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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-09-25

TIMELY.-A company is being formed in
New York to issue bonds of security ON the
fidelity of persons holding places of trust.
1t is called The Guarantee Association of
New York." and it will insure against loss
by fraud just as other companies insure
against loss by fire. A man seeking place
as clerk, teller, housekeeper, cashier ETC., can
apply to this company for bond by which
for consideration, it will guarantee his EN-.
ployers TO make good losses incurred through
any fraud he may commit. The bond will be
good as certificate of character, for OF
course the company will issue its bonds only
to persons whom it may deem trustworthy
Bank and railroad presidents, treasurers OF
stock companies, and other men who handle
the money of others, can thus make theil
employers secure against loss through theil
agency. We do not see why such com
pany should not work well both for itsel
and the parties insured.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-09-25

So far as we know, the sentiment of the
North toward the South is one of almost
universal goodwill. The misfortunes aud
sufferings of Southern people are family
affairs with us all and their prosperity is
an object of general desire. But when such
papers as the Charleston Neps and Courier
declare that If the negro does not vote
with the democratic party he must not vote
at ALL" millions of Northern people can only
hear in it a reverberation of the guns fired
in 1851 on Fort Sumter and the nation.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-09-25

THE Boston Adpertiser is enthusiastic over
the work of the Republican convention. II
says With such candidates and such g
platform the Republicans OF this state have
nothing to do but to gather up their forces
and go forward to certain victory. They
are enlisted in the service of patriotism, Of
justice, and of order and law. Their party
has saved the country when beset with trea
son and armed rebellion. Mr.. Thayer die
not misstate its purpose when he said at the
opening of the convention : 1t will now
save the country from communism aud law
lessness."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-09-25

IMPORTANT MURDER TRIAL. The Billings muir
der trial at Ballston Spa, n. Y, "A celebrated
case in any event, is made more SO by the testi-
mony Of the murderer's only daughter, young
woman of eighteen years, who is the principal
witness against her father. Her parents, though
wealthy people, were constantly wangling, and
the mother is said to have left her daughter forty
thousand dollars three MOI tbs ago, with the un-
derstanding that II Billings killed his wife (he
having already made two attempts upon her lifel
the money should be spent to bring him to the
gallows Nevertheless, the terrible thought that
her testimony must cost her father his life so
wrought upon the young woman that when she
came IN give her testimony in court last week
she broke down in tears, and was 80 affected that
she was unable to go on. Though the evidence
against Billings Is circumstantal, there is no
doubt that he il was who shot his wife through
the window as she sat by the evening lamp but
all that money can do he will undertake To save
his neck
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-09-25

THE credit of Russia seems to be at a low
ebb. OF the three hundred million rouble
FIVE per cent. loan offered at Paris at ninety
three, only one hundred and one millions
were subscribed for, and the dispatches state
that the balance would be taken by the I'm.
perial bank, and peddled out in small lots
amongst its correspondents. Take it all
in all, and the failure to float the loan in one
of the principal money centers of Europe
was humiliating one.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-09-25

PRESIDENT HAYES says If we want
our standard of financial prosperity to be
based upon sure foundations let us remem-
ber-let us all remember-that its best SO.
curity is an untarnished national credit and
sound constitutional currency" If the
President speaks wisely on this point, a
great many other people are talking fool.
ishly TO the injury of their country.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-09-25

THE United Presbyterian thus refers to
the benevolent spirit aroused among all
classes by the sufferings of the South
"There is no heroism on record more noble
than that of the men and women, physicians
and nurses, who, in the midst of the terrors,
with their own lives every moment in jeop-
ardy have stood by the sick and dying,
battling for the alienation of their suffering.
Ministers of religion have acted as nobly,
and the great heart of our people has been
moved to benevolent sympathy that has
drawn from all classes in all parts OF the
country liberal contributions to the necessi.
ties of the sufferers How magnaninous
and Christian is this bipartisan expression
in contrast with the petty attempts to make
church capital out OF every instance OF noble
self-sacrifce on the part of priest or nun
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-09-25

