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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-01-15
Personal AND POLITICAL.


The Massachuttcs legislature organ
lied Jan.7
Gov. P,rkins of San Francisco was
inauguratcd Jan. s.
The symptoms of the Empress of Rus
sin are officially reported to be increasingly
unfavorabic.
Lloyd S. Brown, member of the last
Ohio legislature, fell dead in street car in
Cincinnati, Jan.6
Thomas Alfred Starkey was consecra-
ted Bishop OF the Episcopal diocese of North
ern New Jersey, Jan 8.
Dispatches from Augusta, Maine, of
Jan 9, cont 'A'il,'t the rulnors of the serious
Hines OF ''ha''r Elaine.
Gov. i.'ng was innaugaratcd for his
new tciH "f iuvcrnOr Of Massachusetts, Jan.
and delivered his message
The President has nominated George
W. Hazclton. of Wisconsin, United States at
torney for the eastern district of Wisconsin.
The California House of Representa-
tives, January z, by a vote of 6s to 3, recon-.
mendcd John F. Swift for minister to China
The Governor Of Alabama, has appoint
cd Luke f. Pryor United States Senator to
till the vacancy caused by the recent death
of Senator Houston.
The greenback conference at Washing
ton, Jan. g. fixed upon June 10th as the
tim. and.Chicago as the pace Of holding
their National convention.
The special Senate comm,tte appointed
to investigate the negro exodus consists of
Voo:'cercs, Vance and Pendletons, demo Gratis
and Window and Blaine Republicans.
Frank Leslie, the well-known publish
er OF illustrated papers, died at his residence
In 'h City OF New York on the afternoon of
Jun 10, from tibrous tumor in the throat
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-01-15
A Kusslan jury.

Russian jurors make up their YER
diets without the slightest reference to
the evidence. Toward the close Of
1877 and the beginning of 1879 fire.
quent complaints were made to the
chief postal authorities in St. Peters,
burg of letters not having reached
their destinations, and, inquiry being
made, letter-carrier named Ale1eyetf
was arrested on suspicion. In his lodg.
ings were found, among other things,
about 220 letters, with over thirty mon
ey.orders, in consequence of which he
was brought to trial. It was proved
that he had gradually stolen large
sum of money. which he did not deny,
but he excused himself on the double
ground that he was very often drunk
and had no time frequently to deliver
all the contents of his bag. These
pleas must have seemed of overpower-
ing cogency to the minds of the jury,
for they pronounced him mot guilty.
ind he was acquitted.
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CASUALTIES.

Five cl'''E"n were amusing themselves
on the ice, mill pond in Readville, Mass.
Jan. 8. when hr ice gave way and two we're
drowned.
On the s. 'rntll of January, Mrs. H. w.
Haynes, "~~': 'ant teacher in the high school
ut st. Paul. Mum slipped on the ice and broke
her right lr- above the ankle
A still in Lombard and Ayers oil works
in New York xrlodcd Jan. 6. and set fire to
the building and factory burned one, to death,
and seri "i>'y burned another OF the workmen.
At No"Ihridge, N. j., On the morning
OF Jan. 6, on the Long Branch railroad, 10.
comotive and four freight cars fell through a
fifty feet draw Of bridge that had carelessly
been left open. The wreck took fire ard the
cars were burned. The engineer was slightly
injured.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-01-15

