The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-01-03
: A AHlLD,CLlXATE.
December Neeenboat ExearDlonS q tn
Upper MisAlsh1ppi

The mild weather this winter is being
by the citizens Of ST.: Paul, and
excursions have been frequent
during the past week. There were two
large excursions on Christmas day andlon
the day following Christmas, still larger
affair for the benefit of the Orphan Asy-
lum of the CITY, The fine steamer Mag
gle Reaney was secured and the party
steamed Fort Smelling. A meeting
vas orga4ized board the boat during
the trip, with exG Gov Ramsey: as presid-
ing officer. After brief speeches by ex-
Gov: Ramsey and Gen. R. w. johnson,
Col. Hewitt spoke at considerable length.
The following is an extract from his
speech:
l thank you gentlemen who got up this
pleasant Christmas excursion. / hayeneycr
missed any of these delightful annual Decem-
Der steamboat excursions, nor do wish to
miss any Of the half dozen projected for these
holidays. This is the third one in four days
and that for next Tuesday will beat them all,
for all want good time on the river on New
Years day, and expect some skeezicks will
call on me for speech then. T. don't think
You should be mean with me if should have
to wiring In one of my old ones either then or
now "a voice, "Suit yourself'). That's liberal.
You know that two fresh speeches in one
week would wrench man at my time of life!
Applause} But need ask why you gentle
aid the orphans and to have good holiday
and to testify in this cheerful, rational man
ner your gratitude to the God of our fathers
for having cast your lives in such pleasant
places. That your homes are in Minnesota
l know what's the matter with Beecher. He
was out here-he saw our glorious State. He
Nnr1 inn 1f1 ff>n o$<1 \
and he knows New York is the-other place!
(Applause.) Gratitude that you live in State
that raised forty million bushels of wheat this
year; as good wheat as the world ever saw, and
out Of which our thousand mills make the
best -four in the world A young State but
millions OF bushels ahead Of any State in the
Union! State that built two hundred and
forty miles Of railroad this year, and has
twenty five hundred miles of completed rail-
way, and work arranged on nearly dozen
roads for the incoming year! thus brin ging a
market to the door of our seven
hundred thousand people. Gratitude
for the best common school system in the
Union. and school fund OF over three and
half million dollars and school lands enough
set apart to bring eighteen million dollars.
Millions of acres Of government lands
and railroad lands at almost nominal
prices, on which from twenty to thirty
o9shels e% Of Wheat per acre can be rails
Il
vision in our homestead laws that
secures to each family dwelling
or farm, without limit as to value, that shall
be theirs to remain the shelter, the CASTLE the
home, Of the family, to cluster around its
hcarthstone in the hour of gloom and disaster,
as secure as they were won't to do in the sun
shine Of prosperity. [Applause.] A country
but too little understood in portions Of our
Union, where they need to be told that thous-
ands of farmers who have lived for wears in
Iowa, Wisconsin,, and Southern Minnesota,
where they have sold their farms on which
they have done well, and arc removing three
and four hundred miles further north into
upper Minnesota. Gratitude for State where
law and order prevail, not surpassed in this
respect by any State, old or new in our Union
"a State almost without a revolver or a
boWie-knife, and where a man who would
carry either would be looked upon as a cow
ard and blackguard;. a State without one
deed OF violence, where some States I could
red handed cut throats raid to carry away
our money in sacks, but never leave sur bor-
ders alive. [Applause.] Do l wonder that
gratitude fills your hearts these Christmas
times, and that these boats are filled these
joyous Christmas times, with crowds made of
evey nation, kindred, tongue and peo.le under
heaven. BY the way, that's one among the
thousand reasons why love Minnesota above
and beyond any spot Of earth, and I have lived
North and South, East and West. It is be-
cause we have people here from everywhere
We have~in Minnesota and in st. Paul people
from every part, nook and corner of all the
heritage Of God ButI won't recall anv more
of the blessings and benefits for which you
should be grateful, or il you are not you
may land In country where river excursions
are novelty, no matter what Beecher thinks.
Seven years ago, on one of our annual Dccem-
Der steamboat excursions, read you from the
census returns in 1870 that St. Paul was the
lowest on the list Of cities over twenty thous-
and population; We just escaped being left;
we had twenty thousand and a bakers dozen.
l then said, mark where St. Paul will be in
ten years. See how many of those cities now
ahead of her will be ovcrtaken and beaten by
our city. Five Of the seven years passed have
been hard ones on us, but our forty thousand
people today and the big push VIC have now
entered upon will cause you to recall and re-
count with pride what our young city has
done and can do! Go out on the line OF our
dozen railroads this 26th December day, and
see them plowing for the crop of 1873. See
the incoming tide of people that are going to
do more to develop our State in the next five
years than has ever been done since the In
dians had possession. Go, and you will sec
what future there is for St. Paul if we are
only true to ourselves.
Il. "A. OrblsOn, Esq, was next called for. Mr.
Orbison stated that ne came from Pennsylya.
MIA last summer, mainly by the influence of
Col. Hewitt. He came an invalid and found
the climate OF Minnesota had restored him
and he had settled in st. Paul. He believed
that Minnesosa offered more advantages to
those seeking homes than any State in the
Union. Her forty million bushels of wheat
and her healthy climate was fast extending
her reputation, and he believed the tide of i'm
migration that we would see coming here
from the Eastern States would very far sur
pass anything we had ever had before. This
State had been too little understood, and the
people everywhere should be made acquainted
with its true worth. He said he had already
begun t. do his part and he knew of others
from the same section who have come here
recently, and were doing their part. He be-
lieved there would be a diversion in our favor
ken from Pennsylvania: Many would come to
Minnesota. wa,
Coy. Ramsey Let them come; they are
After other speeches series Of resolu
tions were passed concluding with a
pledge to- attend the mammoth excursion:
being arranged for New Years day. The
whole affair was greatly, enjoyed by all
participants, ~" - !. - Il.
DaIIe1e, tuc CTencn OTamat1St, once
decided to kill himself, loaded his pis-
tol and called. in a friend to receive his
wishes. The friend did not attempt to
dissuade; bin, but calmly, jotted down the
dying wishes, then,i while Barriere was
writing farewell letter, took up the pis-
tol and; began examining ,.5IG, 1t was
cooked and the muzzle was pointing d.
rectly at Barriere: The intended suicide
ducked under the table with remarkable
agility, crying:tsLook out! The thing, is
l0adedl You'll he shooA;nne mn 4ho So