The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-09-30
VERY LATEST NEWS.
4 Record OF Important Events
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON.

IT is thought that Assistant Secretary
French's decision, favoring the owners OF
Canadian craft in the American lake ports,
will be reversed.
WEIGurY influence is to be brought to
bear upon the president to secure the ap-
polntment as successor to General Myer,
late chief of the signal service, Of Maj w.
B. Wetmore, of New York.
An order has been issued on the 23rd
inst, by the postoffice department forbid
ding the delivery of money orders or regis
tered packages to w. T. Hubbell, No. 80
Bond street, New York.
THE board of architects appointed to
consider the practicability of erecting a
new congressional library, or whether it
would be advisable to extent the quarters
now occupied in the capitol, have reported
in favor of constructing separate build
ing.
TIE encampment of the Grand Army of
the Republic of the Department of Mary
land took place on the 18th inst. The
ceremony of unvciling the statue at the
National cemetery at Antictam occurred.
The monument, which is Al feet inches,
in height, has been erected at the cost of
$4,000, and was designed and executed by
james G. Patterson.
THE district commissioners have finally
taken steps to have the flats of the upper
Potomac dredged out and permanently
improved These flats consist of several
thousand acres just above the Washington
monument. The flats have been great
breeders of malaria. When they are
once improved Washington will be as
healthy as any city in the country.
GEN WALKER, superintendent Of the
census, has replied to the letter Of the con-
federate Gen. Anderson, who returned to
Gen. Walker his sword captured from him
during the war, at Ream's Station. Gen.
Walker cordially thanked Gen. Anderson
for his generosity and the thougthfulness,
and said he would prize the weapon all
the more because of it's history since the
war.
A DISPATCH from Fort Leavenworth has
been received by Paymaster Brown,
stating that Paymaster Nelson was arrest
ed in Kansas City, on the 23rd inst, and
taken on train bound for New York in
the evening He will be tried by court
martial in New York upon his arrival. 1t
is not thought by the paymaster general
that he was attempting to escape.
In the last ten days over three-quarters
of million of standard silver dollars have
been ordered from the treasury and scat
tered over the country. The $4,000 circu-
lars sent out by the Treasurer Giltillan are
bearing immediate fruits. Twenty-Five
orders have been received from the west
and south asking for from $500 to 500, 900
each. The largest order was from Athens
GA, and the next largest from Columbus,
Ind With these orders are complaints of
a scarcity of small bills, which i, the
prime cause Of silver going so rapidly.
THE records of the pension bureau show
material decrease in the number of
claims filed since July l from that for the
same length of time Immediately prior to
that date. In July the number of claims
received was 1853, in August, 2,176, in
September to date, S94, making a total of
1923. During the latter part of March
and the months of April and June there
were filed in the neighborhood of 25, 100
claims. This great decrease in the number
of new claims filed monthly is owing
largely to the fact that the receipt of
claims under the Arrears act was limited to
July !.
RETURNS of Sept, l, regarding the con-
dition of the wheat crop at harvest, gives
preliminary estimate of the crop, but
there are two Investigations vet to be made
before a formal estimate will be issued.
The September estimate, this year, gives
the condition Of 80, against 90 in 1879, and
81 in 1873. This estimate relates to guam
tity and quality, and does not take into
consideration increase of acreage. The
condition of potatoes, as reported Sept. l,
shows a decline with the month of 8 per
cent. compared with the report of Sept. l,
1879. There is a loss of 5 per cent. in
buckwheat. The average OF the whole
country is 4 per cent. less than last year at
the same date.