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The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-09-30
FOREIGN.

CHILL accepts the mediation of the Uni.
ted States between itself and Peru.
OLDHAM cotton spinners have resolved
to run their mills only four days week
A DISPATCH from Havana says there is
not now one armed insurgent in the whole
island.
In connection with the dynamite affair
suspicion points to three or four dis
charged railway servants. Nobody has
been arrested
THE health of General Roberts is quite
restored. His forces leave Candaha1
shortly. and will be replaced by General
Phayre's troops. numbering 1900.
A LONDON magistrate has sentenced
Henry Perry, convicted of assaulting and
robbing a bank messenger on the under
ground railway, to thirty lashes and
twenty years imprisonment.
A CANDAHAR dispatch says: The troops
who went to bury the dead on the battle.
field of Kushk-Nakhud, report that the
loss of the Afghans must have been enor-
nous. The Afghans were employed
eight days after the battle in burying their
dead.
NJ. WADDISGToN, late prime minister
of France, who was charged by Herr Won
Buhler, of Germany, with making public
certain state secrets, asks the Berlin gov.
ernment to officially contradict the asser.
ton 1t is reported in Paris that Wad,
dington has sent a challenge to Won
Buhler.
The Dirito saws: "The latest note
drawn up by the British cabinet, and now
communicated to the powers, demands the
cession of Dulcigno without further delay
Admiral Seymour has been invested with
full power to take up whatever position
he considers most advantageous for the
purpose of the demonstration"
THE viceroy of India telegraphs that
Yyoob Khan is two marches beyond
Girishk, on the road to Herat. 1t is
rumored that the Zamadwir people offered
to assist him, but he refused. The tele'
graph line from Candahar to India ha:
been restored.
THE conditions of the River Nile causes
anxiety. 1t is rising unsatisfact orily, and
is several weeks late The inundation is
lower than at the corresponding period in
1879. Irrigation. however, proceeds well
There are some complaints from the in
terror that the cotton crop has suffered
but to what extent is not known.
ToDLEBEN, the hero of Sebastapol and
the commander who, assisted by famine
and plague, reduce Plevna during the
Russo-Turkish war, has esigned the gov.
ernorship recently rendered him by the
czar The old warrior is said to have
grown incapable CT administrative service
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The Habit Of Self.Centrol
Philadelphia Public Ledger.

If there is one habit which, above all
others, is deserving of cultivation, it is
that of self-control. In fact, it includes
so much that is of value and impor-
tance in life that it may almost be said
that in proportion to its power does the
man obtain his manhood and the wo-
man her womanhood. The ability to
identity self with the highest parts Of
our nature, and to bring all the lower
parts into suHection, or rather to draw
them all upwards into harmony with
the best that we know, is the one cen
trail power which supplies vitality to all
the rest. How to develop this in the
child may well absorb the energy
of every parent; how to cultivate it in
himself may well employ the wisdom
and enthusiasm Of every youth. Yet
it is no mysterious or complicated path
that leads to this goal. The habit Of
self-control is but the accumulation Of
continued acts Of self-denial fOr q
worthy object; it is but the repeated
authority Of the reason over the impul-
ses, ofthe judgment over the inclina-
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-09-30

COMMISSIONER LIE Ducks proposed
experiment with artesian wells on the
plains meets with the hearty approba-
tlon of the Pacific Coast people. The
Portland Oregonian believes that one Of
'hese wells might save a prospector's
lie. and the debt which the country
wes to prospectors is worth many such
expenditures. But in a purely selfish
sense, If for no other, the experiment
should be tried Between the Rocky
mountains and the Cascade and Sierra
range are millions upon millions OF
acres which only need supply of wa
Ter TO convert them into seats ofbeauti-
iul homes. 1t is as well for the govern
hient to try a moderate expenditure
with view of ascertaining whether the
vast region which only few years ago
was put down on the maps as the
1reat American Desert may not yet
rom schoolhouses, homes, and church
spires flash back the lights of civiliza-
ton. In this direction private enter
Prise Is already doing much. Upon
the great waterless region encroach-
ments are constantly being made, and
rams fall and springs burst forth under
the gradual modification of nature by
human agency. 1.-THE government could
oe induced to lend its aid, the money
50 expended could not be devoted to a
better use. sM
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GENERAL NOTES.

