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The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-14
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

HUDSON, Mass, had a $4,000 fire on
the 7th inst.
THE Albion print-works of Conshohock-
en-, having an Office at Philadelphia, have
suspended, with heavy liabilities.
SEVERAL extensive mercantile establish
ments at Fort Dodge, Iowa, were de-
stroyed by fire, on Sept. so.
THE schooner America has been sunk
off Two Rivers point, in Lake Michigan
in collision with two scows loaded with
stone.
FIRE in the servants department of
the St. Charles hotel, at New Orleans,
damaged the building to the extent OF
$4,000. y
TIE grain elevator and warehouse OF ..
P. CLANCY, at Canal Winchester, OHIO, was
destroyed by fire on the 50th inst. Loss
about $l5,0O0.
JACOB BALL, the geologist and natural
list. died recently in his tent in Willie
berger county, Texas, where he had gone
on scientific expedition.
THE Steamship Isaac Bell, loaded with
cotton for New York, took fire at the Nor
folk. Va, wharf, on the 3rd inst, and was
burned to the waters edge.
JAMES HANNA. of Oakland, Pa, and a
male companion, were found dead in bed
at the Burnett house They blew out the
pas when retiring and suffocated.
A1y1NE BARNEY, a patient at the In
ldianapolis insane asylum. was caught IN
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COOPERATION IN TORONTO.
An Association that Has PrOspcrell
for Two Years.
Toronto (Canada) GlOhe

1t is not perhaps generally known
that a cooperative association, con-
Quoted on the same principles as gov
ern the old-established cooperative So
cieties in the mother country has been
in existence in Toronto for the past
two years, and is now one of the estab-
lished institutions of the country. On
Aug. 10, 1877, the first preliminary
meeting was held, and on the 1st Of
April in the following year the associa-
ton opened its doors to its members
and customers, then comparativly few
in number. Since that time the busi-
ness of the store has increased very
considerably, and is increasing still.
The chief aim Of the association is to
furnish the members with the neces-
saries OF life without paying extrava-
CANT prices. The association buys and
sells for cash only, and thereby the
members escape paying other peoples
bad debts, which the man who pays
one hundred cents on the dollar nearly
always has to do under ordinary system
of trade. Under the cooperative sys-
tenn of profits, after paying interests on
capital, which is owned by the mem
bers, and the working expenses, are
divided areong the purchasers in the
shape of dividends The inte lest paid
to members on share capital is per
cent. per annum on paid-up shares, it
also provides them with a sure and
profitable investment for their savings
AN investment, be it observed, over
which they have entire control. The
extent of purchase made from quarter
to quarter is arrived at by the issue of
checks. At present the association
use only paper checks, but in course of
time they will adopt the old country
tin and brass tokers, samples of which
the management have now in their
possession. The entrance fee to mem
bership is 25 cents, every member to
have one or more shares of IS each, to
be paid at the time of entry, or at the
rate Of 20 per cent. per quarter, as
best suits the members convenience.
The business of the association is man
aged by committee elected by the
| members, each member having one
vote. Any member is eligible for
office after being six months in the as
sociation. At present the operations
in the store are confined to groceries,
dry goods, and boots and Shoes But
these can be expanded or contracted as
the members see fit. An effort is made
to get the best goods that money can
procure. and these are supplied, as far
as the officers are concerned, without
being adulterated, and at the lowest
prices. Some idea can be gathered of
the growth of the associations business
when it is stated that while the sales
during its first quarters existence, to
April l, 1873, amounted to $591.1 the
turnover forthe last quarter to July Z
footed up to s5,461.63. The total
amount ofgoods sold during the whole
period from April ], 1878, to July Z,
1850, was s2s,639.74. During that
period, and not including last quarter,
there has been paid to the members on
account of dividends and interest a
total amount of 81, ,801.13, and to nom
members $159, ,.95.
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CIV EsTHAM, city clerk Of Evansville,
Ind, has disappeared. He is short about
81 300. =-,. r--s-= -=-e-- -.
A NEGRO employed on railroad in
Florida killed his white boss and was i'm
mediately lynched by mob.
BURGLARS blew open the safe in the
postot1ice at Ypsilanti, Mich, and secured
81 200, on the4th inst.
DR.. ALBERT G. PEARSON, of Philadel
phia, charged with poisoning his wife, was
the first degree.
Two brothers at Richmond Hill, Ont.
quarreled, and one dealt the other fata
blow. The father saw the fight, and fel
dead
JOHN MAIER, saloon-keeper at Massil
| lon, O., had his throat cut from ear to eal
IN afght with crowd of roughs whom he
was endeavoring to put out of his place.
A MAN named John Hicks, so years o
age, has Just been received at the Jetfer
sonville, Ind, penitentiary, on two years
sentence He has passed over fifty year
of his long life in prison.
THREE laborers on the Chicago, Milwau
kee and ST. Paul railroad, named Jane
Mcdonald, Stephen Mccartney and J. O
Baldwin, were arrested at Elgin, ILL.,, OF
the 2Sth inst, for stealing and ritling th
trunks of Rodney Sherwin, travelin!
salesman for Lawrence Il Martin, of Chi
cago They were sent to jail in default o
| bail.
A BUFFALO, n. Y, negro, who has or
ganized a colored Hancock and Englisl
club, with seventy members, was attacked
bv "A large party of his own race on TIN
30th of Sept. and would have been roughl,
handled had not friends come to his assist
ance.
DURING quarrel which arose from cvi
dence given by John kimmel agains
tramps who were implicated In robblnf
freight cars at Cecil, Ohio, the unfortu
nate witness was shot and instantly Klllet
by the comrades of the men he had bount
large.
The Jury on the trial of Mrs. Mack 10
the murder of her husband, after bein.
out fifty-three hours failed to agree. Thi
case created much interest throughout the
state as Mrs. Mack on the first trial, wa
convicted with man named Dlckerson
and the latter is now serving life sentence
for the crime. The supreme court allowet
Mrs. Mack a new trial with the above re
suit
A GILLIAN force of three thousand, un
der command of a gentleman evidentl
not native, named Patrick Lynch, i
encamped near Lima. Lynch recent
made a demand on the people of tn
Peruvian capital for 100000, threateni
that if the amount were not immediatel
forthcoming he would burn al the valua
BILE sugar machinery in the surroundin
country.
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CANTON, D. T., THURSDAY, OCTOBER IA,

