The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-11-01
Things i'm General.

1t has been estimated by competent
judges that the damage by frost to the
buck wheat crop alone in Sullivan coun-
ty, N. Y, is 100000.
Between the 18th and 30th of Sep
temb Der the Petersburg (Va.) street cars
carried 3O,3l5 passengers, or some 5000
]ation OF the city.
The milk cure is one of the institutions
of Baden. People are supplied with
fresh foaming milk at any hour of the
day by man who has quiet little
establishment, with sunny garden and
tables at the front. and at the back stalls
stocked with goats and COWS.
Two mock weddings took place in IT,
ger, lille, La, last week, and to give in
creased solemnity to the proceedings,
ent was induced to officiate. IS" SEQUEL:
One of the young ladies' mother holds
the opinion that it was legal marriage,
and threatens the young man with a
suit unless he comes to time.
Blessed are the peacemakers. There
is justice of the peace in Banks county,
Georgia, who has held his Office for
eight years, and has never tried case,
always getting the litigants to compro-
mise. He is not in favor with the local
lawyers, some of whom claim that he is
too sentimental for his position.
The receipts of the New York and
Brooklyn bridge for the nineteen weeks
it has been open to the public have
been: From foot passengers, $34, 464;
from vehicles, $31 ,563; from cars, s., 1885, 1885,
Total 500. 1853. The expenses have been
$5l AIS. The total number of pedestri-
ans crossed is 1865 800 from New York
and ISIS, 900 from Brooklyn. Total, 81
3S5, 400.
An attempt is being made at Sails
bury, England. to revive an old ecclesi-
astical tax originally levied in the twelfth
century by Bishop Poor, by which every
occupant OF land had to pay one penny
a perch. It continued to be collected
to the beginning of the century by the
Bishops officials, when it lapsed to the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Fourteen
years ago it ceased to he collected. but
now the Commissioners have notified
the six chief tradesman that unless the
money ispaid they will take proceedings.
The Helena Independent tells of q
gulch between Helena and Virginia
City, New, whose waters cover all pol
ished iron and steel with coating of
pure metallic copper, as brirht as the
FURNISHED metal. Pick and shove]s
used there soon become appropriated.
One dav n ~ horse was permitted to
stand in the moist eand some fifteen
minutes, and when led out his shoes
had bright copper coating. The sands
in this gulch are full Of beautiful crystals
masses of crystalized copper wei~hing
three and four ounces.
A lawyer of Cohoes, being before q
court in Kingston, N. Y, the other day,
was privately asked what kind of place
Cohoes was, when he returned the fol-
lowing answer. II will explain it by
telling you little story. One time a
Cohoes woman was in Kingston, and
she went to an exhibition which was a
panorama show. One of the pictures
shown was intended to represent chaos,
and the word "chaos" was written be-.
low the picture. The Cohoes woman
was little near-sighted, and seeing the
word chaos, took q look at the picture,
and then remarked to her companion.
"Why, it's Cohoes, and it looks just like
it, too"
General A. W. Doniphan, who is now
visiting the Idaho Springs, and is 70
years of age, during the Mexican war
made one of the longest marches on re-
cord. At the beginning of the war, in
1916, he stepped from large practice
into the ranks, whence he was at once
elected to the colonelcy of the First Mis-
souri, Regiment of mounted volunteers.
Starting from Fort Leavenworth, the
corps marched to Mexico, then around
Chihuahua and Del Norte, cenquering
New Mexico and other states. participate
ing in the battles of Drastic and Cbibua.
hua, losing but one man in both but cap
turing $40 and killing the same number
Of the enemy. The hardy band Of less
than a thousand mon, without cents
pay till their return, made . circuit
of 5000 miles in thirteen months, ten Of
which they were constantly in the sad
Gle.