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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-07-17
John MoFrissey's First Battle.

"The pugilist no longer seems to be a
factor in politics." said George Rock
wood, the photographer, to New York
Tribune reporter, "but it is not so long
ago that Morrissey held the balance of
power in New York. Did not know
Morrissey? Irather think I did. Let
me tell you little story Of long ago.
About the year 1850 I was living in
Troy. One cold, bitter winters night
when the snow already lay q foot deep
turned into the Alhambra restaurant
to have little supper after the theater.
Old Dave Smith, well-known colored
man of Troy, was sweeping out the
front room before closing the place for
the night. As stopped to chat with
him for moment a large, overgrown
boy made his appearance in the half
open doorway. He was dressed in a
pair of trousers, ragged shirt, and
shoes the uppers and soles of which had
long since parted company. On his
head was bit of fiat cap. May I
come in, boss ?" he asked of Dave, with
SILVER. Come erlong,' said the old
darky, Il wouldn't turn dog out OH
SIGH night The boy skunk in and
went into the inner room, where there
was large stove with q roaring fire in
it. Stretching his huge bulk before it
was the noted town bully, Jim ODon-
aid. What are you doing here, you
loafer 2 said he, with an oath, as he saw
the boy. At the same time he struck
the lad and sent HIM flying over a chair.
'The gentleman outside said I might
come in,' gasped the boy, as he recov-
cred his feet. Gentleman, indeed! So
you think that black nigger's more of a
gentleman than I amp said the bully.
Yes, I do, answered the boy. I know
you, Jim O'Donald, and if you want to
fight, I'll fight YOU At first the bully
sneered at the proposition, but after the
interchange of few words he said he
would take the lad at his word. We all fol-
lowed the two outside for they had before
this been sent to the outer regions by
the proprietor of the restaurant. It had
stopped showing and a ring was formed
in the center of the road, just opposite
the Alhambra, and the two went at it.
When the rough-and-tumble fight was
over the two principals were lying on
| the ground some two hundred yards
farther down the road, and the bully
O'Donald was knocked senseless.
"Then the policeman came from be-
hind the trees where they had been
watching the fight, aud proceeded to
run the fighters in. Among the spec
tators was brother of Isaiah Rynders,
the noted founder of the Empire Club.
He walked up to the boy and said |:
whats your name, Bub?" John
| Morrissey,' answered the boy. Well,
Johnny, you go along with the officers
tonight, and I'll see you through in
the morning He was as good as his
word. He paid the boys fine of $40,
put a good suit of clothes on him, and
sent him down to his brother Isaiah, in
New York. That was how John Nor
rissey entered the ring, and that was
the first and last prize-fight lever saw.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Washington News.

Secretary Lincoln says Green county, Tex,
belongs to Indian Territory. Troops are driving
OF settlers
J. W. Haugue. Pittsburg, has been disbarred
from practice as pension attorney before
the interior department His offense con-
sisted in receiving illegal fees.
Representative Calkins of Indiana, will start
for his home on Saturday. He will locate at
Indianapolis about the LIST Of August and re-
signs his seat in time to have his successor
elected in November
Mrs. Mary T. Holabird, wife Of Quartermas-
tor General 8. B. Holabird, died Thursday
afternoon. Mrs. Holabird had suffered for =
long time from the disease which finally
proved fatal, and had borne the trial with
Christian fortitude. Mrs. Holabird was be-
loved, and will be sincerely mourned by large
circle of friends
Secretary Frelinghuysen has received from
the consul at Marseilles the following telegram:
''The situation at Toulon is unchanged, four
teen to seventeen deaths occur daily from
cholera. Marseilles is worse. The deaths
since Friday inclusive were Z, II Is, q, q and
% Last night p died in twelve hours. No
emigration to the States is reported"
The secretary of the interior he's requested
the secretary of war to cause the arrest Of
Capt. Payne and such of his party(reported
number |, 100 or 2, OOO), now upon the Cherokee
outlet lands in the Indian Territory, as have
violated tho revised statutes and to expel all
other intruders now upon the lands before the
movement and assumes more formidable pro-
portions.
Daily postal Bulletin: Postofices discon-
tinued- Mnnesota-Assumptio Carver coun-
ty. Wisconsin-Oswego. Shawano county.
Postmasters commissioned Edward J. Price,
Rockwell City, Iowa; Charles Payne, Kings
Corner, Wis. New of1ices-George o. Sven
yioletta Cable; at Gable, Sherburne county,
Minnesota; John T. Jefferies, at Elliston, Deer
Lodge county, Mont
The Washington monument will be the high
est work Of man to be found in the world It
has reached 44 feet and the enormous weight
of W,0Oo TONS The highest point reached by
logne, which Is $50 feet high, and was COM
pleted in 1882. The Washington monument
will be $50 feet high when completed. The
tallest of the great pyramids is only $50 feet in
height. The monument will be capped with
pyramidal peak tifty-five feet high Visitors
on each of the four sides 500 feet from the
ground
Mr.. Cox of New York is here working for the
letter carriers. He will hold consultation
with the president and postmaster general, and
hopes to effect an adjustment of matters that
will enable the carriers to get their fifteen
days leave OF absence. He says he doesn't
think there will be any trouble about the mat
ter. The carriers will get their seven days now
anyhow, and the balance before they are out;
but he thinks there will be no trouble in ar
for no vvE01 do
the go, 600 appropriated for the purpose is
not sufficient, the balance will have to come
out of the general appropriation, or come in
the form of deficiency.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-07-17
Dakota postmaster Gone Wrong.

