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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-07
As just now an English lord has set

As just now an English lord has set
the fashion of the rich and great
taking an interest in the very poor,
the most terrible discoveries have been
made of suffering, disease and neglect.
The movement has spread from London
to Paris and other large centers of popu.
]ation; and has appeared III due time on
this side Of the water. The American
explorations have proved that the ad.
vantages this country offers to the poor
man have not been over estimated.
There j. much poverty of an extreme
character unearthed, but nothing that
compares with that found in the lowest
levels of society in other lands. And our
very poor as rule, are foreigners, who
ere contentto liveas they have been &C.
customed to do at home. If the foreign
element and the victims of their own
vicious practices are subtracted from
the total Of misery, the showing is q
very encouraging one. Native Ameri.
cans do not accept poverty and squalol
as . permanent etate and are restless till
they have found a means of lettering
their condition,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-07
Minnesota Convicts Returned to
Prison.

The convicts from Minneapolis and Wi
mona were returned to Saltwater Friday the
1st, and Friday night all were locked up in
their old quarters with the exception of
those confined in the county Jail at the
Saltwater coHrt house. There are thirteen
there, including the Younger brothers.
They will be continued in their present
place of confinement for few days, as sew.
eral of the cells are not yet in a proper con-
dition. The four women will remain tenn
pola,ily at Hastings. DR.. Pratt, the prison
surgeon, made a thorough inspection of
the cells, and pronounced them in excellent
condition, warm and dry, AMI ready for &C.
cupation without the slightest danger to
the health, even of the ill convicts.
Adj Gen. Mccarthy visited Saltwater, and
finding that the cell blu lding was ready for
the reception of the convicts, issued general
order No. 4. dismissing the troops frOlA serv.
ice at Saltwater. The men were ordered to
return to their respective qusrters. and the
officers OF each company 10 repo t through
their commanding officer rosters of the men
performing service at Saltwater, hours of
duty aud details for detached sslvice. To
the colonel commanding and tie officers and
men OF Companies A, b. G, ID. E, and K
was expressed the commander .ir, ch lei e
high appreciation OF their servic. s, and his
commemorate for their promi tness snd eff.
cheney in the performance OF the arduous
duties entrusted upon them. The order was
signed by the adjutsnt general, by command
ct the governor.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-07
The National Park Bill.

The Senate committee on territories fin.
ished its work upon the Yellowstone rark
bill, and ordered. it reported with amend.
ments: The bill as amended enlarges the
park thirty miles on the east and ten miles
on the south, and cuts of two miles on the
north and west. The bill contains stringent
prohibitory provisions relative to the kill
ing OF game or taking fish within the park.
The secretary of the interior is authorized
to lease small portions of ground in The
park, not exceeding ten acres for each tract,
on which may be erected hotels for period
not exceeding ten years, but such lease
jects of curiosity or interest, or exclude the
public from free and convenient approach
Their to. or include any ground within a
quarter of q mile of any geysers or the
Yellowstone falls, nor shall there, be leased
more than one tract not exceeding ten acres
to any one person, association or corpora
ton.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-07

Caleb Closson, who settled in Cannon Civ
in 1855 and was q member of the legislature
| in 1862, died in Hartford, Todd county lsst
week IN his eighty. fourth year.
Four saloon keepers have been arrested
in LIE Seuer for selling liquor to minor and
habitual drunkaros.
The Rev. Mr.. Reed OF Rochester. bso.
tized four persons on late Sunday even.
ing.
The first known case of trichinosis in
Wabasha county occurred a few days ago
in the family Of Christian Schmidt, West
Albany. on3 of whose daughters, twelve
years old. died of the disease, and four 9TH
ers of the family are now SICK with it,
Fresh pork, With q little salt spread upon
it, was eaten raw, and the daughter was
first seriously attacked with what DR.. Pat
ton Of Lake City pronounced to be trichin-
osis, his diagnosis being confirmed BY mi.
croscopic Investigation Of the pork, which
contained about ninety thousand trichir;e
to the cubic inch.
3 81. n. Sergeant, prominent resident of
the town of Sargent, Mower Co., died sud
denly on the 18th from the effects of rheam
atism. He was an old settler in this county.
naming the town in which he lived. H1s
age was seventy six. but he was vigorous
for his years. Only the day previous to his
death his son brought home bride.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-07
A Rascally Postoffice INSPECT,

