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The Worthington advance., 1878-11-21
THE GHOULS.
A Confession of One Of Them.

"A OOAANCcAOAA " OnC VI
IClevcland (Ohio) Special to Chicago Tribune
An interesting case of attempted grave
robbery has just come to light. Joiner, one
of gang who robbed Mr. French's grave
last month, made confession of an attempt
upon the grave of Miss Critchlow, Of Bed
ford, a young lady who died in August last
of consumption. Upon arriving in Bedford,
which is suburb of the city, the robbers
did not know where the cemetery was To-
Gated, and at length concluded to find the
village doctor to ascertain from him. Joiner
accordingly feigned sickness, and, stopping
at store, the doctor was sent for. By some
signal the doctor was given to understand
the state of affairs, and, going to one side
with tue robbers, he told them that he did
not know where the grave was located, as he
did not attend the funeral, but his
daughter did, and, if they would
call later, he would find out and tell
them. They did SO, and he directed them
to the grave, but warned them to be careful,
as it was located next that of old Mr. Patter-
son, father of w. D. Patterson, superin-
tendent of the city workhouse, and, as this
body had been buried a year, it could be of
no value. They went to the spot, and did
make the mistake warned not to. Upon
reaching the body they pulled at one of the
cars. This is the test which is employed to
see whether the body be good or not. If
the ear comes off it is too much decomposed.
The ear came of, and such stencil arose
that all we're made sick, and decided to leave
the lot to get something to drink. When
they returned it was too late to get the other
body, and Mr.. Patterson's grave was refillc1.
This story coming to Supt. Patterson, he
went to the cemetery yesterday, and, open
ing his fathers grave, found the coffin
broken open and the ear gone from the
corpse, as described. The doctor who as
sisted in this work, named Streator, died
about month ago. He was leading men,
Der of the church, and much respected.
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PRINTING AND ENGRAVING.

What It Costs the U. S. Government.
The annual report of the bureau of en-
craving and printing shows that the aggre.
gate expense of operating the bureau during
the year was S538, ,861.33. In the labor and
expense account less than one-ffth of the
amount appropriated was expended, leaving
S652, 2,836.17 in the treasury unexpended at
the close of the last fiscal year. During the
present fiscal year the expenses in July were
S4'45 sas IN in ssDt.%ssr Auggst' $11essss S.
Since tho 1st of October, 1877,
the bureau has executed all the work upon
United States notes and nationel bank cur
rency, the only amount paid to private COM
panies during the year being about $13, 600
to the Columbian bank note company for
work done prior to October, 1877. The
number of impressions by plate printing was
20, PA, 400, against 18,989,427 during the
preceding year. The number of sheets for
customs and internal revenue stamps and Of
United States securities delivered in the fs-
cal year ended June 80, 1877, was $500, ,O59
The number of sheets Of the same class of
work during the fiscal year 1873 was 1885,
339. The value of notes, bonds and mis-
cellaneous securities turned out during the
year ended July 80, 1877, was $7O8,414,-
645; the values of the same class of work
during the fiscal year 1873 were 81, 1,040,4 ,451,-
$50. Eight hundred and twenty-five per-
sons are now employed in the bureau, the
number having been increased during the
last few months on account of the demand
for the per cent. bonds. During the year
no counterfeit has appeared on any of the
work engraved by the bureau. The report
is signed by the late superintendent, Hon.
Edward Mcpherson, and in concluding it
he speaks of the efficiency of the force en-
ployed IN the bureau and that the employees
have always responded to the demands upon
them and showed themselves faithful and re-
liable.
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The Boston Whiting Schools.

