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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-12-29
DECLINE OF MAN.

Impotence OF mind, limb. or vital function, nerv-
Gus weakness, Xual debility, &C, cured by Wells
Health Renewer. 81. At Druggists. Depot, II
Barr, drug store, Canton.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-12-29

Life is made up of little things; give
heed and spurn them not; the crooked
and rusty nail if trOd upon may bring
death to the mighty.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-12-29
nON,r DIE IN THE HOUSE,

Ask druggists for Rough Rats" 1t clears out
rats mice. bed-bugs reaches, yermin, hes ants, IL
sects 15c per box.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-12-29

There will be no perfect government
until men grow from the one-man idea
to the altman ida.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-12-29

Reputation is an idle and most false
imposition; oft got without merit, and
lost without deserying.-lS Shakespeare.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-12-29

DR. Kills s 7r'n- N.rve 90 trr-, T. ~" marvel
Il ia aye TER al Nerve ius aSeS ~ fits stopped
tree. send 10 @. ~ Pos, Ihlau. va dec!g g
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14
President Garfield's Mother

The Peoria Ull.) Journal prints the
following letter from the aged mother
of President Garfield to her cousin,
Mrs. Mary Flint. of PEORIA The let.
ter is written in a peculiar handwrit-
ing, tremulous with age, but the let
ters are well made:
WHITE House, March 7, 1881
My Dear Cousin: Irecciyed your good
letter and picture also, and would have an
cwered sooner, but waited to get nv picture.
have some and will send YOU one. thOnqh
they are not good. I am happy to tell Won
tired OUT We Save es passed hrSnsb g%Hd dfai ha
greatest rush OF people for the last six months
that ever saw. Since the Inauguration it is
one steady stream of old friends calling It
takes pretty much all Of the time to entertain
them they want to see the presidents mother.
am the first mother that has occupied the
White House and her son president, but feel
very thankful for such son. l don't like
the word proud, but if must use it, I think
in this case 1t is quite appropriate. How many
times my mind goes back to our girlhood
school days; but changes take place. have
seen sorrowful days and I have seen happy
days was once young and am now old,
but nave never seen the righteous forsakcn
or his seed begging his bread. I have got a
very pleasant room, nicely furnished, and
waited on IN the very best manner possible
Now want you to write to me- Our folks
all send love to you; with very much love,
remain your aged cousin,
ELIZA GARFIEIn
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14
Some Figurqs of Interest.

Mr.. William Hoyle, of England,
computes from the custom and excise
returns Of Great Britain that the total
consumption Of liquors cost that coun-
try fl42, ,74l $3.50 in the year 1876, and
he finds slight increase in the follow
ing years. DR.. Young, while at the
head of the bureau of statistics in the
treasury department., estimated the
sales of liquor in the United States for
the year 1871 at $6O0,OOO,OOO, Some
realizing sense of what these figures
stand for may be gained by comparis.
ons with other expenditures at about
the same time.
Aggregate wages paid by all the
manufacturing establishments in the
country, as shown by the census of
1870, was only $775, 5,594,343, an excess
of less than thirty per cent. over our
drink bill.
The same census gives lis these
annual values of leading manufacture
ing industries:
Flour and Grist Mill Products. .S444, ,9S5,143
Molasses and Sugar. ............. lis, 1925, ,279
Cotton Goods NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. IT. 4S9, ,739
Woolen GOODS. .............. 155, ,4O5,35S
3OOCS ana SnOeS.. ................ l4O, ,7OO 655
The total value of church property
in the United States is 1854, ,4S3, ,58l, or
the cost Of seven months drinking.
Or, again, the census states the total
aggregate of state taxation in 1870 in
Guiding therein all state. territorial,
court and municipal taxes, as $780,
sol, ,22l-not half the direct tax the
liquor consumers lay upon themselves.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14
CRIME and CRIMINAL RECORD.

