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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-04-19

A vinegar factory in Chicago has
has been seized tor illicit distilling
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-04-19
Pork Packing.

Regulating the Treasury Appointments.
The following is the law relative to
appointments in the Treasury Department:
That on and after January lst, 1876, appoint
ments in this department shall he 50 erranged
az to te equally distributed between the seve-
raj States of the Cuited States and the Terri
tories, according to their population. The
above law Secretary Sherman will rigid!y ell
'oroe, and under it there can at present be no
appointments from New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia,
Arizona and the District of Columbia. The
Secretary will also insist that only one men,
bpr OF a family shall be employed
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He Must Hang,

Edgar NJ. Young, the young man who
shot and killed Mabel Hall, ballet girl at the
Theatre Comique in st. Louis about q year ago
and who was convicted of murder in the first
degree, has been sentenced to be hung on
Friday, June lst.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-04-20
ON THE RIGHT TRACK.

n.
MAsnINGI9N Anril f%dhs f. following
to the United States District Attorneys by
the Attorney General to be sent on Mon
day:
Sir: AS enter upon my official duties
1 find that the appropriation for the expen.
ses of the United States Courts for this
fiscal year is rapidly approaching exhaustion,
and that Congress denied all the applica-
tions that were made by my predecessor ior
an increased sum to bear these expenses,
the duty is thus forced upon the officers of
this Department to retrench all possible ex-
penses.
To great extent tho attorneys of the
United States are responsible for the expen-
ses incurred, and naturally the call is made
upon them to stop all expenses that can
with propriety be stopped. urge upon
you the exercise of extreme caution and
economy. There is nearly full quarter of
the fiscal year still to run, during which
time experises- must be kept to minimum
point I hope to have your hearty co-ope-
ration in the work. Your discretion and
economy will be shown in the subpening of
those witnesses only who are important and
necessary to case; in holding them only so
long as they are needed; in setting for trial
none but important cases; those which 1he
course of justice and the INTEREST," of Gov
ernment absolutely require to be tried; in
dismissing, by advice of the court, the Pc
tit juries at an early day, and in urging
upon the grand juries but short session !;
select very few cases for trial, those only best
supported by evidence, and in which all
legal questions are likely to arise the other
cases should be allowed to lie over, the par
ties not being discharged.
|, AS far as lies in your power the trials be-
fbre tbe United States Commissioners must
be 3tched and their expenses curtailed.-
t%6re well if all such trials were stopped
for tie remainder of the fscalsyearyand all
|sg litAGle Ia0I1 - = s1Bp,E; sasFs
possible way economy must beenforced upon
the officials. call your attention the Cir
cular issued on this head by my predeces.
sor, and reiteratiug their injunctions. ]
add that no money will be furnished toSthe
marshals to conduct the business of ths
courts beyond the amounts of which they
were advised month ago. Knowing this
you will be forewarned in ample time tc
avoid the contracting of expenses that can
not be paid
CHARLES DEvENs,
.. ATTORNEY General
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TIME TO ME.

Time to me this truth hath taught,
lis truth that's worth revealing;
More offend from want of thought,
Than from any want of feeling.
If advice we would convey,
There's q time We should convcyit;
If we've but n word to say,
There's time in which to say ii
Many a bcautious flower decays,
Though we tend it e'er so much:
Something secret OH it preys,
Which no human aid can touch
So, in many loving breast,
Lies some canker-grief concealed,
That, if touch'd d is more oppressed,
Left unto itself-is healed.
Off,. unknowinsty, the tongue
-ruhe ruhhaaeS&saf 4 S&ofd, a. 6f n4ssTst 4Secsnt wrong,
Pains the heart almost TO breaking.
Many II tear of wounded pride,
Many fault of human blindness,
Had been soothed, or turned aside,
BY quiet voice of kindness
Time to me this truth hath taught,
'Tis truth that's worth revealing;
More offend from want of thought,
Than from any want of feeling.
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aeosd garqnme goudqatm aoua ztsnts aeaaes

can or peculiarly Democratic in the platform
Of either party North to-day. But establish
confidence between the races at the South,
and at once platform of principles will be
promulgated by parties North, bidding for
Southern cooperation, and we will then
have the privilege of choosing the lesser evil
tor have no idea that during this genera.
ton any National party North will consent
to platform entirely acceptable to the
South.
Trusting that have been at least sufi-
oiently explicit to show you exactly my po-
sition upon the inquiries you propound-
cd, am, gentlemen, with much esteem,
Your obedicnt servant,
D. WYATT AIKEN.
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IN G. H., SOUTH CARO- UNA, APRIL 20, 1877.

