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The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28
GENERAL NOTES.

WATER burst into the Albion mines al
Stillerton, n. S. and drowned ten men.
MOODY and Sankey held big revival
meetings at Omaha, on the 10th inst.
SIXTY horses have died of the epizootic
in indianapolis during the last two weeks
The Oregon senate passed the constitu
tional amendment in favor of womer
suffrage by 21 to 9, and the house by 80 tc
|27.
SEVENTEEN Persian villages have been
totally or partially destroyed by the Kurds
who have fallen back into their own coun-
try with their booty.
Two companies of United States artillery
stationed in Arkansas have been ordered
to Florida. Two batteries in Texas are
ordered to Arkansas.
THE Illinois and Wisconsin militia com.
panies, en- route to Atlanta, stopped in
Nashville, Tenn. on the 10Th inst for a
few hours, and were royalty entertained.
The recent storm was particularly fu.
rious in the Elkhorn valley, Nebraska
where the snow drifted to the depth OF
eleven feet. Railroad and stage routes
| are blockaded.
OWING to the insufficient supply OF
cereals IN Russla,a movement IS on foot tC
prohibit the exporta ton of grain from the
empire. Melikoff, the dictator, is in.
vestigating the situation, and will ACT
promptly. r.
GREAT hardship is being inflicted on
seamen and others at Quebec by the en-.
forcement of.an old law prohibiting sail.
ors from leaving their ships without per.
mission, and citizens from harboring them
Many arrests or frivolous pretenses have
occurred, and some harsh penalties have
been imposed. Several of the seamen ar
rested are said to be citizens Of the United
States.
In spite of Secretary Schurz' dispatch to
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28
FIRES AND CASUALTIES,

SHEBoYGAN, Wis, had Il s. 900 fire on
the 10Th inst
An Iron Mountain locomotive on the
10Th inst. exploded It's boiler in the round
house, at Barring Crrssing, dangerously
wounding two men.
A PIECE of trestle-work, twelve hundred
and sixty feet in length on the Shenandoah
Valley railway, at East Liberty, Va, has
collapsed.
BENJAMIN WATKINS, a farmer living
near North Harmony. n. Y, was kicked
in the stomach by his horse, Oct. 18th, and
lived but a few minutes.
HENRY THREsHER. of Fond du Lac,
Wis, saw -tiler in Gritfith's mill, had his
arm so badly shattered by the bursting of
an emery wheel on the 18th inst, that
amputation is necessary.
WILLIAM G. PATTERSON, his wife and
aughterin-law, of Damariscotta, Me-,
were thrown from a carriage on the llth
inst, killing Mr.. Patterson and seriously
injuring the others.
Col. GEORGE SCRoGGs, proprietor of
The Champaign Gazette and for a time
United States consul at Hamburg, died on
Saturday evening at Denver, Col. of con-
sumption. '-
A FIRE on the wharf at Charleston, S.
c.. on the 18th inst, destroyed two or three
cotton warehouses and one steamship, be-
sides damaging good deal of other proper
ty. The total loss is about 100000 in
sured in foreign companies.
SHELBYvILLE, Ind, was the scene of Il
disastrous fire, on the 18th inst. Several
mills and dwellings were destroyed. A
wi I,J -, inl l;orn,o1;c fbo{ ba
fire was the result of a political riot, but
this was incorrect.
ANNIE TALBOT, aged years, daughter
of widow S. A. Talbot, of Decatur, ILL.,,
while preparing dinner picked up can
of coal-oil and poured the fluid on the
live Goals There was an explosion An
MES clothes took fire, and now she is in a
very dangerous condition, being very bad
ly burned about her face
GEORGE TAYLOR, of Logansport, Ind,
at Amoka Junction, on the 18th inst, and
both legs we're horribly crushed and
mangled clear up to the body. He
died within two hours. He leaves wife
and child, who reside on the corner of
Seventh and Wright streets. The deceased
had run on the Panhandle road for ten
years past, and was an exemplary and
popular man.
The. 1ribenae's La Crosse Wis, special
says: A singular and fatal accident oc-
Cured there on the 9th inst, Joseph Ma
Der, Il farmer, living four miles from La
Crosse. while returning home in company
with his wife was fatally burned and his
wife terribly injured by fire. He was un-
der the influence of liquor and having
carelessly thrown lighted match in the
hay in the wagon, the hay ignited and
their clothing Immediately caught fire,
with the result above stated. The wagon
was entirely consumed
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28
The Just and the Unjust.