A woman's glove is to her what q vest
pocket is to man, but it is more capa-
cious, and in ninety-nine cases out Of a
hundred it is much better regulated
A man will carry $500 worth Of small
change, four matches, half-a-dozen
toothpicks, short pencil, and yet not
be able to find nickel, or q match. OF
a pencil, or toothpick, or a card when
he wants it. Not SO with q woman.
She has the least bit of glove, and in
that glove she carries the tiniest
hand, and wad of bills and the mem.
oranda for her intended purchase of
dry goods, and car tickets and matinee
checks, and maybe a diminutive pow
der-bag. We have no idea how she
does it-how she manages to squeeze
those thousand and one things into that
wee space. But she does it every time,
and the glove never looks the least dis
composed, or plethoric, or ruflled. And
when q woman wants any article
concealed about that glove, she doesn t
seem to have the least trouble in the
world getting at it. All that is required
is simple turn of the wrist, tho dis.
appearance of two fairy fingers. and the
desired articls is brought to light Il
is wonder no savant can explain.
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lndignities were simply augmented by
other Utes, friends Of the three mentioned. In
the hellish outrages the bucks were assisted
BY squaws. These female savges seemed to
gloat over the horrors perpetrated upon the
white captives Of their own sex. During their
captivity the sufferings Of the three women
were indiscribably horrible. The hcllish fiends
renewed their crimes time and time again
The poor women feared they would never he
delivered from thraldom worse than DEATH
for death Is Inconsistencies, while their ex-
istence was living death and an earthly hell
every day.
The Mark Lane Ezpreis, of Jan 8, in a
review of the British grain trade
for the past week, says: Recent frosts pre-
vented the sowing Of much OF the land intend.
ed for wheat, especially in Midland and few
other distrietsIwhere it is reported only about
half the usual quantity has been sown. As
the frost has now disappeared, some of this
deficiency, at any rate, should be speedily
remedied. 1t Is impossible As yet to state the ef
feet Of the frost, upon growing wheat, but It
may be remarked, increased apprehensions
are felt on this point In France roots have been
much Injured by the lrost, and it will be diff
cult aud expensive for cattle owners to tide
over the winter. Damp weather has rather
deterioted freshly threshed grain. The quan-
tity offered at Mark Lane has been small and
prices we've not quotably lowered. Trade in
foreign wheat was only slightly affected by
holiday influences the past week, and the full
rates Of last Monday have been obtainable.
The supply for the moment is doubtless in
excess of the demand, and stocks are
arc increasing Holders, however, do not
seem inclined to press sales. There seems to
be general inclination to await further de-
velopements Of the situation In America. II
prices here had continued as abnormally de-
pressed as during the first half of the year
1879 the great speculative enterprise which is
now atioat In America could hardly have fail.
ed to be successful. The only te-worthy
change in feeding stuffs beiug decline In
maize Of about one shilling. In consequence
Of large arrivals and tagging demand arrivals
at ports OF call have been moderate. Wheat
In the early part of thu week IT,, ,:i
pence to q shilling per quarter but it
since partly recovered. Maize was in less de
mand at sig pence to nine pence reduction.
Wheat to arrive inactive American offerings
still too high. Maize fiat with declining ten
dency. New crop OF mixed American was Of
fering at 26s and 26s Cd per 1870 pounds for
January and February shipments. Sales Of
English wheat last week, 24,b74 quarters, at
46s lid per quarter the corresponding week
last year. Imports into the United Kingdom
week ending December q S49,S66 hundred
weight wheat, and 222Sl4 hundred weight
flour.
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Why the Law Is Uncertain.

Language is an imperfect ms rument
for the expression Of ideas. Not few
of its forms are ambiguous; that is,
they speak in two ways. Reader and
hearers are left in old Jsaac's perplexi-
ty. The voice is that of Jacob, the
hand is that of Esau.
Many of the terms of language are
equivocal. They have two meanings,
so that the reader is in doubt as to the
mind or intention of the writer.
Those who draft statutes know how
difficult it is to frame law which shall
be free from ambiguous expressions or
equivocal terms. Judge Story once
told a personal incident, which illus
trates this difficulty.
He was employed by Congress to
draft an act. So important was it that
he spent six months in trying to per-
feet its phraseology. His purpose was
to make the statute so clear that the
most astute lawyer should not be able
to cast the shadow of doubt upn its
meaning.
The draft, proving satisfactory to the
lawyers in Congress, became law. In
less than year, suit, involving the
Interpretation of this very law, came
before the court over which Justice
Story presided. Having heard the
arguments of the able attorneys. the
Judge confessed that he was unable 10
decide upon the meaning of a statute
which he himself had framed.
He, of course, knew what he had
meant to put into the law. But the
criticisms of the two lawyers showed
him that he had used such ambiguous
expressions that it was doubtful if he
had said what he meant to have said.
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Bound to Marry In That Family.

