The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-01-27

Peters pence, that the old gentleman
feels very kindly toward them.
AT the session Of the interoceani,
canal committee of tho House, Repre-
sentative Frye urged the claims of Capt
Eads' ship railway project, and declar'
ed 1t the most feasible of the various
proposed schemes.
The elements have been making
things lively in Europe, and especially
in England. Trains have been blockad
ed by snow, wharves broken up by the
waves and drifting ice, many vessels
wrecked, and great loss of life and
property entailed.
Wn1TTAKER's bifurcated auricular
appendages were formally arraigned
in court.martial, on the Goth ult. His
counsel demanded further time for
preparation of evidence, and the hear.
ing was postponed until February 3rd,
when further details of those much.
canvassed ears will be inflicted upon
a long g-suffering community.
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THE California legislature is exer-
cised over the new Chinese treaty. and
have tried to pass resolutions protest.
ing against its ratification. The reso.
lutiOns were laid on the table. The
chief grievance seems to be that the
treaty defines no means Of determin.
ing who are laborers and who are visit.
ors from China.
TIE schemes to improve the Missis.
sippi meet with determined opposition
in the East. What is desired there is
to take the streams in their order from
the Atlantic westward. If all the i'm.
mense waterways of that region--Oil
Creek ct ai.--are to be Oyerhaulcd
first, there is little hope for so unim-
pOrtant 4 ditch AS the Father of
Waters.
PRospECToRs through the wheat
growing regions Of Ohio, Michigan,
Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa, prophesy
3 short crop of winter wheat, for the
reason that dry weather last. fall pre-.
vented seeding until October, and the
wheat had hardly started before
winter set in. Continuous cold wealth
er, without snow enough for protec.
tion, has already destroyed about half
the crop.
THE German government fosters the
anti-Jewish agitation. The police pro.
hibitei proposed meeting Of work.
men to protest against the outrages--
the reason given by the authorities be.
ing that the meeting violated the anti.
socialist laws. The prohibition causes
much indignation, in view of the fact
that none Of the nti-Semitic meetings
have been interfered with. What a
congenial place Germany would be for
Judge Hilton.
GREAT financial distress prevails in
Germany. Selling prices and land
rents arc very low and constantly fall.
ing. IT, consequence, mortgagors can
not pay the interest Oh their debts,
and are dispossessed and their homes
sold at fearful sacrifice. On the tor
Of this, the country is eaten up with
taxation to support mammoth stand
army and the gorgeous pllraphernalia
of an imperial government. No won
der the over-burdened German skipt
for America on the first opportunity
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Tue European powers continue tt
amuse themselves with the contro
versy between Greece and Turkey
Every day some one of them reiteratet
a demand to the porte to submit tt
arbitration, which that porte kindly
but firmly declines. So the gentle
efforts at persuasion go on indefinitely
while Greece daily dons fresh war
paint, spits on her hands, and howl,
for somebody to hold her, lest she bt
overcome by her yearning to, yank tn,
tail feathers from that perverse COB
bier.
The willy politician of the border
Sitting Bull, has again skipped tn.
fence and retired to the protection o.
his nalnesake, John Bull. He snuffet
upon tho tainted gale the scent of til,
soothing and persuasive Gatling gun
and breaking off negotiations will
Allison, without asking to be excused
hoistel the bovine caudal appendag
and made sail for Canada. Only
handful Of warriors followed him. TIL
remainder of his band prefer the com
forts uf civilization, and have surre1]
dered. ~
TIE Dakota legislature voted t
memorializc Congress, praying for tn
passage Of the Bennett bill to divid
the Territory on the forty-sixth para
lei, and admit South Dakota as Stat,
The legislature also passed resol,
tion requesting the President to real
point Hon. a. Fl. Barnes to the offic
- of associate justice of Dakot
Territory at the expiration of his pre-.
cnt term Of Office: An effort will b
made this session to remove the capiti
= from YanktOn to Pierre, on the Mi
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