The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-04-12
FOR THE BLACK HILLS

FOR THE BLACK HILLS
II. D: Safer and L. Hollis leave for
the Black Hills to-day. Success to
them. We advise then to wear wigs
and fool the Indians.
II. J. Grant, with his sons Will and
Arthur, started for the Black Hills
yesterday. They take four wagons and
FIVE yoke Of oxen. We regret to lose
Mr.. Grant from the community, even
temporarily, and we hope he will trade
his goods for four wagon loads Of gold
and come back to stay.
Messrs. r. L. Bralen and his sol1
Frank; Miles Dickey, and his two sons
Alexander a I'd Samuel, and r. Z. Coy-
ey, left for the Black Hills, on Tuesday
last. They go by the way of Sioux
Falls, and from there the route is not
yet determined. They left III wagon
drawn by two yoke Of oxen, taking with
them tent, some 1900 pounds Of flour,
a quantity Of provisions, and expect,
with good luck, to get through in Is or
80 days. We wish them safe journey,
whole scalps and plenty Of gold dust.
The Journal people took it in high
dudgeon because we last week recog-
nized Mrs. Lucia Chase Bell as one Of
the addresses and proprietresses of the
Journal. The husband of the editress
complained to us because we so "per-
sistently ignored' her as the editress
and now when we do make the amend
honorable and give due recognition,
why they complain about that. But
the funniest thing of all is that they
charge Prof. Uunlston with being re-
sponsible for that recognition. We al
sponsiLle for the billiards., the grass
hoppers, the potato bugs, the earth
quakes Of California, the eruptions of
Vesuvius, the destruction Of Ponlpeii,
etc., but we never knew before that he
was responsible for the ADVANCE ar
ticles. If there is one man more than an
other who has had us by the cost tail
trying to hold us back for scoring the
Journal set. that man is Prof. Hum
iston. We have conferred with him a
good deal about affairs here but where
we have taken his advice once, we have
acted contrary to his advice ten times.
In the largcntss Of his heart, and his
continual advice to ''give place to
wrath,' he has thought that Il newspa-
per editor might submit to vile attacks
from rowdies and from other newspa-
pers, to attempts to ruin his business
and his influence, and treat the same
with silent contempt. We are too ia
miliar with the newspaper business and
the duties Of our profession, to quite a.
gree with him in this.
We wish to say again that neither
Prof. Humiston nor Miller, Iumiston
& Co., own one cent Of interest in the
ADVANCE, nor have they any more
control Of it than any other man in the
country.
So long as the Journal does not
charge Prof. Ilumiston with anything
worse than writing articles for the AD-
VANCE, it will not injure him any. Ii
it ever should charge him with writ
ing for the Journal, that would be a
grave charge, and the Professor would
be justified in bringing all action for
heavy damages.
II. G. Uallett was in town on Tues
day selling eggs to obtain the money to
buy Sunday School papers for Sab
bath School which is about to be start
cd at Graham Lakes at Muck's School
house. The school will he started on
Sunday next, and Mr.. Uallett thinks
they can start with Is to 20 scholars.
A. l.. Dunlap was also in town and
informs us that in the Chapman school
house at Graham Lakes they have kept
up a Sabbath School all winter, MI. D.
acting as Superintendent. They have
also had union prayer meeting on
Thursday evening alternately at the
residence of Mr.. Chldley and Mr.. Fox.
There have been three conversions.
e. r. Erskine, of Indian Lake, had a
calf 'born" Oh his place a few days
ago which weighed los lbs. when born.
The girth of the calf was feet and 7
inches. This calf is nearly tull-blood
ed Durham. This beats Mr.. Richards
a little. We would like to get lively
competition among the COWS in this
matter. And by way of helping along
we will offer bucket of ''bran mash''
to the COW that has the biggest calf be.
tween now and the first of May.
Mrs. W. r. Bennett recently receiv-
ed fine lot of house plants from the
Nursery Of Joseph W. Vestal, Cam
bridge City, Wayne Co., Ind, with
which she has adorned her fine resi-
dence. We understand that Mr.. V. s
prices are only about one-half those of
Wick, and that he throws in enough
plants extra to nearly pay the freight.
This item is for the benefit of the la
dies.
We are informed that a Worthington
lady who has several panes cfblue glass
in one of her windows, recently placed
an English Ivy plant near the window.
The result was a growth Of about three
feet in as many weeks. There are one
or two "stub'' men about here who
| nnrht to try blue glass. Three feet in