The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-05-19

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ut III, 295, 053 bushels.
THE state of Texas has accepted
the plans of E. f. Meyers, of Detroit,
for new capitol building at Austin,
to cost about S 100000.
TEXAS has recently enacted a law,
which has been approved by the gov.
ernor, giving pension of public lands
to all confederate soldiers who enlisted
in that state.
The son Of Broadway stage driver
found in Il dilapidated trunk which
he had purchased, Il cluster diamond
brooch, lost by Mrs. William II. Van
derbilt ut Saratoga, valued at $4,000.
The youngster in returning the prize,
said he did not ask reward, but he
hoped the affair night aid his father
in securing an easier Job.
AT Windsor castle portrait of
Lord Beacens6eld hangs in her majes-
tvs private writing-room, opposite
one Of the late prince consort. Once,
on being asked how it was he man
aged to be such favorite with her
majesty, he replied, sententitiously
We'll, you see, l never contradict
and sometimes forget
THE English chaplain at Tunis,
takes advantage of the present excite
ment to ask subscriptions for memo
rial window in the church Of st. All
gustine, Tunis, to John Howard
Payne, author OF Home. Sweet
Home, once American consul to
Tunis, whose remains are buried in
Protestant cemetery in that city.
AN enterprise designed to counter
act the enticements Of liquor saloons
has gone into operation at Boston
under the name of the Poplar Street
Club. The house contains music,
reading and bathrooms, card and re.
freshment rooms, where light eat
ables will be sold at cost. The rooms
will be open from to II o'clock,
P. NJ.
AMONG the applicants for admis-
sion to the New York state bar, at
Ithica, recently, was Frank Wal
worth, who was pardoned ont of the
state prison four years ago, where he
was serving a sentence for the murder
OF his father, on the ground that his
physical constitution had entirely
broken down. Through strong inau-
ence, soon after his Imprisonment, he
was transferred to the insane asylum.
on the ground of insanity.
HODsCHAAHMET, who was SEN
fenced to Imprisonment for life for
having translated the Bible into Turk
ish, and for having circulated it in
the states Of the sultan. escaped from
the prison at Chic, after the earth
quake. The prison was thrown down
by the violence of the shock, but
Hodscha-Ahmet was not hurt. He
managed to get on board an En-
glish vessel anchored in the harbor.
and he is now in London.
THE telegraphic account OF forest
monarch 3l5 years old being cut down
to make lumber in New York state
provOkes the editor of the Santa Rosa,
(Cal.) Republican to say: We know
of one tract Of 440 acres of magnificent
redwood and other timber on Russian
river, almost the last compact body
Of it there, that the sawmills wont
get leave to touch while the writer is
above ground. Talk about 3l6 years
There are redwood trees there forty
five feet in circumference, and three
hundred feet high that were (by all
evidence) large trees 1000 years ago.
WHEN Hannibal Hamlin, during
whose public life the republic has
grown from twenty-seven to thirty
eight states, and from a population
of 100000 to $4,000 600, was spend
ing his last day in the Senate, he wrote
to his son:
II am sitting for the last day in the Senate,
and, my son, am happy man. You and
yours may not comprehend it, but feel it,
and in the language Of the sacred poet I may
say:
This is the day long have sought"
That other veteran, not in congress-
ional service, but in years of public USE
fuinessAllen G. Thurman, was likewise
spending his last day at the senatorial
desk and was near Hamlin, whose oc-
cupatiOn at the moment he knew.
Saying to Hamlin, "Old friend, I feel
just as you do" he wrote upon anoth-
er page Of Hamlin's s paper:
MY DEAR Mr.. HAML1N: I have not the
pleasure OF your acquaintance, but have
known your father for ove1 thirty-fve years.
Like him, can say this is the last day of my
political lite, and am rejioced to go out of it
IN such good company and with nv personal
friend of generation. My sincere wish is
that you may do honor to a father So illus.
trious.
A. G. THURMAN"
ONE of the Conkling papers of New
York keeps standing at the head of
It's columns this extract from Mr..
Garield's letter accepting the Chicago
nomination: "The executive should.
therefore, seek and receive the infor.
nation and assistance of those whose
knowledge of the communities in
which the duties are to be performed
best qualities them to aid in making
the wisest CHOICE The point is, of
course, that in the appointment OF
Robertson the President failed to con.
suit any of the statesmen of New
York, resident at Washington, and,
therefore, is false to his promise
But the paragraph quoted is in gener.
al terms, and means that where the
President is without personal knowl
edge of the character Of applicants