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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-08-28

The number Of arrivals during the
year ending with June 80 was sos, 1884,
which is 81, 400 less than during the
preceding year. and 26o,5s6 less than
dnr'ng the year ending with June, 1882,
IN which the tide reached high water
mark. Though immigration continues
to fall oil, the new corners are sufficient
in number for healthy assimilation with
our people and institutions. An excess
rs quite as much to be deplored as q
suspension OF immigration for brief
period.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-08-28

The San Francisco Bulletin says !;
A few years ago it was enough to say
OF any kind Of manufactured goods pro-
duced in this State that they were
California made" That brand insured
the highest quality. Blankets and all
kinds of WOODEN goods made at home
had an especial advantage from that
fact. Probably this advantage holds
good to-day. When q new article of
home manufacture was put upon the
market it was great help to the sale
to show that it was actually made in
California. It would follow as mat
ter of course, that it was the very best.
But the Bulletin alleges that this high
opinion of California products is not so
generally entertained now as formely,
owing to inferior articles having been
put upon tho market. This is espec-
tally true in regard to canned fruits,
canned salmon, etc. Many of these
goods have been unsatisfactory to buy
ers and consumers. In the matter of
canned fruits, the lowering of the.
standard, even by few Gamers, has
been a very damaging business. It has
lessened the demand for canned fruits
where the demand ought to be rapidly
increasing. Fruit growers are already
much concerned at the apparent limit
put upon the market OF course.
one of the methods of relief is to
dry the fruit. It is said that there can
he no limit to the demand for dried
fruit. But here again the same law of
demand prevails. It is always for the
best. A very large demand abroad has
been created for canned salmon. The
demand finally began to decrease rap
idly. The inquiry disclosed the fact
that many brands could not be depend
ed upon. They actually stood for goods
which had little or no commercial value
when exported. Careless packing, poor
fish, and an apparent indifference about
maintaining a high standard ae to quail
ity, had wrought the evil. The Bulletin
claims that California still has the
best fruits and the. best salmon,
that the demand for the best is
still increasing, but the whole mischief
has arisen from greed and indifference
TO the reputation Of sending abroad the
best in tho market.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-08-28
Pound a Pass.

Omaha, Special Telegram:-News has been
received that the Burlington K Missouri road
has found a tunnel on the Greeley, Salt Lake
4 Pacific road, at Dart pass, northwest of Carl
bon, Col This pass is the lowest and most
feasible for railroad over the range for dis
lance of seventy miles north and south. The
Burlington l. Missouri have force of men at
work in the tunnel, and have cut over ten miles
OF timber on the grade of the Utah, Salt Lake
Pacific, and will have the line cleared from
Rollinsvi!le to the tunnel, and ready for the
graders in short time, and will then push
westward
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-08-28

The possibility of gold bringing =
slight premium in the future has led to
discussions of the past, and the fact is
stated that the currency price of gold
reached its maximum ON July IL, 1864,
when 1t touched 285 on the New York
'otock Exchange-that is, 1886 in cur.
rency was paid for 800 of gold coin.
Nothlng approximating to the above can
occur again, save under similar circum
stances which are not likely to exist
during the life of the nation
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-08-28
0t. Vtncont 1appr.

st. Vincent Mimi, Special Telegram:-h-
ter . suspension Of two months the Manitoba
will resume the running of trains into St Vim
cent on the 18th, giving the town the same
railroad privilegesit had before the petition
for the removal of the custom house.
The resembling Of the petition has been
the means of getting the road back and
the question Of removing the custom
house will, it is to be presumed, never again
cause St Vincent any trouble
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-08-28

There are forty-nine vessels, nearly
all British, in the harbor of San Francis
co under engagement to transport wheat
to tho British Isles. They are all of
large tonnage, ranging from 1000 to
5,OOO tons, and all iron vessels. There
Is now 111,0O0 tons, Of disengaged
tonnage in port, against $4,000 tons
. year ago. and 24O, 900 tons on their
way engaged to come, against 800, 600
tons ut tbs time last year.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-08-28
An orchardist at Santa Barbara. CA

An orchardist at Santa Barbara, Cal.
according to the Independent of that
place, has over 5000 fruit trees under
cultivation in single fruit ranch, in
Guiding 1000 olive trees, 1900 orange
500 lemon, 500 lime, 10000 almond,
1000 walnut, $500 apricot, apple,
peach. pear, cherry, nectarine, and plum
with 2OO japanese persimmon, besides
figs, loquats, and plums.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-08-28
ALL ABOUT HORSES.
An Interesting Chat With IN Expert IL
Equine Excellence.
From the Boston Globe.

