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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-08-13

July 30.
The Worthington advance., 1879-05-08
THE U1IfEItN MINNESOTA

Superintendent Egan came out
Thursday aud let more contracts, west
Of the Sioux City road. y. w. Fish Of
La Crosse township, secured il four
mile contract.-Jackso. Republic.
La Crosse Republican and Leader: 1t
is with pleasure that we are able to an
nounce that the necessary arrangements $
have been completed for the extension
Of the southern Minnesota Railway ill.,
to Dakota this season. We are inform
ed by General Manager Myers that the
bonds have been placed and Il large por-
ton OF the iron and other material pur-
chased. Thirty-tive miles west OF Jack
son will be ready for the iron by the
2Oth Of June and the remainder Of the
eighty-tive miles between Jackson and
the Big Sioux River-whicll is about
ten miles west of the State line-as rap
idly as it can lie graded. The line is as
yet definitely located only as far us Clear
Lake, near the west line of Cottonwood
county, but two surveying parties un-
der the direction of Superintendent
Egan are running trial lines with a
view to finding the most advantageous
route from there through Murray and
Pipestone counties lying to the west
ward and into Moody county, Dakota,
vii Ere the terminus will be for the pres.
ent. The value aud Importance of the
rich field thus opened up to La Crosse
jobbers we think is fully appreciated by
that class, but we shall soon take occa-
sion to write of it more fully for the
benefit of those of our readers who do
not appreciate the advantages of con-
tinuous line of well built, ably managed
and thoroughly equipped railway three
hundred miles in length and extending
clear across the richest portion of tie
greatest grain-growing State of the
Union.
The Worthington advance., 1879-05-08

The advantages Of these Lines are
!. II the passenger is going to or from any
point in the entire West and Northwest. he cal,
.uy his tickets via some one OF this Company
lines and be sure Of reaching his destination by
it or its connections.
2. The greater part OF its lines are laid with
steel rails its road bed is perfect.
). 1t is the short line between all imDortant
points.
I. It's trains are equipped with the Westing-
house Air Brake, Mi|lers Platform AMI CouplcTS
and the latest improvements for comfort, safety
and convenience.
5. It is the only road in the West running the
celebrated Pullman Hotel Cars between Chicago
and Council Bluffs
6. II is the only road running the Pullman Pal
ace Sleeping cars either way boz wcen ChicarO
aml st. Paul. Green Bay, Freepnrt, Lacrosse.
Winona, Dubuque, Mct,regor, Milwaukee,
=. No road offers equal facilities in number of
tntollgh trains, equipped with Pullman Palace
Sleeping cars.
g. It makes connections with all lines crossing
at intermediate points.
The Popularity Of these lines is steadily in
crcaSing an passengers should consult their in
tertst by purchasing tickets via Of this line.
t!ckrtS over This route are sold by all COupOn
ilrkct Agents in he United States and Can:>tlas
Remember, yOn ask for your Tickets via of the
Chicago Il North Western Railway, aud take
none other.
For information. folders, maps. &C., not obt
Gall,ib!e at home ticket Office, address any ayen
Of the Company or
W: II. sTENNETT, MARVIN HuGH1rT,
zen IaSS Agt, Chicago. Gen. Aiangr.
Jan. l, lS79.-iy.
The Worthington advance., 1879-05-08
RAILROADS.

Rock Rapids Review, q: 1.-THE en-
gineers surveying the permanent line of
the st. Paul branch and setting the
stakes down on the valley of the Big
Rock through Lyon county. got within
q few miles of Rock Rapids last Thurs
day evening, and suppered in town.
The following forenoon they surveyed
through the town continuing the line
southward to Doom, which point they
have doubtless reached ere this.
Mankato Record: Tracklaying at
Crystal Lake has begun under road
master Cox. A switch was begun on
Monday, reported to be for the Blue
Earth City branch, by way of Garden
City. About twenty car loads of iron
have been unloaded at Lake CRYSTAL.
Piles Of ties have also been left there.
While there is no definite information,
appearances would seem to indicate
that Garden City and Vernon would
get the road and we hope they may.
THIS NUMBER
A letter OF intense interest to Liber-
al Christians.
An interesting letter on Leadville
from J. II. Brooks.
A large quantity Of very interesting
county news.
Half column of live railroad infor-
| nation.
All this With the locals and other
matters Of fresh interest, we think,
furnisl es 4 valuable number of the AD-
VANCE
The Worthington advance., 1879-05-08
41d&iugtrn 9dvaufe,
Tssms $50 q Year, 9s.oo for six Months.
THURSDAY, MAY q, 1917.

