The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-10-07
NEWS AND NOTES.

Ablock Of warehouses was burned atLeicester.
England, Oct I, loss $50O, 600.
The old drm of Ravenna, at Royipo. italy. h.s
failed with liabilities Of 100000.
France regards King Leopold of Belgium.
visit to Emperor William with suspicion
George B. Fife, an Annapolis cadet, is on
trial Tor hazing son of ex-Secretary Chandler.
Bulgar1a's defiance of Russia, coupled with
Austria's attitude, Is creating considerable I'M
easiness among the powers.
The Paris Louvre has becn enlarged and
space found for many paintings and antiquities
hitherto thrown away.
Several members of the late Board of Public
Works of Cincinnati have been arrested on
charges of embezzlement.
Lieut.. Hem OF Galatea says he il satisfied
that Maynower can beat his vessel in any breeze
| In which she can carry her topsail
| The French Government is endeavoring to
| devise means for suppressing gambling In the
clubs, which has become great evil.
| An African Of the genuine original type is
said to be living in Gloucester County, Virginia.
| He was brought over to this country from AT.
RIGA in 1861.
as mustsche can be and live, and
his govt has again downed him without asking
pardon or leave.
Abdul Hand celebrated the 3lst Of August
the tenth anniversary of his occupancy Of the
Turkish throne. Very few of his predecessors
have rcigned so long time.
| Henry E. Abbey has cleared 100000 out of
his Bernhard venture In South America
| enough to lift him out of the slough of debt and
leave surplus Of several thousand.
Friends OF Mary N. Murfee, better known a.
Charles Egbert Csddock. deny publicly that she
10 to marry q Tennessee farmer. They also say
enc Will not marry any one else.
| The Cologne Gazette's London corresponds mt
| says: "Diesention has broken out between the
only two German Anarchist clubs in London,
and threatens to lead to Violence
The fringed gentian now adds its celestial
blue to boquets of autumn flowers, and the
| closed genliaD, more rare, delights the gatherer
| with its clusters of bud like-blossoms.
| Denis Kearney again lifts his unkempt head
to the surface of the political pool in San Fran
| cisco. Nearly $4,000 voters have asked him to
be their candidate for Sheriff and he has accept
ed.
Christine Nilsson is not yet married, not
! withdrawing all reports to the contrary.
| letter from her dated the 22d inst. says: I'VE
are still waiting for the dispcnsation of the
Pope
Maj. George S. Merrill, who recently retired
from the post-ofice in Lawrence, Mass, received
! his appointment from President Lincoln in 1861.
and had held the position continually since
| that time.
Capt. Hart, who nailed the flag to the mast
| at Fort Sumter, is one of the guardians of the
New York POst-Ofice. A charge of offensive
partisanship" in the past would probably lie
against IN.
| The leader of q company Of German swindlers
has been captured in H. mburg by London de-
| tectives. The sums realized by the swindling
Operations Of the gang are said to amount to
| l,5UO;OU0 francs.
| Archduke Joseph OF Austria has written q
| grammar of the language of the gypsies. It
bears the taking title Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
laaibc," and the Manuscript consist of 800 folio
pages, exclusive OF the title.
Dir. Richard Butler, Secretary of the Ameri-
| can committee on Bartholdis statue of Liberty,
announces that Oct. 70 has been decided upon
by the Government and the American committee
for the dedication OF the statue.
Henri Marteau, an 11.year-old violiuist, was
recently presented by the municipality Of his
native city, Rheims, with golden palmleaf
suitably inscribed. The young prodigy is at
present giving concerts in Berlin.
Emin Boy, who is a. German and whose real
name is Chmitzler, with 1900 Egyptians, is
holding Wadyly, forty miles south of Condo
kero, against hostile chief. He urgently asks
that provisions be sent to him if possible.
Gen. jackson, Minister to Mexico, received
fees to the amount Of $3.50, 900 in two railroad
suits at Savannah. There are no such fat pick
|
Minister'S dislike OF the diplomatic service.