The round-house of the Utah and
Northern railroad, at Logan, was destroyed
by fire last week, damaging five engines. The
loss is estimated at SAC, 900.
A boiler in Cummings & Firms
smelter, at Leadville, burst on Friday, April
I, demollshing the building. The engineer,
William Collins, was fatally injured; three
others we're seriously hurt.
The people of Sidney, Neb., after
lynching Mcdonald, released from Jail one
man charged with murder and three others
suspected of robbery, on condition that they
leave town wi thin two days.
Kinchen CHM, a convict in the peni-
tentiary of North Carolina, made his escape by
removing his dead cellmate from the coffin
and taking his place to the grave, where he
frightened away the negroes charged with the
final ceremonies.
Two murders recently occurred in
Cincinnati, on the same block and only half
an hour apart. Tom johnson, saloon keeper
put bullet int he breast OF a notorious character
named Tim Conners. Lafayette Coffee shot John
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14
Pleasant Visitors.

Young people who are visiting at
friends house do not always make
themselves as agreeable as they might.
You should always anticipate a good
time and be prepared to contribute
your share it. Bepleased with what
is done for you and express your pleas
ure. Do not be obtrusive in offer
ing help to your host, but if an oppor-
tunity arises for youto give assistance
do not be afraid to embrace it. There
are little helpful things which come
in our way at home and abroad if we
have eyes to see them. A lad can
help the ladies in carrying bundles or
running errands. A girl might play
and sing-if she can-without being
urged, or amuse the children by
telling them stories. OF course,
young people will be as tidy as pos
sible, and do no injury to the house
or it's belongings.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14

The British Medical Journal. of
December II, reports two epidemics
of typhoid fever from infected milk.
The first was at Worthing, where the
son of the occupier of one of two
adjoining houses-the other occupier
being a dairyman-returned from
London in good health on September
Is, and on September "a. he fell i'll of
typhoid fever.
The two had in common a well.
which had been in use for forty years
or more. Examination of the interior
after the outbreak occurred, showed 4
palpable soakage into it from the out
side, little above the water line,
and on the same side as, and just be-
meath, the drain Of the other house.
For the washing out of mllk-cans
the well.Water was used. About the
middle of October cases of typhoid
began to appear in the town, in some
cases in houses where there were no
sanitary defects, but always where
the milk supply came from this dairy.
In all fOrty-fOur cases occurred from
this cause, eight of which proved
fatal. The we'll was filled up Noyem-
Der 4th, and the last case appeared
November 9th.
The second epidemic was at South
port, where thirty y-two cases of typhoid
occurred from infected milk-the
further spread of the disease being
prevented by stopping the sale Of
milk. There is little doubt that we
have in this country. and especially
in our large cities. typhoid fever from
milk contamination, but it has not
been established. When typhoid
fever occurs which is not traceable to
water supply look out for the milk.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14

stock was hurried forward, and some
men joined in the exodus, though for
the most part Of the men remained in
the town, it not being believed that
the rise would be sufficient in any case
to make staying there dangerous,
though it might be unpleasant. Free
mans elevator, a stout building
weighted down with thousand
bushels Of wheat, was arranged for
a haven Of refuge. Outside ladders
were nailed to the building, leading
up to a window in the peak of the
roof, and if worse came to worse sew
eral hundred could take shelter there.
Some of the merchants moved their
goods on to the second floors of their
stores, and all Of them saw that their
merchandise was piled up clear off the
floor.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14
Secretary WINDOWS Policy.