A Rascally Postohice Inspector.
Detailed reports are coming into the post
Office department of frauds practiced upon
postmasters by Postoffice Inspector L,nier.
removed from office recently. The Office at
Mobile was defrauded to the amount of s27O.
the Jacksonville $500. the Pensacola 500
the Houston fl25, the Atlanta $3.50, the New
Orleans $3.50 and the Selma, Ata., $500.
Other points not yet heard from that Lsnier
is known to have visited are expected TO
swell the figures considerably. he also
holds $40 belonging to money order
funds. Different plans were pursued by
Lan1er to obtain money from postmasters,
but his favorite scheme wss to appear be.
fore the postmaster, present credentials and
ask q loan from the postal funds to aid
him in an attempt to arrest criminals. Il
is said at the department that the postmas.
tiers must Lose the money, as they are not
authorized to expsnd postal funds in the
manner above described. A deputy from
America.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-07
German Trichinosis.

The special commission who investigated
the outbreak of trichinosis in Elmerslaben.
saxony, have made their report. The
town contains $50 inhabitants, Of whom
257 contracted the. disease. For years q
large proportion of the people had been in
the habit of eating raw minced pork spread
on their bread for lunch, in the belief
that meat is more nutritious raw than
when cooked Suddenly an epidemic az
peared, which attacked one-third of the PEG
pie, % per cent. of the cases proving fatal.
None OF he remedies prescribed by the doc.
tors had the sl;ghtest effect. The disease
ran q. Course Of from three to eight weeks,
proving the most fatal among the older
people. While there were numbers affected
who had cooked their pork before ealing it,
it was noticed there was notS single fatal
case among this class. The conclusion IL
that in period Of years there vas one LOT
OF diseased pork received to which the cpl
demtc was due; but the fatalities were oil
swing to the common habit OF eating m eat
raw,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-07
PECULIAR MINNESOTA WEATHER,
A Meteorological Review Of january, 1884,
Shows 1t to Have Been the Most Remark.
able Month OH Record.

A Meteorological Review Of January, 1884
Shows 1t to Have Been the Most Remark.
able Month OH Record.
The meteoric conditions at st. Paul during
last month were the most remarkable onrec-
ord The lowest temperature, 81. 5 deg be-
low zero, is . deg: lower than the lowest
january minimum for the last ten years, and
the highest, 45 deg, is above every maxi
mum Of the month for the period named
above except 1870 and 1880. Occurrences
still more remarkable took place on the 18th
and Doth, for rain fell on both occasions,
But one other instance of rain in January is
on record, and that fell in 1880. The
monthly mean temperature, 10 deg, is con-
:deIably below the average Q2.4 deg) OF
the last thirteen Januaries. The month was
decidedly warmer than January. 1873 mich
warmer than that of last year, and slightly
SO when compared with the initial month Of
1873. 1t shows no margin at all over the
same month of 1881, and falls considerably
De the Januarys from 1872 to 1855
The total rainfall, including melted snow.
WIS o.4S OF an inch The average of the last
fourteen yanuarys is 1.31 inches. deficiency
last month of O. So The monthly mean bar.
o1acter, 80. 195 inches, corrected to ssea
level, is decidedly above the average. and.
with the exception of that for January. 1878
is the highest Oh record This instrument
was free from extreme changes or rapid fluc-
tuat!ons, consequently the wind movement
was very mode1ate and the month in cues
ton passed by without single gale or near
was had on the 9th, the direction being
southeast, with velocity Of twenty-fouI
miles an hour: OF ninety three observations
Of the wind, taken tri-daily at $3.50 a. m. and
LOG and 9:56 p. IN, it was observed blow
ing from the north times; southeast, IL:
south. Z; southwest. IL; west, %; north,
west, is; and .calm II times
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-07
Fred Douglass on His Recent Mar.
rage.

