The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-01-09
ODDS AND ENDS.

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1 Stanley the African explorer is to re-
ceive grand reception at France.
+ Gen. Hustled was selected speaker O.
the Assembly of New York.
The city of New York has 1910 miles
of telegraph wire, running over 5000 poles
within its limits. ga 4... -...
/ u. 8. Grant has been appointed U. =
District Attorney for the City of New
York under Gen. Woodford. @
Severe snow storms are PREVAILING e
east, accompanied by cold, freezing wealth
er. 'a
Government is to cell the Centennial
goods that were left and not taken away
by their owners @
Gen. Grant has gained So pounds
since he landed in Europe. These forei gn
banquets and receptions tend to obesity.
! Hay, WHEAT, OATS, PorAroEs, WooD
BUTTER, and Com taken on subscription
at this Office. 49,.
| Clement Morton s. Co., clothing
merchants of Chicago, suspended. Liza.
bilities $350,000, 800 hands are thrown out
of employment. .-"." 49,
England is going to open the prison
doors and free the Fenians. This IS said
to be bid for help in case of war with
Russia. .s"
Don Carlos has been expelled from
France at the request of Spain, and his
wife OK Queen Isabella has published a
piteous appeal to the authorities.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague paid few
years ago $4,000 yard for dress material
and now her husbands paper sells for 2115
cents on the dollar. f--
Brazil refuses to allow colored labor.
ers to land there to work on the Railroad
that is to be built by American contract
ors, .''
The funeral Of J. NJ. Harvey of Chic
ago. was held at the fremont Wednesday
Mr.. Harvey was QUE of the escorts to Gen.
Lafayette when he was here in 1895.
Arizona expends s42,41 per capita for
the education of her children in public
schools; California, S2s.04, and Massa-
chusetts but $40. ..
Lynn is SAID to be losing its trade in
boots and shoes, which used to be almost
monopoly. Western manufacturers are
getting 8 large share of the business. "
Official information was received at
st. Petersburg that tue Chinese have mas
sacred $4,000 men, women and children at
the Kashgarian town of Manas, contain
ing most fr;ghtful atrocities. a@
w. E. Chandler's letter relative to the
President going back on his supporters,
la. occasioned something of futter in po
liti cal circles, ana the Anti Administra-
tion papers are exultant over what they
consider an expose Of fraud. -. 3
The defuncl State Savings Bank has
had refunded to its receiver the revenue
tax of $4,000 upon the grounds that the
proof showed that 1t had been trictly a
savings institution under the law. ~.
Francis Murphy has bareained with
Boston firm to lecture for $3.50 night.
He says that he has not 300 in the world
and that he desires to pay for house that
he has bought in Pittsburg.
Last years wheat crop Is estimated at
three hundred millions of bushels, aud is
said to be the largest ever grown in the
United States. OF this amount one hun
dred and ten million bushels can be spar
ed for expectation. .r5 ~
"A San Francisco correspondent says
that gold is carried around there much as
lead is carted in New York. Boys carry
canvas bags Of gold through the streets.
Kegs and bas 6 Of gold are thrown into
carts as though they were kegs of nails.
In the Bank of Nevada trays Of gold rest
on the connter, uot Gagged and wired in as
in the East, but with as little guard as is
thrown around silks in dry goods stor e,
N. Y.Sun.
Henry Thurston of White Creed, Tex
as, VINO stands seven rect six inches high.
thinks he is the tallest man in the Union.
He Is well proportioned, as strong as gil
ant, and enjoys the best of health. He
fought In the Confederate army, and after
the war, while passing through 81 Louis,
attracted such a throng that he could
scarcely walk the streets. BEING modest,
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