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The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05
FROM WASHINGTON.

The census Office on the 27th made
public the first results of the eleventh
census in relation to State and local
finance. The reports show that the
principal of the several State debts at
the present time is $685. 679, S17, and the
debts of the O. 500 counties in the United
States is $3.50, 734, ,95g, against $1o4, 493,-
752 in 1880.
In the United States there were 40
business failures during the seven davs
ended on the goth ult., against 222 the
previous seven days. The total number
of failures in the United States from
January to date is 4,767, against 5.o44
in like portion of 1889.
On the 29th ult. BENJAMIN Hawkins
(colored) was hanged in Washington
for the murder of his wife.
On the SOth ult. Decoration day was
generally observed throughout the coun-
try. At Cleveland monument to the
martyred President Garfield was dedi-
Gated, President Harrison assisting in
the ceremonies, and in New York the
cornerstone of the Washington memo
rial arch was laid.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 3lst ult., :g-
gregated u$l, O75, 275, 165, aga nst 81, 800, .
$50, 235 the previous week As COM
pared with the corresponding week OF
1889 the increase amounted to 48.
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05
WEST AND SOUTH


KANSAS Republicans will meet in
State convention at Topeka September
BISHOP KATzER at the convention of
German Catholics in Milwaukee on the
9th charged the Masonic fraternity
with seeking to destroy religion. Reso-
lutions calling for the repeal of the
Bennett law were adopted.
A NATIONAL Greenback conference
will meet at indianapolis, Ind, on the
9th Of August
FLAMES on the 9th at Rathdrum, I.
T., destroyed the entire business por-
lion of the town.
NORTH DAKOTA Democrats will hold
their State convention at Grand Forks
July TO-
OVER thousand acres of wheat with
in three miles of Goshen, CAL, were
overf1owed on the 9th and would be q
total loss owing to rise in the neigh
boring streams.
On the 9th the Waring Brothers.
Company, manufacturers of fertilizers
and farming implements at Elkton, Md,
failed for 100000.
THE ten days session of the Baptist
National Anniversaries in Chicago
closed on the 28th with an immense
meeting in the Auditorium building,
where it was announced that the $500, :
600 necessary to secure the $500, 600 Of
fered by MIR: Rockefeller for the build
ing OF Baptist University in Chicago
had been raised. ,--.
RESOLUTIONS were adopted at the ses-
sion OF the Baptist Home Mission Soci-
ETY. in Chicago on the 9th favoring con.
stitutional and legislative safeguards
for public schools, the encouragement
OF education, opposing tho appropriation
OF public funds for schools under secta,
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
a ThuNDERsoLT.

q Causes > Greas Dlstarbanos e n.
Emrry'a lsesidsnss.
During storm the other morning
Dr.. and Mrs g. w. Emery had pecni-
lar experience sat their: home in Min.
neapolia One fash OF Lightning was
seen by the residents in that yicinity, hut
that was not seen by the doctor or Mrs.
Emery. In place Of it they were
startled by crash which the doctor
says sounded like the report. Of 1 can
non. He thought at first it was q gun.
and when he got his voice, which for
sock him temporarily, he asked Mrs.
Emery II she were shot. The LADY
pointed to the telephone, but . second
later went into swoon. ltwas learned:
later that the lightning had run in on
the wire and completely shattered the
telephones. 1t burnt thewirecomplete.
" and scattered the thread covering al
around the room. Mrs. Emery received
a severe shock, as did the doctor, but !
little son who was in the room at the
time got off with 3 bad scare.
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05
Crimes Bred in SaloOns.

Is there any thing especially mean or
wicked in these days in which saloon.
keepers" do not figure? If man is
murdered the saloon has somewhere a
hand in. If somebody unaccountably
'disappears" he was last seen in sa.
loon If election frauds come to light
the saloon is at the bottom of them. So
it is now in Chicago. Eight men are
indicted for bribery and other forms of
corruption ct the recent city election.
The principal msn amongst them is a
saloon-keepe. others are saloon
habitues, ana where bail is given it is
by saloon-keepers. We license these
denominations, apparently, that the
courts may have something to do, and
that politicians may have instruments
mean enough to do their dirty work
Chicago STANDARD.
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05
A Railroad President, yvlsdom.