Formerly all American schools we're
whiting schools; but the art was prac-
ticcd surreptitiously. the soft pine desks
and benches furnishing the only whiting
material. With the advent of highly fin
ished hard wood school furniture, all
jacknife practice in school was vigorously
suppressed: and for generation or so
the art has fallen into dccadence. 1t has
revived, however, under improved con-
ditions. the natural spirit Of constructive
ness-usually called destructiveness-in-
cident to boyhood, being made the basis
OF systematic training Of the most enjoy
able and useful sort.
The pioneer institution is the Boston
Whiting School, private enterprise
housed by tho city. The school-room
has been fitted up with work benches,
divided into four foot sections, and each
boy is furnished with such tools as he
may need. Thirty-two were admitted the
first year, their ages ranging from twelve
to sixteen. The school report says that
perhaps twelve of them had received
some instructions in the use of the Jig
saw and knife, but none had had any
previous training in wood carving or the
use of the chisel. There we1e more ap-
plicants for admission to the school than
could be received. If any boy was absent
two successive evenings, his place was
taken by another. A rank list was kept
and pasted on the wall, and each boy
knew how bis work was estimated by
consulting the list. A course Of twenty
four lessons IN wood carving was prepared
| vuifh e~oaSo1 IN
greatest amount OF instruction with least
expenditure for tools and material. 1t
was not designed to make finished work
men in Wood carving, but to take All
vantage of The natural inclination toward
handicraft, the Yankee taste for whiting
which belongs to most boys, and to de-
vclop it and guide it to useful applica-
tions.
The experience of the founders leads
them 10 the belief "that it would be easy
to establish, in connection with all our
grammer schools for boys, an annex for
elementary instruction in the use Of the
half dozen universal tools /. g., the ham,
mer, plane, saw, chisel, file, and square.
Three or tour hours week for one year
only OF the grammer school course wou d
be enough to give the boys that intimacy
with tools and that encouragement to the
inborn inclination to handicraft, and that
guidance in its use, for want OF which so
many young men now drift into over
crowded and uucongenial occupations, or
lapse into idleness and vice."
Northern and Central Europe have been
doing this or similar work for years; and
such teaching has done very much to
hasten the industrial development of the
countries that have tried it.-Scientvic
Amer:can.
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NOT DOWN IN THE BILLS.
Sensational Performance Of a Dog in a
Milwaukee Theater.

"uuhCC 1uCulcis
Considerable excitement was aroused at
performance last Sunday evening in the
Grand opera house, Milwaukee, by the ex-
traordinary behavior of one of the principal
members of the company. The piece was
Miss Lima Tetterhorn's sensational drama,
"Tina, the Milk Vender," which has been
rendered with some success in English. This
time it was given in its original German. In
the principal scene large dog is introduced,
hauling the milk wagon Of Hartina, the
heroine of the play. This dog understands
English thoroughly, but, having lad only the
advantage of single rehearsal in German,
he became somewhat mixed as to his
buslness,-not understanding the Ian
guage, and of course mistaking his cue.
When the come dian comes on and says :sHar-
tina, are you here?'' it is the dogs cue to
stand still until Hartina and her lover en-
brace and then sing a duet. Then he fol-
lows Hartina around the stage with the milk
cart, and 80 on. On this occasion. when the
words "Hartina, bist du hier?' were uttered,
the dog made a Jump for tho comedian, who
took fright and ron off tho stage. The dog
followed, barking furiously, and scattering
Che milk-pails all over the stage. Nartina
screamed and took refuge among the oppo-
site wings. The dog presently reappeared,
and spying the prompter seated in his half
moon in front of the foot!igtts, he made a
plunge for him. The prompter dropped his
book and dived through the trap-door. The
dog, now thoroughly aroused, went after
him, followed by the milk-wagon and what
was left Of the cans. Amid the yells of the
eudierco an effort was made to rescue the
unhappy and affrightened prompter. seiz-
ing the tailboard of the cart, some of the
people gave a strong pull, and pull alto
gether, when up came the wagon, and then
the dog, and finally the prompter-the latter
in helpless condition with the fangs of the
infuriated animal firmly fastened to that
part of his garment which was the last to
disappear from sight. A muzzle was pro-
cured, and the deg was led from the stage,
yelping at the prompter, and looking daggers
in the direction of the comedian. Order
was eventually restored, aud the piece pro-
ceeded.
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Buchan'S
Carbolic Balm Ointment
IS THE BEST sA1yE m THE WORLD.