A COURTHOUSE and Jail, to cost Sl5O.OOO
will be erected by La Sale county at Otta-
wa, ILL.,, next summer.
Mrs. HAZARD, of Monticello, ILL.,, gave
birth to FIVE babies on the 23nd inst. Two
are living.
A v1RULENT form of rinderpest has
brokon out in Volhynia-the principal
cattle raising district of Russia.
MOORE, JENKINS & Co., wholesale gro
GERS of New York, have failed, uuexpect-
edIy, with liabilities that are supposed to
reach $25O,OOO. The amount Of assets is
not stated.
A DUEL between Ute and a Navajo
occurred recently near Santa Fe. Their
quarrel was about squaw, and they
fought with knives. The Ute was killed.
AN unusual demand for silver dollars is
gladdening the hearts of treasury officials
Two hundred thousand oftke sinners have
gone south this week.
A ST. LOUIS committee will 90 to Wash
ington to beseech Gen. Walker to order
another enumeration of the inhabitants OF
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that city. Hon. James O. Broadhead
leads the forlOrn hope.


leads the forlorn hope.
REV. f. P. ADAMS, the Dunkirk, n. Y,
preacher who rejected the doctrine of
everlasting torment, has been deposed
from the Presbyterian ministry as her
etic.
GEN. GRANT and ex-senator Lyman
cession at the Rockford, ILL.,, fair, on the
18th inst. The latter made speech of a
non-partisan character.
THE telephone men OF Springfield, ILL.,,
undertook to put up their poles on Fifth
street, on Sunday, in order to escape an in
junction, but the city marshal arrested
them for violating the law in regard to the
observance of the Sabbath.
A MOB of several hundred men and boys
attacked the old skating-ring at Milwau-
kee, on the 18th inst, and tore it down,
CARRYING away the timber. The ground
the new exposition building, but the lessee
refused to come to terms. The police
made no attempt to check the mob.
DISPATCHES from South America state
that there is prospect of peace between
Chill and Peru. England, France and
Italy are said to have convinced the first
far enough, and United States Minister
Christiancy is now at africa, where he will
meet certain high Chilian officials to dis
cuss proposals for peace.
A CIRCULAR has been issued by the sec
retary of the treasury, instructing the as
sistant United States treasurer at New
York to pay out at his counter, until fur
ther notice, standard silver dollars, or sill
yer certificates, in sums of $40, or any
multiple thereof, for ike amounts of gold
coin, or gold bullion, deposited with him.
LAFAYETTE S. FOSTER, of Connecticut, a
direct descendant of Miles Standish, is
dead. Mr.. Foster was Z. S. senator at the
time of the assassination of Lincoln, and
on Mr. Johnson's elevation to the presi-
dency became yice-president of the United
States, which position he held until his
term expired, when, failing of reelection
to the senate, Mr.. Wade, of Ohio, was
made president of that body.
A DISPATCH from Calistoga, California,
says: Great excitement has been aroused
III this vicinity for the past two weeks over
a report that the Hot Springs held large
quantities of geld in solution. y man
who recently bought the Hot Springs
hotel property has been at work for the
past few weeks extracting gold from the
water, by a process known only by himself,
Clearings up to yesterday afternoon showed
that he has succeeded in extracting 81 ,O60
from ten barrels of water. The gold is of
the highest grade Of tineness, and as the
springs volume of water is exceedingly
large, it would be useless to attempt to cs-
innate the value if they continue to yield
as rich returns as the experiments have
proved thus far"
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THE Catholic Archbishop of Quebec,
in letter addressed to his people, rep
rehends the tendency of young men of
his see to seek homes in the United
States. The Archbishop should ad-
dress his protests to the cause not to
the effect The feeble government of
Canada is in close quarters with a giant,
and the industrial competitor with that
giant would be a hard task under the
most favorable circumstances imaglna-
bic. But added to all her natural short
eomings, Canada is fishing up for her
self bed of brambles, upon which her
siumbers will ere long be much disturb
ed. The young men hasten to our
states because they can make money
by so doing. Can the Archbishop show
them that they are in financial error?
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HIGH Russian officials are dangerous

HIGH Russian officials are dangerous
people to have around on account of the
ubiquity of the Nihilist, and the liabil-
ity of an explosion wherever Grand
Duke puts his foot A "cracker' in
the shape of large can of dynamite
was last week found upon the track Of
Scotch railway, which had been
placed there to lift the Russian Prince
Constantine into the air when the train
upon which he was carried should pass
over it. The train had passed, but the
machinery had failed to act. and an ex-
plosion had been averted seemingly by
the hand of God.
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CRIME.