Yankton, Special:-Last April Charles Hol-
lenbeck, postmaster at Parker, was charged
with embezzling 81 1926 Of United States funds
It seems that he got behind with his funds,
and to bring up his accounts he was in the
habit of making postal orders, which were
collected along the line by Wilbur G. Bower,
brother in law, and postal agent between
ssnborn, Iowa and Chamberlain, DIX: -, This hi
evitable discovery came, and Hollenbeck fed
to Jefferson City, No., and began subbing on a
postal route thereabout under his own name.
He was discovered and arrested by Special
Agent D. H. Pulcifer, who has arrived here
with his prisoner. Bower was arrested ut
Chamberlain. Bowers reputation has always
been unimpeachable, and it is claimed for him
that he did not know the orders were forged
He was arrested to be held as witness.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-07-17
A Sensation in the Chicago Times Once.
A petition has been filed in the probate court

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A petition has been filed in the probate court
at Chicago for the appointment ola conservator
for the estate of Wilbur F. Story, editor and
proprietor of the Chicago Times, proceeding
from the nephew, Edward P. Chaplin, and
states the mental condition of Mr.: Story to be
shattered, and that he is unable to manage and
control control his estate. In 1877 Mr..
Storey went abroad, and while So
journing in Germany he had paralytic stroke.
Subsequently he gave evidence of some i'm
provement, and was alternately reported to be
gaining strength and declining from time to
time but in the main he appeared to grow worse
physically, and it became a matter of unveri-
fed report that his mind was steadi-
ly losing it's strength. About year
ago he went to Philadelphia for medi-
cal treatment A few months ago he
returned to his home on Michigan avenue,
where he is now living. It was, perhaps, ow-
ingto the rumors touching the state of his mind
that his heirs decided to file the application.
He has no children, his only heirs at-law being
his brother, Arson L Storey, and the children
of his two sisters 1t is understood that either
Judge Lambert Tree, Gen. Singleton or Judge
I. Lyle Dickey, would be satisfactory to his
heirs in case the court decides that the ap-
pointment of conservator is necessary, as
the three were among his most intimate and
trusted friends.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-07-17
save the Chicks,

Fully one half the chicks are sacri-
feed to the carelcssness or ignorance of
their owners. Well may they say, with
the reported epitaph: IF so soon I'm
done for, what was begun for?" for
surely it is great waste to have the
little things Matched and then permit
them to be lost for want of care. Some
are killed with kindness; overfed and
fused to death. At this season they
are better without the hen as soon as
they are four weeks old. Having a
warm, dry coop they will nestle there
alone, and be free from the filth and
overcrowding ofthe hen. They should
be fed three times day, and supplied
with fresh clean water morning, noon,
and evening, and coarse corn meal. not
the cracked meal, but the ground meal,
scalded with sufficient water to swell it,
but not to make it mushy, is the best
food. Wheat screenings for change
and feed of crushed or pounded fresh
bone will be found healthful and salts
flying. Then a run in a grassy or weedy
field, where they can find insects and
some green food, will keep them in
health and growing. At 8 weeks old
they are large enough for broilers, and
just now sell for 40 to so cents pound,
or IS to so cents each. The poultry
keeper who has lot OF such chicks will
be the one who finds there is profit in
poultry.-New York Times.
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':ngaged."

