The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1882-12-14

THURSDAY DECEMBER II, 1882.
= Frank James has taken to preaching.
He warned !, young man against Inger-
SOIL the other day and told him that
Ingersoll's doctrine would lead him
astray. He declared he knew the BIZ
bic was true If Frank James is a
product Of Orthodoxy, and he declared
his belief in it, we intend to either go
with Ingersoll or go across lots.'
Vennor's *.cold wave" last week ex-
tended over the whole Northwest, i'll.
Guiding Canada, and also over Eng
land, where the storm was the severest
known III 80 years. It was much cold
or up north than here. At Winnipeg
it was 65 below zero, ut Grand Forks,
Dakota, SO below, at Bismarck 81 below,
1T Fargo ~ below. Here it was re-
ported from 20 to % below.
DR.. Howard Crosby, of New York.
who has made himself odious to the
liberal world by his support Of Antho-
ny Comstock, is coming to his senses.
He has found that prohibition does not
prohibit, and is out III favor of regula-
ton instead of prohibition. Now if he
will abandon the Internal Comstock
gang, which is prosecuting men on &C
count of their opinions. we shall think
that he is not altogether bigot and a
fanatic.
Mrs. Langtry. tho Jersey lily, the
beautifulrst woman in England, etc.
etc., who is now playing in the eastern
cities, has been and gone and done it.
She allowed a young swell from New
York, named Gebhart, to become
''mas'ed," rs the runners Call it,
which is nothin: new to a handsome
actress. But the singular effect seems
to he that "thot hiety" will not receive
her, because she allowed this BOBBY to
show ..er some attention.
Well, if American "thothiety" isn't
a fool Of the first water, we give it up.
No wonder Mrs. Langtry expresses
her contempt for it.
A number OF our Minnesota ex-
changes are reiterating our demand
that the coming legislature Shall en-
act the penalty of death for rape. Let
the demand minneapolis
Journal.
That's the Minneapolis plan" But
after McManus was lynched there
were a score Of rapes upon children
following III quick succession and
lynching in several Instances. The
grave question is whether ''prohibition
prohibits.'' Does the death penalty
limit murder and would it limit rape?
A Catholic priest 1T Humboldt, this
State, has undertaken the task Of
sQuelchiug Bob ingcrsoll Among
other things he says that if Ingersoll
''lived in Spain he would be turned ov-
er to rack and t!,umbscrews in short
order. just so.-Anthony (Kas.) Re-
publican.
That is exactly what Ingersoll has
been saying. That is just why he is
featuring in behalf of religious liberty
and Free Thought. The history of re-
ligious persecution is the blCediest and
blackest picture III the book Of time.
This priest coufesscs all, and virtually
justiiies Ingcrsoll.
THE Ii VS. DELAY.
In conversation few days age one
Of our attorneys gave us n list Of cases
pending in this district in which heavy
property and other interests are in
volved and which drag their slow
length along from month to month
and yea1: to year without determina-
ton. This is embarrassing and vexa-
tIouS aud in some cases distressing. In
criminal cases the delay is also great,
so great that much wrong is done to
parties awaiting trial rs we'll as to the
county. For Instance, there are now
three prisoners in tile county Jail un.
der charge of felony. They mnst all
wait until next spring to get Il hearing
and the county is put to the expense Of
keeping tIeln Ote Was Ja'AeU ldSt
summer and viii wait l.early year
for his trial.
The attorneys say the district is too
large and the business too great for
one judge. Why not, then, make Il
con. bined movement and demand this
winter for division If the district or
a,ntiar iulua tn assist Judge Sever
ance? Southwestern Minnesota for 4
hundred miles is under the jurisdic-
ton Of one judge. 1t is a hardship
and All Injustice in every way and the
Legislature ought to grant the much
ne. drl relief this winter.