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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1882-05-25

J: McGraw was arrested Saturday at Unity,
Wis, for ravishing little tcn-year-oldg girl of
Mr.. Stevens Her. parents were away at the
time and he took her by force and outraged
her 1t is feared the little child will die. He
was brought to Neilsville Sunday and lodged
in JAIL .. :.
Franz WONG, a glass manufacturer of
Guttenburg Austria, who fed to Texas after
committing 1orgerics amounting to $40, 900,
leaves New York prisoner for Austria. He
was on the steamer Rio Grandc, which took
fire at sea.
Joseph Lcdwill, a young brakeman on the
Chicago & Alton road, is under arrest for
killing tramp, who was stealing ride on
the train Tuesday, near Dog bridge Led
will fired with the intention Of frightening
the tramp and his companions.
James D. Parent has been convicted at
Bay City for the killing of VIM. Michael
at Pinconing in March last. The murder
was mysterious at the time, but seems to
have been traced to Parent.
Herald Special from Trenton, N. j.: There
arc now forty cases Of small pox in this city
and much alarm is felt. Us to the disease be-
coming epidemic.
The authorities of Adrian, Mich, have Of
fered So 900 reward for the arrest of their ras-
caliy cx-mayor, Maven.
!; Augustus S. leighton colorcd, was scicn-
cntitically stranglcd III New York, Friday
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1882-05-25
THE PRINCESS SONG.

From Edwin Arnold's Poem in Harpcr's 70
May.
In paths of peace and virtue
Always the good remain;
And sorrow shall not stay with them
Nor long access Of pain;
at meeting or at parting
joys to their bosoms strike,
For good to good is friendly,
And virtue loves her like
The great sun goes his journey
BY their strong truth impclled;
BY their pure lives and penanccs
Is earth itself upheld
Ofall which live or shall live
Upon its hills and fields,
Pure hearts are the protectors,
For virtue saves and shields.
Never are noble spirits
Poor while their like survive;
Without request these render,
Without return they give.
Never is lost or wasted
The goodness of the good;
Never against a mercy,
Against right it stood;
And seeing this, that virtue
Is always friend of ALL
The virtuous and pure hearted
Men their projectors" call.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1882-05-25
Miscellaneous NesvS Notes,

Nearly 1000 immigrants landed in New
York on Monday.
Great damage to wheat by the army worm
| is reported in Union county, Ill.
The strength of the independent republi-
cans i'll Pennsylvania is assuming alarming
proportions to the regulars.
The liabilities Of Hixon & Co., of Boston,
furniture and upholstery goods arc 500, 312;
assets for unsecured creditors nominally
$4,000.
The golden wedding of Rev. Asa Bullard,
tho Sunday school missionary, 'wlosc wife
is Il sister of Henry Ward Beccler was cclc-
DRAFTED last evening at Cambridge, Mass.
The recent discovery of native copper
seventeen miles south of Laramie, Wyom-
ing, is causing enormous excitement.
Choice specimens were sent to Denver assay
ing $1,000 to the ton in silver.
Temperance workers in Palestine, Ind,
carried Oh the labor in the vineyard by blow
ing up John Hessncr's saloon with dynamite.
Hessner and his family occupied rooms over
the saloon, several of them being injured by
the demonstration Of the gentle rctormels
J. Il. Wilson, mayor of Topeka, Kan, has
o"olli ou1 NalIdlllo dSAIilSG TIC CulC-
ors of the Topeka Capital and Oskaloosa In
DEPENDENT charging them with criminal
libel These papers have stated that mayor
Wilson had been picked out of the street gut
ter in state Of bcastly intoxication, and is
habitual drinkcr and drunkard. That q few
years ago he was an honorcd and esteemed
man, but is now a total wreck
The following army orders were issued
Leave of absence for five months is granted
Second Lieut.. Edward Il. Brown, Fifth ar
tillcry. The following named medical ot1i-
GERS will represent the medical department
of the army ut the annual meeting of the
American Medical association, to be held at
st. Paul, Mimi, on the Gtl, day Of June
1882: Lieut.. Col. Glover Perrin, surgeon:
Capt, Phillip +. Harvey, assistant surg eon
The superintendent Of the general recruiting
service will cause twcnty-six recruits to be
prcpred and forwarded under proper charge
to Fort Brady, Mich, for assignment to the
Tenth infantry, as follows: Ten to Company
i. and sixteen to Company
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Turning OF a $40, 900 Hotel at l,och-

The Park Place Hotel at Rochester, Olmc-
stcd Co.. Minn., was burned OIL Monday last.
1t was Il zinc three story brick building, built
some years ago wv Mrs Pauline Gractf at
cost OF 100000 The Furniture was nearly
all saved. There was 900 insurance on the
hotel in the Merchants of Newark and tho
Wcstcl,tstcr OF New York; $1,000 insurance
on furniture. The fire was the work Of an
inccl'liary, as the building that first burned
:as unoccupicd,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1882-05-25
SOLDIERS PENSIONS.

