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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-07-14
CURRENT EVENTS.

Brown Bros, Wholesale grocers, ut San Fran
cisco, have failed Liabilities O,OOO; assets
D. o: Mills gives $75. 600 to the University
Of Califorl il 70 endow the chair Of intellectual
and moral philosophy and civil liberty.
It il reported that the Standard Oil company
OF Cleveland, O., il about making arrangements
to establish supply depot At Duluth for the
The death 10 announced Of Mr.. Samuel Will
lians. the editor Of the San Francieco Evening
Bulletin, one of the oldest and most influential
newspapers on tho Pacific slope.
Since March 1 to date, Chicago packers have
el:uGhtered and ea]ted ]. .2S3. 600 hogs, against
!:sf and iH5 s 600 IN is7S period last
The annual convention of the American
Bankers Association will be held at Niagara
Falls August 10th, 11th and 18th. Every
banking hrm. state bank, trust company and
savings bank in the United States is entitled to
send one delegate.
The spirit Of the Times says; Miss Augusta
Bryant, Of England, has challenged any lady
1900, horseback, and the challenge has been
accepted in behalf Of an unknown. We will
pretty giriaI
Two adventurers, John Trainer. an Irish
man, and Olsen, S1ede, sailed from Bath,
Me-, on the 9Th in dory fourteen feet fong,
twenty one inches deep and five feet wide, the
smallest craft In which . passage across the
Atlantic has ever been attempted. They are
Doth skilled seameR and are provisioned for
eixty days.
A very interesting event took place IT Wes-
10y chapel Columbus, Ohio, il beitg the second
wedding in this city in which Chineman and
an American woman were the contrgeing par
ties. The groom was Wan Ko0n, better known
e Ben Hope Lee, and the bride Laura Cleary
They were attended BY Wah Hing, Wah Lee.
Yee Wing, Jang On and Jow Houg, and Misses
Helen and Belle Cleary OF this city, sisters Of
the bride, and Miss Ida Davis Of Chilicothe.
The ceremony was performed in the chapel
BY the Rev: A. c. Hirst, in the presence OF =
large audience
Chief Justice Cole of the supreme court Of
wisconsin, has filed IN important dccisios in
the famous case of Barnard w. Rachus, It il
held that the speculative actions in grain. in
which there in no intention to deliver on one
hand and receive pay for on tho other, are nm
lawful ADD clearly come within the part of the
statute forbidding gambling and betting. The
court concluded from evidence presented in
the argument Of the case that the business
method practiced in the Milwaukee chamber of
commerce but hazards upon prospective chan
gee In the markets; that sales are not Iona fide.
and that the understanding between the seller
and the buyers that the latter shall nav or be
paid the difference between the price when the
grain II fRuradve)y sold. Unless the grain is
actually delivered and the contract or market
price be paid, the courts will not sustain suits
ct law growing ont of such transactions.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-07-14
VIZ. .TAAYh,
p. B. CA1HART.
Secretary OF State.
EDWARD II. HlRsCH.


LINCOLN. Mob. July 9.-Hon. James g. Blaine:
The people Of Nebraska, without regard to party
Affiliations. has been alternating between hope and
fear to the final outcome of tho assault upon the
president. All are joyful over the good news that
he is rapidly improving, and filed With admiration
1T tho fortitude displayed by Mrs. Garfield during
her great trial.
ISigned] ALBDlEN VANCE, Governor.
LONDON. July 6.-King KalakNau called ut tho
United States legation to-day and imputed after
tho condition OF President Garfield.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21

ton of several species. "One might as
soon expect to meet a sea-lion on Lon
don Bridge as on any one of the islands
in Bass Strait" was the reply of a
New Zealand naturalist to an inquiry
about the seal-life that early yoyagers
had observed. The same result has
happened at the Falkland Islands, at
Cape Horn, and on the Pacific sea-
board of South America. A vessel
called the Betsy took 1000, 900 skins
from the island of Masafuera at the
beginning of the century, an exploit
which left no survivors for future adj
venturers; and the island of Juan Fer
nandez, where, in Anson's time, there
were seals in abundance, has now only
a few stragglers to show. The same
thing happened at the South Shetlands
In 1922 British sealers took away
800 900 skins for the two years, killing
males and females Unfortunately,
and leaving the young TO die. The fate
of the sperm whale might furnish a
useful lesson in the same direction. 1t
was once abundant in the Southern
Ocean, but is now all but extinct. from
the very same causes that we have
pointed out above III the case of the
seals. The American whalers observed
its maternal affection, and found it
easier to kill mother and cub together
than mother alone. A few years of
this policy, added to the use Of steam
ers armed with projectiles of cunning
continuance, and the fishery had to be
given up as no longer proftable.-The
Saturday Re,aeW.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21
FROM POST NUMBAH FOAH!
How the Fail of Atlanta was An
nOuaced at AndersOnville,
From Nh - A rdarN IN villa

