The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-01-04
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Enclosed find $3.50 to beplacetl to nv
credit on the ADVANCE. HIstill regard
your paper as indispensable: to all who
have or may have interests in your Sec
ton of country, as it can with all safe
| ty be relied on to give everything of
interest and to advocate right and JUS
tlce as we'll as expose wrong.
And this is the general sentiment at
home as we'll as abroad: The people
can trust a paper which gives all the
news and which condemns wrong in
the community as it arises, while they
cannot trust a newspaper which con-
ceals and covers up wrong for fear of
''injuring immigration.'' Mr.. Ward in
the same letter hits upon the happy ex-
preston Of sample town. for Wor-
Ellington. We haze a sample town, a
model i'll many respects. We haye
more good people, more cultivated peo-
pie to the square foot than probably any
frontier community, but we have black
sheep i'll the flock, and when they raise
''old Ned" the matter ought not to- he
hushed up because it will ''injure immi-
grafton" People who read newspapers
do not judge town by one article, but
by the whole tenor, makeup ana con-
tents of the paper frofa week to week.
1t is certainly much better to condemn
wrong at once and put it down, than to
encourage it by covering it up. 1t is
better to put the fire out than to cover
it up with ashes and keep it alive until
the wind comes and fans it into a con-
tlagration.
For singular atmospheric effects this
climate of the mountains and soil of
the river bottoms cannot be beaten.
On Saturday last, about half an hour
before sunset, there were two brilliant
sun-dogs in the sky, each shooting up
ward column of light having the
colors and almost the brilliancy of the
rainbow. The sun itself appeared to
stand OH column of fire, reaching to
the earth, and resembling red-hot
iron tower. On New Years night
there were two moon-dogs, just after
the moon rose. They were unusually
distinct and beautiful. Yesterday
morning, a bank of cloud lay along the
western and southern horizon, present.
ing the most perfect resemblance to a
range of mountains we have yet seen.
The illusion was perfect, even to the
snow covered peaks and the spots rep
resenting the farms or cleared spaces
so familiar to those who live in sight of
mountain ranges.
Elsewhere we publish Judge Dickin-
sons decision upon the pleadings in the
case of Miller, Humiston & Co. rs. G.
L. Sutton and Daniel Rolrer, for
throwing Prof. Humiston's furniture
into the street. The Judge decides that
Sutton and Rol>rer must elect which
one of two defences they will set up.
In their answer they claimed ~ pos
session of the room; ~ permission
from Prof. Humiston to enter. and re-
move the furniture.@ These two de-
lenses the Judge decides are inconsist-
ent, and Sutton and Rohrer must
choose, one or the other.
The only sensation on New Years
Day was runaway. That gallant and
fearful young Phaeton, O. Shriver,
hired one of Shells spanking teams
and took some OF his numerous friends
sleigh riding. Down at the lake there
was an upset and the team then took
the matter into their own legs and came
dashing up town. They struck the
corner of the hotel porch and there left
the sleigh. Then they attempted to
run along the fence on the west side of
the hotel yard and brought down Il
panel. One Of the horses was caught
by the leg and thrown down, when the
team was caught. Damage somewhere
between $40 and $4,000.
We acknowledge pleasant call from
DR.. Hiestand, of Adrian. The Dr., in
common with his neighbors, is using
hay for fuel, and recently tried all ex-
pertinent which may be Of interest to
our farmer friends. lie put in wisp
of hay from the draft to the top of the
heater and then filled the stove with
claff. When the hay was lighted it
burned so as to fire the whole mass on
the outside and then burned in gradu-
ally till the whole was consumed. The
Doctor says the fire was almost equal
to a coal fire. This item may be of use
to those who have chaff which they
wish to get rid of.
S. j. Corrigan, in an article in the
Pioneer Press, thinks the great mclcrr
seen on the night OfsDec, LIST NILS,