Ihe new Ork Herald gives this as
the policy with which Secretary Win.
dom has: been most favorably i'm.
pressed by his interviews with the
New York bankers: The S and 6 per
cent: bonds now held by the banks are
to be,extended. until congress meets,
at the rate of 3, $50 or 81 per cent.
the rate Of interest to be decided on
after further consideration. The
banks now hold nearly $4,000, 900
of 6's, and $l60,00O,0OO OF SIS
This plan would therefore take
care Of over $500, 100000 of bonds
temporarily at a low rate of interest.
AS to the AVS still to be issued I'm.
der the funding bill, they amount, as
is we'll known, to $l04, 900. 900. In dis.
posing of these it is thought that the
secretary would probably get rate
which would be equivalent to the
buyers to 3 3-10per cent. There would
be, say, 500, 100000 from the sinking
fund and surplus revenue with which
to redeem bonds. This would make
in all $500, ,O00, 900 of bonds taken care
of. The important point in this plan
is the proposition to arrange with
the banks that the SIS and 6's which
they hold now shall be continued bv
agreement at the low rate of from 3 to
3H per cent. until congress passes a
funding bill. OF course this plan
could be extended to the general
public, who are holders of SIS and 0's
also, by stamping such bonds with
the agreement, if the treasury
department was prepared to
force such holders to the set terms of
the agreement by threatening them to
call in their bonds if they refused.
The secretary's plan of operations
will probably be made public lmme-
diately. 1t is believed in inhuen-
t1al quarters that he gives every pro-
mise Of pursuing conservative
course, but one that will tend to make
the money market easy. The bull
speculation in As and 4%'s is the
only thing which seems to be appre.
hended with any dread, It's far as the
money market is concerned. Said a
Wall street magnate recently, eff
the market price of this class of bonds
should go much higher, it is to be
expected that bonds will be drawn
here from Europe, and that the
national banks, which have this class
of bonds pledged at Washington to
secure note circulation will withdraw
them and sell them, at the same time
giving up their note circulation. OF
course, as soon as the banks withdraw
the security for their notes they are
obliged to deposit lawful money at
Washington with which to redeem
their notes as presented 1t will be
remembered that the recent strin-
gency in the loan market here. pend
ing the consideration of the refunding
bill, was caused by lawful money
deposits at Washington, the same
having been drawn from bank
reserves. 1t is not regarded as likely
that any effort will be made by the
banks to bring about repetition of
that stringency.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14
HOMES IN THE WEST,

Persons looking westward for homes
can procure full information concern
ing the GARDEN SPOT of Iowa and
Minnesota, by subscribing for the
Worthington ADVANCE, published at
Worthington, Minnesota. Send 81 for
one year, 81 for six months, and so
cents for three months, to ADVANCE,
Worthington, Mobiles Co., Minnesota.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14
ELIZA GARFIELD.

A TRIBE of negroes on the coast of
Liberia plundered a German merchant
vessel. The German Government
sent a man-of.war to the scene of the
plunder. The habitations of the ne.
groes were demolished, one man was
killed. and nine were taken as hostages.
The Government Of Liberia agrees to
pay $1,000 as compensation for the
plunder.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14

In the very cold weather which
London lately experienced, the death
rate rose from 2l.3 and 22.6, in the
two preceding weeks, to 2S.4 per 1000.
The loss of life directly caused by the
weather was appalling,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14
VOLUME TX.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
WASHING TON.

The President has received a letter
from Minister White, at Berlin, asking that
he be relieved of his duties at the earliest day
possible.
An order has been issued by Post
master General James, to take effect the 1st of
May, which will rcorganizc the entire railway
mail service. All employees doing sale work
are placed upon equality as regards salary.
All appointments of employees and local mail
agents will be for a probationary period of six
months, and at a salary not exceeding $500
per annum. If at the expiration Of six months
such employees records are satisfactory, the
appointments will be made permanent.
The first months operations under
Postmaster James shows a saving in the star
route service Of $159,765; in the steamboat
service Of $55, 7225 and in mail messengers of
8 ,52e9, making total of S2s223, 3,0l9. At this
rate the saving in this one branch will amount
to abont $2,5O0, 900 annuity. This result is
due to an order issued about the 18th Of last
month, forbidding any increase of expense in
particular branches of the service, except b,
special authority of the postmaster general.
Commissioner Raum has a fight on
hand with the Mormons. The Zion Cooper
ative society has been issuing scrip that is
taken and passed for money; this is a violation
OF the law, aud the scrip so issued is subject
to tax, which the commissioner has cndeay-
orcd to collect. As in all other situations, the
Mormons propose fight. They have paid
$4,000 out Of the $4,000 demanded by the
government, and they do not propose to pay
more. They have taken the case to the courts,
and will resist them to the last
There is now accumulated in the
vaults of the treasury at Washington larger
amount Of gold than was ever known to be in
one place, in the history of modern times a
least, and probably more than could be anthem
ticatcd as existing in 4 single treasury at any
time before in the world, being abont $173 ,OOO,-
600 Of gold coin and bullion, exclusive of some
ST., ,0O0, 600 of silver, while the Bank of Eng
land has only about s75,oOO,oo0 of gold.
What Is more singular is that it stays in the
vaults, no matter what the demand recently,
for as fast as it is paid out it returns, showing
that as long as confidence is maintained it is
not a fayOritq cnrrcncy
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14
FORTY-SETENTH CONGRESS-.
Extra Session.