Inc tram stopped for moment at
the little station of college town. The
platform was crowded with few stu
dents, and great many young women
unguarded by any matron, but pro-
claiming by their shrill voices, their
tossing chins, and every inch of their
pretty persons, from fluttering feather
to high-heeled slipper, that they
felt amply able to take care of them
selves.
A group of these girls entered the
car, and crowded into seats. They
were dressed as if for an evening party,
in silks and laces, with glittering chains
and jewels on their arms and Threats.
AS the train moved from the station,
they threw kisses, and filled the air
with ecstatic cries to their friends On
the platform, and before half an hour
had passed the passengers were in full
possession of many of THEN private af-
fairs.
"That was Mr.. Banks with the side
whiskers, En-. He's a soph. Only been
in town town two weeks, and knows
everybody. He's engaged to Fanny
why, I thought she was spoons on
Billy DOOM"
$50 she was, but he cooled off, and
she broke the engagement
"How often is young lady in your
set engaged, usually, before she mar
ries?" asked quiet, plain looking girl.
"Well, if she's belle, quite num-
Der of times. My rule is, don't firt,
but engage yourself. You see, while it
lasts you're sure of an escort, flowers,
icecream and pretty ring, and you can
break it when you like! Sophy Doom
broke off hers, although the wedding
day had been set. She has level head
The fellow said he should take a fiat
for her in Brooklyn, and he actually
said, he should expect her to get along
with one girl!'
These were not the daughters of the
lower class of men, as their vulgarity
might indicate. They were the chill
dren of professors, judges, even clergy
men; men of refinement and modest
feeling. But, according to American
custom, their parents had ''lct the
young people alone" and the young
people, feeling themselves rulers in
their little college town, formed
a clique, and erected their own
stand of thought and action If
they had lived in New York or PIlila-
delphia, they would probably have
dressed and talked more quietly, but
their ideas, no doubt. would have been
the same. "To be engaged" would
have been the height of their ambition;
to live an old maid fate worse than
death.
A silly American girl thus left to
herself marries too often to CRAFTY some
passing whim. If her whole life was
as paltry and shallow as her girlhood,
she would really suffer little But she
almost inevitably loves her children
passionately, and if the man whom she
has married, brings them to poverty Or
disgrace, she has no power through
love to restrain him, and no resource in
love to make life endurable.
On the other hand, what man worth
marrying wishes to take to his heart
and home girl whose smiles and love
have been the successive property of
"quite a number" of betrothed lovers p
Youths Companion.
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while vibrating, over tho course Of the
painful nerve.
One small red pepper or few pieces
Of charcoal placed in the kettle where
ham, cabbage, ETC., are boiling, will
tend to diminieh the odors proceeding
therefrom.
To remove tan and sunburn, cold
cream, mutton tallow and lemon Juice
may be used; for freckles, apply the
latter with camels hair brush.
Samples of material used to color
coffee were recently tested in Brooklyn,
N. T., and found to contain silesia,
chrome orange, yellow ochre, Venetian
red, charcoal, French chalk and gum
arabic. The board of health found
enough arsenic in each cup of coffee to
make full medicinal dose.
Blotting paper, satuated with q solu-
ton Of oxalic acid and dried, will absorb
the ink of blot and also the blot itself
if the ink is unmixed with indigo OF
anime color. Writing can be made
legible again by adding ferrocyanide Of
potassium or gallo acid.
DIR. Hall, in his Journal Of Health,
says: "The essential, the fundamen-
tai, the all controlling agency in the
arrest of any case of consumptive dis
ease, and return to reasonable health
for any considerable time, is an active,
courageous and hopeful outdoor life,
in all weathers and in any latitude, with
some rousing motive, other than regain
ing the health, beokoning them on, to
do and to dare.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-07-17
Farm Notes.

