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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-12
FROM WASHINGTON.

THE president on the Sd signed the
bill for the erection of new mint at
Philadelphia. 1t was the Tooth ami
versary of the day on which President
Washington signed the bill establishing
the mint in that city.
IN the house in the Fifty-frst con-
gress 14,033 bills were introduced and
in the senate 5,129. In the Fiftieth
congress 1861 bills were introduced in
the house and 4, 600 in the senate. The
bills that became laws during the con-
gress just ended mum bered 2, 1856, against
1924 enacted in the previous congress.
In the Fiftieth congress President
Cleveland vetoed 1G1 bills and Joint res
olutions, while in the Fifty-first Presi-
dent Harrison vetoed eleven The total
appropriations for the last congress
will probably reach 81, 900, 900, 900. Dur
ing the session three senators and
twelve representative died.
A CENSUS bureau bulletin shows that
the increase during the last ten years OF
the white race has been "a per cent,
while that of the colored race has been
10 per cent.
THE president signed the copyright
bill with pen made from the quill of
an American eagle.
The legislation enacted by the last
congress will result in the opening up
of over 5000, 900 acres of the public land
to settlement
THE enlistment of 1000 Indians for
the army has been authorized by Secre-
tary Proctor.
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the 9Th numbered 2G5, against 200 the
preceding week and 200 the correspond
ing week last year.
The treasury department has reaf-
frmed it's decision that KOch's lymph
is dutiable at the rate of IS per cent.
ad valorem.
The total number of sheep in the
country was estimated at 43, 431, 1856,
against 44,3S6,07 in 1890, and conse-
quently the wool clip would be 5,ooo,-
900 pounds less than last year, when it
was ZIG, 900, 600 pounds.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-12

IT is reported that citizens of Russia
hare raised five hundred thousand
pounds sterling and that the govern
ment will expend like amount for an
exhibit ut the Columbian exhibition in
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-12
Advanced the Rates.

Representatives OF large number o:
western roais met at st. Paul to adjust
rates on grain, live stock and lum bel
between Kansas City and other south.
western points in Iowa. Minnesota and
the Dakotas, The result of the confer.
ence was an advancement in grain anc
live stock rates. A change in lumber
rates from Kan ,as City to points Oil the
Iowa Central was agreed upon.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-12

A NOBLE prince, in fact very noble
prince, with blue blood and first-class
<oat-of-arms, has just advertised in a
paper at Nice for an American heiress.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-12

JOHN PLUMpUEsT. a New Jersey
sneak thief, was sentenced to six months
imprisonment for stealing 4 fellow
boarders glass eye. He has three
chances of seeing his error when the
ordinary criminal has two.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-12
THE EAST.

