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The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23
Modern Egyptians.

Their homes mud huts, without win
dow or chimney, OF any aperture for
the admission Of air and light save the
low door. If the floor is ever swept it
swept with a bundle of twigs, and even
the wealthiest among them have only
a few carpets or mattresses, some
brazen cooking utensils, and half a
dozen coffee cups, by way Of furniture
They live and sleep in the self same
garments, have a horror Of soap and
water and do not even unplait their hair
during their long intervals at which
they undergo complete ablution in the
public baths. Each family makes its
own bread in flat flaps, not containing
much more than 4 good-sized slice,
picking and cleaning the corn, and hay
ing it ground into flour at each baking.
At breakfast time they may either
squat around a dish of boiled beans and
oil or chopped herbs, or divide among
them bunch of green onions or raw
carrots as relish to the bread; or in
some cases the men rat together first
and the women and children have to
be content with their leavings. Supper
is usually a vegetable soup, with the
addition Of a little meat if they can af-
ford it, which in bad seasons is very
seldom indeed. Children are dearly
loved but little tended; rolled up in
dirty rags and popped down on a heap
of rubbish or perched upon the moth
er's shoulder, where she cannot see how
their poor little eyes are in1amed by
the dust and stung by the flies, in CON
sequence of which opthalmia RACES al
most unchecked, and many are blind
for life. Great numbers die before they
are years old and it is obvious that
the survivors are those whose constitu-
tions are hardy,
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23

HE numerous projects Of three or
four years ago for great narrow gauge
trunk lines, have nearly all fallen into
oblivion, several Of the short roads al
ready constructed having been absorbed
by standard gauge lines and others hay
ing been unable to make the progress
expected, while many enterprises have
gone no further than nominal Organl-
zatlon. Had the hard times continued,
With light traffic and necessity for econ
omy, it is probable that the narrow
gauge principle would have Jared bet
Ter, but now that money is abundant
and business over-crowding, hard time
enterprises are cast in the shade. A
ew roads of three feet gauge, however,
continue to expand, notably the Den
yer 4 Rio Grande, in Colorado, and the
Toledo. Delphos & Burlington. in Ohio
ana Indiana. The former has already
aoout quo miles in operation and as
many more in process of construction.
Inc latter is now in operation from
ioiedo, o., to Marion, Ird., 153 miles,
With branch Of 26 miles to Shanes'
ofosslng, o., and disconnected line
ifom Dayton to Versailles, O.. Al miles,
making a total of 220 miles on which
falns are running.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23

kind Of Roman fever called the
"perniciosa" whose very name makes
Romans quake with terror, for it carries
one Oft in a couple of hours. Native
Romans think nothing of these fevers
they DO not even call in a doctor if all
goes on we'll; that is if the perspiration
comes out all right. They know ex-
actly what to do, and the fevers have
nc more effect on them than that OF
keeping them in bed during the actual
teverishness. Between the spells, which
return very regularly, they eat, drink,
work, walk and go to the theaters, as
If nothing was the matter with them
and will sometimes continue thus for
for more than eighteen months. They
look as yellow as the lemons, the Juice
Of which they drink but that is all.
With Americans and English, however
the case is different. In the first place,
we begin by being very frightened, and
the quinine has not the same effect
on us as it has upon the Romans. Our
stomachs reject it after u very few
doses, much to the doctors dismay. A
couple of feverish attacks reduce us to
a state Of prostration. We are unable
to lift a handkerchief. The dread
ed "pernictosa" soon makes its
appearance, unless we can be
removed to better air. When the
fever disappears as if by enchantment.
At the first sign of Roman fever,
therefore, every American should
leave Rome Immediately if only for
Frascati, Albano, or any of the sum-
mer resorts which are at the gates of
Rome. Doctors send away patients in
their beds, if they are too weak to be
removed otherwise.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23
From tile Capital.