Recent frosts have injured the grow
ing crops to some extent throughout the
country, but not so much as was at first
supposed.
Wisconsin's dairy products, the lar
gest of any State in the Union, amount.
ed last year to $40 500, 600. There are
in the State one thousand creameries
and cheese factories and 100000 COWS.
A Maryland poultry raiser thinks
that pint of epson salts to q half peck
of meal, fed to chicks, is the best rene
dy for gapes.
Mr.. George H. Lee, Greece, N. Y,
has averaged thirty five bushels of wheat
per acre on 1OO-acre field, and some
times on smaller surfaces harvested as
high as forty eight bushels per acre.
Mention is made in The Poultry World
of farm where Leghorn fowls are kept,
only hens which lay large eggs are bred
from, land as natural result all eggs are
of good size."
Cucumbers intended for picking pur
poses need not he planted till July.
The land for them should be such as
has been we'll cultivated the year previ-
| Gus, and the manure should be fine and
we'll rotted. In order to guard against
the attacks of birds and insects an ex-
cess of seed should be used, thinning
out the extra plants after they are up.
DR.. N. H. Paaren, State Veterinarian
of Illinois, we'll says that the periodical
epidemic alarms" do great injury to
cattle interests, and he reminds those
who start such reports that "the pluro-
pneumonia scare of q few years ago was
the cause of England placing an embar-
go upon our beef"
There is a strong feeling in various
portions of the United States in favor
of the total abolition of fences. It is
stated that the cost of the maintenance
of fences annually in this country is not
far short of $50, 600, 900, pretty snug
sum if it might be saved to the farmers.
It is estimated that there are 5000 900
miles Of fencing in all in this nation.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-07-17

Congressman Ochiltree is man of
Asistic exuberance. Here is cross Sec
ton of one of his speeches the other
day: "Nine-tenths of my constituents
for the past twelve years have been en-
tertained with a tropical fertility of
promise and Sahara sterility of per-
Torrance by the government engineers. !"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-07-17
Profits Of Poultry.

We hear great deal about the diff
Guilty Of making poultry pay when kept
in large numbers, and numerous fail
ures to do 50 serve as warnings to
uovices thinking of undertaking the
really difficult, though apparently easy
enterprise. That with tho right sort
of knowledge and q fair amount Of
gumption it can be done is, however,
shown by tho example Of d. W. An.
drews. of Essex County, Mass, who,
in . note to Us, thus epitonlizes his ex.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-07-17
WStoz114 Plants.

Yes, during q dry spell, you may
water your tomato, egg, pepper and
other plants tonight and tomorrow
night they will appear as thirsty and
the ground about them as dry Is ever.
But in the morning after watering, if
you stir the soil . little, aud mulch the
plants with some rank manure, salt hay,
lawn-mowings, or other come stable
material, the earth will retain the mois-
ture you gave it, the plants will be
much benefited, and you vii not have
to water oftener than once week where
before you had to do 50 every even
ing. In the case of young stuff, as let
tuce, beets, and radishes in rows, give
them lots of water in the evening, and
run long-toothed iron rake between
the rows in the morning, and they will
respond most cheerfully to your indul-
Renc0.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-07-17

The woman suffrage bill was defeated
in the New York assembly by the close
vote OF 62 nays to 81 yeas. Twenty
seven democrats and thirty republicans
voted for the bill, so it appears that the
question was not one Of party.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-07-17

perienos: II started poultry keeping
In 1868. and II took mo , few years to
get the hang Of the business; but now
1 am master Of ii, and can make il IL
ways profitable. In 1872 I had 500
hens, and my total receipts from them
were 81, 1906 40, while their feed cost
me 81, O99. 70, leaving clear profit of
81, 196. Ga over the outlay for feed. In
1881 I had 1900 hens; my total re-
ceipts were a 1876; the feed consumed
cost 81, 656, leaving . clear profit Of
81, 1902 for my labor. Tho profit de-
ponds on the grain market, tho egg
market, and the skill of the poultry
rpiser." He closes with the remark,
which has more than once been made
in our columns, that it is absurd to be
sending abroad every year vast sums in
payment for eggs, while the business of
producing them at home lis perfectly
simple, honest, healthful and profit
able"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-07-17
1raiai11 Tomato Plants.