From the Boston Globe.
II suppose" said well-known hors,
dealer yesterday, "that for carriage
horses there's nothing finer than Eng
lish Cleveland bays We have some
in this country, though they're scarce
an gen'ally called coach bosses. They
are called as they are cause of their bay
color and black points, an average of
sixteen to seventeen hands high. The
first one ever see see in Canada, an
imported one. They are high steppers,
have small head an arching necks, an
are of good style an appearance, their
trotting action is from the shoulders,
and pair Of EMIL rattle of a heavy
barouche in fine shape I tell you. A
good pair would bring from $4,000 to
1000; but you can't get many of them
for they're not to he had. Have the
right kind matched mp close, and they
would bring almost any price--such
fellows as Vanderbilt would buy 'em. "
Some people soy that the French
coaching stations that are brought ~
this country have too much of the Per-
cheron, or cart horse strain, in them.
Do you think 500"
"No, I don't. There is no better bred
horse than a genuine French coaching
stallion, an l believe Dahlman, of New
York, has done as much as any man in
the country to improve American bosses,
both coach and draft. He's brought
over this year thirty-one coaching STALL
ions, besides his Norman stations.
They are mostly chestnuts, and very
high knee actors, standin' IS to 164
hands high. He has 'em in New York
State, Ohio, Illinois, and Michigan.
They sold as high as $500 each.
Dah(man bought 'em of the French
government, for those are tho very best
to be had. He also brought over thir-
teen mares. They are such bosses, you
know as you'd stop to look at on the
street; high knee action an lots OF style,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-08-28
Husrsts OF Poreden Hsv,.


Postmaster General Fawcett of Great Britain
has informed the various steamship companies
that the present arrangements for carrying tho
year.
The infant duke of Albany is to be chris
tened at Osborne before the queen leaves for
Scotland The prince of Wales and tho crown
prince ofGermany are to be godfathers and the
queen will be godmother:
London dispatch says: Salvation army
riots occurred recently at Worthing, the dis
turbance being so great that the riot act was
read: Dragons from Brighton we're ordered
to Worthing, and succeeded in dispensing the
assallants of tho Salvation army. Several ar
rests were made
An Ottawa special says that in few days
Sir David MACPHERSON, minister of the interior,
will leave for the Northwest in great pomp, and
be accompanied by large retinue Of servants,
the majority of whom will be government
officials. After visiting the Northwest he
will probably resign his portfolio, now that
ne has been knighted, the height of his am
bition.
The Pail Mall Gazette says: "China will not
issue declaration of war, but will inform
France and the neutral powers that she will
regard q repetition of the Kolung incident or
any attack on Chinese territory, as an sipso
facto declaration of war; China will ask the
other powers, and especially England, to be
strictly neutral The English colony at Hong
hong has been the base of operations against
Tonquin. China expects that in case of q
French attack the English colonists will be
warned and their duties as neutrals quite slls-
tanned. The Chinese will Immediately cross
the southern frontier and invade Tonquin"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-08-28
Of Iowa The defendant appealed to the dis
trict court