jefferson, Wis. Six were for acquittal,
two for murder in the first degree, and
four for manslaughter. Many citizens of
Jefferson escorted the defendant to the de-
pot and assured her of their belief in her
innocence.
In their public utterances about the
Canada Pacific syndicate Sir John Mac
donald and Mr.. Mcintyre, a member of
the new company, do not agree. The forn-
er saws that American capital is interest
ed while the latter declares that it is
not.
The Iribmes Topeka, Kansas special
says that Gov. st. John, on the 29th inst,
on request of the county attorney of La
belle county, has issued requisiton for
the Bender family. 1t is not known on
what state the requisition is made, but the
governor declares his belief that no mis-
take has been made this time, and that
the Benders have really been found.
AT the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Northern Pacific railway,
a resolution was adopted requesting and
advising the directors to provide for the
completion and equipment of the com.
pany's road from the western terminus Oh
Montreal river to Puget. sound. and for
that purpose to employ all the resources
of the company, and execute such mort
cages as shall seem best calculated to ac-
complish the early completion of the en-
tarNriSa
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FOREIGN

SYMPTOMS of discord are showing them
selves in the county of Westmeath, Ire
land. -..
ROBBERS on the Both of Sept. assassin
ated the wife of the Russian Consul at
Van. city in Turkish Armenia. -
LORD MOUNT MORRIS was buried at
Monkstown on the I'd inst. There was nc
demonstration ,s.ya-
HEAVY rains have caused disastrous
floods in Rohilcund, Bengal. Many lives
have been lost and the crops are much
injured.
The Sultan has again telegraphcd the
Emperor of Germany, who has advised
him to accept the proposition of the Euro
pean powers.
THERE is great anxiety at Rome in
official circles about Gen. Garlbaldls
movement, which has formed the theme OF
discussion at three cabinet councils.
TIE Rev. Dr. Cleary, parish priest OF
Dungarvan, county of Waterford, has
been appointed by the pope bishop Of
Kingston, Canada.
LORD MoUNTMoRRIs, a small landlord
in Galway, Ireland, was murdered
on the 2Sth inst, by his tenants, with
whom he was on bad terms.
A DISPATCH from Athens says: There is
| a sudden renewal of activity of brigands
all over Macedonia, and there have been
also several coutlicts with revolutionary
bands.
PRoCLAMATIoNs have been issued offer.
ing 1000 pounds reward for the apprehen'
sion of the murderers of Lord Mount
Morris. Sweeny and Gannyn were ex,
amined on the I'd inst. and were remand
ed for a week at the request of the police
PARNELL addressed a meeting of lO,-
600 persons at Kilkenny on the 7th inst
Nine members of parliament and fifty
Catholic priests were present. Parnell
announced as soon as sufficient informa
ton had been collected the land league
would organize great strike against pay.
ing rent on the estate of every rack rent.
ing landlord.
ALL the editors of the chief journals OF
St. Petersburg, have been summoned be-
fore Gen. Melikotf and told that their con-
tinued discussion of constitution fol
Russia has highly displeased the czar; that
nothing more on the subject would be al
lowed to appear, and that during the
present reign it would be premature to
| discuss the question ola constitution.
The serial warfare in Ireland grows in
I
/ Mountmorris indicates the presence of the
worst passions and the likelihood of a serial
revolt among the discontented peasantry
Lord Mountmorris was a poor, unknown
nobleman, unpopular as landlord, mag