THE remains of Emma Abbott, the
opera singer, were cremated at Pitts
burgh, Pa, and the ashes were placed
in a jar and sent to New York.
HENRY w. SAGE & Co., lumber deal
ers at Albany, N. Y, were defrauded
out of S275,0oo by Joseph b. Abbott, a
trusted employee.
The Rhode Island Nationalist society
met at Providence and nominated full
state ticket with Franklin E. Burton,
of Providence, for governor.
AT it's convention in New York the
National baseball league adopted a
new form of contract which virtually
does away with the reserve clause and
gives the players more rights.
THE firm of Henry r. Wills & Co.,
failed for 100000.
The two sons of Gen. Sherman re-
ceived in New York letters of admins
tration on their fathers estate The
general left no will, and his personal
estate does not exceed 50, 500.
In the Nottingham colliery at Ply
mouth. Pa, an explosion fatally injured
three men.
AT Bridgeport, Conn.,, Lawrence
Murphy, aged % years, died of heart
failure, caused by excessive cigarette
smoking.
FLAMES destroyed the fruit-preserv-
ing establishment of the j. O. Schim-
mel Preserving Co. at Philadelphia,
causing loss of 100000.
In New York the first of series of
meetings to be held throughout the
country by union prisoners of the war
to raise money for a memorial hall at
Washington was held.
FIRE destroyed the passenger boat
City of Richmond and cargo at New
York. The loss on the boat was $685.
900; fully insured.
OFF Cape Cod the schooner Elsie
Smith, of Portland, Me-, was wrecked
and eighteen lives were lost
ROBBERS entered the savings bank at
Freeport, Pa, and carried off $40, 900 in
money and securities.
On April Is next a reunion of the
founders of the republican party will be
held at fremont temple in Boston.
Two LITTLE children of George White
were burned to death in their home at
New Limerick, Me-, during the absence
of their parents.
AN explosion of gas in a coal mine at
Shamokin, Pa, killed John Llewellyn,
his son Frank and his son-in-law w, J.
Smith
The strike of 5000 coal miners in the
Monongahela (Pa.) valley ten weeks
ago ended in victory for the men,
their request for an increase of pay
being granted.
WEST AND SOUTH
THE firm of Cornwall & Bros, deal
ers in soap and candles at Louisville,
KY, made an assignment. The assets
were $3.50, 900; liabilities, $177,OOO.
The statistics of the voting popula-
ton OF Chicago show a slight prepon-
derance of foreign-born voters over
those of American birth.
AT Nashville, Tenn, Bette Sanders,
an aged colored woman, and her two
grandchildren died from the effects OF
poison put in tea which they drank.
IN Chicago George Hathaway was
convicted of the murder of ex-Alderman
Whelan and sentenced to life imprison-
ment.
In Montana seven laborers working
on the Great Northern railway extern
sion were frozen to death. The bodies
of five were recovered.
The governor of Nebraska signed the
Australian ballot bill, and it is now q
law.
AT Washington, CAL, the levees on
the Sacramento river broke, and the
southern portion of the town and 1000
acres Of grain Land were flooded.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-12

PROFILE who didn't know that Deodoro
da Fonseca was the name of the presi-
dent of Brazil might think it was the
name of some patent disinfectant.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-12
1.-THE PltrOl.O

A. H. Simon, of st. Paul, and Scott
Marble are the proprietors of a new
play, ''The PATROL" to be produced in
Chicago in May. The plot deals under
assumed names with the Smell murder
mystery in that city. A. J. Stone, SON.
in-law of the murdered man, threatens
to prosecute them if the play is pro-
duced, although all the characters bear
assumed names. A novelty of the piece
is that Dashcottc. one of the murderers,
will be living likeness of Tascott.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-12

JOE BURKs, of Panther Creek, N. c.,
claims to have eaten $50 eggs at one
sitting. He is great cgg-eater or a
great prevaricator.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-12
Census Pa(l,lers Fined.

Stevens and Bandett. the two Mimi
eapolis census conspirators who pleaded
guilty to one count of the charges
lodged against them. We're brought be-
fore Judge Shiras in MINI capolis for
sentence. The proceedings lasted only
a few moments, Stevens being SEN
fenced to pay q fine of $1,000 and Ban
dett $1,000. The cases against other
census employees indicted were dis
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-12

ONION sets, to produce good crop,
should be perfectly formed-a perfect
onion in miniature, as some one puts it.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-12

The Song That Reached Their Hearts.
A gentleman who was recently at a
small-hour banquet relates: ''It is as
tonishing how many business men are
good singers. You will find more men
who can sing than you will find women.
At the affair of which l speak there
were representatives from nearly every
foreign county, our own countrymen, of
course, predominating. And most of
those present were singers. A young
student from Heidelberg gave us in its
native tongue The Watch on the Rhine. ,
for which, of course, he received the Gus
tomary recognition. An Englishman
sung Annie Lauri e,' an Irishman The
Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Hail. and
a Franchman the 'Marseillaise.' Each
one OF these songs was as we'll rendered
as ever heard it, and know thew were
all appreciated. Then some one gave us
America 1t didn't quite hit, in some
way. young man with one of those
ringing tenor voices started the Star
Spangled Banner Before he reached
the chorus every man was on his feet.
and each one waving his napkin, and
each one was singing with all his might.
They went over it again and again, and
never heard such singing in my life.
That was the song that reached thei,
hearts "-Philadelphia Press.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-10

