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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-09-06

One ofthe greatest evils ofthe day, ana
most fragrant injustice, as we'll as a
palable violation of law. is the inequal-
lty oftaxation. especially in the larger
cities. The time will come when this
growing form of oppression must be re-
dressed, or serious results may arise
In st. Paul, Minneapolis, and perhaps
other places, men of millions are not
paying one'tenth the rate of taxation
that is expected from the comparatively
poor. Small properties from $1,000 to
$4,000 pay nearly all the taxes, while
millions upon millions either wholly es.
cape taxation or pay sum that is almost
COL temptible.
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IT war taxes must co." say the
Philadelphia Times; "a surplus revenue
only promotes extravaganza, and the
way to dispose Of the surplus is to raise
no more revenue than is needed" This
is q fact that is self-evident and the peo-
pie are blind and ignorant who are mis-
led by politicians into the belief that
heavy taxes and an overlooking treasury
are signs of prosperity. The politicians
want the money in the treasury to d.
vide up among their friends, under vari-
Gus pretences, while it is much better
that 1t should never be drawn from the
pockets of the people.
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The influx OF Immigrants this year,
while it is not likely to reach the phe'
nomenal figures of the past two years,
will still be very large. During the first
seven months of.lss3 there arrive at all
ports in the country nearly $4,000 per-
sons. These are the months during
which immigration is always heaviest,
and their total is usually about three
fifths of that for the entire year. Thus
up to the close Of July, in 1882, the
whole number of arrivals was about $780,
oOO, and the grand total for the year was
72,oOO. 1.-THE same proportion follows
this year, the total at the end will be in
the neighborhood of Co., 600.
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Postal Changes.

WASHINGTON. Special Telegram, Aug 2s.-
Postmasters Observation-Disclosures: Mary
J: Nelson, Fir; Lange Johnson, Pom de Terre,
Edwin P. Barras, Escambia Dakota: Nehe-
niah Hail, La Dele. Montana: Harry F.
Petersen, Helmviile. Wisconsin: Herman
Schelbe. Five Corners; Elmer G. Boynton,
Kingston; Robert J. BStey, Alma Center
Iowa: Henry Eveland, Ferry. Indiana:
Emily Bafford, Dudley.
Postoftices Esta blshed-Dakota, Gettysburg,
Potter county. Minnesota, Domestic, Polk
county.
Postofices Observation-Disclosures, Platte
Greek, Charles Mix county
Special Service stablished-Dakota, Candy,
Aurora county, from Plaukington. Iowa,
Penrose. Woodbury. county, from Correction
vile.
Special Service Observation-Disclosures, Eliza,
Hutchinson county, from Auburn; Gertrude,
Pembina county, from Garden.
There are now 48,O49 postof8ces 10 the
United States, of which number l,176 are
presidential offices and 6,273 money order
Offices. Since the year 1876 the number Of
postotfices has boon increased 40 per cent
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-09-06

The New York Mail intimates that
there is large amount of spurious and
deIeterious tea in the country. which
has been permitted to enter at the cns-
tom house in spite of stringent repula-
TONS to the contay. The law is impera.
tive on the subject, requiring the pro-
hio'tlon of the landing of all tea made If
refuse or exhausted leaves, or colored
mixed and adulterated with such dale,
ferrous substances as to make it unfit or
dangerous for use, and it could he an,
forced by intelligent and honest insnec.
ton. There is steadily-growinp com.
plant concerning the aaulteration and
consequent poisoning of the articles Of
household food and consumption, and
while some Of it is exaggerated, there ia
enough foundation for it to REQUIRE all
the vigilance and care that can be exer.
cleed. The Chinese are particularly
sk''lful in this sort of business, and there
is enough difference between genuine
ana adulterated tea, in cost, to reward
special efforts in its manufacture and
sale.& The ordinary perils and dangers
OF household living are enough without
having poisoned table, or an ,nfusion
OF plue yitriol. or some other eouallv
unnealtnv ingredients in the tea Dot.
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The changes in the money order syf

The changes in the money order sys-
tenn, including the reduction of the fee
for orders not exceeding SO from 10
cents to cents, have already gone into
operation. The new cent postal notes
for sums not exceeding IS will become
available ten days hence, And on Octo'
Der l, letter postage will drop to cents.
The next step to the steady improve
ment of the service should be the re-
duction of "drop-letter." or city postage
from cents to cent. the extension OF
the carrier system to the smaller cities,
and the reduction of tho $40 money-or-
der fec to cents. ..'
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-09-06
COLONIAL ARISTOCRACY.
The Magnificent and Gay life Which
Our Rich Ancestors Led.