SENATOR BLAINE has announced his in
tention to introduce a bill providing for
the reduction of letter pastage from to 2
cents.
FERNANDO WooD thinks that the sub
committee, of which Carlisle, of Kentucky,
is chairman, will report in favor of the re-
peal of the tax on bank-checks, matches,
and patent medicines, as recommended in
Secretary Sherman's report.
JUDGE W. B. WOODS. of the Alabama
circuit, will succeed Judge Strony, who re-
tires from the supreme bench on the 10Th
inst. 1t it understood that Attorney Gen.
Devens will soon be appointed in place Of
Justice Clifford.
THE postmaster-general issued an order
raising the following fourth class post
Offices, to the grade of presidential offices, u
from and after the 1st of January next,
with increased salaries as stated; Muir
pheysboro, ILL.,, $1,000; Sullivan, Ill.,,
$1.l0O; Piedmeet, w. Va, $1,l0O; Quir
nessee, Mich, 1900.
! SECRETARY SCHURz has written an elab-
crate letter on the ponca question to Gov
ernor Long, of Massachusetts, in which he
defends his policy, and asserts that the In
dians were the victims of unfortunate cir
| cumstances, rather than OF evil design on
the part of anybody connected with the
Interior department.
GEN. ORD, on being notified of his re-
tirement from the army, vacated his
Office at the headquarters of the depart
ment of Texas, ordering the assistant ad.
jutant general to report to Gen. Sheridan
1t ia rumored that he will 20 to Mexico
| and live with his son-in-law, Gen. Ire
| vino minister of war.
A. H. BUCKNER, of Missouri, chairman
of the banking and currency committee
bill, has introduced bill, providing for
the issue of 5000 900, 900 in treasury notes,
in denominations not less than ten dollars,
and bearing interest not to exceed four
per cent. in payment of the public debt
falling due in 1881.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 18th
says Secretary Thompson this morning re.
quested President Hayes to name his sue.
cessor as he will retire on the Goth inst
The president designated Secretary of Wal
Ramsey to act as secretary of the navy in
addition to his other duties on and after
the date above mentioned.
THE resignation of Secretary Thompson
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23
Blown from a Bridge In HArricane--
Astonishing Survival of Fall.

An accident happened to man named
Jack Welch, recently, and the particu-
lars are so marvellous that, were it not
for the reputation for veracity which
has always distinguished Mr.. Welch,
skeptical people would be disinclined
to express hearty belief in the story.
During the wind-storm, when the wind
was playfully slamning doors, breaking
windows, rolling barrels through the
streets, and chuckling at the veyation
it caused, Mr.. Welch was driving
across the Barring Cross bridge in a
wagon. The roadway across the top
of the bridge is open and exposed to
the weather. A railing about six feet
high runs on each side the whole
length of the bridge. Welch was driy-
ing toward the south side of the bridge,
and accomplished two-thirds Of the
distance, which brought him on the
draw. Just as he reached this point
the wind came with tremendous force
from the west, whistling like calliope.
Sweeping down the narrow passageway
on which the wagon stood, it knocked
the horse down, upset the wagon, and
blew Welch off the bridge into the
river. The top Of the bridge is sixty
feet from the water, and, whirling,
sprawling, tumbling over and over,
Welch finally reached the river feet
first. The water closed over his head
and he went clear to the bottom. After
prolonged submersion, he rose close
to the pier upon which the centre Of
the draw rests. He held to the smooth
iron surface of the pier as well as he
could, but realizing that this support
was somewhat insecure, inasmnch as
he could not hold on at oil, he struck
out for shore. Half drowned and al
most dead from his fearful fall, WEIGH
finally reached the shore, and crawling
out on the bank, lay there until he had
recovered small amount Of the
breath which the freakish air had
caused him to lose. His horses were
stopped at the gate Of the bridge.
Welch made his way home, and yester-
day seemed none the worse from his ac-
cident.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23
4 Corset Story.

A man always gets into a scrape
when he pokes around among his
wife's things without permission. Mr.
Durrie, Of Jersey city, had been an
noyed by having his wife sell his old
clothes to peddlcrs, and thought one
day, when a peddler called in her ab-
sence, that he would reciprocate; sc
he traded lot of her old garments of
for tnware and plaster images, and
among other things pair of half-worn
corsets. He rubbed his hands in silent
enjoyment over the joke. But when
his wife returned and was informed oil
the tran saction, she rushed upstairs to
see what was gone, not finding the cor
sets, exclaimed:
"John Henry, you didn't sell them
corsets?"
"Oh, yes!' he replied. ~ found a
disreputable old pair and let them
CO."
The wife burst into tears, and, be.
tween sobs, explained that, in order to
hide from burglars the $1,1OO he had
entrusted to her for sake keeping, she
had sewed the money up in those cor
sets. John Henry is an humber man
than he was, and can't find the rag
peddler.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23
Victims of Trichinm.
Chicago Times, Nov. 80.

