The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-11-04
In a Nut Shell.

Patti has castle in Wales, and Ger
ster palazza among the Italian APP
pennies.
Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, is
very feeble, physically, while his mind
appears to be as active as ever.
Colonel Thomas A. Scott, of Phila-
delphia, has contributed $1,000 toward
building an Episcopal church at Clifton,
Pa.
Mr.. Thomas Woolford White, said to
be grandson of King George the
Fourth by Mrs. Fitzherbert, is resi-
dent of Leadville, Col.
Sir Edward Thornton, the British
minister at Washington, will sail for
England with his wife and daughters on
November 6.
The coal companies are said to be
now producing at the rate of 33 100000
tons per annum, at which rate the
dealers assert that the market must
yield.
The wheat crop for 1880 is now said
to be overestimated. The total pro-
duction is now figured at 454,OO0,0OO
bushels with a surplus of 1S4 ,OOO,O 900
for export.
Mr. Robert Burdette, the Burlington
Haweye man. with his wife, will make
Philadelphia his home this winter.
Among the guests at the Palace hotel,
Buffalo, last week, were Senator Ros-
coe Conkling and Mrs. Kate Chase
Sprague.
One the murderers ofDr. Parsons,
the American missionary, has been
condemned to death, and two Others
have been sentenced to fifteen years
penal servitude.
Colonel A. K. Mcclure, of the Phila-
delphia Times, is an untiring theat Ell
goer His genial face is always to be
seen at the "frst nights"
A new disease has broken out among
the horses at Vermillion, D. T., which
is carrying them off III twenty-four
hours 1t puzzles the skill of the
veterinary surgeons to tell what it is.
About SIS of every 100 of the weather
predictions sent out by the Washington
weather bureau the past year have
been verified. This beats the almanacs
at least.
On the 18th of January, 1867, there
CAlSVCu Ollly oCNGllICCll llCNo
pers in Paris, while on the LIST of Sep
TENDER, 1880, there were sixty-one daily
newspapers in circulation.
"Dame Rumor" asserts-and most
emphatically, too-that Rev. Phillips,
the great Boston devine, will shortly
lead to the alter well-known Phila-
delphia lady.
William NJ. Woollett, well known
architect and the publisher Of several
books of sketches and drawings for
houses, died at his summer home at
Londonyille, near Albany, Sunday.
At BATH, England, there has been dis
covered, about thirty feet below the
present Roman bath, eighty feet long
and forty feet wide, the whole of the
interior being lined with lead three
fourths of an inch in thickness.
Miss Nellie Calhoun, grand-niece of
John G. Calhoon, made very success
full debut Monday evening, as Juliet, at
the Grand Opera house in San Fran
cisco, and was accorded a gratifying re-
ception.
Judge Elisha Carpenter, of the SUI
preme court of Connecticut has had an
attack of paralysis affecting his left side.
His brain is unaffected, but he will not be
able to attend to his duties for some
time
Hon. George Bancroft, who has re-
turns this week to his winter home in
Washington. The last volume of his
'History Of the United States" will
soon be ready for the press.
DR.. Lou See On, a Chinese physician,
has registered in Buffalo, N. Y, under
the new law. He says he was licensed
to practice by Lou Com Chong, duly
authorized person in the province of
Canton, China, Emperor Ton Kong
ruling at the time.
Cardinal Mann ing is now so far re-
stored to health that he will immedi-
ately resume the active duties of his
ecclesiastical office. After working
tour in the Midlands and the North of
England he has returned to London,
looking more energetic than ever.
The American Exchange at London
reports astonishing expenditures by
Americans this year, in Europe, and,
Judging from their letters of credit, es-
Inmates the outlay Of 10000 travellers
at $50, 100000.