3sesoaal Points.
Mr.: E. G. Barnett, renominated by the Georgia
democrats for secretary Of state, is ninety
years old, and has held his present Office since
John Leisemang died at Philadelphia He
was we'll known engineer, president of several
coal companies and . presidential elector on
the Republican ticket
h. B. Norton Of Dallas, Tex, attracts consid-
cradle attention at Waukeshs, Wis, having al
lowed his hair and beard to remain uncut in
keeping with VOW to never shave or cut his
hair until Henry Clay was elected president
Commander schely, Of the Greedy relief OK
petition stated privately that the remains of the
late Edward Israel Of Kalamazoo, meteorological
OF the Lady Franklin bay expedition, were in.
tact. The relatives did not allow them to be
exhuMed
John G. Calhoun, nephew Of the great multi.
fer, was married four years ago to young
lady in st. Louis, whom he left after few
months, she going to the Sisters Of Charity
Now John has returned to his wife and Q re-
hnification has occurred.
The marriage Of Francis Stout Of New York
to Miss Emily Meredith Read, daughter Of Gen.
j. Meredith Read, ex-minister to Greece at the
residence of the latter, was an exceptionally
brilliant AFFAIR. Both parties have distin-
guished ancestry and high station.
Gen. Leroy Pope Walker, dead at Nashville,
was irstsecretary Of war in the JEFFERSON Davis
Confederate cabinet, and gave the order for
firing on Fort Sumter: He was president of
the constitutional convention Of 1875 which
framed the present state constitution of ALBANIA
Mrs Kate smuskey OF Belle Plaine, NJ Y, is
lying At deaths door, having, according to her
fathers solemn assertion, abstained from food
for 100 dogs She occasionally takes little
water in her mouth, but does not swollow it as
it causes commissions. She is terribly enact
ated She recognizes her callers and carries
on conversation with them, and is perfectly
conscious Her body is in constant motion, 50
much so that the bed upon which she lies has
to DO supported for fear that it will fall to
pieces by the constant vibration
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-08-28

'"A0n vAoA0h1y Ill, anu Wo youngest, about
two years DID, died in horrible agony. On be-
ing interviewed, they say the sausage in ques-
ton was sold them by a st. Paul firm. They
think the sausage healthy, and still continue
it's SALE DR.. Erhert, the attending physician
is making careful analysis of the sausage
At st. Vincent, the Metropolitan hotel and
the post Office building were burned r. G.
Desantel, the proprietor and manager of the
Metropolitan hotel, had an insurance of S.
40 on the building and furniture. He
will rebuild at once. Postmaster T. A. Van
etrum had an insurance of $3.50 on the build
ing alone, and estimates his loss at $500.
The Minnesota 4 Northwestern is securing
right OF way through Mower county.
An important arrest was made in Minne-
.apolis by s. G. Seaton, the chief detective of
Des Moines, Iowa, who has been employed by
the whereabouts of one A. D. Sly VINO stole
last September the sum OF $lO,S5O from the
| company while serving them in the caDacity Of
driver of their delivery wagon from their Of
| fee to the railroad depot in the CITY of St
Joseph, Mo.
William G. Miles, the salesman Of Mavo 4
Clark, of st. Paul, who fell on the sidewalk
some eight months ago and was taken to st.
| Lukes hospital, died Saturday night at the hos
| pitaL
Hon. L Fletcher and wife, Of Minneapolis,
| will soon leave for the East, and from there
| proceed to the Pacific coast, where they viii
| remain for some time
Mr.. J. Sherbenau was brought to his fathers
house at Owatonna Friday night from Wiscon-
sim He was engaged by W. c. fryer in con-
structing the Bankers and Merchants tele-
graph line, and while on q pole it broke, throw
ing him about thirty feet, and breaking his
recovery ia doubtful.
| The Rice county Democratic convention in.
structed for Donnely.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-08-28

Mrs. W. r. Murray, of Lake city, delighted
numerous friends with an exhibition of night
blooming cereus with six magnificent blossoms
uponlt The same plant unfolded two blossoms
on the previous evening
During the heavy thunderstorm on last Satur-
day afternoon the house of John Remier,
farmer of Eden Prairie, Hennepin county. was
struck by lightning and the owner, Just enter
ing the building by the front door, was violently
thrown to the ground and seriously injured.
The bolt finally entered the cistern.
William B. Kinder, of Waseca, died of con-
sumption at Vevay, Ind, Aug IA, and was
buried Aug 16, beside his father at his home
at Hamilton, Ohio. He studied law in the
Office of Louis Brownell at Waseca, and
graduated at the Cincinnati law school, and for
several years past practiced law as member
of the firm of Brownell & Kinder, at Waeeca
Demg the son-ln-law of his partner, Louis
Brownell.
A man named Millette, was drowned about
one and one half miles northwest of Crooks
ton last Saturday evening while fishing
Kinsella Bros. 4 Gleason, Mankat, mor-
chants, closed their doors.
Mr.: VS. Hammond was elected principal OF
the Mankato high school. Mr., Wilbur Thurs
ton principal of the grammar school, and Miss
Elsie DWyer as assistant in the high school
Mr.. Owen, the Waseca brickmaker, was
stopped by two tramps the other night an1
searched He had neither money nor ysluablcs
with him and they let him 70.
The first annual fair of the Rice county Agri-
cultural society will be held at the fair grounds
in Faribault Aug. rs, 81 and q
Will N. Armstrong won the St. Paul lawn
tennis championship.
William B. Winston. of Oak Park, Mimi,
was run over by an engine at St Cloud, re-
Gently and died from the injuries which he re-
ceived The remains were brought to St Paul
by special train. :.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-08-28
REPUBLICAN, POLITICAL NOTES,