After many devious windings through
the troubled waters of the course of
true love, weli-to-do farmer has finally
drifted into the haven of wedlock. He
courted a young lady for a year, be-
came her accepted lover, and then was
jilted. He next made love to her sis-
ter, induced her to name the day, paid
tor the wedding cards, and then at the
last moment Was shown to the door.
Another Gay was set, and again the
maiden said, Wemust part" In sheer
desperation he reopened negotiations
with his first sweetheart, and made such
quick work of it that before the girl
had time to change her mind he was
her husband.
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A WOsllan'e Evidence.

II want to know, Mrs. -" inter
rupted Hubbard, II want to know on
which side of your house the L is
north, south, east, or west?"
Its on this side," replied the lady,
motioning with her hand.
"No."
The west side?"
"No, it's straight across from Mrs.
BIS parlor window, not twenty feet
from it, you"
Mrs. -" shouted the Captain.
"wil you tell me if that L is on the
east, west, north, or south side of your
house?"
It amt on any side of the house,"
:epled the witness, COMPRISING her
lips; "it's ut the end. You know as
well as I do. You've seen it many a
time, and there amt no use"
"Come, come, Mrs. -," interrupted
Judge Cromer, "tell the gentleman
where the L of your house is situated"
Haven't I been telling him just as
plain as I could?"
"Where is the l. situated?" said
Hubbard, desperately.
Right in the lot, back against the
end of the house."
Will you answer my question o.
shouted the affable Captain, running
up his hair in desperation.
"What question:"
Is the L on the east, west, north, or
south side of the house2"
Judge, I've told him just as plain
as ever woman could. I didn't come
here to be sassed by no one-horso law
yer. I know him and his father before
him. He amt got no business putting
on airs. What kind of family -"
Silence!" thundered Cromer.
"Now, Mrs. .-, which side of your
house does the eun rise on?"
"That one," said the witness, indicat-
ing.
"Is the L on that side?"
eyes, sir"
Then it's on the east side?"
EYES,"
"Why didn't you say so, then?"
asked the exasperated Captain.
"C>.use you never asked me, you
bald-headed old snipe. I know thing
Or"
"That will do" said Hubbard.
"Take the Witness" he added, turning
to Tom Wren, the opposing COUNSEL
NeV York World.
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HOMES IN TIE WEST.

i Persons looking westward f'r homes
an procure full information concerning
the GARDEN Spot of Iowa and Mime.
sofa, by subscribing for the Worthins.
ton ADVANCE, published at Worthington
Minnesota. Send 81 for. one year; 81
tor six months, and so cents for thre.
months, to ADVANCE, Worthingtcn
Mobiles county, minnesota
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was securely pinioned. He was taken to the
city hospital in st Paul. HIS right hand is
almost severed at the wrist, and he has two
ugly gashes in the head, besides many bruises
It is not thought he will recover MI. Town.
send received severe cut in the head and
other injuries none of which are fatal
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-01-15
Those Wives,

In San Francisco and other large
towns of California it is said that many
of the married women past the middle
age have been the wives of two, three
and sometimes four or five different
men, owing to the freedom of divorce
which used to exist, and still exists in a
modified form, in the State. Women
were in plentiful lack in the days of the
Argcnauts, and for some time after /;
and when one appeared in the COM
munity with good looks, intelligence
and magnetism to recommend her, she
was well-nigh fought for. As a rule,
the women who migrated to Ell Dorado
were not of the finest. Many of them
were more or less adventuresses, and,
seeing their extreme marketableness,
enhanced their value by very broad
coquetry, and disposed of themselves to
the highest bidders. After securing
one husband they entertained proposals.
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An Eastern Bride.