The Magnificent and Gay life Which
Our Rich Ancestors Led.
T. W. Higginson in Harper's for August
Let us consider by way of illustration,
the. way of living on the Narragansett
shore of Rhode Island, and see how
closely it resembles that Of Virginia.
The late venerable Isaac Pearce Hazard
of Newport, r. l., told NE that his great
grandfather, Robert Hazard, of Nara
gansett, used in latter life, when he had
given away many of his farms to his
children, to congratulate himself on the
small limits to which he had reduced his
household, having only seventy in par
1Or and kitchen. He occupied at one
time nearly $4,000 acree of land, and
kept some 1000 sheep, from whose
freezes his large household was almost
wholly clothed. He had in his dairy
twelve negro:women all slaves, and each
having a child to assist her; each dairy
maid had the care of tive I've cows, and
they were expe cted to ma he from one to
two cheeses every day. This was the
agricultural and domestic side; the 60
cial life consisted OF one long series oil
gay entertainments, visiting from house
to house; for hunting and horse. racing
with the then famous breed of Naragan-
sett PAGERS. Isaac Hazard had known
old men who in their youth had gone to
Virginia to ride their own horses at
races, and kept open houses for the new
Virginian riders in return. To illustrate
how thoroughly the habits of slavery
me that another of these Narraeansett
maenates, his great uncle, Rowland
Robinson, said, impulsivelv, one day:
II have not servants enough; 70 fetch
me SEINE from Guinea" Upon this the
master of small packet of twenty tons.
belonging to Mr.. Robinson fitted her
ont at once, set sail for Guinea, and
brought home eighteen slaves, one OF
whom was kings son. His employer
burst into tears at their arrival, his or
der not having been seriously given. But
all this was not in Maryland or Virginia;
it was in Rhode Island, and on part of
Rhode Island 90 much place of resort
for the leading Boston families that q
portion of it is called Boston Neck to
this day.
These descriptions could be paralleled
though not quite fully, in all the North.
ern colonies. The description of the
Schuyler family as given by Mrs. Grant OF
Laggan about 1850, Is quite on par with
those early scenes at Narragansett. In
Connecticut it is recorded.'Of John Peters,
father of the early and malicious bistor-
ian Of that name, that he "aped the style
OF q British nobleman; built his house
in a forest, kept his coach and looked
with some degree of scorn upon Re-
publicana." The. stone house Of the
Lee family at Marblehead cost 10000;
the house of Godfrey Malone, at New
port. cost 10000; the Wentworth house
at Portsmouth had fifty-two rooms.
Through all the colonies these evidences
of q stately way of living were to be
found
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PERSONAL NEWS NOTES.

sDO"0A VAI - NOx.ESs
John G. Flynn, newsboy who has been
stationed at the northwest corner of -Four III
and Walnut streets. Cincinnati, for the las,
thirteen years. has sold out aud retired
from business. It is understood that be
has accumulated, by the closest economy
and strict attention to business. the hand.
some sum Of 81, 600. Flynn intends embark.
ing In the hOiel business IN Denver, Col.
Rev. 8. D. Peet, editor of the American
Antiquarian: Prof F. w. Putnam, curator
ofPeabody mnseum, Cambridge, Macs, and
MI. Kimball, from Boston, expect to spend
two or three weeks in exploring the mounds
of Wisconsin.
DR.. J. c. Lukes Died recently at his resi-.
dence ct Racine Junction. Wis, at the age
VI sixty'three yean. He leaves three chill.
dren, two OF whom are engaged in the
banking business at Blunt, Oak.
Mrs. Dorfee of Eagle Harbor, Mich, CAV.
birth to boy on the propeller Manistee be
tween Duluth and Ashland, on the night o.
the 9th. This makes . second birth thai
mas occurred on this steamer this season.
Monsignor Capel leotured Sunday 1T New.
port oni The Consistency of the Catholi,
Church. It IL said he produced sensation
Rev. Dr.. D. B. strickler Of Atlanta. O..
vas unanimously elected professor in Union
Ineolo61cet &c ainary at Danville, Va.
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he from mo various elements of the
terribls Disturbances must DO fully x, 600.
but The number Of those Who persisted can
never. Of coarse, b approximated. a violent
shook occurred In the Island Of Bumatrs,
Monday forenoon, and il MAS feared other
violent disturbances might follow. Middle
Island, ton miles OF the Javanese coast, and
half way between tho extreme points Of Java
aud 6umstra, was almost wholly engulfed in
the sea The small Island Of Singkle, prob
ably originally only cone blown, mp by IN
erupdve paroxysm, has entirely disappeared.
Il VhS uninhabited
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-09-06
schoolmastar is seldom without I cigar
in his mouth, his pupils who have done
well In their studies are rewarded by
being allowed to smoke q cigar as they
A M,nnesotian Kills His Brothar