save Others. Philip Gerald, boardcr at
the hotd was brought out alive, but en-
tirely bfcft of reason. At quarter-past
z, or about half an hour afer the fire was
discovered, the entire roof was ablaze, and
the famf were rapidly descending to the
lower stdies. A half hour later the floors
and intel {or walls began to fall. The roof
fell in. There is now nothing left of one
the fines hotels in the country, except the
Walnut street front and parts of Fourth
and Fifth street faces. Loss on the build
ing and contents from $4,000 to 100000;
insurance unknown.
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A LINE TO BUSINESS MEN.-Dont wait
Enr business 10 wake I'D but. wake IL I'M.

A LINE TO BUSINESS MEN.-Don't wait
for business to wake up, but wake it up.
Don't sit down to wait for business, bust
ness will sit down to wait for you.
Don't wait for, brisk times to advertise,
for then you will need the help of ad
vertising.
Don't think your last years advertising
sufficient, for your customers may conclude
you expired with the old year.
Don't become disgusted with business or
business may become disguised with you.
Don't think because you know where you
do business, aud what you keep to sell, that
all the world knows it as well.
Don't 60 out to sec what your advertising
neighbor is doing, for if you do you may
conclude to spend a little money in adver-
tising yourself.
Don't advertise, for if you do you might
have to employ another clerk, and that
would be an additiona, expense and an in
jury to tho community.
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HAD RIGHT TO LAUGH-Thcre is a
legend affirming that one day nearly hun
dred years ago, the snow was seven feet deep
on the streets of Detroit On that day not
woman was seen down town, but next day,
when the snow had settled a foot or so, they
were abroad as usual. They were out wad-
and one of them fell "kersplash % as she
passed the soldiers monument. A man
standing thirty feet away began laughing
uproariously. lie got rcd in the face, tears
came to his eyes, and his hat fell off as he
laughed and cried out:
"Wcnt right down like a bag of sand
slush foot dcep-starched up to kill--nev-
er saw anybody look SO chcap-oh ho ho!
ho!
You are no gentleman, sir !" remarked
man who had witnessed the mishap
Cant help that-ha ha !! ha bow
laughed the other, bending almost double
"You haven't the first instincts of gen
tleman, sir" continued the other, growing
very mad.
"I know it, but no ho ! no screamed
the other. II know just how she felt as
she went down carrying all that style, and
I--ha! ha ha !"
~ don't see anything so very funny in it,"
growled the other. "No, you don't, but
| y" And he hung to tho lamp-post and
laughed till his legs weakened When he
had recovered his breath he explained to
1.-THE crowd = at was my wife, yoRyee.--
She probably wanted pair Of sh6e Strings
or two cents worth Of silk twist, and it took
her three hours to curl and twist, ID pow
der and to fix up to come down here and
wade around. Then to fall Fat with all
her best duds on, and to be helped up by
rag. buyer, and to hear the boys yell ont,
why, it just takes all the-ho no no
muscle right hf ha hout Of me.
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Cufran was once addressing jury, when
theeJadge, WHO was thought to be antagonis.
tic to bis client, intimated his dissent froyF
tho arguments advanced by shake of his
hoad 81 see, gentlemen" said Currap, "I
see the motion ofhi lordship's head. Per.
sons unacgaainted with his lordship would
be apt to think this implied difference of
opinions but be assured, gentlemen, this is
not the. case. When you know his lordship
as well as do, it will be unnecessary to tell
you that when he shakes his head there real.
ly is nothing in it."
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HAMproH,s PHOTOGRAPH.
CHARLES DEvENs,
ATTORNEY General.

