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The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20
VERY LATEST NEWS
a Record of Important Event
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON.

A ATERRIFIC wind and rain storm st
Island Pard, VT, on the 18th, demolish.
ed steam boat house and large cover
ed bridge across the railway track.
THE house committee on public build
ings and grounds, on the 18th inst,
greed to report favOrably to the house,
the bill for the erection Of public build
ings as follows: New Albany, Ind, to
cost $4,000; Council Bluffs, Ia, $780,
600; Baize CITY, Idaho, $4,000.
The Washington government has adj
vices through the German minister to
the effect that the German government is
about to increase the circulation of silver
coin 20 per cent, that is from 10 marks
per head Of the population, to - marks,
on the ground that the present amount is
not adequate. The proposed increase it
is believed, will afford an opportunity to
recon the silver which accumulated in
the hands of the government in 1873.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says Augustus
Morriss, one of the honorary commits
sioners, representing the United States at
the Sydney, Australia, international ex-
hibition says: The exhibitions from the
United States have been very successful
in obtaining awards. In all cases where
our leading manufacturers have sent
their jods for competition, they have
either excelled all others or stood il the
first rank The result will be large
sale of American articles of various
kinds, which have heretofore been un-
known in Australia.
a DISPATCH OF May Sih, says the ways
and means committee have finally agreed
upon tariff bill salt is stricken out OF
the bill and sugar is made the subject of
another bill. The duty on wood pulp is
reduced from 20 to 10 per cent. ad yalor-
UNI, jute butts from Sc to So per ton;
hax and all other tibrous material for
manufacture into paper from 20 to 25, to
the uniform rate OF $40 per ton, sized
paper from 20 to 20 per cent. and book
and newsprint from 20 to Is per cent ad
valorum. The bill will soon be reported
favorably to the house.
TIE river and harbor bill was report
ed from the committee on commerce,
May 9th. The following are the appro-
priations for the lakes and western
rivprS.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20
Sagacity Of Ants.

When DR.. Franklin was in Paris, as
he sat quietly and alone at his breakfast
one morning, he saw number of black
ants busy with the contents of the
sugar. bowl. He drove them away. bnt
they returned. Again he dispersed
them; in q few minutes they were seen
climbing from lumpto to lump, as if moth
ing hal happened. To try their ingen-
uity, he had the sugar-bowl suspended
by a string from the ceiling. They en-
deavored to reach it by standing on
each others back; several mounted in
this manner and reached upwards, but
in vain; the chain of the ants fell fast
as it was raised. After repeated at
tempts they went away and he supposed
they had given up the matter, but pres
emily he saw them descending the string,
and dropping down upon the Jumps Of
sugar. They had scaled the walls, tra-
versed the ceiling, and discovered an.
other road to the treasure.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20
The CannOn's Mouth.

There is nothing connected with a
battle so exciting as to see battery of
flying artillery take position. Troops
upon right and left, drivers lash and
shout, horses plunge and rear, and
guns and caissons dash through and
over everything until reaching the
chosen spot. A line of men waiting
for the fight to open will show pluck
and enthusiasm with the booming Of
the first gun, and the faster the battery
is worked the more impatient will the
supports become for close work. No
one will say that an army could be sue
cessful without artillery, and yet those
who hold the cannon's mouth to be
king of terrors or the jaws of certain
destruction will feel disappointed when
they come across statistics showing
how little damage is inflicted by can
non compared with the musket.
It is often said by a man: "He
would not be afraid to walk UP to the
cannon's mouth" and yet it is not 3
high compliment to his bravery. just
previous to the fight at Bull Run a bri-
gade of infantry made reconnaissance
to Blackburn Ford to see how the enc
my was posted. A Michigan regi.
ment, in reserve just outside the fight,
was opened on by six field pieces in
plain sight. The firing was rapid, and
lasted for half an hour, and yet not
a man in the regiment was even wound
ed. Massachusetts troops, advancing
into woods, fought against cannon
mounted on earthwork for fully twenty
minutes, and all their loss was from the
musketry of foreign troops. On this
occasion no less than 200 round shot
ard she'll were utterly wasted.
During the Sunday fight at Bull Run
full battery, posted on the left, and
just outside the fight, kept up = contin-
uous and rapid fire on the highway
three-quarters of mile away, over
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20
FLOATING THREE DAYS ON A RAFT
AT SEA.
The Suffering OF the Only Known Sur.
ViyOr of the Crew Of the Lizzie NJ,
Merrill.