" ,hiogton Spscial:-Fred Dougla IS,
speaking of his recent marriage says:
Idont see Why there should be any com.
ment. 1t is certainly not any event of pub
lie moment. It seems that the ne wspapers
would present to the eye of the public curl!
osity. ard to those too, which every man
holds dear and sacred, the ala rs of the
family. can give no explanation. can
make no apology. do not presume to be
q leader of the colored people. III have
advocated their cause it is not because I am
negro, but because am a man. Mr.. Lin.
coin and Mr.. Sumner were leaGers of the
coiored people far greater than can ever
hope to be. They were both white men.
What effect, theD, can the affairs OF nv
private life have upon my principles of iue-
tce? have no political aspirations. lam
getting we'll along in years now. and wish
only to live quietly and peaceably, doing all
the good Can. All this excitement, then.
is caused by marriage Of a woman = few
shades lighter than myself. If bad mar.
RED . black woman there would have been
nothing said about II; yet the disparity of
our complexion would tave been the same.
| have been associated with the lady who
has become my wife for some time rast.
came to know her we'll, and was pleased
With her. and she, hope, with me. con-
adopt the theory that in time the varieties
OF race will be blended into one.
Mr.. Douglass stated that the disparity In
ages had teen exaggerated The lady hes A.
tanned her forty sixth year. 3
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-07

There was rumor in New York las,
week that Jay Gould was financially EN-.
barassed, and friend hurried to Gould's
office to learn the truth of the story
Gould took him to a vault in the mer.
camille deposit company and showed
him one package of Western Unior
stock to the amount Of 81, OOO, 900; cert.
ficates of $40, 100000 of Missouri Pacili,
stock, and other large packages of good
interest paying securities. These, to.
gether with vast sums on all of the
banks, showed that Gould was not in Q
bad financial strait, and is not likely tc
come to poverty just yet. Gould pro.
poses to prosecute those who circulated
reports that he was financially embar
barrassed. He has remained silen
about many scandalous charges but the
last was too much. It upset his equan.
imitv
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-07

The opinion which Lieutenant Ray, of
The signal service, gives upon the utility
Of A.ctic expeditions is expert evidence
IN support of the verdict which the pub.
lie passed upon them long ago. Lieu
tenant Ray has commanded such an ex.
petition himself, and out of his expert,
ence says they are the most senseless O
conceivable undertakings; that it is ut.
terly impossible for any ship to reach sc
degrees north, and that there would be
nothing there for it if it did.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-07

A steamer is to be built at Buffalo
during the coming spring and summer,
which, it is expected, will do much
toward restoring passenger travel on
the great lakes to the proud position il
held before the day of railroads. The
new vessel is to be about thr ee hundred
feet in length, built of steel, and
designed to attain a speed of eighteen
miles an hour, making it possible to
cover the distance between Buffalo and
Duluth in about three days. AS the
route between these two cities is az
short by water as by land, such vessel
will have little to fear from railroad
competition during fine weather, and
will no doubt do much to give the lakes
the popularity among tourists which such
magnificent bodies of water deserve.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-07
FIFTY INDIAN l1AIDEN6.