"THE Yankee crusade of 1916 was
unsuccessful in grating the heresy OF cen
tralism upon our government. The princi-
pie OF state rights was neither destroyed nor
diminished by the swords OF the satanic
hosts that overrun our plantations, laid
waste our cities and sent long list of glo-
rious confederates to the grave. And what
is more, the principle of state rights will
ruin the republic yet. The South is march
ing on Mark that The future belongs
to us aud ours. Davis and his cabinet and
his soldiers will rank with the Washing
tons, the Hampdens aud the Tells in the
Pantheon of history, while Grant and his
horde of bloody hirelings will be classed
with the Vandals, Goths and Huns" Oko-
Iona (luiSs) Southern States (dem).
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-09-25

srcKNEy, the latest Fall River defaulter, has
been bankrupt seven years, yet he went ON spend
ing other folks money freely. lie gave n two
thousand dollar reception while he was in Europe
last year, and his house was fitted up in regal
style. People had so much confidence in him
that his credit was almost unlimited, and the IA
cility with which he could borrow money probably
encouraged him in his extrayagant expenditures.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-09-25

The horrors of the Southern plague are
greatly increased by the fact that all indus
tries have ceased. The stores are closed,
the factories are not running, wharves aud
depots are deserted, for boats and trains
neither arrive or depart, so that means for
earning their daily bread is taken away
from those who are not stricken with the
fever. They have all the hours of the long,
long days to listen to the rumbling of the
dead cart as it passes to and fro with its
lifeless burdens, and the brooding over the
terrors that fill each moment with gathering
despair only makes them more liable to be
seized with the fever Work is the panacea
for many evils, and at such times as these,
if the head and hands are occupied the
danger is diminished tenfold And beside
the agony of brooding over the pestiIence,
hundreds and thousands of these people have
nothing to live upon. Their money is gone
and they can earn no more. Even if they
could the store of provisions is exhausted
Markets are closed market wagons have
ceased to come in from the country. Every
thing brought to these cities now is sent
from the North for charity's sweet sake, and
the cry is for more. With all the efforts OF
the sympathizing people enough has not been
supplied to prevent suffering from hunger.
Much has been done, and much more re-
mains to be done
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-09-25

II Butler had been as successful in smash
ing Fort Fisher as he has been with the
Massachusetts, democracy, he would have
gone down to posterity as a great military
genius.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-09-25

IHE Butler ticket IN Massachusetts Is
rapidly falling to pieces. Skillings, who
was nominated for Treasurer and j. Boyle
O'Reily, who was nominated fol Auditor,
respectfully but firmly decline. 1t is under
stood that Caleb Gushing will shortly de-
cline the Attorney-Generalship. Skillings
couples his declinaton with some remarks
which indicate his possession of a very level
head. He admits that times are about as
hard as Butler paints them, but advises all
who think that they can Immediately legis-
late good things, to consider that :" the real
capital of this or any other country lies in
good, honest labor, which, with temperate, in
dustrious and economical habits, will right
all their wrongs" 1t is plain that man of
that way of thinking has no business upon
Buffers ticket.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-09-25

By careful computation in England lately,
it was found that the wages of the laboring
classes amounted yearly to about 81, 100000.
OF this sum they might put by one-half and
yet live comfortably, but in reality they do
not save much over one-eighth, while they
squander in drink each year S55,000,O0O.
That money would have gone far towards
preventing the ruinous strike in Lancashire
which caused so much suffering 1t would
have made many families comfortable that
during the past summer have been upon the
verge OF starvation. Few however, think
of and realize these facts, but when the evil
has come the laborer is full of complaints
regarding what cannot be prevented, and
full OF determination to pull down and de
stroy, instead of looking to see whether any
of the responsibility of his position rests
with himself.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-09-25
ll7atrhmar Dc yonrpaL
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER %, 1878.
The Butler ticket in Massachusetts, is

TrRMss2OO per year. strictly in advance, $3.50 II not
paid within three months.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-07
The Difference.

