The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-01
GENERAL NOTES.

| IHE Hon. Is. B. Lewis, an Alabama con-
gresham, has resigned.
A PREACHER has been nominated for
governor by the greenbackers of Colorado.
| AMERICAN silver i. at a premium of 7
per cent. at Port au Prince.
An unsuccessful attempt has been made
on the life of the grand shereef of Mecca.
A LARGER acreage than usual is under
cotton crop in the Southern states this
| year.
THE president has reappointed ex-Gov.
Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, collector of
customs at Philadelphia.
THE army of Greece is to be increased
from 10000 to 10000 men every one of
whom is to have 800 cartridges. $
SILVER CITY, New Mexico, is threatened
with famine owing to the destruction of
wagon trains by Victoria's Indians.
The National Bank of Brattleboro, VT,
has failed, and the president of the insti-
| tuition is missing. Poor investments did it.
SENATOR VANCE, of North Carolina, was
married at Louisville, on the 18th inst, to
| Mrs. Florence Martin Vance was wild
over.
PRESIDENT HAYES says, in reference to
his contemplated visit to California, that
his idea is to reach Sacramento in time
to attend the state fair in September.
The national prohibitionist convention
held at Cleveland, Ohio, nominated Neal
Dow, of Maine, for president, and A. II.
Thompson, Of Ohio, for vice-president.
MORE than hundred people are sick at
| North Adams, Mass. from the effects of
impure water. The illness is in the form
of dysentary, and battles the skill of ply
sicians.
A PROPOSITION is under consideration at
Montreal to send battalion of French
Canadian light infantry on visit to Lon
don and Paris. The estimated cost is $780,
| 600.
HANLAN, the oarsman, who was defeated
the other day, has been directed by his
physician to take absolute rest for several
| months.
FAVORABLE weather last week materially
improved crop prospects in England. AL
though the wheat plant is reported thin in
some places, there are sanguine hopes of a
fair average yield.
SEVERAL strikes are reported in the
English iron districts. The miners de-
mand more wages, but the iron masters re-
| fuse to pay any more, saying that the state
of trade will not permit it.
A LOCUST plague has inflicted enormous
damages in that portion of Asiatic Turkey
| lying south of the Caucasian Mountains.
| Over 10000 men are employed in endeav-
oring to destroy them.
In tne Providence boat race. on the 18th
inst, Hanlan was badly beaten. Ross
came in the winner. Boyd, the English
oarsman, made a very poor showing. Han
Ian gave up half a mile from the finish,
owing to stitch in his side.
| TIE supreme court of indianapolis, has
decided against the constitutional amend
ments adopted at the late special election.
| The effect of this is to continue Indiana as
an October state as regards the matter of
state elections.
THE state greenback convention of Col
orado, nominated Rev. A. ] Chittenden
for governor, Albert Campbell for lieuten-
ant governor, G. W. King for secretary of
state, John H. Picket for treasurer, and L.
T. Hollingsworth for attorney general.
! Resolutions were adopted endorsing Dennis
kearney.
OK the 18th inst the Indiana republican
convention placed the following ticket in
nomination: For governor, A. G. Porter;
for lieut.. governor, Thos. Hanna; for
judge of the supreme court, third district,
Byron K: Elliot; for judge of the supreme
court, fifth district, VIM. A. Woods; for
secretary of state, Z. II. Wolf; for state
treasurer, Roswell S. Hill; for attorney
general, ID. p. Baldwin; for reporter of
the supreme court, Francis NJ. Dice; for
| clerk of the supreme court, Daniel Boyce
for superintendent of public instruction,
J. NJ. Bloss.
| THE oldest inhabitants of Dubuque and
Prairie du CHEN never saw Il flood like
that now raging in the Mississippi at those
places. Dubuque reports the water twen-
ty-three feet above low-water mark and
fourteen inches above the high-water mark
of 1870. All the mills and machine shops
are submerged, and many lumberyards are
afoat At Prairie du Chen all railroads
are under water, and no newspaper mails
have been received for more than a week.
The cemetery at Davenport has been flood
ed and several coffins washed away.