Most growers agree that keeping to-
matoes off the ground is . great ad-
vantage. Stakes or trellises arc now
used to great extent to train them
to. A common way is to train to single
stakes of about four feet in height tying
the plant to the stakes as it grows.
This is little or no improvement over
the old way of letting them lie on the
ground. A much better plan is to set
the plants in rows of three or four feet
apart, and the plants three feet in the
row. Before setting the plants, dig out
couple of splits of earth, and set in
three branches of trees-twiggy ones
are best-in triangular form, with the
tops spreading outwards. Set the
plant in the centre of this, and as it
grows keep the shoots inside of the
stakes by passing string around them
There is no better way to get good,
clean fruit tomatoes. As everything
generally has some disadvantage with it,
so this way of growing tomatoes is not
perfect. When the plants are allowed
to run over the ground they keep the
soil cool and moist. It follows that
tying up to stakes produces the oppo-
site effect, and the plants suffer the
sooner from summer droughts. This
can be easily remedied by mulching
around the plants with something to
break the suns rays. If nothing else is
at hand cornstalks answer admirably.
Tomatoes produce such mass of foliage
that they require much moisture, and it
is surprising how they thrive when by
mulching or other means the ground
is never allowed to become too dry.
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The port Of Mongolia, on the Black ses, il
closed to vessels from French and Mediter-
rsnean ports. Such vessels are subject to
eight days quarantine.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-11
A Wonderful Artesian Well.
From the Denver News.

Denver has struck another bonanza
900 feet underground. It does not
create as much excitement as the Pts.
gah mountain fraud, but the sickly den
liens of the foothills stand show Of
being benefited. It has been shown
by analysis that the water from the
900-foot vein of the artesian well, to
which the county commissioners are
sinking in the court house yard, pos
sesses the same properties as those Of
the famous Spa water in Germany. II
is impregnated with carbonate of iron
and carbonic acid. It is free from all
organic impurities, and contains, fur
ther, many of the most famous qualities
of curative waters. The water flows al
the rate of 2,100 gallons per diem, but
it's pressure shows that it can be raised
in pipe to the height of 12o feet
above the surface. The main flow
yields 5000 gallons per diem, and car
be raised seventy-one feet above the
earth
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-11
A Queer Sheep.
From the Philadelphia Times.l

From the Philadelphia Times.l
In the center of O'Connor's Kensing-
ton rat pit last night stood stout,
short-legged sheep, with his neck en-
circled by brass collar and his black
nose sheathed, in kid muzzle. His
name is Brum and he was there on a
wager made by his owner and trainer,
"Stone" McAlister. Between fifty and
sixty spectators were present. Last fall
McAlister, who is a sporting butcher,
A day or two later he saw the sheep kill
rat. The act saved Brum from being
converted into chops. His owner re-
solved to train him. Under training
Brum improved so rapidly that Nc
Alister made five matches in which the
sheep was to kill rats against time. The
first match came off last night, Nc
Alister wagering 800 that the sheep
would take the lives of forty rats in
sixty minutes. In the betting the odds
were against the sheep and McAister
and two or three friends made wagers
right and left. George Tatnell was
chosen referee and timekeeper, and at
9 o'clock the forty rats were emptied
out of cages into the pit. The rats
scampered about the pit, the referee
called time and McAlister let go of
Brum and vaulted out of the pit leav-
ing him muzzled.
"The muzzle The muzzle! Take
off the muzzle, Stone," shouted half a
dozen men.
"He don't kill 'em with his mouth, :"
replied McAlister, seating himself COM
placently on the raising of the pit, and
adding: ''That sheep'll fool you all. !"
So it proved. The sheep, without pay
ing the slightest attention to the crowd,
made two leaps to the corner of the pit,
in which dozen or more rats were
huddled. Then raising himself upon
his hind legs, he brought the carefully
sharpened hoofs of his forefeet down
like fash in the pile of rats. This
was repeated five times in almost as
many seconds and the dead bodies of
eight rats lay on the floor. Facing
about Brum gave shrill blast and
darted across the pit to another nest of
rats. There he repeated tie stamping
and strewed the pit with dead rodents.
At the end of nine minutes there were
but thirteen rats alive in the pit. These
Brum chased with the pertinacits and
determination of bulldog and killed
them one by one. The fortieth rat was
slaughtered in exactly thirty-four min
utes from the moment Brum was loosed.
Several times during the match rats
fastened their teeth in the leather
muzzle, but the sheep easily shook
them off.