1t is always the fate of a man who
tries to collect all old bill to get snubbed.
Now we think of it the old bill collector
who trudges painfully through the
streets from day to day, trying ever to
find the man who is ever trying to
dodge him, ought to have more SYM
pathy His only business is to persuade
delinquents to pay their just debts, and
yet everybody looks upon him very
much as a sailor looks on a craft that
has raised the black flag of piracy.
Poor fellow! He has a hard time of it
trying to catch sight Of the man who
has just gone around the corner, who
will be back in five minutes SO the
clerk says, but who never comes back
until the old bill collector has gone.
1t is on record that by some strange
faulty of fortune a collector once found
his debtor at home Such circum-
stance nearly took his breath away,
for like the Wandering Jew he has
been flying from pillar to post for near
ly year, and never once found the
right man in the right place; but he
took out his battered wallet and pre-
SCllGCA VIC dCCouut, C1AO" Will t'S .,
and humbly asked for a settlement.
"You must call again" was the stern,
imperative demand of the man, who
never intended to have money enough
to pay that bill. The victim with the
threadbare clothes and the wornout
shoes quietly suggested that it was not
easy to go up three flights of stairs
three times day in order to find the
ominous word "Out" on the office door.
"Well," said the debtor, perhaps
you would like to have me rent room
on the first floor for the sake of my
creditors" The old bill collector ut
tered 4 deep sigh put his wallet back
into his pocket and walked into back
alley where his home was while the
jaunty debtor sprang into his landau
and went up to the park for drive.
Such is life. ~ a5H
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28

twenty-four hours, returned a verdict of
guilty in the second degree, and on Mon
day Judge Gaslin sentenced the prisoner
to the penitentiary for life at hard labor:
The general opinion is that he should
have been convicted in the first degree.
People talked strongly of lynching him,
but wiser counsels prevailed.
JOHN LONG shot farmer named Charles
Miller, German living near Blooming
ton, ILL.,. twice with ngle-barreled shot
gun, of which he brought two each, load
ed with handful of chicken shot. Long
entered Miller's house, and fred two shots
at close range. One shot struck his left
arm below the elbow, tearing the muscles
to pieces. The other struck the right
breast, glancing and striking the left arm
near the shoulder. The wound in the
breast is not as serious as might have been
expected. The quarrel was regarding the
alleged intimacy of Long with Miller's
wife. 1t is doubtful if Miller can recover.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28
TON, D. T., THURSDAY, OCTOBER % 1880.

society acted as the legal representa-
tive of the commissioners. It's little to
do he had" said an exasperated son OF
Erin, after the trial, to appear as the
spokesman for the 'soupers.' They
did this thing very nicely, but We'll
show 'em trick worth two of this
when election comes" "What is a
'souper?' asked the Times correspond.
ent, after the gentleman had relieved
his mind with an outburst Of jawbreak-
ing Gaelic. "Your education has been
neglected or you'd know that 'soupers
are the fellows who serve out soup in
Ireland to hungry Catholics as an in.
ducement to make 'em turn Protes.
tant," replied the little man.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28
CRIME,

Two men robbed a stage coach near Del
Norte, Col, carrying away the mail and
treasure box, on the 10th inst.
A FAMILY of Benders who have lived
at Carro1lton, La, since 1851 have been
arrested on suspicion of being the Kansas
murdererS.
Mr.. Rose, manager of the Rosem ond
mining company, is exhibiting from 1
mine at Montague, Nova Scotia, brick
of gold weighing 42S ounces penny
weights, valued at $3.50. The brick is
the product of the mems labor for less
than six weeks, and the profit to the COM
pany will be over $1,000.
FR1GHTFUL examples seem to have had
no effect on the Kinds family of Somerset,
XIV. The last Of three brothers has just
been drowned in the Cumberland. All
met death while intoxicated, at the same
place and in the same manner-falling Oft
horse.
THE governor of I'LL, on the 18th inst,
issued proclamation offering reward OF
5000 for the arrest of Edward Jones, who
shot and killed Andy Finley. at Salem,
Marion county, last October.
AREPoRT is current that George Ben
ner who was Drained by stone in the
hand of Samuel Wells, near Reads station
Ind, has died of injuries received. The
Wells brothers, now released on $4,000
bail each, will be called in and held.
CHARLES TALMADGE, son of an ex-mayor
of Milwaukee, recently married to one OF
the most highly respectable ladies in that
city, has been arrested for burglary. lie
made practice of crawling through tran
somes into business offices and was finally
caught in the act.
ABOUT the 10Th of last August an old
German farmer, named VIM: Rozler' llv.
ing in Furnas county, Nebraska, was
missed. and search being made, his body
was found in manure pile. An analysis
of his stomach showed that he had been
p poisoned By strychnine. Frank D: White,
who had been living with him. had apprs,,
priated some of his personal property and
told contradictory stories. He was ar
rested, and on trial last week at Beaver 5
City, It was shown that he had purchased
strychnine. The jury, after being out
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28

