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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-12-25
ST. NICHOLAS,
SCRIDN ER'S ILLUSrRATED NAG


SCRlDNER'S1 ILLUSTRATED NAG
AZINE
For GIRLS AND BOYS.
John GreeMleaf Whittier writes Of
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magazine that it is the best child'S Pc
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culated to delight the little folk every
where is indicated by the fact that it is
to he issued in French by Dcltyr,ve Of
Paris, and that even the f;lr-away little
Moslc,ns are now to have volume
made up Of TRANSACTIONS from st. Nlcllo-
las into Arabic.
Beginning with the November num-
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ment of the whole family. For the
coming year the publishers announce
many brilliant novelties, including
NEW SERIAL BY MISS LOUISA N.
ALCOTT,
entitled "Jack and JILL" It is written
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Ell gems from standard authors.
A NEW SERIAL STORY FOR BOYS,
"Among The Lakes,'' by the author
of Dab Kinzer" began in the .Novem-
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Another splendid serial for boys has
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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-12-25

. THE SIOUX CITY & NEBRASKA.
The Sioux City Journal says Of this
southern extension of the st. Paul &
Sioux City road:
Tie capital stock of the Sioux City
'and Nebraska company is fixed at &c.
100000.
The object Of the company as set
forth Is first, the building or purchas-
ing Of line from u point on the Missou-
ri river in Dakota county, Neb., oppos-
Ito to, or below, Sioux City, through
tho counties of Dakota, Blackbirl,
. Cunning. Burt. Washington and Doug
las to the city of Omaha; second. begin.
ming ut the same starting point. and
running through the counties of Dako-
tn, Dixon, Wayne, Stanton, Madison
and Platte to the city of Columbus;
third. beginning ut the same point on
tine Missouri and running northwest
and west through the counties Of Da-
kOta, Dixon. Cedar, Knox, Holt and on
to the west line of the State.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-12-25
= III iagtt 9dvaaltltl'
THURSDAY. DECEMBER rs, 1879. :

Terms aa.oe = Year, e1.oo for six; Months.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-12-25

An Eminent Divine of Boston says:
"Ihaye used the PERUVIAN SYRUP for some
time past; it gives me NEW VlGOI:. BUOYANCY
OF SPIRITS, ELASTICITY OF MUSCLE"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-12-25
THE PERUVIAN SYRUP

SETH Y. TowLE & SONS, Proprietors, seEar.
rsson avenue, Boston. Sold by all Druggists.
Coll 1>v> Nf;1io e. C:l1
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-03-20
BOnnd Not to be Beaten. 7

is An oldish citizen who had scraped
few hundred dollars together started in
the saloon business On Hastings Street a
few,days ago, and aimaii whom he knew
and did not particularly admire started
in the same business at the same time
few doors above Therewas something
Of rivalry between the tive, places about
fixing up, and the old man was con-
stantly on the watch to see that the 9th
er did not get ahead of him. He had
just settled down to the belief that he
was long ways ahead, when in came
customer. who said: ,ttlf.ad ai,l.s.;E
. "Ah! you'll have to hang up your
fiddle now The man above you was
just showing me his slate. He has over
twenty names on it since morning, and
four men have Just gone in there after
ten-cent drinks" ~ o.
Ish dot soP' exclsimed the old hnan,
thoroughly aroused in moment.
Yes, and I'll bet he'll have twenty
dollars charged to- customers before
night .
u. Und 1 shall haf more as forty!
Vhait tills runs NIT der grocery for
a slate, und den you sthand on der cor
ner und gif all der poys some winks to
come in. 1 don't let dot man. get
aheadt of me if / hat to puy ten
schlatesin Il ii33 HI.ib is'if-iff'
Night closed in ON the old man atop
of the heap.-Detro1 Free Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-03-20

eyes fill with tears-unless disease
makes him too feeble to weep. But this
very introspection, this perfect survey
of death, bespeaks a soul and shows
what an infinite distance between mans
death-bed and the death of a bird or
flower! Yes! man kaaOUs that he Is d.
ing, and therefore the more probable is
it that the Father beholds this sorrow of
His children and will bless them with a
second life. ...4... ....-.....
Standing amid the wonders of that
material world which adds glory to the
Creator, marking its intimate relations
also to man, how it supplies him Ian
guage, how it arouses his soul, how it
invites him away from vice, how it
makes him happy with its landscapes
and sunshine and with the very air he
breathes, how it inweaves itself all
through his mind and sentiments, can
not but conclude that this Nature in
tends to carry its gifted admirers along
with it, and having shown him for
few years the works and beauties and
trials of this world, intends to transfer
him to still better life And thus the
material world, which is the glory or
efulgence of God, will be also the per-
petual development and happiness of
His children.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-03-20
Marriage Brokerage.