er came in. He scoIded that I shout.
make any effort in my weak condition, and
when explained the serious need delight
I ed my heart by saying IN help you out
with that. You lie down and I'll go off
myself for an hour or two and rattle you
off half q column or more did lie down
and he went off. When he came back it
was to confess that the rafting process
had not been successful 'Confound it all,
he said, i can't think Of thing; can't
grind out single paragraph
Yet he was formerly a newspaper man,
and as lawyer does more or less writing.
But he couldn't help me, and the situation
was becoming critical, when that evening
third friend called to inquire after My
welfare. When his name was brought to
me felt at once that my deliverer had
come. He Is a magazine writer and fire.
quent contributor to newspapers, and |
was already indebted to him for many
Items which had used In this very depart
ment, so lost no time in begging his aid
"He was most acquiesceut, would be
pleased, he said, to do me a good batch of
copy ard would hurry home to accomplish
1t. His wife, he was sure, would give him
some woman's ideas and between them
should be served. And slept, exhausted,
but confident that with what had been
able to prepare the requisite amount was
secured.
almost before the household was awake
the next morning a messenger arrived from
this last tower of strength Alasl like the
Others, it was only broken reed. He had
no idea that special work needed practice
he wrote. He was terribly chagrned to
have nothing to offer me but the inclosed
single paragraph which he almost feared
was unusable. He had worked till nearly
midnight, etc.
1.-THE paragraph was unusable, but des-
peration now gave me strength. drank
some strong coffee, bound up my head in
wet cloth and sat down at my desk. At
the end of three hours the work was done
and dispatched And the funny part of it
is that each of the three willing but power
less friends severally and calmly asked me
afterward: Who finally helped you outg
The work was specially goodp Her
Point of View in New York Times.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-10
Light Hair and Seasickness,

Is there any mysterious reason now I'M
known to the learned doctors why people
with light hair should become seasick
quicker than those with darkY Yet Charles
Young, clerk of the steamer City of Chica-
go, says this is So
81 can tell EN-" Clerk Young said "as
soon as they come on the boat whether
they are going to be seasick or not. When
see girl with light hair and light blue
eyes. who walks in with kind of uncer-
tain gait, as if she did not know exactly
where she was stepping, say to myself,
Young lady, you'll be sick before we are
an hour out" But when the black eyed
woman comes, who walks on board the
boat just as If she had business there, I
know that any ordinary sea will not affect
her in the least.
"Three-quarters of the people who be-
come sick on this steamer are decided
blends, You may laugh at this, but have
made quite study of it, and l will tell you
am right. If we had long run suppose
it would fetch them all. My observation
has been confined, of course, to the sixty
mile run across to St. Joe, where the sea in
the summer time ought, according to my
opinion, to make nobody sick. But these
light haired people will keel over and want
to die quicker than anybody, Why is it?'-
Chicago Tribune
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-10
PLEASURES OF BARN sToRMINa.


Experience of a Fly-by- Night Company
with "Uncle Toms Cabin"
More than twenty-five years ago it was
my fate TO be Il member of band of stroll
ling players"-a company of barn stormers
doing the northwestern country in the
small towns way back from the railroads,
said husky voiced actor. There were seven
of us, two ladies and five gentlemen-per-
NIT the term-all necessarily lightning
change artists" Our repertoire included
hidden Hand" "Ten Nights in Bar
ROOM" 1.-The French Spy" ada Isaacs
Menken's great play, and last~always
last-"Uncle Toms Cabin" say always
last We never dared reproduce this play
except on the last night in town. With
but seven people to do the more than
twenty characters called for by the cast, the
reason why we played Uncle Tom" as q
tailender will be too obvious to require ex-
PLANTATION.
Our Little Eva was perhaps thirty-five,
but Small for her age" and she delivered
the gushing lines in true baby style, dying
atGhe end of the second act amid applause,
tears, red fire, tremolo music and show
curtain. But she was versatile-more so
than the Infant Phenomenon" She
served as Eliza Harris, Aunt Chloe (behind
a wing), Topsy and Cassie and looked as
old or as young as necessary under the
circumstances.
The other lady did Mrs Sinclair, Aunt
Ophelia, Emeline, Il few odds and ends and
let down the curtain If necessary
Fortunately for the fly-by night" par
ties of that time the characters of this
play die Off at the end of each act to give
place to q new set of characters at the be-
ginning Of tie next act. 1t gives the COM
pany a chance to change their wigs, take
off set of whiskcrs-in fact, "make up"
for the next part.
/ have played nearly every part in the
play lat different times) except Eva. One
evening the infant was "indisposed" and it
was sought to press me in for the little
darling" But positively refused unless
some of my long overdue back salary
was forthcoming. Even this stroke did
not bring the salary. The ghost had long
since ceased to walk with us, and 1t could
not be induced to appear on this occasion.
/ was expected to do about twelve of
the characters, sometimes including Aunt
Ophelia, the lady who did this part being
in the habit of being "indisposed."
OF course we carried our own scenery
and mechanical effects" which consisted
principally of a scene intended to represent
the Ohio river in midwinter. This scene
was light blue in color, and a very uncer-
tain streak divided the water from the sky.
We also had low four wheeled truck,
with board nailed to one side Of it and
painted to represent a cake of ice. This was
for Eliza Harris and her child to escape to
Canada on.
When it came TO the end of the piece and
Uncle Tom dies to slow music, red fire and
an allegory of Eva in heaven, the audience
In many places was uncertain whether the
drama was ended or not. There were at
least seventeen acts in it, the curtain hav-
ing been let down many times, wholly for
the purpose Of giving the few surviving
characters a chance TO change.
When the audience did not arrive and
depart at the end Of the play It usually feL
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-10
The 1ause OF Poor Health