~ m00D00004n A1luo his 0eOt00e.
Buffalo. Wright county special: on the
29th inst, shocking and perhaps fatal
fidht took place between two brothers four
miles west Of here. Ephraim Washburn
and one Varney were binding wheat for
Wallace w. Washburn in the latter's field.
Ephrain :Weshhurn Was compelled on &C.
count of one man being sent to another
part Of the field to bind two stations, OF Be
LETT behind the reaper. He fell behind, and
Wallace and he had some words, upon
which Wallace struck Ephraim upon the
bead with rake, breaking the rake.
Ephrsim went to the house for his coat
when he was met by Wallace armed With
an az, who struck his brother Ephraim ON
the head, stunning him: Then he struck
him again with the butt Of the weapon
making slashing cut in his head,
and then stepping over he hammered the
senseless DOdy with the fiat side of the az,
on the bead and elsewhere. On seeing the
assault with the az Varney rushed back,
aud when he reached the house Wallace de.
sisted. Ephraim's skull is fractured, and
be lies in q desperate condition. Wallace
refused to furnish team 10 Drine3his broth
er to town, hut he was brought here and
placed in the hands of DR.. Cody, who ex.
presses little hope of his recovery. A war
rant was issued and the arrest of Wallace is
looked for hourly. Hitherto he has been
known as law abiding citizen. He was at
times deputy sheriff, aud was delegate to
the republican state convention. He has a
wife and children. Ephraicl is younger and
unmarried.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-09-06
THE NEWS in BRIEF,
0OSSIPFROM HAHHYN9TO1

GOSSIPFROM WARRINGTON
1t is reported that the project of establish-
ing Garfield hospital in Warrington han
been abandoned. One difficulty seems to
be the impression that there IN no pressing
necessity for another hospital. Congresa
also showed very decided indisposition to
make any appropriation for the support Of
the proposed institution. It 70 said also
that Mrs. Garfield prefers that the hospital
fund should be Transferred to the fund fol-
the erection OF the proposed Garfield mon.
ument. The subscriptions to the proposed
Garfield Masonic Orphans home have also
fallen short OF the sum required, a I'd 1t IL pos
sible that the money rsised on this account
may also be used IN assisting the Garfield
monument fund.
Inspector q. w. Holcomh of the general
land Office, has Just returned from . 6v<
months trip of inspection of surveyors gen.
eral Offices and distant land Offices in Col.
orado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Oregon
Washington Territory, Idaho, Montana
Dakota and Minnesota. He reports The
Offices generally in good condition. vel
managed and doing . lar e business. The
increase of business in the land Offices oi
Washington and Oregon is reported very
great, and lsrg tracts OF that section are be.
ng taken up Oy land entries.
The dlafts Oh the treasury for pensions
have been less this month than in Jnly by
about S, 600, co., The total thus far has
been abont Sill ,OOO, 600, against $l4, OOO, OOO
last month. In making the last draft 0l
SO, 600. GOO en- the 9th, the amount already
in the hands of discussing officers was con.
sidered. The next draft for pensions will
not be made before October The sum
Hrav he <1>nk Ill to- T.
hands OF agents, will have to make the pay.
nents due Sept. 4.
The consul general ri the United States at
Rome, under date of July 81, has furnished
the department of state with an interesting
account of q series of contests between com.
bined reaping and binding machines mau-
nfactured in several countries. in which
those Of the United states were successful.
The trials were severe, the ground being in
many places marshy and stony. The result
clearly showed the superiority OF American
machines.
Investigation of tn 9 loss and subsequent
recovery Oslo, 900 national bank notes, in
the treasury department shows the notes
had been cancelled and were Useless to asv
finder, and no loss could in any event have
occurred to the department.. The loss was
purely accidental, and no blame was At
tached to the clerks or employees of the
treasury.
Gen. j. A. Ekin, colonel and assistant
quarterfaaster general, 7as placed on the
retired list OF the army recently. This will
promote Lieut.. Col. Alexander ]. Perry to be
colonel and assistant quartermaster general
The Washington claim agents are rapidly
acquiring very unsavory reputation. Post
masters and ex-postmasters holding claims
against the government are warned against
tho seductive circulars of these agents.
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Great Tidal Wave on the Atlantic
Coast.