Aioih -hSiAiVJ AiAuNioNH'AiO'
At night the guards in the perches
around the stockade called out so as to
show the officers that they were awake
and attending to duty. The formula
for this ran thus:
"Post numbah / half-past eight and
a-l-ls-w clip
Post No. 2 repeated this cry, and so
it went around.
One evening, when our anxiety as to
Atlanta was wrought to the highest
pitch, one of the guards sang out
"Post numbah foah-half-past eight
and Atlanta's gone t-o-h-e-l-lp'
The heart of every man within hear
ing leaped into his mouth. We looked
to each other almost speechless, with
glad surprise, and then gasped out:
"Did you hear that?"
The next instant such ringing cheer
burst out spontaneously from the
threats and hearts of men in the first
to which our saddened hearts and en-
feebled lungs had long been strangers.
1t was the genuine, honest, manly,
Northern cheer, as different from the
shrill rebel yell as the honest mastiff S
deep-voiced welcome is to the howl of
the prowling wolf. The shout was tax
en- up all over the prison. Even those
that had not heard the guard, under
stood that it meant that atlanta is
ours and fairly won," and they took up
the acclamation with as much enthusi-
asm as we had begun it. All thoughts
of sleep were put to flight; we would
have a season of rejoicing. Little knots
gathered together, debated the news,
and INDUCED in the most sanguine
hopes as to the effect upon the rebels.
| believe that Boston Corbett and his
party organized praise and prayer
meeting. In our corner we stirred up
our tuneful friend 'Nosey," who sang
again the grand old patriotic hymns
that set our thin blood to bounding and
made us remember that we were still
Union soldiers with higher hopes than
that of starving and dying in Ander-
sonville. He sang the ever glorious
"Star Spangled Banner" as he used to
sing it around the camp fires in hap
pier days when we were in the field.
He sang the rousing "Rally Round the
Flag" with its wealth of patriotic fire
and martial vigor, and we, with Threats
hoarse from shouting, joined IL the
chorus until the welkin rang again.
The rebels became excited lest our
exultation of spirits would lead to an
assault upon the stockade. They got
under arms and remained so until the
enthusiasm became less demonstrative.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21
Girls In College.

There is trouble in Harvard college
on account of the admission Of girls as
students, an innovation that was recent
" made. 1t appears that the college
has large library, provided with Eau
thorities" and sofa seats, where the
students go to refresh their memories
upon certain points in their studies,
and the complaint is that the girls will
get down some work, of which there is
only one copy in the library, and when
a young man comes in and desires the
same book he is obliged to wait until
the girl gets through with it, or else SIT
down and look it through with her On
a recent occasion venerable professor
entered the library, and was surprised
to see no less than six girls with books
that Young men were DESTROYS of pc
rusine, so DESTROYS, in fact, that the
two were seated together eagerly scan
ming the pages. when the professor en-
tered. The sight fairly caused the
glass in his spectacles to bulge out, and
it would be a mild expression to say
that he was shocked. He at once in
quired the cause of the ex raordinary
desire for information that had sud
denly sprung up, and the young men
told him plainly that there must be
duplicate copies Of the books procured,
so that the girls could have one and
the young men the other. He said he
would attend to it the first thing in the
morning, and then the old Puritan
glared around the room at the girls,
who, poor things, were sitting with Their
noses close down to the pages of their
books, and studying as though their
hearts would break. Then he coughed
a couple of times, vaguely, and had
the deeency to go out.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21
Gen. Grants Reccollections.

