The Worthington advance., 1879-05-01

las expended $50, 900 on his farms about
Sheldon, $4,000 in buildings, $4,000 in
breaking and $50, 600 in stock, machin-
cry, etc.
Mr.. Dunnell has introduced bill in
Congress providing that all laws rela-
tive to pre-emption he repealed, and
that hereafter the lands sold shall only
I've entered under the homestead or tree
culture laws.
DIR. Pardee has been expelled from
the Fairfield County Conn., Medical
Society. lie is an allopatll and his wife
is a. practicing homeopath. lie was
brought up on a charge of consulting
with his ''unorthodox" wife, and then
several other charges were tackled on,
such rs bad spelling in writing prescrip-
tions, calling some other doctor
''quack," etc. But his chief offence
was consulting with his wife.
Now, if we could have this rule ap-
piled in church matters the effect
would b3 wholesome. A Calvanistic
husband with an Arminian wife would
he expelled from church for consulting
with lis wife about doctrine and prac-
tice and vice verse.
Wendling's anti Inger oil lecture de-
livered in Cherokee last week, does not
receive very enthusiastic notice from
the press of that town. An impression
Is steadily gaining ground that Wend-
ling is 4 rather weak brOtller.-Lemars
Sentinel.
Neither Vending nor Rev. Joseph
Cook, nor any of that class of men can
reply to Ingersoll, because they attempt
to do 50 by using the old, stereotyped
theological clap-trap, which the people
have outgrown. Swing, of Chicago,
has been much more successful III his
replies to Ingersoll, because lie admits
the Importance of his work, and replies
to what is erroneous by another style OF
argument than is used by the orthodox
people. DR.. Pebbles or Prof. Buchanan
could handle Ingersoll better than any
man who has yet attempted it. Inger.
soil is laughing down the absurd Old
Theology, but he is not giving us a re-
.]igion to take it's place. That is being
done by another and higher style Of in
strument in the hands of the angelic
world.
RAIN AND CROPS
On Monday last it raincd 1T Atwater
Darwin, Litchiield, Duluth, Willmar
Dreckinrid!p, Berson, Mankuto, St
Cloud, Big Lake. and als, all along the
Wiuona e. st. Peter railroad. Judge
Anes, who has been on 4 trip to South
ern Minnesota, reports that the wheat
is generally up and looking finely.
THE I'EyO
The President has vetoed the army
appropriation bill, on a:,;';li,t of th'
rxtranpous matter attached to it. |,
lis message lie shows that for the frs
forty years Of the l.isto' y Of the govern
ncnt the practice of attaching *xtrane
aus legislation to appropriation bill
was unknown. The practice, he says
is Il bad one and should l,e stopped ant
this, lie thinks, is good place t" stop
And the country is with the Presi
dent. lie will be sustained in his et
forts to check the reyolutionar
schemes Of the rebel element in Con
gress. Il few more vetoes like this an
the anti-Chincse bill veto, will max
Hayes 6 >od candidate for reelection
BRANCH LINES.
General Manager Merrill, of the G.
NJ. Il st. p. road writes /, letter t
Judge Brookings: of Sioux Falls, an
says: II am in receipt of your favor {
the 10th inst. do not think our pee
pie would entertain any proposition
build branch lines until the m lin lin
is completed to the Missouri river"
We understand that the company il
tend to push on to the Missouri th
sr;lso.l and what we want to know
whether they will go into the brancl
building business next season. W
want that branch built from Spencer I
Spirit Lake and then, by little etfor
we can have it extended to Worthin
ton. With that branch we can affol
to have the Southern Minnesota give
the G. b. But for the present, we wi
have to be content with one easter
outlet. a good crop this year will {
far toward securing us another ros
and IS sure to bring us a rush of Sc
tiers.