IS THE BEST SALvE IN THE WORLD.
No other Safve or Ointment makes such quick
allays pain and stops bleeding Instantly. It
soothes 4 burn or scald In . minute. It heals
. cut and draws out tho poison Of 4 wound OF
sting like magic
Balm Ointment contains no grease, and washes
OF without soap. It's value Tor use where fre-
qnent dressings are necessary Is thus doubled.
Scalds. Cuts, Wounds. Piles. eofe Eyes, Poison.
GUS Stings and Bites. Barbers Itch, Chapped
Hands, Scr0fulous Sores, and any and eyery 9TH
er purpose for which saive or Ointment can be
used. Buchan's Carbolic Balm Ointment is the
It Is beautiful Jelly colored article sold IN glass
bottles See to It that your druggist gives you
Buchan's, a. above described. Circulars sent
TORREl, TEAPLETON & CO., New York.
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sons on the Strada Carbocana presented q
petition to their majesties. A. man at this
moment rushed upon the king with dagger
and succeeded in indicting 4 scratch upon his
left arm and slightly wounding Signor Coir.
oil in the left thigh. The king displayed
great GOODNESS, and struck the assassin on the
head with his sword and signor Coiroli seized
him by the hair. The assassin was immedi-
ately taken to the guard house. The queen
and sou. who were in the carriage with the
king, displayed much courage. The assas-
sims name is Giovanni Passauante. He saws
he does not like the king. Fifty thousand
persons with flags and bands of music soon
after the news reached Rome, assembled on
the Corso to manifest their joy at the escape of
the king. Another demonstration has been
made before the house Of the syndei. The
crowds everywhere demand prompt justice.
The Austrian embassy was Illuminated and
the crowd checrei the ambassador.
THE ARMY.
Gen. Sherman's report show that there
are 1920 enlisted men in the ten regiments of
cavalry In the army, 1880 men in the five
regiments of artillery, and II, 1,2o5 in the twcn-
ty-fve regiments Of infantry, making total
IL 1,864. Besides these, there are an engineer
battalion Of l99 permanent and recruiting
parties, music boys and recruits In depots,
1,12l enlisted men detached on general SER
vice, 372 ordinance departments, 344 West
Point detachments, 100 prison guards, II
hospital stewards, 1873 ordnence sergeants,
Id commissary sergeants, Indian scouts $40;
total of 3,O98; making the whole number OF
enlisted men in the army "a, ,761. The report
concludes as follows: In conclusion beg to
state that from personal inspection and from
official reports, am sure the army is well
and economically supplied. Its discipline
and instruction are as good as could be ex-
pected from its scattered condition, and from
the vast amount Of labor necessarily impos-
ed on It; that It has met cheerfully every cali
Of duty and hardship, and it has accomplish
ed an amount of work which, as Gen. Sher-
idan has well said, mo other nation in the
world would have attempted with less than
10000 or 10000 men,.
SLEEPING CAR BURNED.
A lamp overturned in the st. Louis
sleeper on the Baltimore s. Ohio railroad,
west bound express, at 2 o'clock in the morn
ing, about seven miles east Of Cumberland,
Nd, setting fire to the curtains. There were
thirty five passengers in the car, several of
them being ladies and children. All escaped
in their night clothes, losing all their small
baggage, money and jewelry. No one was
hurt. The car was destroyed. A number Of
the passengers were New Orleans refugees
returning home.
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lO1ES IN.!THE WEST.
;. u - IF.

Persons looking westward for homes
can procure full information concerning
the GARDEN Spor Of Iowa and Minnc-
sofa, by subscribing for the Worthiug-
ton ADVANCE, published at Worthington
Minnesota. Send So for one year; 81
for six months, aud So cents for three
months, to ADVANCE, Worthington
Mobiles county, Minnesota"
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IMPORTANT.

On and after April lst, the Train hcretofor
known as the st. James Accommodation,
on TIE
st. Paul and Sioux City r. r.
VIII be run through between
st. Paul 4 Worthington.
This will enable Emigrants antl Land Seekers
to 90 THROUGH BY DAYLIGHT.
Passengers from puints east Of Mankato, on
the WinOna and St. Peter railroad. leaving Wi
mona at midnight, may take the above train at
Mankato, and reach Worthiugton tho same al.
ternOOn.
J. w. BISHOP, j. +. LINCOLN. j. c. BoYDEN.
Gen. Nanag'r. Supt. Gen Tkt AIT
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at the stations, and he would not be like
~ to leap from door to door across the
yawning shaft, as he does underneath the
ground, where the dark rises up and
makes seeming floor between the doors.
1t is undoubtedly the darkness that be.
numbs the senses of the miner to the
danger to which he is exposed when pass
ing to and fro across shafts and wines,
or when climbing the interior of their
compartments, trusting to tho scanty hold
for hands and feet afforded by the car
row ledges of their timbers projecting
from the walls.
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RAILROADS,
st. Paul & Sioux City
AND
Sioux City & Saint Paul R. r.

These Companies now otter In Northwestern
Iowa and Southwestern Minnesota 100000 acres
q the FtneSt Land in the State. At low prices,
IN long Credit, With easy payments, At low
\. These lands are very productive, Easy Of Cul
OVATION, Convenient to markets, and to Villages,
Churches and Schools
Alternate sectiOns mostly occupied by actual
residents: climate pleasant and healthy.
For circular giving full Information, or for
sonally to Land Department 0f either Com.
paNy, At St. Paul, Minnesota.
J. w. BlsuoP. General Manager.
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BUSINESS CARDS.
BANKS.
BANK OF W0RTHlMGJ0N.