Tie Chicago Times says: ''The
ereatest GDrt of his life is born,
and Mr.. Conkling is doing as we'll as
can be expested.' And it won't he
long until We are informed that Mr..
Conkling has conceived another "great-
est effort Of his )ife'' which in due time
will be ushcred into this wicked world.
Il Is q good thing to have every effort
considered the greatest of ones life.
It is stated that the pope will shortly
publish document inviting all the Eu-
fopean governments to unite in purg-
ine society of the evils which at present
beSet 1t, and join in the endeavor to
stamp out the socialists.-SiouxF Falls
Independent.
Two of the greatest evils from whicl,
Europe needs to be purged are Priest
craft and Kingcraft. Spain and 1ta'
~ arc taxed to death and ground to
powder to support the priests and the
rulers. and every other European ma
tion is burdened in the same way with
On intolsrable burden. Is it any won
Der that the people under the various
oanss Of Socialists, Communists, Nihi'
lists, etc., are organizing to ''purge 80
oisty Of the evils which at present BE-
~ It,"
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THIS NUMBER,
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The Worthington advance., 1879-05-08

you it's keeper? preach liberty of con.
science, and demand it for myself
.=,Sec0nd--Tllese churches are sns stained
largely, and in some instances almost
entirely ny money contributed bv us
liberals. We, in fact, hold the nurse
strings, and are masters of the sit,,a-
tiOn. Lay down your ultimAtnm that
the little knot of zealots who Fassi,ma t to
run things, and their bitter creed shall
step down and out. And if your nastor
does not discontinue running in the old
ruts and preaching his ''damnntion;,
stuff to you, let him step down and ont
too, and call some man of more breadth
and sense to the pulpit. At the npxr
annual meeting of the church, organize
and take the church offices and business
into your own hands. Then
TEAR DOWN THE BLACK FLAG
on which bigotry has painted the red
flames Of hell, and run up in ita nlace
the white banner Of the Prince of Peace.
proclaiming love and mercy to- man.
kind. Paint over the desk the words.
God is love, and we love Il Gvd of this
kind" Forbid the teachings in your
Sunday schools of that fearful burlesone
of religion which makes our children
miserable, unhappy, Respondent. hypo-
critical beings, with a false conception
of truth and religion. and instead sub.
stitute one which inculcates indepehd-
ence, freedom of thought, and generous
manliness. Look through the Sunday
school library, and you will be appalled,
at the mass Of sickenlng twaddle there
furnished for their reading, about in
fantile piety and impossible types of
| angelic perfection, who were 80 saint
like (but fortunately died Young. J
Heave this stuff overheard, and substi.
tute in its place something real and gen.
uine and wholesome.
Third-Act out your professions
| Profession without practice is what has
made orthodox Christianity a joke and
by word. Lead lives of gentleness
truth and kindly tolerance to all. Be
circumspect and above reproach in you1
walk and lives. Thus you will show
the world that genuine religion is not Z
sham, but is real, earnest, helpful anC
good. Atheists and scoffers wi be dis
armed. Now they have plenty ol
ground for rejecting and swearing al
religion, and do not blame them, be
cause 1t has been so caricatured ant
travestied by the ''unco guid," wht
have assumed to run our churches, ant
set themselves up as models. Once in
troduce and teach the true. pnre, genu
inc religion of our Savior, and the occu
patton of the infidel is gone.
Fellow liberals. the field is our own
Why do we hang back? We are doin,
wrong by delaying this movement
single week. Be up and doing, and on
hopes will soon be realized. "Blesse,
are they who do hunger and thirst at
ter righteousness, for they sholl b
,flled." Cosmos.
ST. PAUL, April 26, 1879.
The Worthington advance., 1879-05-08
T1t)PRIBLE MURDER.