A Paris correspondent writes, Janu-
ary 15: Another marriage case came
before civil tribunal yesterday. NJ. Mar
tin was widower, and, although he
had several children, he felt himself
lonely and longed to re-enter the bonds
of wedlock. For that purpose he wait
ed on a certain Nine. Causien Profit,
who, although separated from her hus-
band, had no prejudice against Hymen.
In short, she kept a matrimonial agen-
cy. fhe lady gave him the names Of
IA young and middle-aged spinsters who
required lords and masters, but he ap-
pears at first to have been dissatisfied
with all of them, and wrote for the
names and portraits of some more can
didates. In the meanwhile, however,
he paid court and got married to one OF
the IA ladies, but said nothing about il
to his matrimonial agent. Nine
Causien Profit forthwith brought al
action against him and claimed EGO as
her commission, but the court non-suit
ed her, with costs. ,..,e.s u1.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-03-20
THE PINE TREE.

,,orr atoms came together
Deiole 3vII MI. grown, tower of strength,
ssa s.s.s !, ,great storms measuring all my length,
,'s.ra sisns nv mighty minstrelsy,
ss.s ssas.naspf,n of the ancient weather.
-, Inst as much the stars that shiver
Ilesssr Tssn the frost sparkles overhead
'n.anrs nnsn AZ soon those viewless airs
~ " s;ye in the clear vault, and tread
~ Ihs. hsaondsl Less yours than theirs
Ia lss iIsh. hawks swoOping round the river
,...s u,tmeval depths. empowering
= ~ III ihrroad boughs with my branching peers,
!. = ll,susI spilled in precious drops
II even 10 those elder years
=. =, s,sgle building in my tops,
~ .iour NV boughs the panther covering.
,.,.sth nv shade the red man slipping,
ia;nself shadow, stole away;
,nsler shadow follows him!
ksses may go, or races stay,
~ zones upon my loftiest limb
- - svlIlds Will many year be stripping;
,,a tbere the hidden day be throwing
nj n fres. though dark the dead prime be,
ps,o,e the bird shake off the dew.
Hi what songs have been sung to me!
Esst will yet be sung, when you
,re dnst upon the four winds blowing!
II p. Spogord, in Harper's for March.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-03-20
A Pension Agents Fraud.

Captain George Prince, a man 60
years old, pleaded guilty before Judge
Fox, in Portland, Me-, of obtaining
fraudulent pension claims from the Gov
ernment to the amount of $4,000, and
has been sentenced to ten years. i'm
prisonment at hard labor in the State
Prison at Thomastown. The Portland
Argus gives his story of his crime as fol-
lows:
81 was an examiner of widows pen
sions on the Iowa desk, but as for be-
ginning any fraudulent transactions of
the kind alleged while in the Pension
Office in Washington, that is not true
The loose manner of doing business in
that Office encouraged me, after 1 re-
signed my clerkship in 1866, in the be-
lief that could successfully carry out q
scheme of defrauding the Government
out of 81, 200 a year. l tried the scheme,
and it worked to a charm. For twelve
years / drew pensions for six widows
who never welded nor wore weeds save
in my own imagination, and might have
continued SO doing if l had not been
sick of the business and desirous of
closing it up. l killed off one of my
widows, and in her place substituted
Sabina r. Nudge, and no suspicion was
excited at the Pension Office. If I had
kept Mrs. Nudge at Portsmouth, N. H.,
where I called her into being, all
would have been well. But / moved to
Bath, Me-, and when l attempted to
kill her off the matter attracted atten-
tion." T., ~ -
"Then you wrote the notice of Mrs.
Mudge's death which first appeared in
the Boston Pos6" asked the reporter.
"Yes,'' replied the Captain; :" went
to Boston for that very purpose, and
that's where again put my foot in it.
The District Attorney had sifted the
matter thoroughly, and made himself
familiar with the method used success
fully for over twelve years. But, :" coz.
tinued the Captain after slight pause,
i" l can't help thinking my sentence a
severe one. 1t amounts to the same
thing as life sentence. am sixty two
years old, and shall never live to see my
seventy-fourth year. They accuse me
Of committing forger1es, something !
never did in my life. ALI names have
ever signed on pension papers, besides
my own name, have been purely imag-
mary ones, and how can the signing of
a name to which an owner never existed
be committing forgeryp"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-03-20
Too Hot for Him.