President Corbin, of the Reading rail-
road, has issued an order to discharge
employees when found drinking or en-.
tering drinking places while on duty.
He has signified also that when an EN-.
ploye drinks to excess or frequents drink
ing places when off duty, the road will
get along without his services. Like
orders are due to railroad companies
and due to the public, to say nothing of
being real service to the employees
and their families. There are other
than railroad presidents who can afford
to direct under what circumstances
workmen shall not drink and under
what other circumstances they shall
not drink to excess In this, over.
seers In very many establishments
might combine business and philan.
thropy without unjustly interfering
with anybody's rights or liberties.-
Temperance.
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05

The city of New York has found out,
after three years. trial, that milk in
spectors really inspect The president
OF the health board of that city reports
that tho quality OF the milk sold in 1899
improved 46 per cent. over that of 1888
and 81 per cent. over that of 1887. The
amount of milk brought into the city
increased from 226, 52s 400 quarts in 1887
to 243, 047,6S0 in 1889, and of cream
from 4,497, $40 quarts to 5,436, $50. AS
suming that the report of the improves
ment In the quality of the milk is cor
rect, what lot of water the milk sold
in that metropolis in 1887 and 1888 must
have contained.
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05

pit until the last sinking comes from
which there 10 no resurrection but by the
trump Of God and at the Judgment day.
And now the woes Esnd the SORROWS
and the contentious and the wounds
and babblings are over-the red eye
sleeps-the tortured body rests-the
deformed visage is hid from human OBJ
servation--and the soul, while the dust
orumbles back to dust, returns to God
who gave it, to receive according to the
deeds done In the body.
Such is the evil which demands q
remedy. And what can be done to
stopits ravages and rescue its victims?
From Dr.. Lyman Beecher's .'Six.
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05
= uNLUCkY IN LOVE.

Broker Cattell Went to Ruin After His
- Sweetheart Broke Her Promise.
1t. is almost certain that the recent
flight of Broker E. j. Cattell, of st. Paul.
was due to an unfortunate love affair.
which drove him to desperation. He was
engaged to wealthy bellesresiding near
Central Park, but the day for the we'd
ding had never been set, as sCattelps
convivial habits were perpetual bar.
Finally. as he proved that he had no
control over his passion for drink. tie
lady broke the engagement. From that
time Cattell plunged into dissipation
and speculation and went rapidly to
ruin. His shortage was figured any
where from $50, 600 to SO, 900. i q. Z
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05

A SAVANNAH (Ga.) firm has on exhi-
bition at their office new plant in that
section. 1t is a species OF the tulip,
called the cologne plant, from the fact
that it bears berry about the size of
small nut, which forms when squeezed
drop of liquid that will make a fair
sized bottle of cologne, so powerful is
its fragrance. The leaves of the plant
are long and lance shaped. 1t grows
only in the shade and has to be kept
very moist There are probably not
more than three or four of the plants in
that section
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05
THlcKENED MEMBRANE.

One Of the Numerous Ailments Caused
eI by the Use OF Liquor. -
II you strip up IN orange, you ind 1t
divides into nice little sections, each
about the right size to eat, and inclosed
in special membrane, apparently for
that purpose. If you very carefully re-
move some Of that inclosing membrane.
you will find inside other little sections,
these divided into cells by more deli.
cate membranes still. Suppose, that,
by some process. all these mem branes
were to be made tough, thick and leath-
cry. Your orange would then be scarce
ly eatable. Occasionally we do come
upon thick-skinned, tough and dry
specimen that approaches this condi-
tiOn. But If the orange could feel, and
had life processes to carry on, and there
were interlacing nerves and arteries and
veins and joints which these membranes
inclosed, then you-would have some inn
age of a human body with its membranes
thickened and inflamed by alcohol.
Where the thickened membrane presses
upon nerve there is neuralgia or sci
atica Some organs are engorged, and
some are starved because the action of
the inclosing membrane is perverted.
Liver and kidney diseases are largely
so produced.
The celebrated Sir William Gull, late
physician to the Queen, whose loss all
Temperance people mourn, gave the
following evidence before the House of
Lords: alcohol interferes with tho
conveying of the food into the system,
and the public ought to know that Of
all the diluents or solvents for the nu-
tritious parts of food there is nothing
like water. 1t carries into the system
the nutriment in its purest form. I
hardly know of any more potent cause
of disease than alcohol; it causes dis
eased liver, which disorders the blood,
causing diseased kidneys, heart and
nervous system, besides being fre-
quent source of crime of all kinds. A
very large number of persons are dying
day by day, poisoned by stimulants
without it being known. Great injury
is done to health by the use of alcohol
in its various combinations, (as wine,
brandy, gin, rum, whisky or beer),
even in so.called moderate quantities"
BETTER QaY.
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05
CRAZED BY TROUBLE,