One Of the most shocking murders in
the history of the country was COM
mitted few days ago ut Pocasset ,
Mass. A religious fanatic named Free
man became possessed with the notion
that God required him to sacrifice his
pet daughter, u five-year-old child.
Tho poor wretch took 4 butcher knife
and deliberately stabbed the child to the
heart. Freeman is an Adventist and
10 sustained in the act by his wife and
by some of the Adventists in the CON-
munity. The man and his wife have
Oeen placed under arrest.
This little child is indeed 4 sacrifice
4 sacrifice to the Molocll of false teach
ing and religion of blood. And the
horrors which are committed in the
name of religion cannot cease until the
people are enlightened and taught re-
ligion of common sense and love. False
teaching. false and fanatical methods
and a religion of blood, have produced
their legitimate fruit In all ages. Lit
Tie Edith Freeman is only one among
tens Of thousands of victims.
The Worthington advance., 1879-05-08
THE NEW YORK TRLBU UNE.

Elsewhere We publish the advertise.
tnsnt OF the New York Tribune, which,
take it altogether, is the best public
journal in the world. Some other jour-
mails may excel in this or that speciality,
but for everything which goes to make
up = great public journal, and not a
mere ne,cspaper, the Tribune stands
fIrst.
We have before US copy of the Tri-
bune of Saturday, May 3. 1t contains
twelve pages, six wide columns to the
page, in all seventy-two columns, and
all of this vritten for the Tribune, with
the exception of half a column of opin-
ions copied from other papers. Over
one page Of this number is devoted to
accurate market reports.
It was fortunate for the Tribune that
when its great founder, Horace Greeley,
passed to higher and better field of ac-
tion, u man should have been found so
we'll qualified to take his place. That
man was Whitelaw Reid, the most ac-
complished and versatile journalist in
the United States. What Greeley made
the Tribune in politics, Reid has made
1t in nearly every other field of newspa-
per enterprise.
The Tribune was fortunate again,
when last winter it secured the services
of DR.. A. p. Miller, formerly of the To-
Iedo Blade, who has no equal in the
United States in making newspaper Il
success. When DR.. Miller first went
into the Toledo Blade it had only a To-
cal circulation and influence. In three
years. time, he had given it u national
circulation and influence, and made 4
fortune for himself and his business
partners. Again when the paper fell
into the hands Of Il mere book-keeper,
and ran down till it was 4 failure, this
book keeper appealed to Dr.. Miller to
come and save the Blade. The DR..
went and made the Blade again, run
ming the circulation mp to O,OOO or TO-
600 In ons season,
We are familiar with tho history of
the Blade and know whereof we speak.
II DR.. Miller's connection with the
New York Tribune does not tell upon
its circulation, it will I've because there
are no people left in the country to take
the paper.
The Worthington advance., 1879-05-08
fHE SOUTHERN MINNESOTA,

Our Bondin and Bloom township cor
respondents inform us that the survey
ors of the Southern Minnesota are rum
ming line near the Mobiles county line.
In order to avoid the bluffs about the
Lost Timber we suppose it will be nec-
essary to keep near the south line of
Murray county. It seems to he il fixed
fact that the road will be pushed on to
Flandreau this season.
Our Graham Lakes correspondent
gives further information concerning
the road. The line passes about one
half mile north of East Graham Lake
and 0ne-fourth mile north of Creswell.
The contract for grading to Clear Lake
las been let and the contract to Seven
Milo Lake is to be let in few days.
We learn that the Company design
building up quite town at Clear Lake,
.snd another at the south end of Heron
Lake.
The Worthington advance., 1879-05-08
FREE OPINION.

So This department Of the ADvANCE Is open t0any
one to express his or her views in appropriate
language upon any subject whatever, whether
religious, plilosophic, scientific or political
The conditionegare: Brevity, wyl(e on one
side Of the paper only, use appropriate language
and avoid personalities. The na'asof the writ
er must accompany communications, not for
publication unless sdesirsd,, butsas a guarantee
Of good faith. 81 81 ~
The Worthington advance., 1879-05-08

Hon. n. II. Dunnell has our thanks
for q copy Of TIE speech of Hon. J. c.,
Burrows on the Conspiracy Against the
Republic
The Worthington advance., 1879-05-08
THE CROPG

