The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-01-04
RECORD OF THE NEWS.

q RECORD OF THE NEWS.
Political, Personal and Foreign Do
ings and Gossip.
Condition Of the Markets.
The markets are unusually quiet.
even for this dull season Of the year: The
unsettled condition Of POLITICAL Affairs prevents
anything like speculation in stocks, produce
or real estate. Only such business transactions
are made q result from the regular demands
Of consumption. Wheat especially, IL sub
ject to the uncertainties Of the times. That
there is storage in foreign markets can he
no longer disguised, but the universal unwill-
ingness 70 venture capital inspeculat've chan
nelg prevents any marked advantage to our
products resulting from the shortage. In
the northwest there is not wheat enough to
run the. local mills until another harvest, and
already millers are finding it troublesome to
secure quantities sufficiently large to assume
uninterrupted work for the winter. At st.
Paul and Minneapolis the price paid for the
week past has been $l.l5 for No. /; 9l.l0
torNo. 2, and 100 for No. 3.
In the great markets OF the world, during
the week. the following prices ruled for No.
9wheat: Liverpool, 10 shilliDgs and pence;
New York, el.a6@l.4l; Chicago, 9l.19@l24;
Milwaukee, sl.2o9l.a 80.
Oats are scarce in the general markets, sell
ing 1t st. Paul at 32c. in bulk lots on the cars.
Only local demand exists for barley, and
prices remain at T. @72c. for No. 2.
Beans now command good figure, e IS
being paid tor good quality Of hand picked,
and $l.36 tor ordinary Minnesota.
Corn seems to be very plenty in the corn
growing regions, and is selling at almost as
topishing low rates. In western Iowa cribs
are being filed along tho railroads at PC. per
bushel in the ear, and appearances indicate
that the immense crop Of Iowa and Kansas
will be disposed OF at less than 28c. In the
market farther west 40 and 44c is paid.
The market tor butter is reviving and bids
fair to b. quite active before spring, which is
especially cheering in view Of the state Of the
market since last spring. There are few
large dealers in St. Paul who have facilities
Tor "bearing" the market, ana right we'll do
they use it. 1t would be to the advantage OF
country merchants if they would make con-
signments to safe Chicago commission houses
until they can receive tairer dealing nearer
home.
Eggs sell in St. Paul at CSC. dozen and are
in brisk demand ut that figure.
The large shipments Of potatoes to the east
have reduced the stock in the northwest so
that prices must advance.
Letter from Wade Hampton to Gov. Hayes.
Gov. Hayes has received the follow
Ing letter from Gen. Wade Hampton, at the
hands Of Judge T. J. Mankey, Of South Caro-
lima:
Executive Chamber, Columbia, Dec. %,
1876. DEAR SIR: have the honor to en-
close copy Of my inaugural as the duly
elected Governor of South Carolina. In view
of current events and the official sanction
given to gross misrepresentation OF the acts
and purposes of the majority OF the good peo-
pie Of this Commonwealth, deem it proper
to declare that profound peace prevails
throughout the State that the course of ju-
dlcial proceedings Is INSTRUCTED by no com
bination Of citizens thereof, and that the laws
for the protection OF its inhabitants in all
their rights Of person, property and citizen
ship are being enforced in our courts. While
the people OF this State are not wanting eth
er in the spirit or means to maintain their
rights OF citizenship against the usurped
power which now deties the supreme Judicial
authority Of the State, they have such faith in
the justice Of their cause that they propose
to leave its vindication to the proper legal
tribunals, appealing at tie same time to the
patriotism and public sentiment OF the whole
country.
1.-THE inaammatory utterances Of portion o.
the public press render it perhaps not mop.
perfume for me to state that although the peo.
pie OF South Carolina view with grave concern
the prospect of critical conjuncture Of
the Affairs to our country which threatens
to subject 20 an extreme test our Republican
system Of government itself, it il their firm
and deliberate purpose to condemn any soln.
ton OF the existing political problems that in.
wolves the exhibition of armed force, or that
move through any other channel than the
prescribed forms Of the constitution or the
peaceful agencies of.law.
Trusting that a solution may be had which
while maintaining the peace OF the country
shall do no violence to the constitutional safe.
guards OF popular rights, and will tend still
more firmly to unite the people OF all thu
States in an earnest effort to preserve til.
peace, to sustain the laws and the constitu
ton, am very respectfully your obedien
servant,
[signedJ "WADE HAMPTON,
:'Governor of South Carolina
"To His Excellency R. B. HAYES. Governo,
ofOhio
up s.-As the solution Of the vexed politi
cal Questions which now agitate the public
mind, might ultimately depend on yourself o.
upon your distinguished competitor for tn,
Presidency, have addressed letter simila,
to this to His Excellency Governor Tilden.
Yours, WADE HAMPTON"
Frishtful Railway Accident on the LAX,
Shore.
The most terrible railway accident
that has occurred for yeas took place on tn.
Lake Shore road at Ashtabu'a. Ohio, on thu
Goth ult. The scene Of the accident is few
rods east OF the depot, at the iron bridge that
spans the Ashtabuln creek Is ,eet above thu
water. The Pacific express train going ives,
with seven coaches and 175 passengers went
through the bridge and brose the ice on the
creek. resulting in the. death of nearly one
halt the people ON board. After the ia thu
cars Immediately took fire, and many who
were neither killed by the tall nor drowned in
the water, were bnrne, to death. The snow
had been falling all day and the telegraph