The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-07
VOLUME TX.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
WASHIN0ION.


Coinage of the five-cent nickel
pieces has been suspended, ast 10 becoming
redundant.
The Irving hall democracy in New
York have disbanded, after ratifying the reor-
ganization Of the party by the committee Of
one hundred.
The treasury authorities at Wash
ington have become convinced that under ex-
listing laws $l50,0oo,o 600 of maturing bonds
may be practically refunded ut 3 or 3x per
cent, independently Of the treasury hoard or
the surplus revenue.
The treasury Department. report
on trichine and trichinosis is nearly ready for
distribution. The folly Of any nation pro-
hibiting the entry of pork from abroad, when
in point Of fact no country is without trichine
Of It's own, is we'll shown, and it is held to BE-
ridiculous to assume that foreign variety Is
more harmful than those Of native ~produc-
ton.
Advices from Washington bring
evidences of break In the Presidents cabinet
even at this early day. There is dissatisfaction
on the part of Attorney General McVeigh, at
the appointment of VIM. E. Chandler to be
solicitor general, and hostility of Postmaster
General James because of the appointment Of
of Judge Robertson as collector of the post Of
New York. The hatred of Senator Conkling
to Judge Robertson is the cause of Postmas-
ter James detection. Rumor has it that un-
less the President should withdraw these
nominations that these two members of his
cabinet will certainly withdraw. Should the
" stalwarts" succeed in gaining control Of the
President and his appointments It will neces.
state thorough change in his cabinet at the
outset. The outcome is watched with much
solicitude. The President is determined to
stand by his nominations, and it is further
stated that if either Mcveigh or James should
tender their resignation, the President will not
hesitate in accepting them.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
President Garfield has decided not
to recall Gen. Longstreet from the Turkish
mission.
The National Committee of the
Greenback party has been called to meet at St.
Louis, May 8.
Mrs. Matt. Carpenter has engaged
Judge Jere Black to settle up her husbands
estate, which she states under o.th. to be worth
from $4,000 to $150,0o0.
Gen. Badeau, recently nominated
for charge d'affairs at Denmark, but who for
twelve years past has been consul general at
London writes to the President, declining to
accept the Danish mission.
VIM. H. Vanderbilt has resigned
his position as director of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, and Col. Wilson, super
intendent Of the company for the past thirty
five years, has also resigned.
Gen. Grant. accompanied by his son,
Ulysses, Senor Romers, and N. E. Dawson his
private secretary, left New York for Mexican on
March %. The general expects to be absent
about two months, and will devote his time
to the development of the railroad interests
of Mexico. Heis the President of the Mexican
Southern.
Recently the ladies of Alexandria,
Va, presented and laid on the desk of Senator
Hill, Of Georgia, a floral gilt In the shape OF
a vessel under full sail. and accompanied by
a highly laudatory note of appreciation OF his
Sc vices for the manner in which he exposed
the corrupt bargain made by the Senator from
Virginia."
Justice Clifford, of the United States
supreme court has left Washington for his
home in Portland, Me. There has been no
material change in bis mental and physical
condition, and he is entirely incapacitated
from further judiciary service, and there is no
prospect of recovery. 1t is reported that his
m n%so,, hoon rrsffov, o&,t aud t1,ot
Attorney General Devens will be appointed his
successor.
Thomas NJ. Halpin, well.known
Irish leader, died in Chicago, March 81.
Deceased was secretary of the Irish confeder-
alton movement in 1849, and was associated
with Dorcy MCGEE in the publication of the
New York Nation. He was member of the
Illinois legislature from 1872 to 1875, and
published the first directory of Chicago.
Among his other ventures he published the
Memphis Bulletin in conjunction with
Admiral semmes, of the confederate navy.
Gen. Joubert, the Boer leader turns
out to be an American after all--being a
native of Cniontown, Fayettc Comfy, Pa,
where he was born in the spring of 1S41. His
parents came from Holland the previous ear.
He was educated in the Uniontown public
schools. When about II years of age he was
tried on the charge Of assault and battery,
but was acquitted. Soon after he quilted
America, going to Holland, and thence to
South Africa. At the outbreak of the rebel.
lion he returned to this country, and served in
the navy under Admiral Dupont, and after
ward as Captain of colored company under
Gen. Weitzel. He returned to Holland after
the war, and thereafter to South Africa. His
full name is Daniel Sturgeon Joubert, having
been named after &c ator Daniel Sturgeon, Of
Pennsylvania, who befriended his father.
The United States marshal at Jack.
sonville, Florida, telegraphs to tbs State De.
partment at Washington, that he has &C.
cured one hundred and thirty indictments
against persons in that state for election
frauds perpetrated at the November election.
He has succeeded In arresting and placing un-
der satisfactory bonds over half of them, and
hopes to hnd them all soon. Some of them
who know that indictments are pending
against them threaten to make forcible resist
ance to arrest. The matter Of their apprehen=
sion has to be judiciously managed, because
the government does not furnish force enough
to cope with the red-shirt organizations that
in some counties would fight before they
would permit deputy to arrest one of their
number, If they knew the attempt was to be
made. The crimes of which these men have
been guilty are of the most heinous character,
! and amount to practical abolition of free
speech and a free ballot in the communities
which thev rule through the terror of their
violent practices. They have openly carried
off ballot boxes, boasted Of making sworn re-
turns contrary to the facts, and threatened
death at the polls. they have, in some in
| stances, placed Instructions around the polls
to prevent the voters from approaching with
sutfic icient freedom to deposit their ballot. ,
THE EAST.
4 new locomotive on the Pennsyl.
vania road took a train from West Philadelphia
to Jersey city in one hour and fifty minutes.
A Pittsburgh, Pa, paper is author: