The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-02-01
Personal Paragraphs.

Queen Victoria will spend tie latter
part of this winter at La Mortola, near
Mentone, where she hopes to enjoy
more peace and quiet than she found
at Mentone last winter. The duke and
duchess of Albany will ut the same
time occupy the villa at Cannes which
was engaged a short time ago for fer
Majesty.
While a young woman employed in a
store in Cincinnati was standing at the
door young man passed by. He
bowed and smiled and 80 did the young
woman. Although they had never met
before, the young lnaa proposed that
they should 60 to matinee, and the
girl consented. Afterward the youth
proposed matrimony with such marked
success that the two were united before
the sun went down.
The killing of Billy McGlory's bar.
keeper in New York by a policeman has
given the officer tremendous boom
The jury before which he was tried not
only acquitted him, but made him q
present of a gold watch and chain. This
action Is a warning to all thugs, for it
will encourage officers all over the coun-
try in the discharge of their duties and
pistols. The killing of officers in St.
Louis, Kansas City, Chicago, New York
and Philadelphia has taught the blue
coats to take no chances or bullets.
A letter received recently in Wash.
ington from Ex- Governor Hendricks, o:
Indiana, by friend, says that the write,
is so much improved that he can now
walk about. his room without using
cane. and his general health is better
than it has been for some time.
Jefferson Davis, ex.chief of the "Lost
Cause" denies that he ever cheated al
draw.poker or exhibited a want of bel.
ligerent qualities. He writes: "The
truth is, l never drank nor gambled and
any one who ever served with me would
probably say that; in my youth l Was
over.willing to fight"
The Providence Evening Press contra.
diets DR.. Crosby's charges in regard to
the extravagance and snobbisnness Of
Yale students, saying that the annual
cost Of a comfortable life at Yale will not
exceed 500, and need not exceed $500
if 4 young man is economical. Several
ways are recommended for increasing
the income of student, principally by
outside labor. It is, however. we'll
tablished opini. n that outside labor
should not b. resorted to unless in cases
OF extreme necessity. -
St. Louis Special to Chicago Tribune:
Michael Vandcrburgand Matthew Wood
lock quarrcled near the town of Brook
ley, q short distance from St. Louis.
Their friends advised them 10 settle
their dispute with the shotguns they
had carried home after days hunt.
This advice was accepted, the men TAX
ing up their positions twenty PAGES apart.
Both fred simultaneously. ,Vandenbure
had his eyes put out by the slot. and is
soabadly wounded in the head that he
will die. Woodlock received the load
from Vandenburgs weapon in the breast
and neck. A large crowd witnessed the
terrible affair and seemed to enjoy it.
DR.. Grayson who is atten ding the
wounded men, took no less than twen-
ty-four shots cut of Woodlock.
DR.. Heinrich Maron, who Subscribed
as one of the ablest and best-known
journalists in Berlin, shot his, wife on
December 2Sth with q revolver. and then
put an end to his own life with the same
weapon. /: is supposed that this muir
der and suicide were committed by mu-
tual agreement between husband and
wife. DR.. Maron had fallen into a. des-
ponding state of mind from the combin-
edefect ofadverse worldly circumstances
and overburdening cares; while his wife
suffered from a incurable bodily ai)ment
DR.. Maron was distinguished as politi.
ca: economist. and accompa MED the
commercial mission which, under Count
Eulenburg, went to China about twenty
years ago. s'