The Worthington advance., 1881-09-01
Things in General.

dyspepsia Is more potent than the sword.
The sword has killed its thousands, dys-
pepsia its ten thousands.
A New York paper speaks of a man who
quietly submitted to arrest after he had
received several blows across the head
with the policeman's club" The club in
the hands Of the finest police in the world
lays over chloral, NOR phine and all the
other anodynes put together.
The latest fish story comes from Hol-
land. It relates that about month ago
Cornelius de Boer, fishing in the Zuyder
Zee, found tangled in his net large stony
mass covered with mussels. 1t proved to
be an aggregate of coins, mostly silver
pieces, $50 in number, chiefly ducatoons,
with few Spanish and other gold pieces,
all dated between 1860 and 1850.
The valuation of property in Boston this
year is reported by the assessor at $685.
5l3, 900, an increase of 1926, 1854, 400 over
1880. Real estate, $455, 1888, 600; personal
property, $21O, $50, 300. This amount to be
raised by taxation on the assessment is
$9,052, ,329, requiring a rate Of $13 80 per
81 900. Last year it was $3.50.
A gentleman who has recently made q
trip to Prince Arthru's Landing on Lake
Superior states that tho Keccabecca a falls
on the river about fifteen miles in the inte-
rior is one Of tte grandest sights in this
country of surprising natural scenes. He
describes it as 200 feet broad and 175 feet
perpendicular fall. and the volume of wa
ter as immense. They are very difficult Of
access and but few tourists visit them, but
roads are being constructed that will enable
visiotls to make the trip there by rail instead
of employing guides, and tramping through
the densely wooded and uneven approach
es as they do now. A resident of Niagara,
in speaking of them, said: ''Their grand
eur is greater than that of Niagara.
Never in the history of the country has
the demand for labor been greater than it
IS ut present Farmers, manufacturers,
machine shops and railroad contractors are
all complaining of a lack of laborers. It is
said that there are no less than 80 men Mt
Castle Garden, New York, for the purpose
of engaging laborers as fast as they arrive,
and shipping them atonce to points where
their services are needed. One western
railroad company gives the superintendent
Of immigration at New York standing
offer for an unlimited number of abIe-bod-
led men for $3.50 day, with permanent
employment. No able bodied man in the
United States, who is willing to work, need
be idle.-Intlianapoks Times
The exemptions from taxation in Mon
treal are something enormous. The churches
benevolent institutions and parsonages be-
longing to different denominations, all OF
which are exempt, are valued at $1,000, 900,
according to the last annual report of the
city treasurer. The assessed value OF
Protestant is greater than that of Catholic
churches, the figures being 81 1854 900 fol
the Protestant and 81 ,3O7, 900 for Catholics.
The benevolent institutions belonging to
tho Catholics are assessed $3, 16O, 600, and
those of the Protestants only at $500, 200.
Opposition to these exemptions is becom-
ing greater every day. Included under the
head of benevolent institutions belonging
to Catholics is IN immense amount Of real
estate belonging to nunneries, to the church
of Notre Dame and to the Sulpicians, from
which vast revenue is derived.
A past event of romantic and tragic in.
terest is recalled by the death of Spotted
Tail. Shortly after the war battalion o1
the Second Dragons was ordered to For,
Laramie, and there Lieutenant Brockhurst
Livingstone, of tho ell-known New Yorh
| family, saw and loved the ravorite daughter
| OF the old Sioux chief, and found his pas.
sion reciprocated. Tho young officer tool
her to his house and she bore him q son
but LivingstOne's health failed and he was
ordered to Europe, where he died.. The
Sioux girl died of a broken heart in 1866
after Learning of his death, and was carried
to Fort Laramie by her father and there
buried. Her grave is still annually decor.
ated with flowers by the soldiers. The
mother Of the young officer has sought tc
to find and educate. his son, but the Sioux
either because they have loet sight of him
or because they wish to keep him, give nc
trace Of his whereabouts.