During the Confederate War ,one Jim
was attached to Rosser's Cavalry, in
Stewards command. Jim was noted
for his strong antipathy to shot and
shell, and a peculiar way he had of
avoiding too close communion with the
same; but at last all his plans failed to
keep him out of the ssrow," and he,
with his companions, under Lieuten-
ant, was detailed to support . battery
that composed portion of the rear
guard. The enemy kept pressing so
close, in fact, as toieRdanger the retreat
ing forces, and the troops covering the
retreat had orders to keep the enemy in
check for given period at all hazards.
Jim grew desperate under the CALLING
fire. He placed himself in every posi-
ton that his genius could invent, but
the ''hiss" of the bullet haunted him
still. At last, in despair, he called to
the commanding officer: Lieutenant,
let's fall back i'''sI can not do it, Jim!"
replied the officer. ''Well, Ill be
drafted if we don't get cleaned out if
we stay here!" "My orders, Jim, are
to hold this place and support that bat
terry OF guns"-pointing to the artillery
close by. eff we fall back, the enemy
will rush in and capture the guns.''
just at that instant well directed
shot impressed Jim with the fact that
change of base was necessary. Jim
found another. apparently protected
spot, and, as soon as he had recovered
his mind, he sang out: "Oh, Lieutenant,
what do you think them .cannons cost?"
81 don't know, Jim; l suppose one
Thousand dollars" "Well," said Jim,
"let's start collection and pay for the
darned guns, and let the Yankees have
semi',
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-03-20
Poor Lotta is again in a sea Of finan-

Poor Lotta is again in a sea Of finan-
cial troubles. She has been very sue
cessful in making money, but uncom-
monty unfortunate in her investment.
She is now suing one John H. Thomas,
of La Porte, Plumas County, Cal, to
recover $28, 800, which is only part of a
$50, 1000 which she sunk in well-salted
mine called the "Saw-P PITT on the rec
ommendation of one q. P. Hutchihgs,
and one "yudge', Sheppard. After the
purchase she ascertained that the mine
was utterly worthless, and instead of
yield of $27 900 every three months, had
yielded only $2,700, and this amount
was not sufficient to pay the working
expenses. : She also learned that
"Judge'' Sheppard never owned share,
but had been paid $1,500 to make the
representations which induced her to
purchase. She also discovered that the
others to whom she applied for infor-
nation were paid BY Thomas to make
false statements. ...-..,.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-03-20
JENNIE FOWLER car, not be accused

JENNIE FOWLER can not be accused
of rmercenary motive in trying to COM
pei James w. Vale to marry her. Vale
is wealthy banker in Port Washing
ton, Wis. Miss Fowler was his chill
dren's teacher, he being widower. He
proposed marriage, but afterward
changed his mind. Miss Fowler en-
ployed lawyer to sue Vale for dam
ages. hoping to bring about q marriage
in that way, but Vale readily paid on
demand the $4,000 that was asked.
That put civil suit out of the question.
Miss Fowler made an appeal to Vale to
keep his promise, but he refused. Then
she sent the. 900 back to him, and
swallowed fatal dose of poison.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-03-20

MEAT LoAF.-Chop fine whatever
cold meat you may have, fat and lean
together; add pepper and salt, finely
chopped onion, 2 slices of bread, which
have been soaked in milk, and l egg.
Mix we'll together and bake in a dish.
This makes nice tea or breakfast dish.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-03-20