Is often found in the neglect of ones
own self. A light cold or slight head
ache is treated as not requiring much
attention; the assumption being that
they will soon pass off, and it is only
when case of full-aedged sickness de-
velops ilselE that the consequences of
that neglect are fully realized. AS a
preventive and positive cure for Conghs,
Colds, Hoarseness, Splitting OF blood,
Asthma, Pains in the Chest and first
stages of consumption, use Eilerts Ex-
tract of Tar and Wild Cherry, and for
sick Headache, Torpid Liver, Dys-
pepsia, Nervousness and all Bilious
Complaints, use Eilert's Daylight Liver
Pills. Both are guaranteed.
For sale, wholesale and retail, by
Lockert & Reynolds, druggists.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-10
To Correspondents.

1t is an infleXible rule of this office
that correspondents will not be al
lowed to puff candidates for county
Offices in this and adjoining counties
except at advertising rates, and in
each instance the money must ac-
company the notice. If you inter-
polate these notices in your news
letters, count the number of words in
such notices and enclose two cents
per word for them, or they will be
cut out. swift.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-10
% INV Loo to sten fn front of tne green oIotb

TO my lot TO step In front OF the green CLOTH
curtain and make this announcement;
Ladies and Gentlemen-Owing to the
fact that all the characters of the drama
have died, disappeared or been otherwise
disposed of with the exception Of Gump-
ton Cute and Marks, the lawyer, we
find it obviously impossible to carry the
story on any further. However, II it is de-
sired, in order to carry out the authors
original design, the two living characters
will fight duel and the survivor will COM
NIT suicide. Applause.
The curtain is again rung up, the duel
fought, Cute dies. Marks cuts his throat
with penknife, lays down and dies. But,
owing to the fact that Uncle Tom is in the
midst of his washing up" there is no one
to let down the curtain. Marks revives,
arises, let's down the green cloth, slow
music Gf any and departure of the audi
ence perfectly satisfled-apparently.-Ex-
change
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-10

In Paris, as we'll as with us, it is found
that the value of public free libraries as a
means of educating the masses is small.
An attempt was made to induce people
who frequent the sixty-four Libraries in
Paris to prefer instructive books to works
of fiction; but the only result of this was u
decrease in the number of readers. So the
endeavor was abandoned the authorities
coming to the conclusion that it is better
the public should read novels than not
read at all. At present nearly so per cent.
of the books taken out are novels
Both in London and Paris we may as
well accept the inevitable. The free library
is not a place where the ardent student
learns the latest lessons of science or stud
les the masterpieces of literature past and
present, The reader, if of the male sex,
goes to search the scriptures of the sport
ing prophets; if a woman, to read the fash
ion papers and the fiction of the day. The
books best worth reading are unread.-St
James Gazette.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-10
Ennnd His Dead Body.