Gen. Grant being asked by reporter
what his observations had been of
wounds similar to President Garfield's
said:
II have known a great many cases OF
men shot very much in the same way
where the ball was lodged where it
could not be found. The men would
rally after the shock and then sudden
~ change for the worse, contrary to the
expectations of the patient and physl-
clans, and then die in few hours. |
remember the case of General Walker,
who was down in TIE Mexican war. He
received an internal wound, not unlike
that of the president. Every one
thought he would die, but he rallied
and fingered along for two or three
months. Like the president, he could
not turn in bed, but he was determined
to live, and finally insisted on being
taken home He was carried from the
City of Mexico $50 miles on a stretcher
to Vera Cruz, and went from there by
water to New York; then up the Hud-
son River to his home in Troy. He
remained in the same condition for
several months, then finally got well,
fought in the war of the rebellion, and
was killed.
"Why l got my promotion to First
Lieutenant" continued General Grant,
through the death of a man who was
wounded in the same way. As l re-
member it, the wound was almost pre-
cisely the same as General Garfield's.
The Lieutenant was shot from a horse
after we had got into the City OF Nexi-
co. He retained his natural color, his
respiration, pulse, and temperature
were almost normal, he was cheerful.
and he had no idea Of dying. He even
laughed and joked about it, and said
that after he got well he should never
be careless again. Suddenly his COM
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21

Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WASHINGTON.

THE fund for the wife and children of
the President has swollen to 1922 1855.
Roscoe CoNKLrNG called at the door Of
white house the other evening and left his
card.
THE people of Arkansas and Kentucky
quite generally observed the 14th as a day
Of thanksgiving for the recovery of the
president.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD has begun to de-
mand solid food, and on yesterday ate
part of beef sandwich. Some electrical
experiments are to be made 10 ascertain
the location of the bullet.
IT is said that if the Garfield testimonial
is made national one, it is expected that
81, 100000 can be raised. The money is
not for the president. but for his noble
wife and his children.
GUITEAU passes his time, at present. in
debating an account of his life to short
hand writer, furnished by the district at
torney. He still expresses regret that his
bullet did not kill the president. The
district attorney says the prisoner does
not manifest any symptoms of insanity.
SECRETARY WINDOW has instructed
Steamboat Inspector Carr. of Louisville,
and Inspector Tower, of New York, to
send daily reports ofthe number of steam
boats inspected, also of other services per
formed, to the treasury department that
each days work may be recorded and
better service thus secured.
President GARFIELD is believed TO be
steadily improving in physical condition,
but is greatly wearied by confinement, and
at times shows decided dependency. a
Pennsylvania has shipped to the sufferer
hrH rph fpf
is expected. Written applications for
Office are tossed into the waste basket
The assassin at Washington continues
to demand newspapers and cigars. A
sympathetic female called at the Jail with
fruit and delicacies for the vicious brute
but the authorities administered a rebuke.
Guiteau admits that he slipped into the
presidents room two days before the
shooting, but the officials thrust him out.
UNDER orders of the secretary of the
treasury, $50 900 in continued 3 per cents
belonging to the Indian trust fund were
privately sold to a New York savings
bank at tie rate of 102. The proceeding
excites some comment in Wall street, the
practice of late having been to solicit pro-
posals from the public.
NICHOLAS JACKSON, of Annapolis, Md,
writes to Washington journal that the
first bullet fred by Guiteau passed through
the presidents coat sleeve and struck a
large silver medal suspended from Jack
sons neck, and was found in his shirt
bosom, and is now in his keeping. But a
Baltimore dispatch declares that Jackson
is negro peddler, of weak mind, and
that the letter is hoax.
One of the presidents last official acts
was to appoint Mark S. Brewer, of Pontiac,
Mich. formerly member of Congress).
United States Consul-General at Berlin,
in place of Hermann Kreismann. This
office was once bestowed, it will be remem-
bered, upon Mr.. kahlo, of Indiana, but
his name was withdrawn when it was
learned that the nomination was far from
satisfactory to the Germans.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21
FOREIGN.