All CHoNEY is 3 Chinese murderer
awaiting execution in Reno, Cal. He
blames his countrymen who were wit
nesses against him, and retaliates by
turning his back on every thing Chi
nese. He speaks only in English, has
become Baptist, swears like q hood
lum, has cut off his cue, and wears a
huge false mustache.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-03-20

H. hus s. aoove named. In
same late as that of
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-10
GENERAL TRADE.

Business wsS dull IN the middle of last
week, but on Saturday and yesterday the
drays were moving, and the aspect OF affairs
was mure animated. What corn was offer
ing was from one house, and now ''cutting"
is over, mixed corn ruled higher, while white
still brings 53c. Hay remains scarce, and
has so far adyanced that prairie sold at $l1.
Commeal was unchanged. Potatoes for
shipping were firm at Saturday s rates. Bat
little doing IN apples. Eggs were again
higher. Old chickens are becoming as hard
to sell as to cook tender. The st. Louis Re
publican, OF Saturday, has the following:
1.-The only noteworthy event OF the markets
on change was the sudden, and, by many,
unanticipated breakdown of wheat values.
This was sudden and considerable. Har-
Vesting has been going on In Texas; Is nearly
completed In Kentucky and Tennessee, and
these facts, added to the probability OF large
crop and of as good a quality as last years,
might be supposed to have some such efect,
and such cause was intimated. But one yet
eran dealer said it was the shorts that were
raidng the market. No one is buying, they
are only trading among themselves. Bat
they can't get ont, for they have half mil
hon bushels on their hands. Flour was dull
and lover 70 sell; corn &c lower and the act
i've southern order demand prevailing for
several weeks was certainly ret apparent yes
terday, and has indeed slackened for several
days past; oats dull and sackened; bran lower,
and dead dull even at the decline, no south
ern demand and but little eastern inquiry;
new potatoes were a shade easier, the Offer
inRs being more liberal with brisk demand
at the DECLINE, choice Mobile and New Or
leans sold at 81 50@1 55 per bushel,. and
levee receipts of choice full barrels at SAC
4 3O-about 300 barrels at that; Mississippi;
and Tennessee (small and inferior IN qualItyl
81 50@3 so per barrel. ;"
Quotations belOtO are for round lois at The
landing and the railroad derOts, and in
cIude neither drayage, storage, nor other
expenses outside Of the bare freight ana
charges itp to dY-rivdl. JObbing and store
sales are at higher rates, as they include
drGyGge, storage, and profit Of the dealer.
FEED-CorD remained higher; sales o.
1900 sacks at 48c; white, nominally 53cj il
store, 49@50c. Oats offering at Ale; IL
store, 43c. BrGn-nothing doing; last sale
at $l3 80; in store, 75@S0c per cwt. Hay
| $12@l6; sale of carload Of prairie at $Il
in store, 80g90c.
FLOUR. AND MEAL.-FlOuy easier, tending
| downward; superfne, $3 75@4; double ex
ira, "a 50(94 IS; treble extra, So 25Q5 so
family, IS 50@5 IS; choice, $6@6 Is
fancy So so. COJnmeal steady at 81 so; il
store, 50 $500 60.
YEGETABLEs.-POtatOeS rather bette
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-10
Trustees Sale.

IOY virtue OF q certain deed of trust made to me,
ID as trustee, on the 18TH day of May, ID. 1878,
and recorded In Record Book 125 page sos, 10 the
Registers office Of Shelby county and State of Ten
nessee, by S. d. Mapgum and Kate Mangum, his
wife, to secure certain Indebtedness named therein,
WILL at the request of the benefciarles In said deed,
On Tuesday, June "a, ISs0,
within legal hours, the public square, at Collier
Vile, Shelby county, Tennessee, offer for sale, for
cash, to the highest bidder at public auction, the
following real estate, to Wit Lots and 2, in the
town OF C0llerylile, Shelby coany, Tennessee, for
full description Of which reference is made to said
deed. Also a certain tract, lot or parcel Of land
Beginning at stake in the center of the old Men,
phis and Lagrange Railroad track Mrs. Bette l..
AbbingtOn's east Inc; thence north sixty three de-
greeS east four chains and fifty links to a stake;
thence north three chains and eight links to stake;
thence west four chains to stake Mrs Bette l..
AbbiDgt0n'S northeast corner. ana on the OF
the old Methodist church lott thence south with Mrs
AhblngtOu's east line TO the place of beginning five
chains containing l 316-1000 acres. or one acre
two rods and seventeen perche5, in the town of Col
lervllle, Shelby county, State of Tennessee. The
title is considered perfect but will sell and convey
as trustee only Equity of redemption waived.
n
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-10
saturday, June Ell, Is7
ItInS OF 0dIt-OaSn. Ihis May Il, 1879.
R. J. BLACK, Clerk and Master.
Weatherford q Estes, Est.s & Elicit. ATTORNEYS.
Chancery Sale of Real Estate.

