The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-17
CANTON, D. T., THURSDAY, JUNE II, 1880.
caused nearly all the window-glass in the

caused nearly all the window-glass in the
state-house to fall out.
EIGHrY-s1x members of parliament have
signed the memorial asking for the recall
of Sir Bartle Frere The memorial has
just been sent to Gladstone.
A PARIS dispatch of the 9TH says late ac-
| counts report Rochefort's wound serious.
Hemorrhage has set in. 1t is impossible
to remove him to Geneva.
In railway collision between Frankfort
and Mannheim, many persons were severe
ly injured.
A cablegram gives an appalling account
of the famine in Diarbekir and Bagdad.
People are dying in the streets, women sell
ing their children for food, and many liv-
ing on rats.
A Berlin dispatch says: Intelligence has
reached St. Petersburg that the Chinese
were raising large bodies of troops on the
Russian frontier, and an attack is expected
without the formality of a declaration of
war.
\ Sr. PETERSBURG dispatch says the
Gar on receiving a telegram announcing
the death of the Czarina, returned to St..
Petersburg Immediately. The Duke of
Edinburgh will go to St. Petersburg, to-
night, to attend the funeral.
A TERoCIoUs duel is promised in France
Two writers on an extreme radical news
paper anne unce that they have accepted
the challenge OF the staff of the GauiOis,
and that they will be ready for war by tn
middle of next week.
TIE formal opening of the Mount Eer-
uvius railway has taken place. 1t was
celebrated by splendid fete, to which
$50 persons were united. All persons pres
ent were unanimous in expressing their
admiration at the completion of so bold an
undertaking.
The captain of vessel arrived at
Queenstown from Damarara reports that
on the 3Oth of April, in latitude 80 degrees
north, longitude 60 degrees west passed a
raft apparently made on board a man-of-
war or first class steamer, as it was bolted
together, not lashed In two days after
wards saw several corpses, dressed in white.
LONDON advices of June 3rd say that
forty thousand persons in Kurdistan, Ar.
menia and western Persia must be fed for
two months, if they are to be kept alive.
One hundred and thirty-eight persons have
died of starvation at Bashaleh and 10Y at
Alashgerd.
A PARIS dispatch, of the 3rd inst, says,
the duel between Rochefort and Koechiin
only occupied two minutes. Rochefort's s
sword, while parrying thrust, slipped
from his gloved hand, and Koechlin' s
sword entered the lower part of Roche
forts chest below the sternum and false
rsbs.
ONCE or twice every year the amalga-
,f
have picnic for the purpose of holding a
of free trade in America The early-sum-
mer spree of this character came off at
Beaver, Pa, the other dry, and was attend
ed by thousands of misguided workingmen
Speeches were made and resolutions adopt
ed favoring continuance of the present
tariff system.
ages of the phylloxera are becoming more
ed that one-third of the total surface de-
voted to wine growing had been irretrieva-
bly, devastated, and as the plague has been
steadily increasing all this year, it is esti-
mated that 10000 acres have been added to
total amount of land lost A society of
wine growers has been formed for the pur-
pose of utilizing and applying scientific
means for destroying the insect.
A CoSsTANTINoPLE dispatch says Cos
chen the British ambassador, in presenting
his credentials to the sultan said: II am
convinced of your maiesty's ardent desire
to aneliorate the position and assure the
prosperity of your subjects without dis
tinction as to race and religion. shall
be happy if my efforts may be contributed
to the desired result !" Subsequent to this
interview, Goschen had private audience
with the sultan.
a DISPATCH from Calcutta, of the 3rd
inst, states that four companies of British
troops have been sent to protect the from
tier of British Burmah against possible
incursions of insurgents, who are devast-
ing portions of Burmah proper. The
measure is understood to be altogether pre-
cautionary, as it is not supposed that the
insurgents will make serious attempts to
cross the mountains into Araracan or
Tuazarum the British state lying to the
west on the bay of Bengal.