James, Quick's Awful Fate Drives His
Wife Hopelessly Insane.
Recently James Quick, miner in No.
9 pit at Tanner, attempted to- cross
under the cage road at the bottom of
the shaft, when the cage: suddenly de-
scended, crushing him to pulp. He,
was Immediately brought to the sur
face, but life was extinct. A messen-
ger was dispatched to apprise the young
wife of his fate, with the result that she
went violently insane and has remained
so since, refusing food and drink and
continually raving. Doctors the other
day pronounced her case hopeless, ow-
ing to her delicate condition. Quick
and his wife arrived from England
three weeks ago. - 's.' r Z gss.ss'
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05

A CURE for squirting, which is not so
nnslghtly as the method at present gen.
orally adopted-black goggles with a
hole in the center-is highly recon-
mended. Let the person afflicted take
any pair of spectacles that suit his
sight, or even plain glass, and in the
center OF one lens let him gum small
blue or black wafer about the size of a
ten-cent piece. The result is that the
double image vanishes, and the eye,
without fatigue or heat, is forced to
look straight, and with time and pa.
tience is cured
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05

A sPIR1TUAL1sTIC and slate-writer ar
rived in Atlanta recently. A person
who was convinced that she could not
do what she claimed paid her one dollar
for a seance in order to make case
against her for fraud. Judge Van Epps
has just decided that the claimant can
not recover the money because he knew
when he paid it that the woman's repre-
sentatiOnS were false
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05

The death of Fletcher Harper, OF the
firm of Harper & Brothers, leaves the
following living members of the famous
house: Philip j. A. Harper, the senior
partner, and his son, James Harper;
Joseph w. Harper, John w. Harper,
Joseph Henry, nephew of Fletcher,
and John Harper, a son of J. A. Harper,
who recentlv retired.
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05

A New YORK writer claims to know of
an agreement between five magazine
editors of that city to return unread by
the next mail any manuscript sent
them in the form of roll. He also says
that still other editors he knows even
refuse to open such manuscripts, but at
once pitch them into the waste. basket.
Many an angel will be turned away un-
aWares by these gentlemen.
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05

FIGURES by Robert Giffen, the En-
glish statistician, confirm the opinion
that emigration affords no check upon
tho population of tho United kingdom.
Great Britain has lost 9, 600, OoO by emf
grafton since 1858, an average of 243, 600
year, yet the population of Great
Britain has grown to about IS, 900, 600, a
gain of about 10000. 900 in the same
time. In the last four years the excess
OF births over deaths was 1,763, 600,
while the excess of immigration over
emigration is only 6s5, 600. There has
been gain. therefore, of a little over
4.ooo' 900 in the population of Great
Britain since 1885.
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05

MRS. CLoE OuTEN, colored woman
living near indianapolis, is probably
tne Oldest living woman in the world.
She does not know her exact age, but
from her story and the fact that her
daughter, who lives with her, is 80, it is
more than probable that she was born
in 176s or ITO, making. her now 12o
years OF age. She was born as q slave
in North Carolina The daughter with
whom she lives is her fourth child.
Granny Outen," as she is called, re-
tains her faculties in remarkable de-
gree. hears we'll and talks glibly. Until
within the past three years she has been
able to do considerable indoor work.
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05

A RUSSIAN ukase has just been issued
permitting the employment of women
on railroads. On the Trans Caspian
Line thora are fanalo station masters,
traffic managers, signal women, and
Doint women
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05

1T Is said that the common oowcatch-
or attachment to locomotives is about
the only article of universal use that
has never been patented. Its inventor
was D. B. Davies, of Columbus, who
found his model in the plow. Red lights
on the rear of trains. it is further said,
we're adopted at the suggestion of the
late Mrs. Swisshelm after a railway ac-
cident in which she had a narrow es-
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05

The use of points for purposes Of
punctuation is a comparatively modern
invention. OF the four generally used
points only the period (.) dates earlier
than the fifteenth century. The colon
(:) is said to have been first introduced
about 1485, the comma () some thirty
five years later, and the semi-colon (;)
ahOnt 1S70
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05
NOTES FROM EVERYWHERE,

