The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-01-13
.HLSCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Observation-Disclosures ~ N6V
Ice in the East river carried away
obout fifty feet of pier 40.
The total mileage of railroads in the
United States is now 93,7O4
The New York Truth now acknowl.
edges the Morey letter forgery.
1t is declared that Sitting Bull will
be forced to surrender very soon.
The price of a seat i'll the New York
stock exchange has advanced to $4,000.
There is an ice gorge three miles
long and ten feet high at Monongahcla City.
The CITY clerk of st. Paul reports
licenses issued during 1850 amounting TO &$3522,- &$3522
92S.
Fowler, Compton & Co., New York,
failed Jan. 5. Liabilities, $5O0,OO0. Heavy
assets.
The coinage executed at the United
States mints during the calendar year of 1880
amounted to So, ,2S3 ,:79 gold and $o7 ,4O9, ,7O6
silver.
United States 6 per cent. bonds of
81 aggregating about $780, 600 were received
Jan. 4 for redemption.
The New York Central railroad has
subscribed $3.50, 600 to the coming worlds fair,
provided that 81 ,oOo, 600 is raised.
1t is said that the Green Bay & Min.
ncsota railroad will be sold this month, and will
probably be bought by the bondholdcrs.
Capitalists interested in the Milwau-
kec & Northern arc making an effort to push
the road through from Green Bay to Lake
Superior.
The Irish societies of Boston and
vicinity voted to celebrate st. Patrick's day by
attending lecture, the proceeds Of which will
be sent to the land league in Ireland.
4 first mortgage bond for the sum
of 81, ,00O, 600 on the southwestern extension of
the Minneapolis & st. Louis railway, in favor
Of the Central Trust Company, of New York
City, was filed by the Secretary of State, Jan.
5th.
The indications are that one of the
first jobs done in the spring by the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul Company will be the
ironing of the grade between Sioux Falls and
Dell Rapids.
The National union of brick layers
met in annual convention Jan. 10, Preston
Gokil, of Covington, Ky, presiding, and Louis
Carpenter, of Cincinnati: secretary. Nearly
every State was represented.
The Dixon Crucible Company, of
Jersey City, suspended Jan. S. The assets
and liabilities, which are about even, amount
to about 81 900 900. 1t is the largest graphite
establishment in the world.
Ten million dollars worth of North
crn Pacific railroad bonds issued in London
were covered four times. A premium of TX
per cent. was bid Jan. 5 for Philadelphia &
Reading railroad, new deferred income bonds
New York dispatch Jan; I: The
steamships Silcsia and Schiedam brought $780,
600 in specie. The Evening Post says over
$90, ,OOO, 600 in coin were added during the year
to the stock of currency, $62 ,OOO, 600 being in
gold.
New Orleans dispatch, Jan. 8: To-
day the anniversary Of the battle Of New Or
leans was observed as legal holiday. 4 sa-
lutte was fired, and there was parade of the
voulcntccr soldicry. Canal street was crowd
ed with spectators.
Capt. Eads will ask congress to aid
in the construction of his proposed ship canal
by guaranteeing six per cent dividends on the
$50, ,O00, 600 of stock which he will issue, and
he expresses the utmost confidence that his
petition will be granted.
The Mexican government has given
Eads' company the right to build ship rail-
| way across the isthmus of Tehauntepec, and
grant Of ,000, 600 acres Of land on the Pacific
| coast on which to build the railway terminus
! and establish a harbor.
An official order appointing a court
martial for the trial of Cadet Whitaker was
promulgated to-day. The detail for the court
is as previously stated, but it will meet in New
York January 20, instead of ut West Point on
the 18th, as at first announced.
A dispatch from Palestine. Texas,
Jan. 8, says: Engineers of the Great Northern
railroad start Monday to make the preliminary
survey of the road from Laredo to the City OF
Mexico. The road will he rapidly construct.
ed from San 4ntonio to the Rio Grandc.
A St. Louis dispatch, Jan. 8: At
the close Of change to-day Capt. J. B. Eads
addressed a. large number of merchants on the
subject of the ship canal across the Isthmus Of