The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-08-26
GENERAL NOTES.

| Hicks of Philadelphia, won the bicycle
championship at Milwaukee.
Tue population Of Massachusetts, is
,7S3,S12, gain of over 100000 in ten
years.
THERE was insurance to the amount of
$1S4, ,626 on the property destroyed by the
Hunters Point confagration.
| TWENTY-FIVE young ladies entered the
cloister at Baltimore, on the 18th inst. with
the usual imposing ceremonies.
IT is reported that Vanderbilt purchas-
ed the horse ST. Julien for $50, 900, paying
$4,000 down.
TIE corner stone Of Il new German
Catholic church was laid al Dubuque,
Iowa, on the 18th inst, Bishop Hennessy
officiating.
IT is expected that it will take four
weeks to reach the bodies of the men en-
tombed in the Hudson river tunnel more
than fortnight ago.
Col. GRIERsoN reports several engage
ments with Victorias Apaches in the vi
cinity of Snake Springs. He killed four or
five sayages and lost one soldier.
Ar the east, where the summer has been
unusually hot, the weather has suddenly
become extremely cold for the season, and
ice and frost are reported in several local
tiles.
SECRETARY Evarts' has renewed the Of
fer of the United States to mediate be-
tween Chill and Peru, in connection with
England, in the hope ofpreventing further
bloodshed between those two countries.
Miss ADELAIDE NELSON, the accom-
plished actress, who recently announced
f,,x In o,,l 1oI
for Europe, died suddenly on the 17th
A PARTY named Charles Carver, resid-
ing in Woodstock, Va, began a fast of one
hundred days duration on the 10th inst.
Should he succeed in his experiment he
will challenge DIR. Tanner to a competitive
match.
AN excursion party of land-seekers,
numbering 2O3, under the auspices of the
Iowa Railroad Land Company, left Free
port, ILL.,, on the 18th inst. for LIE Mars,
Iowa, via the Illinois Central railroad.
THE local steamboat inspectors at De
troit have revoked the licenses of the cap
tains of the steamer Garland and yacht
Mamie, recently in collision, on the
ground that, with the exercise of prudence
on their part, the late disaster might have
been prevented.
S1xrY-sEvEN Russian emigrants, the sole
survivors of party of three hundred and
thirty, which left Russia in 1877 for
Brazil, have arrived at New York sick
and destitute. They found the South
American climate unsuited to them, and
after losing nearly all their funds decided
to leave the country where they had ex-
perienced SO many hardships.
CHARLES III. TARDY, president of the
colored relief board has advices that 10000
negroes will emigrate from Mississippi
and Louisiana within the next two months,
en- route for Kansas and other northern
states.
CLEMENIsHAw, who swore that Charles
De Young fired the first shot when young
Kalloch assassinated him, has been sem
fenced to fourteen years in the penitenti-
ary for perjury. A motion for new trial
was denied.
THE central Illinois soldiers and sailors
reunion was held at Springfield, ILL.,, on
the 18th and 18th inst. Gen. McClernand,
who was present, created q sensation by pub
| fishing four-column article in local
newspaper claiming that lie devised the
]|plan for the march to the sea which Sher-
man executed.
III. L. GREEN, chairman of the ex-com-
mittee of the national liberal league,
states that the fourth annual convention Of
the league will be held in Chicago, on the
[l7th, 18th and 10Th Of September: Two
hundred auxiliary leagues are entitled to
representation, of five delegates each. The
most important work of the convention
viii be the selection of presidential tick
ct, or the endorsement Of one Of the pres
ent nominations.
The Pacific Express company, owned
by Jay Gould and operated upon his rail-
lrOads, and which commenced doing busi-
j ness in Chicago, H., on the 18th inst, has
notified the American Express company oi
THAT place, that it must refuse to receive