Captain George Beal, the only known
survivor Of the crew of the brig Lizzie
NJ. Merrill, which founded on February
8 about 200 miles east of cape Hatteras
has sent statement to J. w. Elwall,
/ Of No. 1 South street. the New York
agent OF the vessel. The brig belonged
to T. J. Southland, of Richmond, Me-,
andwas of $50 tons. She sailed hence on
January 81 for New Orleans with a
crew of nine men. On February
Captain Beal was taken off a raft on
which he had been floating three days,
the vessel having gone down with the
crew. He was very much exhausted in
mind and body and it was several days
before ne could give an account of the
reck. When two days out a gale struck
the vessel, which began to leak. The
gale continued that night and the next
day. About 9 o'clock, while all hands
were at pumps, a big sea came aboard,
stove the deck and filled the vessel so
that she sank in five minutes. Captain
Beal tried to launch the life-boat, but
carried down with the vessel before he
succeeded. II sank to considerable
depth," the statement goes on, !:'and
when / reached the surface again I saw
the life-boat about twenty yards to the
leeward of me, with the second mate
and one sailor in it, but they could not
pull to me as they had lost the oars. I
got on some pieces of wreckaee which
had broken from the deck of the after
house. They were about feet long
and 2 broad. On these I gradually
drifted away from the life boat. Had
the mate and his only companion in
the boat even light billet of wood they
could haveturnedthei cir boat soas toreach
me. At one time formed the resolution
jump off the raft and swim to the boat,
but the distance was to great and the
sea was running. Towards night I threw
UP my hands every two or three min
utes to encourage them, and they re-
turned the signal. We must have been
mile apart then and the gap was
widening. AS night fell and they began
to fade from my sight I felt that it was
our last separation. I had few crack
ers in my POCKET, but | could not eat.
My arms and legs became numb and
[ began to fear that would be washed
of before morning. The night was 50
long that thought I would never see
the light again. l was seized with in
tense thirst, and kept my hair, face
neck and chest we'll moistened. At day
light not an object was in sight, but the
sea moderated. Ate two biscuits and
had cne left. At nightfall tainted. I
was aroused by a sharp pain in the left
arm and found it was caught between
the planks. At o'clock on Friday
afternoon. the 6.h of Fet rury, sail
bore down on me. l was hardly able to
signal it. At 6 o'clock boat was put
out and 1 was taken aboard the schoon-
er Harold Haarfager, Captain Kundsen,
bound from Richmond, Va, to Rio
Grande del Sui, after having been
eighty-one hours fl h)ating on the eighty
foot planks.
Three weeks later Captain Beal was
transferred to the British bark Vigilant,
Captain Sheppard, which took him to
Queenstown. Nothing has been heard
of the two men in the life-boat.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20
AMONG the conclusions arrived at by
,oaoxa Of rooo,ot inunaf ic a Asona into III {,

AMONG the conclusions arrived at by
means of recent investigations into the
nature of steel, when used for manu-
featuring purposes, are the following:
First, that good soft heat is safe to
use, if steel he immediately and
thoroughly worked, it being fact, too,
that good steel will endure more pound
ing than any iron; second, that if they
be left long in the ire itlosses this steely
nature and grain, assuming the nature
of cast iron, and therefore should not
be kept hot any longer than necessary
fer the work to be done; third, the steel
is entirely mercurial under the action
of heat, and there must necessarily be
an injurious internal strain created
whenever two or more parts Of the
same piece are subjected to different
temperatures-from which it follows
that. when steel has been subjected to
heat not absolutely uniform over the
whole mass, careful annealing should
be resorted to; fourth, as the change OF
volume, due to . varied degree of
heat, increases directly and rapidly
with the quantity Of carbon present,
high steel is consequently seore liablc
to dangerous internal strains than low
steel and great care should therefore be
exercised in the nse Of high steel.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20
AMONG the stories which are told at

] AMONG the stories which are told at
81. Petersburg of the attempts made by
lhe Nihiiists to penetrate into the Win
Ter Palace is the following: Gen.
Eourko, when Governor of st. Peters,
burg, had the right Of entering at any
lime into the Emperor's room without
being announced. Once, however, the
1oorkeeper, seeing something unusual
bbout his appearance, stopped him say
ing that it would be necessary to inform
)he Emperor of his arrival. The Gen
eral objected at first, but, finding that
HE doorkeeper only grew more sus-
bicious, ultimately agreed to his being
announced. The doorkeeper then told
he Emperor of his doubts; upon which
he latter went to a writing table in his
boom, which was connected by tele-
kraph with Gen. Gourko's residence,
md telegraphed, "Where is Gourko?"
Fat home," was the reply. This, of
course, settled the point; the false
Eourko was at once arrested, and turn
Id out to be member of the revolu-
[ionary committee.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20
Paste This in Your Hat.

