The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1877-09-26
ODDS AND ENDS.


! The Imperial Guard of Russia mus
tiers about $4,000 men.
The U. P. bridge at Council Bluffs i.
repaired SO that trains cross as usual.
Gen. Mcclellan is the Democratic
nominee for Governor of New Jersey.
The s. g. Journal of Sunday morn
! ing ap peared with six pages.
-Ex-Minister Washburne and family
have left New York for their home in Ga
lena, ILL.,. a..
The Merchants, Farmers, Mechan
ics' Savings Bank Of Chicago, failed on
the 9th.
The doors OF the Fidelity Savings
Bank of Chicago, were closed Oh Mon
day. The deposit liabilities are 81 $40, 900
This years peach crop will net the
people Of Deleware and New Jersey near.
ly s2000,Ooo
Alexander Rice was nominated for
Governor, by the Republicans of Massa.
chusetts last Wednesday. The Presidents
southern policy was endorsed
Sioux City had mum party Thurs.
day evening at E. E. Lewis. No CONVEX
sation was allowed until 91l in the even
ing
Some of the Nebraska farmers have
been raising wheat called the "lost ma
tion," 1t is beardless, pleasant to handle,
and yields 30 bushels to the acre.
Secretary Sherman contradicts over
his own signature, the report that he says
he will be a candidate for the United
States Senate.
The great Corliss engine that was at
the Centennial, is on its way back to
Providence. 1t requires 60 cars to trans
port it.
The rife contest at Creedmoor be-
| tween the British and American teams,
after an earnest trial, resulted IN favor Of
the American team by 90 points
-Deadwood is to be connected with
the upper towns in the Hills, by narrow
guage railroad. The cars will be pro-
PEELED by dummies which arc shipped
from Denver on bull trains.
The Yellow Fever is raging in Flor
ida. Five deaths have occurred in Fer
nandina since Friday. The situation is
apparently getting worse and the citizens
are respondent.
The reported counterfeit $50 legal
tender notes circulating in Chicago, have
been carefully examined. 1t is found that
they are printed OF fibre paper and gen.
uine.
| The Presidential party meets with a
perfect ovation on their Southern tour
Crowds of people gather at the depots at
the arrival Of the trains, and where they
stop hearty greetings are given and warm
words of welcome
There was 100000 ounces of silver
bullion>on the Union Pacific Railroad
train recently robbed in Wyoming, Not
an ounce was lost as it was in such large
bars, that robbers were unable to carry it
off.
The Cossacks carry tea made into
tiles, which before hardening is soaked in
sleeps blood, boiled in milk, to which
butter and salt are added; soup is made
out Of this mixture. The tea cau|dron is
the first thing set up after halt.
-Toad-stools are poison. Mrs. James
St. Clair and her two children, of Cleve-
land, O., were poisoned by eating toad
stools, mistaken for mushrooms. The
children have died and the mother will
not recover. e.s4 -..s. ..'
-Tweed's examination before the com
mittee of alderman in New York City, is
disclosing. one of the. most corrupt state of
affairs that ever existed in civilized
country, if his statement is true Mem
bers of the Legislature we're bought up
for from $1,000, $4,000 and $4,000 a
piece, to carry measures for New York
City. .-,-@
Virginia has passed law that re.
quires every dealer in liquor or beer to use
a machine that tallies every drink sold
that is furnished by the authorities
and for every drink the list shows by q
punch mark, the dealer must pay three
cents to the government. So the tax final
ly comes out of the consumer as the deal
ers raise their price from 10 to Is cents.
| Cheyenne crossing, between Ft. Pierre
and the Black Hills, is the scene of almost
daily highway robberies. It Is strange
that travellers cannot be some way pro
tected. If it was toward Sidney or the
/ Wyoming outlet some troops or some 9th
er measure would be taken, but it being
on the Pierre route and in Dakota, every
man must look out tor himself.
| The telephone is really getting to be
| of some utility. A gentleman travelling
on the cars between Lockport and Niaga
ra Falls, stretched wire from the engin,
to the platform Of the rear car, and witt
couple Of hand telephones he carried OF