The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1879-10-23
CANTON, D. T.. THURSDAY OCTOBER 23 1879.

Parker is growing rapidly.
i Geese and ducks are plenty now.
1 Rock Valley wants blacksmith.
1 White brick clay has been discovered q,
Flandrean.
1t costs se1s cents per bushel TO ship
wheat from Parker to Milwaukee.
The Deadwood Pioneer has good
backing. 1t is owned by the Houestak ke
mining company.
Antelope are reported quite numerous
in and around Mud Lake, q few miles
north of Swan Lake
Daring u Georgia revival meeting fe "
! evenings ages sl,nutlng negro WON an
kicked sister ON the leg ana broke it.
Father Turner Of Turner county was
thrown from a wagon the other day aud
considerably bruised about tho head and
shoulders, though not seriously.
Judah P. Benjamin, the remarkable
man who has made name and fortune
over again since the end Of the war, re-
Gently sent moor country editor in Louis.
lana check for e5OO.
The total Of the estate left by Hopkins
the California millionaire, was $23,300,-
600. including $5,0O0,000 in bonds and
@3,0O0.0O0 in gold recently discovered to
his credit in the United States treasury.
The Gov. In conclusion, suggests, as the
population is ceEiered in three remote
sections Of the territory difficult of access,
that there should be organized three, "r nj
least two, territorial governments, or IL
this should not be deemed practicable.
that Dakota should be admitted to the
union.
Springfield Times The steamer Peni-
nah is ailoat again and passed up by here
Monday evening. 1t is to be hoped she
will not strike a snag again, especially II
to the rescue, and under the salvage"
dodge rob her slippers as was done when
she sank below here recently.
Instances Of insanity from religious ex
citement are sometimes recorded. but 1t is
not often that an infidels harangue has
the same effect. John w, Carroll Of Oil
City, Pa, however, fel.ra victim to one OF
Bob Ingersoll's recent lectures at a Free
thinkers meeting at ChautarQua lake and
is now in an insane asylum.
More than fifty per cent Of this years
cotton crop III Mississippi, 1t Is claimed
was produced by white labor. 1t is diffl
cult to realize what revolutions are being
constantly effected in old time institutions
Twenty years ag who would have
dreamed of so chimerical an idea rs labor
in The southern cotton fields by other than
negroes?
Roscoe Erress Throug the officials Of
| the Southern Minnesota railroad. we learn
! III d; The samples nf Moody and Lake Co..
| which were placed in the hands of tina,
company by Charles d. Meredith, this
fall were so pleasing to them that they
| have forwarded them to Liverpool, Eng
| land, to show our English neighbors what
| they can expect from Southeastern Dako.
| ia They pronounced them the finest sam.
| pies on exhibition. So much for Lake
and Moody counties
Sioux Falls Panta1raph: The land
officers here l. we received Il circular from
| the department Of the interior, which con
| tains ruling of great importance to par
| Ties expecting TO prove up on their claims
| The circular says that the testimony Of
claimants shall be that Of disinterested
| Witnesses" and il directs the officers to
reject the testimony Of persons who are
members Of or Immediately connected
with the family Of claimant except in
cases where i, is impossible or impractic.
| able to furnish other testimony"
Dakota Citizen: Hansen, Yankton's
| escaped prisoner was seen near the middle
! Of tile county last Friday, report has 1t
that he came to house and told the farm :
er that he was deser,er and got some
| thing to eat. He still wore his handCutfs
Ii is claimed that he WAS seen last Sunday
II ear Clear lake. he went to house and
asked for something to eat, while waiting
for it he saw Il wagon coming towards tue
house, and he, thinking that perhaps 1t
contained some one IN search of him,
skipped and was seen no more. The sup
posed Hansen wore no handouts Sunday.
Sioux Falls Pantngroph: The farmers
are very much delighted at the excellent
prospects for a splendid crop next season.
The recent rams put the ground in fine
condition for fall piowlng, and the warm
weather has sprouted the weeds so that the
frost will clean them out. There isn't q
hopper egg within a thousand miles Of
| us that we know Of, and everything Is
lovely.