EL'uu SMITH, Banker. A. NJ. SMITH, Cashier.
INTEREST PAID FOR TIME DEPOSITS.
Agents for Sale OF Railroad Compa.
! ny's Town Lots.
Drafts Bought and Sold Special attention giv-
Ell to collections.
Once Hours from 9 to II a. m. and from to 1
o'clock, y. III. [227ly.
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A man by the name of Flick, Of Laketown,
fell from o scaffolding while shingling .
house, sustaining fracture Of some Of his
| ribs.
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SLEEPING CAR BURNED.
The Legislature.

Below We give list of the Senators and
Representatives elect to the forthcoming
legislature. Democrats in SMALL. GAPS,
Greenbackers in Itazic and Republicans in
The Worthington advance., 1878-11-21

ESTABLISHED 1851. THE FIRST PEps1S.
Dr.. J. S. Hougt0n's PURE PEPSIN.
Mr.. J. II. Eaton, OF Philadelphia, who is sole
successor to DIR. J. $. Houghton, still prepares
this Nnfailing remedy for dyspeptics, according
to the original formula.
Houghtons Pepsi,. Is the Oldest, the Chcapest.
the Best, the Surest Cure
Try 1t, ye Dyspeptics. When your physician
orders Pepsin, insist upon having Houghton s.
Take no other recommended because the dealer
can make more on 1t. Get the original Hough.
'on's and you will be cured.
J. H. EATON, Philadelphia Proprietor
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OFFICERE.
JOSEPH CHADWICK,
RediSter of Deeds,
OFFICERS.

1Vrlhinyton, Mobiles County, MINI.
Has the only complete sot Of Abstract Books
IN the county.
Will furnish abstracts Of title, pay taxes for
On-residents, procure land patents. etc.
Keeps supply 0l Blank Deeds, etc. Gives es-
rccial attention to executing and acknowledge
ng Deeds, Mortgages, ETC. Correspondence SO.
iC;led. fG-llly
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O. CHASE,
xar1:ier and Horse Sheer

69ROMPT attention given at all times to treat.
- haent OF Horses and to Horse. .Sh0eing. Also
Hs5ses castrated. Terms->2 to q at owners
rlsks 90 on every hundred to insure, value of
horse tobe appraised. Have had 20 years OK.
Also LICENSED :AUCT1oNEER.
'-7~fh0p between tho WOrthingtOn and the Far.
mss's Hotels Wosthlngton. MIMI. tklo+y.
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PHYSICIANH.

T. CRAFT, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN Il SURGEON.
treatment OF Female Diseases; having had ten
years experience.
Also Surgeon of the Sioux City & st. Paul and
WorthngtOn 4 Sioux Falls Railroads
Supplied with full cases OF Surgical and Obstet
rical Instruments, and fracture appliances.
OFFICE-At residence, corner OF Fourth Ave-
nue. and Eleventh Street,
WORTHINGTON, MINN..
f3 4-ly.
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Floyd Smith and his wife Mariah were
hung by an armed mob of thirty or forty per
sons on Nov. 4th, three miles south of Her
nando, Miss. Both had been arrested, lodged
in Jail at fernando Oct, GOTH, charged with
numbering little white girl years old,
which had been left in their care by its moth
or. A post mortem examination of the child
revealed the fact of it's skull having been
broken. Rumor gives as a reason for the
murder of the ch,ld, the negroes we're instl.
gated by the mother, who would inherit large
property estate on the death of her offspring.
BODY sNATCHING IN OHIO.
At GAINESVILLE, Ohio, a policeman had
his suspicious aroused at the movements of
party in wagon, and ordered them to halt,
but the driver whipped the horses into
gallop and escaped. The policeman procured
assistance and followed them fourteen miles
before he was able to catch up with them.
On attempting to arrest them the whole party
umped from the wagon and escaped to the
woods. The wagon was found to contain the
bodies of four prominent citizens who had
been buried in Woodland cemetary. Police
man Still receiveda pistol wound from the
men in the wagon during tho chase.
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TT D. HUMISTON,
NOTARY PUBLIC.

win give especial attention 10 executing aud
acknowledging deeds, mortgages. etc. Also to
and,to the collection of rents, taxes. etc. Sew
cral improved farms, and village property for
sale. Also unoccupied claims at great bargains
Correspondence and patronage solicited. Worth
ingtOn, MINI. t5ly.
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FATAL SHOT.


