The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-29
VERY LATEST NEWS.
A Record of Important Events,
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON.

J. ID. j. LOPEZ, postmaster at Anton
Chico, New Mexico has been arrested for
riAng registered letters. }1
PROBABLY the highest elevator IN the
world is that Just completed in the Wash
ington monument, the first trial of which
was made on 9th inst. 1t is l76 feet hig is
capable of bearing ten tons, and was erect
ed at aost of 800 900.
THE secretary of state has addressed a
letter to the commissioner and alternates,
stating that on the 10th of August he will
call together, at New York city, the inter-
national commission, for the purpose of eff
fecting permanent organization for hold
ing an international exhibition in 1888
THE state department is in receipt of no
additional information from Peru regard
ing the progress of the war between that
country and.Chili. The department still
hopes that the offer of meditation by the
United States will be accepted by the con-
tending Powers, or at least that a recon-
ciliation will be effected between them.
THE old complaint is being revived
among manufacturers of tobacco that state
prisons are allowed to manufacture tobac-
co for their convicts without complying
with any of the requirements of the in
ternal revenue laws. The latest complaints
come from western manufacturers, and the
penitentiaries complained of are those at
Joliet, ILL.,, and Waupun, Wis.
Hon. J. A. CAMPBELL, at one time gov
ernor, of Wyoming, and later third as
sistant secretary of state, died at his resi-
dence here on the 14th He served
with distinction in the army of the Cum
berland, from the first days ofthe war un-
til its close, where he was one of It's best
known staff officers, having acted as Gen.
Schofeld's adjutant general during the
closing years of the war.
AT a cabinet meeting the interior de-
partment submitted information that Spot
ted Tail, becoming dissatisfied, had re-
moved his children from the training
school, where, with seven hundred others,
they had been sent to be educated, and
that his course had led to serious disap-
proval, on the part of the rest of the tribe,
who are anxious to be educated, and they
have appealed to the president to depose
Spotted Tale. and appoint new chief
over them.
THE state department has received a dis
patch from Minister Maynard, at Constan-
tinople, stating that he had been waiting
without success for ten days, for an audi
ence with the sultan to bid him the GUS
tomary diplomatic farewell, and asking
him whether he should delay his departure
any longer to obtain an audience on return
to the United States at once. President
Hayes directed that reply should be sent
instructing Minister Maynard to use his
own discretion about waiting for an inter-
view with the sultan, but at the present
time urging him to make reasonable haste
to return and take the office Of postmaster
general
The annual report of Colonel Worthing-
ton, the statistician of the Agricultural
department, just made public, some inter-
esting facts concerning farm labor and
wages. In the Pacific and mining states
and Territories the range of wages, for farm
laborcrs, without board, is between $780, ,75
in Montana and 922.5O in Washington
Territory. Of the states east of the Mis-
souri,, Minnesota pays her farm laborers
better than any other Northern state
monthly wages with board being 1858,
while Vermont pays only Sl2.6O. In the
Southern states the prices paid range from
91226 in Louisiana to 81 ,32 in South Car
olina, the average being $500. The cost
of subsisting the laborer for the average Of
the whole country in 1880 is II a month,
against S7.14 in 1879. The demand for la
borers is good in all sections of the coun
try.