The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14

MISCELLANEOUS NEW6.-

ON, MOBILES COUN MY, NJ
A1SCELLAREOUS News
Heavy frosts have damaged vegeta-
tion in the northern portion of the gulf states.
California reports half million tons
OF wheat in store In the interior, and favorable
prospects for an average yield.
A company has been organized to
| construct ship canal through Florida from the
Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. The
capital Of the company is $30,00O,0 600.
The Erie and Pennsylvania rail.
roads have subscribed $125, 900 each toward
the worlds fair at New York. Japan prom
ises to make an unprecedented exhibit.
An Indian battlefield was developed
by the overflow of farm along the Coosa
river, in Georgia. When the waters receded,
skeletons, pipes, and beads lay exposed in pro-
fusion.
The vote in the Tennessee legisla-
ture rejecting the bill for refunding the state
debt has been reconsidercd, and now only
requires the governors signature TO become a
law.
Jay Gould has returned to New
York, and declares that the south is turning
its face toward the rising sun. He found the
whole region dotted by industries backed by
eastern capital.
Col. E. H. Brodhead. of Milwaukee,
has sold the well-known bay stallion, Ken
tucky Wilkes, to John Trout of Boston, for
$1,000. Wilkes be entered in the great etal-
ion stake race, to bo held in Boston in Sep
tember.
A dispatch from British Columbia
states that the contractors for the British
Columbia section of the Canadian Pacific
Railway will have 5000 men at work on the
line shortly, about half the number being
Chinese.
The provision trade of the United
States was last week threatened with a new
panic by death from trichiniasis at Hoboken,
N. J. Scientific investigation of the case
shows that the victim died from eating bolog-
na sausage imported from Germany.
The United States Supreme Court,
through::Jnstice Woods, rendered decision
in the case Of John Miles VS.. The United States,
being an appeal case from the Supreme Court
of Utah. Miles is 4 Mormon and was con-
victed Of bigamy. The ground on which the
appeal was made was that Mormons were
excluded from the jury in the case secondly,
that Miles, own declarations were admitted
against him IS evidence; and, thirdly, that
the evidence of Miles alleged second wife, who
is primo Jocic his wife, was improperly admit
ted against him. The Supreme Court reversed
ho >f
last contention. The law of Utah does not
ermit the evidence of q wife against her hus-
nd, and as the alleged second wife was, as
far as the Court knew, the only wife Miles had,
the admission of her evidence was improper
The decision is regarded as a great victory for
the Mormons.
The Society of the Army of the
Tennessee recently in session at Cincinnati
elected Gen. Sherman President, Col. L. NJ. Day
ton Recording Secretary, Gen. A. Hickcnlooper
Corresponding Secretary, and Gen. NJ. F. Farce,
Treasurer. st. Louis was chosen as the place
for the next meeting, which will be held May
10 and II, 1852. Col. Williamson, of Iowa,
now in the land Office at Washington, was
chosen as orator. Gen. Sherman read long
paper on military discipline. A reception took
place at Col. Dayton's, and the elimination of
the reunion was the banquet at the Burnett
house. Three hundred and fifty persons sat
down to the table, of whom not more than
twenty were not members of the army during
the war. Ex-Prcsidcnt Hayes was pres
ent, and delivered the response to the toast,
the United States. Gen. Sherman in his
address, took occasion to criticise the report
Of the battle OF Pittsburg Landing made by
Whitelaw Reid, and that gentleman reiteratcs
by asserting the truth of his previous report.
Elections for different officers were
were heidi in several states, April 5. In Chi
cago, Carter II. Harrison, Democrat, the
present mayor, was reelected by about G,OOO
majority, as was the balance of the county
ticket. In Wisconsin Orsamus Cole is elected
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and J. B
Cassidy, Associate Justice, both Republicans
Throughout the state everywhere the Germans
cut the Republican ticket because of the pas
sage Of the anti-treat law. In Michigan,
the Republican majority on the state ticket
for supreme judge and university regents is
estimated to be 10000. John T. Rich, Repub-
lican was elected to congress in tie Seventh
District, to succeed Hon. O. D. Conger,
who was transferred to the Senate by a ma
jority Of 5000 and upwards. The Democrats
OF Omaha elected their mayor and all city
officers The city election of st. Louis re-
suited in Republican victory of about IL, ,OCO.
Toledo, Ohio, elected Nationalist for mayor,
with the balance of the city ticket Republican,
Cincinnati seats a Democrat as Mayor, while
the other city officers are Republican. The
Democratic ticket was successful at Couml us
Ohio.