SENATE, April 4.-Thc Senate re-
snmed consideration of the pending business,
the resolution for the election of Senate
officers; motion by Mr.. Pendletoh to go
into executive session was lost---yeas, Is {;
nays, 20. A lengthy debate between Messrs
Dawes and Johnston in relation to the manner
OF conducting elections at the south was in
dMlged in, and regarding local questions in
Virginia. Mr.. salisbury appealed to the
Republicans to ground the weapons of rebel
lion against its own administration. If anv
man needed pity and commiseration it was
the president who had been treated with such
marked disrespect by his own friends. Per-
haps the president now in the White House was
saying there were some in this chamber from
whom he had not expected better treatment,
for he antagonized them and their third term
man in the Chicago convention; but then
there was the senator from Ohio, whom he
had nominated for the presidency why did he
sit in silence and refuse to consider nomina-
tions =? The president might be saying, " There
Is the senator from Massachusetts (Hoar).
he sat with me on the electoral commission,
and is privy to all the secrets am party to-,
and did not expect this from him. Then
there is the vice president, whose name has
been described with mine, and whose image is
stuck up beside my own in almost every Junk
shop. He ought not to have turned his heel
on me, and yet he will not give any respect to
my messages" He (saulsbury) appealed to
the Republicans to march up to duty and
help the president of their choice
Mr.. Dawes called attention to the facts that
the last effort made to 60 into executive ses-
sion had been rebuked by an emphatic majority
Of the Senate. 1t had not been defeated by a
tie vote, but by number of votes, and it was
the Senate which the Senator from Delaware
was qlarrelling with, not the Republican
slde. He inquired as to when the Democrats
would permit a vote to be taken on tbs rcso-
luton. Being always met with the response
of First Monday in December" !" finally Dawes,
remarking that it had become evident that the
majority of the Senate was opposed to post
poning the consideration of this resolution.
and expressing the hope that the minority
would come tomorrow prepared to stay until
the will of the majority was obeyed, moved to
adjourn. Agreed to, and the Senate adjourned
SENATE, April 5.-The same routine
Of presenting the unfinished business, was per-
formed as on previous days, and motion to
go into executive session was lost. Senator
Mcpherson presented petition from citizens
OF New Jersey reciting the fact that Michael
Boynton, an American citizen, had been arrest
ed by the British government, and thrown in
to prison on vague charges of melting crime
and violence. He had been denied the right
ofa trial before jury of his peers and was
calling upon congress to demand that the
United States government should interfere for
his protection. Senator Hoar objected to the
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14

GARFIELD, Blaine. Allison and
James +. Wilson were sworn in as
members of congress for the first time
in the darkest hour Of the rebellion.
Mr.. Window, who had served one
term, at the same time was sworn in
for his second term.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14

EVERY member Of the imperial
family Of Germany is the possessor of
knowledge Of some trade, and speci-
mems Of their skill in the mechanical
arts abound in the royal residence.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14

THE man who fred the first gun at
the first battle af Bull Run, lieuten>
ant in a confederate battery, has just
died il Virginia.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14
#!erth'ngtoa !''t Adra1te>
s.s >-Ar-
Worthington, Mobiles County, MINI.
larfor nix months. FIFTY cents ior three
months.
The Old EetabIlehed Paper. Official
Paper OF the County.
"A. r. MILLER,
EtlitO: and Proprlct0r
CURRENT TOPICS.