Hampton, like the great Lee, is remark.
able for the strength and perfect symmetry
of the man, morally and physically.
His speech, without ornament or effort, is
exactly his thought. So simple and so truth
fil, that the honest man reads it as child
reads the smile of its mother. The man
speaks, the whole man, heart, soul and mind
speaks--speaks the truth, nothing but the
truth, md pahedy doubts iSlThat is Hamp-
toni s6 md that was Washington.
Perhaps A h9le natural gift of Washing
ton, or Lee, ts Hampton can be properly
called transcendent; but the symmetry of
tho whole mau.--the simple beauty and
power Of the perfect proportions combined,
is what constitutes this type Of man. Like
the greatest inventions in machinery, it is so
simple that every man understands it as soon
as he sees it, aud wonders he hadn't discov-
cred it long ego! That is Hampton He
talks just like any common man, in plain
way, without any fancy flights, and so true
TO the common apprehension, that the au-
dience say ''of course, but why didn't we
see it in that light long ago ?"
h. 1t, hos efer bspn 50 with the greatest men
I Of the ages. It is the power of truth which
distinguishes the great man from the char
latan. Good, hard, common, horse sense,
and undaunted courage in thought, word
and action--in the discovery Of truth in the
utterance of the truth, and in the execution
of his purposes according to truth-distin-
guishes Wade Hampton from his opponents
in this great crisis.
Read his speech So simple that child
can understand it; SO courteous that the
President must feel its power; so kind and
| Just, that tho colored man accepts it so true
that the arch fiepd himself can neither deny
or resist it so plain and practicable that
tho young men of the country will bow in
acquiescenceto its wise counsel - GreenoiM
Ne,os. -
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS thatthe talent o
turning people to ridicule, and exposing L
laughter those one converses with,is tn,
.yatifcatiop Of small minds and ungenerou'
t6mpers. Ayoung person with this cast o
mind outs himself oifAfrom all manner O
\ fmfSSspment. So said Addison, long ago
and h sas true to-day as ever.
i Col. Richard Rankin, of CASTOR County
N. c., felled water oak on his place, OIL
Stanley Creek, from which he made 6,50'
shingles, $50 rails, 80 loads Of wood, an,
i there still remains about twenty feet Of tn
huge trunk lying where it The Stun
measured four feet nine ind % diameter
and the "rings" marked about 16O years
growth.
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LETTER FROM HON. D. WYATT AIKEN.
CoKEsBURY, s. c., April 8, 1877.