"CAN you tell me where to buy a
white shirt ?" said gawky fellow to a
man at Lexington, Ga. The informa-
ton was given, and the inquirer-who
was accompanied by blushing girl
said to the merchant while buying the
shirt: ;'Can you tell me where to get a
marriage license?' OF the license
clerk he asked: "W'ho's the best min
ister to tie the knot?" Thus the couple
cautiously proceeded toward matri-
mOnV
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28

AN Italian engineer has drawn out \
plan, which meets with Theebaus ap-
proval, for enabling foreign embassies
to have interviews with that blood
thirsty potentate without taking their
shoe. off. The edifice is so designed
that he will only see their heads.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28

sE Boston ladies' deposit company,
h paid eight per cent. a month on
eposlts made by unmarrid women,
was run by a woman who had
been prosecuted for swindllng,
lt last suspended payment. Some
e dupes still believe that the con-
really had, as the sharper asserted,
ID contributed by benevolent Qua
and Gail Hamilton wrote q letter
Advertiser in which she upbraids
ditor for helping to break up the
ule. Il have at this moment" :"
ays, 1.-TWO hundred dollars which
q to invest for the benefit of q
len woman who is trying hard to
her daily bread. AS you have
what in you lay to destroy the
deposit. l shall be extremely
led, and my southern policy res
nom loss, if you will give me eyour
OF hand, or that of any legal or
nlzed financial or charitable body
rate in Boston, for the two hun
dollars, which 1 will in that case
you-a note of hand payable
years from date, and bearing in
meanwhile at eight per cent. a
This will keep the wolf from
pm ans door for three years, and
At time there is every reason to
e she will be able to fight him
herself"
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28

The Swedish and Norwegian press
|are discussing in somewhat heated
terms the agitation prevailing among a
section OF Norwegians for the repeal of
Ethe act of union between Sweden and
Norway, and the establishment Of a
Norwegian republic. The Swedish jour
halls, while limiting that the separation
pf Norway would be good riddance,
maintain that the honor of Sweden is
Involved, and that, if necessary, strong
measures must be employed to re-
eaken the loyalty of the Norweglans.
he relations between the Norwegian
Equities and the king are greatly
rained, the right Of the king to a final
eto having been denied by a large ma
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28

A CONVICT in Toronto was bound to a
rame of wood and whipped until he
ecame insensible. AS soon as he re-
.yived the punishment was renewed. At
length the attending physician stopped
the torture just in time to save the
mans life.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28
milwaukee, Market.

MILWAUKEE, Oct. 2l.--Flour-Que q and un
changed. Wheat-Opened weak and &c lower
closed firm No. l, hard l.07, No. l, l.O24; No
2, l.OOal; l.O0sl for seller October; l.ol7i
for seller November, l.O314; for seller Decem
Der; No. 3, 92la; No. 81; rejected, nominal
Corn-weaker; No. ., 391a. Oats-Lower; No
2, 3O'i. Rye-Stoady and in fair demand; No
], "a. Barey-Higher; No. 2, 70. -.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28
Bogus Certiflca eS.

1t is no vile drugged stuff, pretend
ing to be made of wonderful foreign
roots, barks, &c, and puffed up by long
bogus certificates of pretended mirac-
ulous cures, but a simple, pure, effec-
tive medicine, made of we'll known
valuable remedies, that furnishes its
own certificates by its cures. We re-
fer to Hop Bitters, the purest and best
of medicines. See another column
ReO7,bEcnn
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28
Arousing its Readers.

