Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1892-01-16 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

LINCOLN.  One of the most familiar figures about the Capitol at Washington for nearly twenty years after the aloe. of the late war was Col. Tom Worthington, al West Point officer who commanded an Ohio regiment during{ the earlier part of the Rebellion. He woo disniisAed from the service—whether rightly or wrongfully we cannot say--for alleged disobedience of orders at the battle of Shiloh, and for tea free criticism of his superior officers. Seeking re. drees, he immediately went to Washington, and spent every winter there until be died. Constantly begging to be reinstated in the service, he bored President Lincoln almost to death. One day he called General Tom Ewing out of the Howie of Representatives and said to him: " Lincoln's • fool !" "What makes, you think so!" asked Ewing. "Read this note," said Worthington, pulling • paper from his pocket. The letter was dated at the Erecutive Mansion, and read as follows: "I have several times Mt armed Mt. Worthington, verbally, that he was unfit to be • colonel, and now, at his request, I put it in writing. "A. Linoorw."  • The first hal totrer...... tion for the defence of Alaska nes lett Lislmn ac:tompanied to the mouth of the river by numbers of steamers crowded with passengers. The expedition is very well equipped in all respects. A Buenos Ayres telegram announces that • large rebel fores has assembled at Entre Rios, and that the inhabitants are in a state of alarm A body ! of national troops has been sent to the disturbed district.  At the Central Criminal Court, Henry Attwell, tged SO, formerly employed at the Commercial Uits Works, Bromley, was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for shooting at Robert Burns, car. bonising foreman at the same works, with intent to murder him or do him some grievous bodily harm. For some days past the qnantity of fish brought in by the Ramsgate trawlers has exceeded that of say similar time for some years past. As many as goo boxes have base lauded in one day, and the fish From one smack, which had only beeu out six days, fetched £45 in the market.  A telegram says .--A violent earthquake shock, I followed by two others of less intensity, was felt at Algiers the other morning. The village of Gourasa. near •Cherchell, consisting of about fifty houses, was partially destroyed, a amnia:sof the inhabitants being buried under the ruins, aud several others in. jilted The Corporation'of Nottingham have commissioned Yr. Knighton Warren to pint s full lungth seated portrait of Mr. Fulls Joseph, to be placed in the Museum and Art Gallery of that town, as a mark of appreciation of his many valuable contributions of art treasure.. by way of gifts, and loans to the institution since its opening in 1878. A clergyman in Pennsylvania was found guilty in a breach of promise case and fined £41,000. He would not pay the tine as lie thought. it would look like a coufessiou of guilt, *o he Was sent to prison. There, in addition to editing a weekly newspaper he is converting all the prisoners ;'aud the officials .I.eln, that hc. ilea turned the emit into 3 1.e3  RLill Use Powerful and Dramatics written uew Serial tele eutitled, "'liix &