WILLIAM SMITH, 4 merchant of Damas.
Gus, Pa, ruined himself and partner by
stock speculation and fled the country.
JAMEsS. GROVER, prominent citizen
and merchant of Oak Creek, Wis, hung
himself on the 2lst inst.
MAJ. NELSON, of the pay department o
the army, is now on his way to New York
in custody. He is short about $4,000.
THURsToN, who attempted to assassinate
Col. d. R. Anthony, of Leavenworth
Kan, has been sentenced to eighteen
years Imprisonment.
F. F. HAwLEY, mail agent on the Louis,
vile 4 Nashville railroad, has been ar,
rested on the 10th inst, by the United
States Marshal, charged with embezzlinp
letters from the mail.
MIKE MCDONALD, Of Chicago, ILL.,, the
teamster who confessess to the killing OF
Lewis Butler. colored, has been held by
the coroner to await the action Of the
grand jury.
The internal revenue officers on the 10th
inst, captured an illicit still, running at
No. 394 North Water street Chicago, ILL.,,
as a vinegar factory under the manage
ment of Throse & Herman, both of whom
were arrested. The value ofthe outfit was
about $1,000.
A MOB of white men took six negroes out
of Jail at Sadlersville, Robertson county,
Tenn, on the 18th inst, and lynched
them. They were accused of murder, and
their trial had been in progress during the
previous day.
CHARLES EAYERs has been arrested in
Boston for attempting to negotiate forged
notes to the amount of $4,000. He is al
legged to have falsely used the Endorsements
of a well known bank officer, and also of
his own aunt.
No clue to the identity of the unfortu-
nate woman calling herself Mrs. Harris,
who died in St. Paul, on Sunday, has been
obtained. 1t is known, however, that her
statement that she was the novelist of that
name was false.
DR.. TALcorr, editor and proprietor of a
greenback paper at Maryville, Mo-, was
shot and killed, late on Saturday night,
at his residence near that place. He was
seated near a window, reading, when
some person unknown fired at his shadow
on the curtain. He died with the firm
conviction that his assassin was in the en-
ploy of national bank association, but
neither his family nor his neighbors share
this belief.
4 SPECIAL from Corning, O., says: One
of the MALTA officers to-day found sus-
picious character in camp, who, upon be-
ing pressed for particulars, said that in the
battle of Sunday one miner was killed
outright and eight wounded, one of whom
will die The man who was killed was
buried on the way home by his associates.
1t is said the miners expect arms from
some quarter, and intend making gener-
al attack on the troops as soon as the arms
arrive, and that they will commence oper-
ations by burning buildings The colored
miners all went to work.
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TON, d. T., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 80, 1880.

an uncanny, cerie feeling looked
around. By the dim daylight that
struggled down the shaft the cave
graually outlined itself, and there half
hidden in the shadows, but looming,
lonely, mysterious, like phantom of a
bygone age, they saw the ship. Assur-
ing themselves by a short survey ofthe
facts they had learned the Mi ght be-
fore, the prospectors hurriedly assembled
the shaft and spent the rest of day in
concealing as well as possible the
traces of their excavation. This done,
they went to the cabin of a well-to-do
miner living some thirty miles down
the gulch, and to him first told their ex-
traordinary story This gentleman is
perfectly reliable, and together with a
well-known mining expert residing in
that city has seen and examined the
ship, and will take steps to preserve
the wonderful discovery to the world in
all its possibly great historical value.
The minute particulars as to locality
are at present withheld for a. very OBJ
vious reason-they would attract a
horde of vandal sight-sees, who would
soon destroy the moldering dust beyond
hope Of restoration, and until the
proper authorities can be sent for they
will not be published
The discovery Of the junk-like ship
with its unknown architecture, herlneti-
cally sealed in a cavern fifty feet below
the surface of the earth, gives scope to
indefinite speculation. The only pos
sible explanation seems, however, that
ages, or nons perhaps, agone, a vessel
bearing a crew of bold discoveries,
tossed by the waves, sought harbor in
a cave within cliff. The waves then
receding left it stranded there, and the
great continental divide, the awful up
heavals and convulsions of nature,
which we know 80 little of and can
only blindly speculate on, pressed the
face of the earth together and sealed it
in a living grave. And this is but a
cropping guess, yet in what strange old
seas the vessel sailed, what unknown,
ancient waters pressed against its peak
ed prov, under what prehistoric skies
it pitched, what man can toll?
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Absent
Hartford Courant-