If a lawyer ehould be asked to tell
the secrets of his client, or if 3 doctor
were asked to reveal what be learns in
the sick room, by parties who only
seek to crafty curiosity, such parties
would very likely meet with a
firm reproof. Why is it then that,
when an article appears in a newspa-
per. as correspondence, or when some
thing editorial attracts more than the
usual attention. there are persons who
will ask the editors of that paper "who
wrote that article?" And yet such ques'
tions are asked every day. If editors
should "give away" their correspond
ents, or should tell the sources of their
information, they would very soon lose
the confidence of such persons, who
would very likely thereafter take no
pains to serve them.-Author Unkn0un.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20

A DISPATCH from ST. Petersb urg says
8that the programme of the Gar for a
new liberal course toward the Jews and
the people of Poland has met with the
opposition of the aristocrat-
lie classes in St. Petersburg, and their
hostility has aroused such a clamor
against the measure thatits execution
has been postponed. The Car is still
Eintent upon carrying out the reforms,
and has ordered an investigation of the
real condition of the people concerned.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20

ANY man can put himself in the field
nowadays as q possible candidate for
the presidency or the vice president by
writing a letter to somebody, declining
nomination which no one ever
thought of Offering him. This bright
idea seems to have occurred to num-
Der of insignificant politicians already .
Nrsy York MnI
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20
A STONE from the tomb Of Napoleo,

A STONE from the tomb Of Napoleon
d., at St. Helena, intended for the
Washington Monument, will be pre-
Rented to the society next Thursday. II
was only recently found alter being lost
light of for nineteen years. When our
naval vessels were ordered home from
Foreign waters in 1861, the Mystic in
Mailing from the East Indies stopped at
B. Helena and some one proposed
bringing home stone for the Washing
ION Monument from Napoleon's tomb.
Rhich was done. 1t was landed at the
Brooklyn navy-yard and then forgot
ZEN. Very recently Admiral Powell
began making inquiries and it was
&aund slowed away at the Washington
nayy.yard.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20

1t must have been tremendously en-
barrassing to that nice young man in
Bowling Green, Kentucky, who escort.
ed the preachers fair daughter to a
meeting, and arrived late, to hear
the reverend gentleman read from the
Bible as the couple marched up the
aisle, "My daughter is grieyously tor
mented with devil" which verse oc.
CURED in an account Of New Testa
ment miracle of which the preacher
was reading. The whole congregation
snickered, and it would be hard to tell
which felt worse, the preacher, his
daughter, or her escort.
Johnny wantel to 60 to the circus,
and his father said: "Johnny, I'd rather
you'd go to school, and study, and may
be you'll be President some day." Said
Johnny: Father, there's about one mil.
lion boys in the United States, isn't
there?" Eyes" "And every one of
them stands chance Of being Presi.
dent?" "Yes." swell, dad, I'll sell
out my chance for circus ticket
OIL City Derrick.
When a man looks back into the dim
vista of bygone years, about the only
thing ne can remember are bis mothers
slipper, his first pair of boots, the old
schoolmaster and the little rosy.cheeked
schoolgirl who used to make his heart
ffutter whenever she asked him for q
bitA of his chewing-gum. Life was
worth living for in those days, even
though there wasn't much money in
it, Hdckensack Republican.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20
Milwaukee Market.

MILWAUKEE,; May 12.-Flour-Dull and IN
changed Wheat-Op ed steady and Is higher;
closed steady: No. hard, LII; No. 1, 115h
No. 2, 1.l3; seller May, l.13 seller June. 1.1l5s
seller july, 1074; No. ;, 80; No. 4, 93h; re.
jected. IS. Corn-Frmer and il fair demand
at 371s for No. 2. Oats-Lower at 30A for No.
Rye-In fair demand at 80 for No. /. Barley
Quiet at G9X for No. 2.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20

IF war really breaks out between
Russia and Chins, the wear and tear to
Eehich the innocent telegraph and
Newspaper man of civilized countries
will be subjected is painful to contem-
Eplate. Geographical names in that part
Eof the world are peculiar.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20

The Louisville Courier Journal pub
fishes rumor that the Pennsylvania
SlaiIroad ia making arrangements to dc
its own express business, and expresses
opinion that this step will lead to
com plete abolition of both express
com panies on fast freight lines.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20
Danger signals.

Five eminent men have died within the past few
weeks of Bright's Disease, and many more will
soon die of the same fearful destroyer because they
do not take Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cure,
the only sure remedy for this aud other kidney
and liver diseases.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20
A LOSING Joke.

A prominent physician Of Pittsburgh said jok
ingly to a lady patient who was complaining Of
ner continued i'll health, and Of his Inability t.
euro her, "try Hop Bittersl" The lady took it In
earnest and used the Bitters, from which she OBJ.
doctor for his joke but he Is not SO well pleased
with it, as it cost him good dpatient.-Horrisbury
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20
GENERAL GOSSIP.

A LAD OF seventeen years OF age, IN
Jasper, Walker county, Alabama. has
|Erecently welded lady seventy-one
years of age.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20

They are bachelors in Mississippi,
according to law, ut twenty-five years,
and must pay tax of $25 if they elect
to remain in single blessedness.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20

the early hour, only part of the employees
were on duty, otherwise the loss of life
would have been fearful. About $50 men
are thrown out Of employment
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20
Fan.