istrate. and neighbor. The motive Of
the murder is the subject of general dis
cussion. Everybody in England denun
ciates the crime as agrarian, and many
call for coercive measures, The Irish
organs declare it to be in no way connected
with the agitation, and urge the govern
ment to resist the demand for repression
The national papers are excessively, VIC
lent, and one of them rails at the blood
outlines of those who maintain "a satan
ic system as a graphing gate of hell in thu
land" The cabinet came to no decision OF
Irish matters at its recent meeting. 1t il
possible that the eastern and Irish ques
tions may render necessary a special ses
sion of parliament in November. Irelant
will be given respite till then.
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the betting in the engine room and instant
LIZ I.;llod bic load hoinn cruS hoa

the betting in the engine room and instant
ly killed. his head being crushed.
Two children of Edmund Arkland, a
machinist of Clinton, o., got hold OF
bread and butter spread with strychnine
One was year old, the other 3 years.
\ fire al Trenton, n. Y, on the I'd inst,
destroyed property belonging to the
Merchants Transportation Co., West,
Clark & Case, wholesale grocers, and Grant
4 Sons, coal dealers to the value of $780,
600.
WM. DoNNELLY, a farmer living near
Jericho, upon entering his cattle-yard,
with the sleeves of his red flannel shirt
displayed, was attacked by his bull and
was gored so badly that he died from his
injuries. ..a -
Two boilers of The Pittsburg Cranage
Mill, Bay City Mich, exploded, on the
3rd inst, demolishing the boiler house, the
drill house. and shattering one end of the
mill. The fireman, George E. Parker, was
killed in the ruins; a lad named Daniel
McRae, was badly scalded, and several
others injured,
JOHN ROBERTS. who was bitten on the
finger by one OF his own dogs, near Cross
wicks. n. j., about three weeks ago, died
of hydrophobia on Friday. He was seized
with convulsions on Wednesday, and died
in great agony. He was 80 years old.
y FIRE on the 3rd inst, destroyed the
engine house of the Vigilant Fire COM
pany, of Augusta, Ga, with the steamer
and all the company's property. Loss,
SIC, 900; no insurance. The fire was the
work of an incendiary.
CHARLES .SCHENCK, aged 20 years, son OF
VIM. Schenck, of Sandusky, O., went out
hun ting, on the 4th inst, with a double
barreled shot gun. He fired one ba rrel
and was in the act of blowing the smoke
out of the gun, when the other barrel was
accidentally discharged, and the whole TOP
of his head, from mouth up was blown
off,
DURING the night Augustus Bernard
watchman at the Michigan Central rail
road Shops went to a caldron in one of the
car houses where water for car washing
is heated, and sat on the edge of the ket.
tie while his coffee was getting hot in the
water. During his wait he fell asleep and
into the boiling water of the caMron.
WM SLY, of Nicholsville,, Clermont
county o., went to Cincinnati, on the 29th
inst, and exchanged three thousand five
hundred dollars of four per cent bonds
for gold, and put it in valise; and on the
cars on his way home he found his valise
exchanged for cne containing three
bricks. No~clue to the robber.
| FIRE in one of the shafts of the Chryso.
lite mine, at Leadville, communicated
with the underground workings, and in a
short time the wcrked-out caves, which
were supported by heavy timbers, were
filled with flames. The miners were
driven out in great confusion, some o.
them suffering from the poisonous gases
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BOSS FOR FIVE MINUTES.
How a Tramp's Wish was l;ratifed
and How He Utilized the Time.