One OF the most amusing cases of alb
sent-mindedness of which we have
heard for some time occurred in this
city a few days ago. A prominent and
very successful business man whose
place of business is in the Fourth Ward,
was requested by lady friend
OF his who is stranger in the
city, to go with her to the post Office.
After satisfying the clerk as to his
identity of the lady, he took the mail
out of his box and hurried back to his
place of business on foot, leaving the
small boy still guarding the horse. Ar.
irving at his Office he proceeded to di-
gest the contents ofthe henumerous letters,
and then with characteristic prompt
ness answered those that needed re-
plies, and started back to the post
office. AS he approached the latter
place he noticed, standing at the side
walk, a horse that struck him as being
remarkably like his own elegant road
ster. He wondered who could be the
fortunate possessor of an animal SO
completely resembling the one that was
the pride Of his heart. and Immediately
the thought that he would like to Sc
cure this one, and thus be able to turn
out with & match team that would
make him the object of envy of all
hose-fanciers in the country, took pos
session of him. The more nearly he
approached the more striking became
the resemblance, and the more anxious
he became to purchase, until his mem
ory was startled from its slumber by
the piping voice of the small boy who
held the horse inquiring: Mister, are
you pretty near ready to take your
horse?" There the faithful youngster
had been standing in the broiling sun
for an hour or more holding that horse,
while its owner was entirely oblivious
of the fact that he had driven it there
that day. The feelings of that business
man may be imagined, but not de-
scribed. 1t may reasonably be sup
posed that if kicking himself would do
any good, he would not he able to sit
oOm fOrtably for week.
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out O. the mine. except John Cogan, who
no doubt was fatally injured.
THE iSentiners Green Bay special says a
disastrous fire occurred there on the 23rd
inst, which destroyed 60 dwelling houses,
best in the city. The FIRE department Of Oc-
onto and Derere responded to call for aid.
The fire broke out in Astor mill and spread
to, Adams, Jefferson and Madison streets
and jumped to Cherry, Pine, and Cedar
streets. The flames only stopped when
they reached the river Loss is estimated
at $l50,00O or S175,00O. Insurance light.
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OLE BULLS TRICKS.
some OF the Clever Inventions by
Which He Charmed an Ignorant Au-

Ole Bull, who undoubtedly was re-
markable violinist; was certainly not
one Of the great classical "serioux"
style, but rather of the sensational eff
feet school, not entirely free from
tricks which Robert Machire baptized
"blagues." The above-alluded-to lille
gitimate effects were in some instances
by him exaggerated, with result
which immensely pleased American
he had diminished his tone to nearly
inaudible pianissimo, did he continue
the attitude, as if he was playing, but
actually having drawn off the bow en-
tirely from the violin, holding it in the
air, and producing no tone whatever; !;
while his audience, in raptures at the
softness of his really inaudible sighs,
made ear-trumpets of their hands and
bent forward, eager to catch the sound
which did not exist. Ole Bull, as if
suddenly awakening from q trance,
seemed to come to and bowed to the
enraptured audience. Another of his
inventions, with which at first he aston
ished even the learned violinists at
Vienna, was the facility with which he
played four-stringed chords, which he
did by cutting the usually bowed bridge
quite straight. That he did not sue
ceed in binding great men like Spohr,
who spoke his mind very decidedly
against him, is not to be wondered at.
As n gentleman very much liked in
society, on account Of his courteous
manners and sincerely obliging ways,
he won the sympathy and esteem of
his countryme en- by his serious endeayor
to do good by founding in Norway
schools for literature and art and build
ing theatre, trying hard to benefit
his people in Europe after he had fail
ed to do so, with great personal sacri-
fee, in America.
tions, of the sense of duty over the de-
sires. He who has acquired this habit,
who can govern himself tellectually,
without painful effort and without fear
of revolt from his appetites and pas
sions, has within the source of all real
power and of all true happiness. The
force and energy which he has put
forth day by day, and hour by hour, is
not exhausted nor even diminished; on
the contrary, it has increased by use
and has become stronger and keener
by exercise, and, although it has al
ready completed its work in the past,
it is still his well-tried, true, and power
full weapon for future conflicts in high
er regions.
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Plulnbago.