A VIOLENT epidemic of diphtheria has
appeared at Stadborg, Denmark.
If Redpath goes to Ireland again and
speechifies he is to be arrested.
THE governor of Tripoli forbids Euro
peans to travel in the interior without
authority from the grand vizier.
ONE HUNDRED lives were lost and sew
eral villages were devasted by the earth
quake in the Pashalik of Van Armenia.
In the east and southwestern depart
ments of France it is feared that the crops
have been injured by excessive rains.
THE body of Pope Plus J. has been
removed from St. Peters to the Church of
San Lorenzo
A CONFEDERATION at RovnO, Russia, de-
stroyed all the public buildings and rem
dered five thousand families destitute.
In the British House of Commons.
Gladstone vigorously arraigned the home
rulers for systematically Obstructing the
land bill.
THE Siberian plague has appeared in
the suburbs Of st. Petersburg, and is
spreading with great rapidity among both
men and horses.
BISMARCK demands that the Turkish
government refund the ransom money re-
Gently paid to Rumehan brigands for
the release of two captive Germans.
COLONEL MAPLEsoN has taken $50 600
for his interest in Her Maiesty's theatre,
London, and will henceforth cater for the
American public.
THE Britanic, of the White Star Line.
which was driven on the rocks on the
Irish coast, was towed out by three tugs.
Her engines were in fair working order
In the City of Mexico a Spaniard has
been arrested having in his possession
$780, worth of Havana lottery tickets,
which he had stolen from the office of the
lottery in Havana.
The steward of the Bey of Tunis has
taken refuge with the British Consulate,
CARRYING with him securities and jewels
the Bey claims are worth / 100000 francs,
and his accounts.
THE Arabs of Sfax have driven out the
Europeans and occEpied the forts. If the
latter are not speedily surrendered, the
French will lombard them. The Arabs
pillaged the city, three persons having
been killed and twenty wounded.
A MEXICAN military expedition has ne
gOtiated treaty by which four hundred
Comanches and Lipans will go to New
Mexico, and two hunored Mescalero
Apaches are to reside henceforth in the
City of Mexico.
THE Rt. Rev. DIR. Nulty, Bishop of
Meath. Ireland, speaking at Multifour-
ham, Endorsed the Land League and de-
sired them to pay the expenses of evicted
persons with the aid of the Irish-Ameri-
cans.
COLONEL OBERGoM, who was commission
ed by the Mexican government 10 inquire
into the cause of the Morles Bridge dis
aster, has reported that the sole cause
was the defective construction of the
bridge. Collections are being made in the
City of Mexico for the relief of the snffer-
ers.
Dune an Orange demonstration at Bel
fast a mob attacked the Presbyterian
mission hall, and shots were exchanged
at Newcastle and Consett. In strong con-
trast was the action of Bishop Mcnamara
at New York. who stood up at an Orange
picnic, wearing a -osette of orange and
green, and made short address.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21
Wisconsin Sunday School Assembly

Arrangements are rapidly progressing
for one of the most interesting gather
ings ever held in Wisconsin. The ses-
sions of the Sunday School Assembly
will open nj Lake Side, near Madison,
on lake Monona, on Tuesday, August
I'd, and continue until the close of Fri
day, August 18th.
The time has been selected with
special reference to having the advan'
tage of moonlight through the entire
sessions Of the assembly.
The exercises will be of a varied and
most interesting character, consisting
of concerts by some of the best singers
in the State, lecturers on interesting
and important subjects by some of the
ablest men in the land, instructions in
the primary and normal departments
of Sunday School work, by experienced
instructors, including such men as Rev.
DIR Corwln, Rev. ]. +. Gilbert, Rev.
F. S. Stein, Rev ID. r. Reed and others
of equal merit.
The various railroads have been very
liberal in granting reduced rates of fare,
and in arranging for excursion trains
for the benefit of those who attend the
assembly.
The arrangements for camping on
the ground will be ample and convent
ent, and it is expected that a large
number of persons will avail themselves
of them, and spend the entire ten days
of the assembly in camp.
The exercises from the commence
ment to the end will DO of a most in
teresting and instructive character, and
all who can do so should arrange to
participate in the rich feast of good
things that has been prepared.
A more pleasant place for spending
few weeks during the warm weather
Of summer, it would be difficult to find
in any part of the country. Persons
wishing to engage tents or other 40
comodatons, or desiring information
of any kind, will please address Samuel
d. Hastings, Chairman ofthe local com
mittee, at Madison.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21
A BAD GUN.
The British Bulldog that was thought
TO be SURE Death.