Ca8nceFI sale Oh koal EStaIes
No. 3409, H-(1342. r. )-Chancery Court of Shelby
county.Wm. West admir-, etc.. ct al. VS.. B. Rich
BY virte Of an interlocutory decree for sale, en-
ID tered In the above cause on the 14th day Of
May, 1879, n B. "a, page 357, will sell at public
and Masters office. Courthouse Building, Main
street IL the TAXING Of Shelby county late
Saturday. june FL, 1879,
out Of the following described properly situated in
Shelby county Tenn, to-wit: Lying, In the I'd and
Sd districts, the waters OF Big creek in section 4,
D. Wynne from T. C. Brinkley and others: Begin
ming az a small ironwood marked p. ID. W, with
60 Inks to stake Is Inks north f21s deg east from
small ash marked W. B. c. with hickory and sugar
Be GEEK at m 10 g Ss ana Hds5 Eo6
chains, and on south Is deg west 20 chains and 20
chain and 30 links into the creek; thence south Is
deg west 10 ch6lns and 90 links 10 stake on c. A.
at IL, IA 50100, ~ $1,000. 40 $4,000, "A and
In the creek, with sycamore. elm and white walnut
pointers; thence north 1Is deg east, crossing the
creek at chains, in all 80 chains and 20 links to
out OF the above tract the following described por
ton has 6een assigned as dover TO May A smith.
Of said land; thence east "a chains TO stake from
which south IL Geg west 70 links distant Mt stands
Big creek In all Al chains and "a links to stake
near small elm marked X; thence north S21S deg
west, crossing Big creek at 8 40 100, IL q01 100 and
IL 9O-lOO chains in all 81 chains and 10 links to
corner In the creek, with sycamore elm and white
walnut pointers; thence north l1 deg east crossing
Big creek at chains, in all IS chains and 20 links
10 the beginning, containing 1876 acres.
The portion directed to be first sold, being that por
ton of said tract of land not embraced in the dover
aforesaid supposed to contain about 1908 acres.
Then ID the remainder interest of that portion EN-
braced in the meies and pounds or the dover, sub
iect to the dover interest only plat of the above
is filed with and made part Of the record herein,
to which reference Is made.
Terms of Sale-Cash; equity Of redemption barred,
nc rArOv lad In frICt hara ,
r. J. BLACK, Clerk and Master.
j. NJ Gregory, and Warmer & Lee, ATTORNEYS.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-10

TINDER and Oy virtue of the two trust deeds duly
u recorded in Book No. 10S, page 3. and No. 1IS,
page 625, of the Registers Office OF She by county,
Tennessee, default having been made by the grant,
therein at the request of the benefciarieS In
said deeds named, Will, on
Thursday, June 10, 1SS9,
at II am, ON the southwest corner of Main and
Madison streets, in the city OF Memphis, Tennessee
sell at public auction, for cash, the following land,
to wit; certain lot. parcel of land situated and
being in Shelby county, Tennessee, beginning at a
point the inorth side of Exchange street, In the
city OF Memphis, sixty feet and inches east OF
tbs alley between Third and Fourth Streets thence
east with Exchange street twenty-five feet and four
inches; thence north one hundred and seventeen
feet to hvefcOt alley; thence due west twenty five
feet and four inches; thence south hundred and
seventeen feet 10 the beginning ana being the
ground upon which s. situated a three story brick
building No. 30 Exchange street. in the block known
as the Titus block Equity of redemption waived.
SIMON STITRM Trustee