Daughters or tho Prairie Go 70 Pitts,
delphfs After m Education.
Philadelphia Record.
The family of twenty.three Indiar
girls who have been living for some
time past ct the Lincoln Institution,
Eleventh street, below Spruce, was in.
creasSd to fly on Thursday afternoon
by the arrival Of twenty-seven girls from
the Indian Training School at Carlisle,
Pa, from which place they wore sent
by order Of the Interior Department Of
the United States government. The
fifty who are now in Philadelphia will,
IN the course of few weeks, be joined
by twenty-five more, which will COM
plete the number to be taken care Of
| in this city.
| The new arrivals are apparently per-
fectly satisfied With their new quarters.
They ranged in age from six to twenty
and were all neatly dressed and wore
scholars are divided into two divisions,
each of which goes through q regular
routine of study and work daily. They
rise at 6 clock, and after breakfast one
division goes to the school-rooms and
studies from o'clock until noon. the
other girls spending these hours in learn
ing to sew, cook, and attend to the gen
eral house work of the institution.
In the afternoon from 1 o'clock until
the second division attends school,
and the first is instructed in the useful
branches just mentioned. Each day the
scholars are taken out for an hours
walk, but as a general thing they do not
like this, as they are very sensitive
about the attention they attract. On
Sundays they attend divine service at
tie church of the Ascension. The hours
when they do not have to be in the
school-rooms or at work are spent in the
.p'ay-rooms pf the institution
Some of the girls are very clever at
making dolls, which they decorate with
beads: bits of metal and strips of bright
flannel. During the day they are
obliged to talk to each other in English.
| But III the hour that inter venes between
supper and bedtime(S p. n.y. they are al
| lowed to converse together in their
native languages. This, however, is i'm
| possible i'll many cases, as they repre-
| sent a number of tribes, and do not un-
| derstand one another's dialects. Prizes
! are given at the end of each month to
lAOoO WIZ nave tdihcO EuSllsI only
during that period, and they make rap
I'd Roadway in learning the language.
They are reported to be bright and
quick at their studies.
Among the tribes represented by the
fifty now at the institution are the
Pawnees, Sioux, Cheyennes, Conaches
Disgers, Osages, Omahas, and Della
| wares.
A large number have Christian names
and civilized surnames. but some are
still known by their Indian surnames
with a Christian names attached, the
effect of which combination 10 often
rather amusing, as in the following
cases: Bessie Big Soldier, Edna Eagle
Father. frankie Bear, Ella Man Chief,
Maud Echo Hawk, Fannie Crow, Eunice
Bear Shield, Sarah High Hipe, Lizzie
Spider, and Olive Battle.
| The majority Of the girls will remain
in Philadelphia five years.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-07
Senator Wilson's Little Romance.
Washington Correspondence New York

Senator Wilson's Little Romance.
Washington Correspondence New York
Sun.
The election of Judge Wilson as SEN
ator from Maryland is we'll regarded
here. He was en- inveterate snuff TAX
or many years after the practice had
been tabooed in good society, but finally
compromised by giving up his snuff. box
and making an arrangement With q de-
serving woman, who kept q shop in
Snow Hill, to get a pinch. whenever he
called at the store for it. Mrs. Knox,
who had been IN better circumstances
before she kept the shop, had a pretty
ard refined daughter, who had been ed
ucated, and was lady in manner and
department.. The mother died. Think
ing Judge Wilson staid old widower.
and adapted to looking after a pretty
and friendless girl, she had left her
property in the judges hands, asking
him to look after it, and to be mindful
OF her daughter, an orphan.
The judge settled up tho estate, &C.
cured her little patrimony to the daueh-
ter, and finally succumbed to her beauty
and merit, and married her. The match
turned out most happily.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-07

Bradstreet's Journal furnishes the fol-
lowing commercial summary; At nine.
tenths Of the cities covered by special
dispatches. it is noted that an improve.
ment IN the condition of general trade
has taken place recently. This gain in
the movement Of merchandise is not
marked, neither does it point to boom
in any particular line; but it varies the
monotony of months past by the record
that buyers are increasing, that inquir.
les are numerous, and in several depart.
ments of trade purchases have been
fairly liberal; in short, that early signs
OF the approach of spring trade have be.
gun to show themselves.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-07

