The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-05-05

Ing 10 WI .UUU,UOU, aOONC VI 3OO,U Is
held by the national government in
trust for the Indians, 100000 in the
state Of Tennessee, and the greater
portion in Europe. One year ago
these bonds stood at 1888; they are
now quoted 1T 713.
By a vote of llG to 25 the AIassa-
chusetts house appointed a committee
to toinvestigate the recent discharge of
two spinners at Fall River for testify
ing before the committee on the ten
hour law adversely to the interests of
the mill.owners. 1t is limited that the
corporrtions involved may lose their
charters
A LETTER has been received at the
Treasury Department from an enter
prising German citizen, Of New York
city, offering the government $4,000
for the privilege of running small
lunch-counter and beer saloon in
the lobby of the postoflice, of that
city. In a postscrip he added that if
his proposition was entertained he
would make it ''all right with the
proper parties.
TIE Illinois legislature has passed
the bill for taxing the railroad COM
panies of the state 21s per cent. on
their gross earnings. 1t is thought a
much better way than the method of
taxing them on their property, whose
value it is difficult to determine. The
estimated product Of the tax is S ,0O0,-
900 q year. The Illinois Central, the
largest and most important line of road
in the state, is not included in the az
rangement, rs under its charter it has
always paid : per cent. Of it's gross
earnings to the state.
COTTOS dress goods have had their
ups and downs. At the beginning Of
the present century they were a COM
paratively recent production, and
printed cotton dress was fit for prin-
cess. The invention and application
Of machinery made them so common
that the wife of the poorest artisan
would hardly consider one fit to wear
in the street, and now through the i'm
prOvement Of the fabric cotton is COM
ing to the front again recovering the
prestige and becoming one Of the most
desirable Of summer materials.
Mr.. RAINIER. who served rs leuten-
ant governor Of South Carolina, and
subsequently, represented his state
in Congress, is now working in
Charleston rs u common ]aborer on
the streets. While busily engaged
the other day in handling his pick
garbage cart backed up to where the
ex lieutenant governor was at work
and dumped Il load Of dirt OH the
street. Among the rubbish was
copy Of the Congressional Record con-
tanning a speech made by himself on
the civil rights bill while a member
Of congress-
TIE disparity of the sexes in
churces is placed by Zion's Heyo ID at
two to one in favor of the women, and
the same paper also makes the follow
ing rather startling statement: IF
we were to take the churches right
through the country, we should find
that not more than one-tenth Of their
number are men in the prime Of life.
The other nine-tenths are women,
men who have passed their meridian,
and youths who have not yet reached
their maturity. 1t is also to be Oh.
served that in almost every other
community the majority of the en-.
ergetic, enterprising business men are
not avowed and active Christians;
and if they are identified with the
church at all, it is usually in the most
superficial way.
1T is significant. writes George
Alfred Townsend. that all the statu-
airy now being put up over the coun.
try is commemorative Of the Union.
and none of it monumental of the re-
bellion. South Carolina has put up
two statues since the war-one of
Sergeant Jasper, OH the battery at
Charleston, the other of Daniel Nor
gan, near the field Of Cowpens. There
is not public statue of Calhoun, nor
is there likely to be- In New Orleans
monument to Robert E. Lee was
commenced some time ago, and is in
an unfinished state in public square.
1t was to have been about ninety feet
high. Efforts arc being made to finish
1t, but the respectable sentiment of
the community discountenances it,
WHEN York, Pa, was invaded by
the confederates in 1868, General
Early, who commanded, levied a con.
tribution of 100000 upon the city.
AS nearly all the ready cash had been
removed when he arrived, he only got
$4,000. So confident was Early in
the success of the campaign in which
he was engaged, that he took the
bonds Of the corporational officers for
the additional $4,000. He was beaten
at Gettysburg, and the bonds were
never presented. There is a story
now in New York that Early still has
the bonds and contemplates bringing
suit against the city to recover the
amount. This would certainly be a
novel suit at law and raise some inter.
esting questions.
The city Of Durango, Mexico, has a
hill in its vicinity, that is almost pure
iron. 1t is two miles long, one mile
wide, and 700 feet high. On it's sur
face, uncovered and visible, are, ac-
cording to estimation, 200, 100000 of
tons of iron ready to he nlaced in the