VI oil Tue COuL1u0nLal countries Don-
mark drinks most per head of the pop.
ulation and Norway least.
THE Secretary of the State of Iowa
says: ''Of the ninety counties in Iowa
in 1888, there were ffty-flve which re-
ported no commitments to county iails. 81
IT is estimated that there are 100, ,0oo
total abstainers in Norway, and 200. 900
more who are friendly to the cause,
which is making gratifying progress in
that country.
AN earnest effort is being made,
headed by Mrs. Temple. wife of the
Bishop of London. to interest young
women of the metropolis actively in
Temperance work.
LONDON police district, the suburbs
not included, has 1885 dram-shops,
which, allowing thirty feet front fol
each, would make line side by side OF
nearly eighty miles.
THE chaplain of the United States
Senate receives $500 a year for his serv
ice. The barkeeper of the Senate res
taurant gets a salary of $4,000. This
may be measure of the comparative
values set upon spiritual and spirituous
refreshments by our legislative fathers.
Madison (Wis.) Mail.
SECRETARY WINDOW has stopped the
sale of beer to immigrants at the new
landing place which has succeeded
Castle Garden. If he could also stop
the robbery practiced by boarding.
house keepers on the newcomers he
would accomplish another reform
which is sadly needed.-America>
In Chicago some of the saloons have
fixtures that cost $4,000, but the road
to ruin is just tho same, no matter
whether you begin the journey on foot
or in carriage. The only way by
which the devil can manage to do business
is by making sin attractive. If he didn't
cover up his cloven hoofs everybody v
would detect his tracks and refuse to
follow him. Rams Horn.
A BRIGHT young Chicago workman
told a reporter the other day that if he
would take the trouble to look around
he would see hundreds of women and
children ''hacking bricks" every day
for twelve cents thousand, and added:
"You will probably find their men folks
at home rushing the growler, or at
some saloon drinking beer, talking
strike and damning the country"
ALL over the Protestant church of the
world, during the last fourteen years,
the use of unfermented wine at com.
munions has increased by three hun
dred and sixty per cent This is stated
on careful authority, in an English
journal. It is also stated in connection
with the London Temperance Hospital,
that DR.. Edmunds, it's senior physician,
has never once prescribed alcohol for
sixteen years; that treating cases OF
every kind without alcohol has proved
thorough success, and that the pre-
centage of cases cured compared most
favorably with the experience of other
hospitals.
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05

CORNELL UNIVERSITY will discontinue
its course In journalism. This step is
due, says President Adams, to the re-
organization of the department. of rhet-
oric and English literature.
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05

An English naval officer has invented
a pneumatic line-throwing gun, very
light and portable, which fires hollow
she'll bearing the cord to a wrecked
vessel or into burning building ON dry
land
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05
THE FAST.

MICHAEL SHEEHAN, emulating Steve
Brodie, jumped headfirst from a bridge
in Amsterdam, N. Y, on the 26th, the
distance to the river being thirty feet,
and was killed.
On the 27th the Presbyterian General
Assembly at Saratoga, N. Y, adjourned
to meet at Detroit next year.
The Legislature of Rhode Island on
the 27th elected the following State Of
ficers: John w. Davis, Governor; w.
G. T. Wardwell, Lieutenant-Governo
Ziba O. Slocum, Attorney-General; E.
D. McGuiness, Secretary of State, and
John G. Perry, Treasurer.
On the 27th the Congregational Sun
day-school and Publication Society held
its annual meeting at Boston. 1t was
reported that 53l new 0unday.scnools
had been organized during the year.
The accounts of c. A. Thomps on,
cashier of the insolvent Owego IN. W
National Bank, were on the 9th said to
be short about $500
On the 2Sth four generations of her
descendants joined in celebrating the
10th birthday of Mrs. Charlotte Smith
at the house Of her grandson in Brook
]yn. N. Y. The celebration was wound
up with music and dancing, and in the
latter Mrs. Smith participated.
Four men we're killed by the cars at
Putnam, Conn.,, on the 3Oth ult.
THE death of Rev. Father Jacob
Nagel, who was known as the oldest
priest in America, occurred at Buffalo,
N. Y, on the 29th ult., aged S6 years.
VERMONT Democrats met in State
convention at Burlington, VT, on the
29th ult. and nominated H. D. Brig
ham for Governor.
For the week ended on the 31st ult.
the percentages of the baseball clubs in
the Players League were: Boston, .656;
Brooklyn, GIT; New York, .54s; Phila-
delphia, .53l; Chicago. SIT; Cleveland,
.42S; Pittsburgh, .344; Buffalo, 1888.
The clubs in the National League stood:
Philadelphia, .625; Brooklyn, 900; Gin
cinnati, 800; Chicago, SIT; New York,
800; Boston. .46s; Cleveland, $40; Pitts
burgh, 300.
On the 31st ult.. Thomas NJ. Bayne
was renominated for Congress by the
Republicans of the Twenty third Penn.
sylvania district.
TIE death of John Thompson, mem.
ber of Congress from New York in 1857
SO, occurred in New Hamburg, N. Y, on
the 1st, aged 81 years.
AT New Haven, Conn.,, Mrs. Peter
Lovetsen and her three children were
fatally burned on the 1st by a fire
caused by the explosion of lamp
In the Hampton woolen mills at Phil
adelphia flames caused loss of 500, ,OO(
on the 31st ult. and the death of Frank
Mangelstrafs.
In the churches of Johnstown, Pa.
memorial services were held on the 31s1
ult., commemorative of the awful hood
of year ago.
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05