A girl, after sheis betrothed, is cooped
up in small room, with shackles of
gold and silver upon her ankles and
wrist. Ii she is to be married to man
who has discharged, dispatched or lost
former wife, the shackles which the
former wife wore are put upon the new
BRIDES limbs, and she is fed till they
are filed up the proper thickness.
The food used for this custom, worthy
of barbarians, is seed called drough,
which is Of An extraordinary fattening
quality. With this seed and their ma
tional dish, cuscusoo, the bride is liter
ally crammed, and many die under the
spoon.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Strawberry plants are IN bleam IN the
gardens around Richmond, Virginia.
The Butchers Union held an open air
meeting in Chicago. Jan. 8. Some 10000 per-
sons were present The strikers are disposed
to compromise with the packers upon any
basiS but giving up the union
The striking butchers at Chicago, COM
PEELED non.unioE workmen to leave their
work Jan. s. Both sides express determine
ton to hold out, and the employers are es.
pccially indisposcd to make concessions to
the refractory strikers.
The fact that the women captured by
tic Ute Indians, at the White river agency
massacre, were brutally outraged by their
captors, has, for some unexplained reason,
hitherto been concealed. The Pueblo Colo.
rado) Chtcttain, on New Years day, contained
the following card from Mrs. Mcekcr. whose
husband was slain: To the editor of the
COLORADO Chieftain. Greeley, Dec. 49, Dear
Sir: arise from a sick bed to state few
facts which you and the people Of Colorado
demand. We three oaptivcs of the Utes-Mrs.
Price, myself and daughtcr-were all inter-
viewed separately, being put under oath by
the officers Of the government to tell the
whole truth OF our treatment by the Indians.
gave in my testimony for the use of the
government, to do with it rs they should see
fit There was nothing whatever said about
lie being suppressed on either side. I Just
simply gave my testimony to the government
officers, innocenty supposing they knew
their duty and would do it also thought I
had done alithat belonged to me to do bv
telling these officers the sickening and most
numiliating misfortune that can befall wo.
man, and II they and the interior department
have not done their duty by the people Of
Colorado, it is they who are to blame, not me
On arriving home in Greeley found mvse,f
completely broken down in mind and boflv
and have had a long spell Of severe sickness.
and from which am just recovering. Yours
truly. Mrs. N, C. Mrrrrn
The Cheyenne leader adds the follor.
ing: Immediately after captivity tho women
were forced, under threats Of torture and SLOW
death. to yield to the lust of their hideou,
captors. The women. suffering untold agony
OH account Of the murder of their husband,
and fathers, were dazed and bewildered, and
were powerless to resist. Poor old Mrs. Meek
er. over GU years Of age, and suffering from ,
flesh wound in the rear portion of the thiph
became the victim OF Douglas, who afterwerd
boasted of his protecting care Josephine
Metker was held by Persune, and
Mrs. Price by johnson. The unbearable
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-01-15

The London Telegraph indulges in
the following display of remarkable
knowledge: John Quincy Adams left
the whole Of his property, valued At
10000, to his son, the subsequent
President, Charles Francis Adams. Who
died . rich man. having married . lady
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WOMAN GOSSIP.
MyLovef.

MY Lover.
Ny lover 10 not young nor fair;
No knightly srmor does he weax.
Nor title OF degree:
He has no princely lands, nor gold
No jewels rare, no treasures old
To bring and offer me.
But, to me, desrer far than lands
His fond, true heart; his willing hands:
His spirit firm and bold.
More Precious, though unknown to fame,
Is his untarnished, honest name,
1han mines of glittering gold.
Riches take wings and fly away;
Eaft1's treasures tarnish and decay,
And youths fair features fade;
Butlove, true love ,smoothes Nfe's rouah vaya
And sings of brighter, better days,
Nor asks to be repaid.
CHANsKRsBURG, Pa. E.A.O.
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We should enjoy our fortune as We
do our health-enjoy it when good, be
patient when it il bad, and never apply
violent remedies except in IN extreme
necessity.
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THERE is a legend common in Scan
dinavia that a dishonest hand.maiden
OF the Blessed Virgin purIoined her
mistress silver scissors, and that she
was transformed into q lapwing for pun
ishment, the forked tail of the bird be-
ing . brand of the theft, and the bird
was doomed to q continual confession
OF the crime by the plaintive cry,
~Tyvit, tyvit," that is, in Scandinavian,
Il stole them, I stole them"
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The Wo0dpecker in Song.
I smile as I note that the woodpecker
proves a refractory bird to Lowell, as
we'll as to Emerson:
Emerson rhymes It with bear,
Lowell rhymes it with hear,
One makes 1t woodpeckair,
The other, woodpeckear.