An alarm Of fire at midnight is startling thing,
but not half SO startling to many who hear it as
would be the sudden knowledge Of their own dan
gerous physical condition. Thousands of thous-
ands are hurrying to their graves because they are
carelessly Indifferent to the insidious inroads Of
disease and the means of cure. It is the mission
of H. H. Warner & Co., with their Safe Kidney
and Liver Cure to arouse men to sense Of their
danger and then cure them.--lM lMen.pAis Appeal.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28

A MAN leaped from a third-story
window, in Philadelphia, to escape from
j his infuriated wife. His leg was broken
/ but that was nothing, he said, to
what he would have suffered if he
hadn't Jumped
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28

Miss ELIZABETH WAITE, a sister Of
Waite, the Brattleboro (Vt.) def;tulter,
was sent to an asylum for the insane
on the 18th inst. 1t is supposed that
her insanity is due to a loss of $4,000
which she and another sister sustained
by Waite's appropriation of a life in
surance fund which had been left them
nv will
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28

/ THE New York Historical Society
&nropOses to erect a suitable mOnume ent
Ito Captain Nathan Hale, the American
kspy, upon the spot where he was hang
led bv the British.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28

THE grain harvest in Italy this year
Bis estimated as amounting to G5 100000
Ehectolitres, or one-third more than that
|of 1879, which was between forty and
Eforty-fve millions.
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49,, ,,,.,,s Of subscriptions:
COMMENTS.

FIFTY-sEvEN tons of Greek marble
Ehaye been delivered in London, free of
Iall charges, by the Greek Government,
[for the Byron pedestal.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28
Love and Smallpox.
/ Troy Press

Smallpox is hardly an incentive to
marriage, yet two hearts were bound in
the chains of Hymen through the
agency of that dread disease. a young
lady, whose residence was in the classic
precincts of Ida Hill, visited = friend
suffering from smallpox, in direct OPP
position to the will Other parents. Up
on her return she was denied admit
tance under the paternal roof. She
Immediately sought her "best feller,"
and poured into his capacious ears the
tale of her banishInent by her paren $.
He, thoroughly aroused, proposed that
they be married forthwith, and the
knot was speedily tied BY neighbor-
ing clergyman. Manageable females
are not advised to initiate this young
,lady's example; great chances .lre rum
Of catching the smallpox and not tcatch-
ing husband.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28
The City Mans Country Life.
New York Herald.

The man whose business is in the
city, and who rides on trains in order to
sleep in the rural districts, getting a
hasty, half-eaten breakfast there and
taking his pleasant dinner by late, ro-
mantle candle-light is popularity
thought of as one who enjoys a great
deal of jolly. healthful outdoor life.
Glimpses of pretty scenery do indeed
come to him, but his rides to and from
the depot are a stupid, stereotyped ex-
ercise. Little more of outdoor life does
he have. He knows there are beauti-
full places over the fences, hills and
creeks, near his country home, but he
has little time for visiting them, more
than once, and he might remember
them just as we'll if he were 1000
miles away. He does not see his white
Japan melons, his spring g-brook, his pet,
sweet-faced Alderney COW, or his silver
penciled chickens five times in the
year. He is the slave of a wretched,
numbering train. In the dusty, noisy
cars he is prisoner with many gar.
rulous, fantastic, undesirable prisoners,
and after dark he, unlike his city
cousin, has no clean sidewalks for a
quiet stroll in moist weather. If he
is bookish man and dislikes indis-
crim;nate, picayune society, he may
hear the wind heartily scolding the
trees outdoors, and may see the flicker
Of his red backlog indoors as he sits
with book and pipe, and hot drink; but
the mud the tedious hours of travel, the
Observation-Disclosures of servants and th a
long distance from markets, clubs,
theaters and concerts, make the pay
for country solitude very dear. 4
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28

+ Mary Bell, aged l05 years, the oldest
woman in Kansas, was buried at Kan
sas City, Mo-. on the 18th inst. Her age
is reported to be we'll authenticated.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28

A DISAPPOINTED DEBTOR. The train
had started off. A young man rushed
breathlessly in. "Got left, did you?"
"Well, amt / here?" he responded.
Then one said he could go across the
bridge and catch it, and another told
him when the next train would go, and
made various su gestlons. The chap
looked at the disappearing train. a few
minutes, w EN- somebody asked" !"
where whereyou going ?" Then the
wicked fellow said, "Oh, / wasn't going
init, but there was fellow in the train
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28
In recent work on primary educa-