THE Wisconsin Legislature by Il
vote of 81 to %, killed the bill making
the crime of murder punishable with
death.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14

MIR. BEECIIER set ont to give
Brookl"H a great religious revival.
He preached, and prayed, and sang,
and gave up good-paying lecture en-
gagements in order to do all these.
But Brooklyn wouldn't be revived.
The sum total of his recruits was one
woman, probably buxom.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14

SENATE, April 6.--After the pre-.
sentatlQn Of the regular unfinished business,
MIR. MCPHERSON presented petition from citi-
zens 'of New Jersey, respecting the case of an
American citizen confined in an English pris.
on. Several senator's indulged in an accrimoni-
GUS debate IN continuation Of the questions
heretofore discussed
SENATE April THE pending bus.
mess, the resolution for election of Senate
officers, was taken up, and motion to go
into executive session, made by Mr.. Pendle-
ton, voted down-yeas 29, nays 80. A discus
sion as.to the payment of the debt of several
states 1nnt nothing was done tending to break
the dead lock, or bridge it over, and the Senate
adjourned.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14

DANIEL BAsr1EL WARNER, the
president of Liberia. is dead. lie
was born near Baltimore, Nd, in 1915.
of slave parents, who, however,
obtained their freedom shortly after
his birth. He had been in Liberia
ever since and was statesman of
considerable ability.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14

reccptaece of the petition on the ground that
there Mere no recording officers of the Senate,
and the petition laid over. No progress was
made towards breaking the deadlock, and the
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14
Howard In the head. Both the latter are col

Orcu.
Daniel F. Calvin, the conductor of
the freight train on the st. Paul, Minneapolis
and Manitoba Railroad causing the disaster at
Rothsay, Minn., on the morning of March
81, has been committed for trial on charge of
manslaughter.
Last week lady named Mrs. Sar-
gent, was found murdered near Santa Barbara,
CAL, and under such circumstances that
pointed to sheep herccr as the guilty person.
The citizens arrested him, and as means of
extorting confession from him, hung, him
to tree for a few minutes. On being taken
down he said that some other mah had CON-
mitted the crime, but hc knew it, and as it
was done near his cabin, to divert the sls-
picion from himself he put rope around the
neck OF the deceased and dragged her to the
place where found. He went over the ground
with the citizens and also dug up the club
with which the murder was committed, and
produced some articles taken from the muir
dered woman. His stories as to the rcrpetra-
tor were so conflicting that the citizens con-
sidered his guilt beyond doubt, and hung
him to tree.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14
WEEKLY CASU1LTY RECORD.

A fire in the Fryer Hill mines,
which has never been completely extinguished
but which has been smouldering for weeks,
broke ont anew few days since, between the
Little Pittsburg and Carboniferous, and is rag
ing furiously, necessitating the stopping of
all work in the immediate vicinity. and throw
ing over 100 men out of employment. Pre-
partitions are being made to push steam into
the drifts and smother the flames.
A sad and fatal accident occurred
on April Z, while night crew was employed
in clearing the blockade at a point some six or
seven miles cast Of Window, Minn, whereby
one man was killed outright and four others
were wounded, two Of whom it is thought
cannot recover. 1t seems that through some
m'scalc"lation the engine propelling the snow-
plow was ordered into the cut before the men
could be removed, and Thus the cruel tragedy
took place.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14

GEN. BENZ. LINCOLN was the first
secretary of war. lie was appointed
in 1881. The last secretary of war is
Robert Lincoln, appointed in 1881,
just one hundred years difference in
the dates Of appointments. 4 picture
OF the first secretary hangs upon the
walls of the department, and Il picture
Of the present will be placed along
side Of it. There is no relationship
between the two.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-14

THE REV. Mr.. JASPER, of Rich
mond, colored, still insists that the
sun do move,' and is announced for
another lecture upon that subject.
Mr.. Jasper pins his faith to the bible
and he can demonstrate from that
sacred book, rs we'll as by the ocular
investigation which any man may
make. the luminary does indeed move.