Tho Irish bolt for Blaine continues ut Du-
buqua
Connecticut Republicans nominated Henry
B. Harrison for governor
The Dubuque Telegraph, Irish Catholic,
has gone back On Cleveland
At the Dayton soldiers home Investigation,
Gen. Patrick exposed correspondence between
Gen. Rosecrans and Gen. Franklin showing the
investigation was ordered largely to aid the
Democratic party this fall
A G: Pierce (colored) was nominated At
Greenville for congress in the Third MISSISSIPPI
pi, or what is known as the "Shoestring' dis
trict, by the republicans, defeating Hon John
Il Jenerds, present representative; 1t is
thought ex-Gov. James l. Alcorn will be the
Independent republican candidate
George W. Lucas, president of the Young
Mems Democratic club of Dubuque, and also a
member of the executive committee of the
Cleveland and Hendricks club, sent in his res
ignation for the reason that he intends to sup
port Blaine and Logan The club of which he
is president, containing 40 young Irishmen,
intends to organize into . Blaine and Logan
club
Gen. Grant: The letter Of acceptance writ
ten by Mr.: Blaine is q document which all re-
publicans should take great deal of pride.
have read it over carefully, and regard it as
one of the most remarkable political papers
ever written 1t is like the writer, frank and
open. 1t is beyond doubt one Of the ablest "a
pers ever given to the public.
A Saratoga special says: Several of the
leading fnanclers of the country have been in
secret consultation here during the past few
days. They have resolved to trust Blaine
through at any cost A plan of operation has
been practically agreed upon, and all the heavy
campaign.
The New York Herald expressed the follow
ing opinion of Governor Cleveland, in its issue
of March g. 1888: Governor Cleveland has
cast his lot on the side Of the great corpora
his chances for futur political preferment on
their favor
There were conventions in all Nebraska
congressional districts last week. In the First,
at Beatrice, j. NJ Weaver was renominated by
reclamation; Second at Hardings, James
Laird renominated by SO votes to 50 votes for
elector; Third, at Columbus, G. W. E. Dorsey
was nominated on the fourth ballot, after q
spirited contest
Non0l"A OauAoA OlCA1ees WHO ud eHecuvo
campaign work for the Democrats four years
ago, says that Cleveland is dead weight on
the Democracy, and adds: Il must confess I
have little confidence of Democratic success,
and certainly no enthusiasm. How can any
Democrat be enthusiastic over Cleveland?"
Smith M Weed, of New York City, has been
officially appointed as one of star-chamber,
dark-lantern committee to conduct tho inside
management of the Democratic campaign. He
is q fit member of snch a cahal Ia zoo o1o
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-01-26

Il will be noticed that tho average
rainfall for the four months was less
than ~ inches, and the total average
only little over y inches.
The other unpleasant thing in this
outlook IL that this is Il Q seventh sea
son since the last one Of drought, and
that il It should not be dry one. It
will be the first break in tho regular
periodicity Of drought since 1919.
There IL certainly ground for grave
apprehension. A gentleman Just up
from the interior Of California last
evening said: IF we don't get rains,
and heavy rains, too, very soon. there
will be almost total failure Of crops.
The ground In dry and dusty, and far
msrs are already discouraged" The
Alta. always conservative and usually
relisble, thus closes the article from
which We have CLEANED the figures given
herein: 1--WE would MT be regarded ~
assuming to be weather-wiss much
leas would We desire 70 be considered AZ
croakers. In common with all others,
10 hope for generous rainfall, abund
ant harvests. we'll fed focks and herds,
and year Of prosperity. The record
Of preceding years furnishes, however,
their grim array Of fRures-whioh We
have given-that in measure seems to
threaten 70 blast these hopes. or Al
least furnishes food for thought and
study for all Of us, aud possibly may 60
far 10 settle the question mooted by
some scientists, in regard 10 the claimed
rsmarkable periodioity of our glorious
climate.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-01-26