Detroit Free Press.

Soon after the dinner hour yesterday
a specimen tramp appeared at the
door of house on John X. street, and
before he could be ordered offthe steps,
began:
Sir, am a tramp
eyes, see you are"
"But I am not here to ask for either
food, money or clothing. have just
had bite, my clothes are good enough,
and if I had money should get drunk
and be sent up"
"Well what do you want?
''There are four tramps down the
street and know they'll call here. 1t
is now five years since 1 began travel
ing around. / suppose been called a
loafer and a thief and. a dead beat 10,
600 times, and I have been shot at,
dubbed, broom -sticked and scalded
times without record. Now / want a
change"
"How?''
"Well, all 1 ask is that you will let
me represent your house when those
tramps come up"
This was agreed to. He sat down
on the steps, removed his hat, lighted
the stub of a cigar, and was reading a
circular when the four fellows slouched
up and entered the yard. 81 e..
"What in Arkansas do you fellows
wantin my yard?" exclaimed the tramp
as he rose up.
'Suthin' to eat" was the humble re
Something to eat! Why, you mis-.
erable thick-ribbed cadavers, go and
earn it: then! Do you suppose have
nothing to do but keep a free hotel fol
loafers?'
Cant get work." mumbled the big
gest of the lot. IS
"Oh, you can't! Been looking all
around, suppose. Everybody got all
the help he wants, eh? Want to be
cashiers and confidential advisers don't
YOU"
''Nobody gives us show" growled
the third man.
''That's it, That's your cue! No
body will take you in with your old
rags and dirt and sore heels and weep
over you, and ask you. to please be
good, and put you in the .parlor bed
room and feed you on chicken broth!
How awful it is that you can't be put
on ice and laid away where you won't
melt"
"Will you give us som mething?' i'm
pudently demanded the fourth. -
"Will l? You are just right l will
I'll give you five seconds to get out
side the gate, and I'll tell you in add
ton that if ever see you in this neigh.
borhood again I'll tie you into hard
knots and hire sore-eyed dog to bite
you to death! Git up and git! Move
on-hurry-on with you!'
They shuffied out as fast as they
could, and when they had turned the
corner the tramp put on his hat, pu
out his inch ofcigar for another smoke
and said to the gentleman:
"You have done me great favor
and am grateful; I already feel better
for the change, and solemnly believe
that if I could only, have got an excuse
to throw 'em over the fenceI shoulC
have been ready to reform and start. ou
as lecturer. Goodbye. shall never
forget your kindness"
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VERY LATEST NEWS.
A Record OF Important Events,
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON.

