The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-07
GENERAL NOTES.

The coal men at New York will make no
change in prices for October.
ANOTHER :'last insurgent chief in Cuba
has surrendered.
DEADwooD celebrated the first anniver-
| sary of its great fire, on the 29th inst.
MRS HAZARD, of Monticello, Ill.,, gave
birth to five babies on the 23nd inst. Two
are living.
MORE than fifty thousand emigrants ar
rived in this country during the month of
August.
The Wabash railway company will
build depot costing 100000 at Peoria,
ILL.,, if the city will donate the land.
ABOUT five hundred members attended
the twelfth annual reunion of the Army
of the Cumberland at Toledo, on the Oath
inst. Gems. Sheridan and Garfield were
| present.
REPRESENTATIVES, of the city of Mem
phis have made a satisfactory settlement
with the men residing in New York who
hold the bonds of the municipality.
A. II. LATHAM, of Albany, and Miss
Sarah J Faris, of Rennevillc, Ind, were
married by telegraph, on the 2Sth inst,
| by Rev. Mr.. Parrett, of Portland, Ind.
officiating.
REPORTS from the Indian Territory
show that the Cheyennes have assumed a
threatening attitude Three hundred of
them recently visited the agency and as
saulted the agent.
The distemper among horses, existing
in Boston, has made it's appearance in
| New York, on the 29th inst. and seems to
be influenza, which was the incipient stage
of the epizootic of 1873.
The ladies of Doniphan county, Kansas,
bought all the booths on the Playground,
bidding much higher than the saloon
keepers, whose bar'l could not compare in
size with that of their fair antagonists.
THE United States circuit court, at
Louisville, has granted an injunction re-
straining the postal authorities from en-
forcing the departments order prohibit
ing the delivery of letters to Il local lot
terry company.
J. B. YEaGLEY and Noah w. Parker,
candidates of the Indiana greenbackers for
secretary of state and state senator, re-
spectiyely, have withdrawn from the ma
tional ticket, and will work with the DEM
Ocrats.
A PRIZE was offered at the La Porte,
Ind, fair for the mother presenting the
largest number of children. Mrs. John
Line took the premium with nine, the
ninth being born on the grounds a few
hours before the award was made.
A SPECIAL dispatch to the n. Y. Free
mdas Journal announces that the pope has
named DR.. Michael Corrigan, now bishop
of New York, to be the co-adjuster of the
arch bishop of New York, with the right
of succession and with the title of arch
bishOn in Dartibis in ft(eZiltm
A MOVEMENT is on foot for the consoli-
dation. under one management, of the
| eight fast freight lines running over the
New York Central, and ramifying the en-
tire rail system of the northwest. The
scheme has the sanction of Mr.. w. H.
Vanderbilt.
AN English stock company has secured
about a hundred thousand acres of good
| fdent of colonizing thereon Il large num-
Der of English and Scotch farmers One
of the objects of the scheme is to counter
act the political influence of the French
Canadians.
| SIRJoHN MCDONALD says the syndicate
which is to take charge of the Canada Pa
citic railroad engages to complete the line
in ten years. On leaving Quebec he mod
estly told deputation of citizens that he
had done more for them than they had for
him, for he had given them railroad
which would in time make their city the
second port in America, while they had
given him nothing.
LIEUT.. ScHwATKA and party, who sailed
from New York two years ago to discover
the remains of Sir John Franklin and his
Arctic expedition, have arrived at New
Bedford. Their long journey was not as
successful as might have been wished, but
it was not altogether fruitless. They have
obtained many relics of Franklin's party,
made numerous charts which will be of
great value to future explorers. and dem
onstrated that white men can adapt
themselves to the habits of the Esgui-
maux in making long journeys in the polar
regions.
A DISPATCH from Des Moines, Ia, says:
Levi Johnson, of Norton county, Kan, is
here soliciting aid for the people in Phil
lips, Sherman, Decatur, Sheridan, Raw
Inns and other counties. In Norton
county, 1900 people are in absolute want
of food. The wheat crop in all these
counties failed, and in June was plowed
up and planted with corn, which, when it
came up, was destroyed by the web worm.
He gives sad story Of want and suffer
ing. One family had no food for eleven
weeks but wheat bran. Another family
had nothing for three weeks but corn
meal. He says the local papers of the
state suppress these facts as it will injure
the state. A public meeting was called
there on the oath inst, to procure supplies