CoKEsBURY, S. c., April 8, 1877.
Mess's. Hoyt d Co., anderson, s. @.
GENTLEMEN-Your note of the 9th inst.
was received Saturday afternoon, and as re-
quested 1 reply at once.
You write me thus: Give us for publioa,
tion your views as to President Hayes
Southern policy; whether it is proper that
Democrats should seek or accept office at his
hands, and what will probably be the result
upon the destiny of tho two National par
ties from this cbangs in policy by the Re-
publican: party 2"
dent Hayes Southern policy, but as the lat
ter portion of your inquiry implies that, by
consent of party, he will assume q concilia-
tory policy towards the South, l think we
should unhestatiagly aessp. sysEy Fsdstal.
does not belong to the Republican party,
neither should any OF. these National ap-
pointments be construed to bipartisan pre-
ferences. imagine United States Dis
trict Attorney in the South nowhere finds
Republican rather than Democratic laws to
be administered, because, fersooth, he holds
Office by the will of Republican President.
Neither does collector of the ports at the
South recognize any thing peculiarly Re-
publican, rather than Democratic, in his rev.
enue collections because Republican guards
tho threshold of our National treasury
For the same reason can see no partisan
ship in the Office Of post master, or mail
agent, or any other strictly National appoint
ment.
If in accepting an appointment South
erner (Dem.) were required to compromise
in any way his political creed, of course he
should reject the proffered position. For
this reason l regretted to see Southern
man, regarded as Southern Democrat, go
into the Cabinet. Not that he would com
promise the South, but because he would of
necessity be mere 6gure-head, or become
identified with the administration in party
fsehngs The Cabinet are the Presidents
couusellors, and should be in sympathy with
him in all his political views. His South
ern%appointses are agents paid for doing SER
vice to our common country, unbiased by
party exaotions, and in tho case of Demo
cratic appoiptees uhsweryed by party afili-
alton.
believe President Hayes received his
Office through fraud, but am far from be-
lieving that he is himself fraud And
what effect his policy (Which seems to fore
shadow that of the wrong man in the right
place. may have upon the two National par
ties, l am unable to foresee. Should it
shatter both of them throughosQthe North,
) at would be God-send,to the South. We
ArsiNndeE NJ eblieatiob .aojthAr of sth<i8
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MAapIEs.-A magpie was in the habit
of hiding bits of food, not Immediately wan-
ted, in some long grass at the bottom of a
row of iron hurdles. This hoard was discov-
cred, and often robbed, by a favorite terrier.
One morning Mag was observed in great ex.
element, hopping and chattering incessant-
ly, rapidly repeating every word in his vo-
cabulary at the dog, who was busily engaged
in rifling the storehouse. In his search,
however, he passed over tuft of grass in
which piece of beef was concealed Mag
was at the spot in an instant, drew forth the
treasure, and securely fixed it on the highest
bar of the hurdles, far above the dogs reach.
He then, at little distance, began pluming
his feathers, chattering to himself with a
very selfsatisGed air, and occasionally hop
ping beck to take another look at his recov-
cred meat, evidently priding himself III his
skill The conduct of this magpie is quite
in keeping with the old adage of "Set o
thief to catch thief" His pilfering hab
its are notorious. He is also sad poach'
er. Not only the eggs but the young Of
pheasants, partridges, and other game, are
destroyed by the magpie; nor are the un'
fedged chickens or ducklings Of the farm.
yard safe from his mischievous attacks. In
captivity he is very amusing, and notwith.
standing his thieving propensities, no one
can contemplate his dark, arch eye, his in.
4 quisitiveness, his familiarity, and hear his
4 efforts at mimicry without interest. Thai
he is not wholly devoid of grateful feeling
the following anecdotc shows: A favoritt
magpie had been accustomed to receive
dainty bits FROM the mouth of its mistress
One day it perched as usual upon her shoul
der, and inserted its beak between her lips
not as it proved, to receive, but Gas one gooc
turn deserves another) the grateful birt
dropped an immense green fat caterpillar
into the lady's mouth. Hours.
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A Vicious FIsu-Right whales frequent
ly find their way into the Bay of Fundy,
and arc there captured. The bay is also
f,voritc resort for the thrashcr and the
swordGsh. | have heard old coasters say
that they had seen thrashcrs forty five and
fifty feet long, moving with great velocity on
the surface of the water, their heads raised
ten and twelve feet above. Bay of Fundy
fishermen, in speaking of them, say they are
the greatest Of sea villains. Twenty odd
years ago one of these sea monsters got
caught on sandbar, where he was left by
the rapid falling Of the tide in the Cumbcr-
land branch of the Bay of Fundy, and was
killed by the people on shore after an excit-
ing struggle. He measured forty.six feet
in length. AS Capt. Memo says, the head
is flat and scrpcnt.likc, the eyes almost rcd,
with ugly white circles over them Indeed,
nothing could be more rcpuls.ve than the
head of this sea monster. The only other
sea villain they are known to fratcrnizc with
is the swordfsh. Both arc well known to
old coasters and fishermen as the deadly
enemy of the whale and it is the common
belief that they hunt ir couples, and on find
ing the whale make immediate war, the
swordtish attacking beneath and the thrashcr
on top.
The common belief is that the thrashcr
has huge weapon, very like slcdgc ham,
mer, protruding from his mouth, with which
he administers on the whales back those
terrible blows you can hear ten or twelve
overlooking the Bay of Fuudy, and witnessed
three of these terrible battles between a
whale and his enemies, the swordfish and
the thrasher. The swordfsh did his deadly
work underneath, while, as Capt: Meme says,
the thrasher coied himself half over the
whale. and applied the blows with his pom
derous tail. In the distance, however, the
thrashcr seems to raise and let his weapon
| fall very much as blacksmith's helper ham
dies his sledgc. You could see the weapon
rise and fall; you could hear the blows. dis
tinctly, although the distance was believed
to be not less than ten miles from shore, ard
you could also hear the whale below and
see him blow On one of these occasions
the terrible contest lasted nearly three hours,
the water in the vicinity being red with
blood About every fifteen or twenty min.
utcs the whale would disappear in an attempt
to escape from his enemies but they would
quickly pursue him and force him to the
surface, where the combat would be re-
ncwed.
These two sea villains, the swordfsh and
thrashcr, invariably kill the whale when
they get him into close quarters; and a:
soon as the combat ceases, which can bt
clearly seen by the whales body floating
motionless, the thrashcr will proceed to clea
water, where, raising his serpent-like hea'
in triumph, ten, twelve and fifteen feet abov
the surface, he will continue for fifteen ant
sometimes twenty minutes lashing the Sc
into foam.
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OLear5s Fictory-500 Mics u IA
Homt-1he Western Champion Vtns.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-06-19
PERSONAL.
Gen. Gideon J. Pillow is very Ill.

