The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-09-23
GENERAL NOTES.

in Booths theatre, New York, on the It'll
inst, to about one hundred people.
The bearded woman is no more. ,Hel
name was Rebecca Lyon, and she died a
Syracuse, n. Y.
OURAY's body will be exhumed at the
Southern Ute agency and taken to Los
PinOs for interment.
THE summer residence of Prof. Alex
ander Agassiz, at Newport, built about
five years ago, and never occupied, was
destroyed by fire, on the 14th.
A COMMITTEE of the Detroit board Of
education finds that the city has beer
grievously swindled in its purchases OF
coal for the schools. One lot supposed tc
weigh 439 tons is 100 tons short.
MORE than sixty children in Camden
n. j., having come down with smallpox
the board of education has determined tC
close the public schools for one month.
REPRESENTATIVES of the Pennsylvania
New York Central, Baltimore and Ohio
Grand Trunk, and Erie railways have
agreed upon and directed the immediate
restoration and strictest maintenance OF
all east bound rates to full tariff prices on
all classes Of freight
A WEALTHY citizen of Detroit, whose
wife and children were on the steamer
Marine City when it burned in Lake HUI
ron, and escaped with their lives has
given $1,000 worth of gold and silver
watches to the officers and crew of that
vessel
The Chicago and Bedford Quarry COM
stone to New York that was 20 feet G
inches long, II feet wide, and "A inches
thick. containing 1876 solid feet. 1t, will be
used in the new residence of w. II. Van
derbilt, the railroad king. is erecting in
that city.
J. X. EMMET, the actor, was found hope
lessly drunk in the street of n. Y the 11th
inst. When taken 10 court he was in ter
rible condition, and could scarcely talk to
the judge He was remanded until he
could get over the effects of the liquor
His son was in court, and helped his
father into the prison hospital.
FOURTEEN years ago James Mills dis
from Somerset, KY, and WAS not
again seen bv any of his relatives or ac-
quaintances in the place until last week,
when J. NJ. Nimley found him near
Ford's Ferry, in the same state. Nimley
has an interest in producing Mills alive
and we'll at Somerset, as brother of his is
in jail there, under sentence of death for
killing the missing man.
A SPECIAL to the Houston Post from
Austin Texas, says: 1T is almost certain
that the grand army of occupation is
fully organized here, and are perfecting
their arrangements for making a move of
some kind. A signal corps has BEEN Or
ganized and is drilling. The members re-
fuse to tell anything. or even acknowledge
that they are connected with the move
ment, but is certain that the organization
still lives, and that movement of some
kind is on foot -
DIR. BUCHANAN, the bogus diploma ped
dler who skipped from Philadelphia, and
who was in Detroit for some time, and
afterward went on lecturing tour in Can
ada with fellow quack, was decoyed over
from Courtright, Ont, to St. Clair, Mich,
on the 18th inst, and arrested. John Nor
ris. the city editor of the Philadelphia
Record, who had been kept posted on the
matter by Detroit reporters, secured the
arrest.
THE Denver 1ribu.e's Santa Fc special
says Alexander Lebain was the stage
driver killed on the eve of the 9Th, 16
lHlleS lIOIu IOII CuIuHllISs. 1Hc lWO
passengers killed are Isaac Roberts, of
New York, and f. S. Madden, of Fort
Bowie. The pursuing troops overlook the
Indians on the afternoon of the 7th and
had short fight in which one soldier and
soldiers seriously, wounded. The Indian
casualties are not known, and it is doubt
full if they can be overtakcn.
AFTER passenger train on the North
eastern railroad, running from Glasgow
to London, had passed the village of Bury,
near the metropolis on the 10Th inst, it
was discovered that large can of dy ma
mite had been placed under the track,
with the intention of blowing up the train.
Fortunately the machinery by which the
explosive was to have been discharged did
not work. As the Grand Duke Constan
tine and several Russian officials of high
rank were to have been on the train, it is
that the attempt to destroy it
was made by nihilists All of the old and
tried detectives of Scotland yard are at
work on the case.
On the 18th inst Maine elected state
officers, state legislature and congressman
The democrats and greenbackers coalesced
against the republicans and the campaign
was a vigorous one on both sides. The
result is the election of the fusion state
ticket, a majority in the legislature re.
publican, and one democratic
one republican and three fusion members
of congress making quite a
revolution as previous to the election the
republicans were in possession of the state
officers and three out of the five members
of congress. The other two members Of
congress were greenbackers.
A DISPATCH from Calistoga, California
says: "Great excitement has been aroused
in this vicinity for the past two weeks oveI
report that the Hot Springs held large
quantities of geld in solution. A mar
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 ,O6C
from ten barrels of water. The gold is Of
the highest grade Of fneness, and as the
springs volume of water is exceedingly
large, it would be useless to attempt to es
innate the value if thev continue to yield
as rich returns as the experiments have
proved thus far"
Miss Lizzie Chapman, the young
California lady who is about to be mar
ried to Mr.. Jesse r. Grant, is little
person with a great deal of fair hail
and soft brown eyes. Her father is
one of the wealthiest operators in real
estate in San Francisco. Mr.. Gran il
twenty-five years old, and is a good
looking young man. He is q stock
broker.
Beautihers.
Ladies, you cannot make fair skin, rosy cheeks
and sparkling eyes with NIL the cosmetics Of
France, or beautifiers of the world while in poor
health and nothing viii give you such good health
strength, buoyant spirits and beauty as Hop Bit
ters. A trial is certain proof See another col
umn.-7 Telegraph.
The young Duke Of Newcastle, aged
16, is anxious to marry, and is down on
the list Of Baron Pollock for a hearing,
the assent of the court to his marriage
~ an infant being necessary.