The treasury department on the lst
inst, purchased 100000 ounces oftine silver
for delivery at the Philadelphia and New
Orleans mints.
AN invitation has been received by the
United States government to send a rep
resentatiye to the international sanitary
conference in London. August, 1881.
AN invitation has been received BY the
sentative to the international sanitary con-
ference in London, in August, 1881.
A DAUGHTER of ex-president Zachary
Taylor was paid $4,000 on the 2nd inst,
the balance of the salary which Gen.
Taylor would have received had he lived
until his term of office had expired.
THE Smithsonian Institute has re-
ceived an announcement of the discovery
by Hastings, at Strasburg, Sept. 29th, of a
comet with a bright pale color in IA hours
s minutes right ascension, 80 degrees 45
minutes north declination, with a daily
motion of 25 seconds in the right ascen-
sion.
THE government seems to be running
itself. At present not only the president,
but every member of the cabinet is out of
Washington, as are also the first assistant
SecItLdIltS VI UclI ltS StdlS toSt-
Office departments, the commissioner of in
ternall revenue, first comptroller of the
treasury. two or three of the auditors, and
"a number of heads of bureaus.
Z. RUSSELL, member of the Ute COM
mission, has arrived in Washington with
ratification papers signed by 577 Ute In
dians. The amount due the Utes is S73,
600. Arrangements have been made for
the payment of this sum in accordance
with the terms of the bill. Russell ex-
pressed an opinion that the work Of select
ing new lands, surveying them and making
attachments in severality, the work which
must necessarily be accomplished before
not be commenced owing to the lateness OF
reason he thinks the removal of the utes
cannot be effected until next year.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON, of the gen
eral land office, on the 1st inst, made a re-
port to the secretary of the interior, on
the celebrated Chaupin land claim case.
The claim embodies about ], 400 acres OF
land in the suburbs of St. Louis, Mo-, and
has been pending before the department
for so years Commissioner Williamson's
action does not finally dispose of the case.
as it now goes to the secretary of the inte-
rior The commissioner reports in favor
of the survey made in 1859, known as
Solomon's survey. But hile:entertainina
the opinion that the Chaupin grant is
properly located by that Solomon
survey, he does not approve it because he
finds barrier to that course in an adverse
opinion of former secretary of the in
terror, relative to another survey Of the
same land
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JUST now there is a movement
among the booksellers and pubic on
the other side to insist upon having all
books of any literary pretenslons IN
dexed in future. An independent work
or book of reference is indefinitely IN
creased in utility and convenience by
having full index. Of course it is no
part of the business of an author to be-
come an index maker even tc, his own
works, although Prescott, Bancroft, and
Shea in his life of Hamilton, which
has a very full Index, have done so, and
publishers, with the exception of Long
man, Macmillan, Murray and a few
others dislike the expense of having the
work done by themselves. Macauley
so well recognized the infiuen ce of a
good index maker that he made it in.
cumbent on those who should represent
him that no Tory should assist in in.
dexing his works.
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A ATANNER experiment was made With
a number of horses in Paris in 1876.
The following results were obtained: l.
1t was proved beyond all doubt that a
horse can hold out for twenty-five days
without any solid nourishment: pro-
vided it is supplied with sufficient and
good drinking water. 2. A horse can
barely hold out for five days without
water. 3. If horse is weA fed tor
ten days, but insuffieiently provided
with water during the same period, 1t
will not outlive the eleventh day. One
horse, from which water had been en-
tirely withheld for three days, drank on
the fourth day sixty litres of water
within three minutes. A horse which
received no solid nourishment tol
twelve days was, nevertheless, IN con-
dlllon on the twelfth day to draw a
load Of 279 kilos.
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The Original of Magma Charta.
+ Tamn1a Rar

Every one knows how Sir Robert Cot
ton rescued the original manuscript of
Magma Charta from the hands of a
common tailor who was cutting it up
for patterns. AS this copy was certain
ly not unique, we should only have had
to regret the loss of curiosity. The
valuable collection of the Thurloe state
papers would probably have remained
a secret to the world had it not been
for the tumbling in of the ceiling OF
some old chambers, in Lincoln's Inn,
where those documents had, for some
reason or other, been concealed.
In the secret drawer of a chest the
curious manuscripts Of DR. Dee, the
occult philosopher, lurked nusus-
pected for years Many ofthe letters OF
Lady Mary Montagu, letters which are
among the most delightful compost
tions ever penned, and which have
long taken their place among the Eng
lish classics, were found in the false
bottom of an old trunk. Lord Herbert
of Cherbury's autobiography was all
but lost to the world. 1t was known
that when Lord Herbert died there
were TWO copies Vi Ille Work, one VIII
ten with his own hand, and one tran
scribed by an amanuensis. At last, in
the midst Of mass of worm eaten,
moldy old papers at Ignore in Mont
gomeryshire, a gentleman came upon
the ori ginal copy. Several leaves had
had been torn out, many others had
been so stained by damp as to be illeg-
ible. Enough could be deciphered
however, to show the value Of the work
The only hope was that if the dupli.
cate could be secured it might
supply the lacunn to the original
But years rolled by and no dupli.
cate turned up. In 1877 an estate be.
longing to the Herberts was sold. Some
few books, pictures and lumber were
stored away in an attic, apparently toe
worthless for the purchaser to take
away-and 10! among these was found
the long lost and much desired dupli
cate. And thus did English literature
possess itself of one Of the most inter
esting biographies it can boast. Indeed
the late Lord Lytton used to say thai
there was no single book, ofthis kind a
least, and he treasured so highly. Still
more romantic was the discovery O
Luther's Table Talk.