The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1877-12-26
ODDS AND ENDS.
Russia is reported as having deposited
in ito band as a reserve fund, &125, ,OOO. 900.

Russia is reported as having deposited
in it, band As reserve fund, tl25. .OOo, 600
-Senatore Blaine and Conklin hsv,
smoked tho pipe of peace, and buried tn,
hatchst, aflsr . twelve year quarrel.
The Legislature Of California elected
j. T. Farley United States Senator, BY ,
party vote
Margaret Gray died IN North Carolin,
at the age of 116 years. She had been ,
belle and was the mother of 16 children
-Oakly Hall is not succeeding in mis-
lecturing tour. At Troy only II persons
went, and he declined to speak.
Russia orders 10000 new troops, and
is sending out its forces from Pleyna in al
directions.
The English Csbinet are going to ask
Parliment, that convenes January, fol
sufficient money to place her upon q we,
footing.
The English government is inviting
contracts for an immediate supply of 300..
600 boots and shoes.
The Sycamore Marsh Harvester Man.
'ufacturing Company have failed, but wit h
out occasioning any particular excitement
other than surprise.
AL the ladies IN town have the Home
Cook Book must cheerfuily recommend it.
Our bookstores sell 1t. Price $3.50.
The poet Whittier celebrated his 10th
birthday in Boston the 18th inst. 0. W.
Holmes, Mark. Twain, Dudley, Warner and
Longfellow were present.
Chicago gave banquet to the Bos.
tonion delegation, at the Grand Pacific
last week. 1t was one of the finest ban
quets ever given in that City.
The senatorial committe appointed to
investigate the Mexican border question,
is reported as made up Of material to make
a raid upon the administration.
Ex-Governor Mccormick has been ap-
pointed Commissioner General to the Par
is Exposition next year. He will open his
office in New York next week.
The bell telephone was operated upon
circuit of 150 miles successfully, be.
tween Bloomington, ILL.,, and Lockport,
via Chicago. Music and conversation was
heard plainly at the end of the wires.
Vino at communion services, has
been discarded and water substituted, at
church in New Hampshire, upon the the.
ory that the use Of wine promotes intem.
perance.
Hamburg Butler made his maiden
speech in the Senate last week, upon his
motion for a committee of Investigation
of the charges made by Senator Edmunds,
which Butler denounces as false.
-Kio.a, Japan, has the largest bell in
the world. 1t is cast whole and it is not
known when or where it was made It
is "a feet high and 16 inches thick at the
rim, and is runE by means of wooden
battering ram upon the outside.
The Oregon fever must be some, ,"as ;
paper announces that q woman SO years
old, and her aon, reached La Grange, Ore
gon, having walked all the way from Ind.
The woman carried a pack weighing Is
pounds.
The Ii quor dealers ar on their ear In
New York City, over An enforcement Of
city ordinance that prohibits the sale
of liquor on the Sabbath. Saloons are
voided by the police, and numerous sr.
rests have besn made and temporary cor
finemsnt in the tombs.
The usual religious revivals that occur
in the winter season ara now in progress
in eastern states. Moody and Sanky
are in Providence, r. l., Needham and
Cate are at Newport, Whiltle and Nc
Granahan are at Rotland, VT, Earl and
Hodges are at Agawam, Mass, and Mrs.
Van Colt is in Illinois.
New York has cat show in progress
Among the animals exhibited is double
toed, web feet, and 1S year old cat that nev.
er had tooth, and eats like monkey, a
performing cat that does tricks, and goes
into cage with birds without eating them
and one that plays hide and seek with chill
dren.