The report of O. N. Poe and James
NJ Whittemore, who tested the force
of The bullet from Guiteau's pistol has
been handed to Col Corkhill. The pis-
toll used was a Counterpart of that
with which Guiteau tired, except that
the grip is of wood instead of ivory. The
weapon is marked British bulldog, is
double acting, has reversing cylinder
containing FIVE chambers, each of one
and one-quarter inches in length and
forty-four one hundredths of an inch
calibre. The barrel is two and half
inches long. In the experimental firing
three cartridge@pf the four found on
Guiteau, and furnished to the testers
by Col Corkhill, were used, as well as
three similar cartridges furnished by
detective MeElfresb. The fourth of
Guiteau's cartridges, and another fur
nished by the detective, were used for
the purpose Of weighing and determin-
ing its quality. The target WAS made
ofsix pine boards, each one an inch
in thickness, and placed one behind
the other az intervals of one inch.
First, ascertaining that the pistol was
III perfect order, shots were hired at the
target from distance of four feet. The
results are given as follows: No. went
through three boards, and glanced on
the fourth. No. 2 went through three
boards, and bedded in the fourth. No.
8 went through one board and lodged
in the second with the point through.
No. 4 Went through two boards and
bedded in the third. No. D went
through two boards an half through the
third. No. went through two boards
and bedded in the third. In each case
where bullet bedded it badly splinter
ed the rear of the board. The average
penetration from the foregoing Is about
three inches in ordinary soft pine. The
weighing of the first cartridge reserved
gave the following result: Rihe-musket
powder, % grains; leaden bullet, 200
grains. The second gave: Rifle-musket
powder, % grains; leaden bullet, 2OO.4.
The bullets were conical in form, with
the head somewhat hattened, and, as
the penetration shows, were thrown
with great force by the charge of pow
der.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21
CRIME.

In quarrel between two engineers at
Terre Haute, Eugene Brittany killed
VIM. G.. Dunn with a hammer.
AT Philadelphia, Walter Fink was shot
dead by George Hitler. The latter was
arrested. The supposed cause of the muir
der was jealousy.
Don g. MACLEOD was killed in a mine
near Yuma. Arizona, by German named
Billick, who claims to have acted in self
defense.
AT ST. Louis stay of execution has
been granted in the case of Charles T.
Krug, the murderer, who was to have
been hung the other day.
SON of General Siegel. who was assist
ant bookkeeper in a wholesale peanut
house in New York, has proved an en-
bezzler, and the police are searching for
him.
DELLA PORTER. a religious monomaniac
incarcerated in the Tongue Point asylum
at Montreal, killed her cellmate, Gertrude
Roberts, under the deluson that she was
a dragon.
w. s. PEIFFER, a Chicago commercial
traveller, died in the Chestnut street sta
tion-hOuse at St. Louis, where he had
been lodged for intoxication and threats.
PROF j. r. WARNER, of Menominee,
Wis, was fired upon three times by his
wife. but escaped dangerous injuries.
She was captured behind the door of
law office, where she had fed for safety.
ToBIN, the man who murdered his young
daughter in May, 1880, by kicking and
pounding her because she did not bring
him the right kind of a sachel, has been
put on trial in the Chicigo Criminal
Court.
THOMAS X. PUGH, a son of the ex-sena-
tor from Ohio, who was taken by the rem
nanI of Victoria's baud from atage near
FL Paso. wrote and left on the roadway a
note stating that he was a prisoner. His
mutilated corpse was afterward found by
a scout of Mexican troops near Carrezal.
A BAND of swindlers operating at Ge-
neva has within twenty years shipped to
Egypt and other eastern countries from
10000, 600 TO 100000 francs Of false coin.
Seven prominent personages have been
arrested in connection with the swindles.
THE factory of Adams. Westlake & Co,
on the corner of Ontario and Franklin
streets, Chicago, was invaded by burglars
the other morning. They gagged the
Waterman and tied him to the leg of a
table. Then they drilled a bole in the
safe and exploded 1t with dynamite, secur-
ing 5000 in currency, and fed.
AT Jerseyville, Ill, Mrs. Joseph Voor-
bees attempted suicide by taking strych-
nine. but her life was saved by her ply
stefan. The next evening her uncle, Tru-
man Landon, called on her husband at
the store where he was employed, and had
a protracted conversation with him. when
VOORHEES, shot Lapdon dead. There are
grave family troubles behind the deed.
Landon was an exemplary Young man,
and highly connected in that region.
TUE Williams brothers, fugitives from
Justice in Illinois, killed Deputy Sheriff
Coleman, of St. Croix county. Wisconsin.
and Charles Coleman, formerly Sheriff of
Pepin county, in the same state. The
slaughter occurred at Durant, twenty-five
miles south of Menominee, Wis, while
the officers were attempting to arrest the
outlaws Governor Smith offers $500 re-
ward for their capture, and has authorized
The use of the Ludington guards in run
ming them down.