Old Settlers inform the Vermillion
Republican that dry seasons have al
ways been the best crop seasons in
Southern Dakota.-Sioux City Journal.
Old settlers in Minnesota inform the
Worthington ADVANCE that the same
10 true IN this State. AS we have said
in previous issues, tho conditions never
we're more favorable for good crops
thar, they are now. Hugo said that in
order to change the map and the history
Of Europe, Providence needed only a
little shower of rain, and that shower
came and lost Waterloo to Napoleon.
In order that the whole aspect, pros
pect, and development Of Mobiles coun'
~ should be changed, Providence only
needs to send us few showers of rain.
And from what We have seen OF Provi'
dence in the past, we believe he will
send the showers.
The Worthington advance., 1879-05-08

A NEW WAGON FOR SALE.
A barn new Two-Seated Platform
Spring Wagon, manufactured by Fish
Bros, Racine, for sale at this Office at
a bargain.
The Worthington advance., 1879-05-08
OFFICERS.
OFFTCERS
7,JOSEPH CHADWICK,
Register of Deeds,

Worthington, Mobiles County, 1finn.
Has tile only complete. set offAbstract Books
" viii VII furnish abstracts Of title, pay taxes for
non residents, procure land patents. etc. - e
Kee,,s 4 supply Of Blank Deeds, etc. Gives es-
,eci,l attention to executing aud Jack nowledg-
IT,; cd [t-lNy
The Worthington advance., 1879-05-08

LIBERAL CHRISTIANS

Elsewhere we publish 1eCLef from u
liberal Christian of St. Paul written to
the ~PioneersP Press. It Is written with
excellent spirit and we hope our read
ers, every one of them, will give it a
thoughtful perusal. We feel sure that
the great majority Of men who are sup
porting the churches are in heart and
soul in full sympathy with this writer.
They are sick Of the bigotry, the false
teaching, the worldliness, the hypocri-
sy, the supercilious assumption of saint
illness, the Phariseeism, of the little knot
of creed.bound men who manage our
churches, and who persecute, in one
way and another, every liberal man who
dares to express his thoughts.
But how shall the matter be reme-
died? This writer thinks it can be dore
by remaining in the churches and liber-
alizing them. He wants the liberal ell:
ement who really support the churches
to take control of them. But we think
this writer is mistaken. They can no
more reform the narrow churches by re-
naming in them than Luther could
have reformed the I2omish church by
remaining in that. The duty of the
liberals is to withdraw all support from
those creed-bound associations called
churches and organize new societies on
q liberal basis.
But the one parament duty of every
liberal this writer has not touched up.
on. The reformation must begin at
home. So long as liberal men leave the
religious education of their wives and
children to the ministers and Sabbath
school teachers of the narrow-gauge
churches, so long will bigotry and re-
ligious error prevail. The priests know
that they control the mothers and thu
children and, 80 long as they can Dc
| this, they know they can control til.
men. The reformation must begin ani
prevail first at our own firesides.
! A Christian writer recently commu
nicated a long afticle to the Chicag.
Tribune on the Sabbath scl,ools of tha
city. He mentioned several orthodo,
families who had recently withdraw
their children from the Sabbath schools
being no longer willing to have then
taught such twaddle and error, sucl
false ideas Of God and of human desti
ny, as are taught in nine -tenths of tn
Sabbath scl,ools of the land. He ha,
attended the Union Sabbath SchoO
meetings Of that city and found then
unvaryingly controlled by the preach
ers of the gauge churches, VIII,
were alert and always on hand t.
strangle and suppress anything like
liberal view of religion or of the Bible
We hold, with thousands of other lib
erals who cannot believe the false teacl,
ings of tho churches, to the inspiration
Of the Bible; We believe in the high an.
holy mission of Christ; we love witt
evey-increasing intensity the spiritua
and angelic part of the Christian relig
ion, but we can find no home any long
er in those churches which teach til,
old. erroneous, narrow and man-m:.d
creeds. Let the liberals assert them
selves through separate and independ
ent organizations.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-04-10
The april Elections.

