The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-07-02
CHE Canton apbocate
TUESDAY JULY 2, 1878.
BREvITIES.

6REVlTlES.
FArRBAufr has been nearly destroyed
by fire.
Bro GARDNER of the Swan Lake Press
has returned from his visit to Chicago.
PRESIDENT Hayes will attend the Wy.
oming Continental celebration, July 80
and 9th.
Blk. BRUCE, the colored Senator OF Mis-
sissippi, was married to Miss JOsephin b.
Wilson, of Cleveland o; they left for Eu.
rope.
Sr, LOUIS has received q fresh invoice
81 Irszs.ss, as s..,.ssHe s"*'7 thcl
left breast. Some think that they are Or
ganized for some unlawful purpose.
Jesse BILLINGS, Of Saratoga, and a
wealthy man, has been indicted for the
murder OF his wife. His own daughter
was witness against him.
THE Chinese haye method by which
grain is reduced and prepared TO q pow.
der, this powder is put into tumbler OF
| water, and one glass full makes him hap.
| py drunk.
w. G. RYLANDER, the decea sed million
ARE Of New York, left an estate OF $780,
OOO,O which is to be divided between
his children as the executors Of the will
may decide.
". T. CAMPBELL, Of New Orleans, a
! worthy but poor man, drew the prize of
| 100000 at the State Lottery last week.
He received his check, had it placed to
his credit, and walked home rich man.
NEW ground for divorce has been pre-.
scented to the Courts Of New York, A
| woman has petitioned for q divorce apon
the grounds that when she
married her husband she was drunk and
| did not know what she was doing.
The cause Of the Indian trouble out
west is that the Government has not issued
them their proper amount of rations. At
Cornucopia plenty of provisions are stored
for the reservation but no one there IS au-
thorized to issue them. One Agent was
removed, and some person from Montan.
was appointed to succeed him, but he was
not confirmed by the Senate.
The Indians in Idaho are causing SER
ious trouble. A telegram Of June 20,
gives an account of an attack made by
Gen. Towards troops IS miles from Hor.
ney. The attack occurred under the man.
agemeDt Of Gen. Bunard at Curry Creek.
Col Robbins aud two soldiers were killed,
Couriers rode 200 miles to report to and
ask Gen. Miles for re.inforcements., and
it is thought that the Indians had met
with serious repulse.
A WRITER in the London HITLER who
has made study Of the spontaneous com
bustion theory says: "many of these fires
he attributes to the smouidering Of dust
around hot bearings, or Journals until it
assumes body of fire and charred wood.
A slight draft is then sufficient to fan It in
into blaze which before being discover
ed gets beyond control and the mill and
its contents are destroyed For losses re-
sulting from negligence Of this nature,
tramps and spontaneous combustion only
too often receive the blame"
REPORTS from Europe 70 lative to grain
prospects are far from flattering. The Er-
press says that regular state of growing
weather is the only thing that will prevent
an unproductiye season. In France the
wheat crop has suffered great, as well as
| in England. In Russia, and especially in
the eastern part, hail storms haye destroy
| ed thousands OF acres Of acres OF graiu.
There is but small stock in the farmers
hands IN England. Should the crop fail
there, then The United States would be as
sured o good price for their immense
crop.
The chairman Of the committee on en-
rolled bills in Congress was so drunk the
last day and night Of the session, that the
preparation of the bills devolved on COL
ored member Of the committee, who work
ed eighteen hours without stopping, while
the House was obliged to wait for the
| bills, and this same colored member is to
lose his seat through the connivancs of
those Democratic members, whose chair
| man was maudlin drunk when he should
above all times have been the foremost IN
the duties of his position, during the last
hours of the session.
TEE Yankton Press gives an account of
! a bottle being found by Hugh Mcdonald
At McKenzies Point on the Missouri,
which contained the following writing:
May 18th 1878.
Head Waters Yellow Stone River-the
Indians have got me surrounded I have
killed IS or 20 of them, but they are to
many for me. good Bye, My home is in
Maine. A. L. KENs1NaroN,
Augusta Me.
Oh god they have hit me in the
YANKToN Press: cit is reported in
Desdwood that gold mines have been dis
covered in Powder river which yield as
high as S1h 70 the pan. A considerable
stampede to the new mines has CON-
menced.
Judge Bennett has a troublesome boil
It interferes with his duty setting on the
bench-and informs a correspondent Of
the Times that the best place to have a
boil is on another man's-hip.
The last evidence Of the pre-occupation
of the Black Hills by white men was the
discovery Of Colts revolver in placer
mine, 16 feet under ground. Tho shooter
was manufactured in 1858.