Gen. Gideon J. Pillow is very Ill.
Rcar-Admiral Prcble was at Pata, Peru,
during the last days of May.
Chicf-Justice Waite will spend part of the
summer in his old Connecticut home.
Mr.. VIM. -. IIowes Of The atlantic Is living
at Couancut, r. H. and Ia expecting as guest Mr. webb
Hayes.
The King of Spain and his sister have been
very polite the cxmpross Eugene. They have been
Visiting her at ATnuez, the Summer residence of the
Dukes al AlDa
Queen Victoria has given Herr Anton Rubin
stein two magnificent china vases for His hOuso Russia
And after his performance last year at Windsor her
Majesty sent him "A very hno set OF pearl studs.
Secretary Thompson is graphically described
as thin, nervous little man with snowy white hair,
quick gray eye and wrinkcd face without mustacho
beard he wears rusty suit of black and white
nCCktic
MIR. Albert Rhodes has just become the ed
or Of The Doy Nation ct Washington. 1t Is to be an
independent journal, and the present managers not
committed the political and financial views hitherto
expressed m u.
Arthur Berger, the son of the great French
orator and advocate, has just committed suicide by
taking opium the family residence Orleans. He
WAS ~ years old He LETT letter explaining that pc
cuuiaIy embarrassments had driven him 10 this death.
OF Prof. Barbour, the new Yale professor
d. Park OF Andoycr lately said: my friend Ia one OF
the richest donations that scotland ever made America
lie IA thoroughly sclfmade man except IN 40 far as his
wife has given hun the assistance OF II very excellent
mind
Madame Ratazz late Princess de S0lms, born
Bonapare Wyso, Is about to be married again TO Don
Luis Hute. deputy at the Cories. mining engineer "a
Iich hidalgo, aud fine. handsome young man OF i've
and-thirty. Madame once beauful-in her youth q
long time but she was always very shortsighed
aud yoIy deaf.
When Mr.. Wendell Phillips was passing
through the Boston squares the other morning. he
picked up pocketbeok containing ~. and was about
starting for q newspaper Office to advertise IL, when
youth appeared evidently looking for something he had
dropped Mr. Philips spoke TO him. and the lost OBJECT
was found to 10 the identical pooketbook IL was re-
tlrned 10 the owner who offered reward OF
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tragedy. TO be wept over and published IN all
the morning newspapers. If we were certain we
were to be shufed out of sight rs something
TO be ashamed of, We would stay alive if only
to proye that wo were worth floral offerings
crane, and obituaries ms much as other men.
As for the question of the insanity of sui
cides, that is not easily settled. The fact that
n certain class Of people choose to 1--we on Is
in its favor Who ever heard OF bore blow
ing ont his brains Or the brilliant brother
in-law with too much genius TO earn dollarf
Or the model woman whose thin nose hunts 10
cover everything that anybody likes ! Or the
man beside you mt dinner who Is up In pot
terry These people will endure, like prlckly-
pear trees, TO an incredible old age, although
common sense must suggest 10 them at
every turn that there are other worlds
where they would perhaps be needed
and welcomed rs a blessing and boon.
If any of our readers, sane or insane, IN inns
month of roses and clf-slaughtcr are in doubt
what to do with their mortal coil. our advice
is, wear il until July. Life is the most un-
certain of all equations. There is no knowing
what that unknown at, which is always in 1t,
may turn ont. One of the most successful
men III American Hl5Ioly was "o '"''''J ~
drunken loafcr one of the great reformers IN
ENGLAND, at tho same age, resolved to bury
himself among the savagcs OF unexplorcd
Colorado; the Jews of old were weary OF their
lives because of the bricks without straw
which were their hard circumstance Yet ont
of those bricks they built the pyramids which
have stood for ages
June is n good month TO die in; but 1t is
always the juno of another year.