. The first is sit
uated on the mainland and at the tepnini
of the great railroads, and yet has grown
but slowly. while the latter is located
on an island separated from the mainland
by the wide Hudson and East rivers and
New York Bay and yet it has grown in
surprising manner. We have again an
example in Astoria-a village of small size;
that has existed for over century. Yet the
swamp at Hunters Point is becoming the
site of modern city which has already
Astoria, simply because it is nearer to the
centre of New York.
In order to perfect any grand scheme of
improvement for New York it must be mr.
ranged on scale suitable to the necessities
of the metropolis We mean that its in
fluence must be felt with beneficial effect in
each of the cities of the metropolitan dis
trict. A grand system of water front inn
provements along the Hudson and East
rivers should be designed, with view to
reciprocity of benefit between Brooklyn, Jer-
sey City and New York. The extension the
Hudson River Railroad around the water
front of New York would bring the railroad
track within easy distance of the Brooklyn
stores for the transfer Of loaded freight cars
by ferry. In like manner 1t would establish
communication with the New Jersey side
which does not exist ut present. By bridging
the channel between Randalls Island and
Port Morris and filling up Little He'll
Gate another railroad extension into
Wards Island and toward Long Island
at Astoria can be secured. Now, by
the construction of shore railroad along
the Long Island front on the East River
from Astoria to South Brooklyn, the facili-
ties for transferring freight to any point
along the water fronts of New York,
Brooklyn, Long Island City and Jersey
City would be practically complete.