The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1882-11-09
Personal Matters,

While the boys in the East are longing
to Income bandits and Indian slayers on
the western plains, two ten-year old Ne
br,ska urclins, after reading some story
paper description of New York life,
bought two pistols with stolen money.
and set out for New y ork City to become.
bOwery ruffians. ''' =
Miss Burke, the sister of the lote Brit
ish Under Secretary for Ireland, doee
not recover her health. The effects OF
the shock which the news of the aseae-
sination gave have never left her. And q
present her health is declared to be very
feeble. She is living ut 1llacrombe, in
Devonshire, with Il brother, who il an
artist. -.,::
NJ. Hammond, engineer and general
manager of an important Brazilian rail-
road, bears strong testimony to the value
Of coffee as preventive against miasma
tic fevers. He instances the case Of
Father Vauhan, who, on ajournoy
through most unhealthy country from
Panama to the River Platte, considered
that he owed his health to taking strong
coffee, and mentions that since the ma
tives in pestiIent districts in Ecuador
have taken to drinking it the death rate
has fallen considerably.
Chong Got. q full-blooded native of.
Japan, and proprietor of tea store in
Washington, was to have been married
the other evening to Miss Katie Keilum,
a bright, vivacious and handsome girl of
II summers, living in East Washington,
but an immense crowd of angry residents
gathered in the vicinity and made such
sent word to the minister not to come.
The "Jap'' made his escape by the back
door, and the wedding was postponed.
Mr.. Perzel, the husband of Marie
Prescott, the actress, who recently re-.
covered judgment of ST., 800 against the
American News company in New York
for circulating a newspaper in which
was libelous attack on her character,
has brought suit against the same COM
pany, claiming SIS, 600 damages, for II
bel on his character, contained in the al
legations of the answer that Miss Pres
colt was his mistress. The time tor an
answer to the complaint in this suit ex-
pires on Friday next.
General Boulancer is thorough ~
publican. He writes from Paris to .
friend in St. Louis: "Iet France in the
old world and the American republic
upon the new continent point out to all
the road to progress and rea! civilization
Let us march hand in hand; this is our
most ardent desire; it is the desire Of
cyerv good Frenchman." ....j :. !
The excuse that m Iowa young man
makes for having engaged to marry two
girls. is, that knowing the fckleness Of
the SEX, he supposed that one or the
other would iilt him, and he wanted 70
be sure of wife. But neither proved
untrue, and. on his choosing betweeA
them. the rejected one brought suit -
dam ages. ..-. .....,. ,...I -.,,..-t
The Rev. T. D. Kurtz, one Of tho ok
est and best known Methodist preachers
in Philadelphia, on Sunday morning ~
tonished his congregation by making .
violent attack upon the memory Of Will
liam Penn. He said that Whatever Penn
lad accomplished in the way Of building
up great empire. in the, East, he had
/, furnished, and more than furnished, by
an act for which he should forever be
condemned. He had purchased the
lands Of the Indians by exchanging for
them that devil of civilization, rum. He
had introduced among the Indians the
"6re-water" which was probably respon-
.sible for more Indian outrages than their
own Wild and lawless spirit. ~ q: 'fqisfs.