A family of five persons are lying
dangerously i'll at No. 46 West Ran
dolph street from the effects of eating
meat alive with trichina. Two of the
patients, the father and the mother,
are in a critical condition, and the at
tending physician has little or no hope
of their recovery. The family are
Italian, bearing the name of Palingth.
They have been in the habit of eating
ham sausage, purchased, as they say,
of Arnold Brothers, butchers at No.
145 and 147 West Randolph street.
The sausage is eaten without being
cooked. They purchased a quantity
eighteen days ago, they claim, at the
same place, and ate of it late at night
Within few days they became sick,
and finally on Friday, Nov. 19, they
summoned DR.. Henry Tomboeken, of
No. III Madison street, who found
them suffering from severe pains in
the stomach, vomiting and purging.
The symptoms were those of cholera
morbus. He began inquiring as to
the food eaten, and was told of the
sausage. He concluded that it contain
ed trichine, and gave the patients such
medicines as would clear their ston-
achs of what they might still contain OF
the meat. A microscopical examina-
ton of piece of the sausage was made
later, and myriads of the very danger
Gus parasites were found. The doctor
continued the treatment begun, to ex-
pei the majority of the trichina before
they had found their way out through
the walls Of the stomach into other
parts of the body. He had been sum-
moned too late, and the father and
mother continued to grow rapidly
worse, until on Saturday night the doc
tor expressed serious doubts of their
recovery. The children are expected
to get we'll; they had not eaten so
much of the meat The oldest of the
children is 12 years of age, and the
youngest Of those sick, 8 years.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23
Why the Romans Wish Each Other "a
Good August"
From a Letter from Rome in the Hou

From Letter from Rome in the Hour.
Even in the earliest days it was the
custom to wish a "good" August and
to give dinners and entertainments.
The reason-for there is method in
all these Roman madnesses- that
August is the most unhealthy month
in the year in Rome. If you escape
the fever until then, you can rarely es-
cape them in August, unless unheard
of precautions are taken, of which you
soon get tired. AS rest sleep and good
wine are the surest preventatives of Ro-
man fever, the August gifts Usually
take the form of poultry and wine. II
you can cat we'll, drink we'll, and sleep
well and never go into the open air
while there is a ray of sun, you may
escape the fever. But eat irregularly,
and drink poor wine and go out during
the hot hours, and soone + or later
you will be seized with fever.
It begins with shivering fit
that shakes the very room which the
patient lies, nor can the heaping on of
eider-down quilts and pillows stop it..
It sometimes continues for hours. The
teeth chatter and you feel as if sud-
denly naked on an iceberg. When the
shivering fit ceases the fever commences
and after that comes a profuse per-
spiration. The more you perspire the
better, for if the patient does not per-
|spire he is, suffering from the worst
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23
He Forgot the Bullet.
London Telegraph