Probably there is nothing so univer-
sally familiar in use, and also so utterly
unknown to the users in its nature and
origin as the common lead pencil, the
consumption of it in this country alone
being estimated by the most compe-
tent authority at 7S.O0O,0O0 per year.
Its very name, perpetuating the old
leaden plumet familiar among the
treasures of the boys first pocket is a
misnomer and mistake, "black lead,"
having no more resemblance to lead
than chalk has to cheese. Most people
suppose the "lead" is melted and
poured into the hole in the pencil
wood, but it is ground to an almost I'M
palpable powder, mixed to paste with
water, made into long coil like wire
by being forced through small hole
Gust as water issues from a syringe,
straightened, and out in lengths and
baked like pottery. The darkness" is
due to an admixture Of clay. The pen
Gil is made in two halves by machinery
at cheap and rapid rate, and the pro-
cesses, which cannot be related here at
length, are among the most in
teresting in American lectures.
The material called "black lead'
is as marvellous as India rubber,
although less protean. 1t is simply
carbon, and is an enigma and bundle
Of Inconsistencies. Its unlikeness to
lead is suggested by saying that its
weight is less than one-fourth that of
lead, and that while lead fuses at low
temperature, graphite is not friable at
any temperature known; on the con-
trary, no substance known, surpasses it
in resisting heat. Carbon in ordinary
anthracite burns; carbon in graphite
refuses to burn. A crucible of graph
ite, buried to the top in mass of burn
ing anthracite-carbon in carbon-not
only refuses to burn, but melts its me-
tallic contents. The diamond, as it is
commonly known, is nearly pure car
bon; but so is graphite. The latter is
the softest substance dug from the
earth; the diamond is the hardest sub
stance known.-G Cincinnati Gazette.
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ing; he seemed dead to everything

ing; he seemed dead to everything
around him.
"He's her cousin, she says" said
the guide, "and she takes mighty good
care Of him, for all she seems so
rough"
In the room above this, a family of
four lives, the children sleeping on the
floor. With the house SO fenced in
from every breath of air, the sufferings
of the inmates from heat must be terri
BILE. Yet there are hundreds of houses
like this in New York. Carefully pick
ing his way down the stairs and over
the dirty courtyard, the visitor depart
ed, and the blear-eyed lounger once
more idles in the alley waiting for
something to turn up.
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THE feud between the Orangemen
and Catholics, which, becoming com
plicated with local politics, has SO add
ed to the general misfortunes ofCanada.
is seemingly as full of baleful energy as
ever. At Ottawa, the monument over
the grave of Fireman Robert McAuley,
who was murdered in October 1879,
has been Overthrown and broken into
pieces. McAuley was an Orange
Young Briton.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-09-30

A HUNGARIAN officer named Szerkrc-
mesky swan across the Plattern
sea. The distance was twenty English
miles, and the time seventeen hours.
The swimmer did not suffer from eX-
haustion, and frequently conversed
with the occupants of boat which ac-
companied him. The only ;refreshment
taken was Il little vine
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-09-30

THE evidence is conclusive that some
brother uttered a profane oath ip a
me ting of the Universalist church at
Reading, Pa, but it is not clear who
he was. There was great deal of
confusion, a charge of falsely counting
the vote on the resignation of the pas
tor having been made, and the highly
Objectionable words were among the
many calculations. An investigation is
to be held.
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A QUEBEC newspaper, commenting
or the Catholic archbishop's pastoral,
advising people not to emigrate to the
United States, says that men who leave
quiet Canada for bustling Yankeedom
generally become ruined, body and
,o,,1