The Number Of Perslons In Each County
In Minnesota. and Amount of Money Thu.
Distributed In Each County.
Not long ago resolution was adopted by
congress calling for statement OF tho num-
Dor OF persons drawing pension in the United
States, and tbs amount paid. The following
is statement 40 far as it lo!ates to Minnesota
1t will be found OF great interest,
as it shows the number of peusioners1 residing
in each county, and the amount Of money dis.
lUrse;lsfQr neusi0nA III e ach cauntx.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1882-05-25
A Missouri Town in Ashes.

Stewartville, twenty miles east of St. Joe,
is in ashes. Twenty-sevcn houses, including
every business house, was burned. The prir-
cipal losses are J. Crimson, general merchan-
disc and dry goods, $4,000; Ed. G. Sheldon,
general merchandise, $1,000; VIM. Styall,
Sc 600; White & Son, $4,000; A. J. Culbert-
SON, $40, 900; all insured. The origin ofthe
fire is unknown.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1882-05-25
HOMES IN THE WEST.

. Persons looking westward for homes
can procure full information concern
ing tho 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 50.
cents for three months, to ADVANCE,
Worthington. Mobiles Co., Minnesota.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1882-05-25

An!investigating committee hos found that
Raum's motives in the whisky bond matter
were-pure.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-22
A Costly Thing.

The following story exhibits the cost
illness of the drinking habit:
A gentleman was walking in Regents
Park, in London, and he met man
whose only home was in the poor-h house.
He had come out to take the air, and ex-
cited the gentlemans interested atten-
tion.
"Well, my friend" said the gentle
man, getting into conversation. "it is
a pity that a man like you should be
situated where you are. Now may ask
you how old you are?"
The man said he was eighty years of
age.
Had you any trade before you be-
came penniless ?"
eyes, I was carpenter"
Did you use Intoxicating drink ?"
"No, oh no. / only took my beer /;
never anything stronger; nothing but
my beer"
How much did your beer come to a
day p :,
"Oh, sixpence day. I suppose" "
For how long time ?"
"Well, I suppose for sixty years."
The gentleman had taken out his
notebook, and he continued figuring
with his pencil while he went on talking
with the man.
"Now let me tell you" said he, as he
finished his calculations, chow much
that beer cost you, my man. You can
go over the figures yourself"
And the gentleman demonstrated that
the money, sixpence a day, for sixty
years, expended in beer, would, if it
had been placed at interest, have
yielded him nearly eight hundred dol
lars a year, or an income of fifteen dol
lars week for self-support.
"Let me tell You how much gallon
of whisky COSTS" said a ludge, after
trying a case. "One gallon of whisky
made two men murderers, it made two
wives widows, and made eight children
orphans.
Oh, it's costly thing DIR. RIoEARD
NEWTON.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-22
The Drummer.

The Detroit Free Press, in relating
some incidents of commercial travellers,
tells of one who was trying to make a
landlord believe he was an old acquaint-
ance:
81 was here year ago." said the
traveller.
THAT may be-" said the landlord,
"but | don't remember You"
81 have something with me now to
prove it," said the traveller.
"What's that ?" said the landlord.
''It's piece of steak you gave me-"
"Where is it ?" asked the landlord in
credulously.
"Why, I'm using it now for hinges on
my grip. sack, said the traveller, taking
it up and lighting out.
The hotel and restaurant men natu-
rally play the hero in the greater num-
ber of these stories. One of them was
once asked what he should charge for a
breakfast for 500 persons.
"Don't know where kin get vlctuals
enough for such sight of folks"
"You needn't be particular; give us
some rolls and coffee, and piece of
meat. What will be your terms ?"
"Waal, my regular charge is fifty
cents; but whar thar's SO many l think
seventy-tive cents a head would be
about right.
Jack Fielding was suddenly sent to
Rio Janeiro by his firm, leaving an un-
settled account at the "Dutchma 4 s" in
Beaver street, New York, just out of
Broadway. The boys told the Dutch
man it would be all right, and sure
enough along came check for 500 reis,
from which he was to give the boys q
good dinner, all the punch they could
drink, all the cigars they could smoke,
take out what was due him, and leave
the balance to his credit at the bankers.
The Dutchman was delighted, ordered
the dinner on the spot. gave the boys all
they wantel to eat and drink, told the
boy to take the check, get it cashed,
take out $50 and deposit the remainder
to Jacks account. The boys were Just
fairly in the midst of their good cheer
when the boy with a woful countenance
came running in.
"Mein Gott, vas ists," sbrieked the
Dutchman.
"He says" referring to the cashier at
the bank, that 500 reis is only sixty
two cents"
The boys shouted, and the Dutchman
wasn't paid until Jack came back.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-22
H0wa Good Intention Failed.

