The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1879-12-04

Bob Ingorsall says, "The Democratic
! party is a general desire for office without
| organ izlIion. Most people are democrats
| b Cause tn y hate something, and most
pc pie are Ropub leans because tue love
somelhing."
Dr. Glenn, the great California land
monopolis,, has this year sacked 100000
bags of wheat, making $4,000 tons, and
! valued at $2.200,O00 1t is said that this
nets hlm "A yearly loss, and is gradually
but surely swallowing his estate Of 10000
| acres
Dreadful times are at hand In 542
1929 0,OOO poop perished because three
planes were in ptriheion according 20
Glbbon and in l65 a similar periheli on
produced the London plague and the
death of millions in Europe, Asia and AT
RIGA. In 1884 planets will be in perhelion
! What will become Of US?
| The finest corn for making bread is
| produced in the southern States, and 1t is
likely that the general use Of corn bread
in the soulh is owing to the superiority OF
the corn tcr cooking purposes. The sug
ar corn raised and canned IN Maine is
! everywhere noted for its sweetness The
kernals are large and soft
A young woman at Smyrna, N. Y. had
a dream many years ago, of eight men
standing in row before her, with out
stretched hands. She interpreted this to
mean that she was to have eight husbands
Her seventh husband died lately, and al
though she is now S4 she IS confident
that her dream will be fulfilled.
"Tray to boggon" is the new rainy-day
country house pastime in England. You
take = substantial large wooden tray to
the top of flight of stairs, sit in it, hold
on well to the Sides and let yourself 60.
If you manage we'll you slide right down;
if you don't you twist and are tnmbled
over Ladies are said to do it best.
The natives of the Sandwich lIs,ands
greet each other with whoa Emma"
and then sit down on a log and weep in
in chorus. They think it something sad,
something like "Never put off till to-mor-
row what you can do this afternoon.
At the call Of the roll at the milling
Of Congress Monday 2S2 members answer
ed, showing Sc absent. In the Senate,
Senator Ferrv briefly announced the death
of his colleague Zacharia Chandler, and
announced that suitable time he would
present the matter as customary before the
Seratc. Upon fis motion the Senate ad-
! journed Tor the day.
The announcement is made that Edison
has p, last brought TO a successful conclns-
ion his experiments upon the electric light
and that Christmas public exhibition Of
his discovery will be made at Menlo Park
| IN ~, no W
Illuminate with electric tets The rcsul.
will be awaited with much interest, and
if, az is claimed, he has indeed discovered
pract1nble means of subdividing the elec.
trc light. the day Is close at hand when il
will supplant gass and all the means OF
illumination now iE use.
Louisville, KY, was visited by torna
do Saturday morning that destroyed trees
houses and fences. And on the same day
Mt Greenshurg Ind = severe thunderstorm
prevailed during which lightning struck
several buildings, and in Chicago snow
fell to the depth Of one inch.
TIE report of the Commissioner of Ag
riculture shows large increase in tho
sales of public lands to actual settlers dur
ing the past five years The totals are
! | from O.OUV.VUO W 4,UOV,OOV IOT edCu vi tut
4 years 1875, 1876 and 1877 In the yea
ending June, 1878, the totals increased t.
7,166,974, and III 1879 to $3.50, 900 acres
these are sales. The entries under tn,
y Homestead law were 2.69s.O0O in 1877
and in 1879, 100000 acres These figure
e show that very extensive monument i
going forward from the manufacturin,
districts and cities to the unoccupiet
lands; from the older States to the newe
and to the territories.
Leadville is the scene Of worse thai
q where no government exists. The lav
;, abiding citizens had bsco me Indignant u
the la xless acts at the acts of rough
gamblers and thieves, formed vigllanc
committee and were dete rmincd to if pos
t sible check the ncfarious deeds being pei
J, petrated, accordingly two criminals wer
n taken out of Jail and hung. Their friend
rallied together and threatened the live
! Of those who hung the criminals and al
:, so threatened to burn the town Newsps
! per meu were also threatened and gen
eral melee exists bordering Oh anarchy
e Tom Allen, the prize fighter, formeri
Of st Lousis, but now in London, has de
termined to contest Jown Dwyers's It'll
, to the championship of America, and ha
=, iseued challenge to fight Ewyer or an
= other man in the world to catch weight
. according to the rules of the Londo
prize ring, for $1,000 a side. the fight I
Il occur In Canada, within 100 miles Of Blu
, falo or within fifty miles Pittsburg. DIV
: yer says that he has been solicited to fl9f
: number of times since he whipped Jill
Elliot, and the Paddy Ryan has been try
Ing to get him to enter the prize RIM
.r The bruising business, he claims, ia dl
10 tasteful to INN. and he has now entere
h politics with the hope that he will get Ii
,e clerk ship of police court Dwyer is VI
& popular at his own home and when tl
discovery was recently made that althoue
be made about $4,000 ont of his coate
with Elliot. he still permits his aged mot
rs er to be scrub-woman In one oithe Brool
ie lyn public buildings, disfavor for hin
Ut him increased Dwyer IL out If trainin
a. aud probably will not accept Aliens CHI
as sepee.