The bottoms OF strawberry boxes are
as high as usual this year.
Talk is Cheap" Is ii? Just hire a
lawyer once.-Syracuse Herald.
Could not the doctors fee be Justly
called ill.gotten gains?
The reason "the boy stood on the
burning deck" was because it was too
hot to sit down.
The world owes us all living, but
she is just as hard to collect from az
any other debtor Philadelphia Item.
Patrick dressing for party). "Be-
dad now, and shan't be able to git on
these boots till I've worn thin a time
or two."
1t is now claimed that the first time
the expression Eureka" was used, was
when Socrates sat down on tack for
which he had been looking.
Faber has made great deal of mon
ey from lead pencils, which is the diff.
ference between Faber and reporters.
A Michigan girl has been arrested for
carrying revolver. That is right. No
female should be allowed to wear bangs
in her hip pocket.
"What shall give you? What would
you like best?" he said to the charming
widows little girl. I'D like to have q
little BROTHER" said she. And the widow
blushed.
A man told his friend that he Joined
the army. "What regiment?' his
friend asked. "Oh. I don't mean that;
[ mean the Army of the Lord" "Ah,
what churcb?' "The Baptists." "Why,"
was the reply, "that's not the army; it's
the navy
Trouble wrinked up his brow
When he tried to think as how
He should ask her to be his.
And his heart sunk low with fear,
Till the i-d-e-e, fresh and clear,
Struck him that + WAC Toan Vaar
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20

Trouble wrinkled up his brow
When he tried to think as how
He should ask her to be his.
And his heart sunk low with fear,
Till the i-d-e-e, fresh and clear,
Struck him that 1t was Leap Year,
And the askin' was her hiz
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-30
CONNECTIONS ON THE SUN.
A Storm ON the sun the Cause Of Our
Recent hurricanes
Providence Journal

Ohsa,vors Of tbo srn fonnd ;.,;.
~ .iu'e"''o" .
ln'ens0 oiiiAio'iou oH 'ue LIE I'm aud l31l
OF August. The sun spots were many, large
and active, and pro .uberances shot ont the;,
,oso oolorod +o,,,,,,o. mich ;,,uoa....
~, N WV "i-'
Veioci'y lroih tue suriace' Inc esrth made
instantaneous response to the solar storm. A
magnetic disturbance suddenly begsn occon,
non;oahro ,,,.,,,,,o, o,ln.,;S. -. NO'-
p""' -, ga va. Vi ear'n cur
rents Inc magnetic variations were fire.
quelt and large, and the earth currents con.
tinuo,s and strapc. T. Is Ware s;roo ~,
Greenv oh obserVstorv has rccnrdsG 80 ae
netic disturb Noes of eoual marnitnSo ag1
il sends forth timely wsrnir, IN tolegro,'h
engineers. end especiallv 10 tboss cor1
cerned in having submarine cables that esr,b
currents may now become freouent nc cor Va
pared with he ouietnqss of racant vaaro A
superb exhibition Of aurora accom- nsn;ai tha
disturbance. An observer at the Stonybur,t
observatory describes it rs RECALLING tbs mac
nifcent DISPLAYS of 1869. 1870 and Is11
while the play of the MAGNET o,ss ana of ~
most violent ever recorded Mt that ohservo,
tory. The auroral disolsv was eytens;yoi,,
observed in ENGLAND and Scotland a.
observer describes it as an 5uthnrst Of
streamers, appearing like wavv swayire, o,,rl
tains from the zenith to near the horizon
with the lovelies. green tints near tho zenltb
Another writes that the streaks extended
from horizon TO zenith, the color being min
cpally pale blue with reddish tinae
Another paints The dlsnlsv Nc a brilliant had
of white light followed nv straomars oonb
streamer fading away befnre tbe snccso JiOn
one became very bright Sill suo,Sor ~
cords glowing celestial nicturo Of the north.
ern horizon skirted by n hight white ba1o
terminating in an lll.dt fined arch, from Which
sprano a large rumher Of hrooa stnao,lasa
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-30

Copies and limitations are Acknowledgements
of the superior merit and excellence of the
genuine article. Worthy and valuable arti-
cles are what the frauds are committed
against and is proof Of high estimation,
very ilattering to the original rs, but very
dangerous and improbable to the customer
and demoralizing TO tho dealer. Beware OF
countorteita and see that you only get the
genuine Simmons Liver Regulator, in white
wrapper with the rod z on the face ard sig
nature on side Of j. II Zelin & Co., who
have stopped five different practical imltatots
+ this valuable medicine by injunction ut
law, bu, still other frauds are in the marke',
as rascaIs are NOT yot all hung.