Locusrs are so numerous in some
parts Of South Australia that they cause
continual roar while flying, and the
country is being stripped of every thing
green by the Scourge.
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05

GERMAN scientists claim to have dis
covered the cause of dipht liberia. Toxalbu
men is the name given to the new
germ" }" and is described as snow-wbite
granular body, allied to albumen. When
INJECTED into an animals sore throat
ION the white membrane noticeable in
such cases, for instance,) a high fever
soon developes and death ensues The
dlscoverers claim that after such an ex-
pertinent the exact symptoms of .diph-
iberia can be readily noted. Toxalbu-
men is said to be the excretion of a
d1phtheria, bacillus obtained by filter
llqu1ds containing the latter's pure cul-
ture through argillaceous earth,
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05
Now Enterprise for Dututh.

The American Linseed Oil Company
at recent meeting decided to locate it's
new factory in Duluth. The company
says Duluth is the natural entrepot for
the flax fields of the Dakotas, Iowa and
Nebraska, and they will purchase their
raw material from these four States
They will erect mill having capaci-
ty of nearly 200 barrels a day and en-
ploying sixty mon. The plant will cost
over $3.50, 200, and the mill will manu-
facture oil, Hnseed-meal and coke and
cOncomitant products.
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05

The people Of Tom bstone, A. T., have
become convinced that their name is q
''hoodoo" and are agitating for change
to that of Richmond.
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05

THE town of Roswell, Lincoln Coun-
ty. N. NJ. is 2l6 miles from any railroad.
No other place in the United States can
saw as much. ss-s. -.--s..-.-~s -.-. 1.5
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE


A BOAT upset on the 9th at Potsdam,
Germany, and six army officers and sew
eral ladies were drowned. By similar
accident at Dantzig seven persons were
drowned
MEIssoN1ER's picture. "Napoleon and
His Staff. 1914" was bought by Mr..
Chauchard, of London, on the ssth for
$17o, 900, the highest price over paid for
an oil painting.
On the 2Sth farmer living near Cor
dova, Spain, refused to grant permis-
sion to servant to visit bull fight,
whereupon the servant murdered his
master and four other members of the
family.
TIE western part Of Cuba was visited
by a severe storm on the Goth ult., and
cities and towns were inundated, hun
dreds of buildings were wrecked, and
many persons were drowned aud others
injured. Large plantations were de-
stroyed and store-houses with all their
contents swept away.
AT Hamburg, Germany, five persons
were killed by lightning on the 3oth ult.,
and six children were killed by the fall
ing of swing at a kindergarten in
Reimsxindorf.
FLAMES destroyed the steamer Pach-
ing, plying on the Woosung river at
Shanghai. China, on the 29th ult, and
twenty-five persons perished.
Sofia, in Bulgaria, was swept by a
hurricane on the 1st, which completely
leveled the buildings in the north part
of the city and wrecked many struct-
ures in other portions. Eleven persons
were killed and several injured. The
property loss was $5OO,O
The Worthington advance., 1890-06-05
Drugged and Robbed.

James Elliott. wealthy contractor
and builder of the largest ore dock on
Lake Superior, left St. Paul the other
evening in company with friend whose
name was withheld by officers. Atsup-
per in the dining-car this friend drugged
Elliott. robbed him If several hundred
dollars and gold watch, and made his
escape. Elliott was picked up while
wandering around on the streets of
Ashland, Wis, in q half-demented con-
dition. His condition was critical.