One year ago the people Of Lincoln Coun-
ty were acting as q self constituted COM
mittee, on ways and means. Some were
solcitous as to the method food could be
obtained, for their support during the sea-
son. Others that were fortunate in hav
ing sufficient for that purpose, were eqal-
Nv exercised over the absence OF seed
grain, or the means with which to procure
it, And above all rested that fearful sus-
pense as to another Grasshopper visisatlon,
Meetingrs were held, clubs organized,
men were experimenting upon the most
effective means of destroying the young
hoppers that were hatchlpg by the mil
lions.
Lands that had been broken and were
suitable for tillage, were either abandoned
entirely, or remained idle for the reason
thu. their owners were unable to obtain
seed, or were disheartened at the pros
pect of a crop if one was put ln
Some left never to return, some tempo
rarilv, and those that could sell did, ana
left to try other localities.
1t was literally period of gloom, the
most cheerful men felt that the outlook
was of little promise and SO all waited
with more of ioreboding than of cheer, for
harvest days
They came, and those that had sown in
darkness and with but little faith, reaped
many fold beyond what had been 5truwn.
1t was like the lifting of a dense cloud
that had been bearing destruction, aud de-
yastation, and the rich harvest was the
golden sunshine, dispeliing all traces of
the cyclone.
Had any one twelve months since
propheced what, or a portion OF that mat
now exists he would have received but lit
tie credit for his foresight.
AS to some matters the present condi-
lion is almost without parallel. Inc
imm;uru,ion movement of 1856, perhaps
NAV have been nearly rs acllye, Out hot as
general and of the class that now com
prise it,
Wheat raising seems to have been, and
is now, the first and principal move OF
the farmers in opening up his farm
Twenty wears ago or the period above re-
ferred to grain lands were the great desid-
pratr.n- and as is the usual course III all
of thsse periodical migratory movements,
tho nesrcst lands to Railroad and Rlyer
transportation were first selected and
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-07

THIRD VOLUME

OF the ADVOCATE is commenced will
this nnmber. Our connection with it,
publication for the past sixteen months
to us, has been with few exceptions pleas
ant. Although far from a fna.ical sue
cess, it has proved more satisfactory thar
we anticipated, but the desirable associa
tons it has engendered, the extended anC
agreeable acquaintances and many warn
friendships formed, compensates for all the
blue days we have experienced.
The same money that County paper
receives for its subrCrinti0n, viii Of course
secure much beller paper from among
the larger CITY publications, but the home
paper should be sustained. That the
Press has become one Of the most power.
fnl institutions in the civilized world, is a
fact. 1t moulds sentiment upon almost
every question that concerns mankind in
general Religious or secular, The masses
are more or less influenced and governed,
| by suggestions emanating from the leading
| and inf lucn:ial publications of the day.
The daily history of the world, the deeds
Of men and nations, the progress and
down fall Of parties, the principles and
theories of government and men, the
needs and lallacies of communities, the
advancement, and rerogradation that
comes alike to all at times. the, Leautles
and drawbacks of systems and localities,
all these and more that goes to make up a
busy and useful life are brought to the
readers tiresidc through the medllm OF
the Press.
The County newspaper though limited
and obscure, ia its circulation and sphere
is the home medium for the tran smission
of local news and while it gives to its pat
rons the history Of their locality, II abroad
becomes the text book for reference to
strangers, who search its columns for ill.,
formation as to the locality, It's advaAtag
es, improvements and prospects
The County paper can be made just
what its latr ms desire it to be. If they
are dissatisfied with is cDnluct, or with
the interiorly of its managers, a change
can be affected for an editor who does
not come up to the patrons idea soon
learns that fact, and his diminished list
and weakening supp ri soon forces him t.
leave the field.
Ifyou wan. the claims Of your County
properly advocated, the advantages and
Inducements it offers to settlers approprl-
ate!y set forth, and if you desire to adopt
the best means towards advancing your
own interests, and that Of your country,
then you can not be too liberal in extend
ing elping hand towards malntainlnS
your home newspapers. BY them people
learn your true condition, your facilities
for acquiring wealth, and if properly CON
Quoted will be the means of drawing
within your b,rd4rs tAat class OF mel,
whose settlement becomes Indispensable
in elfecting full and proper development
OF what nature has laid the ground work.
Thanks, express but feeble apprecla-
ton of what we really feel, for the kind
treatment received from our patrons, and
should the continuance be extended, &C
cent our assurance that what feeble efforts |
we can, will be exercised towards merit |
ing your approval.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-07
Another Reduction in fare.
The Saint Paul & Sioux City &
Sioux City & Saint Paul
Railroads.

