The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-18
Tbe Canton anbocate
TUESDAY. JUNE 10, 1878.
BREViTiES.


Bismarck was chosen President.
THREE miles of railroad was all the
United States had in the year 1928.
JOHN c. FREMONT has been appointed
Governor of the Territory of Arizona.
YANKroN is contemplating the establish
ment of water.works, at an expense OF
$4,000,
In the fifth district of Iowa, the Green
. hackers have nominated George Garter Tor
Congress. ...
Mrs CoRwIN, widow of Tom Corwin,
died .. Lebanon, Ohio, on the 18th inst,
at the age of So.
THE President and Secretary of War and
families attended the commencement ex4
crcises at West Point
OsLER & Co, Of London, have On exhi-
bition at the Paris exposition glass chair
made for an Indian prince
| CONGRESS agreed to adjourn Monday,
the 18th inst The fulfllment Of that con-
tract will be hailed with pleasure by the
people generally.
BAvENPoRT, Iowa, has sugar factory
where corn is manufactured into sugar. Ii
resembles maple sugar and is sold readily
in the neighborhood.
| a SMART boy, when asked by his father
what pursuit he wanted to follow for q liv-
ing, said: 81 don't want to work. I'D rather
have saloon and keep a base ball record
ROME is excited over the rumor that the
| Pope is in failing health and intends to
| abdicate. 1t seems singular that the Car
dlnals persist in electing such aged men
| to the Papal throne.
THE Republicans Of Ohio have nomi-
mated William White for Justice of the Su-
preme Court, and Milton Barnes for Sec
rotary Of State, and George Paul for the
Board Of Public Improvements.
ENGLAND consigned to the returned let
ter office, last year, 100000 letters, and
G0,0GG postage stamps were found loose in
lcttcrboxos and bags, having been rubbed
off through insufficient sticking.
AN exchange says that little boy was
recently seen passing along the street with
mess OF green Cucumbers under one arm
and O bunch Of green corn under the 9TH
er, singing Nearer, my God, to thee"
THE office of Indian Superintendent of
Dakota Territory is to be abolished after
July 1st This leaves the duties of the Of
flee to be performed by Gen. Hammond,
whose salary will be increased thereby.
YANKToN Press, 10th: "Last years
wheat crop is not exhausted. Since the
improvement of the roads, there is con-
siderable being brought into town. The
price ranges from IS to 70 cents per
bushel."
TIE Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers number 10000, and during the past
ten years Of its existence it has discussed
the sum Of $1,040,000 among widows and
orphans, and distributed to the needy up
wards Of $4,000.
THOMAS WINANs, the Baltimore loco
motive builder and inventor, died on the
10th inst. Forty years ago be began as an
apprentice in his fathers machine shop,
and became prominent as an engine bull
der and inventor and died millionaire.
SAUNDERS, Of Nebraska, introduced
bill in the Senate for granting forty sec
tiops of land q mile for railroad and tclG-
graph line from Omaha through Dakota
and Wyoming to Yellowstone Park and
connect with the Northern Pacific in Mon
tana.
TIE Potter committee will afford its
members on agreeable pastime Tor the
summer months, and the result will be Of
as much account as all investigations in
stituted for political capital, a failure on
tho part OF those who inaugurate pro-
ceedings.
BARNUM offered Edison $1,000 for a
phonograph to put on exhibition, but he
refused as he is educating agents to work
them, and then will travel and exhibit at
25 cents admission fee, and give the phon-
ograph company twenty-five pei cent. Of
the receipts.
YANKToN Press, 10: "The territorial
board Of equalization, consisting Of the
governor, auditor and treasurer, met this
afternoon for the purpose Of equalizlng
the assessment and levying the territorial
tax. The latter was fixed at three mills
on the dollar, the same as last year.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, the poet, and
man that the American people loved and
reverenced, is dead. He died in New
York City, Wednesday, morning, at the
age of Sd. His venerable form will be
missed, but the sweet words that he has
pcnned will live forever and become
favorite themes for generations yet I'M
born.
WISCONSIN has board designated as
"Steam Wagon Commissioners" to test the
practicability of steam wagons that have
been invented. On the 10Th inst, trial
trip was to be made between Green Boy
and to Bcloit and Madison. If the ma
chine proves successful the $4,000 reward
appropriated by tho legislature of 1877
| will be given to the best machine.
Lieut. Gov. Dorslleimer, of New York,
has lately interviewed a leading Socialist,
who informs him that he was not aware of
any intended move of his organization
towards revolution by force or arms. but
they would not affiliate with Republicans,
Democrats, or Greenbackers, as they were
an independent body and sought alliance
with no other party.
THE New Orleans Times says Of the De.
mocracy in Iowa: "Iowa never by any
chance elects Democrat, and yet the par
ty meets i'll State and county conventions
as regular as clock-work, passes brass
mounted resolutions, conducts campaign
of moro than the average Democratic
bumptiousness and votes its last man on
election day. They are always defeated,
but they meet next year, all the same. and
select their tombstone with the utmost
formality and enthusiasm"
A STEAMER lately arrived at Havre, st.
Nicholas, on the River Plate, with cargo
of 5000 sheep that were shipped Oct It'll
last. They were hung in the chamber of
the vessel cc1structed for that purpose,
and kept at temperature of from 28 to
% dnnrans h1r reEri nnration Of arnnnan;a