In Illinois the democrats carried the
whole city ticket of Chicago by ma.
iority of about 1000, electing Carter
Harrison mayor. The socialists polled
nearly 10000 votes and elected several
aldermen.
In St. louis, Mo, complete returns
now show that the democrats elected all
their conncilmen, which gives them one
majority in the council. The demo-
Gratis also have the house delegates by a
small majority over all. The anti
charter party composed of the socialists
and greenbackers polled about 5000
votes and elected at least one member
of the house delegates.
CHICAGO polled 57,137 votes in the
late election. Harrison, dem, received
%, 1864; Wright, rep, 20358; Schmidt,
socialist, 11,515. Harrison's plurality
for mayor, 1906. Pluralities: Seiph,
dem. for city treasurer, 5,127; Gfinnel,
dem. for city attorney, 2,113; Howard,
for city clerk, 2,249. The council
stands, democrats, II; republicans, IA;
socialists 4; Independent dem. 1: the
new members are classed: Republi-
cans, Z; democrats, s: socialists, 8.
THE chief interest in the Wisconsin
elections centered in the contest be-
tween Judge Orsamus Cole, present IN
cumbent, and Judge NJ. NJ. Cothren, for
the Office of associate justice of the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-04-10
A DIVERS SAD END.
suffocated Eighty Feet Under Water
The Airline Gets Caught in Hook
ON Sunken Wreck.
New York Herald.

NEWPORT, r. l., March 24.-The first
accident in a submarine dress which
has occurred in these waters took place
this afternoon off Point Judith. John
Waters, the well-knOwn wrecker, went
Oft early this morning to the sunken
Block Island mail packet Thomas J.
Lynch, which sunk off that place about
two weeks ago, for the purpose of 1ais-
ing her. His driver, Horace Manches-
ter, 81 years, of age, went down early
IN the day, and apparently endeavored
to make all the necessary arrangements
to tighten the wreck. Nothing was heard
from him for some time, and the per-
sons on board the wrecking schooner
Young American began to get alarmed.
The air was being pumped and the life
line kept in hands which vainly tried to
feel the least pulsation, but none was
felt from the unfortunate man who was
eighty-four feet below, that being the
depth of water where the craft sank.
After he had been down three-auarters
OF an hour he gave signal that he was
all right. In few moments he sig-
nailed he wanted more air. and then he
that he was having too much.
His signals were faithfully answered by
Capt. Waters, who is known in all
wrecklng companies between here and
New York as a man who understands
his business.
The revenue cutter Samuel Dexter
hove IN sight, and, seeing the flag at
half-mast on board the Young America,
hOrp down fn Il
ly dispatched to this port for diver,
gear, and attendant. which was furnish
ed by Capt. Ramsay, United States navy,
commanding at the torpedo station.
The diver, Augustus Feliess. promptly
volunteered to go down in search of the
man. He was soon submerged,
but returned after lapse of about
twenty minutes terribly exhausted.
He reported that he saw the man sus-
pended about five feet over the sunken
vessel, the airline having been caught
by hook on the boat. He went down
again and succeed in disengaging the
line. At last the lifeless remains Of the
diver were free. and as soon as the sig
nal was given they were hoisted to the
deck of the vessel. The body was
brought here at once by the cutter and
placed III the hands of an undertaken.
The diver, when he came up for the
second time, was found to be extremely
exhausted. 1t is believed that the de-
ceased was engaged in taking out the
ballast when the lire suddenly became
Capt. Waters is of the opinion that
the man, who went down with some lit
tie mlsglving, owing to the depth Of
water, became frightened at some slight
Encouragement, and died in tit. The
face OF the man shows that he died
terrible death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-04-10
Pigeons in Missouri.
st. Louis Republican,

The woods in Shannon, Oregon and
Howell counties are full of pigeons which
are being killed by the thousands for
mont, ON the Arkansas division of the
Iron Mountain railroad, is the shipping
point, and from there are shipped eve
ry day from seven hundred to one
thousand dozen of pigeons, bringing
into the county from $500 to $500 net
cash per diem. The birds are sent to
Boston and New York, where they sell,
at S1.30 and $1,60 per dozen. The
roosts of the pigeons are from sixty to
eighty miles southwest from Piedmont,
and the hunters go out in parties of
from four to six, provided with wagons
to bring in the game. The pigeons are
continually moving toward the north,
but their progress does not exceed eight
or, at the utmost, twelve miles per day.
With daylight they leave their rooatg
in almost innumerable numbers, and
after feeding at will during the day, re-
pair to a roost days journey further
on their way northward. The hunters
watch their game settle down and then
range through the woods, looking up,
and when body of pigeons settled on
the limbs of pine or oak outlined
against the sky, half dozen men fire
at signal in the mass. What pigeons
are not left on the ground fly away, and
the hunters go on following till they get
another opportunity for shooting. In
the: morning all hands are set to
work to pick up the game and prepare
for the next nights slaughter.