Will celebrate the coming in of the
New Year by general reduction Of TO-
cal ticket fares from Fioe Cents to -Four
Gents, per mile ON all divisions of their
roads, to take effect January 1st, 1878.
It appears from the official reports ID.
the Railroad Commissioners office that
these companies in more than twelve years
of operation have never killed or injured
any passenger or lost piece Of baggage.
Their express trains are equipped with
the Miller platforms, and Westinghouse
Automatic Air Brakes, and in everything
pertaining to the safety and comfort 6
connections, are not excelledby snyin tho
country.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-07
COUNTY OFFICERS.

J.w. CAhrKR, District Attorney.
" NJ. CUprErT, Clerk of District Court.
THonR J. THoNsrAD, Register Of Deeds and E1
eifico County Clerk.
GEO. W. NAYLoa, Treasurer.
j. O. FrrzoERALD, Judge Of Probate.
A T. DIXON, Sheri.
R.C.IAcoas Super 4tendent of Schools.
A ARNEsoN, Chairman,
w. W. PALMER, %. Commissioners.
NJ. T. HoGoBOoM,
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-07
CANTON PoST.oFFICE ECToRY

Southern daily mail arrives every day except Sun
asy 1t 8: 80 p. NJ Departs every day except Sunday
At 6 4. NJ.
Northern daily mail arrives every day except Sat-
ard ~ at 80 A. N. Departs every day except Mon
da y at AN.
Canton and Mlltown mail arrives eAery Tuesday
And saturday rt 6 P. NJ. Departs every Monday and
Tt ursday At A. M.
Cauton Richlnnd mail arrives every Friday, at
sp.M. Departs every Thursday, at A. NJ
Canton L Vermon mail departs every Thurs
day st 8 A. N. Arrives every Friday at $ =. NJ
ONCE oIen from A. M. to ppm ON SUNDAYS
.rom1 to q PM and one hour after the mail ar
rives from the NORTH
JOHN FALDE. Postmaster.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-07

/ grain raising became the principal bus
ness. Now lands that once bore marvt
lous crops OF wheat and other small graf n
as \ general thing have become exhausle.
f.r that purpose, and the improvement
made and transportation facilities afforded
has placed these fa4 ms at u valuable figure
50 much 80 that that only men of means
can become possessed of any respectable
quality.
The parents of young men having accu,
mulated a competency, and des!rous OF
aiding their children il obtaining lands
where they can try thelr hand at the same
busineess have sold their farms at an ad-
vance price. leaving them sufficient for
their own use and enough to settle the
boys in the new west where they can be
gin life as their parents did years ago
This is the principal cause of the great
rush that is daily witnessed on the lines
of our western roads and with this class
CT ,aen come Of course an occasional cap.
italist following in the wake or leading.
Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota,
Iowa and this Territory are fairly swarm
ing with immi grants, who are looking for
locations which are to be transformed into
homes
We fortunately are in the heart Of the
wheat lands: our soil has the element for
bearing immense crops for years yet to
come. Grass lands for stock, are also so
extensive that but a little while will wit.
ness the double enterprise Of
one of the finest grain
and stock countries on the globe, which
will exist for years before the necessity of
using fertilizers will occur.
There is an attraction here, that those
who have once tried it, will admit. Gil
mate unsurpassed, a ferti ily, equal to that
Of any portion OF the United States. Citi-
zens whose enterprise has become a mat
ter Of comment, and prospects for Educa-
tipnal, Church, Malufactory and Ralroad d
interests that before another decade will
stamp this country beyond liability Of
failure.
At the end of the iron, the trains are dai-
y dropping their hundreis, WAC scattcr
over the prairies select their site and com,
nence Improvements The counties
above us are being settled at marvellous
.ate Duel County for Instance that two
months ago could hardly muster corpo |
rails guard, is now organized and it is said |
hat its present population exceeds 800,
and is daily increasing, 50 in other conn-
les this side and west on tine Vermillion |
and James River
Let the dirt begin to fly on any of The
projected roads that are headed this way,
md we shall get taste of this breeze
Second to n" county in Dakota Territory,
our people already feel and appreciate the
great and hanpy difference, between the
present and tEeir situation year ago.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-07


at this business. Stpson Go
Portland, N.ins.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-07