Emerson rhymes It with bear,
Lowell rhymes it with hear,
One makes 1t woodpeckair,
The other, woodpeckear.
But its hammer is a musical one,
ind the poets do well to note it. An
Illinois poet, observe, ascribes the
"rattat-tat" of the downy or hairy
woodpecker, heard So often in early
spring upon the resinous limbs, and
again in the Indian summer, to the yel-
low-hammer or high-hole. The high
hole is almost entirely ground-pecker,
and his beak is seldom heard upon limb
or tree, except when he is excavating
nest. Our most musical drummer upon
dry limbs among the woodpeckers is
the yellow-bellied. His measured, de-
liDerate tap, heard in the stiffness Of
the primitive wood, has an effect that
no bird.song possesses.-Joh'a Bur-
roalghs. in Scrib7aer's Monthly.
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VALUE OF WORN GOLD COINS.
esr q Information From tae Coiner q
g. the New Orleans Mint

fSs.S
the New Orleans Mint.
S INQUIRIES are daily made at the mint
Ito the least current weight at which
- Government will receive gold coins
1Estheir nominal value. Under the
1eQrteenth section of the Coinage act of
1e18 it is provided shat gold coins re-
dnbed in weight by natural abrasion not
aore than one-half of per ccntum be-
~. the standard weight, after q period
q circulation of twenty years, and a
psbportionate rate for q less period,
shall be received at their nominal value
atfhe United States treasury and it's
o4ces."
The following statement exhibits the
Standard weight and least current weight
ofgold coins after a circulation Of
twenty years, and at which least current
weight they are receivable in payment
Of f:debts to the United States:
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The great ranchmen of the plains
have to guess at the number of cattle
they own.
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Kissing.

Girls take naturally to kissing
there's not the slightest doubt of it. A
man slides as awkwardly into his first
kiss as into his elder brothers tail
coat, and his vanity is equally great on
both occasions. He considers them as
steps up the ladder of life, and would
have his promotions proclaimed from
from ihe housetops, and shouted from
the church steeples, but such is his
modesty in his family circle that when
a younger brother quietly mentions
them he looks red and feels unfraternal.
The female sex obtain their remarka-
ble proficiency in kissing by perpetual
study and constant practices. They are
early distinguished for their aptitude
in the art, for what girl is not ready to
kiss baby at all hours and all seasons :?
This sort of kiss eventually develops
into the genuine love-kiss-p pleasant to
experience and contemplate.
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for another. and not otinfrequently slipped
away from No. l to No. 2, through some
legal trick, before No. l lad any idea
that he had proved maritally unsatis.
factory. It is related that about 1853
three members of San Francisco firm
had each in turn the same wife in the
space Of twenty-foar months. Some of
the most matrimonially enterprising
women in the country journeyed thither
twenty to twenty. five years ago, and
made their marriages remunerative by
getting settlements cash down before
the tying of the nuptial knot. The lives
OF not few of them wo lid, if faithfully
chronicled, read like the most sensation
al of sensational novels.
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Celia ThAxter.


A romantic story is connected with
Appledore island, one of the Isles of
Shoals, of the coast of New Hampshire.
Years ago the island was purchased bv
MIR. Leighton, lawyer and prominent
local politician of Portsmouth. who
bought it with a view to living on il
permanently, on account of his dissat-
lstaction with his party. He took his
wife and child--a daughter-there.
built q rude house, and expressed his
determination never to return to the
main land. He adhered to his word
infe1ibly, for he had grown soured and
misanthropical by his political dis
appointment. When his daughter had
become 15 or 16 young lawyer asked
the privilege of boarding in Mr.. Leigh
toms isolated family for the benefit of
his health. The privilege was reluc-
family granted, and the attorney, being
thrown into the society of the daughter
described as very pretty, bright and
unconventional girl, as she would likely
be with her peculiar surroundines).
fell desperately in love with her. The
cynical father was furious at the inter-
loping gallant; but, as tae latter could
not be :bullied or driven off, he was
finally allowed to take the girl to wife,
and the two went to the mainland and
lived there. The lady is now known
to the literary world as Mrs. Celia
Thaxter, faverite contributor to the
atlantic Monthly. She is very fond
OF Appledore, doubtless through early
romantic associations, anu spends most
OF her summers in cottage near the
Appledore House, kept by her brothers,
who were born on the island, and have
grown to be inn-keepers by process of
evolution gradual, but Irresistible,