On Thursday afternoon a row occurred
In McDermott's saloon on the corner Of Eagle
and Hill streets, st. Paul, Minnesota. Drink
ing and game of cards resulted in quarrel
and the fatal shot. Ryan, the barkeeper
claimed that James J. Beach owed the bar ten
cents. Beach denied it and refused to pay.
Ryan shut the door and said he should not
leave till he paid. Beach drew a revolver and
said he would leave, and would not pay.
McDermott drew revolver, to cover Ryan.
Alexander Hamilton rushed in between Beach
and Ryan, and attempted to wrest the pistol
from the former, when it was discharged, "a
tally wounding him in the abdomen. Beach
was then knocked down and brutally mauled.
The police we're notified and Beach taken ill.,
to custody, and Hamilton was taken to the
city hospital, where he died at 7:45 P. n.
Beach was committed. He claims that the
shooting was accidental, and manifests great
eontrition. The dying man said the shooting
was purely accidental, resulting in his effort
to quel the quarrel.
ATTEMPT TO AssA ssIATE THE KING OF ITALY
The king and queen arrived in Naples
on the 18th inst, and were enthusiastically
received by immense crowds. Several per.
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GEO. BLAKE,

General Agent, Minneapolis, Minn.
N. Il. BARLOWAgent, Worthi,,g ton
Minn. 6-35-M W.
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GEO. o. MOORE,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Graduate OF Ann Arbor, Michigan. Residence
Oh 10th street below the public hall. ONCE at
the Colony Drug Store. opposite the Worthing
ton Hotel, Worthington, Mlnn.
Will attend promptly to all Calls, dag or
night. t27ly.
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A lady reached the passenger depot in
Dayton, O., the ether day, just al the train
she intended to take was leaving, and as
she stood almost crying with vexation on
the platform, gentleman arrived at the
depot on full run, with his carpet-bag
in his hand, his coat on his arm, and his
face streaming with perspiration. As he
looked on the train now fast moving
away, he sat down on his carpet-bag,
wiped his face, and deliberately and en-
phatically said: Hang that tramp The
lady heard him, and, smiling upon him
with all lady's sweetness, said: "Thank
you, er."
The New York herald., 1878-02-07
JUDGE JOHNsONs OBsEQUIEs.
UTICA. N. ". Fob. q.

UTICA, N. ", Feb o, 1873.
Tho funeral Of the late Judge Alexander s. Johnson
Of the United States Circuit Court was very largely
attended to-day by the leading judges OF the United
States and other courts and prominent representa-.
tivcs Of the Bar OF the State. Bishop Doane. OF tho
diocese OF Albany, and Rev DIR. Van Dusen, OF Grace
ChurcD, with other clorgy, Ocintcd. All the flags OF
the CITY we're at hall mast Chief Justice Church,
Judges Earl, Androws, Foger and Rapallo, OF tho
Court OF Appeals; Judges Wallace, Cray, Mason,
were deposited IN The Chapel Of Roses OF Forest Hill
Cemetery, where the c0mmttai services took place.
Judge Mason presided at the general meeting OF tho
Bar, which made suitable expression OF the respects
Of tho Bench Bar and czons generally over the loss
Judges Mason, Wallace, Gray, Mcrwin and Williams,
John h. seymour, q. ID. Adams, Ward Hunt, Jr., and
others Appropriate resolutions were adopted. Let
tcrs oil regret condolences ana sympathy were read
from Secretary Evarts Senators Conkllng and Kernan
Justice HUM, Governor seymour and leading Jurists
and members oi the legnl prolesslon-
The New York herald., 1878-02-07
ANOTHER BLACK TOM EXPLOSION.

The island Of Black Tom, lying OF Communipnw,
which two years ago the scene OF q fearful
explosion In which four lives lost, again
furnishes an Instance Of tho perils attending
the manufacture OF o-glycorine. AT few minutes
past eight o'clock IN the morning a loud explosion
was heard, followed by burst OF lame and volumes
OF black smoke from Of the wooden structures on
the island Tho house speedily cnvooped narncs
Peter Hansen and mis- brother Nathaniel were on
The island at the time Peter tho act
Of Iifting m empty box used for packing tho
cartridges OF giant powdcr when the explosion
occurred. he was ieariully burned the face
and hands. Knowing that 1900 pounds OF
giant powder were stored III the Immediate vicinity
OF tho explosion, tho brothers betook themselves
to tugboat lving at tho islanQ and went
ashore. Tho injured taken to his
home, In Pine street, lafayette As soon ns tho
news was circulated on shore large crowd collected,
In tho expectation OF seeing the explosion
mcuse store OF giant powder but further dcstruc-
ton than thy burning of tho wooden building Io-
lowed. Tho Cause oil the explosion Is not known