w. J. Hendricks, of Frankfort, KY,
was sitting in his Office at Flemingsburg
one day when his colored Office boy
came shuffling in with his hat on and
singing "Dar's one mo- ribber to cross" I"
He was impressed by the boys want of
politeness and said to him, ''Look'ee
here, sir, that's no way to enter my
office. You need lesson in behavior.
Now you take seat in my chair and
act just as if you were proprietor, just
as do, and will go out and come in
just as you should do" whereupon he
laid down his cigar and went out the
door. In moment he returned. aud,
there sat Jim with his feet pitched up
on the table, a copy of the Revised
Statutes of the United States open in
his lap and the half smoked cigar in his
mouth, and his hat cooked over one
eye. The aesthetic teacher entered
quietly with his hat in his hand, but
had not gotten fairly in the room before
Jim looked up and said "Jack, you
rascal, pick up dat spitton, clean it
quick, and den come in heah, sab, and
black my boots--do you heah ?" Jim
was kicked out, but very shortly after
ward reinstated.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-22

him up in their arms and laid him
groaning on his bed.
"Whar is you hurt, my precious
honey?" sobbed his mother. "Is your
leg done broke, or is you got de chol-
eryp"
'It's dem boots" Obadiah sobbed;
''git 'em off. nanny, fore dey kills
me-"
81 fought So" began Sam, angrily,
but his wife sternly ordered him to
'fgit dem boots of. +"
but how boots filled with swelled
bruised flesh were to be got off was a
more difficult question. Sam and
Betsy Jane pulled, but at every tug
Obadiah screeched in a heart-rending
manner.
"'Taint no use," Betsy Jane groaned,
breathless and exhausted; "dem tings
is got to be cut off.
"Cut off, cried Sam. 'Look heah,
CONAN, dem boots cost tree dollar. Is
you q plumb fool to talk oh 'stroyin'
property in dat ar sinful way ?"
''Is you anoder to talk OBJ 'stroyin'
NOuI OWA Cullt lOT s1lOG-lcutlCT WuTI Tree
dollar? Glib me dat knife and let me
slit en-"
Sam groaned as the relentless knife
cut through the new leather, and not
the sight of the bruised feet when freed
from their torture moved him to COM
passion. you'll whistle fur new boots
nor shoes, my young man !" he said,
81 don't want no shoes, nur boots,
nur noting on my foots," blubbered
Obadiah. 81 hates dem boots, dat l
does, and don't want no more
l don't think he ever had another
pair, for see him either barefoot or
wearing the most dilapidated second
hand foot - Youths Compan-
ion.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-22
Fashion Notes.

Medicis lace is stylish.
Ball fringe is revived.
Dolly Warden styles are revived.
Beading is fast going out of style.
Tulle bonnets are drawn on wires.
Pansy patterns are wrought in lace.
New bracelets represent gold beads.
Florentine lace trims underclothing.
Cheviot colors are in Scotch ging-
hams.
Louisines are combined with cash
mere.
Guimpe dresses are revived for chill
dren.
Louis Quinze coats are made of bro
cades.
Braiding and frogs increase in popu-
larity.
Terra-cotta gloves are among the
novelties.
Sicilienne is much used for spring
dresses.
Partridge feathers are used to cover
parasols.
"Patience pokes are worn by young
ladies.
The new hustle resembles a large pin
cushion.
White muslin dresses are embroidered
all over.
A flower coronet is shown on small
lace bonnets.
Eaglish costumes of cloth have swal-
low-tail coats.
Red parasols are now sometimes made
of velvet.
Ficelle is the name of the new color
like twine.
Wide stitching is on the back of
ladies' kid gloves.
Collar, vest and cuffs of kid trim
French jackets.
Chine silk is chosen for trains instead
of brocades.
Watered oval figures appear on black
satin mantles.
Trained dresses are not seen at fash
ionable openings.
Pale blue ginghams have raspberry
red embroidery.
Colored cravat bows have superseded
those of white null.
Many small bows without ends diver.
sify small bonnets.
Dark colors are preferred to white for
children's dresses.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-22
Paying His Debts.

