The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1877-08-08

-ilc Archltect OF the Capitol VI
Washington, Edward Clark, has BET
charged with receiving two salaries, one
Architect and the other as Superin ten
t ent Of Soldiers Home, and that he keel
fast stock at the expense OF the publ
f and is generally incompetent, &c, &c.
| Mormon Elder Pratt held a mestin
al Williamsburge, when he said "God
, with u.s.. and when the reign of anarch
which is surely coming in this land, bs
gins, and every State is at war with anott
er; the Latter Day Saints will be safe an
secure" s. .,,ri .r,E..- vi. &,
Some things are done UP lively i
California. On one ranch wheat whic
was standing in the ear at a quarter befor
five in the morning, was eaten as biscui
at quarter before seven, having been cut
threshed, ground and baked in tw,
hours. -
-Marq-ise de Vilette, in whose hous;
Voltaire died in Paris, had clause in his
will that the windows of the chamber
where he died should not be opened unit
the one hundreth anniversary of his death
! 1t has been faithfully observed, and mex
year lie windows are to be opened "a ii
The remains of the officers who fell
at the battle Of the Rose Bud, or victims
OF the Custer massacre have been remov-
ei from the battle field. Those Of Gen.
Custer have been deposited in the vault at
Pouyhkecpsie. In the fall they will be
taken to West Point.
-Gens. Howard and Wilkinson have
secured Warm Spring Indian scouts to ac-
company them through the Lolo trail to
Montana after Joseph's band of Indians
These scouts performed effective service
for the government during the Modoc
war .".. -a'.
-Hamlin, a merchant of Chicago, has
filed Il petition in bankruptcy, in which
he admits false statements having been
made heretofore in regard to his arrests
and duplicating the firm of H. B. Claff1in
d Co., OF New York, as being cognizant
of and advising such false statements.
Marshal Mcmahon, of France, in a
conversation the other day about Gen.
Grants reception in England, said, among
other things, "The superior control evinc-
ed by Gen. Grant in moving large masses
Of men and his opiasatrete in his adher-
lug to his plan of campaign mark him as
the greatest Of living Generals" .-
A wing of the deaf and dumb institu-
tion, l02 by so feet in size. and three sto-
ries, high, at Council Bluffs, Iowa, was
leveled to the first story and a portion of
the material carried distance of one
mile, by a terrific wind and hail storm, on
the morning of tic 9th inst. Loss, So
co., which falls on the contractors, as the
building had not been accepted BY the
State. - 5.;a...,,... ed. s.,ss Il.
Immediately preceding the evacua-
ton OF Richmond, at the approach of the
Union forces, near the close of the war,
the State officials of Virginia, distributed
what gold there was in the Treasury,
among themselves. The amount so divid-
el was $4,000 Hughes, U. S. Circuit
Judge, has just decided that that gold was
the property Of the United States, and that
an action will be maintained by the govern
menl agsins. those officials for the recoy
cry the same. >'1
One hundred telegraph operators were
startled by 4 dazzling flame leaplng into
the air from the switch board in the oper
ating room Of the Western Onion Telc-
graph Company, IN Broadway, N Y. It
was supposed to have been caused by
wires from negative and a positive bat
terry coming il, contact. The hose was
turned on and aft9r some time the flames
were extinguished, but not until some
$4,000 damages had occurred to the
switchboard, which is one of the largest
in the world, ,t i.
z Judge Drummond in sentencing some
rioters who had been tried before him,
said "HHs ali acknowledge tie right Of q
man who performs labor to obtain the
best price he can from his employer, not
by an agreement among employees or by
Statement or order, or from the sdictation
of one man to another. The rights of la
Dor as it is understood, we all admit; and
it is not improper perhaps to. call these
rights sacred; but when the right of la
bor consists II the claim of not only re-
fusing labor, but in interfering with the
labor of others; in other words, tramp
ling upon the rights Of labor; we, of
eDarse,, can have no feeling Of respect for
any such right IS that. It is criminal,
Runlawful ); it puts an end to all relation Of
life, and strikes at the root of society. /
suppose it was under the claim Of pro-
tecting the rights Of labor that these men
interfered with the right to labor Of the
employees Of the T. p. s. w. Railroad -
This was the pretext, but how absurd and
unreasonable it was we. must all acknowl-
edge =,f.
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