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

1t is claimed that 100000 persons ha
signed the temperance pledge in Ohio.
THE Paris exhibition in Paris ne:
year, is estimated at costing S7,06s 800.
Il. B. Hopkins, an old resident .
Sioux City, has been declared insane, an
taken to the Insane Asylum. IL ID.
] OHIO has four tickets to the field thi
fall Republican, Democratic, Greenbac
aud Temperance :-a .... E. ..
-Cass County, D. r., has bounded iu
debtedness Of $lS,9o9,70,, aud floatin;
ing debt of $l1 ,077,70. ....,.
The Red River Valley crops are. re
ported by Furgo Times as being the larg
est ever harvested there. '''
r-Ab,ut the only odd matter this week
is the place, if any, that is not exercised
over the recent riots.
Coy. Pennington has called upon thu
Secretary of War for troops to protect tn
people IN the Black Hills
"A Railroad company was organized
at Fl. Scott, Kansas, last Tuesday, called
the F. Scott g. Colorado Railroad. e..
Heavy rains have commenced falling
in California, Which, it is feared will dam
age largely the grain crop of that State
A notorious gambler, John Francis
Murphy blew his brains out in gambling
house in New York; he left some prop.
crty.
Gov. Noyes, OF Ohio, appointed minis
ter to France in place Of Wash burn, has
sailed for Paris to enter upon the duties
of his Office
A. H. Lawrence, of LaMars, was
nominated for Senator at the latter place.
After the 23iih blilot Lawrence was nom.
mated by acclama,ion.
-Coney Island is the great Sunday re.
sort for pleasure seekers from New York
and Brooklyn. Some Sundays as high as
1000 visit It,
Lake Winnipeg is being surrounded
by settlers from Iceland. Sites have been
chosen for two new towns, and thev have
II newspaper ID the Icclan.lic language.
Treasurer Sherman says it VII cost
$4,000 for the keeping and transporting
Of prisoners to Iowa Pcnitentiary this
year. -".-.t
Bob Ingersoll offered the receipts of
a lecture to San Francisco religious
charity, but the managers considering him
a great sinner, refused the money. "",.:
- "A stroke of lightning tore boys
boot all to peices, but the reason the boy
was not harmed was that the boy had
gone in swimming. 'l":sT t'.' ."
One man who was drawn on a Justice
jury, asked leave to pray that he might be
guided Alright, but the Justice Informed
him that il was usual to find for the plain
tiff.
Rev. Mr. Bott, of IL Baptist Church,
New York, was arrested while in church,
upon complaint of his wife charging him
with failing to provide for her and chill
t!ren.
Last years wheat crop was 100000
900 bushels; and tins years crop is esti-
mated at 325,o00,000 bushels, l0O,OO0,OOO
bushels of winch it is estimated will he
sent abroad. ::g
In Geneva, Italy, Gen. Grant on Fri
day last. laid the corner stone of Prot
pstant American church in that CITY.
Italian Authorities and English ard Amer.
lean clergymen were present.
Same capitalists have purchased 10,-
900 acres of land near F.rgo, AMI Oliver
Dalrymple bought 3s Woods Harvesters
with self binder attachm ent, tor his farms
at Elm River and Casselton. ~
jay Gould was knocked down by
Mayor Sclovcn, in New York City, thurs
day morning; the quarrel grew out of.
some stock matters of the Lake Shore
Road. ....... .,. . =. .,.t.4 @
The Postage Stamp Agency at New
York has 176,0o0,0oo postage stamps
within its vanlts and eighteen lady clerks
from the Treasury Department have gone
there to count them.
A little boy 10 years old, son of DR..
McGregor, was run over by a water wag-
on in Yankton the other day, and serious
ly injured, the wheel passing over his ab-
dOmen. ltg$ rg q
The newly appointed Marshal Of Da-
kota is John B. Raymond He entered
the army with and was personal friend
of Gen. e. s. McCook; he has been resi-
dent Of Vicksburg since. the war, until
within a year past. -r
! WIN. B. Ogden died in New York
last Sunday He was formerly of Chica-
60. and was once the Railroad King Of
the Northwest His accumulatioEs were
large, and he was considered one of the
most public spirited men that Chicago
ever had. l.33 VI sli
The N Y HsraM admonishes the
strikers to stop, and says, "They have
made mess Of It. The force and mo
oftheir movements are already
broken. The public, which was IN their
side when they began, is indignant, and
will not tolerate their lawlessness.' y