It is seldom that the comic element
enters into attempts at suicide. A d.
verting exception TO this general rule
is afforded by the suicidal enterprise Of
Hungarian engineer, resident at
Temesvar, who, being steadfast vot-
ary of Bacchus, had drank himself in
to so unsatisfactory state of mind
that few days ago he determined to
put an end to his existence. Having
provided himself with pistol, and
locked himself up in private room of
a hotel in the town, which apartment
he had specially hired for the purpose,
he pressed the muzzle of the weapon
against his left breast and pulled the
trigger. The usual explosion followed,
and the would-be suicide fell to the
ground, where he lay patiently for sew
eral minutes, waiting for death. Dis
solution, however, failing to set in as
promptly as he had expected, he pres
emily arose, left the hotel, and walked
home, with a view to dying comforta-
bly, in his own apartment. A little
later on, perplexed by his unaccount-
able vitality, he sent for a surgeon to
examine the wound. Beyond slight
scorching of the skin, no injury could
be detected; and, while the surgeon
was vainly searching for a mortal hurt,
his patient anxiously inquired where
the bullet had lodged?" II fancy"
was the reply, chat you must have
forgotten to put it into the pistol. /"
"Give me my waistcoat," calculated
the intended selfslayer, and, sure
enough, safely ensconced in the watch
pocket of that garment was found the
missile with which he had designed to
extinguish his vital spark. Since this
discovery he has quilted Temesvar, in
which town he found that his rash at
tempt to kill himself with charge of
powder and wad had rendered him
the object Of more public notice, at
tented by uncomfortable hilarity, than
was altogether agreeable to him.
General B. F. Butler has been en-
gagged by Mrs. Howe, manager of the
fraudulent Woman's Deposit Bank Of
Boston, az her counsel.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23

PRESIDENT HAYES is to have the Op-
portunity of filling some supreme court
vacancies. Justice Strongs resigna-
ton may be expected next week, and
Justice Bradley will be transferred to
the Pennsylvania circuit. Judge W.
B. Woods, in the southern circuit,
will beraiscd to the supreme bench, land
given the circuit Justice Swayne,
who contemplates resigning after the
Christmas holidays, will be succeeded
by Stanley Matthews. Justice Clifford
is slowly dying from the soitcning OF
the brain, and Attorney General
Devens may be counted rs his success
or. If Justice Hunt be retired, Senator
Edmunds will take his seat.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23

An interesting spectacle of debase-
ment in public office in Cincinnati is
being exhibited in Il case in the crimi-
nal court, in which an eX-city auditor
is indicted for embczzlem ent. Affida-
tits have been filed charging that the
attorney for the defense had the jury
"set up" and promised to make it
right" with the jurymen. Counter aill-
davits have also been filed setting forth
that the prosecuting attorney had also
been fixing the jury, and in liquor at a
gambling house boasted that he would
convict the embezzling eN-officlal be-
cause he had meddled too much with
politics, and thai he had too been fixing
the jury. Over 1t all, placid, plous
Porkopolis is muchly agitated.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23
.ANIDEA OFHELL.
What jonathan Edwards, the Great
Puritan Divine Thought oft

In these days Of theological discus
sion, all the views as to hell are Of in
terest. Ingersoll, DR.. Thomas, Swing
and Beecher are airing their opinions
Of the place Of final punishment, and
arguing against its existance or as to
its character.
To turn while from their views,
read what Jonathan Edwards, the dis
tinguished New England theologian of
the last century thought about hell.
He said 'The earth will probably be
converted into great lake or liquid
globe Of fire in which the wicked shall
be overwhelmed which shall always be
in tempest, in which they shall be
tossed to and fro, having no rest day
OF night, vast waves or billows of fire
continually rolling over their heads, of
which they shall have quick sense
within ana without, their heads, their
eyes, their tongues, their hands, their
feet, their loins, their vitals, shall for
ever be full Of a glowing, melting fire,
enough to melt the very rocks and ele-
ments.. Also they shall be full of the
most quick and lively sense to feel the
tOrments, not for ten millions of ages,
but forever and ever, without an end
at ALL"
In another connection Edwards said
''The damned shall be tormented in
the presence Of the holy angels and in
the presence Of Jesus Christ, SO will
they be tormented in the presence of
the gloritied saints. Hereby will the
saints be made more sensible how great
salvation is. The view of the misery
of the damned will double the ardor of
the love and gratitude Of the saints in
heaven"
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23
Regularity Ensures Health

Of the physical structure. To restore it person
whose bowels are out of order, or whose digestion
Is imperfect, should use Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters a corrective of disordered conditions of Sc
:retive, evacuative, and digestive organs without
peer. The most serious consequences result
from neglect of reformatory measures, wher'
constipation is allowed to gain headway. Fo'
this as for many other disorders usually found IL
conjunction with costiveness, such as dyspepsia
billiousnes. nervous arrangement. headaches
vertigo, morning nausea and the like, the Bitter:
has long been recognized by the public and the
medical profession as genuinely emcacious
remedy. Its action is never sudden and gripping
like that of violent purgative, nor does like ths
weaken weaken tho bowels. On the contrary, It ipvigor.
ates and soothes while it regulates.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23

liest possible moment. About 8 o'clock a
third explosion occurred 1t is not be-
lieved that any lives are lost, as no miners
were known to have been in the pit, work
not having been begun since the last ez-
plosion in the Ford pit. No one has yet
been in the mine to ascertain the extent Of
the damage, the dampness being too strong
to allow of exploration.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23

