The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-01-22
ODDS AND ENDS,

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Samuel Bowles, editor of the Spring
field Republican is dead. .A.@
"A dreadful mortality exists among
the Turkish prisoners. II n ~
| Mark Twain has assumed the editorial
chair Of the Hartford Courier.
1t takes ten minutes for train of cars
10 pass through Hoosac Tunnel. -.@,
Gen Grant has been entertained by
the Khedlye of Egypt at Cairo. - a.
The Siberian plague has broken out
at Moscow. 1t is said to be worse than
small pox, or the Cholera. = y .r.a. =.
Kansas farmers are useing corn for
fuel; at Is cents q bushel it is considered
cheaper than coal. s,,ssa,,.- a Y c,rf
Senator Allison was reelected Senator
from Iowa last week. He was nominated
by acclamation in the Republican Caucus.
In Western Virginia snow has fallen
to the extent that trains have been block
ed. " '... .--
The railroad riots in Pennsylvania
cost that state for military expenses alone,
100000. >a~ w..
In the vicinity of Grand Travers,
Mich. people are sowing spring wheat and
making Maple Sugar
This winter is something like that of
1887 and 50. Boats piled between Buffalo
and Detroit, all Of that winter except in
February which was very cold.
| 1t has been remarked that European
prime minister is q free-mason except the
Turkish grand vizier and pope's right
hand adviser.
1t cost the Government So. 1877 to run
the revenue Office at Frenchmans Bay
Maine, last year and the receipts were SS,,
| IS.
"A team OF Laeber Bros, broke through
the ice while crossing the Missouri, and
was drowned. The driver barely escaped
the same fate.
An Inter Ocean dispatch of the 18th
inst, says, "a very slrong pressure is
brough to bear upon the President to re-
appoint Governor Pennington of Oak ota.n
The demand for America machinery has
been so great in Germady that great efforts
are there being mad to overco me the de-
| mand.
A Kansas man got his ticket of leave
by asking his girl, "What those coffee
sacks were doing hanging on the chimney
piece.?' They were her stockings.
Prominent diyines are revivlng the
Old doctrine Of endless punishment and
torment since Beecher startled the old In
ers with his disbelief in that doctrine
| The National debt decreased during
the month of December $71,633, and the
amount of coin in the Treasury was $780,
51S, S,405.
If the short man ever feels overcome
with an intense dsire to be tall 1t is when
he finds himself on the outside of crowd
at q dog fight .a... .- ....... ...t:
Paris butchers retail horse flesh at enc
half the rates Of beef 1t is estimated that
Que thousand horses are consumed every
month. 1t is only those that are rendered
/ useless by age or lameness that are killed
! Some Chicago correspondent, after
Senator Davis visit to Chicago writes thus
ly: Senator Davis is playing lone hand
for the Presidency. He seems resolved to
score four or get euchered Is ,.s4
-Oysters, are worth 1211a cents a piece In
Nevada, but there is nearly $4,000 in her
State Treasury after paying all her debts,
and reduction of her state tax from 30 to
40 cents year is talked of. =, ~4.7 ""'''
-Thurlew Weed, che venerable journa-
list, fell upon the sidewalk near Union
Square, New York. Dr. White thinks he
has sustained slight concnsslon of the
bruin, but not Of serious nature. @.
+ Wisconsin Legislature have selected
Greenbacker for Speaker. The Greenback-
ers united with the Democrats and divided
the offices in the House, and the Republi-
cans sit with folded arms wondering how
things could be thuslY. .,~- f..
As yet nc steps have been taken to-
wards erecting monument over the re-
mains of Zachery Taylor. They lie in JET.
fs1son County, Ky, and Gov. McCrary
suggests that Congress provide for the
erection of asuitable memorial. aE
Nothing unnerves the average small
boy 50 much as to be Obliged to steal
cookies out ofa crock. To his strained
senses that jarring Of the cover sounds
like the crack of doom. El g
Before I was married. said young
Grippings, 'seyery body told me it did mol
cost as'much to support two as it did one,
but somehow or other it dosn't pan out
that way with me- ssts
The experienced editor can always
tell at sight the man who comes in with
the first attempt at original poetry. He
walks on tiptoe, aud looks as though he
had just passed . counterfeit bill or stran-
gled baby.
mic Clellan has been inaugurated Gov
ernor Of New jersey, and Pendleton elect
ed U. 8. Senator from Ohio. Fourteen
years ago one ran for Presiden, and the.
other for Vice President but were defeat
cd