Halifax, N. 8. special:-A veritable tenn.
pest RACES tonight on the coast of Nova SEQ.
tia. All day the sky presented threaten.
ing appearance and as darkness set in the
wind which had not been very strong. be-
gan to increase in violence and at this hour,
IL o'clock, is blowing furious gale. The
torn, will prove disastrous to shipping in
be vicinity of the coast. To-day the sea
ran high, the platform leading from the
road 10 the beach was washed away, and at
one time it looked as If considerable dam
age would be done. The sea also ran very
high at Block island and at Narragansett
pier, preventing the leaving of the steamers.
Atlantic City, N. J., SPECIAL: The waters
surged and foamed and dashed the sea front
until the fears Of the people were wrought
up to high pitch. The total loss will not
be less than $75, 600. Long before high
water, which WAS at 6 O'Clock, the board
walk began to wash away, and by high tide
the higher beach along the center of the city
was q mass of debris. Bath houses, restaur-
ants, photograph galleries and stores with
dwellings attached, which were built 30 fal
from the surf that it was thought no sea
would reach them, were undermined and
carried bodily into the ocean and beaten by
the waves into fragments. All railroad
tracks between here and Absecom, except
the Jersey, are submerged.
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The large number of failures this year
have shown the need of a national bank
rupt law. and it is hoped that a good
law may be enacted at the next session
of congress. All the large failures have
been Of firms with business of several
states and the operation of local insolv-
ency laws is not likely to conduce to the
outstanding of the resources ofthe bank
rupt and the just satisfaction of credi-
tors. Our experiences under the last
bankrupt law was long enough to furnish
the basis for it's improvement and per-
lection and this work should no longer
be neglected.
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Doctors Distractions.

In enumerating the trials physi-
clan has to put up with the Hebrew
Standard says: eff he does not come
Immediately when sent for he takes
things too easy; if he sends in his bill.
he Is in 9 terrible hurry for money II
he he. visits HE patients day, il is to
fable negligence. II he orders the
medicine. it does no good; II he changes
the prescription, he 70 in league With
the dzuaEGf. nhs 0Ges aay Al IL %.
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another steam boat Horror

The steamer Riverdale, having on board
about fifty passengers bound for Peekskih
and intermediate points on the Hudson,
blew up on the 28th, in the North river and
sank almost Immediately after.
Accounts OF the number of passengers vary
from 50 TO 200, and of killed from ten to
ty. The most trustworthy accounts place
the humber of killed at from three to six.
There is reason to believe nearly all had
chance to escape. Among those killed were
Mrs. Julia Lisson of Tarrytown, N. J.,
Ca :rles Lisson, Der grandson, W. B. Che.
e., Thomas Gregg of New York, Jonn
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-09-06

Judge Lawrence, first controller of the
treasury of the United States, expresses
the opinion that the postal telegraph
system is more popular than any othe,
proposition to reduce tolls, but that it il
very possible that bill will be passed
to reduce the present and establish a
uniform system of telegram
tolls as the company's are now managed
II was suggested to Judge Lawrence
that the constitutionality of bis PROPOSE.
ton that congress has perfect right to
regulate the tariff charged by telegram
companies as:they are now, had already
been raised on the ground that the GOV.
eminent had no right to interfere with
private business. "Oh, that is
fo'ly," replied the judge. Great mo-
nopolles and corporations are
very prone to fall back on the constitn.
ZION when congress speaks of interfering
on behalf of the Masses There is no
trouble abont the constitution, Congress-
mas a perfect right to say how mucl, tolls
may be charged by the telegraph com.
panies Judge Lawrence says. and ev-
erybody will agree with him that it Is
an outrage that the company, which was
IN IaW common carrier, should be al
Ioweo g Jake property worth $l5, COO. OOO
water It to $500 10000, then tax the
community to pay large dividends.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-09-06
STYLE A polite SCIENCE.
Who are Responsible for Changes In
Fashionable Dress?