The late Cornelius J. Vanderbilt was
a friend Of Horace Greeley. The exact
time when Horace Greeley began to
lend Cornelius J. money has never been
publicly stated, nor has any other rea-
son for the loans ever been given except
that Mr.. Greeleys generosity induced
him to assist q young man who
pleaded his distress to him. The loans
aggregated about SAG, coo, and Mr..
Greeley took notes for them. 1t is re-
ported that these loans caused break
in the friendly relation that had pre-
viously existed between Commodore
Vanderbilt and Mr.. Greeley. The in
terview which precipitated this rupture
Is said to have been extremely interest
ing. 1t occurred in the sanctum of Mr..
Greeley, into which Commodore Van
derbilt walked abruptly one day, and
said "Mr. Greeley, l understand you
have been lending my son Cornell
money" Mr.. Greeley raised his head
from the high desk at which he stood
writing, and looked at the Commodore
for moment. He then resumed writ
ing, and after a few seconds delay
drawled out "Yes, Commodore, I've
leJ Hlu nave some money. You
have, eh ?" angrily said the Commo-
dore. "You have Well, l want you
to understand that amt responsible
for it, and l shan't pay you a cent of
it. Stopping his work, Mr.. Greeley
gazed angriiy at his visitor and yelled,
"You won't, Ell? Well, who asked you
to pay it didn't, did l ?" He then
calmly went on with his work, and
Commodore Vanderbilt stamped ont of
his office in rage. Tho Greeley loans
remained unpaid until April z, 1879
On that day Cornelius j. Vanderbilt
met Mrs. Ida Greeley Smith and Miss
Gabrielle Greeley, the daughters of Hor-
ace Greeley, and their advisers at the
Hoffman House, and there paid them
SCI, 900, the principal of the loans with
accrued interest.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-22
IN THE LANE.
HELEN ERwINE GRIGe.

They met in the lane by the pasture gate
CA bird sang-sweetly little bird sang.)
She thought it was chance. but he knew it was
fate;
ION swaying tree-top the bright bird sang.
81 have something to tell you, he gently said,
She blushed like rose-leaf and bent her head,
While loudly the gay bird sang.
Z" Hark to the bird in the old oak treer'
CT love my love, the wooing bird sang.)
i" He is bolder than 1, let him 81 eak for me-"
Now and forever, the brave bird sang.)
A" l hear his music, but. Roy, fear
When the snow blows into the waning year.
He'll forget the song he sang!"
. Listen, love. to the hopeful bird =
glove me, love thee, the fond bird sang.
" Only in spring-tme his voice is heard"
(''I will be true. the bold bird s.ng.)
Trust me, my darling /, TOO, will be true,
And my love shall make spriug-time the whole
year through
True, true. the sweet bird sang.
Boston Courier.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-22

much as it was known she sympathized
with the cause of liberty and good gov
ernment. He predicted the early settle
ment of the question in accordance
with American honor, as the sense of
justice of the people of the United
States, and their confidence in their
glorious destiny, were too profound to
permit them to submit longer to the
policy of a party which permits the
American name to be outraged with i'm
punity by foreign nations.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-22
SAM sLIcK's WISE SAWS.

1 HAVE larns good deal from my
own talk.
BLusHIN' for others is the next thing
to takin' u kickin' for them.
IT's only your friends and your
enemies that tell you of your faults.
WHEN the fox turns preacher, the
geese had better not go to night meetins.
THE wages of idlepess is poverty.
To find hidden gold is to find tempta-
tion and sin, but that that's earned has
no alloy in it.
LooKlN' in the wrong way puts
people On the wrong scent. Oh there
is nothin' like squintin' conscience,
you may depend.
MusrNs aint profitable in q gineral
way, for they are liks the dews of
night-early sunrise dries them right
up. Sayin' is doin'. Musin' is dreamin'. !.
If critter makes charge agin you,
turn the table on HIM; accuse him, and
let him defend himself. 1t will give
him plenty TO do. It's plaguy sight
easier to make charge than 70 explain
one away.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-22
THE NEWER ARITHMETIC.