The New York Bullion Club has
adopted resolutions recommending
congress to pass law Withdrawing
from circulation all notes under $50;
the coinage Of eagles, half-eagles and
quarter eagles in place of the double
eagle: to increase the bullion reserves
in the treasury until there is 4 dollar
in gol1 and silver for every greenback
dollar in circulation, and to establish a
mint at New York for the accommO-
dation of importers of foreign bullion.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23
Criminal.

A GERMAN tramp, who was & iven food
and lodging by the :iailer at Dubuque
hanged himself to a bar of his cell.
SIX attempts to destroy Custer City, y;
r. hv fire, in the last two weeks would
indicate that somebc cdy needs hanging.
'D SEVEN persons were killed and FIVE Sc. Sc
r;ously injured at Wendell, Mass, by the
explosion of the boiler of 4 portable saw
mill
R. A. BnANDFoRD, past grand master OF
Odd. Fellows of the state OF Texas has
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23

\ GREAT breeze was created in San
Francisco by the refusal of the com
mander ofthe Mexican gunboat Dem
ocrata to obey writ of habeas corpus
and produce fclon in his charge. The
court sent the sheriff and posse to the
vessel with warrants for the arrest OF
the original criminal and the com
mander. but the Mexican officer re-
fused to submit Soon afterward, how
ever, the felon was surrendered at the
city prison by the Mexican consul.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23

The legislature of Newfou ndland,
having opposed the payment Of the
American claim for the outrage at the
Bay of Fortune, is greatly dissatisfied
at the willingness Of the British govern
ment to foot the bill.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23

The advertisers of Sarah Bcrnhardt
in Boston seem to have gone too far in
announcing that the poet Longfellow
would sit for the actress to model a
bust. LongfellOw makes a denial.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23

REpEESENTATIvES Of the confederate
Generals Bragg and Polk desire to sell
to the war department the private
papers of those officers, the estimate
value of each being $4,000.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23

The loss of life among the fishermen
of Gloucester, Mass, for the year, has
been forty-one, which is two more
than in 1877, and six more than in
1873, but smaller than for any other
year since 1866.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23
The recent trial of Brooklyn big

The recent trial of Brooklyn big
amy case revealed two startling facts,
that there is a matrimonial agency"
in that city which pairs and marries
off people by the wholesale at so much
head, employing licensed preacher
to do the coupling; second, that a
shrewd German woman, with many
aliases, has been engaged in the bust
ness Of marrying every fellow she could
draw into her net, then, after robbing
the victim, deserting him. This mar
rying adventures is known to have
married, robbed and deserted no less
than fourteen men, and the back dis
tricts are yet to hear from. She did
part of her business through the "mat-
rimonial agency"
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23

Another railway war declared. The
Pennsylvania railroad company has in
formed the Baltimore ana Ohio road
that it will receive no mere freight from
that road
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23

SENATOR LAMAR, of Mississippi, is in
such feeble health that his presence at
Washington during the coming session
of congress is deemed very doubtful.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23

IN raising the rate Of discount to 3
per cent, the Bank Of England unmis-
takably announces its purpose to stop
gold expectations to United States.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23
BRITISH railways continue to SHOW

BRITISH railways continue to Show
q painfully large record Of accidents.
During the nine months ending Sep
tember 80, no less than ,626 accidents
failures and casualties of all kinds, took
place, causing loss of life to 500 per
sons and injuring 2,SS1 others. The
track, however, formed a comparative
ly small proportion, considering the
immense number carried-23 killed
and ESQ injured.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23
CON MMENTS.

FLoGGISG in the British navy has been
abolished.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-12-23

THE first volume of Gambetta's
speeches will appear this month.