The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-21
IN A NUT SHE'LL.
A Chinaman has entered the Har-

ward freshman class.
Governor Cornell was seriously i'll
last week from an attack of malarial
fever.
The town of Bristol, R. l., celebrated
its 2OOth anniversary on September
Oath.
Ex-Chief Justice Seymour, Of Itch
field, Conn, celebrated his golden we'd
ding last week.
Richard Wagner's visit to Naples has
been rendered unpleasant by another
attack of erysipelas of the head.
A fire in Green Bay, Mich, last
week, destroyed sixty dwellings, many
barns and a church.
Supervisors of election are to be APP
pointed in Indiana to prevent fraud in
the coming contest.
Beware of the young chap who parts
his hair in the middle, and carries a
abOuts.
Mr.. Corcoran, the Washington mil
ionaire, has been so beset by beggars
that he now takes his exercise within
his own garden walls.
The Pope, it is stated, will soon dis
miss his "Swiss Guards" He will still
have his ''Noble Guard and the opal
atine Guard of Honor"
One hundred and forty-seven women
voted at school commissioner election
in Binghamton, N. Y, September DIST
An international cricket match will
be played at Philadelphia, October 10th
ane 18th, between English and Amerl-
cans, whether amateurs or profession
ais.
Ex-United States Senator Chatfee, Of
Colorado, is a victim to rheumatism,
for which he is now trying the waters
of the artesian we'll of South Pueblo.
The Cheyenne Indians, in the Indian
Territory are manifesting great dlscon-
tent and becoming disorderly.
The Indiana supreme court has re-
fused to reconsider its decision regard
ing the constitutional amendments, and
an October election must, therefore, be
held.
AS near as can be estimated the num-
Der of lives lost during the fiscal year
of 1880 from the different classes of &C
cidents to which steamboats, are sub
iected amounted to 1So.
The semi-millennial of John Wy
cliffs translation of the Bible was celc-
brated at Trenton, n j., last week by a
meeting of delegates from all the Bible
societies of the state.
There is severe distress in some coun-
ties in Kansas, growing out of the fail
ure of the wheat and corn crops. In
Norton county there are said to be
l, 800 people in absolute want of food.
An international convention to pro-
mote the sheep and wool industry was
held in Philadelphia last week, in con-
nection with the sheep show at the
Permanent Exhibition buildings.
The twelfth annual session Of the
Irish Catholic Benevolent Union Of the
United States was held in Washington,
last week, 100 delegates from various
parts Of the country being present.
I The Massachusetts Greenback Con
vention last week nominated General
II. Chimney Sargent for Governor, with
full state ticket. \ resolution de-
mandatory Of General Butler was vot-
ed down.
A Massachusetts, husband and wife
were one day recently travelling on the
Old Colony railroad with their twenty
four children, and were proud as could
be of their little flock.
Fans of white satin and applique lace,
with pearl handles on which are paint
ed cupids and flowers, are the latest
importations from Paris They will
sell from $50 to $50 apiece.
Two American army officers, Lieu.
tenants Birnie and Bixby, have receiv,
ed the cross of the Legion of Honor at
Paris for assisting at the recent man,
euver Of the French army.
Small muffs of the same material as
the dress will be the rage this winter
They are intended for show only, theil
diminutive size making comfort and
warmth entirely out Of the question.
Mr.. Lowell the American Minister
to England will on the 9TH of Novem-
: Der deliver the opening address Of the
session Of the Edinburgh Scotland,
Philosophical institution for 1SSO-S1.
Mrs. Jennie June Croly and some
} other enterprising ladies are organizing
; a woman's life insurance company in
J New York, with Il capital of 81 10000
the greater part of the stock being al
: ready taken.
General James Longstreet is GO years
} old and is native of Alabama. The
, confederate soldiers nicknamed him
| "Uncle Peter" He is now our Minister
to Turkey, and a strong Garfield man
Miss Alice Skirr was betrothed tc
John Easterling, a young clergyman al
Laurenburg, n. G. She refused to &C
with him on a missionary tour to China
and when he announced his intention
Of going without her, she became q
raving maniac.
pleased with Cardinal McCloslley fol
participating in the reception of Par.
nell in this country is revived in Lon
don, and the statement is made that
this displeasure will be manifested il
the cardinal visits Rome.
The McGreger Uowa) Neus remarks
that "it is very queer that a mans
creditors will all arrange themselves on
tie shady side ola street when he goes
from dinner and make him walk in the
sun It's mean to use Gods sunlight to
help collect a bill" ~
Professor Benjamin Pierce, the cele-
brated mathematician and professor at
Harvard college, died at Cambridge,
Mass, on the 9TH inst, aged II years.
He published but few works in the
course Of his long life, and they are so
abstruse that only one man has ever
been found who could understand
them
| During his recent visit at Hamilton,
Can, the Marquis Of Lorne was treated
to a fifteen-minute address in ancient
Gaelic, which was afterward repeated in
English. Inreply the Governor Gener-
al read an address, in which he related
this incident: II find that the Camp
bells have got on as we'll as anybody
else in this country.
The women of New York state are
entering actively into the campaign fol-
school officers in the state They now
| have tho ripht To yoto fr,, school "a,