The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-07-30
observation-disclosures
TUESDAY JULY 30, 1878
BREvlTIES.

FARao'reports that the barley crop in
that vicinity averaged 40 bushels to the
acre,
RUSSIAN emigrants are arriving In Yank.
every week. One tram brought upwards
Of 100.
AT newly discovered coal mine north
Of Nebraska, one chunk Of coal was taken.
weighing ea5 pounds.
A New York man, for 5000 proposes
to build an air ship with which he can
cross the ocean in SO hours.
'''''tisi az 11e;;tUI fever rs pf3vniffng III T1W
Orleans, and ST Louis and New York also
have had several cases of late.
THE Government Surveyor is at Sioux
City re-survcying the levee; work upon the
protection will commence about the mid
die of August
THOSE mammoth wheat fields upon the
Northern Pacific Railroad have surprised
the southern excursionlsts who expected to
find Indians and an uninhabited region.
TUCKERMANs ravine in the White noun
tains has now & snow drift 30 feet deep
and 800 feet long and the water has form
ed cavern under it with an arch $50 feet
in length. .s..
STEAMSHIP ToKIA of the California and
China line is reported missing. Our min
lister Seward was to be passenger, on his
way to testify before the House investiga-
ting committee. t5. 81
r,.. ~ n n I'LL +,rr ant 10A mn nm
bushels of wheat this year, so says an en-
thuslastic correspondent Of the St. Paul
Press. Take off three cyphers and it
would then be bordering on canard.
GENERAL GRANT landed at Christania,
Norway, one day last week where 10000
people met him with hearty cheers. King
Oscar II came also to meet him and ten.
der him reception and q public dinner.
Two thousand American cattle Is the
average weekly number arriving at Liver
pool per steamer, and in that city's cattle
market the American animals have for
weeks greatly prcdominated.
A Japanese junk was found at sea 100
miles from San Francisco without living
creature on board. Several corpses were
found, some were shackled together, and
some we're dressed in costly material
THE grasshoppers have appeared in Gen.
trail America. Latest adyices from Hon
duras state that crops have entirely disap.
peared in day, and the sparsely populated
localities are entirely at their mercy
DURING the present month upwards Of
half million dollars in gold has been
changed for silver at par So the Presi.
dents veto of the bill WAS not true re.
Election of the peoples idea of the matter.
MOUNT Washington is suffering a water
famine; rain has not fallen for three weeks
and water for the engines on the railway
has to be brought from the base. On
Monday there was g perfect calm on the
summit -. ......... ....
THE Democrat Central committee have
called their Territorial Convention at
Yankton for the Doth of August Total
number Of Delegates, 95. The Black Hills
region has the highest appointment of del
egates Lincoln county has delegates
BARS Of pure gold, weighing twenty lbs
each, have been ploughed up at or near
Lexington, N. c., to the value Of some
$4,000. I, is supposed to be the proceeds
of stage robbery committed some forty
five years ago, when the thieves hid the
metal.
@. W. BuRLETGH, OF Capron, III. adver-
tised to lecture on a certain night, and at
the close would shoot him himself. A
full house was the result, and his lecture
remarkable one, at the close of which
before friends could intefere he drew a re
vol0er and blew his brains out
JAMES G.. BENNETT just returned from
Europe; proposes to expend $4,000 upon
another Arctic exploration. He will send
two vessels to different points. One Of
them he outfits completely and will also
furnish the other vessel, but wants the
Navy Department to supply the other.
THE latest gold excitement is that Of
the Bear Paw mountains One gentleman
says he obtained $500 in nine DAYS, and
the color showed IA high as SIS cents
to the pan. Bismarck is full of gold seek
ers waiting for transportation there. There
is said to be two Indians 20 one gold there.
THE matter Of public park is being
discussed by the Press, for the Capital city.
A shady, well kept park is great attrac.
ton and source of comfort and pleasure,
Cities that are to be should not fail to plan
and luild these places at an early day at
ter their formation.
AT the Ocean Grove camp meeting, a
Miss Jennie Smith who had been a Grip.
pie for 1G years and had preached some,
making one subject her daily prayer that
she might be restored to health, walk
into the Tabernacle, land testified, with
voice choked with tears her remarkable
cure in answer to prayer.
The people of the coast Of Labrador are
represented to be in dreadful plight
The fl sheries failed last fall, and the trad.
ers, who usually barter supplies with them
:o1 Ash ant, oil, consequently nave with
drawn from that region. Nothing of con-
sequence will grow there, aud some fami-
lies have died of starvation.
NPoTTEp Tail has become indignant
at the actions Of commissioner Hoyt with
drawing permission for Catholic priests
and teachers to remain among his tribe.
He informed the Protestant teachers and
ministers that they we're not wanted and
that if they followed them up to their new
reservation trouble would ensue, as the
members Of this tribe would not tolerate
them.
The Steam wagon Oshkosh" made the
trip from Green Bay to Madison, Wis, 210
miles, IN SO hours and ~ seconds, being 6
hours ahead of the time set The machine
is handsome one, weighs 1890 pounds,
and with wood and water for 8 miles
weighs $500 pounds. 1t hauled the whole
distance wagon weighing $500 pounds;
most of the road way was hard travel.
heavy sand and gravel.
On Monday inc ga the through train
from Milwaukee ran into Emmettsburg,