A MERCHANT has three clerks. Their
united ages are five-sevenths of the
number of herrings in box. What are
the exact figures
A MAN trades $40 watch for a S45
shot gun, pays So for repairs and then
exchanges it for q $50 horse, which
kicks S28 COW to death and then dies Of
broken heart. How much did the
man lose?
In certain room there are eleven
women sitting down. A lady passes the
house with a new spring bonnet on.
Find thenumber who got up and rushed
to the window. (That's where you are
fooled. One of 'em was too lame to get
out of her chair.)
THE distance from q roadside fence to
certain harvest apple tree is three times
the distance from the ground to the first
limb, which is two yards, one foot and
nine and one-half inches. What is the
distance from the fence. and how many
harvest apples can fat boy eat?
A LIGHTNING rod man sits down to try
and remember how many farmers he
has swindled. He can't begin to recall
names and dates, and so he multiplies
his eighteen years of experience by two,
adds five, subtracts one, and calls the
result one-fourth of the grand total
What is the total?
A FARMER takes four dozen eggs to
town and exchanges them for two pounds
of sugar at nine cents per pound, and
when he returns home his wife gives
him fifty-f five cents worth of "you in
fernal old sap-head II Figure it all in
and find how much he received per
dozen for the eggs?
A MAN died leaving property valued
at 81, 900 to certain relative. Eight
other relatives wouldn't have it that way
and contested the will. The property
was then divided pro rata and each ones
share was found to be seventeen cents.
What became-but, of course, you know
that the lawyers got it.
The scholars IN certain county school
set out to click" the teacher. The num-
ber of girls who of course don't take
hand in, is thirteen, and this is four
sixths of the number of the boys, who
got the worst shaking they ever heard
tell of. What was the exact number.
coming as near as you can without
halving up anybody.
A FOND sether purchased set Of
tools for hi boy, paving therefor the
sum of SO. 25. In short time the lad
bored six holes in the piano case, sawed
offsix chair legs, split two door-panels
and amputated the sofas left arm. Find
what the exact sum was, and also notify
| v0ur friauIa that tho tools ora for sala
at one-third off.--DetroH Free Press.
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A M1DDhE.HzED boy, writing COM
position on g" stremes," remarked that
"we should Q ieavor TO avoid extremes,
especially these OF wasps and bees."--
Vat.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-22

EDWARD b. BATES.
(Late of Baltimore BARI
ATTORNEY AND UNSELOR-AT-LAW
Snow Hill, Nd.
Office opposite Court House adjoining the
Post Ofiee
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-04-22
TEXAS SETTINGS.

TEXAS SIFTING5.
PRIcKLY heat IS a kind OF Texas
humor.
"GREAT Journalistic Feat" is the
heodline in Chicago paper. Those
Chicago editors are SO egotistic6., al
ways ringing in something about them
selves.
TaE Gar has spared several con-
demned Nihilists, through the interven
ton of Victor Hugo, and now, Victor
Hugo, try and persuade the Nihilists to
spare the Gear.
DEAR SIRs Will you please inform
couple of young fellows which is better
to do, marry and settle down, or stay
single and settle up? We think you
should do both. Stay single until you
settle up, then marry and settle down.
AN Austin young man was seen COM
ing hurrledly out of business house,
which he had entered to solicit employ
gage you as a salesman ?" "No; he
wanted me to travel" was the ambigu-
uous reply.
The archbishop of Mechlin has sent
round circular inviting all the faithful
III his archdiocese 70 offer up prayers
for the newspaper editors. It is the
man who subscribes for the country
weekly, payable when he makes crop,
that needs praying for.
A DALLAS correspondent writes: 81
wish you would settle a matter of eti-
quette by answering the following
Should wives be invited with their
husbands 2" 1t depends on what you
invite the husbands to. If it's dinner
party or a church sociabIe, it might be
well enough to invite the wife !; but if
you invite him to a ward meeting, or to
see the town, or to take something, eti-
quette requires that his wife remain at
home and attend to her domestic duties.
We are glad you asked ike question, for
If there is any one thing that we thor
oughly understand it is etiquette.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS .
A DIAL P. BARNES.
- ATTORNEY-ATl

Office opposite Court House, Snow Hill. Md
VIII visit Pocomoke CITY every SATURDAY..
Strict attention given TO the collection Of
claims
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CLAYTON j. PURNELL.
~ ATvrORN A A N

Y
once opposite Court House, Snow Hill. Md.
Strict attention given TO the collection Of
claims. VIII visit Berlin on the second Satur-
day of every month.