The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-05-23


rope, aud will await the investigation
Of his case by the house of Bishops.
We hope the venerable Bishop may lie
able 70 establish his innocence, and
tl.en that some means may be devised
for Furnishing Mcconnell.
In SIXTEEN DAYs.-A train of ..cc5
cars loaded with flour left Minneapolis
on Thursday last for New York, where
twin bs put on one II the steamers of
the Anchor line, and shipped to Lon
don, reaching there in less than sixteen
days, II it, meets no tmishap. This is
the. FIRST train load shipped in this way
.s1ad ia an experiment in the direct ship
;laent Of Minnesota flour to Europe.
Tho Washington correspondent of
tie St. Paul Dispatch has interviewed
tho Minnesota members on the subject
of a return to Congress. OF Mr.. Dun
nell. he,says:
& I found that this gentleman likes
public life. which is very natural, for he
has = peculiar aptitude for its duties,
md would therefore, / doubt not, be
pleased to remain in Congress. But 1
could not find that he considered himself
. candidate. He reasoned that he had
barn 20 long in the House that his con-
stltuents fully knew him, and if they
wanted him to stay hero they would
empress tl,air opinions on that subject,
which. by tho way. I SEQ they pre- doing
IN such . manner ~ not TO feed the
hopes Of othor expcctants. Beyond ex-
pressing his willingness and pleasure
10 again represent his district, no can
not 60 with self respect, and do not
know that he has gone that far. A
new man may properly seek rc-e}ec-
ton, hut for y man of eight years: ex-
pcrience to take any very active steps
in that direction is an insinuatiOn that
lie has no record upon which he can re-
ly. Mr.. Dunnell will make no such
mistake rs this.
LIBERALJTY OF TIE SOUTHERN MN
NESOTA.
Elsewhere will be found an item
from tho St. Paul Globe saying that the
southern Minnesota Railroad Com
pany l',s reduced the appraiscmcnt of
ito lands and ''wlen sold will contract
with purchasers allowing them $3.50
per acre for all they break, and an ad-
dition;A credit of SO cents on tho pur-
chase money when the first crop is pur-
chased" The result is already felt in
a rush for Southern Minnesota; lands.
This is Ill inducemcnt at once so ill.,
cral and practical that the Company
can hardly fail to distance all compete
tors in the sale Of railroad lands. The
st. Paul & Sioux City Company should
1T once make a similar offer and secure
the cultivation of its lands while the
tide Of immigration is flowing. 1t will
get back in Il few years, in the way of
frcights, a hundred per cent. on every
sale made under such an offer. Strike
while the iron is hot.
WHEAT.
A man who has been out in the coun-
try SAID to us the other day that the
wheat fields were arrfcct mat of green
wheat. Tho crop has stoolcd out beau
tifully and the prospect never was bet
ter.
The same is said to be true Of tho
wheat crop in all the country south of
lis. Texas is already harvesting her
crop, and from this time on until Au-
gust the wheat harvest will he going
on, gradually coming north until it
reaches Minnesota. Eli Perkins writes
to the New York Sun that the winter
wheat crop will he fully one-tlsirl Iarg-
er in acreage and yield than ever before
raised in the United States, and he es-
Inmates that ut least One-half more
spring wheat than usual las been
SOWn.
Of course, should these prospects be
realized, the price Of wheat will be low
or than usual. but the farmer who sells
two bushels 1T GO cents does better than
whom hc sells one bushcl 1T IS or 80.
Tho European war may create a lie
mand which will keep up the price.
but the best feature about the crop
will lie this: an abundant crop this year
will do more to restore prosperity to
the country than all the tinkering of
the currency which Congress can do in
ten years. Money will lie abundant
whenever there is anything to bring it
out and put it in circulation. i. sides,
u bountiful harvest will turn tho;,s-
andS Of men from tho overcrowdcl cit
les and towns to the farms of the coun-
try, and prosperity will return upon a
natural and legitimate basis.
THE TIMBFN CULTURE ACT.
On our outside will be found the full
text OF the Timber Culture Act recent
y passed by tho House. This bill is
tho Committees work, and is made up
OF the best features OF Dunnell's, Stew
arts and Straits bills, and is a vast
Improvement on the old bill. 1t will
doubtless pass tho Senate III subst;,nti-
ally otho: present form, although, we
learn, an attempt will bo made to a.
mend il so al'at parties making proof
will be required to- show that they
have three hundred trees in good
growing condition to eacl, acre.
Tho main points in tho bill arc as
follows:
!. Ton acres are required to secure a
quarter section, five acres to secure an
~, and two and u half acres to secure
II 40 and one-eighth part of the land on
any number of acres less than 40.
2. Tie trees are 10 be pit in good
growing condition for eight years.