In recent work on primary educa-
on and apprenticeship in France, NJ.
Ulcer, a naval officer and Cantonal
elegate, referring to the distaste for
kanual work Of the children who leave
lie elem entary schools of Paris, says:
These little bureaucrats come to the
I'D of their school course with but one
ar before them-that of being forced
: become workmen and workwomen;
Id but with one wish-the boys to be-
me clerks, the girls shop women.
ence this underlined, uncertain, over
pcked class Of bookkeepers, cashiers,
lesmen, clerks, agents, scorning cap
d blouse, and the corresponding class
l more to be pitied, of young ladies
mo shop, perhaps, and with the cov-
ID attire, but, alas, how procured y
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-28

THERE has lately been published a
fy interesting official paper by Capt.
prant, of the British navy, on the op-
ztions of the six vessels sent under
Mmand of the Duke of Edinburg to
e aid in the west coast of Ireland.
e report says that the distress did
come suddenly on the inhabitants
khis wild region by reason of the fail
of last years harvest, but was due
reat measure to the falling Oft in
be of help. This compelled the peo-
TO fall back upon tillage and fishing;
the crops capable of being grown
utterly insufficient to support the
pation, while the appliances for
ing are too imperfect to help much
sustaining the communities. The
nlation is far larger than such a soil
climate can support, and the peo-
have been imprudent in making
early marriages. Emigration IS
only remedy for these people.
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3 The young man Tpf the period ~ one
whose career has come 70 q full top.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-05-21
Mort Sage Sale.

NAlHEREAS L. X. Bohsn of Blue Earth cOl.n.
" ", Minnesota, did on the 10th day OF De-
csnber, A. ID. 1870, make, execute and deliver 10
Joseph McCutchen. OF Rice county, Minnesota
his indenture OF Mortgage whereby To secure
the payment OF nine hundred and Fifty dollars,
lie mortgaged and conveyed the southeast quar-
ter ofthc southeast quarter Is eia cls) Of SET
ton eleven I'D, and the south half OF the south.
west quarter (s12 ofs VIA Of section twelve Q2)
aud the north east quarter of the northwest
quarter IN ella OF u VIA OF section thirteen 49,
all in township one hundred and six (lO0), north
Of range twenty-nine (29l, west, in the county of
Blue Earth aud State of Minnesota, which SAID
mortgage was duly recorded in the Register
Office in and for said Blue Earth county, ON the
2ad day Of December, 1870, at o'clock 4. NJ. in
Book II Of mortgages. on page 3Gl.
And, Whereas for valuable consideration 10
him in hand paid, the said Joseph McCutchen
did. on the 9Th day Of January, 1876, release
from the lien and operation of said mortgage.
the south east quarter OF the south east quarter
(seiI OF elA), of section eleven Ql) aud the
south west quarter OF the south west quarter
is Wa y VIA OF section twelve u2) of the land in
said mo gage described leaving unrelcased and
still subject to the said mortgage. the south east
quarter Of the south west quarter, u ELI WI J.,
Of section twelve u2l, and the north east quarter
Of the north west quarter IN ed of wL4), of sec
ton thirteen Q3), of the land in said mortgage
described and whereas, there il now claimed 10
be due on said mortgage, the sum OF eight hun
dred and sixty-nine dollars, and no action al law
has been instituted to recover the sum due on
said mortgage or any part thereof:
Now, therefore, notice il hereby given that
pursuant TO power of sale tn said mortgage
contained and Of the statute in such case made
and provided, the said premises last described
H. being still subject TO said mortgage, will be-
sold Mt public vendue by the Sheriff Of Blue Earth
county. Minnesota, on
Saturday, the 9TH day Of June,
A. ID. 1880, nj ten O'Clock in the forenoon of said
day, at the front door of the court house In the
city Of Mapkato in said Blue Earth county, TO
satisfy the amount due on said mort gage and the
further sum Of thirty nine and sO-1OO dollars be-
ing the amount of taxes, penalty and interest
paid by the mortgage for the years 1877, 1873
and 1879, Oh the premises 10 be sold, together
with fifty dollars solicitors fees stipulated In
raid mortgage TO be paid ia case Of foreclosure
and the additional costs of foreclosure and sale.
Dated April I'D, 1880. -
JOSEPH McCUTCHEN,
X. A. Morn, Mortgage.
Atty for Mortgage,
Faribault, MINI. WI