There was q time in this country
when it could be SAID that honest laboc
of any kind was not only respectable in
fact, but was regarded and treated as
such bv people of every social grade.
Forty years ago the farmers daughters
in New England went out as hired help
IN their neighbors' families without q
thought of degradation, and the same
custom prevailed almost every-where in
the rural portions of the northern states.
Yankee girls who were ambitious to
make higher wages than they could
get in the kitchen went to the factories
at Lowell and other places, and many a
mortgage on a homestead among the
bills was paid off by the aid If the
daughter who worked in the mill.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-07
CONDENSED NEWS,
WASHINGTON Newa Mitch.

~SuSu&tOn news notes.
Mr. Hewitt of New York has Introduced ,
bill providing The: It shall be lawful for the
proprietor of any newspaper to register In
the office of tie librarian of coner7ss the
name or title thereof on TIE payment OF SO
ard 1t shall not Is necessary thereafter to
Iurnlsh eoy subsequent COPY of the publ
cation for the purpose OF preserving the
copyright of said name or title, 10 case of
the period of tbreo months, the right to the
said name or title shall cease. It might be
question for the courts to decide whether,
under the !. st sentence, it the bill became q
law. a hyphenated Newspaper could pre-
vent rival newspaper from being estab.
llshed, using one of the names of the con.
soIidated Journal a.ter the three months
lad expired.
One OF the most elaborate schemes fot re.
duolng the surplus in the tteahery, is in the
hanss OF the srb r3hlmittee OF the house
committee On education. It is proposed to
assist the states and territories in The nro.
motion Of education by distributing among
:hem q fund Of nearly s6e ,OCA. Goo to be
doled out at intervals Of :htse years during
tne next tEelse Years, the apportionment
% be made upon the basis of iiliterate pop
uIaHon between the ages of ten and twenty
years IN the states, and bet ween six to TWEEN.
y years in territories. Iowa would get
32e50s and Minnesota $l83 $50. But
there is scarcely possibility Of it, passage.
Mr. Wsshburn of the house presented the
claim Of William J. Hazsn for 1900, on &C.
count OF dspredet;ons alleged to have been
con- mitted by the Chippewa indians. MI.
wakefield has a re.clntion which he will
offer directing the secretary of the interior
to INFORM the house by what authority
large tracts of lard in Mobiles and Book
counties, Minnesota, were certified to the st.
raul q Sioux City Railroad company to
supply deficiencies IL tie constric ion of
their road from st. Paul to Dakota.
Postoaaces Established-1ows: Balluff
Scott county; Oakville. Louisa county. Mon
tara; DrummoEd, Deer Lodge county. Post
masters Observation-Disclosures K. Hast
ings, Carroll, lowe; Perry o. Babcock, Mon
4cello. Iowa; Henry Kemper Perham, MINI.
Joseph ID. Wagner, Rochester. Mimi; Dav.
id f. WEIGH, Raraboo, wis: William N
MtQueen, Fort Keoeh, Mont: Thomas Bal.
er, Prairie du Sac, VII,
Hon. Milo White will introduce , bill in
the house granting pension OF 81 Der
month to all who served in the armv dur
ing the late war who were not disabled, and
~ per month to all who were disabled bv
reason OF wounds resolved while in the
service. VAC
1t Is rumored that Gen. John Coburn Of
Indiana, viii! be appointed Territorial Judge
OF Dakota. He is good lawyer.
Inc senate confirmed James A. Connolly
attorney Of the United States Southern dir.
tr;ct OF Illinois. .. o'''
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-07

Bancrofts is declared by critics to be
he only history of the United States
worthy the name, and that does not
each down to the civil war ana the his.
DRY of the great rebellion has not been
written and cannot be for hundred
Years to come. 1t seems strange to many
hat histories cannot be written when
events are freshest, bat such is the fact.
lime is necessary to oblterate passion
md prejudice which have no place in
what is djgniied as history.