The temperance question il before
the New York Legislature in the Shape
Of concurrent resolution proposing a
constitutional amendment prohibiting
the manufacture and sale Of liquor. and
Of bill which provides for high license.
The 6rst, of couras, has not the sliehest
chance Of passing; but IL 10 intio atsd
that both branches Of the Legislature
are likely TO favor. she high liosuse
measure. In it, principal features the
bill 10 copy Of that enacted lstslv ~
tho Illinois Legislature. II Axes the
fee for the general sale VI all liquors. at
t500. and for tbs sale Of ale and bees
only q t26O per anuum. Il II, however.
only made applicable to the cities Of
New York. Albany, Brooklyn and Buf-
falo. These cities viii, however, afford
oil nsosssary opportunity to test the
eflaoacy Of the law in restricting the
number and improving the character Of
places where liquors arc permitted 70
h aold.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-01-26
Many posT-IN1EluGEnCFR.


Worse than the cyclones, tornsdoes
ana hurricanes Of Kansas snc MINNIE
sota. or the SHOWS, arctic temperainre
and bIizzards II Dakota are DREADED
bv the denizens Of those localities. do
the people Of favored California fear q
failure Of the n~ce4 sirs rainfall. And
veil they m ~, for drought meas de-
collation. and ruin TO thousands OF PEOPLE
in her great and other vie f,uitf1! Val
leys. There il great alarm Gov felt
that the present year viii De disastrous
on tkis account. and unfortu3' tsiy the
record of annual rainfall since l545
seams to warrant such apprehension.
This record shows that since that time
every sixth or seventh yeAr hss been
one of drought. The average annual
rainfall of these periods Of SIX or seven
yssrs has Bsen from IS to 10 inches, OF
which seven or eight inches fell in Sep
tsmbsr, October. November and Decem-
bsr. There have since ls43. excluding
the year 1883, BEEN but sit seasons when
the total rainfall for those months vas
Les than three inches, and the average
annual rainfall of these six seasons was
bat 1882. This season for the four
months the total rainfall has been but
2.s2 inches. The inference reluctantly
deducsd by the Aita-vhich has been
st the trouble TO collate and repro3uce
the records that it 10 strongly to b.
feared that another dry season IL i'm
pending. The only exceptions TO the
rule that q meaesr rainfall in the
months named Was followed by drought
are the years 1854 and 1879. in which
years, although less than three inches
fell In those months. abundant rains
succeeded, insuring good harvest
The years Of drought in California have
S>1>o A fnilowe.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-01-26

Dr.. 8. @. Webster. Of st. GATHERINGS,
Ontario, Canada, writes this journal a.
follows:
Al there are number Of as going TO
ssart for tie Pacific Northwest early
next spring, ve should like to get from
yoo a few points regarding your city.
How many Of q population are there
Are there many wealthy families resid-
ing in and around your city: Have
Won much farming laid in Jour comfy
How many railroads IL your city
healthy What does farming lands
sell for close TO the city? How many
dentists are there ia Seattle Do you
know Of a good opening for firyt-class
dental operator En closed you Will
find six cents in stamps Please send me
a c-py Of your daily and weekly papers,
and greatly oblige
We will briefly answer the interro2a-
tories of our correspondent
First-The population of the city was
1853 in 1sa0, Gas in 1883, and fully 900
in 1884, the past year having been one
of extraordinary growth.
Second-The wealthy people here are
quite numerous, and the town itself u
one Of the richest in proportion TO pop
ulation in the coantry. The people
paid last year taxes on property valu-
alton Of over $500, 0O-an average
per capita of $500. No other town
vest Of the Rocky Mountains can say
az much.
Third-There il a great deal sf the
very best agricultural land in TINS
King oounty-hundreds Of Thousands
Of acres.
Fourth-There are three railroads
all, however, belonging TO the same
company or combination.
Fifth-This IL as healthy place Al
can be found anywhere.
Sixth-farm lands near the tswn sci
all the way from SO to 500 an acre
the price depending upon the charac
ter Of the soil, proximity tn the city
and the extent Ut the Improvements.
Seyenth-Four dentists find constant
and remunerative employment in the
city.
Eighth-With tho addition of 400
more souls TO our population, expecte.
in 1884, there will certainly be room for
at least one more dentist, and the bet
ter operator there is, the more room.