DR.. Perry, a hotel proprietor at Saratoga, says
| the expenses Of his house during the season
are about Il, COO day. Judging from the bills
| rendered some OF the guests were Of opinion
the expenses must be about $l,OOO,O0O day.
| The once famous singer Adelina Speech, for
| whom AdeliDa Patti was named, died recently
in Rome: She was in her day considered the
! rival OF Ma!ibran, but her extraordinary corpu-
lcncy compelled her to withdraw from the stage
at the age Of "a.
! The man who marries woman simply be-
cause she is dandy arrangement to have about
the house does 40 from pure business stand
point, and, in the end, il not compelled to sup
port him, she has done better than many women
know of-Nasby.
Miss Rose Cleveland, it is now announced,
will not clothe herself in the Tyrian purple Of
Chicago, but will project he: editorial utterances
from the secluded haunts of Holland Patent,
where no Infatuated contributors will be permit
| ted to modest or make her afraid.
| Secretary Lamar lodges all questions about
| his rumored engagement to Mrs. Holt of Geor-
| gia. The Secretary is looking handsome and hap
| py in new and stylish suit of spice brown
! CLOTH The Secretary'e friends think the mar
rage will occur in November.
Lieut.. W. H. Scheutze, United States navy,
who was sent to the Lena Delta to distribute
the presents made by this Government to the
natives who rendered assistance to the Jeanette
| survivors, has returned to Washington and re-
ported to the Secretary Of the Navy,
The Princess Caroline Wittgenstein and Nine.
| Coeima Wagner have at last consented to the
proposed removal of the late Able LISTS re-
mains from Beyreuth to Buda-Pesth. and az
engagements will Immediately be made for their
transportation to the Hungarian Capital.
! Leipzig musical journal states that LISTS
posthumous pianoforte method, to which all
pianists hsve been looking forward so eagerly,
| is not complete In the manuscript. Last au-
tumn List had considerable correspondence on
the subject with his bographer, L. Ramann.
Mr.. Joseph Patterson Of Philadelphia has been
President Of the Western Bank for forty four
years. His speech at a meeting of bank officers
| in New York in 1861 resulted directly in the
| banks Of New York, Boston, and Phil adelphia
loanins the Government > $50, 0OO,0o0 during the
war.
The Journal de St. Petersburg learns that all
| the members of DR.. Radde's scientific expedition
are i'll at Askhabad, in Southern Turksstan. In
| other respects, too, the expedition has 80 far
! not been very successful, the collections havin &
| suffered greatly from the extraordinary heat OF
| the last summer.
Miss Calhoun, granddaughter of John C.
Calhoun, who went to London two or three
| years ago and went the stage, where she
achieved some success, has had play written
for herself. which is founded upon the life Of
Charlotte Corday. She proposes to bring it out
| In America this winter.
The Orangemen in Ulster provoked the Catho-
lies by insulting tunes and songs. One cong
which was frequently sung outside Catholic chur-
ches began, 'Slither, slather, Holy Water and
proceeded to enunciate the theory that it would
be profitable to cut the Papishcs asunder. While
1.-The Protestant Boys will carry the drum. -
Munich papers relate that Baron Hermann
Won Liebig, the son of the great chemist. re-
Gently got into stormy alteration with the
manager of vegetarian restaurant who had
posted in the show window placard deuounc-
ing Liebig's meat extract as the acme of hum
bug and rank poison. 1t is said the matter
will be brought before the courts.
Mr.. Uriel Croker of Cohasset, Macs, who
has lately completed his 10th year, enjoys alone
the distinction of having ascended twenty
feet above the top of the Bunker Hill honu-
ment, being used 40 a teet-weiGh to try the
tackle that was to put the capstone in place.
Through his efforts $4,000 Of the monumen:
fund was raised.
The welknown oculiet, DR.. Herman Cohn Of
Breslau. objects strongly to the safe ordinarily