The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-01-08
Canton, Dakota.

Southern colored people haYe grea,
I, and superstitious lear fthe ground where
nybody has been Langed, and The pro-
| prietor of the lot on which Jodan Sheats
was hanged, IN Georgia, proposes toimake
it a water melon patch next year
Treeless Iowa is being transformed tntc
forest covered country by law which
RENTS certain taxes for five years on every
acre of forest trees planted and kept alive
Over $1,000 acres of fruit and forest trees
haye been planted, ard $780, 900 have been
remitted in taxes.
Sheppard Of the Rock Rapids ReUieu
suspended last week, but fortunately fol
only one issue of his spicy paper. The
swearing off period New Years being de-
voted to mediation and fresh air, for d
plunge into the editorial sea of 1880. A
rest is better NOR Seltzer" water.
Grant on his tour towards Florida was
received with gre t enthusiasm at Charls-
town, Sayanah, Beaufort and other south
erns cities. Apparently as good feelings
prevailed towards him as at the north :
genuine expressions of respect and in
many instances Of admiration were heard
After killing Jesse James two or three
times, and bringing linn to life each
time with the skill OF aprofessional res
direction, the telegraph news at last gets
him safely in his coffin, where it is to be
| hoped he will. Hs used to be terror
| but OF late lie has becomes a nuisance.
l. would be greatArelief to General
Grant in the hand shaking business of 4
facsimile Of his right arm and han
could be attached 70 his shoulder and
worked by canceared hiachffierya when
grasped by the madding crowd, while he
comfortably jingled a bunch of keys in
his breeches pocket with his own right
hand.
Parnel the Irish land reformer rriveG
at New York the Cd inst He was me,
! by a commi,e and ii large concourse o1
people who welcomed him 10 America
His primary object IN Coming TO 'o"l
shoes is to raise money for the land
league. He complains of the reluctance
0 England to relieve Ireland OF her dis
tress, and said in speech at New York
that in n47'' when the famine prevailed
America was the first to send food to tht
iamishing.
] A lady IN Florida was passing along th'
highway near 9 drain that ran from
lake into the Gulf of Mexico, when hug
alligator raised upon its legs and roaret
so that man in an adjoining lot rushet
to the scene. The lady and children wer
screaming, frightened nearly to death
The man struck the monster in the ey
with club, colsing them, when with
pocket knife he stabbed the saurian in
fatal spot killing him.
The aggregate of recorded losses by fir
in the United States and Can ada durin
the year just ended, was $S6,000,000, les
by fully 90 or IS per cent. than the actua
loss if fully recorded. The average annu
al loss by recorded fires during the pas
five years is shown to be $S2, ,S35, ,3S7-eve
including the $2l 100000 fire at St. Johl
in 1877 SO that 1879 has done its best L
burn itself into the memories of the III
derw riters and property owners as an III
usually costly year. The insurance con
panies have contributed towards fillin
this aching void $40 oW,noo.
/ The remarkable pedcstrian-oT "niari
locomotive" as he is styled -Ach Ill
nnargoss;, !:.;;.:s heea staying u Paris an
some OF his past exploits are much talke,
Of Among other feats, he is said to have
accomplished that Of airing gu. hcrs
in 2i.hours' walk, the quadruped havlnt
to succumb at the end of the 23d ur.--
Bargossi gained simdar victories az NIL
an and Naples, and some months since
walked from Montpelier to bordeaux
distance of 900 kilometcrs, in five days
Quite lately again, he is reported to hav
come on foot from Lyons to Paris in TO,
ty.eight hours.
While we are shivering and lamentin
our cold fate, what think ye Of that regicI
that region that Humboldt a ID later Mrit
ers speak of as the coolest on tue globe
Yahnotsk, in eastern Siberia, 5000 mile
from St Petersburg The ground remain
frozen to the depth Of 800 feet excep. il
midsummer, when 1t thaws 4 feet ut tn
surface. During ten days In August til
mercury marks So degrees, but from No
geE,be. ta February 1t ranges from "A ,
Sc ? below zero, and The river Is solid Il
for uine months out Of twelve. The pop
ulation Of the place "a 5000, s coo saa their q
t tire industry Is candls " lrks, and i, is th
principal market for the hunting ts!ba G
eastern Siberia Herds Of cattle 90
norses and butter Il also marketed thsr
, This merchandise Including furs real
e ss00, 900 At their annual fairs 10 Jyp