-
Who are Responsible for Changes In
Fashionable Dress7
1t 10 IN open question whether fashion
varieties arc the results Of caprice In the
origiustors or careful regard for the mean
between the extremes of public opinion.
There is much good reason for bslievise
that style is really . polite science. an east
ly determining method OF reaching into the
mystery of society and analysing the con.
ditions of buma nature. We take the 20.
sition that style is not individual. but pop.
ular; that lie to say, the fashionable differ.
ences encountered in successive seasons are
not the DEGREES Of arbitrary autocrats of The
millinery aud dress.devising world, but are
the products of balancing of public opin.
ion.
The history of the dress sustains this by.
pOthesis. especially that portion of the his
tory c0incident with the freedom of news
paper utterance. The fantastic liberties t.
seem 10 he the offspring of an cratic en-.
deav0r to strike q novelty, but 1t will be
found, almost invariably, that the changer
are due to criticism Of already existing
styles. There can be no more mistaken no.
ton than the sometime complaint that
women pay no attention to public opinion
in matter of dress. Public opinion Is their
guardian.
The effect is not always instantaneous.
since in the very nature of things it cannot
oo. But 1t uniformly happens that where
there is unity of censure upon any folm
Of dress, that form ~ speedily retires from
elegant and refined adoption as is consist
ent with 1.-THE understanding ola positive
expression of opinion. It needs but q
glance back over few years to prove this.
rtence Of dress in its obedience to the dicta-
:orship of changer 1t is not altogether cleer
that the devotees of fashion are the capric.
tous ones, with no settled ideas of What
they want. Is it not, after all. public opin.
ION that is SO cratic and variable? Arc not
the newspaper critics or censors of fashion
directly responsible for the multifarous at
.empts of fashion makers to invent some
thing that will give delight to determined
fault fndersP
The ladies show a most admirable readi-
ness to adopt every new essay at gratifying
sense and taste. They put on loose or tight,
short or long, deoolette or high. necxed
dresses, a. they como into supremacy, with
che purpose OF making themselves not only
agreeable TO sight but to avoid seeming to
cling to garments! that have been decried
ny masculine malcontents. There Is no
tangible remady against the misfortune
OF dress. 1t follows the wake of the gen.
eral taste, and the general taste is supposed
to represent the highest form accepted an
excellence for the common good. It IN
not fair to assert that styles alone arc
Whimsical, when their critics cannot be
pleased because Of finicial notions-Cor-
respondence Chicago Inter Ocean.
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The CASUALTY RECORD.
During thunder storm atFarihanlt I'll

During thunder storm atFaribault, ILL.,,
on the 9Th inst, the flag staff on tho hose
tower of the engine house was struck and
broken OF, and the side of the tower burned,
At the office of DIS. Rose d Wood case OF
books was burned and portion of the room
was damaged to the extent of $500. In the
vicinity of Prairieville the storm was much
more severe. A barn on the farm of Ed.
ward Oliver was struck and burned, three
horses and young colt, with quantity Of
nay. A stack OF wheat on the farm of Rob.
ert Button, near Cannon City, was burned,
ana the house OF John Thompson, In the
damaged.
Prof. Davidson writes from San Francis
co that earthquake waves commenced on
sa"celite tide gauge at 10 O'Clock on the
morning of Ang. rs. They had increased
in height and were still exhibited Tuesday.
The height of the waves was one foot and
the time forty minutes. The Greats vere
remarkable. The disturbances were proh-
ANY caused by the same earthquake and
tidal wave that destroyed AMER and other
towns in Java, Aug. ~.
: A fire at Clinton, Iowa, recentIv do.
stroyed the vegetable canning factory of B.
q Co., with nearly all it,
opntenn; The f1re broke out at 1:30, and
the buildings were all abla1e before dis.
covely. The factory was outside If th.
city limits, beyond fire protection. The loss
II 5000 on buildings. Is, 900 on machinerv
and probably 5000 on stock, ipcludine
canned goods, cans, etc. There xas vnl1
81 600 insurance.
A gang Of section men on . hand car.
while rounding curve near LaMoille.
MIMI, on the morning Of the 9th inst.
discovered freight train coming close up.
on them. All Of them jumped and saved
tne,r hves except Charles Snyder, whose
real name il Matthias Cewoorski. He m
the section boss, and in trying to ave the
hand car he was killed. -
A Dire ct Wsmest Steam mills, To- well.
Mass., destroyed Parker q Ohsusy's bob,
bin shop. ]. q. Peabody q 6oa's door. -
* H. F. "