EAU CLAIRE, Wis, Oct. 10. Christian
Bergman, of Springfield, who was en-
ployed by Mr. Decker, banker of Bald
win, to watch some timber near Glen
wood, charged some of his neighbors
with stealing timber. After the trial of
the supposed thieves somebody made
threats which caused Bergman to disap-
pear. This was last June. He was not
heard of until Monday, when his body
was found only two miles from home
He had gone to ledge of rock, tied a
rope to tree and around his neck and
jumped off, When found only the head
and shoulders were hanging, the body
lying at the foot Of the cliff.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-10
DOING OTHER PEOPLES WORK.
The Difficulty One Writer Found In Try
ing to Secure "a Substitute.

The Difficulty One Writer Found In Try
ing to Secure IA Substitute.
A newspaper woman told a story the
other day illustrating the difficulty of do
ing other peoples work. II had the grip
along with the rest of the world, d" she said,
land was obliged to give up work for few
days Nothing really pressed except de-
partment do for one of the weeklies, and
how to supply this copy did not see, 1t
Is OF miscellaneous character, aiming in
a general way to be Of interest to women,
and it's production that week seemed i'm
possible.
1.-TWO days before the copy should reach
the publication Office friend came to see
me- She is writer Of wide reputation in
the story and essay field, and when she
proffered her services / eagerly and CRATE
fully accepted the help for my department
work She went off promising some manu-
script the next day, and l felt great bur
den lifted BY noon she appeared Why
she said, i can't do line. l shut myself
up in my room yesterday afternoon and
spent all the daylight hours trying to
evolve something, but l couldn't catch the
vein OF the work at all. l am not going to
DO able to help you particle She was
genuinely sorry and so was l.
Later in the same day was sitting up
trying to write little. when my broth
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-10
EXCITEMENT RUNS HIGH.

Investigating the Burning of the Davies
County, Ind, Court House.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.-There are no
new developments in the affair of the
burning of the Davies county court
house, except that some Of the books re-
covered from the recorders office are in
such condition that their records may
be preserved. Excitement runs high,
and many hundreds of farmers have been
in the city, expressing their Indignation
at the terrible loss to the county. There
are suspicious and clews, but nothing
definite enough to say In these dispatches
who the incendiaries are. The board of
commissioners will offer a large reward
for the conviction of the fire bugs.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-10
To Down the Standard,

COLUMBUS, o., Oct. 10.-The action
brought i'll the supreme court nearly a
year ago by d. X. Watson, as attorney
general, to revoke the charter of the
Standard Oil company, on the ground
that it has abused its coporate rights by
forming trust, was reached Thursday,
and occupied the attention of the court
the entire day. The state was repre-
sented by the attorney general and John
J. Warrington, of Cincinnati, while
Virgil P. Kline and M. r. Keith, of
Cleveland, and Joseph H. Choate and S.
G. T. Dodd, of New York, appeared for
the Standard.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-10

SHELBYvILLE, Ind, Oct. 10-A seri-
GUS accident occurred Friday morning
at the finishing rooms of the Shelby
Cabinet company. Joseph Shott, fore
man; Clint Neeley and Henry Thayer
were transferring furniture from the
upper story and the elevator broke, pre-
cipitating the men and cargo thirty five
feet below. The unfortunate men were
removed from the debris and physicians
called. They are in very critical con-
dition, and it is feared their injuries will
nrnYa fatal
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-10
Double Murderer Executed.

OMAHA, Oct. 10.-The murder of AL
len and Dorothy Jones, which was com
mitted on lonely farm in this county in
February, 1890, is expiated, the murder
er, Ed Mel, having been executed just
as the noon whistles were blowing Fri
day. The scaffold was erected in the
court yard of the jail and the condemned
man marched up with a firm tread. At
the last moment he confessed that he
committed the crime unassisted and
asked the forgiveness of all, especially Of
the Jones family.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-10

men, out Uneir wives are regular gad-
abouts, always attending county fairs,
reunions and other public gatherings
with the sports of the town. They are
both young women. and pretty, and
have no trouble TO get escorts to these
places.
Mrs. Proctor called On the prosecuting
attorney, w. I. Brananan. and request
ed him to prosecute her unwelcome Wis
itors. but as he has no clew to their
identity he cannot comply with her re-
quest.