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

While the boys in the East are longing
to become bandits and Indian slayers on
the western plains, two ten-year old Ne
br:,ska urchins, after reading some story
paper description Of New York life,
bought two pistols with stolen money,
and set out for New York 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 cave have never left her. And a
present her health is declared to be very
feeble. She is living at Illacrombe, in
Devonshire, with brother, who is IN
artist. -. !-s....:
NJ. Hammond, engineer and general
manager of an important Brazilian rail-
road, bears strong testimony to the value
Of coffee asa preventive against miasma
tic fevers. He instances the Gaze Of
Father Vauhan, who, on a journey
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 q tea store in
Washington, was to have been married
the other evening to Miss Katie Keilum,
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., 500 against the
American News company in New York
for circulating q newspaper in which
was libelous attack on her character,
has brought suit against the same COM
pany, claiming So, 600 damages, for Il
bel on his character, contained in the al-
legations oft answer that Miss Pres
colt was his mistress. The time for an
answer to the complaint in this suit OK.
pires on Friday next.
General Boulaneer is q thorough ~
publican. He writes from Paris to .
friend in St. Louis: "Let France in the
old world and the American republic
upon the new continent point out to all
the road to progress and real civilization,
Let US march hand in hand; this is our
most ardent desire; It Ii the desire Of
every good Frenchman." a,.@3s!..:- !. g,
The excuse that m Iowa young man
makes for having engaged to marry two
girls, is, that. knowing the 6ckleness OF
the SEX, he supposed that one or the
other would jilt him, and he wanted to
be sure of wife But neither proved
untrue, And/ ON his choosing between
them. the rejected ono brought suit q,
damages. .-.--. -.
The Rev. J. D. Kurtz, one of the OF
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
had accomplished in the way Of building
up a great empire in the East, he hsd
tarnished, and more than tarni6hed, 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
''fire-w water" which was probably respon.
,sible for more Indian outfa9es than their
own wild and lawless spirit. ssfs=a
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