Five Hundred Thousand persons were
present at the opening Of the Paris expo
O,iti3n.
The famine IN China is increasing
and one fiend opened shop, for traffic in
human flesh, but the authorities arrested
him and caused him to be behcaded.
Gen. Kautz is being court martialed
at Omaha. GEMS Crook, Augur and
King are the detail for conducting the
trial.
The Indebtedness Of Russi, is bcliev.
ed to be about $4,000, 100000, of which
1866, 100000 is forced government paper
currency, its value being from twelve to
fifteen per cent. less than gold or silver
The Vermillion Republican is Of the
opinion that "the Hills will vote solid for
Hills man for Congressional delegate" p"
says, If this should be the case, there is
but one allern stive for this balance of the
Territory aud that is to ignore party lines
and vote for our man for delegate"
| The ve-year-old daughter Of an Eighth
street family, the other day, stood watch
ing her baby brother, who WAS making a
great fuss over having his face washed
The little miss at length lost her patience,
and stamping her tiny foot said: You
think you have lots of trouble, but you
don't know anything about it. Wait till
you're big enough to get lickin' and
you'll see-wont h., mammal"
-Cincsnnati Brea fast Table,
After altman is a generous being -
Not long ago one died IN Massachusetts
who had been married only year, and
received fortune of $5O,0O0 from his wife
And what did he do when he founa death.
staring him in the face! Not enrich his re-
latives as he might have done; he willed
it all back to her again, on the simple
condition that she should not marry again
The noble man!
The first congregation of Scandinav-
ian Lutherens in the United States was
organized about 40 years ago. Now there
are 96s congregations, with 332 ministers
and $4,000 communicates. They have
established fur theological seminaries,
six colleges. two orphan homes, sixteen
newspapers, and three bookstores.
What 'they say" is beneath your no.
tice. What's the use of lying awake OF
night with the unkind rema, of some
false friend running through you- brain
like f,rked tightening? What's the use
of getting into worry and fret ove- Cos
sip that has been set afoat to your disao-
vantage by some meddlesome busy body,
who has more time than character. These
things cannot possibly injure, unless, in.
deed you take notice of them, and in COM
batting them give them character and,
standing. If what is said about you is true
set yourself right at once; if it is false let
itgo for what it viii, until i. dies OF in
herant weakness s.-Bredkfdst Table.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-07
A, r. & A. M.

SILVER STAR LoseE No. 4, A. F. A. M. Regu-
lar Communication Wednesday on or before the ful
moon.
. special meeting every second Wednesday after
W. H. MILLER, sR. W. n.
n. CuPPHTr, Secretary.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-05-07

Do not hang yourself because he sells
S!CCAl ROPE
at l24 cts a pound. and at liberal dis
count for
FULL BALES.
You had better simply lariat yourself
when he sells Picket Pins for 20 cents,
and Swivels at cents a piece. But
the most sensible purchase would be the
Irishman's Carriage-THE E Nj URPHY
WHEELBARROW, Tor 50 90, and
filed will Tin Ware from Otto's. And
if you want to make the wife happy the
4.zEGs czzURGE
combined with Butter Worker carnot
fail Of satisfying her that it is the Dest
Charm sold at the low price Of $500.
Prison Work
is not the best by any means, and the
BATCHELLOR FOEh
is ,he only good one Of the kind npt
mad by Prison labor aud Otto is the
only one that sells 4 and 6 tine Manure
and 3 and 4 tine PITCH Fork for 80
cents
The Mosquitoes song and the f'lys'
buzz can be kept at that distance that
tends enchantment b. investing at the
rate Of cents foot for
Green Wire Gauze,
And that Internal squeek Of the wagon
hub shnuld be stopped with some Of
that cents Box
AXLE GREASE,
And his 81 inch cylinder and 10 inch
stroke
Iron pump,
for SO. will throw water from Chluu.